PhDs and ECRs are invited to join our next PhD and a Cup of Tea Online seminar! 📍 Jewish slave labour and the SS concentration camp system through a spatial lens - Part of our latest series, Spatial Histories of the Holocaust 📅 March 10, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm 💻 Online Book now:

Reminder: No government ever builds concentration camps it does not intend to fill.

A plea to organizers of edited volumes that include essays from junior scholars: Please remember that they need this publication. Years-long delays are harmful to them, and they don't dare pull out to submit to a journal instead.

Taught a class on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion today, and every one of my students said they've seen content on TikTok that comes directly from it, without knowing before today what the source was.

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

Essential reading, from @juliefrancella.com today. In meditation this morning, I saw being in the US as like being disgraced, culturally impoverished relatives of our ancestors from locations all around the world who still have their own cultures intact... juliefrancella.substack.com/p/all-my-rel...

HELL yea

[belated] HELL yea

On this day in 1779, Captain James Cook learned the hard way about desecrating Indigenous burial sites. Also. Happy Valentine’s Day!

In our book Holocaust Memory in the Digital Mediascape, we analyzed the neo-Nazi commemorative marches and civil society push back in Dresden. We also focused on the activist photography of PM Cheung who regularly documents far-right demonstrations. Available here: www.flickr.com/photos/pm_ch...

UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper: “Sudan is the worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century. “I spoke to an aid worker who has worked in conflict zones for 20 years. She said she had never seen sexual violence on this scale. “

Happy Death of James Cook day to those who celebrate. On 14 February 1779 British explorer Captain James Cook was killed as he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief (aliʻi nui) of the island of Hawaii, and hold him hostage for the return of a cutter which Hawaiians had stolen.

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

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If you are into a seriously overtime talk about the war and genocide in Yugoslavia during World War II, here's a webinar I've done recently for @arizonastateuni.bsky.social's School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies.

Lisa Mullins @wbur.org's “All Things Considered” spoke with Rachel Perry, art historian/curator of HBI’s exhibition, “Who Will Draw Our History? Women’s Graphic Narratives of the Holocaust, 1944-1944”, Kniznick Gallery @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social. #jewsky #holocaust www.wbur.org/upnext/2026/...

TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer. (I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)

Yeah, I'm part of something bigger than myself. I own shares in a Vanguard index fund.

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Gramsci once observed "the old is dying and the new struggles to be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear," and I'm not sure there would be any better encapsulation of our society's comorbidities than this headline.

Are you an emerging scholar seeking to share your research with a wider audience? @conteurohistory.bsky.social has a new blog called "New Voices" that highlights research by advanced grad students + early career on European history 1914-present. Submit your work! tinyurl.com/2s45996j

I don't mean to seem alarmed, but it appears Google's book search function is, just...gone. In a sane country it would be a huge deal, front page news, that a privately owned utility that millions researches, from journalists to scholars, rely on every day to advance knowledge can just disappear.

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

When anyone from SCTV dies it’s like 30 people have died. Every character they created was as alive as anyone else you’ve ever met.

Dr. Ayana Johnson is, as always, excellent. @ayanaeliza.bsky.social

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content

LIKE.HE.WAS.A.DEER.

I think it’s important to remember that the shooting of Philando Castile happened in a Minneapolis suburb in 2016.

It’s so telling when people think Black and Brown people saying “this is what has been happening to us” is meant to make them care *less* about the victim and not a wakeup call that they should have cared *more* when it was happening to other people

Yes, Browning and Arendt illustrate these dynamics in European contexts. But Césaire told us in "Discourse on Colonialism" that slavery, colonialism, and imperialism led to indifference, surveillance, control, and violence. This is actually how the US system was created; it is working as intended.

UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:

I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

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The University of Vienna @univie.ac.at invites applications for at least 40 fully funded, 4-year doctoral positions. I am one of the potential supervisors. If you have an exciting, innovative PhD project on modern #JewishHistory, please feel free to apply: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket. He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War. Notice the suppressors 1/2

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Exactly this! People are observing and warning. Not protesting, for the most part. There have been protests, there will probably be more protests. But a lot of what is getting called protesting is actually observing or mutual aid.

it’s up to 126,000 unique visitors now. doing my best to keep my head above water with updates!

Animal agriculture is the single largest use of Earth's land. Yet it's rarely mentioned in eco reporting: only 1% of climate journalism even mentions diet change. Based on 10,696 U.S. climate articles (2022–2025): www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pop... @biologicaldiversity.org

ICE raids are not the first time this was made explicit. I think people downplay how much Jim Crow was not just about controlling Black people but it was also about controlling white people. If you thought racism was dumb and acted that way you could end up with a bomb in your home

The Hawaiian Kingdom on this day in 1893 was overthrown in a coup d'état against Queen Liliʻuokalani on Oahu. anticolonialhistory.com/event/13/

Check out this great talk by @linford.bsky.social on "Stolen Relations: Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas" at a recent @oieahc.bsky.social Digital Projects Coffeehouse. youtu.be/XquBsLNNhy0?...

🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”

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