What if 2025 echoes 1937 more than we’d like to admit?
Economic disparity. Rising authoritarianism. A world on edge.
I’ve drawn some hard parallels—uncomfortable, but necessary to confront.
History doesn’t repeat exactly… but it often rhymes.
What if 2025 echoes 1937 more than we’d like to admit?
Economic disparity. Rising authoritarianism. A world on edge.
I’ve drawn some hard parallels—uncomfortable, but necessary to confront.
History doesn’t repeat exactly… but it often rhymes.
@jaztrophysicist No, but looks like a #mustread, thanks!
Living near the ancient French oil mining areas (17th century - 1960s, now part of the nature park Vosges du Nord), I'm fascinated by this topic.
I visited sterile oil sands from WWI and was fascinated what happened with nature when humans do *nothing* - and shocked, how long and extreme human destruction works.
“they’re acting like this is part of some legal framework, when it’s not. It’s an extra legal attack. And so when you do not call it out as an extra legal attack, you are actively contributing to destruction of the rule of law.” - Prof. Jason Stanley
This entire interview is a #MustRead .
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-fascism-expert-at-yale-whos-fleeing-america
HT @dmacphee
If you already watched "Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat", or want to, this is a #MustRead interview with Johan Gimonprez
Making films against amnesia
"The director of the Oscar-nominated film 'Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat' reflects on imperial violence, corporate warfare, and how cinema can disrupt the official record—and help us remember differently."
https://africasacountry.com/2025/04/making-films-against-amnesia
A #MustRead for everyone https://eldritch.cafe/@emmalilian/114257241506787972
Let's hope a decent judge stops this one! #racism #mustread
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Il faut lire ce livre. Très accessible, à la fois réflexif, théorique et extrêmement sensible. Je l'ai terminé les larmes aux yeux.
#mustread
@kristiedegaris Thank you for this article. A #mustread @writing @writers #WriterCommunity #bookstodon #authors
I published #books in Germany (with fixed prices) but it's similar. I know a famous writer with several awards who sells about 500 copies a year in the most famous literary publishing house.
And the money is a gross amount, freelance writers have to use it to pay for their workplace and insurances, taxes etc.
J'étais passé à côté de cet entretien et de ce livre, que je m'en vais lire de ce pas https://framablog.org/2025/03/23/y-aura-t-il-une-alternative-au-technofascisme/
#mustread
She’s his job. She’s also his weakness.
Gabriel Marshall knew Sophie Clark was trouble the moment he laid eyes on her.
Now, he’s her bodyguard—whether he likes it or not.
But keeping her safe means fighting off more than just her enemies.
Because the most dangerous threat of all is falling for her.
Grumpy bodyguard
Forced proximity
Enemies closing in
Slow-burn tension
My friend Melissa Poett's book The Enemy's Daughter is coming out in May, and there's a #goodreads #giveaway happening now, for my #bookstodon friends who like such things!
#books #ReadingCommunity #romantasy #mustread
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217223396-the-enemy-s-daughter
Nearly 20 years ago, I wrote Leviticus 25: Jubilee, a #PoliticalThriller inspired by the 2002 G8 summit in Kananaskis.
Now, with nations challenging U.S. influence and a G7 summit returning to Kananaskis this June, its themes feel more relevant than ever.
Read more: https://mountainthermit.blogspot.com/2025/03/leviticus-25-jubilee-novel-written-20.html
Ebook on sale now at Smashwords!
‘Nothing has proved more threatening to our democracy, or more devastating to Black communities, than white fear of Black freedom dreams.’
#DeZinVanHetBoek #TheEssenceOfTheBook
#BoekPerWeek 16/52 ★★★★★
Here's why this is a mustread (in ):
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6074327469
En hier lees je waarom in :
https://verzameldezinnen.nl/2025/03/16/het-slavernijverleden-in-het-heden-boekbespreking/
@pluralistic Oh, that was a wonderfully cheeky "over-clickbait". I clicked. I wanted to know: What, this person? Should I have misjudged him?
And then I had a huge pleasure as the article chased me through the polarities to present its finely differentiated findings. It got exciting.
It's been a long time since I've enjoyed reading something so serious so much!
Here's a review, a literary piece on #Anora written by a sex worker. It confirms my suspicions, but it also is a great text. So make sure you read it.
"Romance Labor: on Sean Baker’s Anora"
"Whatever satisfaction I could have derived from the representation of sex workers in film is suffocated by the condescension of liberal representation politics wherein marginalized people are depicted as most authentic in states of suffering."
#SexWork #MustRead #oscars
https://angelfoodmag.com/romance-labor
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#AviationDisasters #FreeBook #PlaneCrashes #MH370 #AviationSafety #TrueCrimeBooks #InvestigativeJournalism #BoeingScandal #AirDisasters #FlightSecrets #AviationHistory #BookLovers #MustRead #FreeEbook #OneDayOnly #nonfictionthriller