@rndmartin
Historian with wide philosophical and religious interests. Determined Scottish European. Lives in Edinburgh. Reads French and German, moderately well. Don't answer DMs #FBPE. Location Leith/Edinburgh, Scotland. Married to Jenny. Born 1939.
Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"
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apnews.com/live/iran-wa... updates: Israel hammers Beirut and Tehran as Iran attacks more Israeli targets
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Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
🔴 Ukraine demands Hungary release seven citizens held hostage in Budapest as consuls remain blocked from seeing them.
President Trump encouraged Iranian Kurdish forces in Iraq to launch attacks against Iran as the Middle East conflict widened, with Azerbaijan warning it would retaliate for being targeted by Iranian missiles reut.rs/4uhLu9i
Outstanding thread by a military expert on Trump's war.
#ProudBlue
If only there had been some way to know that Joe Biden's foreign policy was less in sync with Bibi Netanyahu than his hypothetical Republican successor before the election.
“Over the past few weeks we’ve learned that not only is she not doing her job, she’s embroiling the department in scandal and possible criminal activity. It’s frankly embarrassing...”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...
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Folks... ICE hasn't stopped their BS in Minneapolis. It's just been moved, to more out of site locations. Because of this, there will be more, and more folks needing help. If you can, please help. This isn't going away.
⚡️⚡️⚡️ TRUMP’S STATE OF THE UNION OMITTED RAPING KIDS & MISSING EPSTEIN FILES, WHILE DOUBLING DOWN ON LIES LIES AND LIES ⚡️⚡️⚡️
WHOA: WSJ reporting that DOJ is dropping its appeals of the four law firm executive order rulings as soon as today. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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"Trump’s way of being is dominated by narcissistic grandiosity."
sojo.net/magazine/mar...
“What you’re seeing in places that don’t make a lot of vehicles of any type, they’re saying: ‘Well, look, if I’m going to import the cars anyway, then I’d rather import less oil. We may as well import the one that cleans up local air quality and is cheaper to buy.’” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Really enjoyed discussing what it's like being an @instituteforgovernment.org.uk researcher at the "Working in the think tank sector" event at @resolutionfoundation.org yesterday. Recording available below, with the "Day in a life" panel starting from 1:43.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2S1...
Power was out for 11+ hours, nothing received in 6 hours of asking. At $0/$500. Please help. I am probably going to have throw out my meat stash I built over time among other things. 💕💸
"Parwana sometimes has to climb a hill to get a strong enough internet connection to download the #book they are reading. But it’s worth it, she says."
"If a woman is aware, a family is aware. An aware woman raises aware children. The Taliban fear aware #women."
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
👀👇🏻 ‘BBC News understands Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.’
Blimey.
Early voting begins in closely watched Texas Senate Democratic primary Early voting began this week in the Texas Senate Democratic primary election, and one candidate got a fundraising bump from talk show host Stephen Colbert. ...
We're Going To At Least Make It Harder, For Chump To Cheat......
#Demokratie lebt nicht vom Rechtbehalten, sondern vom Durcharbeiten des Widerspruchs. Wer Führung beansprucht, muss Integration leisten …
sonst verwaltet er nur Meinung und beschleunigt den Kipppunkt.🖖
Things that would be interesting to know about the current contraction of UK academic staffing (and that it would actually be super helpful if REF2029 institutional SPRE statements were required to report on) include:
What's the impact on the equality and diversity of academic staffing? 1/3
