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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1h

This is the kind of stuff that even Far Right European influencers will find weird

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David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 1h

Jazz OTD: The first date of recording for bassist/vocalist/composer Esperanza Spalding's memorable "Chamber Music" was October 8, 2009. Gretchen Parlato joins her on vocals; the piece is a composition by Spalding with her co-producer, Gil Goldstein. #jazzsky

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Knowledge Of Good And Evil

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Cédric Mas @cedricmas.eurosky.social · 2h

Génie (c'est bon de rire parfois)

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 10h

Actually, he was more like 5 or 6 when this happened, which made it even worse. I'm still traumatized. Nothing funny about Funny Bunny.

Image of the Funny Bunny children's game and box. Do not, I repeat, do not under any circumstances play this game. You will regret it.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 13h

"[A]s political realities in Washington and Europe catch up to public opinion in the years to come, the limits of Israel’s militarized approach to its long-term security will become increasingly clear." Gift link.

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Israel’s Response to Oct. 7 Has Made It Less Secure

Israel has internalized one lesson from the attacks of Oct. 7: that no one within striking distance must ever be able to do it harm.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The bitter but predictable irony of Israel's response to the Oct. 7 attack is that the only state that now poses less of a security threat to Israel is the one where a secular dictator was replaced by an avowed jihadist.

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Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is, of course, stating the absolute obvious. The conflict of interest is staggering. But we also should not overlook the fact that neither one of these men is even remotely an expert on war, conflict or society. They are businessmen. www.npr.org/2026/10/06/n...

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Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey's new Pentagon roles raise ethics worries

Musk's company, SpaceX, and Luckey's company Anduril, could potentially benefit from recommendations made in the study about future autonomous weapon systems.

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Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com · 07/10/2026

Reminder that we are offering this really cool opportunity. The deadline for expressions of interest is October 31!

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But I was told cancel culture was so bad, we had to punish the wokes for it by re-electing Trump.

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The US is a signatory to the Convention Against Torture. It was signed by Reagan and ratified and enacted into the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act, which prohibits refoulement, meaning this is illegal under US law.

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U.S. sends torture survivor back to Nicaragua, where he is immediately jailed again

Jeffrey Jarquín, a former Nicaraguan political prisoner who said he was tortured for opposing President Daniel Ortega, was jailed at Managua’s Modelo prison immediately after the U.S. deported him, ad...

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

we really are the most ridiculous species on the planet

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"But if the center is now fragmented, it is also due to the corrosive effects of Macron’s style of governance, which he sold in both 2017 and 2022 as conciliatory, but which in practice has proved to be hyper-polarizing. The degree of that polarization is ... on display today." Gift link.

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France’s Student Protests Raise the Heat on Macron

The demonstrations make for a volatile political cocktail amid other popular grievances, just as the campaign for next year’s presidential election kicks into gear.

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Yvan Guichaoua @yguichaoua.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

République, mai 2002. Ça a drôlement bien marché

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think part of the problem is that, in seeking to firewall against Nazism since WWII, we created a vacuum in knowledge about Hitler that leaves space for this sort of idiocy. The best antidote to these people would be greater popular familiarity with what a freak and loser Hitler really was.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For 20 years, successive French govts and demagogues have tried to vilify, demonize and silence young women like her. And here she is calling them out in the name of her France. This photo documents France's greatest failures, but also its greatest successes that it in many ways does not deserve.

A student protester wearing a hijab on her head and a French flag around her shoulders holds a sign reading, You created this generation, not take responsibility for it.

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other95 @other95.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is so sad. As someone in STEM, I sought out and enjoyed so many humanities courses.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Simply put, across the US and UK, university administrators, their management consultants and their funders no longer consider the arts and humanities worthy of being studied, taught and transmitted. Their vision of human society is anti-humanist. No wonder the kids are at the barricades.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'll tell you one thing: The woke military under Obama and Biden never retreated from Iran's military

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Insurers are preparing for claims when AI agents cause damage and even asking whether AI CEOs are liable for failing to control them. This is where the existential threat hyperbole meets boring business reality. AI agents hacking websites can create liability even if law enforcement does nothing.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, wait, I misunderstood. I thought it meant a meme invented by you.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why is the @economist.com not referring to the US secretary of defense by his congressionally legislated statutory title? Any one you can mention this to, @mattsteinglass.bsky.social?

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Macron is another one whose appeal was the perception that he alone could hold back Le Pen. And yet, under his presidency the French state has repressed with ultra-violence the Gilets Jaunes, the pension reform protests and now the lycéens. With a center like that, who needs the far right?

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Against edgelordism in all its forms" is becoming a foundational principle for me. Civilization is impossible without an unflinching commitment to pro-social behavior and a willingness to marginalize any deviation.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"But if voters cast their ballots in part based on the two leading candidates’ contrasting visions for Brazil’s political future, their respective legacies also featured prominently, making the election also a referendum on the country’s recent political past." Gift link.

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The Bolsonaros Are Close to Retaking Brazil’s Presidency

The upcoming runoff will present voters with a stark choice for the country’s future, while also serving as a referendum on its recent past.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Evening soundtrack. Great upbeat swinging session backed by Oliver Nelson's band of the time, with some great song selection. The liner notes include the only flat-out disses (of Curtis' and Nelson's tenor solos on this track) that I've ever seen printed on a record sleeve.

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Soul Street

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Sarang Shah @sarangshah.com · 05/10/2026

The old adage: Europe has public splendor but private squalor, while America has public squalor but private splendor.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

An unlimited defense I'll make of LA is its flora. Birds of paradise and palm trees galore, night-blooming jasmine everywhere, and the hillsides to look down over it all and sense the desert that still looms and blooms like the city's hidden face.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Delayed reaction to this one, but why wasn't Rees-Mogg's first response, "Who exactly do you think started World War II?"

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Every now and then I read something to the tune of: "Word to your moms, I'm here to drop bombs, I got more rhymes than the Bible's got psalms." This was one of those times.

This is emphatically not to posit a feminist ‘conflict-free’ utopia, nor to argue that feminist critiques necessarily take precedence over other emancipatory discourses, nor to claim that gender hierarchy is always the most salient dimension of oppressive dynamics. It is to argue that feminist voices offer alternative visions; that gender domination is not reducible to some other form and, therefore, that ‘progressive’ movements must also be feminist movements; and that, whilenot always the most salient, gender is always a dimension of oppressive relations and ‘taking it seriously’ improves our critical understanding and possibilities for change. In sum, insofar as denigration of the feminine serves to naturalize (depoliticize) all manner of oppressive relations, we cannot eliminate oppression until we eliminate the hierarchical gender dichotomy that sustains it.

– V. Spike Peterson, A ‘Gendered Global Hierarchy’? in Fry & O’Hagan (eds), Contending Images of World Politics

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

These are the 20th and 21st paragraphs of a story titled "Superpowers Race to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/w...

Target dates have repeatedly slipped, and [highlight] few experts expect the countries to meet their deadlines. [/highlight] Nobody has a proven lander that can lower heavy, potentially radioactive material onto bumpy lunar terrain. Nobody has ever installed a reactor in low gravity.

The moon bases have not been built, and how much electricity they would need is open to speculation. That is why experts say that all or parts of the reactor designs could change.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Like the writers decided it would be hilarious if instead of making the kids wonder why all the parents were laughing, they'd made them wonder why we were all crying.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just watched Up (which I hadn't seen since I took the eldest to see it back in 2009) with the 8-y.o., and I had totally forgotten the backstory. Man, that opening montage hits hard. And even harder when you're pushing 60 than when you're just past 40.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The missus just noted that, based on the series' premise and what he tells us when we pick him up every afternoon, Severance bears a striking resemblance to the 8-y.o.'s experience of school.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Morning soundtrack. Not much more to add about this one than what I wrote last time I put it on. Frank Haynes was an amazing in-the-pocket tenor player, and anytime he played, you knew what to expect. Whereas with the all-time greats, anytime they played, you didn't know what to expect.

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Comin' Home Baby (Mono Version)

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Throw in degrading and self-humiliating while you're at it.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Great thread about a 15-yr trend of increasing police violence against protesters in France, worth reading in translation if necessary. To my mind, it also explains why so many French protest movements, from the Gilets Jaunes to the student protests today, have so quickly been radicalized.

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not the point, I know, but “that he spoke at on” is how you know they killed every copy editor within a 40-mile radius.

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Unsung Women Behind America’s Most Celebrated Civil Rights Protest The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain revisits the 1963 March on Washington, placing overlooked Black women at the center of the story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...

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Book Review: ‘How Bright the Path Grows,’ by Marcia Chatelain (Gift Article)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain revisits the 1963 March on Washington, placing overlooked Black women at the center of the story.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026

I have absolutely wondered about this. Amazing.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Okay, everyone, we need a three-word slogan with a call to action, and it has to be catchy and immediately understandable to someone who is not paying close attention to politics all the time."

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's funny, even before the reporting on a possible all-out Saudi invasion, I found myself wondering about internal dynamics in Saudi Arabia and whether the combination of Iran/Hormuz and Houthis/Red Sea could bring down MBS or the royal family.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Like the anti-woke backlash of which it's part, the whole "campuses as hotbeds of left-wing radicalism" discourse willfully confuses the noise for the signal. Most people go for a job credential and leave deeply socialized into the protocols of power, of which violence against women is central.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just occurred to me that one of the Cornell frat boys is in the White House, another is running the Pentagon and another is sitting on the Supreme Court. This isn't an anomaly. It's the pipeline.

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