Israel laying waste to Lebanon, does anybody with any power care enough to do something about it? What is this new age we are living in?
My roots Syrian and Lebanese... Wondering if anything will be left of the lands of my forefathers and foremothers.
Headline in NYT: How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran's Response to War
The presumption here is that some act of calculation took place, rather than an impulsive trigger-finger "Let's see what happens when I press this button" approach to foreign policy.
A book cover with a poster at center showing a woman in a purple skirt, orange top, and black boots waving to a distant crowd, opposite a taller looming woman in white. At bottom is the book title, Circulating Subjects, in black and at top is the author's name, Philippa Hetherington, in orange type.
An incredible cover has landed for an incredible book - Philippa Hetherington's "Circulating Subjects: Sex Work and Migration in Russia, 1885–1935."
More on how to pre-order a copy of her "riveting" and "radical" @cornellupress.bsky.social book here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
"A new chokehold on #Gaza.
Once again, Israel is renewing its ban on supplies entering Gaza."
Read the full statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack. "The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."
complete insanity
NYT live update on how trump suddenly starts talking about renovations to his ballroom in the midst of press conference about the war launched against Iran
How has he not yet been removed for reasons of gross incompetency
Death toll in Iranian girls' school attack rises to 63 - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-iranian-girls-school-attack-rises-63
This is amazing.
www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
Interesting. I guess I won't bother then. It kind of felt like a bait and switch - first episode was intriguing and thought provoking and the second one was the total opposite.
Just listened to episode 2... And I'm rather disappointed. He seems to give up on trying to see things from different perspectives and presents the anti-zionist movement in a pretty caricatural way. His treatment of the Selina Robinson affair was esp. problematic... Should I try another episode?
yeahhh boi, the weratedogs dudes get it.
Gut-wrenching episode of this American Life on ICE told though 911 recordings. I can see very little difference from the Black Shirts or SA.
open.spotify.com/episode/0LMg...
If you're an academic outside of Minnesota wanting to help folks, one way to do that is to offer a guest lecture for faculty in the Twin Cities so they can have a break. Sanctuary Campus Network is coordinating these and you can sign up here:
I'll be presenting today at 4:15 pm CET at the Global History Colloquium of the FUB, on "A Global History of Socialist Rijeka: How a Port Connected Yugoslavia to the World." Please dm me if you would like to join online and I'll send you the link!
www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/en/termine/C...
In London?
American friends, how can I best support you in resisting your fascist government? For yourself and for us all?
Never in my wildest dreams, as a 23 year old reading Sofia Petrovna in an East European literature class at the U of Toronto, did I think there would be affinities so close to home.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art. At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always a prelude to fascism.”
- Guillermo del Toro
Holy fucking shit this is awesome use this now
cybernews.com/security/dev...
Kim Jong-un regrettably unavailable
The other episodes also look at other aspects of the topic in all its complexity, looking forward to reflecting more.
We have to often written off reports of antisemitism as pro-Israel propaganda. We need to speak out loudly against both. Both forms of hatred are toxic and dangerous. Awful that it is necessary to say it.
What Israel is doing to Palestinians is wrong, period. And what is happening to a number of Jews in North America and Europe - sometimes in the name of Palestine, I'm ashamed and appalled to say, is also wrong.
I've been listening to the first episode of this podcast, and it makes me so sad.
www.canadaland.com/shows/what-i...
Disappointing yet not entirely surprising. A lack of moral courage.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/a...
I think the appropriate term is "ICE thugs" or "goons" rather than "monkeys"
Not quite sure what to make of the fact that there is no word in English for the adjective "solidaire"...?
With no UN Security Council mandate and unable to claim self defence, it is difficult to conceive of possible legal justifications for the US strike that captured Nicolás Maduro.
Read Marc Weller's latest analysis for Chatham House ⤵️
Scientific funding is a net negative: "European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
