Obviously an election stunt that goes nowhere and they do it precisely because they know it goes nowhere but unlocking the "most deranged B-movie fascist villain" level is in itself an achievement even for these fascists

The Year of the Fire Horseshoe is wild, y'all

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When this is all over, Zelensky will be remembered very differently in Ukraine and in the US/EU/Canada etc. And he will fully deserve both of those perspectives

So this is how they are going to fund the Gaza Board of Peace, and pay for the reconstruction, it all makes sense now

There is an entire academic discipline that has zero issues speaking ill of the dead. It's named history

My kind of crazy

Settler colonials won, Egypt lost and Israel has absolutely nothing to do with it. Confusing, things are.

A victory parade in Moscow had fewer red flags than this guy and yet somehow everyone is so shocked.

My guess is that Trump just told Infantino that FIFA does not have the cards.

Whatever one thinks of OUN, UPA, Bandera etc. (and my thoughts on these are not a secret), starting a very public beef with Ukraine at this moment was probably not the smartest decision for Poland.

From the minutes of the Chief of Staff Conference, HQ British Troops in Palestine, 13 April 1948, in the middle of the civil war and a month before withdrawal. Glad to know that the Brits focused on what really mattered. And astonished that there was anything in 1948 Palestine that was yet unclaimed

Archival adventures: Today I tried, really did, to smell a scented geranium from Betlehem that Field Marshall Allenby preserved in 1917, just after capturing Jerusalem. Haven't sensed a thing. What's wrong with me?

Real picture of me, trying to explain my students and naive Westerners the intricacies of Central and Eastern European memory wars

The perennial question "What air defense doing?" now has a definitive answer

But will Trump finally get the Nobel Peace Prize for the Iran deal? That's the key question we all should be asking

And now, in the most unbiased way possible, governments will decide if the just suspended ICC prosecutor who handled Putin and Netanyahu indictments will be out because of sexual misconduct. Just taking notes for the next time I am asked about why I am cynical about this whole accountability thing

Thank you for your attention to this matter

I've read too much on the 1912-13 Balkan Wars recently, so my prediction: Israel bombs Iran, Iran bombs everyone else, Trump, Iran and everyone else bomb Israel in retaliation, then Iran once again bombs everyone else, but this time together with Israel. Everyone else bomb the US, Jordan partitioned

Concept of a ceasefire

People have strange opinions and attachments, I get it, but what I can't understand about the Platner saga is why, of all the hills out there, a guy with a Nazi tattoo is the one so many progressives are willing to die on.

What can go wrong, really.

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The concernometer has been dialed up to 11

Trump's World of Fuzzy Borders. A piece i wrote with Steve Hanson www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...

So, I plan on being in London, at the Imperial War Museum most of June and part of July. If anyone wants to meet, DM me

Given how hard it tried to kill me, I very much doubt.

Had Ben-Gvir and his thugs been doing what's in the video to the very same people this would have been (and justly so!) all over the media and Bluesky. Because it was. Police brutality should have consequences no matter which police doing it

🧵War correspondent James Verini has covered several conflicts over the decades. What he sees in Ukraine is clear: Ukraine is winning the war, and Putin has no good options in a disaster of his own making.

Hey, look, a day that ends in "y" and so a fascist thug doing his fascist thuggery

Ben-Gvir and Smotrich (both despicable racists and criminals) are probably the happiest people in Israel right now because their chances of ever standing trial at the ICC are zero and the aura of victimhood might be exactly what pushes them over the threshold at the next election.

Israel wins, Eurovision disbands itself and we are spared this ridiculous annual nonsense might be the most reasonable outcome here

I sure hope they do. The discovery process would be a doozy

From the catalogue of the Imperial War Museum. I wonder what it is, really do

The noose and the guns might be a bit of an overkill but otherwise the only thing missing is the golden toilet, somehow it doesn't feel authentic without it.

Weird, you wouldn't know it but reading non-fake news either.

Can't shake the feeling that this must be a master-level trolling. But also can't shake the feeling that this might, in fact, be very real. 2026, you are not helping

"Now a witness statement says the Qatari government promised to “look after” Mr. Khan if he moved against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu." If this is correct, this looks very bad for the ICC and any remaining hopes for meaningful accountability for violence against civilians, anywhere.

Also, based on multiple, even if anecdotal interactions with Italians: it is amazing how many, even among the well educated, are genuinely convinced that Italy was liberated either almost exclusively or predominantly by local partisans. Blows my mind every single time.

Field notes from the Liberation

For heaven's sake, what a disastrous take, until recently he was just very busy dutifully doing his most important job as the Archivist of the United States

A serious question: how do I recognize this rapidly rising Satanism when I see it on a street?

Israeli mainstream media starts waking up—unforgivably slowly and way too late—to the horrors of Israeli state-backed vigilante violence and terror in the West Bank. Main page of Israel's largest online paper: "It looks like blue-white ethnic cleansing"

Social sciences/history hive mind, I need help. I am teaching a graduate research methods class and need examples of a really *bad* book/article/chapter in terms of writing, clarity, style, jargon etc. Ideally relatively recent. If you would rather not name and shame here, please DM me. Thanks!

Which is also why the task was so much harder for Russian democrats. Whereas everywhere else (including, quite explicitly, in Ukraine), democrats could make a case against autocracy because they want to be/are Europeans and not Russians, Russian democrats could not make this argument by definition.

With that and the Iran talks JD Vance builds himself quite an inspired reputation. Can someone send him to meet Bibi ASAP, please please please

Social sciences/history hive mind, I need help. I am teaching a graduate research methods class and need examples of a really *bad* book/article/chapter in terms of writing, clarity, style, jargon etc. Ideally relatively recent. If you would rather not name and shame here, please DM me. Thanks!

It's a day that ends in "y" so we are once again doing something dramatic and grandiose but what exactly it is that we are doing and why are we doing it no one has a clue.

Apologies for the contrarian take, but having survived my fair share of faculty meetings, at tough negotiations I would rather have my side represented by real estate developers than PhDs. Lack of diplomats is a huge issue, though

Oh, OK, that makes total sense and explains everything. A legitimate misunderstanding. And now what?