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"give me the man and I will find the crime" was a Stalinist thing

Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia will tomorrow permanently disconnect from Russia’s power grid.

Russia can no longer use energy as a tool of blackmail.

This is a victory for freedom and European unity.

What I’m reading on the plane. We all need to do what we can, when we can. If all you can do today to contribute is learn something about authoritarianism that you didn’t know before, that’s good enough. A little is better than none. Keep going.

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

Americans:

photo of a bodysuit filled with garbage and a taped portrait of Elon Musk hangs upside down on the gate near piazzale Loreto in Milan, Italy. Photo from Ansa Italia 2025

Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945.
They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)

when the minecraft olympics invite olympic level minecraft players to play their olympic difficulty games and only the best of the olympic level minecraft players go to the last stage of the minecraft olympics ...
but i'm upset because my player isn't olympic level and lost and that's "unfair" ... k

dnf as guards in squids 3‼️

and over here will be our base ! #dsmpfanart

so true!!

omg that’s amazing!! 🤩 what’s your secret..

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