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Eric Gordy
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All about: sociology, Balkans, good cooking, jazz, dogs. No patience for: racists, nationalists, sexists, creeps, bad methodology.

“East of Ethnia” blog -- politics, sociology, and culture from the Balkans and other places: https://ericgordy.substack.com/
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I think I speak for all decent Jews when I say we know what Farage is, and we know what JC is too.
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Reposted by Eric Gordy
Spyros Tsoutsoumpis arguing that the national state is built by an alliance between metropolitan elites and local practitioners of violence, not necessarily of the same ethnicity.
November 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
They're saying:
1) the road collapsed because snow fell, as it is likely to do in the winter
2) there's nothing to worry about
www.ikragujevac.com/vesti/78740-...
Obrušavanje zemljišta kod Centra izvrsnosti u Kragujevcu – intervenisale nadležne službe
www.ikragujevac.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Vučić created an armed camp of paid thugs in the centre of the city as a promise of street violence. It's one promise he is making good on.
n1info.rs/vesti/odborn...
Odbornika Kreni-promeni napala i pretukla grupa ljudi iz Ćacilenda
Aleksandra Jovanovića, odbornika pokreta Kreni-promeni u Skupštini Beograda, napala je i pretukla grupa ljudi iz Ćacilenda, dok je snimao šatorsko naselje
n1info.rs
November 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This is probably some kind of corruption gravy train, but I think we all love dolphins just the same.

www.danas.rs/vesti/ekonom...
CLS: U Predlogu budžeta za 2026. na spisak kapitalnih projekata u Beogradu dodat jedino delfinarijum
Predlogom republičkog budžeta za 2026. godinu na spisak kapitalnih projekata u Beogradu dodat je jedino delfinarijum i to u vrednosti od milijardu dinara, saopštio je danas Centar za lokalnu samouprav...
www.danas.rs
November 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Instead of stuffing, freekeh.
November 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
This is the time of year when you wake up and it's dark like the smile of a nationalist.
November 28, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Controversial opinion of the day: of that whole generation, Darko Rundek is the only one who is still any good.
November 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Oh, you can't report on the line that you removed? But what if the story is that you removed the line? Can you tell people what line it was?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith lecture
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
A local coffee shop started closing during the daytime because they couldn't make money off the people who come with a laptop, order 1 coffee, and sit for 3 hours. I say this kind of activity is foundational for our civilisation and if the coffee shops can't afford it the govt should subsidise it.
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I haven't bothered reading the article but totally ready to agree with the headline.
www.politika.rs/sr/clanak/71...
London živi u svetu iluzija
London živi u svetu iluzija, britanski političari se nadaju da će nastaviti da naoružavaju Ukrajinu i da vrše pritisak na Moskvu, rekao je ambasador Rusije u Velikoj Britaniji Andrej Kelin
www.politika.rs
November 27, 2025 at 7:06 AM
There are "conflicting reports" about whether they are desperately searching for pretexts to escalate something that courts have already ordered them to stop doing.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Washington DC shooting: Pentagon deploying 500 more national guard troops to city after two guardsmen were shot near White House- latest updates
Defense secretary Pete Hegseth said the additional troops are being sent in after request by president Trump
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is a good and useful enough discussion that you may not notice how little the producers invested in their studio.
www.juznevesti.com/drustvo/deba...
Debata JV: profesori niškog Filozofskog se ne suprotstavljaju Srbiji već kršenju procedura
Odluka Vlade Srbije da osnuje Fakultet srpskih studija, izdvajajući tri departmana Filozofskog fakulteta u Nišu, otvorila je ozbiljan pravni i akademski
www.juznevesti.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Hm, so are people saying he is a racist because they hate his politics? Possibly. On the other hand, he wouldn't have politics like that if he were not a racist.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Is Farage’s claim racism allegations are response to a dislike of his politics true?
The Reform UK leader has again denied allegations about his behaviour as a schoolboy but what did he say and what are the facts?
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
There are some environments where you try to put together an event and if you tell the people the panel can't be all people of one gender they just look at you funny.
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This site gives you your daily news headlines in the prizrensko-timočki dialect.
juznapruga.rs
Vesti – Juzna Pruga – Портал
juznapruga.rs
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Sono arrivato alla trattoria di fettuccine cinese.
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Report from dogwalking: somebody told me that all that lovely birdsong you hear in the morning is just the birds cursing each other out.
November 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Elections in RS: if this is a victory for SNSD, it's hard to distinguish it from a loss.
open.substack.com/pub/ericgord...
A small margin on a low turnout
Dodik and company say they are affirmed by the results of the RS presidential election, but they probably don't think so themselves.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The party in power is using the university Senate, an administrative body controlled by loyalists, to block the promotion of a professor who has been reviewed and approved by her colleagues. It is an act of political revenge.
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
On discovering that many spam accounts are based in distant countries:
People in any country can have things to say.
Some of these things are excellent, some are awful.
Evaluate the things people say on their content, not where they are said.
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Someone else did the original version of Čudna Šuma? Well you know what? There is only one authoritative version, and that is Koja's.
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM