Rebecca M. Townsend

#BeyondTheColdWar Presidential Rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe #teamrhetoric #CEE #CentralEasternEurope

This is the biggest corruption scandal in American history. The Trump crime family is trying to sell the future natural gas rights of Alaska to the Russians in exchange for $25 billion in cash for themselves today.

#mapoli

Sometimes this stuff spreads.

The Student List had no party machinery. It operated through university assemblies, protests and hiking between cities & towns. They had 2% of national TV political advertising airtime vs 93% for Vučić. This is one of the most remarkable grassroots democratic victories in modern European history.

Ultimately, if you only have time to know one thing about all of this, just know that not a single solitary tech oligarch, tech company, or tech-backed politician has a single solitary serious commitment to the existence of Black political power or economic security in their plans for the future.

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On Nov 17, join us at Oxford for What About Exclusion, a series I co-curate. This event: Moral High Ground. Three guests, introduced over the coming days. First: Julia Ebner, bestselling author, leading expert on extremism & radicalisation, and head of Oxford’s Violent Extremism Lab.

Want an expert opinion on why YOU should vote NO on 5? Hear from Dr. Phineas Baxandall #noon5ma #mapoli #MApolitics

On #mapoli Q3, the Coalition for a Stealthy Oligarchy is dominating the Testosterone Derby. Of 59 individual donations over $50,000, 57 are from men, most in high finance. The top 5 have kicked in over $3,000,000. mauricecunningham153.substack.com/p/massachuse...

Why did the founder of Tinder donate to Question 3, the campaign to bring California-style top-two "jungle" primaries, to Massachusetts? I have a few ideas. Remember, Massachusetts: swipe left on Question 3. #mapoli

Of the relationship, Deaton wrote: “I made the inherent mistake of thinking, because she was young, I could mold her into the perfect partner.”

Deaton, the GOP candidate for Senate in MA, groomed and raped a 15-year-old girl, then detailed it in his *self-published* memoir. How is this man even on the ballot? #MApoli

It's honestly shocking that it gets no attention that Deaton is a confessed rapist. wmasspi.com/2026/10/op-e...

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Historian here we are not just witnessing the systematic sabotage of the post war international order and American hegemony but also a return to the Triple Axis of the pre WWI era, marked by uber nationalism, imperialism, jingoism, and racism. God help us!

"Ukraine did not receive a warning from the US about an impending Russian missile attack on Sunday evening, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, reviving concerns that Washington is withholding intelligence in order to bully Kyiv into capitulating to Moscow." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

First, any country that doesnt want its fate decided by others needs to oppose this imperialist travesty. Second, say they meet and decide XYZ, how are they going to make it happen? Russia’s army isnt advancing; are China and the US going to send troops too?. Puh-lease.

This is one of the greatest forms of voter information provision, and they should be mandatory in every state.

Glad it’s deleted. But the reality is that CBS News was already in shambles, and this only makes their brand even more radioactive. Maybe someday someone will revive it. But for now, we should treat it like a legacy husk, like Newsweek. It may still have the name CBS News, but it’s basically OANN

It’s the cowardice that gets me. Every damn time.