Ash Scholem

Views usually already expressed by someone cleverer than me

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Watch his hands. What he's moving with his hands are thousands and thousands of people.
If someone asks you, 'What is fascism?' show them Smotrich's hands in this video.

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."

— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

This is beautiful - Angelo Badalamenti talking about composing the famous TWIN PEAKS theme with David Lynch.

[Civil.ge @CivilGe]

Workers leave their offices as part of announced 3-hour protest strike on Day 49 of #GeorgiaProtests. Over 150 businesses/companies said they would be joining the action, but the actual number is expected to be higher.
🎥 Nini Gabritchidze/Civil.ge

[The Rest Is Politics @RestIsPolitics]

PRESIDENT OF GEORGIA - LIVE INTERVIEW 🇬🇪

27th Dec 11am

@campbellclaret and @RoryStewartUK interview the President of Georgia, @Zourabichvili_S live on YouTube

➡️ Will the President accept her successor’s inauguration?
➡️ ⁠Is Georgia’s future with Russia or Europe?
➡️ ⁠Is a constitutional crisis looming?

Watch here: https://t.co/uVexYBBVg2

Send in your questions below ⬇️

[Civil.ge @CivilGe]

It gets noisy in the Georgian capital as more people join the "Chain of Unity", stretched for kilometers to connect Tbilisi's seven bridges. #GeorgiaProtests Day 31
📹 @GuramMuradov /Civil.ge

[Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין @MairavZ]

At NYC fundraising gala organized by One Israel Fund, incoming US Amb to Israel Mike Huckabee helped raise $35 million for a new medical center in the middle of the occupied West Bank that will serve Jews only. There’s a word for this policy https://t.co/RirMmc4Rdn

[Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social @alex_callinicos]

Very sorry but capitalism definitely is a monolith.

[Danielle Bett @daniellebett]

In case of doubt the Christians he’s talking about are American evangelicals, and not Arab Christians in Israel who he and his government treat with disdain.

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

It's impossible not to know what's going on in Gaza | Opinion | Motty Perry & Ariel Rubinstein
https://t.co/Xiq10SUWAI

[Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg]

I don’t
believe in the clean break;

I believe in the compound fracture
served with a sauce of dirty regret,

I believe in saying it all
and taking it all back

and saying it again for good measure
while the air fills up with I’m-Sorries

like wheeling birds.

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

"We are free to change the world and start something new in it."

Happy Birthday, Hannah Arendt!

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

“Art has to do with our limitations, our frailties, and our faults as human beings,” the musician Nick Cave says. “That’s what is so awesome about art: that we deeply flawed creatures can sometimes do extraordinary things.” https://t.co/WnByxXtydF

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Georgians are bracing for a crucial election this October. Will the opposition stave off the country’s turn to Russian-style authoritarianism? https://t.co/qCMoFGlS8b

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“You’re always writing yourself in a novel. The author is always talking.” —John Mortimer
https://t.co/FsfgOMRs8f

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

Over one million refugees were living in #Sudan when the conflict started there last year, many of them in the east, where they fled repression in #Eritrea and atrocities #Ethiopia.

Their plight is being overlooked.

Read @astroehlein’s Daily Brief: https://t.co/QCm4XSDALr

[Etan Nechin @Etanetan23]

Noa Argamani: "I tried to stay strong but there were tough times. In the beginning I was with Moran. When she got released I told her 'see you soon.' I didn't think it would take that long."

"One time I heard in the radio that Israel is opposing ending the war. That broke me."

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

Nietzsche asking the hard questions

[David A. Bell @DavidAvromBell]

Map of the European election results in France. The extreme right, appropriately, is brown. Ugh.

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

Germans have experienced the most dramatic decline in real wages since 1950 as a result of inflation. This is painful for most people and devastating for those who had low incomes to begin with.

33% of Germans with low living standards have voted for the far right AfD today.