Nice surprise today. Received shipment of new paperback version of my Malcolm Browne bio from @unmpress.bsky.social.

Sky Defense integrates Ukraine’s innovative air defense systems and protects civilian life. We are halfway in this campaign! Please donate if you can. u24.gov.ua/news/timothy...

The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl may have been 40 years ago today, but just last year the Russians hit the New Safe Confinement (NSC) structure with a Shahed drone, causing at least $500 million in damage. The containment may be decades old, but the danger is current events.

We've talked a number of times on my channel about opioid use and its effects on the public at large. Here's a video that started a conversation with followers about American Civil War veterans and drug use. youtube.com/live/XahVaCf...

We've talked a number of times on my channel about opioid use and its effects on the public at large. Here's a video that started a conversation with followers about American Civil War veterans and drug use. youtube.com/live/XahVaCf...

Twice now I have had museums say, "Why should we be on your YouTube channel? We have our own." And I have to tell them that the point is to grow your audience. If I can get 20 more people to follow your work, how is that a loss?

Yes, dear editor, there is a reason I didn't include imagery in my document....

Hey nonfiction authors: What are you writing about right now? Are you working on a book or an article? Shout out your work in the comments 👇

Coming up today at 3:00 pm ET on my YouTube channel. Who was the real Margaret Beaufort? How did a teenage mother with a fragile claim to royal blood outmanoeuvre kings, navigate three marriages, and shape the course of a nation? Historian Lauren Johnson will join me to explain!

Hey nonfiction authors: What are you writing about right now? Are you working on a book or an article? Shout out your work in the comments 👇

Historian Lauren Johnson joins me on my YouTube channel tomorrow at 3:00 pm ET to discuss her new biography, Margaret Beaufort: Survivor, Rebel, Kingmaker (Pegasus, 2026). If you're into Tudor history, you won't want to miss this! www.youtube.com/live/L6Sqhg7...

Quote post with your favorite fictional coded or literal stoner

This video is now on-demand on YouTube. Please go check out this fantastic presentation by @emilydufton.bsky.social. Grab a copy of her latest book and please consider subscribing to the channel.

We're LIVE right now on my YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvGd...

Political messaging isn't just about what leaders say, but the form they say it in. In my latest piece, I break down how Mark Carney’s address uses the classic architecture of crisis communication. open.substack.com/pub/theinter...

This is TODAY folks. See you at 2:00 pm ET in the live chat!

Coming up tomorrow (Monday) at 2:00 pm ET on my YouTube channel. @emilydufton.bsky.social will be joining me and we would love to see you in the live chat! www.youtube.com/live/LvGd1eD...

My boss

I find your lack of a migration strategy disturbing.... Cheers to all the archivists, librarians, and researchers spending their Friday fighting the good fight against file naming conventions like: final_final_v2_ACTUAL_FINAL.jpg.

I'm re-reading this one because it is such a good book. Grab a copy if you can!

I'm re-reading this one because it is such a good book. Grab a copy if you can!

Watching peers who have been on my YouTube channel previously get so big in the history field that I'm now embarrassed to ask them to come on my channel again. Oh, the joys of being a small creator. 😆

From Nixon’s methadone clinics to the 100k+ deaths of the fentanyl crisis. 📉 @emilydufton.bsky.social joins me on Monday to discuss her new book, Addiction, Inc. (UChicago Press), on how the US govt created, abandoned, and commercialized America’s treatment system. www.youtube.com/live/LvGd1eD...

Experimentation. Iteration. Time. These are pretty much the core ingredients of everything related to DATA BY DESIGN, and the cover is no exception. But now it is final and out there on the internet and also right here for you to see! Preorder at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618...

From Nixon’s methadone clinics to the 100k+ deaths of the fentanyl crisis. 📉 @emilydufton.bsky.social joins me on Monday to discuss her new book, Addiction, Inc. (UChicago Press), on how the US govt created, abandoned, and commercialized America’s treatment system. www.youtube.com/live/LvGd1eD...

A peaceful moment along Lake Ontario to cleanse your feed for a brief time

"At some point if the ship doesn’t turn around, maybe it will start taking on water or listing badly or hit an iceberg, or perhaps the iceberg has been there all along and is named Donald Trump."

Stoked to be presenting in Toronto next week at this conference. My presentation is entitled "Excessive Vision: Ambient War and the Collapse of Witnessing," and will show how conflict becomes a constant hum in the background of our digital lives.

I had @carlajeanstokes.bsky.social on my channel to discuss this fantastic book and honestly, you need to pick it up! Watch my chat with her here: www.youtube.com/live/OZ53Ihd...

Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), together with the FBI, Polish counterintelligence, and EU law enforcement agencies, has uncovered a large-scale cyber-espionage operation by Russia's military intelligence agency (GRU) targeting users in Ukraine, Europe, and the US via compromised Wi-Fi routers.

Stoked to be presenting in Toronto next week at this conference. My presentation is entitled "Excessive Vision: Ambient War and the Collapse of Witnessing," and will show how conflict becomes a constant hum in the background of our digital lives.

Yes, I'm a cat dad who puts treats in eggs so the cat can have an Easter egg hunt

Back on Facebook, a few people who consistently post their beer photos unfriended and blocked me for posting coffee photos. Apparently, it was an "attack" on them. Wow... Anyway, here's a flat white I had yesterday. 😄

Mail day from @uchicagopress.bsky.social. @emilydufton.bsky.social will be joining me on YouTube on 4/20 to discuss!

Mail day from @uchicagopress.bsky.social. @emilydufton.bsky.social will be joining me on YouTube on 4/20 to discuss!

Have you tried unplugging it for a moment and then plugging it back in?

I'm so grateful to have opportunities to host in-person events focused on history and the humanities. The pub was sold out last night! For someone who struggled with alcohol (almost 13 years sober), the best medicine for me is to feel useful. I hope to get more of these events on my schedule!

Zelenskyy on Russia's ultimatum: the Russians are demanding that Ukraine withdraw its troops from Donbas within two months.

This afternoon's reading from @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

Nixon didn't just declare war on drugs, he secretly launched the biggest addiction treatment program in American history. Methadone clinics. Federal funding. It worked. Then they buried it. Historian @emilydufton.bsky.social will join me on YouTube on 4/20 to discuss!

As a Jewish historian who works at a university, I think it’s great that an administration committed to destroying “the internal globalist enemy” which is staffed by groyper antisemites is collecting lists of Jews. Can’t see any potential downside here at all.

If "enhanced interrogation" was the 2000s way of saying torture without the guilt, "military operation" is the modern way of launching a war without the support of the people

Just finished a great conversation with @brookenewman.bsky.social. Watch it through the link below and grab a copy of her book in the description! www.youtube.com/live/pmtw3kA...

War on the Rocks brings together the best minds in strategy and defense. Join us in shaping the conversation.

Headed out for an afternoon of coffee and a walk along the Niagara River. It finally felt like spring today, so I wanted to soak up as much as I could before the weather turns cold again for a bit! You can see Fort Niagara over on the US side on the left of the picture.

Just finished a great conversation with @brookenewman.bsky.social. Watch it through the link below and grab a copy of her book in the description! www.youtube.com/live/pmtw3kA...

Bellingcat’s analysis of new footage from the Feb. 28 Minab school strike reveals that the area was hit by at least two separate waves of bombing. Read about our findings here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...