Tomasz Drabowicz

Goodnight

Just finished the final draft of my latest book chapter:

"Haredi Geographies: Jewish Cemeteries in Poland and Czechoslovakia"

It's for an edited volume that I'm putting together with @rkpejsova.bsky.social on Jewish contact across Cold War boundaries. (Purdue, forthcoming).

Trump’s just trolling Vance now, right?

New Fukuyama just dropped

Manulife Centre at Toronto, Canada r/brutalism

My plans for the afternoon this holy Sunday 👇

Oczywiście!

My evening plans for tonight 👇

I recommend this 👇 place wholeheartadely. It's away from Florence city centre, but it's 5 minutes on foot from the tram 2 stop on Piazza della Libertà or from the Parterre final stop of C1 bus you can catch in the city centre. Food & service are excellent. Bonus for (Fiorentina) soccer fans

BREAKING | Comptroller Brad Lander arrested at ICE court hearing | amNewYork City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested and accosted by masked federal agents at immigration court in Lower Manhattan.

been rereading Paxton's Anatomy of Fascism and this would fit in well with early 20s Italy www.amny.com/news/brad-la...

De-Dollarization Is Inevitable. The World Isn’t Prepared The question is no longer if the U.S. dollar’s privileged position will end, but if it happens through careful preparation or catastrophic crisis.

As the warning signs of U.S. fiscal instability multiply, the question is no longer if the U.S. dollar’s privileged position will end, but how—through careful preparation or catastrophic crisis?

Nicholas Creel (@prof-peacock.bsky.social‬) writes:

Pentagon pizza account reported high activity before Israel's attack on Iran A viral account on X tracking pizza shop activity around the Pentagon predicted something was underway before Israel attacked Iran.

A viral account on X tracking pizza shop activity around the Pentagon predicted something was underway before Israel attacked Iran.

Baroness Casey: I feel rage on behalf of the abused girls

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: The peer whose report recommends a public inquiry into grooming gangs says nobody is learning the lessons of the scandal

Ok, Caffé Lietta, where negroni was invented, is a really nice place on Piazza della Libertà in Florence, but you have to be willing to experience Hitchcock's Birds LIVE

I will repeat myself: there is a persistent belief that popular government should be based on convincing people by argumentative debate, when its true basis is the negotiation of rational compromises between people of different beliefs.

From a new interview with @chenoweth.bsky.social, who coined the "3.5% rule":

"Most of the movements in our database never got to that threshold and still won with like 1.8% or something like that." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

In Polish we have a saying about such guys: "He has never ever said a word of truth in his life".

New story this morning from me and Sara Randazzo @wsj.com

This trope about stern patriarchal parenting is absolutely central to the religious culture that Hegseth comes from.

“There ain’t no devil—there’s just God when he’s drunk.”

The abusive aspect is text, not subtext.

Daddy is home drunk and angry

In other words, as always with Trump (but not just), it's always gender overlaid with race, or race overlaid with gender.

But Hegseth and Trump's obsession with lethality must be seen more broadly as a disavowal of soft power in favor of hard power.

And that in turn can be seen as a critique of a purportedly laxist style of parenting coded as feminine, in favor of a more disciplinarian approach, i.e., daddy is home.

Peeling this one off to a new thread.

This also underscores how disconnected Hegseth's fixation on "lethality" is from the political, socio-cultural and societal roles that militaries have played throughout history.

Case in point: If your only objective is lethality, why hold a parade?

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A product of a cult of special operations that led to a basic misunderstanding of how US military power is anchored on logistics systems and a global network of bases that allow the US to move what it needs when it needs it to where it is needed

America used to master the boring shit that wins wars

You could say the same for Iran

Led by a President experiencing severe mental decline, the United States ceased to be a functioning geopolitical actor