I hate to post this but grek actually did a pretty good job of explaining it: Battle of Khaybar

A Christmas Carol

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Illinois is a land of contrasts.

Russian Ministry of Justice Sanction list

From Wikipedia:

Nina Lvovna Khrushcheva is a professor of International Affairs at The New School in New York City, and a Contributing Editor to Project Syndicate, an “Association of Newspapers Around the World”.

Khrushcheva was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, and is the great-granddaughter (and adoptive granddaughter) of former leader of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev. When Khrushchev’s son Leonid died in World War II, Nikita adopted Leonid’s two-year-old daughter, Julia, who later became Nina’s mother. Khrushcheva’s father, Lev Petrov, died in 1970 at age 47.

Khrushcheva is currently a professor of International Affairs in the graduate program at The New School in New York.

She is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics[6] (Yale UP, 2008) and The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey into the Gulag of the Russian Mind (Tate, 2014), co-author of In Putin’s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia’s Eleven Time Zones (St. Martin’s Press, 2019) and (in Russian) “Nikita Khrushchev: An Outlier of the System” (Никита Хрущев: вождь вне системы) (Diletant.media, 2024).

The post is from Colonelcassad (Boris Rozhin) blog. The reason she is listed as a foreign agent is because she is an anti-Russian propagandist for western interests. The reason Boris is taking delight in this is because he’s a Russian communist and Stalin enjoyer so not a big fan of Nikita Khrushchev. Nina strikes me as a mid academic who got a sweet USA ivy league gig because of her great granddad. Liberal academia considers this sort of thing a big gotcha.

AI posting on r/childfree rn

Merry last Thursday in December and a happy arbitrary start of a new year hexbears!

any opinions on Ezekiel bread? I tried it several times but it doubled in price in the last few years so I would like to try making it myself sometime. I kept it frozen and if eaten cold the texture is a little weird but when heated up or toasted it’s very good.