Podcasts, videos, books and articles of the week 105

Phil has come down with fever in London so please send him some love.

I’ll be reading a special book… Phil’s Aachen book.

I’d like to shoutout two substacks -

This is a top evil bloke:

Fallen MuslimBritish Bangladeshi, raised strictly Muslim but now a confirmed heathen, here to share the life lessons learned from losing my religionBy Shihab S Joi

Here’s some of his old content:

and Lewis Baston who has given out plenty of new subscribers, so thank you very much.

Borders and bywaysBorders and borderlands, and some thoughts that don't quite fit - essays and thoughts to accompany my book BorderlinesBy Lewis Baston

I’m currently watching Babylon 5 with my son and highly recommend it

The first season is really rough at the beginning, but persevere. It gets good in the middle.

Soviet Star Citizen

The guy behind the channel is Ukrainian so I’m not going to rant about Soviet.

What a surprise

Boom

More Russian insanity

‘A Surge of Insane Russian Propaganda’

Fearless reporting, a behind-the-curtains look at how journalism is made — and an unabashed point of view. Welcome to Chills.

Chills, by Lauren Wolfe

It’s been a dangerously nutty few days in Russia.

On Saturday, the country’s defense ministry accused Ukraine of planning an attack on a nuclear power plant in Russia’s Kursk region, near the northeastern border of Ukraine, news outlets reported, as well as on the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine. The plot supposedly involves Kyiv hitting the plants with dirty bombs and then attributing the attacks to Moscow as a kind of “provocation” — aka Russia has concocted an excuse to escalate the war because, hey, it was Kyiv’s fault, right?

Trump desecrates a cemetary

Cemetery-Gate

In 1750, Martha Dandridge, the daughter of a minor Virginia planter, married Daniel Park Custis, son and heir to one of the wealthiest families in the colonies, on account of his holdings in real estate. Her husband was 39 years old; she was just 19.

PREVAIL by Greg Olear

In 1864, the federal government confiscated Robert E. Lee’s Arlington property—because, really, fuck that guy—for non-payment of taxes and began to use the grounds as a military cemetery. After Lee’s death in 1870, Mary Anna Custis Lee sued the government, claiming the land had been seized illegally. The Supreme Court agreed in US v. Lee, and she wound up getting the equivalent of $4 million of today’s dollars for the property.

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