rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 1hWhy has the name of one person replaced the name of the country? What part of the governing system allowed it to become normal? 000
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 1hUnpack the definition of "developed?" Put "developed" in a bigger historical context? 100
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 19hSo well put imo. I recall in school a teacher saying "The Roman empire lay lightly over France." The implication was that life was going on "beneath." Always the case, no? Building the story of a place by stacking diachronic slices has little to do with king lists and sweeping diachronic views? 220
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026znetwork.org/znetarticle/...znetwork.orgUS Government Allocates $1 Million Against Brazil's Supreme CourtThe Trump administration set aside $1 million to fund a campaign against Brazil’s Supreme Court. The British newspaper The Guardian published the 000
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Questions--meaning questions about how human priorities are shaped, or not, by economies, which do not act on their own. 000
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Re the good if sad hydrocarbon meditation--the ninth (?), the summary below probably doesn't capture the whole story but may raise a few fair questions..? 110
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Pres. Zelensky referred to problem below in a recent speech. How can it and other support for Russia be reversed? When the big invasion began, a report said China preferred doing business with Ukraine over Russia and wouldn't want to find itself siding with Russia? www.dw.com/en/how-russi...dw.comHow Russia is luring foreign nationals to fight in UkraineMore and more, Russia is recruiting men from the world’s poorest countries to send them to the front in the Ukraine war. Why are people joining up? 000
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026kyivindependent.com/ukraines-int...kyivindependent.comUkraine's interceptor tech outpaced by Russia’s jet-powered Geran-5 dronesThe jet-black Russian munition slammed into the Presidium building of Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences, an iconic Tsarist-era structure right in the center of Kyiv, setting the building on fire.... 100
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support...en.wikipedia.orgSupport for Russia in the Russo-Ukrainian war - Wikipedia 100
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Today in Ukraine is it safer tragically to be in the military / to be where the military is than to be a civilian? Reports a month ago said the Russian economy would soon be unable to go on paying for the attack on Ukraine, no? Did the higher oil price thanks to the attack on Iran change things? 100
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I misread "saves" as "loves." Yikes. Am I giving them ideas? Sorry. 000
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Don't they have fun. Whoever wrote what you cite is a master of ambiguity, no? Could mean "If I do something claiming to love my country as I do it, it's lawful," rather than, "If I love my country, I will honor its laws." 100
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026yes Guns as apparel A norm set long ago of designating advances elsewhere as threats justifying semi-war ("cold war"), which in turn "rationalizes" higher military spending than peace would justify Talking "national security" (diffuse definition) instead of talking defense (clearer definition) 010
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Earlier were they not a much trusted organization made up of all parties? Genuine question. 200
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Are they trained that they are protected by their subjectivity? "I felt endangered." 040
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Henryk Szeryng, violin and Ingrid Haebler, piano en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_...en.wikipedia.orgIngrid Haebler - Wikipedia 000
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Schubert sonatina play-along www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXo3...youtube.comFranz Schubert - Violin Sonatina No. 1 (1816) {Szeryng/Haebler}YouTube video by Bartje Bartmans 100
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026You probably knew. Agency in another gear. War work. And just a nice lift here in the play-along linked below. (Lots of players in this world. Someone may enjoy it.... This interpretation considered the pinnacle, seems. See bio, also linked.) Henryk Szeryng.... 100
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026timothygartonash.substack.com/p/history-ge...timothygartonash.substack.comHistory, Germany, populism and global polycrisisMy wide-ranging interview with Der Spiegel 000
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Also in its own way on optimism...Timothy Garton Ash timothygartonash.substack.com/p/history-ge...timothygartonash.substack.comHistory, Germany, populism and global polycrisisMy wide-ranging interview with Der Spiegel 000
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fe...en.wikipedia.orgJohn Fetterman - Wikipedia 001
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Me...en.wikipedia.orgTroy Meink - Wikipedia 000
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Gilded and gilt are used to suggest very different things in English. 030
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Thanks for posting. Changes my impression at least of what's possible. 100
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026adamkalkstein.com/case/complaintadamkalkstein.comAdam Kalkstein, Ph.D. | Climate Scientist & EducatorThe official website of Dr. Adam Kalkstein, climate scientist, researcher, and educator working at the intersection of weather, human health, and national security. 000
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026adamkalkstein.com/case/complaintadamkalkstein.comAdam Kalkstein, Ph.D. | Climate Scientist & EducatorThe official website of Dr. Adam Kalkstein, climate scientist, researcher, and educator working at the intersection of weather, human health, and national security. 000
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This talk certainly didn't put me, for one, to sleep. More like I found myself hanging on every word. 000
Reposted by @rwhetsel.bsky.socialVictoria Byers @vixnbox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Careful with that axe Eugene 001
Reposted by @rwhetsel.bsky.socialAskme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day. 520176829486
Reposted by @rwhetsel.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comOleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and waterThe BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled". 7619061179
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026LOST re debt: Private lump sums lend money to gov to "service" huge public debt? For this loan, gov (1) pays interest to private lump sums from public money (part printed? part collected as taxes) and (2) drops tax on private lump-sum lenders? If true, stable? Understood? Democracy? Debt kings? 000
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Also, LOST re debt: Private lump sums lend money to gov to "service" huge public debt? For this loan, gov (1) pays interest to private lump sums from public money (part printed? part collected as taxes) and (2) drops tax on private lump-sum lenders? If true, stable? Understood? Democracy? 000
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Debt kings? LOST re debt: Private lump sums lend money to gov to "service" huge public debt? For this loan, gov (1) pays interest to private lump sums from public money (part printed? part collected as taxes) and (2) drops tax on private lump-sum lenders? If true, stable? Understood? Democracy? 000
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Why have lawmakers agreed to this arrangement, if the description is accurate? To understand why would be a first step in correction? 000
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026rwhetsel.bsky.social TY LOST re debt: Private lump sums lend money to gov to "service" public debt? For this loan, gov (1) pays interest to private lump sums from public money (part printed? part collected as taxes) and (2) drops tax on private lump-sum lenders? If true, stable? Understood?rwhetsel.bsky.socialrwhetsel.bsky.social 100
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Learned from talk. TY. LOST re debt: Private lump sums lend money to gov to "service" public debt? For this loan, gov (1) pays interest to private lump sums from public money-part printed? part collected as taxes-and (2) drops tax on private lump-sum lenders? If true, stable? Understood? Democracy? 000
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026LOST here, but national debt, too? Private lump sums lend money to gov to "service" public debt? For this loan, gov (1) pays interest to private lump sums from public money--part printed? part collected as taxes--and (2) drops tax on private lump-sum lenders? If true, stable? Understood? Democracy? 000
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Does it make up half of US gov's discretionary spending? Genuine question. 110
rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026LOST here, but national debt, too? Private lump sums lend money to gov to "service" public debt? For this loan, gov (1) pays interest to private lump sums from public money--part printed? part collected as taxes--and (2) drops tax on private lump-sum lenders? If true, stable? Understood? Democracy? 000
