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American immigrant in Europe. Former academic writing instructor at a small liberal arts college in the Netherlands πŸ‡³πŸ‡± Now living in France πŸ‡«πŸ‡·

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works for visual arts too

11.03.2026 18:13 πŸ‘ 154 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

Amazon cloud unit has data centers in the UAE and Bahrain which were already damaged in drone strikes last week.

11.03.2026 04:17 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

article confirms no one willing to tell grandpa that the game is up

11.03.2026 02:24 πŸ‘ 400 πŸ” 105 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 19
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BBC looks at how Cubans are living with fuel shortages The BBC's Will Grant spoke to several Cubans as the country grapples with severe electricity shortages, which is attributed in part to US sanctions.

A grim BBC report from Havana filed 4 days ago. The Trump Administration is deliberately causing the worst humanitarian crisis of my lifetime in the western hemisphere and the US prestige press can't be bothered to cover it. Please shame them into reporting on this crisis before people start dying.

10.03.2026 19:35 πŸ‘ 187 πŸ” 127 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

Seems clear here the "strategic direction" was market manipulation.

10.03.2026 03:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I fully agree! The same for Europe, including traditional pro-US countries like Germany and the Netherlands.

Both Republicans AND Democrats miss the fundamental transformation that has taken place in Europe. Not even speaking of the generational effects!

09.03.2026 14:43 πŸ‘ 81 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

Yep.

09.03.2026 08:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, good. "this is now starting to look like a potential combination of the 1973 post-Yom Kippur War oil shock, the 2022 Russia-Ukraine War commodity shock, and the 2020-21 Covid supply chain shock."

09.03.2026 07:48 πŸ‘ 213 πŸ” 83 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 5
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Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

08.03.2026 13:24 πŸ‘ 12969 πŸ” 4912 πŸ’¬ 923 πŸ“Œ 694

Not only did the US, per its own β€˜intelligence,’ bomb this girls primary school, THEY BOMBED IT TWICE.

www.reutersconnect.com/item/the-pri...

08.03.2026 12:11 πŸ‘ 1989 πŸ” 958 πŸ’¬ 92 πŸ“Œ 141
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Prison guards discussed cover-up of Epstein’s death, inmate tells FBI One officer said: β€œDudes, you killed that dude.”

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www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

08.03.2026 03:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"

07.03.2026 03:39 πŸ‘ 8981 πŸ” 1759 πŸ’¬ 74 πŸ“Œ 56

Strong McMansion vibes.

06.03.2026 04:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If only there had been time before this war of choice to plan all this out in advance.

03.03.2026 20:34 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A lot of people left stranded.

03.03.2026 07:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So much winning. 😬

03.03.2026 01:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Really hard to understand how after Huckabee tells everyone yesterday to flee immediately if not sooner, ayatollah stays home with his power clique (who are not know for being casual about self preservation) just sitting there right on target?

01.03.2026 03:48 πŸ‘ 76 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 1

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.

They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

26.02.2026 03:14 πŸ‘ 4408 πŸ” 2399 πŸ’¬ 96 πŸ“Œ 113

The core lesson from the last ~decade of US politics is that most Americans just dont wanna be bothered. Theyll tolerate economic decline if it hurts someone besides themselves & theyll tolerate an authoritarian gov if its not authoritarian to them. Unfortunately for Trump, he's bothering ppl w both

24.02.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump is about to start a war he hasn't bothered to explain It's not even clear he knows why he wants to bomb Iran.

β€œEven if you believed that using the military to overthrow a foreign government or make some other kind of change might sometimes be a good idea, trusting this president and this government to do it right would be foolish in the extreme.” β€” @paulwaldman.bsky.social

24.02.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 1435 πŸ” 324 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 13

As I told my undergrads at the start of the semester, I'm not asking you to write a paper about Little Rock's school desegregation because I don't know what happened there.

Little Rock is just the topic. The act of researching, writing and editing the paper is the whole point.

24.02.2026 01:41 πŸ‘ 2068 πŸ” 296 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 5

Although I'm a frequent train traveler, esp within and between France, Belgium, NL and Germany, I'm obviously not very observant to have never taken note of the difference!

23.02.2026 04:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
U2 - American Obituary (Lyric Video)
U2 - American Obituary (Lyric Video) YouTube video by U2

Adding to Billy Bragg, Springsteen and other musicians' recent contributions, here's U2 with their own protest song for America.
"The power of the people is so much stronger than the people in power" πŸ’ͺπŸ’ͺπŸ’ͺ
youtube.com/watch?v=Y3zi...

22.02.2026 15:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Increasingly the stories sound like the stories about tourists picked up in Iran or Russia, for trivial or inexplicable reasons. How long before we start to read them and say, like Russia and Iran, "well, they really should have understood the risks of visiting the United States."

21.02.2026 15:33 πŸ‘ 325 πŸ” 89 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 5

two days? this kid is getting to play video games for a couple days and walking back in to a standing ovation

22.02.2026 06:55 πŸ‘ 2379 πŸ” 396 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 4

🧡 The inhumane treatment of migrants caught in the US deportation snare is ongoing. Good question here:"Did airport employees in Portsmouth even know 100-200 shackled people were likely sitting on a plane on their tarmac all night? "

22.02.2026 13:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

These are all adult cops escalating into violence against teenagers. Many of the students are now being held by the cops who assaulted them.

21.02.2026 23:07 πŸ‘ 923 πŸ” 466 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 22

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

21.02.2026 03:45 πŸ‘ 10475 πŸ” 2812 πŸ’¬ 221 πŸ“Œ 149

What a beautiful and humane initiative! Info on how to support here: havenwatch.org

20.02.2026 04:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Whole lotta Stratotankers have been crossing the Atlantic for a few nights now. Same thing happened right before the Iran strikes last summer.

19.02.2026 01:36 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1