Adriana Farmiga

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@carriecoon Yep.

Remember, the dehumanization started the day he came down the escalator. Dehumanization is an essential tool for fascism: scapegoating the target group serves to normalize cruelty, justify state violence, control through fear, and ultimately erode civil rights.

@United24media @sethmeyers @LateNightSeth Do better @sethmeyers

This weekend, @sethmeyers, host of @LateNightSeth, called a city named after Ukrainian Odesa "Russian," sparking backlash. 🧵 1/2 ⬇️

#Malevich was #Ukrainian. #MakeRussiaSmallAgain

@carriecoon @HBO I support this. Including Taissa’s shorts.

Good news for #thegildedage @hbo!

“Analytic dust,” brought to you by today’s 12pm meeting.

All we need for peace in Ukraine is for Russian soldiers to return to Russia.

@Oleh_Kotsyuba Thank you for this.

This is not the first time that the United States and Russia negotiate directly about Ukraine's fate without Ukraine. The previous iteration of the same took place in the early 1990s, when the US was more comfortable talking directly to its counterparts in Moscow rather than to the leaders of the young Ukrainian democracy. The discussion back then was about Ukraine's nuclear arsenal, the third largest in the world at the time (thousands and thousands of nukes). Working directly with the US administration, Russia was able to wrest all components of the nuclear defense capability out of Ukraine's hands, while Ukraine did not receive any real security guarantees from the US and other Western partners (no NATO membership, and no anti-aircraft or ballistic missile system for defense). Ukraine's alarm at being left defenseless in the face of a resurgent neo-imperialist Russia was blatantly ignored. We have seen how that ended, and how much worth is Russia's word (spoiler alert: not much). In his book 'Ukraine's Nuclear Disarmament,' Yuri Kostenko ironically refers to it as being treated like an "infant in a grownups' game." Indeed, just like then, today Ukraine is being pushed aside and treated like a child that needs to let the adults solve the problem. Eugene Fishel, in his 'The Moscow Factor,' also talks about this preference of several US administrations to deal with the bosses in the Kremlin over the heads of Ukrainian leaders. Every single time this happened, it ended badly for Ukrainians, for US security interests, and for Western democracies more broadly. We're witnessing another attempt to twist Ukraine's hands in a powerplay between Russia and the US. But Ukraine should not be underestimated: it was Ukraine and its people that stopped the presumably second-strongest army in the world and have successfully resisted a much better equipped and more numerous enemy for almost 3 years.

In 1991, David Lynch showed the world the alienation and innate horror of a dirty street, directing this unforgettable anti-littering ad for the City of New York. RIP to a visionary filmmaker and a pioneer of the Trash Revolution.

@Oleh_Kotsyuba Браво!

Totally amazed to have made the shortlist of the Chytomo Award 2024 in the category Ukrainian Book Ambassador—what a pleasant surprise! I know I've been working non-stop to flood the Anglophone book market with outstanding Ukrainian literature, but so often it seems like no one notices that kind of work. Especially when you've been trying to convince organizations providing humanitarian, medical, and military aid to Ukraine that we need to invest in #disinformation campaigns (which are going to be even more important once @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk move into the @WhiteHouse), and books offer a perfect vehicle for delivering in-depth, highly engaging contextual information on Ukraine. Congratulations to other finalists in that same category who have been doing incredible work promoting Ukrainian literature and culture: Yuliia Kozlovets of Книжковий Арсенал (Book Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine), Lucie Řehoříková of Nadace Partnerství (Czech Republic), PEN Ukraine, and Ivan Fedechko of the Vydavnytstvo Staroho Leva (Old Lion's Press, Lviv, Ukraine). And congratulations to the finalists in the other two categories—Book Publishing Trendsetter and Initiatives that Promote Reading! Many thanks to colleagues Serhii @SPlokhy and Tymish Holowinsky for their nomination, and to the jury for their vote! Award winners will be revealed on January 31st—but no matter the outcome, I feel like we all have won already! Full list at the link in the next post of the thread. Thank you, @ChytomoE & @chytomo, for highlighting the work that we, publishers, do! #UkrainianLiterature #UkrainianBookAmbassador #HURIbooks

@TetyanaFilevska ❤️‍🩹

Air alert in Kyiv. We are all in shelters. If in 7 minutes Oreshnik hits Kyiv we are all in huge danger

“I’m interested in celebrating less visible infrastructure, marginalia, the in-between, and the B-side of things.” —Adriana Farmiga @farmiga works with the front and back of the mask in her solo exhibition, “Index.” bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/…

A thrilling rumination on my solo exhibition titled “Index,” up at Marisa Newman Projects from now until the end of October: brooklynrail.org/2024/10/artsee…

@historyinmemes haha

How do you ask a girl out in one minute?

@Oleh_Kotsyuba So sorry Oleh ❤️‍🩹/my dad’s home city also…

My home city was hit today. The strike hit a facility very close to my parents’ apartment. The level of chlorine rose to dangerous levels in the aftermath and people were asked to stay inside and keep their windows closed to protect themselves and their loved ones…

I wish my grandparents were alive to see this. (Luckily my parents are.) Also, wish me luck! Being in, on, near, over, under, around, between, within, of, at, across, and around a college campus these days is a wild ride…

Congrats to School of Art Dean @farmiga whose motel, The Starlite, was named in the top 10 in the US by USA Today 1045theteam.com/catskills-road…

@AdriannaMelnyk well said!

A holdover of growing up in the diaspora at a time when Ukraine was a captive nation is joy and excitement when support is shown for the country, and outrage - but not surprise - when it is not. This generation will only know outrage when they encounter the latter.

A livestream of the event will start tonight at 6:30 PM at the following link for anyone unable to attend in person. youtube.com/live/RlB3g5BWO… Registrations remain open, join 500+ others in solidarity tonight! - eventbrite.com/e/resilience-r…