A poster that reads: you can’t spell hatred without red hat accompanied by a drawing of a red hat

Everything is awful but the creativity behind some of these handmade posters gives me a glimmer of hope in humanity.

Un femme assise sur son lit téléphone alors que de l'autre côté du lit, on ne voit qu'un amas de livres : "La pile de livre sur la sa table de chevet qu'il avait l'intention de lire depuis des années lui est tombée dessus et l'a... écrasé..." Source Dan Piraro

Good Night World

"Tout ce que veulent les États-Unis c'est le Groenland" is the new "tout ce que veut l'Allemagne ce sont les Sudètes".

Collage de 23 couvertures

Et un tout dernier papier bouclé pour Le Monde des Livres en 2025 ! Encore une très belle année en histoire contemporaine, et 23 bouquins très riches à défaut d’être toujours joyeux

(Dernier en date celui de Nadège Ragaru, à suivre 🔥)

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Attentat du DC-10 d’UTA, en 1989 : la colère froide de la veuve du pilote L’attaque terroriste commanditée par le régime libyen de Mouammar Kadhafi contre un avion français a privé Maryvone Raveneau de son époux. Partie civile au procès de Nicolas Sarkozy, avec une quaranta...

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Je pense que tout le monde devrait écouter cette prise de parole et mesurer ce qui vient de se produire avec cette tentative d'annulation, validée en haut lieu, d'un colloque scientifique au Collège de France

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

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Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

In the Chinese Altai between Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia…

Editorial: That meeting was sickening. Putin loved it Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless. Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold. On our screens, a blood-soaked dictator and war criminal received a roy...

Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless.

Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold.

Formidable roman sur les Tatars, la dékoulakisation, le Goulag! (Avec une préface de L Oulitskaia et une postface de G Nivat il est bien encadré!)

This essay traces the long and turbulent history of American booksellers who have faced censorship, harassment, and even violence for defending the freedom to read. Through vivid anecdotes and historical cases-from undercover stings in the early 1900s and legal battles over “obscene” literature, to FBI surveillance of Black bookstores and bomb threats against feminist and LGBTQ+ shops-the author illustrates how bookstores have repeatedly become battlegrounds in the fight for civil liberties and free expression. Despite intimidation from both government and private groups, booksellers have pushed back, shaping legal precedents and rallying communities to defend First Amendment rights. The essay ultimately calls on readers to recognize bookstores as “arsenals of democracy” and to support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom.

Booksellers have faced censorship and harassment defending the freedom to read. Celebrate your local bookstore and support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom.

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#BookstoreDay

L'insupportable défilé des politiques qui viennent saluer la mémoire du pape et son engagement auprès des pauvres et des migrants... le tout en rejetant les gens à la mer et en détruisant l'État providence.

Welcome to Idiocracy.

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Pour une histoire mondiale de la France :
"Il est impossible de ne point considérer l'histoire de France dans ses rapports avec l'histoire générale et de ne point montrer ce que la France a reçu d'autrui et ce qu'elle lui a donné."
Instructions pour les épreuves d'histoire en licence, 5 août 1881

No One Knows How This Will End (But I Do Not Think It Will End Well for Them) I can sum up the Trump/Musk/Vance theory of power in five words: "We have power; you don't." Alternative version in six words: "we can do anything we want." They seem to believe that nothing is really...

These three horsemen of the MAGA-tech-bro apocalypse are in the position of penthouse dwellers who think their top floor apartment doesn't rest on all the floors underneath... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/no-one-knows...

Of course it’s a coup Miss the obvious, lose your republic

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
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German Opposition Gambles With Far-Right on Immigration, and Loses Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to toughen rules on immigration. It did not pay off.

In an effort to portray himself and his party as tough on immigration, Friedrich Merz, the leader of the poll-leading Christian Democrats, pushed a series of measures tightening borders and accelerating deportations through Parliament this week. He did so with help from the hard-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD — parts of which have been classified as extremist by German intelligence agencies. On Friday, the gambit ended in a crushing legislative defeat for Mr. Merz, dissent in his own party and jubilant claims of new legitimacy from the AfD, a chain reaction that could rattle Mr. Merz’s comfortable seat at the top of the polls. Mr. Merz’s willingness to rely on support from the AfD, broke a taboo in German politics that had endured since the end of World War II.

Lessons to be learned:

1. Centrists align with far-right to look tough on immigration
2. Centrists gain nothing
3. Far-right wins more power

je vous conseille d'écouter cet entretien entre Nicolas Patin et Johann Chapoutot
c'est profondément intéressant, tout en étant glaçant
avec une réflexion passionnante sur la possibilité de l'analogie.
mais aussi une note d'espoir : l'ascension du pire est résistible (vous comprendrez en écoutant)

British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read - London Daily “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

Un ritratto perfetto. Da leggere.

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Très émouvant et atroce sur la société à venir…

Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.

Love it when bookshops or libraries arrange their books appropriately...