I am fairly confident the oil markets were manipulated today again. Drive prices low then buy…. Iran stating that Straits remain closed.

Redesigning semester offerings on survey European history classes. 19th age of revolution and reform and 20th c the turbulent 20th. Seeking out new books for these classes and crowdsourcing ideas. Please respond especially if you have new scholarship and would be willing to zoom to class in 26-27

hello good morning howdy, I am teaching undergrads today for the first time in a long time and I hate that I have to start with the AI speech. Has to happen. I just hate it.

I was educated by Cold War generation of professors. One served in Vietnam. Another in military intel in W Germany. Travelling with them as an undergraduate showed me the world and new culture. They taught me places are not their governments.

I want my tax dollars to go for healthcare, childcare, science and research, the arts and humanities, public lands and national parks. A hell of a lot of thing instead of war against the world. I want more money for the State dept and diplomacy. For education. For public transportation.

NATO makes the US and the world more secure, ever more since 2014. Trump can’t single-handedly remove the US.

Mazel tov.

Russia has entered the war to provide intel on US forces in the region. Trump refuses to rebuke dear leader.

If we look European diplomacy post Vienna 1815 - balance of power? Consensus of power? It may help us understand present day geopolitics. Two powers in USA and China. UK France Germany powers really in name only. Russia a power because others allow it to be viewed that way still.

Ukraine can help Gulf States and US defend against Iranian drones. Russia is struggling and even losing territorial gains in Ukraine. Russia benefits from high oil prices Asian energy markets struggle. Region is destabilising. Geopolitical nightmare for an administration of idiots in DC.

And we all trust frat bro Kash ?

Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $

"We've finally created the WOPR from the 1983 movie "whatever you do don't create the WOPR" aka Wargames."

Come to @cjewishhistory.bsky.social March 19 for book launch on Older Jews and the Holocaust by @joannasliwa24.bsky.social @ceschmidt.bsky.social and Betsy Anthony. It’s worth it. I’m making the day trip to NYC from Pittsburgh programs.cjh.org/event/older-...

Up next. Necessary reading from Jason Stanley in these dark times in America.

@ankahajkova.bsky.social work has illuminated voices and identities hidden by history. Challenging dominate narratives Anna provides us with an important new work of scholarship. Will be using it in class in the spring.

We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate. Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓

Dr Andy peace plan: Russian forces leave Ukraine ICC and ICJ investigations and tribunals for war crimes, crimes against humanity and possible genocide against Ukraine Long-term rebuilding and infrastructure plan for Ukraine. NATO and EU membership for Ukraine. Severe sanctions Russia

The US is working with neo-fascist, neo-imperialist Russia against the world order. Ukraine’s borders are the internationally recognised 1991 borders.

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

They are aware that Russians quite literally wrote the capitulation document that some people in the White House and sadly many people in the media refer to as a peace plan.

This thread

It’s not that complicated, people.

'There is no peace process. This is not negotiations over peace: it is the transmission of surrender demands from Russia with the active facilitation of the United States.' Read @keirgiles.bsky.social analysis on the Trump administration's proposed 28-point peace plan for Ukraine⤵️

It is not normal for a U.S. envoy to coach the Kremlin on how to influence an American president, especially in a way that undercuts Ukrainian and American national interests. As I told @NPR's Morning Edition.

Just how many Secretaries of State does the US currently have?

Witkoff is not buying the Russian narrative. He is selling it.

Navalny compares Ukraine to Afghanistan. Putin, much like the late Soviet gerontocracy needed a distraction from real problems and to refocus ‘toward imperial hysteria’.

The war against Ukraine began 2014 with the illegal seizure of Crimea. It could end today with the complete Russian withdrawal and justice for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide carried out against Ukraine

I hope Ukraine tells the American pedo president to stuff it. I hope Europe supports him.

Holy crap. This is most likely a real reaction to Trump driven threats. It is also evidence that MAGA is entering a civil war and that the GOP has officially been driven into a ditch a year ahead of midterms that could end Trump 2.0 on Day 1 of the 120th Congress.

MOTHERLAND is one of Washington Post's top 10 books of the year! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

Since 2014, I continue to stand with Ukraine. Donate to Ukrainian charities. I hope our European friends fill the void America has left.

It’s the people’s house. You twat.

Everyone realize that the reason the government is "shut down" is that the Republicans failed to pass a budget by Sept 30th, as they are required to do by law, and the government just ran out of money?

Today I learned that Police Academy Mission to Moscow was filmed during the 1993 constitutional crisis while Moscow was under Marshall law with the explicit approval of the office of Boris Yeltsin. Remind me again, how history is boring. 🤔

It's actually good to point out Bari Weiss's shitty inaccuracies, her lack of any real journalistic experience or original ideas, and the fact that she's failing upward, promoted by antidemocratic oligarchs who have no interest in reporting the truth.

And by the way, almost every single Neo-Nazi I track on a daily basis believes strongly that Tucker was talking about Jews. Message received.

We should trust ourselves and those we address to be able hold two thoughts at the same time: That we must forcefully condemn political violence - but also acknowledge that it festers and thrives in a deeply unhealthy political culture that Kirk himself helped create.

What @fetterman.senate.gov gets wrong in his interview with CNN is historians compare but don’t equate Trump with other historical autocrats. History helps us explain the present. I encourage him to read work by @benjamincarterhett.bsky.social especially The Death of Democracy

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

What’s happening to CBS News is neither complicated nor subtle. www.mediamatters.org/cbs/how-cbs-...

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

The military needs to understand that if it goes along with Trump’s plans, it will lose the goodwill it has worked so hard to rebuild with the U.S. public since Vietnam.

Lasting peace= Ukraine whole and free of Russian troops.

Russia troops leave all occupied Ukraine and stop killing civilians through an air war. There. Peace.