🇪🇺🏳️🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner.
There is really a gap in the gender essentialism grifter universe for a manosphere guy to start claiming only men can be effective parents because women don't have the innate upper body strength to be good mothers. Why not have the full spectrum of terrible opinions?
He's probably on as many uppers as Eden was...
The conduct of the war probably more damaging than losing it: strangematters.coop/jason-lyall-...
Where I grew up, the new ownership of Coffee Time turned it into Coffee Lime to save on the cost of a fully new sign
![Detail from the painting “Abend über Potsdam” [“Evening over Potsdam”] by Lotte Laserstein, 1930](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vny6rfv7ic24qx3depkrx2dy/bafkreic5xryrm6h2bwvosripbsslahywe5j5ef5jx5xcl6b3tj3uimhjji)
Detail from the painting “Abend über Potsdam” [“Evening over Potsdam”] by Lotte Laserstein, 1930
“Weimar Germany, 1918/19–1933,” the final volume of our relaunched “German History in Documents and Images” primary source project, is now published and available! You can find the expanded edition, edited and with a new introduction by Erik Jensen, here: germanhistorydocs.org/en/weimar-ge...
I missed a connector at Dulles and expressed profound regret about my stupidity (which was genuine) and they got me a flight 30 minutes later.
It's like when they dragged Betsy McCaughey out of cold storage to go after Obamacare
They got up early and put a towel on the strait to indicate it was actually theirs
Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz
Weird request for the historians of Bluesky - did anyone whose work was used to train Grammarly's Expert Review feature investigate the feature while it was still active? I'd love to speak with anyone who managed to interact with their own digital clone.
“By shifting the vast majority of university funding into the hands of the aggregate decisions of 17-year-olds, the English system of choice has become an enormous machine for finding out who has the best (or best resourced) marketing department.”
I really hate the - honestly very right wing - framing that it is somehow good to constantly be shocked and offended. This is simply not how the real world works *or should be expected to work*
This is ballroom erasure
Not as much is in the US, but the West German economic miracle in the 1950s was fueled by increased military spending from US to German firms to supply the needs of the Korean War.
From the tech perspective, I think this is more "you can't say slurs on the internet in Germany" than anything else since the connections to the post-war settlement for anything else in tech is even more out to lunch
The complaint about Germany makes more sense if translated into far right grievance dialect in which the allies forced Germany to police the boundaries of it’s democracy to prevent far right nationalists from coming to power again.
The supposedly “neutered“ Federal Republic of Germany had nearly half a million strong military during the Cold War. There is a reason those ubiquitous army surplus jackets had a German flag on them.
Post-1955 and the re-armament of West Germany, this is completely unmoored from reality. Germany’s current defense posture has nothing to do with the post war settlement but rather post Cold War military spending cuts.
Last month, the UK head of Palantir attacked the company's critics as "ideological groups." This month, the company's global CEO has published a call for US tech companies to recognise a moral responsibility to support American fascism.
Wer sie noch nicht gelesen hat: meine Analyse für die @blaetter.bsky.social www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2026....
Reminds me of the guy claiming June 17, 1953 only happened because of RIAS messages and nothing else.
From everything I had read, this checked out. There is a specific strand of American historical narcissism on the left and the right that can’t imagine internal affairs in the Eastern bloc as more than a reaction to US policy.
Yeah this reads like a Kremlinological speculation repackaged as definitive historical fact.
Thanks for tagging him in (what is the non-derogatory version of a snitch tag?) I knew that side, but the specific claim about the re-election being crucial I've never seen before and I had a whole graduate seminar with a guy who wrote Reagan hagiography.
I've never seen the claim that Reagan's reelection was a direct cause for the selection of Gorbachev over the alternatives. Do any Soviet historians actually agree with this or it is just Reaganite mythology?
there has also been a real turn towards how it gets deployed for generally reactionary politics (ie “at least back then we had security and they kept out the foreigners”) but i agree there are plenty of people for whom it’s cultural/stuff based w/out clear politics
bsky.app/profile/hist... Yes I agree it's different phenomena!
liberals have become much more agressive, pushing for sweeping reforms & 'nuremberg 2.0'
my latest for @prospectmagazine.co.uk
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Two weeks to go...
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