"But that is precisely why this stupidity has to be rooted out, because it makes whoever encounters it stupid." - Bertolt Brecht

Unsere Ausstellung "Reinhard Heydrich. Karriere und Gewalt", soeben abgebaut im Stadtmuseum Halle, ist jetzt unterwegs nach Norddeutschland: Auf Einladung des Schleswig-Holsteinischen Landtags ist sie ab 28. Mai im Landeshaus #Kiel zu sehen. Eröffnung am 27.05.26: www.landtag.ltsh.de/aktuelles/ve...

you'd think that the fact the president of the united states is completely fucking insane would be a bigger news story

I love these long nights.

Fun event with friends!

I am so happy I renewed my passport last year ...

Perhaps now is the time for JD to speak with AfD leaders in Germany ...

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Can't remember the last time I felt this excited about an election in a country I was actually living in at the time. It *could* have been the 2023 Polish ones but I had just moved away.

💥Polls closed in Hungary. No exit poll, but 21 Research Institute’s Apr 8–11 exclusive survey for @telexhu.bsky.social shows the opposition Tisza party leading Orbán's Fidesz 55–38, with the far-right Our Homeland around the 5% threshold. Tisza is on the verge of a parliamentary supermajority.

All eyes on Hungary.

We can’t unring the bell of an American president threatening to do genocide

Hague time.

My brain is particularly fixating today on the specific group of enablers who said "this may be wildly illegal and wrong in principle, but I like that he's doing it to someone I hate, so let's give him a pass this time and see where it goes."

Schadenfreude

Looking forward to this event next week!

Glad to be of service, Strudel.

Such a vile person. What a disgrace.

I’ve missed baking sourdough. Good to be back.

“If it fits, I sits.”

My amazing friend and colleague just finished a portrait of Waffles and Strudel. I love it! 🙂

“What are we going to co-author today?!”

Happy #Caturday

“I had a hard day.”

Book proposal submitted 🙂

In the words of Jed Bartlet, my actual president, “what’s next?”

Article submitted.

I am more productive when my editor lets me write in peace 🐈‍⬛

“Surely no one will find me on the basement steps.”

"[He] was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his 'ideas' almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a country store. …"

For anyone who has lived through syllabus wars over whether Western Civ should exist in a history department:

My editors and I are working overtime.

"If a list of the 'achievements' of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus is compiled early in our legislative budget session, it would read as a litany of failure, embarrassment, venality, hubris, deceit, greed, shame, and outright idiocy."

First she came for the puppy dogs, and I did not speak out, because I was not a puppy dog.

"If there be nothing new ..."

**Thrilled** to learn that the most corrupt administration in U.S. history now has all of my information. What could go wrong?!

No better way to spend a Friday.

The scholar at work.

An exceptional piece by my good friend @benjamincarterhett.bsky.social "The failure of Western leaders to recognize and address sources of humiliation a century ago led to global cataclysm. Without a plan to address the grievances festering today, the world could be headed down a similar path."

Proud of Minnesota!

"Nothing is more dishonorable for a civilized people than to let itself be 'governed' without resistance by an irresponsible clique of rulers devoted to dark instincts...."

My editors patiently await my pending draft.

Now: With double digit windchill, thousands marching in Downtown Minneapolis during a general strike. Marching and protest against the actions of ICE. Prince dance party outside First Avenue and the Prince mural - where there’s been many Prince dance parties before. Minneapolis January 23, 2026

Historian Thomas Nipperdey on Kaiser Wilhelm II: "... superficial, hasty, restless, unable to relax, without any deeper level of seriousness, without any desire for hard work or drive to see things through to the end, ..."

"Weimar cautions us to be wary of those people as well. What comes next can be very bad, even worse than imaginable."

"Hass auf Juden, Linke, Homosexuelle – Stolz auf Volk, Nation und Tradition. Nationalsozialistische Ideologie wird bei jungen Männern populärer. Wieso radikalisieren sie sich, und wie reagiert der Staat?" Sehenswert & eindrücklich: www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio...

""Fascist violence was neither random nor indiscriminate."

Angry, disgusted, and embarrassed. #FCKFASCISTS

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