Bizarre conspiracy stuff from Sachs. all blame is heaped on everybody but the imperialist invader.

I think of something that Phillips P. OBrien observed to me, in a podcast: "The Russians have gained far more geopolitical leverage out of the millions they've spent on information warfare than the billions they have spent on the military."

The tech bros are going to slash US spending and save America. 😂😂😂

Ah yes. One of the joys of been a university professor is encountering the giant brains of Twitter.

The Irish horse racing industry boasts of being world class. And yet many of its leading trainers keep being exposed for animal cruelty and drugging their horses. And we hand them over €76 million or more each year while starving other sports/athletes of resources to succeed.

Yeah, right, Shark.

My PhD student, Shamsoddin Shariati on Iran’s new reformist president and cabinet, writing for LSE IDEAS Maynooth University MU Sociology blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2024/09/05…

Lots of thoughtful reflection here from Zoe Williams, on how Musk has turned Twitter into an instrument of his far right politics, drowning its users in filth of every kind. (While Moscow cheers from the sidelines). theguardian.com/technology/art…

If the Lancet’s recent estimate of approx 186,000 deaths on Gaza is accurate, there are many governments and individual politicians on both sides of the Atlantic,anticipating who will have to reckon with one simple fact: you let this happen. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

One of Putin’s employees advertising a Nuremberg rally, with another of Putin’s employees and another guy accused by multiple women of rape and serious sexual assault. Musk’s Twitter in a single tweet.

Romania stands with Ukraine. It did after only a few days after the illegal and criminal russian invasion. And it continued ever since. No stop. Glory to Ukraine🙏

Jason Stanley is SO right in this piece: why fascists go after universities. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

One of the reasons Orban can do this is that the EU gave in to his extortion last December and handed him 10bn that had been frozen under EU rule of law strictures. Giving into extortion makes autocrats only stronger.

How can anyone take this kind of grifter seriously? Overnight, he moves from Moscow to Kiev.

For the Brexiteers, everything is *always* about them. Sigh.

Macron has played one last card but now placed himself - and France - at the mercy of Marine Le Pen and her fascists. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This foul creature is a foreigner living in Romania (and under indictment there, as well as in the U.K., for serious crimes, including rape and human trafficking).

Highlighting the important work of Prof. Jennie Stephens from Maynooth University on #ClimateJustice. In The Guardian, she and her colleagues discusse how fossil fuel funding for university research is slowing down the transition to green energy. Universities must lead in sustainable

It's hard to wrap my head around how Viktor Orbán's lieutenants and pundits accuse Hungarian journalists and NGOs of being foreign/US agents while claiming to protect the country's sovereignty – all while inviting and paying Americans who are secretly on the Kremlin's payroll.🤯

Hannah Arendt would completely disown any connection with this arch moron.