John Horgan

Three climbers - left to right - Frank McCarthy, Mickey Gutwein, and John Horgan on the summit of Carstensz Pyramid, west Papua.

Temporary escape from the insanity. Summit of Carstensz Pyramid, west Papua, about 48 hours ago. Highest peak in Oceania and one of the fabled Seven Summits. Very technical climbing and lucky to have had great conditions. L-R Frank McCarthy, Mickey Gutwein, me.

Non-US tv news currently has the most measured and informed context from regional experts and seasoned correspondents. BBC, Al Jazeera, France 24, etc.

Hello new followers. I’m John Horgan, a professor of psychology who studies terrorist behavior. Don’t believe anyone who says they know what is going to happen next. Nobody does. Believe the Trump administration least of all. The informed voices are out there. Seek them out.

Definitely grounds for conviction.

I checked one of my DOIs just now. Says "back shortly" (?)

Perpetually.

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Hello down there!

Lhotse is over whatever it is you have.

#Caturday

YouTube video by Secure Line Grievance-Fuelled Violence and School Shootings: Understanding Tumbler Ridge with Emily Corner

🚨🎙️This might be the most important episode of Secure Line we've ever done.

We speak to Dr. Emily Corner about grievance-fuelled violence, school shootings, and Tumbler Ridge.

Please listen, and share with friends and family.

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A very handsome boi.

Timeline cleanser, courtesy of Bo.

UT System votes to limit 'controversial topics' in class, raising concerns about academic freedom This is the latest move by the state to have more control over what is taught at public universities.

The University of Texas system has voted to limit 'controversial topics' in class. Where's the academic freedom?

"A faculty member is not going to be able do talk about current events without risking being fired. What kind of education is this?"

—Brian Evans, President of @texasaaup.bsky.social

So a war is surely around the corner

"To incentivize participation in the task force model, ICE is offering to pay for the annual salary and benefits of each of the local officers designated by police agencies to carry out immigration enforcement tasks, including overtime coverage of up to 25% of officers’ annual salary."

"The task force model had been discontinued for over a decade before being revived under the Trump administration last year. The Obama administration ended those partnerships in 2012, following a Department of Justice investigation that uncovered widespread racial profiling and other discrimination"

Marietta police department signs ICE partnership, will help arrest immigrants Marietta is the biggest local law enforcement agency in metro Atlanta to sign up to date, expanding the program’s reach into the state’s most immigrant-heavy region.

Marietta (Georgia) police signs ICE partnership, will help arrest immigrants

www.ajc.com/news/2026/02...

New arrivals

Cover of Reinhold Messner’s book, Against The Wind.

An unparalleled mountaineer, for sure, but I’ve seen fewer grievances in terrorist manifestos.

RIP Tom Noonan. Truly terrific actor.

Any time I think I can't possibly be more shocked and floored by the outrageous cruelty so proudly on display by this administration, I am quickly proven wrong.

"Google, Meta, and Reddit have all turned over at least some user data."

Good night

Here There Are Blueberries review – devastating anatomy of the truth behind Nazi snapshots Using photographs from an archive album of Auschwitz staff relaxing, this searing drama builds into an unforgettable inquiry

London friends, you now get to see the astonishing "Here There Are Blueberries" playing at the Theatre Royal Stratford East.

www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/f...

Thank you for posting this. Will listen.

Sure. I recommend Zlatko Dizdarevic's "Sarajevo: A War Journal". Also Jan Honig's book about the Srebrenica massacre. "The Death of Yugoslavia" (Allan Little) is good background/context to the war. Oh, "Zlata's Diary" too.

The 'sniper tourism' rumors, however, are a different thing entirely. Hopefully we will find out more soon.

In 1999 [TitanicLady.gif], Max Taylor and I wrote about how the sniping of children in Sarajevo was a potential new form of terrorism, pushing the boundaries of what was considered "permissible" in warfare, would likely increase worldwide. Unfortunately, we were correct about that.

Sarajevo sniper tourists ‘killed children by day, then partied at night’ Rich foreigners, including Britons, have been accused of paying to shoot children and pregnant women during the siege of the Bosnian capital in the early 1990s

Been following this for a few years. Hopefully this investigation will produce results one way or another.

Sarajevo sniper tourists ‘killed children by day, then partied at night’

www.thetimes.com/article/ea68...

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