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"First They Came for Columbia" "We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us." Me and Levitsky in the Harvard Crimson www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

Such a sad, pathetic little man. Scammed his way into the most powerful office on Earth and is bitching about not getting enough applause

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

"the Trump Administration understands something that most Washington observers do not: technical infrastructure is the infrastructure of everything the government is and does. The infrastructure is the policy, and the policy is the infrastructure."

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Whoever said there are no jobs for humanists anymore?

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

However much you hate the New York Times, it isn't enough

submitted 17 days ago • 98 comments

Decent people thank Ukraine.

submitted 18 days ago • 231 comments

If your average American news editor had half the spine Zelensky has, we wouldn't be in this mess.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Holy shit

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump is not fit to be President of the United States of America. His presence in the Oval Office is a stain on the legacy of this country.

submitted 18 days ago • 810 comments

Some things to learn from the German election:

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

The high voter turnout coupled with the actual results suggests to me that there's millions of Germans who value democracy but don't know how to vote for that.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Worst. Episode. EVER.

submitted 24 days ago • 894 comments

The ethos of "We will always follow the law" is horrifically undermined by adding "and policy." To say nothing of the slow creep towards 'all lives matter' rhetoric.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Service:

submitted 25 days ago • 32 comments

I posted a copy of the 3 minute version of my speech from yesterday (with citations) if anyone is interested. Feel free to steal from it if you want! (also, this is literally less than half of the Nazi shit they're currently pulling)

submitted 27 days ago • 148 comments

It’s a coup. It’s a strategic alliance with Putin. It’s the end of the post-war international order. It’s the triumph of lies over truth and in Putin’s case, evil over good. We are through the looking glass & we all now have to decide who we are & what we stand for

submitted 27 days ago • 156 comments

Started watching the revival seasons of The X-Files over the weekend. The update to the dystopian present of a few years ago makes them somehow seem even more dated than the original. Extremely grating.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Was watching two pink haired teens with Fuck Fascism signs on the bus en route to a protest. Since we’ll be told soon enough by Serious Pundits that these kids are doing it wrong, or going too far or whatever: that’s because Serious Pundits are more comfortable with fascism than pink haired teens.

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on. Now.

submitted 33 days ago • 328 comments

Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...

submitted 35 days ago • 39 comments

Huh, I wonder what historical analogy could've predicted a movement sidelining its populist and pro-worker wings in favor of the interests of industrialists??

submitted 36 days ago • 10 comments

Ich wiederhole mich: Sonneborn besteht aus drei BSW-Leuten in einem Trenchcoat

submitted 36 days ago • 8 comments

Turns out seeing something coming doesn't make it easier to live through.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

„Die Wiederwahl von Donald Trump könnte sich als der schlimmste Akt amerikanischer Selbstzerstörung seit dem Bürgerkrieg erweisen“, schreibt z.B. die Wisssenschaftszeitschrift @science.org. Aber was tun die „Tagesthemen“? Sie treiben als Interviewpartner … (1/2) www.mdr.de/altpapier/da...

submitted 39 days ago • 5 comments

‘In a real sense, US democracy has died’: how Trump is emulating Hungary’s Orbán

submitted 39 days ago • 51 comments

an big idea in some Online Spaces in the 2010s was the idea that if you consume the right media, somehow that is the same as doing actual good in the world or working on yourself. which is a very tempting idea, especially when it carries the implicit corollary that consuming the wrong media is Evil

submitted 40 days ago • 9 comments

Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason. - John Harington, Epigram 259

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Career Development Fellowship in German at St Hilda's College, @ox.ac.uk. Apply by 25 February 2025 www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/ca...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments