Eleven of the parties in the provincial parliament of Limburg have now requested the Limburg government to look into the possibility of creating a (temporary) memorial for our Black American liberators in cooperation with Eijsden-Margraten (where the cemetery is located).

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

In that, dreadful, terrible moment, every black bloc protestor in the world is useless, but a line of concerned senior citizens, office workers and house-spouses is actually a 'harder' target.

And 'the soldiers stood aside' is the sentence in the history book that goes before 'and the regime fell.'

In an old ad for board game Scattergories in Spain a player was shown flouncing out while anothet said “OK, we’ll accept ‘octopus’ as a pet”.
“Aceptamos pulpo” has now entered the language in the meaning of “that’s a bit of a stretch but let’s go with it just for the sake of argument”.

I suspect it's hard not to when you have a de facto two-party system. It turns elections into a zero-sum game, us versus them.

For a taste of her topic and writing, here's one of her promo threads for the book, about a ramp in Florence that is almost certainly a disability aid for the Medici, but mostly not recognized as such by historians. (and I doubt the Medici would have admitted it, for reasons in the thread)