Marci Shore

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.

Dissolution of Truth and Russia's War Against Ukraine: Keynote speech at Munich Symposium (February 2026) Ladies and gentlemen, colleagues. It is often said that truth is the first casualty of war. In the case of Russian aggression against Ukra...

Maksym Butkevych is right: "And in this war for truth, we cannot lose."

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.

Remember that we made it out of the basement Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is entering its fifth year. With peace negotiations at a standstill, traumatized communities face a tough question: What does it mean to memorialize a war when ...

"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.”

A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...

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.”

Alimenter la haine contre une minorité: un mécanisme bien connu Trump n’a rien inventé en désignant les migrants comme des ennemis de l’intérieur.

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.

Four Years into Full-Scale War: The Gap between Past and Future

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:

Opinion | Netanyahu Plays Trump and American Jews for Fools — Again

"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.

Opinion | When Will This War End? The Question Is Meaningless.

"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

YouTube video by Czech Centre London Mr Nobody Against Putin | Official Trailer

"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

Gas, Oligarchen, Medien: Österreichs Russland-Problem mit Martin Malek Spotify video

Österreichs Verhältnis zu Russland: eine nüchterne Betrachtung:
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I fear you're wrong, but I hope very much you're right.

This is where we are.

"As much as some may wish otherwise, a fire on a ship concerns all passengers, regardless of the class of ticket they hold."--Serhiy Zhadan

"The strategy of waiting out the present as a forced pause is wrong; the notion of the future as an opportunity to simply return everything to how it was is wrong. A future as a deferred version of the past is an illusion. The future will consist of us. . .as we will be able to be.--Serhiy Zhadan

The photo shows the reaction of Vladislav Heraskevich's father and coach to his son's disqualification from the Olympics because of a helmet with portraits of killed Ukrainian athletes.

Rep. Johnson: "We have the Epstein Victim survivors here today…How many lives have been derailed because your department was either sloppy and incompetent or willfully trying to intimidate and punish these ladies for coming forward?"

Bondi: "Your time is up."

This is an entire presidential administration that operates through blackmail, bribes, and ritual humiliation.