New at Can We Still Govern? "I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government." Please read, share, help. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...

Saw a NION poster in the wild last week in a woman owned and run indy business with all women working there.

It’s wild to me how saying this same thing 20 years ago, even 10, was regarded as hysterical conspiracy mongering, even when you pointed out all the clear historical precedent

What does the fox say? No to taking part in 🇳🇴‘s selection for #Eurovision this year Also the band who half the internet thought were also behind Give That Wolf A Banana in 2022 until it turned out to be Ben from A1.

New post from me. Here is my personal touchstone for evaluating proposed legislation regarding young people and smartphones, social media, age verification, and potential bans. It's called the Darnella test. Who's Darnella? You already know. heatherburns.tech/2026/01/16/t...

If you’ve seen this term online a lot (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender - also describes a lot of strategies of genocide denial), this is who came up with it:

An excellent piece that acknowledges that the West Midlands Police made mistakes, that there was antisemitic violence in Amsterdam, and that despite both of these facts, the case for banning Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was - to use a footballing term - very clear and very obvious.

‘Trump’s seemingly renewed desire to take Greenland has made headlines around the world … Yet for most of its residents, this is not a talking point or a piece of content from which they can move on or swipe away. It is existential’

And off on tour this goes as well. Good luck with publisher’s reviewers, little book.

Hello, ten more cities that will have to police #Eurovision boycott protests every year at present? www.eurovision.com/stories/euro... All in Western Europe. Only Milan comes close to the South. 🇪🇸 doesn’t get one. Presumably also ties artists into political expression restrictions for longer?

The full list of World Cup qualifying nations swept up in the US visa ban - Iran, Uzbekistan, Jordan, Algeria, Cape Verde, Egypt, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Tunisia, Haiti, Brazil, Colombia & Uruguay. 15 out of 42. + Bosnia, Albania & Kosovo, who are still in the UEFA play-offs.

There’s 40% off all books on @manchesterup.bsky.social’s website until 31 Jan, including Race & The Yugoslav Region and Off White - automatic at checkout for most places, North American costumers use discount code JAN40

Thread. [the shorthand about her that is often uplifted on social media always does her a disservice and also does Rosa Parks one too. Glad for this thread]

This is one of the Royal Observer Corps posts where two or three observers would monitor blasts and fallout around the UK in the event of a nuclear war. Instead, we're all watching climate change unfold on our phones and TVs.

Since we’re doing @historyworkshop.org.uk anniversary tributes, thank you to them for asking me to do this post about whether there’s a radical history of #Eurovision in 2024, which has sparked off a good few conversations. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/music-sound/...

How has the legacy of History Workshop Journal inspired our own editorial collective? @beckierutherford.bsky.social, @inoutofpractice.bsky.social, and @marralsham.bsky.social consider their historical practice and relationship to radical history.

Conchita Wurst steps back from #Eurovision, the year 🇦🇹 is hosting again: ‘My connection to the ESC remains - as part of my history, not as the place for my next steps.’ The singer who dedicated her 2014 win to ‘everyone who believes in a future of peace and freedom’ has left the contest behind.

Between Helsinki in 2007 and Liverpool in 2023, every #Eurovision host city designed a key for a special ring to be passed on by each host. 2009’s had Moscow on it, which turned out more sensitive after 2022. From 2024, hosts started exchanging one-off ‘friendship gifts’ instead.

Here’s the thing: protests in the U.S. this past year have been large and will continue to get larger. But the most important organizing from a social mvmts perspective is the extensive local, in person, and deeply connected organizing around community protection.

In 1982, inspired by the work of MO the National Lesbian and Gay survey began, it sought to capture what everyday life was like for queer people living in the UK. For our latest open call we're continuing the work of NLGS and asking what does it mean to be queer every day? #lgbtqhistory

My esteemed colleague Vincent Lemire on the Israeli decision to cancel his visa and ban him from entry. The government which has banned foreign journalists from entering Gaza for more than 2 years is now banning historians from visiting Jerusalem.

David Bowie once described the internet as "exhilarating and terrifying". On the 10th anniversary of his death here's what's changed: politics has turned upside down – post-truth, division and nationalism replacing optimism, all driven by algorithms ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Also how I found this.

From a country where the #Eurovision grand final had a 97.8% viewing share in 2025.

New blog post! Joshua Farrell-Molloy explains how Irish #far-right groups use #masculinity and republican symbols to frame themselves as defenders of #Ireland. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Goddess bless and keep historians safe. For anyone confused about the status quo of governments and violent domination and conquest, read this about the history of Ft. Snelling and its connection to Minnesota today.

Here, I reflect on my experiences of trying to get African food catered for university events that I have organised. I also explain why providing edible Jollof (or other international food) in UK HE is a vital decolonising matter in an educational setting. folukeafrica.com/decolonising...

a beautiful essay about reading what you love and what gets you through

‘The Trump administration is flooding our senses without regard for coherence, in the hope we exhaust ourselves trying to make sense of something that’s completely contradictory or willfully absurd. At which point we become numb to it all, which is the ultimate goal’

Check out our New Aims & Scope. Get in touch to discuss ideas for Special Issues on the relationships between war and culture. We welcome submissions from diverse fields. We are keen to support & amplify the work of scholars from underrepresented fields/backgrounds. #AcademicSky #IRSky

Incredibly important new study from Cal Horton @fiercemum.bsky.social - the first to look at England's post-Cass child/adolescent gender clinics. Dr Horton found patients and families are being actively harmed, with one young person describing appointments as "the worst thing I’ve ever experienced”.

New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance. Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...

Useful reporting from Translucent. When we’ve suggested that trans women don’t pose a risk, people have argued that’s because of under reporting. These FOI requests suggest that might not be the case www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almo...

My favourite thing about this isn’t even the plausible (for once) links to Boudicca but how excited they are that the boar still has its ears 🐗

And obviously one of them is carrying a tablet about some copper from Ea-nasir.

The last week of our History of Freedom module isn’t *quite* ‘the @historyworkshop.org.uk week’, but it’s getting there, thanks to so many articles that help teach ♀️/ 🏳️‍🌈/ ♿ activism in late c20 🇬🇧…

And that someone in Danish secret services is, or should be, red-teaming what you do to secure Marienborg if everything suddenly goes 24 February.

In the time since the first edition of this book appeared in April 2024, I have realised there could be a more specifically ancient literary curse: “May your book prove timely...” I’m still on my Christmas break, so here’s something I wrote specially for the Spanish edition of 47 Borders

File under, we never quite know what's coming next. One of my favourite embassy reports. The UK ambassador in East Berlin reporting in after the fall of the Wall...

"I first stumbled into Ballroom as a queer teenager who’d spent years being bullied. "The scene in Wales was the first place where I didn’t have to hide." www.wearequeeraf.com/lessons-from...

Today I learned that Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations are arguably a byproduct of European integration.

More gems from the family archive of John and Anya Berger, as discovered and compiled by their daughter Katya. Here, on her uncredited contribution to the concept of ways of seeing. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/12...

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

While working in stationer’s in early 2000s, made Keith Wood (🇮🇪 international rugby hard man of the time) jump by coming up behind him and asking if he needed any help with envelopes. #RichmondProblems

Out today: a major new essay by former Artforum editor David Velasco, fired over a pro-Palestine open letter, surveying 2 years of turmoil in the art world, which was "practically designed to celebrate and aestheticize every rebellion" -- except Gaza. www.equator.org/articles/how...

This 'crusadercore' aesthetic and its fascist connections has been in my radar for a long time through its connection to the @crusaderkings.com fan-base. But what I found striking reading this and looking at their examples is how seamlessly the ideology shifts between multiple-choice bigotries.

Yes. This. Grr. (See also Greek!) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I wrote about campaigners trying to save Kyiv's rich architectural heritage. They face obstacles: Russian bombs, unscrupulous developers, corrupt officials and hostile or indifferent politicians. “We are trying to live like normal people despite the war," one said www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

‘To be a speculative fiction writer today is to see all the radical ideas and groundbreaking technologies you’ve been thinking about for decades get twisted into gnarled, soulless facsimiles by big businesses and so-called thought leaders... We have never needed real visionaries more than we do now’

Some thoughts on the Levy Review: - it's mostly but not entirely okay - if you're in England, opt out of data collection - it avoids confronting the biggest problems - it ignores 15 years of health research - there are clear examples of better practice - move trans health to primary care already!