Feminist activist in chronic Sinnkrise. Realized we will get to women's liberation, peace and justice only the hard way. Will I live to see it? NRF @QuincyInst

Bulgaria
Joined September 2018
It's true. There is a plan (not fully fleshed out, but advanced enough to be shown to journalists, fwiw), and it is not all stupid. There are some intriguing aspects to it. Hope springs eternal, and so I had to write about it. Link is below.
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Most German headline of the day: "When Uschi Glas* commissioned a genealogist she was hoping he would uncover Jewish ancestry. But instead he found out that her father was a member of the Waffen-SS". *a famous German actress, known to be a staunch Israel advocate
Als Uschi Glas einen Familienforscher beauftragte, hoffte sie, er würde jüdische Vorfahren entdecken. Aber er fand heraus: Ihr Vater war bei der Waffen-SS. trib.al/uJDMAUn
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Montenegro: just did a pogrom which has accelerated their EU candidacy
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My ears are bleeding from the repetitive stress injury I get from male voice frequency only, day in day out
The BBC is not helping itself by demonstrating that it's a boys' club. Men with presenting jobs interviewing men with BBC podcasts, to near-total exclusion of women. @BBCr4today This is the failure of impartiality writ large.
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The comments are all "she is sooo stupid", but this isn't about her intellect or erudition, it's about her ideology. Kallas and her type are extremists, fundamentalists. They're not just blinded by their beliefs, but willing to forego facts and reason to achieve their goals.
2 months ago, EU foreign policy rep Kallas said it was news to her that China and the USSR had won WWII and that only people who don't read books would believe such an absurd thing. So deputy to the European Parliament @FabioDeMasi sent her a written inquiry to clarify and... ⬇️
Liberté for him, no égalité for everyone else
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Bin regelmäßig in Texas und kann bestätigen, dass Solarenergie dort boomt. Nicht jedes Vorurteil hält den Tatsachen Stand.
Grüne Energie in Texas Kürzlich habe ich bei @talkimhangar7 darauf verwiesen, dass in Texas an manchen Tagen die Hälfte des Stroms aus erneuerbaren Quellen kommt. Diesem von mir im Vorfeld recherchierte Faktum wurde in der Sendung und im Nachgang mit Ungläubigkeit begegnet. /1
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Replying to @rochowanski
The terrifying point: basically, Tucholsky's “Soldiers are murderers” is spelled out very clearly & affirmatively here, while using the slogan as criticism & protest gives you a good chance of coming under the watchful eye of the secret services & suffering state repression.
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Zeitenwende translates to "the Germans like war again" (The headline says"Bundeswehr speed program. Learn to shoot and kill in just three weeks")
Yes, ladies, let's ask ourselves this question (From today's Chartbook @adam_tooze)
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I'm worried that, in response to their impotence and ever-increasing irrelevance, Europeans might start to go into what one might call the Wakanda style of posting.
At the roof of the world, Europe laid its crown.
"Austria is once again on the wrong side of history", says a young Austrian Jewish man, facing prison for exposing outrageous statements by the Israeli ambassador. It's true, we have form in this.
Austrian citizen faces probe for sharing video of Israeli envoy urging Gaza kids’ murder After footage surfaced showing Israeli Ambassador to Austria, David Roet, calling for the "death penalty for children" involved in "Israel’s" war on Gaza, an Austrian-Moroccan Jew who attended the meeting said counter-terror police later raided his home and seized his electronic devices. The footage went viral online but was ignored by major outlets in Austria and Germany. Instead of investigating the ambassador’s remarks, authorities targeted him for sharing the ambassador's footage, a move he said "disturbed some Zionists in high places" and reflected "the complicity with which European countries obey and execute their orders." piped.video/FsvjFKGsDg4
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We are appealing for help to locate a woman reported missing from #Canterbury. Azaria Green, 34, was last seen in the Kemsing Gardens area of Canterbury at around 6.30pm on Saturday 8 November. Full details: kent.police.uk/news/kent/lat…
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Lots of people sniggering at this, but @ZackPolanski is absolutely correct: if we are ever going to have a denuclearized world, we must convince each other. We have done it before, starting in the Cold War, when the West and the SU engaged in reciprocal, coordinated disarmament.
Zack Polanski: I Would Try to Convince Putin to Give Up His Nuclear Weapons order-order.com/2025/11/09/z…
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...she basically doubles down on it. Her response gives grudging credit to China, but does not spell out that the USSR defeated Nazi Germany. Instead, she accuses Russia of "rewriting history". (Screenshot above is auto-translated) berliner-zeitung.de/politik-…
2 months ago, EU foreign policy rep Kallas said it was news to her that China and the USSR had won WWII and that only people who don't read books would believe such an absurd thing. So deputy to the European Parliament @FabioDeMasi sent her a written inquiry to clarify and... ⬇️
This post is so true I'm jealous I didn't write it
It is psychological difficult (and dangerous) for the Russian opposition to admit that powerful forces in the West, securocratic networks and defence industry lobbyists, see the prospect of a democratic Russia fully integrated with Euro-Atlantic institutions as anathema because the absence of conflict with Moscow deprives them of their income and status. Putin is their ideal partner/frenemy in this blood-stained joint venture, while pro-democracy Russians are seen as a nuisance at best, but really as a political risk. This explains the moves, such as visa restrictions, which seem inexplicable if your aim is to defeat Putin, but totally understandable if your priority is conflict per se whereby any grey zone, any potential area of cohesion promising peace and partnership, as a greater threat than your declared adversary. Same explains the attempts to deprive the Russian opposition of subjectivity through unrepresentative puppet projects like “PACE delegation”. And it does explain the horrible campaigns against Navalny these lobbyist groups waged on this platform since the times when he was still alive. Well, they are still waging them now.
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Almut Rochowanski retweeted
It is psychological difficult (and dangerous) for the Russian opposition to admit that powerful forces in the West, securocratic networks and defence industry lobbyists, see the prospect of a democratic Russia fully integrated with Euro-Atlantic institutions as anathema because the absence of conflict with Moscow deprives them of their income and status. Putin is their ideal partner/frenemy in this blood-stained joint venture, while pro-democracy Russians are seen as a nuisance at best, but really as a political risk. This explains the moves, such as visa restrictions, which seem inexplicable if your aim is to defeat Putin, but totally understandable if your priority is conflict per se whereby any grey zone, any potential area of cohesion promising peace and partnership, as a greater threat than your declared adversary. Same explains the attempts to deprive the Russian opposition of subjectivity through unrepresentative puppet projects like “PACE delegation”. And it does explain the horrible campaigns against Navalny these lobbyist groups waged on this platform since the times when he was still alive. Well, they are still waging them now.
Replying to @McFaul
Hello Michael! My name is Darya Serenko, I am one of the co-founders of the Feminist Anti-War Resistance @femagainstwar in Russia, I have been designated as a foreign agent, I have a criminal case in Russia, and our project has been declared an undesirable organization. Russia has also revoked my international passport due to my criminal case, forcing me to seek asylum in a European country. I hope this is enough for me to say that visa restrictions for ordinary Russians are useless bullshit. Meanwhile, the war's beneficiaries like Matviyenko and Slutsky travel freely to Europe without any issues. This is hypocrisy. Stop supporting it.
When I started visiting the US 30 years ago and learned about food banks, I was shocked such a thing existed in a rich country. They didn't exist in Europe back then. That has changed, during a 30-year economic expansion. Across the West, (food) poverty is now a policy choice.
BREAKING: MASSIVE line outside FOOD BANK in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Kazakhstan president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, aided by his MGIMO education and time spent at the court of Nazarbayev, gives a master class in how to address Trump: “Mr. President, you are the great leader, statesman, sent by heaven to bring common sense and traditions that we all share and value back into United States policy, either domestic or foreign. Therefore, millions of people in so many countries are so grateful to you, and I am convinced that your wise and bold policy needs to be strongly supported worldwide.”