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@DaveKeating Yes, Churchill did say that. But *2* years later YU split from the Eastern Block. Yes, there was border control. But it was no more ironclad than any other European border at the time, and certainly nothing like the Warsaw Pact. “60 years of the Iron Curtain” is misleading.

@gregorspv "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent" -Churchill's Iron Curtain speech. Yugoslavia was later in grey zone after Soviet split. But this border was as brutal as Warsaw Pact in 50s & 60s, slightly relaxed in 70s.

I'm at Europe Square in Gorizia. This square was divided in two by the Iron Curtain for 60 years, when Gorizia was split in half by the post-WW2 settlement between Italy and Yugoslavia. The "Gorizia Wall" ran through the city, and Yugoslav soldiers kept it fiercely patrolled. When Slovenia joined the EU in 2004, the wall finally came down and the square (and town) was reunited because of the EU's open internal borders. Today you can walk freely between both sides of the city, there are no passport controls. Right now the square is being refurbished for when the Slovenian and Italian sides of the city together become European Capital of Culture in 2025. This is what Germany is putting at risk with their migration theater reimposing checks at all of their internal EU borders.

@metinalista Igen pomeni v madžarščini “da” :)

NOVO! #LDGD 164 – Vsaka velika pot se začne s prvim korakom metinalista.si/ldgd-164-vsaka… V tej epizodi se sprehodimo skozi izbor Marte Kos za komisarko, od procesa, ki je pripeljal do nje, do portfelja, ki se ji obeta, in realnosti pričakovanj. Potem pa – osnutek novele zakona o zdravstveni dejavnosti. Igra premier Golob na zmago, ali je to ena tistih šahovskih iger, kjer že vnaprej veš, da bo kralj padel? Ne spregledamo niti nove rošade ministrov in predvidoma novembrskega posvetovalnega referenduma o JEK2, ki ga … ne bodo gradili v Kočevju.

@janlisiecki @NosedaG @santa_cecilia What a delight that was! Absolutely worth the trip from Lugano. Impeccable musicality all round.

Mozart in Locarno, Switzerland 🇨🇭 with Francesco Piemontesi, @NosedaG, @santa_cecilia

pickpocket (n.) – pikapolonica @velikislovar

In @nytopinion “Our goal is to make sure that Donald Trump never sets foot in the White House. Because he’s beyond weird,” Nancy Pelosi tells Ezra Klein in this episode of The Ezra Klein Show. nyti.ms/3WVmuGe

@NaomiAKlein What an astute man! Was also interesting to get a glimpse at his foreign policy thinking via that aside about Venezuela.

Walz would be a game-changing VP pic. Again and again he reads as: ✅Not condescending ✅Actually interested in people's lives ✅Laser focused on substantive policies (food, health, ed) that will reduce daily stress and drag us out of conspiracy land podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-…

At the same time, our head of gov’t is called the PM, not the Chancellor :)

Proud of 🇸🇮 for contributing 2 second-rate spies to this historic swap. One of them was apparently held in a prison 200 meters away from where my mother works, which is quite surreal.

@MisakCheryl @BritWittSoc Thank you!

The shortness of F.P. Ramsey’s life really jumps out now. Thank you ⁦@BritWittSoc⁩ for doing the work. I am honored to join with the Ramsey family in paying for it.

@anderssandberg Thanks for sharing!

Great essay, both in regard to the treatment of the main question, but also in explaining "explanatory inversions" - a very good concept.

@mtilsonthomas @PENTATONE @ReneeFleming @SFSymphony This is great news, but I think you @‘d the wrong Pentatone, Maestro :)

Just announced by @PENTATONE! ‘GRACE: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas,' a four-disc set featuring 18 of my compositions. ‘Take All Away From Me’ from ”Poems of Emily Dickinson” performed by @ReneeFleming and the @SFSymphony is available to stream now 🎶 lnk.to/MichaelTilsonT…

@kolersamo @Val202 Zanimivo, katerih stvari neznanje je družbeno sprejemljivo izpovedati: francoščina, matematika …

A bi se lahko na @Val202 nehali hvaliti s tem, da ne znajo francosko ... Da ne znajo sestaviti ekipe z znanjem francoščine, je vsaj šlamparija ... saj niso Pariza za prireditelja določili včeraj ...😉

@chaykak That’s a good angle, would be interesting to see it more fully developed!

do we obsess over oat milk lattes and Stanley cup accessories because we can't afford anything else??

New @newyorker column: On international meme accounts and the globalization of luxury taste, natural wine, Aesop soap, Margiela tabi boots, and why pea milk is the new oat milk newyorker.com/culture/infini…

@becimay It pains me to see many of my fellow students discussing university in these terms so foreign to how I think of education…

What worries me about this is the assumption, visible everywhere, that the only possible defence of anything is economic. For a start, it’s a lazy way of arguing, like saying to someone ‘I’ll pay you to agree with me so that we don’t have to discuss what’s really at stake.’

@J_M_Olofsson @nialloconghaile When disregarding the basic principles of Schengen legislation *as interpreted by the ECJ* becomes “adjusting to reality”, that is a bad sign for Schengen indeed…

@ResevalniPas @RihardFekonja @mnz_gov_si @mzi_rs Kdo točno sproži postopek za spremembo zakonodaje?

@RihardFekonja @mnz_gov_si @mzi_rs Sprememba je predlagana, že od lani. Čakamo samo še ta čas, ki se mora najt za spremembo zakonodaje.

Kdaj bodo taki pravično kaznovani? Glede na število takih, policije ne bo NIKOLI dovolj, a če bi bile kazni visoke, bi tak to prakticiral samo do prve položnice.

@nialloconghaile Schengen’s all well and good on paper, but in practice states reintroduce “temporary” border controls all the time. There have been checks for 9 years now on the AUT-SLO border, deemed illegal by the EU CoJ, yet the Commission does zilch. For trust, there needs to be enforcement.

@JahHills We need someone to quote tweet this entire campaign with Tim Heidecker clips

Has anyone zeroed in on the cringey specifics of white male mediocrity better than Mr Heidecker in the last decade? There’s a clip for everything. The best.

@mtilsonthomas California baby!

So proud.