well, at least they used ukrainian transliteration...

the good news is that her plan won't be implemented because conservatives won't win the next election. the bad news is that

the two red scares...

what they teach in high schools is that nixon famously lost debates to JFK because he looked sweaty on television as opposed to radio

Госдума вернула ФСБ право иметь собственные СИЗО — Meduza Госдума приняла в третьем чтении закон, который дает право ФСБ иметь собственные следственные изоляторы (СИЗО). Это следует из данных базы законопроектов нижней палаты парламента.

The FSB has been returned the right to operate pretrial detention centers by the legislature, which they were deprived of in 2006. A small step (especially as, per the article, the FSB retained de facto control over some cells) but one that signals an even greater turn to repression ahead.

This follows years of brand new Stalin sculptures and busts cropping up over Russia, as the intensification of relitigation and relegitimation of Stalinist memory for the state's authoritarian turn. Will have to see if the CPRF's request to return "Stalingrad" works out

Съезд КПРФ объявил доклад Хрущева о культе личности Сталина ошибочным — Meduza Партия КПРФ во время съезда, прошедшего в Московской области, приняла резолюцию, в которой объявила ошибочным доклад Никиты Хрущева о культе личности Иосифа Сталина, сообщает РИА Новости.

Russia's Communist Party adopted a resolution condemning Khrushchev's "On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences," also known as the secret speech, as "mistaken," "containing falsified facts and false accusations against Stalin" during its party congress today: meduza.io/news/2025/07...

IU's Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian programs were among the best in the world, a gem of American academia that nurtured numerous giants, including Stephen Cohen. Now almost all of them are abolished, including PhD programs. What an unmitigated disaster.

first time i've ever stood in line for a primary election

Last words of the Zohran canvasser handing me a flyer around the block from the polling place: "anybody but Cuomo"

not handing it to russia, but there's been quite a retreat from the blatantly insane policy since summer 2022 after the evident failures into slightly more rational territory

It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you

russia has returned to its pre-1917 role as the tip of the spear driving reaction

Harvard just announced a hiring freeze last week, but they have the space for a failure and a war criminal. "inaugural Kissinger Professor." what a joke

people here really are snowflakes when it comes to the democratic party

How illegal gold mining is fuelling a chocolate shortage Ghanaian farmers are ditching cocoa to dig for bullion and driving up global prices

a gold rush triggered by higher prices from trump's tariffs has caused illegal miners to destroy cocoa farmland in ghana, lowering prices and polluting water supplies in what some NGOs are calling "ecocide"

“The main turn-on for Trump is the ability to portray himself as a man who can solve a very difficult problem. If Ukraine does not agree to his terms, the entire formula loses its meaning,” another Russian diplomat added.

“We [Russia] are valuable to Trump primarily in the context of solving a problem: the war in Ukraine. If that issue falls off the agenda, then the entire agenda is thrown into question — what else is there to talk about?” a Russian diplomat said."

Kremlin Fears Trump-Zelensky Clash Could Harm Its Shot at a Grand Bargain - The Moscow Times The Kremlin is increasingly worried that the emerging rift between the U.S. and Ukraine could derail a potential agreement between Washington and Moscow, The Moscow Times’ sources say.  As U.S.

The White House is too pro-Kremlin for the Kremlin: "The Kremlin is increasingly worried that the emerging rift between the U.S. and Ukraine could derail a potential agreement between Washington and Moscow, The Moscow Times’ sources say."

it's an absurd false dichotomy, you can have both in europe. shame isabella weber isn't here, she's explaining why this leads to a WWI-style disaster on twitter. this is very well covered ground

there's some very real capital they get, too!

The key here is to understand that for Trump, it's not a "lie" - it's a Sorelian political myth that allows for him to harness anti-trans bigotry in order to create an overarching worldview where teachers must be destroyed to preserve the sacred nature of the family.

Europe must trim its welfare state to build a warfare state There is no way of defending the continent without cuts to social spending

There it is: permanent austerity must decimate our way of life so that we can lose an unwinnable war: www.ft.com/content/3705...

yeah it does depend on how hurt they are and how willing they are to let socdems/demsocs save them from themselves. but even during the new deal the conservative coalition formed to block FDR; they'll fight to block DSA types

whether it's the "american gentry" of car dealerships, construction companies, or large, multinational banks, and hedge funds, the odds of them supporting a large, populist, leftwing uprising are low. can small donors make it up? in my opinion, chances are slim

the reason this isn't likely is the same reason why the tea party worked: the common factor of both parties is that they're a vehicle for capital and billionaires. capital found the tea party useful; capital is not going to find an AOC-like mass movement useful

Starmer’s bid to save a western alliance in meltdown The British prime minister believes he can still be a bridge between the Trump White House and Europe. But is this anything other than wishful thinking?

www.ft.com/content/3edb...

hopefully political imagination and political will can be rallied into a new order, not continuing the mistakes that led us here, as the krastev op-ed concluded

in an FT op-ed, krastev recognizes trump ii as a revolutionary government planning to remake the global order into an explicit america-first arrangement, and once agains pleads with europe to display political strength: www.ft.com/content/3507...