Saying that you -must- be grateful is what domestic abusers and Russian prison guards do. You must take the violence and say you like it. It is a mark of fascism.
Ah, I hadn’t even known I was on German tv last night! In any case, I’m glad to be able, in my Slavicist role, to pass along a Russian word that can help us understand what is happening in my own country now.
Продажность, illustrated:
Yes, it is hard to process. And wrenching.
I can't shake the feeling that my apocalyptic nightmares--the kind your therapist always assures you are just inside your head and would never happen in real life--are playing themselves out in the real world.
Look, it's just purely a coincidence that Donald Trump started a war just days before the release of FBI 302s of interviews of a victims claiming he raped her when she was 13 years old.
Thank you @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social 🥰
Because they are.
The victory over a mercilessly cruel regime deserves to belong to the millions of Iranians who have risked and given their lives to defeat tyrannical rule--not to a cowardly narcissist who self-interestedly launches missiles to distract attention from his own role in child rape and trafficking.
Today marks 14 years since 17-year-old, unarmed Trayvon Martin was shot and killed while walking home.
14 years later, we’re still demanding a country where our children can walk home in peace — without being treated like a threat.
If you’re wondering why the Trump Administration is cutting off health care for people across our state - look no further than the President’s own words:
“retribution is coming”
I would just modify the verb tense to the present progressive: “we are witnessing”
Professor Marci Shore @ the Munk School, Toronto, this evening: Four Years into Full-Scale War: The Gap between Past and Future. @marcishore.bsky.social is an amazing communicator: plain-spoken and eloquent, absolutely precise when necessary (phenomenology! Husserl!), ... 1/
Over the past four years, thinking has felt sharper to me in Ukraine than anywhere else.
"Everyone breathed in dust and wiped condensation dripping from the ceiling off their faces. They were forced to sit constantly. Legs became swollen from immobility. Skin cracked and began to rot. They slept sitting down. They died sitting down."--Angelina Kariakina and Hanna Mamonova
On this twelfth anniversary of the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity, I'm thinking of Vasyl Cherpanyn's observation that the revolution on the Maidan “was so fundamentally European that it turned out to be too European for today’s EU.”
Jake Sullivan why Europeans did not believe Americans: “[T]he evidence we presented to them was overwhelming. It’s not like we held back something that, if only they had seen it, would have made all the difference. They were just seized with the conviction that this simply made no sense.”
La méthode employée par Trump et ses sbires s’apparente à celle de gangsters. « On attise les masses, on excite leur colère, puis on la canalise vers un bouc émissaire jusqu’à les pousser à lyncher des gens. » Tout est là devant nos yeux «Rien n’est caché. »
@magdalineboutros.bsky.social
Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.
22 февраля на телеканале «Дождь» — премьера русско-язычной версии документального фильма “Предупредить Запад,” шпионской истории ранней холодной войны, с редкой канадской точки зрения. Смотря фильм, у меня было такое ощущение, что эта история ещё не закончилась.
For those in Toronto, please join me and @lucanway.bsky.social in thinking together on a macabre anniversary.
Anyone near Lexington, Virginia should not miss this:
"Tehran’s Islamo-fascist rulers pose a very real threat . . it is not the biggest reason Israel is becoming an apartheid state . . .that title goes to the govt. of messianic zealots, Arab-hating nationalists and anti-modern ultra-Orthodox Israelis put together by Netanyahu to keep himself in power."
We should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that terrorizes children and forces them to spend their dying days trying to see their father one last time.
"I asked a crane operator, Yevhen Bilousov, when he thought the war might end. The question itself was meaningless, he told me, 'because everything depends not on when but on how the war ends.'"--Nataliya Gumenyuk
Gift article:
"It can seem that the world watches Russia’s war on Ukraine as if it were a film. When attention wanes, there is a demand for an ending — if not good, then bad. For Ukrainians, this is not cinema but reality. It will last as long as it lasts."--Nataliya Gumenyuk
"Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not," Arendt wrote. "Humanly speaking, no more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.” Mr. Nobody reminds us that these "some people who will not" matter.
"There’s that proverb, it takes a village to raise a child. I think we’ve learned that it takes a very powerful network to abuse so many children."--journalist Anand Giridharadas
