Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

As a colleague mentioned yesterday, Gamergate is one of the five most significant developments in US politics since the Cold War

At @leadstories.com we've been debunking a stream of these. Seems like a network operating out of Vietnam churning out dozens of versions of the same stories using the same AI prompts but with different celebrities and locations inserted.

I wrote something for The Nation about how Republican style has changed over the last fifty years. But first, let me tell you a short story. 🧵 www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Not a single elected dem is even going to come remotely close to what Lee and a whole bunch of elected GOP officials did. They’re all going to express sympathy and condemn political violence and we’re of course going to get a billion different “both sides” articles in the coming weeks

Two Democratic legislators were shot, along with their spouses. Even their dog was shot. One had to dive on top of their child to protect them. Trump didn’t attend the funeral. There was no widespread condemnation of political violence. The culture must change and gun control is long overdue

> "This video will find you when you need it the most" > look inside > "you must feel lost/sad/anxious" > "pee pee poo poo 4:30AM cold shower/work out/{insert your generic advice}" > "do good things don't do bad things" I hope the life will force you to get a real job, preferably soon.

Ogni tanto sono un po' perplesso dalle scelte che fa Il Post, ma poi mi ricordo che pagano anche gente come @danieleraineri.bsky.social e quindi dai, rinnoviamolo questo abbonamento: www.ilpost.it/2025/07/24/s...

I feel like the left in the US polarized itself into willful ignorance on military policy and entirely ceded the foreign policy of it to the right because the military was viewed as de facto a right-wing tool and all use of military force as imperialistic

It's year 2301: we've built a Dyson ring around the Sun, interstellar travel will soon become commercial, and Eastern European parliaments are still fu*king with their respective anti-corruption bureaus.

Today, Ukraine saw its first mass protest since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Demonstrators gathered to demand President Zelensky veto bill №12414, which was passed by 263 MPs in the Verkhovna Rada on 22 July. Video by @ukrpravda_news

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

When the historians of centuries future assess 'American civilization,' and I think what I would want them to remember about us - a man on the moon, the internet, the defeat of the confederacy, Norman Borlaug, Norman Borlaug a second time for emphasis. And we beat the Nazis into the ground.

Whether it’s Joe Biden mistakenly calling the president of Egypt the president of Mexico or Donald Trump mistakenly arresting the wrong people and sending them to foreign gulags, both sides have made newsworthy errors.

When SV tech nerds talk about needing to “adapt or die” they’re actually culturally appropriating that term from us.

If you follow myself or any number of defense posters, you’d know CENTCOM is something of a meme. But there comes a point when meme becomes reality, sucking in resources in pursuit of increasingly pointless and dubious objectives all the while very real threats continue to fester. My latest⬇️

“The Finnish defence system has many quite unique features that would be hard to replicate in other contexts and therefore aren’t directly exportable. However, the basics of what generally makes people want to defend their country apply quite universally:”

It creates the persistent irony that as a research field, military history is stronger than it has ever been. *If* your department has a military historian, the mil-hist you get is much better than it was 20, 30 years ago. But the chances in the 'if' dice roll haven't changed in decades.

Ukrainian refugees boosted Poland’s GDP by 2.7% last year while not increasing unemployment or pushing down wages, finds a report by the UN refugee agency and Deloitte. "Whoever thinks refugees are a burden on the economy should think again," says @unhcr.org.

Fellas😓 Fundraiser stuck, we need only €320 to get a pickup😓 Can we?

Gonna do every newspaper in America a favor and write their headline. It reads: TRUMP DISCUSSES FOREIGN CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR AMERICAN CITIZENS WITH BUKELE There you go. Don't even need to credit me.

The Trump administration is now canceling people's Social Security Numbers, treating them as if they are legally dead. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

Really looking forward to Jeff Bezos' forceful public condemnation of Trump's tariffs since he is so committed to "free markets" that he made a rule that every opinion piece published in the Washington Post must support "free markets" For some reason, Bezos hasn't said anything yet. Must be busy.

It’s time to remake foreign policy by putting America first. I’ll start by putting American power behind Russia’s negotiating position. by Pete Hegseth

Bureaucracy, famously not important in war

Full comic here: smbc-comics.com/comic/strong-3

NBC: “Trump is preparing an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education… he cannot unilaterally abolish a federal agency without the approval of Congress.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

Just a reminder that diversity is, in fact, a source of strength, that diverse and inclusive armies outperform exclusionary ones on modern battlefields, and that this anti-DEI witch hunt will actually harm cohesion in the US military I'm gonna send Pete a copy of my book

⚡️ US and German intel thwarted a Russian plot to assassinate Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger. The scheme was part of Russia’s broader efforts to target defense leaders in Europe and disrupt support for Ukraine.

This guy is tough to compete with

“Birth tourism: you’ve got to hand it to the fascists, they have a point” “Lebensraum: how could we cut a deal on this good fiscal policy?” “Pete Hegseth: he may be an alcoholic abusive Nazi, but his ties are on point” “Canada: sovereignty is for losers, eh?” What a couple of weeks for the NYT 🤦‍♂️

Looking at the first week of the new administration, it certainly seems like the theme of this new administration is going to be "there is a reason you don't do that." There's a reason you don't appoint violent alcoholics to run the department of defense...

This is a big deal: "crime against humanity of persecution on gender grounds" #CrimesAgainstHumanity #GenderPersecution

Obligatory self-plug, I wrote about this back in 2021 (foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/19/u...). The distinction is not artificial, it occurs along the same lines in many languages. What matters in this moment is that the warrior is, by his very nature, authoritarian; only the soldier protects freedom.

🟠 While American influencers are in shock of deleting #TikTok Texty.org.ua wants to remind you about why TikTok is a AI and disinformation dump. See our research on how #TikTok — one of the biggest social media now — become a part of big disinformation companies of Russia during the war.

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

well, if this is real, I think we're seeing how collective delusion interacts with individual mental illness in tragic ways. which is one reason why media shouldn't fuel collective delusions

Being too high and mighty for propaganda has been a disaster for liberalism

Including the interview with @katecrawford.bsky.social - and the terrific idea of AI as a “metabolic technology”

Steam Winter Sale is a great opportunity to add more games made in Ukraine to your library and support their developers! You can find hundreds of Ukrainian games on the Ukrainian Games Festival 2024 page, which we ran this summer. store.steampowered.com/sale/ukraini...

The UN must finally act decisively and send a peacekeeping mission of psychiatrists to Russia

Yeap we might have missiles flying all over the place and yet check out how pretty the new day is starting over Kyiv

Any book titled "the hidden history of X" tells me there's probably entire academic conferences dedicated to X.