Media history & more; Slovenian-American. Find me at https://xitter.cf/t.co/Yhlj2ehuMB Melt ICE.

Chicago and Slovenia.
Joined December 2014
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The election results in Serbia are good news for the security and stability of the entire Western Balkans, as Vucic was the chief architect of virtually all major disputes in the region. That said, the Student List is a heterodox coalition. We should not expect a 180 degree transformation in Belgrade's positions on Kosovo, Bosnia, or Montenegro. The (ultra)nationalist right will remain a major factor in the country's politics. And presidential elections are scheduled for December. As such, a (significant) degree of wariness in regional capitals is also not without merit. Still, this is an opening, and politics - especially in the Balkans - is a game of inches. Decades of animosity aside, neighboring states should give the new government the opportunity to prove and constitute itself. Accept now that the official rhetoric will be over the map ideologically, especially at first. Real progress may need to be quiet, and unglamorous. The Serbian people have made a major decision. The entire region would benefit from a democratic, moderate Serbia. This may - or not - be its genesis. Let us at least give the citizens of Serbia a chance to finish what they have started tonight.
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Students win! #serbia #srbija
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Former Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic just announced defeat in the elections, declaring a victory for the Student List.
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"We've had enough!" was the chant at a protest in central Prague this afternoon. The Czech government is ending the license fee system for public broadcasters Czech TV and Czech Radio, hobbling them financially and, critics say, increasing likelihood of political interference.
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Pred srbskim veleposlaništvom v Ljubljani je nastala dolga vrsta ljudi, ki čakajo, da oddajo svoj glas. Več na: zurnal24.si/svet/dan-d-za-sr…
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My look at what was the world's longest running clandestine station, Radio España Independiente. It was active without a break for 36 years (1941 to 1977) first from the USSR, then, from 1955, in Romania. Many listeners thought it was based in the Pyrenees radioatlanticodelsur.blogspo…
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This poster from the 1924 UK election has all the makings of a great meme
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Elon Musk found us here. We’re indigenous to this land.
If people dislike Elon Musk so much, why do they still use the platform he owns?
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NATO did not “expand eastwards.” Central and Eastern Europe chose to move westwards.
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The Peyton Place criticism probably started in the same way, gaining momentum as time passed. As a kid then, my memories are of whole neighborhoods watching together over coffee and cookies.
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Thanks, no need to scour the archives. Just last night I stumbled upon the archive footage of a high level communist party meeting condemning the so called "black wave" of Serbian films of late sixties. TV Belgrade's Trezor cable channel often shows such gems of the past.
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I am deeply fascinated by the modern right's insistence that "the elite" is a category that does not actually include the ultra wealthy who dominate society and dictate many of its laws, and is instead made up of socialist teachers, anti-genocide protestors, and "woke" baristas.
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Tom Skerritt, who starred in the TV series “Picket Fences” and appeared in movies ranging from “MASH” to “Alien,” “Top Gun,” “A River Runs Through It” and “Ted,” has died of natural causes at 93. variety.com/2026/film/news/t…
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They broke Eisenhower’s globe because they didn’t want to wait for a team of specialist historians to move it. I cannot think of a more apt metaphor for Pete Hegseth’s DoD.
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth wanted Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s globe for his office. His staff broke it. We have photos.
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There are these occasional moments where America feels completely normal washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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This is based on data from the Federal Reserve -- the tiny sliver represents 50% of the population.
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Everyone predicted this except The Management.
This was so foreseeable (indeed my early prediction when ChatGPT came out) but a lot of tech people have a hard time understanding that the hypothetical enriching use of a tech loses out to the lazy corner cutting use 99.9% of the time theguardian.com/technology/2…
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Mearsheimer has been an absolute godsend to the uninformed, incurious, and intellectually indolent contrarians who need a canned argument for how Ukraine provoked its own invasion and anyway it's the West's fault. He's a complete joke to the rest of us. And a mirthless one, too.
Funny how any tweet about Mearsheimer’s pro-russian stance always brings out angry replies which never deny his pro-Russianness but pile on more Russian talking points while praising his wisdom. Quite revealing.
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Amid the cinephiles' lofty debates about truth and art, it's worth listening to @TylerShultz_'s take on the film and on Elizabeth.
Elizabeth Holmes is “almost unrecognizable” in Nathan Fielder’s documentary, “You Can See Everything,” to Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz: “The woman that I saw on screen looked, frankly, like a broken woman.” Shultz tells @gayleking and @norahodonnell about his reaction to the film, speaking out about Theranos in 2015 and why the documentary is garnering sympathy for Holmes, who is serving a more than 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors: “She is not playing victim. She is an actual victim.”
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One of the darkest and most reprehensible ideas of our time is the notion that those who do the right thing by helping a country under attack are somehow responsible for the war and the suffering it causes.
It struck me recently that people who support the endless Ukraine-Russia was because they "want to punish the aggressor" make the same mistake as people who during the Vietnam war supported the endless war "because if Vietnam falls, all of SE Asia will be communust". In both cases they were wrong because they failed to look at a broader picture and at the future.
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