Dr. Ian Garner

FT, a newspaper operating in ex-Normal vassal state, intervenes in memory politics

I’m really quite surprised at the BBC website today. ‘Here is a video, some people say it does not show what it very obviously shows’ is not how you report this.

Thanks for sharing. New updated edition came out in December, too!

At least, this is how the headline would be written about any other authoritarian regime

"Regime's secret police continues executions in provincial city"

P.S. I am associated editor of Post-Sovet Affairs now, so expect me to post this sort of stuff ceaselessly

Independent media under pressure: evidence from Russia Existing literature recognizes growing threats to press freedom around the world and documents changes in the tools used to stifle the independent press. However, few studies investigate how indepe...

This article in Post-Soviet Affairs was among the top 5 according to altmetric across all Taylor & Francis journals last week. Read it, the authors are onto something! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Inviting Putin to Gaza peace board undermines US interests Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” was originally intended to be part of a post-war plan for Gaza. Without formal discussions, the US President is now poised to turn this part of the peace agreement into...

Trump’s ersatz UN “Peace Board” is going to create more wars than it solves. It’s bound to be a chaotic Trump plaything - until he gets bored. unherd.com/newsroom/inv...

Girl, but if you pet her she will accept any name and gender

I will not accept the Fifa Physics Prize as an alternative

Considering Norway has not awarded me the Nobel Prize in Physics despite me following ALL of Newton’s and Einstein’s laws, I will be forced to think of myself and wage war on gravity

Nobody told me when we moved to Poland we would have to do all this dressing up for winter

Going to say no.

One wonders if the Supreme Court will do anything of the sort. One wonders, if they try, whether Trump will obey.

The fun thing about the States is they’ve skipped right over virulent charismatic authoritarian in favour of deranged old man. Fast dictator culture.

Kadyrov's son Adam reportedly in Moscow hospital after car accident in Grozny, Chechnya The motorcade had been moving at a high speed before encountering an obstacle, leading to a mass accident and a number of victims.

⚡️ Kadyrov's son Adam reportedly in Moscow hospital after car accident in Grozny, Chechnya.

The motorcade had reportedly been moving at a high speed before encountering an obstacle, leading to a mass accident and a number of victims.

A day at Polskie Radio is always a good day

Kemi Badenoch calling Greenland a "second order issue" while Labour leaders hide from it is another datapoint for how UK political elites are intellectually and psychologically able to cope with an imploding global order that no longer matches the world they grew up in during the 90s and 00s

On that note, justified European anxiety over Greenland has distracted many from how despite all the sound and fury of the Maduro kidnapping the situations around Venezuela and Cuba are not just unresolved but even deteriorating.

Focus as much on where US forces are concentrated as what Trump says

First book fired me up, second book crushed me. Still battling with book three, partly as the subject matter is awful and partly as…I don’t know? A weird creative emptiness.

‘I felt like I was kidnapped’: Ojibwe man recounts ICE detainment - ICT At least five Native American men have been detained by ICE around Minneapolis following significant immigration raids

A Red Lake Ojibwe descendant was snatched by ICE in Minneapolis, and a Plains Cree woman was questioned.
This is in addition to the four Oglala Lakota men who reportedly were grabbed by ICE.
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Opinion | Renee Good wasn’t the first person shot in her car by ICE. The justification followed a familiar script. Mike Fox: The officer who shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis might never have to defend his actions before a judge or jury.

Great piece by my Cato colleague. “Since July, immigration agents have shot at least six people behind the wheel of a vehicle. The same playbook is used each time: the agent says they “feared for their life” as a vehicle was “weaponized” against them. Juries should decide, but we tie their hands.

Spoiler alert, the picture is a bleak one. Nevertheless, great to pick the brain of @irgarner.bsky.social as we face another year of intense Russian aggression. Take a listen 👇

16 views in 10 years for a very good article in a top journal on Russian media. Academia's a miserable affair, isn't it?

Leading UK far-right activist spoke at Russian extreme nationalist event Exclusive: Patriotic Alternative’s Mark Collett addressed forum along with ideologue described as ‘Putin’s brain’

Russia supports fascists all over the world. They should invade themselves to stop this.

There's no coherence to anything Trump does beyond grabbing attention, and the best way to grab attention is glamorous spectacles and big guns.

Trump : politique de la destruction spectaculaire | Le Grand Continent Pour gouverner les États-Unis et rester au pouvoir, Donald Trump a besoin de mettre en scène un rituel sacrificiel continu : détruire l’Amérique et les Américains. Cette nouvelle politique n’a pas de ...

What if Trump doesn't want to create a "sphere of influence" and there is no plan beyond chaotically blowing stuff up because it gets likes on social media?

Venezuela - The Lesson for Canada Make no mistake, the attack on Venezuela by the Trump regime is not about removing a rogue leader; it is a deliberate attack on international law.

Canada needs to take see the invasion of Venezuela for what it is - a deliberate attack on the international rules based order. We have a bandit nation on our border and we need to be ready for whatever comes next.

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“This is a highly relevant and empirically valuable article that makes a significant contribution”. Reviewer 2, you beauty, what a nice new year’s gift!

The purest America can only be achieved by removing all Americans, destroying America, and replacing it with a parking lot next to a drive-thru McDonald’s.