Rick Wilson In the sweltering dusk of his gilded maze, where the air hangs heavy with the scent of wilted laurels and the murmurs of phantom crowds dissolve into salt spray, the lame duck circles his throne of echoes, claws scraping at the unyielding walls of time. Ah, señor Wilson, steal my

A Laconian black-figure kylix depicting Bellerophon and Pegasus battling the Chimera. 6th century BC. Getty Museum. θάρσος δὲ πρὸς τὰς συμφορὰς μέγα σθένει. - courage is very powerful against adversity. Euripides, Bellerophon

S omluvou za mrzkou sebeprezentaci sdílím pozvánku na páteční přednášku. Nebudou chybět královské pohřebiště v Uru, troublemaker Ea-nāṣir nebo diplomatická korespondence z Amarny 😉 Lze i online. #klínopis

Well, Trump did the world's attention to his festering bunghole.

Take a moment to listen to David Frum from the Atlantic, because this is a great description of where we are as a result of the Project 2025 strategy of government decapitation. 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNRe288XT/

The ghost of Darius wishes everyone a happy Thanksgiving. ὕβρις γὰρ ἐξανθοῦσ᾽ ἐκάρπωσεν στάχυν ἄτης, ὅθεν πάγκλαυτον ἐξαμᾷ θέρος. - for when hubris flowers, it bears ears of corn laden with doom, whence it reaps a harvest full of tears. Aeschylus, Persians 821-22

Silenus vs. Diogenes: ἄριστον γὰρ πᾶσι καὶ πάσαις τὸ μὴ γενέσθαι - for the best for men and women is to not be born Plut. Cons. Ap. 115e Πρὸς τὸν εἰπόντα κακὸν εἶναι τὸ ζῆν, “οὐ τὸ ζῆν,” εἶπεν, “ἀλλὰ τὸ κακῶς ζῆν.” - When someone said that life is an evil,

CPTs or death squads. Wonder if he worked for Karzai’s brother. The drug dealer/ assassin? nytimes.com/2025/11/27/us/…

“It is impossible for someone whowants fifteen thousand cloaks not to want more.” τὸν γὰρ μυρίων καὶ πεντακισχιλίων χλαμύδων δεόμενον οὐκ ἔστι μὴ πλειόνων δεῖσθαι· #Favorinus

Can our government clearly explain why 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom was following an illegal order? notesfromthecircus.com/p/sarah-beckst…

Those puzzling over Trump's announced pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández may wish to recall that: - As president of Honduras, Hernández hired lobby firm BGR group for $660,000. - Secretary Rubio has been one of the top recipients in campaign contributions from BGR group.

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Cursing has never sounded so elegant

Archaeologists have turned up thirteenth-century carved pottery, part of a leather shoe decorated with gold, a bakery, a blacksmith’s workshop, and a millet drying facility in the Czech Republic. It’s an unusual and exciting new look at medieval Moravia. archaeology.org/news/2025/11/2…

I will look forward to this- he one of the big four- Wren, Hawksmoor, Gibbs and Vanbrugh. Vanbrugh: The Drama of Architecture 4 March – 28 June 2026 300 years after his death, a major new exhibition exploring one of the UK’s greatest architects, Sir John Vanbrugh, opens this

The U.S. 🇺🇸 National Security Strategy illustrates Europe’s declining share of the world by noting its drop in global GDP from 25 percent in 1990 to 14 percent today. But how should we characterize the decline in the United States’ own share over the same period, from 27 percent

Vrtulníky, veteráni, vesmír.🚁🎖️🌓 Projekt 221.vrtulníkové letky na podporu veteránů i s dražbou kalendáře podepsaným astronautem Chrisem Hadfieldem do 11.12. 19:00 pro Vojenský fond solidarity Jinak nákupte kalendáře a trička-objednávky [email protected] 🌺🇨🇿 ➡️ dobrobot.cz/kalendar-221-v…

What causes did medieval people care about? Charitable bequests in Genoese wills provide an answer. 44% went to the poor and the sick. 20% went to ransom captives captured in war and piracy, and perhaps most interestingly, 8.6% went to the Crusades, indicating widespread popular

This is the individual who was allowed to infiltrate the US government and set up a parallel civil service loyal to his person. As I wrote in Feb, this was a new kind of coup with the aim of taking dow the US. lucid.substack.com/p/a-new-kind-o…

COREY PEARSON- CIA SPYMASTER SERIES: 3 explosive thrillers! amazon.com/dp/B08L5684TH A precision killer hits Langley. A virus threatens mass panic. Former KGB spies move against the U.S. from the Caribbean. Pearson chases ghosts, traitors, and old rivals across three explosive