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  1. Fox Host Sours on Trump’s Strikes After Troop Deaths Revealed

    Fox News contributor and Marine combat veteran Joey Jones criticized President Donald Trump’s Iran war strategy after two…
    #NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #DonaldTrump #FoxNews #Iran #iranwar #JoeyJones #MishalHusain #Trumpsupporter #TuckerCarlson #warstrategy
    newsbeep.com/651410/

  2. Watched the Bloomberg Podcast where they interviewed racist shit-stirring gremlin and potential next Prime Minister of the UK, Nigel Farage.

    It's not often he does such long interviews so it was interesting to hear him answer questions and observe his sneaky demeanour or snide remarks to the host.

    Anyway, would love to see Mishal Husain interview Green Party's Zack Polanski too.

    youtube.com/watch?v=2uq_RRQxBAM

    #Bloomberg #UKpol #Politics #NigelFarage #ZackPolanski #MishalHusain #GreensUK

  3. Watched the Bloomberg Podcast where they interviewed racist shit-stirring gremlin and potential next Prime Minister of the UK, Nigel Farage.

    It's not often he does such long interviews so it was interesting to hear him answer questions and observe his sneaky demeanour or snide remarks to the host.

    Anyway, would love to see Mishal Husain interview Green Party's Zack Polanski too.

    youtube.com/watch?v=2uq_RRQxBAM

    #Bloomberg #UKpol #Politics #NigelFarage #ZackPolanski #MishalHusain #GreensUK

  4. Watched the Bloomberg Podcast where they interviewed racist shit-stirring gremlin and potential next Prime Minister of the UK, Nigel Farage.

    It's not often he does such long interviews so it was interesting to hear him answer questions and observe his sneaky demeanour or snide remarks to the host.

    Anyway, would love to see Mishal Husain interview Green Party's Zack Polanski too.

    youtube.com/watch?v=2uq_RRQxBAM

    #Bloomberg #UKpol #Politics #NigelFarage #ZackPolanski #MishalHusain #GreensUK

  5. Watched the Bloomberg Podcast where they interviewed racist shit-stirring gremlin and potential next Prime Minister of the UK, Nigel Farage.

    It's not often he does such long interviews so it was interesting to hear him answer questions and observe his sneaky demeanour or snide remarks to the host.

    Anyway, would love to see Mishal Husain interview Green Party's Zack Polanski too.

    youtube.com/watch?v=2uq_RRQxBAM

    #Bloomberg #UKpol #Politics #NigelFarage #ZackPolanski #MishalHusain #GreensUK

  6. Trump Did In One Year What Took Putin 20 Years, Says Julia Ioffe – Bloomberg

    llustration: Uli Knörzer for Bloomberg

    Julia Ioffe on Why Putinism Won’t Die With Putin

    The Motherland author talks about reclaiming Russia’s women, the “demented family heirlooms” of Soviet trauma, and the country’s relationship with its chief decision-maker.

    By Mishal Husain, November 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM EST

    Telling the story of a country through its women is an epic undertaking — especially when the country’s history includes totalitarianism, extreme violence and repression.

    It’s a task taken on by the Russian-American journalist Julia Ioffe in her new book Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy (Harper Collins, October 2025).

    From Alexandra Kollontai — who laid the foundations of gender equality in the Soviet Union — to legions of women persecuted and abused over generations, Ioffe’s book weaves between notable figures airbrushed from Russian history and individuals who wouldn’t have thought themselves remarkable, including her own female relatives.

    Motherland also comes right up to the present day. Having spent more than a decade reporting from, and on, Russia for publications including the New Yorker and Foreign Policy, Ioffe says she has repeatedly been asked to explain the actions and motivations of Vladimir Putin. Motherland embodies her desire to show that Russia is much more than one person, let alone one man.

    To me, the book feels born of both love and despair for the country where Ioffe was born. Love, because it is a part of her through family members shaped by its tumult; despair, because she sees Russia as trapped in a cycle of authoritarianism and thaw, never a full spring.

    We spoke in Washington, DC, where Ioffe lives and works.

    Listen to and follow The Mishal Husain Show on iHeart Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

    This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. You can listen to an extended version in the latest episode of The Mishal Husain Show podcast.

    Motherland is an immense work — the story of modern Russia through its women, including the women of your family, because Russia is where you were born in the 1980s, in the time before Glasnost. 1

    1 Ioffe was 4 years old when Mikhail Gorbachev’s “openness” policy began to relax censorship and release dissidents. In 1991, his successor Boris Yeltsin brought the Soviet Union to an end. I witnessed the chaotic period that followed when I lived in Moscow — Ioffe’s native city — in 1992 after having studied Russian at school.

    Yes. I actually was born in a country that no longer exists in many senses of the word — the Soviet Union — but also the emancipatory experiment it embarked on in 1917 vis-a-vis its women [is gone].

    I’m keen to understand to what extent the stories of your grandparents’ generation, and those before, were told to you. There’s one moment in the book when you’re still in high school and your mother sits you down and reads from the poetry of Anna Akhmatova. She uses it to tell you about Stalin’s terror. 2

    2 Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) was a giant of Russian literature. Her poem Requiem, written in the 1930s, is about her suffering over the politically charged detention of her son. It was not published in Russia until the 1980s.

    Yes. The cosmic violence, the way it mangled Soviet, and then Russian, society forever. It was such a formative experience for the people who lived it and survived it, that their children and grandchildren were marked by it because of the family stories, because of the lessons of survival. Many of them, quite macabre, were passed down to us as demented family heirlooms.

    ***

    Editor’s Note: The article jumps here, and is excellent. I wanted to include one of the comments about Trump.

    I want to ask you about your work today, covering Washington. How has it been as a journalist, given the ways in which the Trump administration has tried to restrict or sue the press. What’s your assessment? 11

    11 Ioffe is Washington correspondent for Puck, a digital media company founded in 2021 whose the writers are also partners in the business.

    Donald Trump has been able to do, in less than a year, what it took Vladimir Putin two decades to do, in certain cases.

    The speed at which he has hollowed out American institutions — the courts, the legislative body, every check and balance imaginable, the way private industry has bent the knee, rather than risk their profits — forgetting, by the way, that more than half the country doesn’t like this — makes me disappointed in my American compatriots.

    In all those years I was reporting on Putin, anytime [he] did something restrictive, authoritarian, I would be asked to come on TV or to write a piece. People would say, Why aren’t Russians out in the streets protesting and overthrowing him? Can’t they see how terrible it is? Can’t they see he’s a dictator? Surely young people, college students, hate this?

    I want to ask all of them, Why aren’t Americans in the streets, demanding answers and demanding a change? Not protests by appointment, with funny posters, but real protests. Why aren’t we holding our corporations to account, our Congress to account?

    Donald Trump jokes that he is the speaker of the US House of Representatives and the president. He’s essentially dissolved Parliament. If I were a foreign correspondent here, trying to explain this for an audience back home, that’s how I would write it.

    Trump looks down from the presidential box in the Kennedy Center opera house on March 17 in Washington, DC. Photographer: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump Did In One Year What Took Putin 20 Years, Says Julia Ioffe

    Tags: Bloomberg, Book, Dictator, Journalist, Julia Ioffe, Mishal Husain, Motherland, Podcast, Putin, Putinism, Russia's Women, Russian Society, Russian-American, Soviet Trauma, Soviet Union

    #Bloomberg #Book #Dictator #Journalist #JuliaIoffe #MishalHusain #Motherland #Podcast #Putin #Putinism #RussiaSWomen #RussianSociety #RussianAmerican #SovietTrauma #SovietUnion

  7. Trump Did In One Year What Took Putin 20 Years, Says Julia Ioffe – Bloomberg

    llustration: Uli Knörzer for Bloomberg

    Julia Ioffe on Why Putinism Won’t Die With Putin

    The Motherland author talks about reclaiming Russia’s women, the “demented family heirlooms” of Soviet trauma, and the country’s relationship with its chief decision-maker.

    By Mishal Husain, November 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM EST

    Telling the story of a country through its women is an epic undertaking — especially when the country’s history includes totalitarianism, extreme violence and repression.

    It’s a task taken on by the Russian-American journalist Julia Ioffe in her new book Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy (Harper Collins, October 2025).

    From Alexandra Kollontai — who laid the foundations of gender equality in the Soviet Union — to legions of women persecuted and abused over generations, Ioffe’s book weaves between notable figures airbrushed from Russian history and individuals who wouldn’t have thought themselves remarkable, including her own female relatives.

    Motherland also comes right up to the present day. Having spent more than a decade reporting from, and on, Russia for publications including the New Yorker and Foreign Policy, Ioffe says she has repeatedly been asked to explain the actions and motivations of Vladimir Putin. Motherland embodies her desire to show that Russia is much more than one person, let alone one man.

    To me, the book feels born of both love and despair for the country where Ioffe was born. Love, because it is a part of her through family members shaped by its tumult; despair, because she sees Russia as trapped in a cycle of authoritarianism and thaw, never a full spring.

    We spoke in Washington, DC, where Ioffe lives and works.

    Listen to and follow The Mishal Husain Show on iHeart Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

    This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. You can listen to an extended version in the latest episode of The Mishal Husain Show podcast.

    Motherland is an immense work — the story of modern Russia through its women, including the women of your family, because Russia is where you were born in the 1980s, in the time before Glasnost. 1

    1 Ioffe was 4 years old when Mikhail Gorbachev’s “openness” policy began to relax censorship and release dissidents. In 1991, his successor Boris Yeltsin brought the Soviet Union to an end. I witnessed the chaotic period that followed when I lived in Moscow — Ioffe’s native city — in 1992 after having studied Russian at school.

    Yes. I actually was born in a country that no longer exists in many senses of the word — the Soviet Union — but also the emancipatory experiment it embarked on in 1917 vis-a-vis its women [is gone].

    I’m keen to understand to what extent the stories of your grandparents’ generation, and those before, were told to you. There’s one moment in the book when you’re still in high school and your mother sits you down and reads from the poetry of Anna Akhmatova. She uses it to tell you about Stalin’s terror. 2

    2 Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) was a giant of Russian literature. Her poem Requiem, written in the 1930s, is about her suffering over the politically charged detention of her son. It was not published in Russia until the 1980s.

    Yes. The cosmic violence, the way it mangled Soviet, and then Russian, society forever. It was such a formative experience for the people who lived it and survived it, that their children and grandchildren were marked by it because of the family stories, because of the lessons of survival. Many of them, quite macabre, were passed down to us as demented family heirlooms.

    ***

    Editor’s Note: The article jumps here, and is excellent. I wanted to include one of the comments about Trump.

    I want to ask you about your work today, covering Washington. How has it been as a journalist, given the ways in which the Trump administration has tried to restrict or sue the press. What’s your assessment? 11

    11 Ioffe is Washington correspondent for Puck, a digital media company founded in 2021 whose the writers are also partners in the business.

    Donald Trump has been able to do, in less than a year, what it took Vladimir Putin two decades to do, in certain cases.

    The speed at which he has hollowed out American institutions — the courts, the legislative body, every check and balance imaginable, the way private industry has bent the knee, rather than risk their profits — forgetting, by the way, that more than half the country doesn’t like this — makes me disappointed in my American compatriots.

    In all those years I was reporting on Putin, anytime [he] did something restrictive, authoritarian, I would be asked to come on TV or to write a piece. People would say, Why aren’t Russians out in the streets protesting and overthrowing him? Can’t they see how terrible it is? Can’t they see he’s a dictator? Surely young people, college students, hate this?

    I want to ask all of them, Why aren’t Americans in the streets, demanding answers and demanding a change? Not protests by appointment, with funny posters, but real protests. Why aren’t we holding our corporations to account, our Congress to account?

    Donald Trump jokes that he is the speaker of the US House of Representatives and the president. He’s essentially dissolved Parliament. If I were a foreign correspondent here, trying to explain this for an audience back home, that’s how I would write it.

    Trump looks down from the presidential box in the Kennedy Center opera house on March 17 in Washington, DC. Photographer: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump Did In One Year What Took Putin 20 Years, Says Julia Ioffe

    #Bloomberg #Book #Dictator #Journalist #JuliaIoffe #MishalHusain #Motherland #Podcast #Putin #Putinism #RussiaSWomen #RussianSociety #RussianAmerican #SovietTrauma #SovietUnion

  8. Trump Did In One Year What Took Putin 20 Years, Says Julia Ioffe – Bloomberg

    llustration: Uli Knörzer for Bloomberg

    Julia Ioffe on Why Putinism Won’t Die With Putin

    The Motherland author talks about reclaiming Russia’s women, the “demented family heirlooms” of Soviet trauma, and the country’s relationship with its chief decision-maker.

    By Mishal Husain, November 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM EST

    Telling the story of a country through its women is an epic undertaking — especially when the country’s history includes totalitarianism, extreme violence and repression.

    It’s a task taken on by the Russian-American journalist Julia Ioffe in her new book Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy (Harper Collins, October 2025).

    From Alexandra Kollontai — who laid the foundations of gender equality in the Soviet Union — to legions of women persecuted and abused over generations, Ioffe’s book weaves between notable figures airbrushed from Russian history and individuals who wouldn’t have thought themselves remarkable, including her own female relatives.

    Motherland also comes right up to the present day. Having spent more than a decade reporting from, and on, Russia for publications including the New Yorker and Foreign Policy, Ioffe says she has repeatedly been asked to explain the actions and motivations of Vladimir Putin. Motherland embodies her desire to show that Russia is much more than one person, let alone one man.

    To me, the book feels born of both love and despair for the country where Ioffe was born. Love, because it is a part of her through family members shaped by its tumult; despair, because she sees Russia as trapped in a cycle of authoritarianism and thaw, never a full spring.

    We spoke in Washington, DC, where Ioffe lives and works.

    Listen to and follow The Mishal Husain Show on iHeart Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

    This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. You can listen to an extended version in the latest episode of The Mishal Husain Show podcast.

    Motherland is an immense work — the story of modern Russia through its women, including the women of your family, because Russia is where you were born in the 1980s, in the time before Glasnost. 1

    1 Ioffe was 4 years old when Mikhail Gorbachev’s “openness” policy began to relax censorship and release dissidents. In 1991, his successor Boris Yeltsin brought the Soviet Union to an end. I witnessed the chaotic period that followed when I lived in Moscow — Ioffe’s native city — in 1992 after having studied Russian at school.

    Yes. I actually was born in a country that no longer exists in many senses of the word — the Soviet Union — but also the emancipatory experiment it embarked on in 1917 vis-a-vis its women [is gone].

    I’m keen to understand to what extent the stories of your grandparents’ generation, and those before, were told to you. There’s one moment in the book when you’re still in high school and your mother sits you down and reads from the poetry of Anna Akhmatova. She uses it to tell you about Stalin’s terror. 2

    2 Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) was a giant of Russian literature. Her poem Requiem, written in the 1930s, is about her suffering over the politically charged detention of her son. It was not published in Russia until the 1980s.

    Yes. The cosmic violence, the way it mangled Soviet, and then Russian, society forever. It was such a formative experience for the people who lived it and survived it, that their children and grandchildren were marked by it because of the family stories, because of the lessons of survival. Many of them, quite macabre, were passed down to us as demented family heirlooms.

    ***

    Editor’s Note: The article jumps here, and is excellent. I wanted to include one of the comments about Trump.

    I want to ask you about your work today, covering Washington. How has it been as a journalist, given the ways in which the Trump administration has tried to restrict or sue the press. What’s your assessment? 11

    11 Ioffe is Washington correspondent for Puck, a digital media company founded in 2021 whose the writers are also partners in the business.

    Donald Trump has been able to do, in less than a year, what it took Vladimir Putin two decades to do, in certain cases.

    The speed at which he has hollowed out American institutions — the courts, the legislative body, every check and balance imaginable, the way private industry has bent the knee, rather than risk their profits — forgetting, by the way, that more than half the country doesn’t like this — makes me disappointed in my American compatriots.

    In all those years I was reporting on Putin, anytime [he] did something restrictive, authoritarian, I would be asked to come on TV or to write a piece. People would say, Why aren’t Russians out in the streets protesting and overthrowing him? Can’t they see how terrible it is? Can’t they see he’s a dictator? Surely young people, college students, hate this?

    I want to ask all of them, Why aren’t Americans in the streets, demanding answers and demanding a change? Not protests by appointment, with funny posters, but real protests. Why aren’t we holding our corporations to account, our Congress to account?

    Donald Trump jokes that he is the speaker of the US House of Representatives and the president. He’s essentially dissolved Parliament. If I were a foreign correspondent here, trying to explain this for an audience back home, that’s how I would write it.

    Trump looks down from the presidential box in the Kennedy Center opera house on March 17 in Washington, DC. Photographer: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump Did In One Year What Took Putin 20 Years, Says Julia Ioffe

    #Bloomberg #Book #Dictator #Journalist #JuliaIoffe #MishalHusain #Motherland #Podcast #Putin #Putinism #RussiaSWomen #RussianSociety #RussianAmerican #SovietTrauma #SovietUnion

  9. Listening to #radio4today. Mishal Husain leaving her role is a very sad day for the #bbc . She has been by far the best presenter for some years. Hard to imagine why they didn’t successfully incentivise her to stay. #mishalhusain

  10. Listening to #radio4today. Mishal Husain leaving her role is a very sad day for the #bbc . She has been by far the best presenter for some years. Hard to imagine why they didn’t successfully incentivise her to stay. #mishalhusain

  11. Listening to #radio4today. Mishal Husain leaving her role is a very sad day for the #bbc . She has been by far the best presenter for some years. Hard to imagine why they didn’t successfully incentivise her to stay. #mishalhusain

  12. Listening to #radio4today. Mishal Husain leaving her role is a very sad day for the #bbc . She has been by far the best presenter for some years. Hard to imagine why they didn’t successfully incentivise her to stay. #mishalhusain

  13. “The Contempt For The Work Of Journalists Was Laid Bare”: NUJ Slams Israeli Government Spokesman For “Abusive” & Hypocritical Interview With BBC’s Mishal Husain
    #News #BBC #Gaza #Israel #IsraelHamasWar #MishalHusain #Today

    deadline.com/2024/08/nuj-bbc-i

  14. “The Contempt For The Work Of Journalists Was Laid Bare”: NUJ Slams Israeli Government Spokesman For “Abusive” & Hypocritical Interview With BBC’s Mishal Husain
    #News #BBC #Gaza #Israel #IsraelHamasWar #MishalHusain #Today

    deadline.com/2024/08/nuj-bbc-i

  15. “The Contempt For The Work Of Journalists Was Laid Bare”: NUJ Slams Israeli Government Spokesman For “Abusive” & Hypocritical Interview With BBC’s Mishal Husain
    #News #BBC #Gaza #Israel #IsraelHamasWar #MishalHusain #Today

    deadline.com/2024/08/nuj-bbc-i

  16. Imagine a desi Muslim mod with mic cutoff button while T•••• spews race derp :D

    UK debate mod #MishalHusain ‘is killing [it]… absolute masterclass in chairing’ x.com/iandunt/status/179916549

  17. Imagine a desi Muslim mod with mic cutoff button while T•••• spews race derp :D

    UK debate mod #MishalHusain ‘is killing [it]… absolute masterclass in chairing’ x.com/iandunt/status/179916549

  18. “When people say clearly something, that means there’s a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren’t clear at all.”
    Terry Pratchett; The Truth
    #Discworld #Electioneering #FarageIsNotTheAnswer #CallingHimOut #MishalHusain

  19. “When people say clearly something, that means there’s a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren’t clear at all.”
    Terry Pratchett; The Truth
    #Discworld #Electioneering #FarageIsNotTheAnswer #CallingHimOut #MishalHusain

  20. “When people say clearly something, that means there’s a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren’t clear at all.”
    Terry Pratchett; The Truth
    #Discworld #Electioneering #FarageIsNotTheAnswer #CallingHimOut #MishalHusain

  21. “When people say clearly something, that means there’s a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren’t clear at all.”
    Terry Pratchett; The Truth
    #Discworld #Electioneering #FarageIsNotTheAnswer #CallingHimOut #MishalHusain

  22. I appreciate that what follows is a value judgement, and not an impartial journalistic comment, but here goes...

    England's defence secretary is a fucking imbecile.

    #GrantShapps #MishalHusain #Israel #Hamas #terrorism #BBCr4Today #Ofcom

  23. I appreciate that what follows is a value judgement, and not an impartial journalistic comment, but here goes...

    England's defence secretary is a fucking imbecile.

    #GrantShapps #MishalHusain #Israel #Hamas #terrorism #BBCr4Today #Ofcom

  24. I appreciate that what follows is a value judgement, and not an impartial journalistic comment, but here goes...

    England's defence secretary is a fucking imbecile.

    #GrantShapps #MishalHusain #Israel #Hamas #terrorism #BBCr4Today #Ofcom

  25. I appreciate that what follows is a value judgement, and not an impartial journalistic comment, but here goes...

    England's defence secretary is a fucking imbecile.

    #GrantShapps #MishalHusain #Israel #Hamas #terrorism #BBCr4Today #Ofcom