Ethan Mark

And that, my friends, is a pretty damning commentary on how truly fucked up Biden's foreign policy actually was. To the point that we may get something better from Trump by default. Such as a nuclear deal with Iran.
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The problem for Trump is that Biden copied, extended and elaborated so many of Trump's own policies in his first term, particularly with regard to the middle east, that destroying Biden's legacy means undermining his OWN.

Trump's instinct and desire is to do the opposite of Biden just as his previous instinct in his first term was to do the opposite of Obama. And thereby to destroy his predecessors' legacy.

That makes sense as far as it goes, but there's another explanation which is more ironic, humorous and revealing. And that is that Biden copied and continued so many of Trump's policies that I think Trump is confused.

There are various theories for Trump's rudderlessness on foreign policy issues such as Iran, China and even Israel. But most of them tend to focus on Trump's own inherent inconsistency and irrationality.🧵

YouTube video by The Throwback Throwback. NBA ECF 1994 New York Knicks vs Indiana Pacers Game 6 Full Highlights HD

Knicks have their work cut out for them going back to Indiana for Game 6.
Hopefully they can take a tip from the 1994 Knicks, who succeeded at the exact same thing
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YouTube video by Rela Tionality Game One: A Knicks Requium

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Genocide: Lessons from 20th Century History Genocide. The Nazi German-engineered extermination campaign against the Jews during the Second World War is understandably synonymous with the term, but right up to the present day, modern history has...

Here's the event description www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Yesterday's Leiden teach in "Genocide in the 20th century: Lessons from history" was recorded and can be viewed here!
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The only issue is the sound is not great. But if you click the "cc" button you get automatically generated subtitles which are actually ok

Genocide: Lessons from 20th Century History Genocide. The Nazi German-engineered extermination campaign against the Jews during the Second World War is understandably synonymous with the term, but right up to the present day, modern history has...

Genocide: Lessons from 20th Century History. My colleague @ethanmark.bsky.social has organised this important roundtable. Attend! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

YouTube video by Natty Professor - Topic Too Late (feat. Ibo Jacob)

"Too Late" is my first ever single released across all major platforms, as the Natty Professor! It was recorded and produced by my new collaborator Ibo Jacob, who also plays on it. Yours truly on lead vocals, bass and some of the keyboards. Enjoy and share!
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A perfect metaphor for how well Trump has thought this all through

In confronting China, Trump thinks he's Reagan confronting the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
But the right analogy is Britain confronting the US in the 1950s: Imperial arrogance aplenty, but you're overextended and outmoded.
And a direct confrontation will only speed the inevitable.

Trump has us all enrolled in the most expensive Econ 101 class ever

premature fascistization (n):
Attempting to carry out a radical and radically self-destructive fascist policy before you have implemented enough fascist indoctrination and social control to prevent mass resistance

Make America Inflate Again

As Black Monday Approaches, Environment Heaves Sigh of Relief

He gave everything he had in the Senate last week, but that includes exactly nothing for Palestinians, including women and children, who continue to be slaughtered in their thousands with our weapons.
Shame on you Cory Booker.

Trump, Nov 2024: I won because of high prices!
Trump voters, Nov 2024: Damn right! He understands us!
Trump, April 2025: Americans don't care about high prices!

maybe we shouldn't be disappearing students via secret police for opposing the actions of a state that behaves in this way

This is Trump's Barbarossa.
Except he's attacking the stock market instead of the Soviet Union.
And it's a solo flight:
Kamikaze economics

heavyweight tires, and requires lots of extra energy to get around.
Thus entirely defeating the environmental point of buying an electric car.
But that's probably not why you're buying a BMW anyway

Wow the new electric BMW has a range of 701km!*

*A battery that big and heavy means an immense burden on rare natural resources, many of them obtained through slave labor. It also means a car so heavy that it tears up the road and goes quickly through specially required, heavily polluting

What's going on in Gaza is simple.
It's only "complicated" if you can't acknowledge your own racism.

Can Shiori Ito’s documentary open Japan’s black box? ｜Chelsea Szendi Schieder & Atsushi Funahashi hasenao The country is wracked by ongoing high-profile sexual assault scandals, but Japanese theaters won’t yet screen Ito Shiori’s Oscar-nominated documentary film. An edited version of the text was...

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A very enlightening discussion of Shiori Ito's explosive documentary "Black Box Diaries" and its complex reception in Japan, coauthored by my friend/colleague Chelsea Szendi Schieder

For me, for soul and funk and even hiphop, A Whole New Thing is on a par with what Are You Experienced and yes, Sgt. Pepper's (along with Captain Beefheart's lesser known first effort, Safe As Milk all 1967) were for rock.

Above just one example. Song number 6. Just imagine...

This is Sly Stone we're talking about. His first album with the Family Stone. It's 1967. How likely is it that he made a dud album?