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The Desire for Terror And the defense of democracy

A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States, thereby justifying the need to “federalize” elections. We must anticipate it, with sadness and resolution, and not be surprised, if it happens.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...

11.03.2026 15:38 👍 1879 🔁 816 💬 140 📌 114

On the off chance @timothysnyder.bsky.social may see this, here is some important cultural history of Lviv, Ukraine, formerly Lwow, Poland, involving mathematics/science and also international law; "Mathematicians at the Scottish Café" by Chris Zielinski (inria.hal.science/hal-02386544...).

11.03.2026 23:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

2014, the year of the Maidan Revolution, the Revolution of Dignity, birthing democracy with courage, blood, and tears of grief and joy in Ukraine is also the year the Scottish Cafe was re-established in Lviv, Ukraine, formerly Lwow of Poland.

11.03.2026 22:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
ICE Killing Cover-Up EXPOSED, Video Evidence Destroys DHS's Narrative
ICE Killing Cover-Up EXPOSED, Video Evidence Destroys DHS's Narrative YouTube video by TYT Sports

ICE Killing Cover-Up EXPOSED, Video Evidence Destroys DHS's Narrative on killing of 23-year-old Ruben Ray Martinez

youtu.be/28s365fzR9k?...

11.03.2026 19:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Israeli government is undertaking a 'power grab under cover of war' • FRANCE 24 English
Israeli government is undertaking a 'power grab under cover of war' • FRANCE 24 English YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English

Two sides of the same coin--tRUMP & Netanyahoo

Israeli government is undertaking a 'power grab under cover of war' • FRANCE 24 English

youtu.be/mn91K-XdOvg?...

11.03.2026 19:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Military AI: Anthropic, Open AI, & the Future of Warfare | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Military AI: Anthropic, Open AI, & the Future of Warfare | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

1) Military AI: Anthropic, Open AI, & the Future of Warfare | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
youtu.be/NAWjXmsNiPU?...
2) The Automation of Death and the Death of Accountability (AI, Autonomous Weapons & War Crimes) with Audrey Henson of The Drey Dossier
youtu.be/3d_kcUaiSR8?...

11.03.2026 18:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How Israel is spraying herbicides on Syrian crops • The Observers - France 24
How Israel is spraying herbicides on Syrian crops • The Observers - France 24 YouTube video by The France 24 Observers

How Israel is spraying herbicides on Syrian crops • The Observers - France 24
youtu.be/Lyp9Xfess3Q?...

11.03.2026 18:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I mean the Ephors as in the movie 300.

11.03.2026 18:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Netanyahu: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Netanyahu: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

A reminder of the Israeli Ephors | John Oliver

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11.03.2026 18:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
GOP's Next-Level Hypocrisy on Minnesota ICE Protests, 2nd Amendment & Epstein Files | The Daily Show
GOP's Next-Level Hypocrisy on Minnesota ICE Protests, 2nd Amendment & Epstein Files | The Daily Show YouTube video by The Daily Show

GOP's Next-Level Hypocrisy on Minnesota ICE Protests, 2nd Amendment & Epstein Files | The Daily Show

youtu.be/TeNioHuBOhQ?...

11.03.2026 18:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Beautiful minds. Extraordinary mathematicians from Lwów - Polish History “In fact, the story of Lwów mathematicians had little chances of happening, because this mathematical phenomenon brought together people who came from completely different social strata. There were tw...

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Beautiful minds. Extraordinary mathematicians from Lwów
polishhistory.pl/beautiful-mi...
The Lwów School of Mathematics
sztetl.org.pl/en/about-the...
Mathematicians at the Scottish Café
inria.hal.science/hal-02386544...

11.03.2026 17:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

1/2) With the descent of America into mediocrity under tRUMP, perhaps it's worth reflecting on an earlier time & other place where the synergy between democracy & creativity was also broken by brutal, lethal authoritarianism--The Scottish Cafe in Lwów, Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine.

11.03.2026 17:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Which Dems in Congress & the party in general have the spines / moral character to replace Schumer & Jeffries ASAP; that is, which ones eschew lip service & actually put the best of American ideals above crass big-money politics through action? My blood boils over the carnage in Gaza, Ukraine, ...

10.03.2026 01:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gene editing and clones | 60 Minutes Full Episodes
Gene editing and clones | 60 Minutes Full Episodes YouTube video by 60 Minutes

Take a look at the global competition and how tRUMP is handicapping our own schools

Gene editing | 60 Minutes Full Episodes
youtu.be/KufqzZ9NqsM?...

09.03.2026 18:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
IHIP News: 🚨 Dems Vote to HELP Trump's WAR and BETRAY Their OWN Constituents!
IHIP News: 🚨 Dems Vote to HELP Trump's WAR and BETRAY Their OWN Constituents! YouTube video by I've Had It

IHIP News: 🚨 Dems Vote to HELP Trump's WAR and BETRAY Their OWN Constituents!
G. Landsman, AIPAC $1.7 mill
J. Golden,$3.4 mill
H. Cuellar, $3.3 mill
J. Vargas, $.95 mill
youtu.be/w0_DHJZYhAQ?...

09.03.2026 18:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Whistleblowers Speak Out About Religious Extremism in Military Amid War on Iran
Whistleblowers Speak Out About Religious Extremism in Military Amid War on Iran YouTube video by Democracy Now!

Whistleblowers Speak Out About Religious Extremism in Military Amid War on Iran
youtu.be/yijk3N1t7yo?...

09.03.2026 18:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
IHIP News: Trump GUTS FBI In Hopes That A US TERRORIST ATTACK Would STOP Future Elections?!
IHIP News: Trump GUTS FBI In Hopes That A US TERRORIST ATTACK Would STOP Future Elections?! YouTube video by I've Had It

IHIP News: Trump GUTS FBI In Hopes That A US TERRORIST ATTACK Would STOP Future Elections?!

youtu.be/MpAuWmcy2nc?...

09.03.2026 18:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Cloud Is a Battlefield, and You're Enlisted
The Cloud Is a Battlefield, and You're Enlisted YouTube video by The Drey Dossier

The Cloud Is a Battlefield, and You're Enlisted | The Drey Dossier
youtu.be/dPhUNiLgado?...

09.03.2026 17:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
IHIP News:🚨 Trump ADMITS Israel CONTROLS HIM As He TORCHES Iran & Threatens A DRAFT!
IHIP News:🚨 Trump ADMITS Israel CONTROLS HIM As He TORCHES Iran & Threatens A DRAFT! YouTube video by I've Had It

HIP News:🚨 Trump ADMITS Israel CONTROLS HIM As He TORCHES Iran & Threatens A DRAFT!
youtu.be/1XxLe-Dtsbo?...

09.03.2026 17:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
GOP Judge GOES NUCLEAR and Threatens to JAIL ICE
GOP Judge GOES NUCLEAR and Threatens to JAIL ICE YouTube video by Legal AF

GOP Judge GOES NUCLEAR and Threatens to JAIL ICE
youtu.be/eLQu6hudg_U?...

09.03.2026 17:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
IHIP News: INSANE MOMENT Inside Trump's WH as They DESTROY Iran and Billionaire CALLS OUT Trump!
IHIP News: INSANE MOMENT Inside Trump's WH as They DESTROY Iran and Billionaire CALLS OUT Trump! YouTube video by I've Had It

IHIP News: INSANE MOMENT Inside Trump's WH as They DESTROY Iran and Billionaire CALLS OUT Trump!
youtu.be/KvHB5zjw3Ro?...

09.03.2026 17:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
IHIP News: Mike Johnson Calls for HOLY WAR in Iran and CONTRADICTS Trump at EVERY STEP!
IHIP News: Mike Johnson Calls for HOLY WAR in Iran and CONTRADICTS Trump at EVERY STEP! YouTube video by I've Had It

Rapture Preppers Controling the WH

(like an insane, dimwitted college fraternity with the attendant hazing & bullying)

IHIP News: Mike Johnson Calls for HOLY WAR in Iran and CONTRADICTS Trump at EVERY STEP!
youtu.be/GdZWYQUOpAE?...

09.03.2026 17:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Trump Axes Kristi Noem & Hegseth Strong-Arms "Too-Woke" Boy Scouts | The Daily Show
Trump Axes Kristi Noem & Hegseth Strong-Arms "Too-Woke" Boy Scouts | The Daily Show YouTube video by The Daily Show

Trump Axes Kristi Noem & Hegseth Strong-Arms "Too-Woke" Boy Scouts | The Daily Show
youtu.be/ZQ6kV4YbEU8?...

09.03.2026 17:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Desi Lydic Foxsplains Trump's Iran Not-War | The Daily Show
Desi Lydic Foxsplains Trump's Iran Not-War | The Daily Show YouTube video by The Daily Show

Desi Lydic Foxsplains Trump's Iran Not-War | The Daily Show
youtu.be/-0A2sJHi92I?...

09.03.2026 17:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What I Learned at the Alex Pretti Memorial
What I Learned at the Alex Pretti Memorial YouTube video by Kristofer Goldsmith

What I Learned at the Alex Pretti Memorial
youtu.be/UZQdqbUcQ_s?...

09.03.2026 17:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How to Leave Big Tech | The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide (Browsers, Cloud, Social Media & More!)
How to Leave Big Tech | The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide (Browsers, Cloud, Social Media & More!) YouTube video by Laura Malvoyante

How to Leave Big Tech | The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide (Browsers, Cloud, Social Media & More!)
youtu.be/z1Qtq-v_W6Y?...

09.03.2026 17:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Finally some followup on the cruel travesty of termination of USAID | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
youtu.be/tU8S13xYJNM?...

09.03.2026 16:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hegseth Iran Presser Cold Open - SNL
Hegseth Iran Presser Cold Open - SNL YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

Hegseth Iran Presser Cold Open - SNL
youtu.be/z7VbvUxj-hw?...

09.03.2026 16:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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On Swarms, Davos and the Power of the Powerless Let’s take a look today at the power of individuals against world leaders and what swarm improvisation principles suggest is best to do. This is a rather unusual post for this blog, but hey, …

Just read this great piece by Thomas Johannsen, a perfect resource for exiting the problematic big tech monopolies (and inspiring you to do so). If you've already made the shift to Bluesky for ethical reasons, here are the next steps in your journey toward digital sainthood.

10.02.2026 18:23 👍 148 🔁 32 💬 19 📌 7
Why Eisenhower Betrayed Iran's Last Democratic Leader - The Secret They Buried For 60 Years
Why Eisenhower Betrayed Iran's Last Democratic Leader - The Secret They Buried For 60 Years YouTube video by Cold War Dominance

CIA / U.S. State Dept. Travesties

1) Why Eisenhower Betrayed Iran's Last Democratic Leader
youtu.be/QsCS-ICDy9A?...

2) Carter uninformed by the CIA & State Dept (time stamp 45:45)
youtu.be/02Ns6EbCplY?...

05.03.2026 22:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0