British hivemind, do tell: which shortbread do you like best? (not homemade, store-bought)

Ein sich entfesselnder Kapitalismus hat die Demokratie in den USA faktisch pulverisiert. Auch hier wird alles, was nicht unmittelbar Gewinne für Kapitalisten verspricht geschliffen. Die Kabinette verstehen sich nicht mehr als Schirm und Diener des Volkes, sondern als dienstbare Büttel des Kapitals.

I will Continue To fight Until they Take my body To the crematory. Until all the Stars in me Go out. #poetry

I've blogged my brief take on Omar El Akkad's book _One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This_ at markstoneman.com/2025/12/07/one….

I took this photo before cleaning off the car and moving it for the snowplow last Wednesday. Crosspost from https://markstoneman.com/2025/12/07/i-took-this-photo-before.html

DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚

Our longest yearly book list ever! Thirty six books by contingent historians for you to read, gift, and request for purchase at your library!

Republicans in rural Georgia are voting for Democrats for the first time in their lives in order to stop expansion of data centers and escalation of their utility bills, leading to landslide upsets www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

To each friend of Ukraine who stands with us in this fight - thank you. We are not alone. Thank you for your voice and your position.

Heutransport mit der Krätze im Schwarzwald um 1900 upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

I'm on a train to London to speak at the @theajruk.bsky.social's Conference on Teaching and Learning About The Holocaust. Ask me anything. ajr.org.uk/event/confer...

The Sons of Confederate Veterans in Georgia tried to block it, but a new museum will open on December 2 at Stone Mountain to tell the story of the largest Confederate monument in the world. The museum will explore the monument and its connection to white supremacy. 🗃️ www.reuters.com/world/us/bat...

I signed up for Proton Mail for the email. It was never very good, but lately it’s been getting in my way and even undoing my work. Worse, the company shows no signs of trying to improve the experience. Instead they add things I neither want or need: AI, a crypto wallet, documents…

⚡️ 'Gift for Putin' — Czech public raises money for 1 Flamingo missile for Ukraine, Fire Point to provide 2. The additional funds raised will be distributed based on a public vote.

I am currently filling out a Gantt chart that requires me to declare what I will be doing in October 2030. I would like to point out that I still haven’t decided what I am having for dinner this evening.

NYPD taking photos of Columbia faculty during our vigil for CU students seized by ICE

Very much enjoying listening to the lovely @drjoannepaul.bsky.social with @katecarp.bsky.social on @draftingthepast.bsky.social. And now I want to know what the best books were that she read on life-writing and writing biographies! 😊 🗃️

Canadian denied entry into the U.S. to visit grandparents https://share.google/AlWdQZ4J971UmanVg #uspol #canada

Capped off a dark, cold day with whole wheat blueberry pancakes and applesauce. Made an octogenarian happy.

NEW — Columnist Bella BAHHS is back with a message for everyone joining the resistance in Chicago and beyond. What some non-Black Chicagoans are now experiencing is what Black folks have faced for generations: policing as a tool to protect power and profit. thetriibe.com/2025/11/the-...

"Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic than processes which reward, say, educational attainment." what i mean what how can you what

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

One of the random things I collect are yeast advertisements from the 1800s. So many "yeast cures" that promise to cure all kinds of things, including death. digital.lib.ecu.edu/20998

Y’all should definitely avoid those AI web browsers. trib.al/66aw6qP

Thoughts on designing social web spaces by Mark Bernstein: alistapart.com/article/design… #SocialWeb

It's snowing.

I'm obsessed with this stat: "with more than 4,000 degree-granting institutions and fewer than 130 university presses in the United States and Canada, this vital [publishing] infrastructure is directly supported by less than 3 percent of the institutions it benefits"

Peter Berkery, executive director of @aupresses.bsky.social, with a letter in CHE on unis that close their UPs becoming "free riders" in the scholarly ecosystem--extracting without putting in. (Headline is sort of misleading--the problem is unis not UPs) www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

Great write-up on the Mamdani victory: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Und auch die Anhänge unserer Folge 167 "Lügen bis der Arzt kommt", wie immer gekonnt kommentiert von @stefanschaak.bsky.social, sind jetzt online. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu5h...

Windy day. Went most of it without internet, except for what my phone could muster.

ok but like 9 more gets us to 1000 total for this campaign which is would be wild bsky.app/profile/thef...

Do the social web a solid and follow @ap.brid.gy. That bridges your Bluesky account to Mastodon and other parts of the Fediverse, requiring nothing of you otherwise. When those of us with a bridged account repost something of yours, it can show up in the Fediverse and be reposted from there.

open.spotify.com/episode/6WPS... Schöne 2. Moderation der @russlandwatcher.de von @thomasleurs.bsky.social : Lieblingssatz 'Die Rache der 🇺🇦 wird kommen und sie wird fürchterlich sein.' Und mein Lieblingssatz von @stefanschaak.bsky.social : 'ptn sitzt fest im Sattel, aber das Pferd ist tot.' /Ch

This is one of the most important contributions to the study of the US Armywritten in the last decade. 80 percent of Black GI’s were service troops, who played an unheralded and important role in not only winning the war, but changing racial attitudes in the army. kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700639007/

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Russian Corpses: https://markstoneman.com/2025/11/03/according-to-atesh-military-movement.html Russian corpses so numerous in Pokrovsk area that they are being stored (or hidden?) in a meat processing plant.

My niece, all of 12 years old, read my article about the government shutdown and cancellation of SNAP funding She has now planned a rally for next week and is fundraising for the local food bank and encouraging others to donate. This kid man… she’s incredible.

11/2/2025- Fifth Avenue www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/no...

PorchFest in Adams Morgan is absolutely rocking! Musicians, closed streets, alcohol = success!

I forgot to mention that a short edition of Stoneman's Corner went out on Nov. 19th: Newsletter: Snapshots, Great Depression, Siege Humor, stoneman.page/2025/10/19/new…

Maybe a logical consequence of the decades-old practice of trying minors (of color) as adults? If I'm not mistaken, white terror in the Jim Crow era didn't give a damn about age either.

Check out this new special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History focused on "Immigration and Citizenship" edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...

Nearly done reading the English translation of Russia at War, partially written by @anderspucknielsen.dk and the conclusion is that if you have any interest in the war or are working in this context, read it. www.logicofwar.com/russia-at-wa... @corporalfrisk.com

Me and @janus.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: "If lawmakers really cared about kids, they’d stop trying to take away their health care ... Instead, many top Democrats in Congress are trying to help Trump censor the internet. And by speaking out, it’s the kids who are protecting us from them."