Monthly Archives: July 2026

I am discovering it is difficult to find forums where Russian politics may be discussed with Russians in English. What is especially interesting is the extent to which the prohibition on discussion is also not explicit. I’ve had various posts … Continue reading →

Some of these things I just want to capture. I don’t know what to say about them. It’s just weird stuff. I imagine all the Federal employees involved with these things, the military people trying to execute policy. I continue … Continue reading →

Yanis Varoufakis: Scientifically speaking, all that goes on is that microscopic perturbations yield macroscopic consequences. Their proliferation, or extinction, is an indirect by-product of that dynamic — nothing more. Causality abounds, but teleology, intent or consciousness do not. … What … Continue reading →

I’m telling you: if I had 35 hours a week of paid employment I’d be all for these deep strikes in Russia with German missiles, but what with my hours being cut back I just don’t know about this whole … Continue reading →

Tagesspiegel: Ein Polizeisprecher sagte dem Tagesspiegel, dass es sich bei der morgendlichen Aktion nicht um eine angemeldete Versammlung gehandelt habe. Die Behörde habe „körperlichen Zwang“ anwenden müssen, um ein Blockieren des Firmengeländes zu verhindern. Zum Einsatz seien „Tritte, Schläge sowie … Continue reading →

Volkspark Humboldthain. This is a couple hundred people organizing against a Rheinmetall weapons factory in Wedding. I sat in the blue and white tent for 20 minutes or so and listened to discussion. Really nice group. Everybody, literally, speaking or … Continue reading →

Isabella Hammad, Equator: as Freud himself argued in Mourning and Melancholia, proper mourning requires a person to acknowledge what exactly they have lost. If a loss is not brought into the full light of consciousness, grief curdles into melancholia. Stopping … Continue reading →

once the consequences of climate change start having a more concrete effect on the lives of individuals, it’s not impossible that attitudes toward the economic system may shift very quickly, in Europe as in the rest of the world. —Thomas … Continue reading →