China’s Great Leap Forward caused a dramatic spike in child deaths— Child mortality rates in China have fallen from more than 20% in 1950 to less than 1% today. But this steady progress was interrupted in the late 1950s during the “Great Leap Forward”.

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

But instead they just don’t care. They don’t really bother to push back. They don’t worry how it will be perceived. They know they can do anything, no matter how bad, and their insensate numbskull supporters will never question it, nor will the opposition or media ever truly push the issue.

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Orbán’s Ceaușescu moment. Booed at his own rally, ranting and pointing fingers. His final message: Ukraine hatred.

"Some 2.1 million Gazans are now crowded into less than half the area they lived in before the war, trying to survive in harsh conditions amid rubble they cannot clear."

We see this in every war, images and videos that serve as stark reminders of how life carries on, even in a war zone. An Iranian girl plays on swings at a beach in the city of Bandar Abbas as smoke rises into the air from a nearby naval base that was targeted by US strikes.

I’m going to wheatpaste this article to telephone poles until everyone reads it

Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

Today, the UN General Assembly voted to condemn the transatlantic slave trade as a crime against humanity. ➡️ 123 countries voted in favour. ➡️ 52 abstained. ➡️ 3 voted against: USA, Israel, Argentina. 🤐

The globalization of double standards through right-wing autocrats really makes you wonder about the short-term disadvantages of norms-bound behavior.

A week ago, @vdeminstitute.bsky.social published its latest annual report. A record 41% of the world’s population lives in countries undergoing autocratization. Yet aside from outlets like Guardian, ZEIT, SRF, media coverage across Europe has been strikingly limited. Why? www.srf.ch/news/interna...

With 11 other colleagues, we are launching a new online seminar series about Latin America in global history on Zoom. Here's the program for 2026. First meeting with @svenbeckert.bsky.social on Apr 10 at 4pm CET. All welcome. Link in program below, website to follow soon.

Remarkable story from Denmark's nat'l broadcaster. "When Danish soldiers were flown to Greenland in January...they brought explosives so they could destroy, among other things, the runways in Nuuk & Kangerlussuaq [to] prevent US mil aircraft from landing" www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

There was a time when this guy was actually a reasonably serious commentator on economic policy. Like Nate Silver, he decided to take the mask off, & it's just incredibly ugly now.

1/30 Pourquoi l’article du Figaro (18 mars 2026) signé Paul-François Paoli est-il une attaque ABSOLUMENT SCANDALEUSE contre Johann Chapoutot, Nicolas Offenstadt, Gérard Noiriel… et contre la recherche universitaires en général. ⤵️

You spent the entirety of Biden’s presidency calling him a warmonger for supporting Ukraine.

📢 We are accepting submissions for issue 11.2 of Global Histories: A Student Journal! Please complete your submission by March 31, 2026 🗓️ For more details, see our website: www.globalhistories.com/index.php/GH... #GHSJ #callforpaper #globalhistory #history

Really sorry to hear about Ricardo Pérez Monfort‘s passing, who I remember as an untiringly curious and original scholar and a real mensch. He went too early.

It's very likely that an oil shock helped to crater housing production in the 1970s and could be about to do so again. publiccomment.blog/p/the-housin...

North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.

We are quantifying this exact pattern and find: Israelis double as likely to be described using humanizing frames. Palestinians overwhelmingly described wrt infrastructure damage. Palestinians 6X more likely to be discussed in relation to their govt. Israelis paired with govt 5% of the time.

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

i think most people who follow me are already with me on this, but here's my full case for why accountability is necessary & how i think we should lobby for it www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/abolish-ice

A problem with history is that all of it is inevitable once it's occurred.

"Hey Kurds, it's the United States. Remember us, from all the betrayals? Anyhoo, would love it if you all could march into this thresher for us. Let us know."

Wichtige Hinweise zur Mitgliederdatei. Die Recherche, bspw. zu Familienangehörigen, ist aufschlussreich. #GeschichteStudieren #ArchivArbeit

En guise de représailles, Dubaï parachute 3000 influenceurs sur Téhéran https://www.legorafi.fr/2026/03/03/en-guise-de-represailles-dubai-parachute-3000-influenceurs-sur-teheran/

Inhumane, horrifying, disgusting

The newly-appointed head of Iran's IRGC, Ahmad Vahidi, is wanted in Argentina for his role in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center, which killed 85 people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-l...

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Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

The strike on Iran is described as a joint Israeli-American operation. Source: N12 News

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

This shit makes me so angry. Zionism is *not* a religious belief, though there are absolutely religious zionists whose religion informs their Zionism. I know that, being one myself.

Postdoc-Stelle am @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social ! zzf-potsdam.de/chancen/stel...

What is child stunting — and how has it changed over the last 200 years? Stunting means being too short for one’s age due to chronic undernutrition and disease in early life. It’s one of the clearest markers of cumulative deprivation in childhood. 1)

A man was choked on the floor of a Charlotte restaurant by Border Patrol agents — and thousands of Americans invented a knife to justify it. My newest oped on on the lies Americans tell themselves to excuse state violence. zeteo.com/p/ice-migran...

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

Turkish state TV just aired a scene where an Ottoman prince slaughters Jewish merchants on screen while the Khaybar chant plays in the background. This is new territory — even for TRT. I wrote about what it means, and why almost nobody in Turkey noticed or cared.

A 65% year-on-year increase in Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowships! And not this applicants fault, but these are the predictable effects of A) the continuing overproduction of PhD´s; B) austerity in many European universities; and C) the collapse of the US and UK research systems.

Far-right Alternative for Germany embroiled in nepotism scandal - #AfD is accused of adopting a “clan-like structure" as the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt exploits shamelessly the state and diverts taxpayers’ money to its own families”. www.ft.com/content/0d63... via @FT #FarRight #Corruption #DonaldTrump

Trump's racist video depicting the Obamas as apes wasn't a mistake—it's part of a pattern. From DHS posting neo-Nazi recruitment material to erasing slavery exhibits, white nationalism has become official government policy. My latest in @theunpopulist.net

Why do otherwise rational people disagree about the same evidence? Our new paper finds that group membership is a deeply rooted influence on how we form beliefs, leading even preschoolers to bias their evidential standards and form inaccurate beliefs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wie das Valley investiert Elon Musk reaffirms Republican Party ties with $10mn in donations - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

"Up to 380 people may have drowned attempting to cross the Mediterranean last week". The West's normalisation of the mass death of black Africans (because that is predominantly who these people are) will never be less than devastating.

It’s precisely those refugees who filed the correct paperwork who are most likely to be targeted by the regime. The fact that their presence is documented makes it easy to use them to fulfill arrest quotas. They ‘Had Done Everything Right.’ ICE Detained Them Anyway. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

Our analysis at @bellingcat.com on the killing of Alex Pretti breaks down the video evidence. He never reached for his gun. Agents sprayed/tackled him while his hands were up. He was disarmed before he was shot. The first shot came from an agent firing at him. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...