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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 4h

Lessons from Nazi Germany, by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social

Opinion | A Lesson From the German Resistance That Applies Today

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Stanislav Aseyev @stanislavaseyev.bsky.social · 22h

...(they did the same to the father) - the men doing the torturing yelled at the father, “Look at your whelp, he peed himself!”

This inmate later told me that neither the torture itself nor the threat to his life had caused him as much pain as he felt in that moment...
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Stanislav Aseyev @stanislavaseyev.bsky.social · 22h

had been tortured together with his own son, on the same table. Torture is a complex system of measures and isn’t limited to causing physical pain. When the man’s son lost control of his bladder - reflexively, because of the muscle spasms induced by the electricity shocking his genitals and anus
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Stanislav Aseyev @stanislavaseyev.bsky.social · 22h

"The Torture Camp on Paradise Street" continues to come to life, and another character, described below, is already free.

It's absolutely surreal to talk on the phone to these people through eight years and the depths of Russian basements:

"Another serious case involved a man who...
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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 19h

Incluso —quizás especialmente—en inglés todavía estoy luchando por encontrar palabras para capturar el Untergang —el nihilismo moral. Todas mis palabras se sienten inadecuadas. Hemos pasado de un desprecio casual por la vida de otras personas a un sadismo performativo.

El fascismo en América | El Universal

El testimonio de una historiadora estadounidense que abandonó su país y que advierte sobre los paralelismos entre la era Trump y los regímenes europeos del siglo XX

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Stanislav Aseyev @stanislavaseyev.bsky.social · 2d

An Atheist’s Prayer (part of The Torture Camp on Paradise Street):

"Dear Lord, grant that I not be indifferent".

Written in quarantine at Penal Colony No. 32, after Isolation.

HURI Books @huribooks.bsky.social · 4d

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 8d

Vadym meets his son for the first time -the boy who was born during a massive Russian attack that killed his mom&badly injured dad

On September 7,during a Russian strike on #Kyiv, Vadym&Tetiana Sakiian were injured.Tetiana was pregnant,doctors had to perform an emergency delivery of her son, Nazar.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10d

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 11d

My friend Naftali Kaminski is an Israeli physician, a professor at Yale, and the child of Holocaust survivors. For me he is a model of absorbing his parents' stories intensely, looking the horror of the 20th century in the eyes, and drawing the lesson of radical empathy for the suffering of others.

Standing by Our Colleagues in Gaza — A Plea to the U.S. Medical Community | NEJM

In the face of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza’s health system and the catastrophic famine caused by the devastation, U.S. physicians have an ethical obligation to respond and support immediate ch...

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 11d

Ukraina zajmuje kluczowe miejsce. Nie widzę żadnego dobrego scenariusza bez zwycięstwa Ukrainy—i bez całkowitego upadku Putinskiego, i przy okazji Lukaszenka—reżimu. Potrzebujemy w Rosji Stunde Null. Ukraina musi wygrać.

Wyjechała z USA i mówi otwarcie: Trump siedzi w kieszeni Putina

Trump pozbawiony jest jakichkolwiek zasad i wartości. Mamy do czynienia z czystym narcyzmem — mówi Marci Shore, amerykańska historyczka, badaczka historii Europy Wschodniej, przez lata wykładowczyni n...

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CPAC TV @cpac.ca · 11d

Trump's speech to the military: "I am terrified that we are moving towards greater and greater violence", shares expert @marcishore.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/ljrNIDO2HoA?...

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Jessica Berlin @berlinbridge.bsky.social · 17d

What Russia does everyday to Ukraine. What Russia will do across Europe if we don’t stop them in Ukraine.

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 18d

"Die Hölle – das ist die Abwesenheit von Anwesenheit."--Volodymyr Yermolenko

Europa und die Ukraine: Das Böse wird selbstsicher, wenn es sich wiederholt

Heute hilft Europa der Ukraine – aber auch die Ukraine hilft Europa, sagt der Philosoph Wolodymyr Jermolenko. Sie hilft Europa, seine tiefere Bestimmung wiederzufinden.

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 23d

Dan's latest song, for Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and all the comedians out there--

Dan Shore - Nothing Hurts Me More

YouTube video by danshoremusic

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 23d

"As somebody from Eastern Europe, obviously I'm very worried. . .this playing about with constant dehumanizing of each other. . .with throwing facts out the window. . .with all these sort of authoritarian experiments haven't historically ended very well."-- @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 23d

"I just feel like there's got to be a way where we can make facts sexy again."-- @heidicuda.bsky.social

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 23d

"This kind of nihilistic violence that I saw in Russia as really a product of the end of history. . in some really weird, warped way, Russia, by losing the Cold War, became a prophet of the future, because now we're all losers."-- @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social

‘America Has Chosen to Destroy Itself’ — My Latest Hot Type Column in Byline

For this week’s Hot Type column in Byline Supplement, I run excerpts from RadPod’s latest interview with Russian propaganda expert Peter Pomerantsev

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 26d

Oh my god lol

This Dutch late night host absolutely eviscerates Trump and Disney- you gotta watch how

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 26d

"Loneliness is not just the absence of friends and acquaintances. . .it is rather life in a society which heedlessly, with blindfolded eyes, follows its fratricidal path, dragging everybody with it."--Nadezhda Mandelshtam

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 27d

"And we have only just entered what is sure to be a very long and dark night filled with terrors."-Jeff Isaac

Jeff is an old friend from Bloomington, and he does not scare easily.

What I Think About Last Wednesday

September 14, 2025 What happened last Wednesday was truly terrible. Have I said enough? Many friends and colleagues, people I both like and respect, have been telling me for days that they are look…

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 28d

"Pain is a signal that death comes closer. . .and fear is anticipation of pain. . .the whole atmosphere was manipulation of death, and that really struck me.”-- Maksym Butkevych

A remarkable conversation between two of the most penetrating thinkers of our times.

Сaptivity, torture, violence, and love - with Maksym Butkevych

Interview with Ukrainian human rights defender Maksym Butkevych who spent over two years in Russian captivity.

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Stephane Siohan @stefsiohan.bsky.social · 28d

L'offensive d'ete russe en Ukraine est un echec total. La tentative de Soumy a echoue. Quatre des cinq brigades russes engagees dans la regionbde Soumy ont ete envoyees en renfort dans le Donbass. Kyiv va regagner bientot le controle de la zone frontaliere de Soumy

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 28d

A reminder: if you are involved in small (or large) "acts of democratic resistance," please send contributions to [email protected]

Small Acts of Democratic Resistance - Democracy Seminar

Small Acts of Democratic Resistance We relaunched the Democracy Seminar back in 2018 as a “worldwide committee of democratic correspondence” in the hope that “democrats of the world can learn from each other as we oppose the dark forces of our times.” Unfortunately, we still have much to learn and much work to do in

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 28d

While Fox News host Brian Kilmeade suggests killing people who are homeless by lethal injection, Andrew Wassenich and the team at Miriam's Kitchen in Washington, DC have been feeding them.

Resisting in Washington DC: For Our Unhoused Neighbors - Democracy Seminar

I live in Washington, DC and I am the Policy Director for a homeless services agency called Miriam's Kitchen. Since Trump won the election, we have been involved in organization efforts to both plan for and then defend potential threats that the Trump Administration poses across numerous issue areas. The week after the election last

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 28d

Admiration for Andy Wassenich, Director of Policy at Miriam's Kitchen:

Resisting in Washington DC: For Our Unhoused Neighbors - Democracy Seminar

I live in Washington, DC and I am the Policy Director for a homeless services agency called Miriam's Kitchen. Since Trump won the election, we have been involved in organization efforts to both plan for and then defend potential threats that the Trump Administration poses across numerous issue areas. The week after the election last

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