Margaret Comer

What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.

People who are making tectonic shifts in postsoviet decolonial thought:
Dr Nodira Kholmatova
Dr Olga Burlyuk
Dr Gulnaz Sibgatullina
Prof Madina Tlostanova
Dr Tereza Hendl
Dr yours truly
Dr Assel Tutumlu

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These are apparently facial reconstructions of a 2,300-year-old Pazyryk Scythian male and female from the same kurgan in Berel, Kazakhstan and not - as I first thought - that couple I met at a Spiral Tribe soundsystem in 1992 who sold me E that turned out to be paracetamol.

Im in my late 40s, and im just flashing back to every ‘justified’ regime change and invasion for decades, every ‘weapons of mass destruction’ lie, every ‘evil communists’ trope bought and sold by politicians, journalists and people, and all the incredible suffering that followed

We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.

one cynically funny thing about Hegseth thinking he can retcon the genocide atop which America was built is that the rest of the world is not fooled & will never be fooled. World history will always teach that the Army committed organized murder of civilians at Wounded Knee. It’s generally known

The shootings at the site I linked began in 1918 but peaked later.
It’s an odd example to single out as the symbol of Bolshevik terror, but it’s technically correct. Yet the real problem here is the call to extinguish the intelligentsia again, right?!?

This whole things sounds like he only remembers one incident he vaguely heard about and doesn’t know anything else about the topic - so, typical chat for his circle

Тюрьма и расстрельное помещение ВЧК-НКВД в Варсонофьевском Это прямо здесь — Москва: Топография террора

topos.memo.ru/article/356+3

The NKVD did sometimes shoot people in urban “garages,” which had lots of space to park cars and trucks - they would run the truck engines all night to cover the gunshot sounds. There’s a place right near Lubyanka where this happened, but it wasn’t the most common type of location.

Ew.

"getting snatched off the street by armed agents of the state, sent to the gulag, and then deported is the same thing as a multi-millionaire having his show cancelled.

I am very smart and get paid to share my ideas."

Muscovy 🦆?

Every woman I know with advanced degrees has dated this guy/met this guy at a party and he has implied how ignorant/stupid she actually was because she didn't recite the History of the Peloponnesian War from memory.

And then he's been blocked/avoided by every one of those women.

They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All 12 Suffer from Other Health Problems. A Free Press investigation found that the viral photos lacked important context: The subjects have cystic fibrosis, rickets, or other serious ailments. By Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova 08.17.25 -Israel and Antisemitism

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators

A heartfelt "fuck you" to everyone who told me I was overreacting in November 2016.

This‼️

Grainy, black and white photo showing two long-haired cats. When is inside of a basket that’s turned on its side. The other is sitting on top of the basket. Text at the bottom reads “the alarm”. Very small text in the lower left corner reads copyright 1902 Albee Bertrand.

The Alarm. Postcard from my collection. Copyright 1902, unsent.

The Real Housewives franchise is the pinnacle of reality TV, and the Housewives also uncannily predict America’s future 🔮

Recently, via a series of strange events, I moved to Warsaw’s Muranów neighborhood - since today is the 82nd anniversary of the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, here are some photos of the memorial I took on a walk. Today, this neighborhood’s tragic history feels hauntingly present.

Human beings suffer,
They torture one another,
They get hurt and get hard.
No poem or play or song
Can fully right a wrong
Inflicted and endured.

Seamus Heaney #botd 1939

given its applicability to the present moment I feel like the word revanchist is severely overdue for a comeback. normalize calling your enemy a revanchist piece of shit

You want to see an octopus riding a shark.

🎥: University of Auckland

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...

An insane decision by the State Department to terminate the Title VIII program, which has allowed American students to study the languages of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia – all essential for foreign policy, intelligence, the military and not least a better informed citizenry.

The whole “have you even said ‘thank you’ once” thing made me shiver - total narcissistic behavior.

Cannot wait 🇵🇱🙌

they should invent a passage of time that isn’t relentless

Gulag Heritage The gulag system, which stretched across the Soviet Union and lasted in some form for almost all its existence, comprised a network of prisons, concentration camps, forced labor camps, and other sites...

My overview of “Gulag Heritage” in the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict: link.springer.com/referencewor...

It’s a “living reference work,” so I’m happy to hear suggestions for future updates!

Thank you, Martin 🙏🙏🙏

Ratatouille but it's world war 1 and the rats are all incredibly skilled marksmen and the humans they ride as steeds are merely cannon fodder for sniper duels between them