Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦

useful to know: Atlantic and Canadian history

I’m glad she’s out. But that’s how it works: illegal arrest leads to entreaty with autocrat who grants release as personal favor, thus affirming his power.

Ukrainian Stamp "Russian warship, go f*ck yourself" (2022)

at least the written part. Now for compliance.

Thanks for writing this! Could you add info on the seller of the warehouse, PNK S1 LLC? There's mention of Russian ties but I am not sure how reliable that info is.

Car against sunset on ATL hwy

Where to?

Forgetting can be bliss.

terror. pure terror.

Job at Emory: Associate or Full Professor in Native American and Indigenous Studies - due date Feb. 28
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I still read Marx in high school.

I wish such a person would simply go to a casino in Las Vegas.

wow! I have been wondering about things like this.

on a Friday afternoon, of course.

well, boo-hoo.

"We're using some of the marble since I've clearly lost mine."

"When I was a little boy, I used to repeat 'if at first you don't succeed, try, try again.' That is what I am doing."

I realize y'all's attention is torn in all sorts of directions, but the war's still on. In Ukraine. Find a way to support. Here or elsewhere. Thanks!

listen

is there an option to listen online? - thanks

I expect doctored resumés soon

well put!

whoa

The ICE Storm: a year-long escalation Funding, law, rhetoric, violence. How each has fed the other to lead here

The killings in Minneapolis didn’t come out of nowhere.

Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration.

I lay it out in my latest post.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...

Video: Opinion | Is This Who Trump Meant by the ‘Worst of the Worst’? The columnist Jamelle Bouie argues that the Trump administration’s immigration policy has more in common with ethnic cleansing than actual immigration enforcement.

Worth listening to. “What ICE is doing, what the administration is pushing, is not immigration enforcement. It has much more in common with ethnic cleansing, with trying to change the overall ethnic and racial mix of the country.”
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

very credible.

The ATL at its best! 🤣

barbaric

@eseh.bsky.social #envhum #envhist Job in Freiburg www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

na mensch, seit 1993 versuchen wir das schon :-)

"The health of the American experiment rests far more on the integrity of any given American president than we realized."