Simon Selbherr

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Her name is Sister Rosetta Thorpe. Known as the "Godmother of rock" that inspired Elvis.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

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Hopefully Vance is aware he’s going to meet with hard core hillbillies like himself in Islamabad.

NATO is some expired tool like FIFA, and if your great leader wants to end it for the wrong reasons, I will still not weep.

Is Lebanon even treated like a party of the war?

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” These are the words of the president of the United States, today. The president speaks genocide. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment. snyder.substack.com/p/the-presid...

‘It’s like having a friend everywhere you travel’: after 12 home exchanges, I’ll never book a hotel again

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“If there is complete impunity now, it will spread, and it will be far, far worse. Even regular police will say, ‘You know what? They can do it, I can do it.’” We caught up with former special FBI agent and 9/11 whistleblower Colleen Rowley during the general strike march in Minneapolis on Friday.

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online

What's a "pending investigation"? Is it an open investigation, or not?

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

Two Middle East Negotiators Assess Trump’s Israel-Hamas Deal www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/o...

The Iranian media landscape is awash with propaganda—from Israel, from the Islamic Republic, from diaspora monarchists. Yet amid this toxic atmosphere an anti-war message is crystallizing, writes Nahid Siamdoust in this outstanding essay for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/argument/bom...

Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995

"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen. This would help our bees " via I Love Bees

Watermelon aurora during a full moon in Alaska