big beautiful bill passing would make the budget for ice larger than most of the world’s militaries

In Estonia, if there’s a 10,000-year-old glacial boulder where you want to build a supermarket, you build the supermarket around the boulder. Obviously. The rock stays. You adapt. 🇪🇪

A Danish photographer moved to a largely Russian-speaking inner-city district of Riga in 1992, and captured a world on the brink of profound change deepbaltic.com/2018/07/20/wel…

I love that corporate minimalism is hitting nations too

People say that Keir Starmer is an untalented politician, but he's single-handedly set the UK on course for its V for Vendetta election in the absence of global nuclear war (comics version) or a false-flag biological terrorist attack (movie version). x.com/LeftieStats/st…

Something that I have encountered teaching at private liberal arts colleges and public universities alike is that there is a substantial cohort of students eager for liberal arts education, excited to engage with the humanities and read primary sources. x.com/jennfrey/statu…

Congratulations to Oxford Academic and Harry C. Merritt for receiving the AABS Book Publication Subvention! The award will support Harry's monograph, "Latvian Soldiers of World War II." Learn more: aabs-balticstudies.org/2025/07/13/oup…

My thanks to AABS for their support in the publication of my book with Oxford University Press, Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service! x.com/balticstudies/…

If you're wondering why one of Superman's antagonists in the 2025 movie is a Radovan Karadžić analog from "Boravia," a seemingly Slavic onion-domed land of militarism & ethnic hatred, see my Awl (RIP) essay on imaginary Eastern Europe in comic book films: theawl.com/2015/08/the-fo…

It's always been clown world

I recommend an ancient but now obscure failsafe backup technology for these situations called “books”

Greatest misallocation of resources in my lifetime, with no positive possible outcome. The AI bubble bursts = serious economic recession/depression. If it "succeeds," then massive disruptions in employment, beyond strains on electricity/water supply, etc. x.com/DanielaGabor/s…