Mark Stoneman

old roadside pictures (@roadside@tech.intersects.art) Attached: 1 image advance roofing space shuttle statue, side view, route 1, mims, florida, 1990

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The Situation, August 6, 2025

Their model of help is old-fashioned paternalism, and their ideal pater familias is a self-righteous bastard.

Map of most of Canada and USA showing wildfires and air quality. The fires are most prominent in central and western Cansda, and affected air quality can be seen especially from the Midwest eastward through the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway.

"New Normal" https://markstoneman.com/2025/08/04/114623.html #NH

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

"Here’s why you’re getting enshittified: we deliberately decided to stop enforcing competition laws."

– “You can’t fight enshittification,” Pluralistic, July 31, 2025, https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems

What Israel must do to stop the starvation in Gaza, right now ***

"The situation in Gaza is likely the most extreme example of politically–driven starvation in the 21st century... Conversations with senior experts in the field outline what must be done to stop the famine." @nirhasson.bsky.social at @haaretzcom.bsky.social. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

צדק לעודה العدالة لعودة

Justice for Odeh (Hadalin, murdered by settlers this week)
Demo against the killing and starvation of Gaza, Tel Aviv, today
Photo: ‪@arixegal.bsky.social‬

Fits in with their big bill. They might ought to tread more carefully.
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How am I holding up ? people often ask me. It’s a carefully curated sequence of delusional hope- blocking out - numbing , denial, - full out delusion - falling apart , burnout , despair - starting again.

In other words, i am Ukrainian in 2025.

At an economic history conference this week saw people using ChatGPT to write their papers and caught hallucinations on one presentation. At least they’re telling me who’s worth paying attention to.

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I had no idea there was a specialized team for that.

How Louisiana Built Trump’s Busiest ICE Deportation Hub ICE wants to make immigration enforcement as efficient as FedEx or Amazon. Louisiana was poised for this moment.

Framing a story about mass deportation around logistics and efficiency is macabre.
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Text Shot: Putin’s regime and its supporters would have us believe that Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine is purely defensive. This 1939 propaganda image by Heinrich Hoffmann and its accompanying caption offered a similarly cynical story in the run-up to Germany’s invasion of Poland. In this tall tale, Britain appeared as the aggressor, arming for no good reason. The giant anti-aircraft cannon was meant to suggest “monstrous” bellicosity.

Text shot of https://markstoneman.com/2025/07/30/nazi-propaganda-photo-and-caption.html

Image source:
NYPL Digital Collections, image ID 3946333, in the collection “Eye on the Reich: German propaganda photographs, 1939-1942.”

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Black and white photo of a large anti-aircraft cannon in peacetime with six uniformed men. It appears to be armored on all but the back side.

Cross-post title: Nazi Propaganda Photo and Caption Prefigure Putinesque Propaganda

Propaganda caption: "England lives in groundless fear of war. Their armaments are of monstrous proportions. Our picture shows the new English anti-aircraft [gun]."

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I’ve been trying out a web app for Mastodon called Phanpy. So far, so good. It might soon become my default.

To try it out, login with your own Mastodon account(s) at https://phanpy.social. Project details are at https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy.

The Canada-US softwood lumber trade dispute returns regularly according to the rythms of nature, like the life cycle of the cicada.

POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.

כאן חדשות on X: "המתווך של הממשל האמריקני מול חמאס: טראמפ מסכים להקמת מדינה פלסטינית | עדכונים שוטפים >>> https://t.co/iPpAnn137i @bayan_rabee" / X המתווך של הממשל האמריקני מול חמאס: טראמפ מסכים להקמת מדינה פלסטינית | עדכונים שוטפים >>> https://t.co/iPpAnn137i @bayan_rabee

Israeli news reporting that Trump mediator/envoy Bishara Bahbah told the Saudi 'Al-Hadath' that Trump had informed him of his agreement to Palestinian statehood, and that "the scenario of expelling Gazans from the Strip doesn't exist".
Who's to say with Trump, but it seems big. x.com/kann_news/st...

Excellent ICE response guide for academic library workers from the Library Freedom Project. Includes proactive defense prep as well as rapid response. Please RT, library friends. libraryfreedom.org/wp-content/u...

The print (VD17 12:667748V) captures the celebration of the coronation of Emperor Matthias in Frankfurt 1612. A crowded place can be seen with a fountain. The fountain offers white and red whine, the text says.

A detail from the print: a man collecting wine with his hat.

Another detail from the print: a man with a show in his hand, standing next to wine-drinkers on the fountain.

Among the many drinkers that celebrated the #earlymodern tradition of marking coronations with public fountains of free wine, red and white wine to be precise, these two from 1612 are my favourites: the one collecting wine with his hat, and the other one drinking from his shoe. Cheers, #skystorians

Finished reading Victoria Amelina, Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary (St. Martin’s Press, 2025). The author was killed before she could complete it, but it is still an important little book. ... https://markstoneman.com/2025/07/20/finished-reading-victoria-amelina-looking.html

I only trained in history, not the law, but the Bill of Rights doesn't specify "citizens only", if I recall correctly. Habeas corpus and due process have even longer histories (which is why the Bush administration's Guantanamo crap bothered me so much).

The new solar: what colour panel would you like? Don't forget to consider cost and efficiency, too.

NEW: Solar panels are multiplying - and diversifying.

This is renewable energy in Technicolor.

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About to haggle over the costs to reproduce photographs made (after the war) by the Wehrmacht’s “embedded” photographer infamous for taking pictures of mass executions. German image rights agencies & rights holders continue to profit off these ppl’s work, charging 130-250 EUR per image to print.

Additional Military Bases in New Jersey, Indiana Set to Host Migrant Detention Camps Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, colloquially referred to as "Fort Dix," in New Jersey and Camp Atterbury in Indiana, both relatively low-profile installations, have been identified as housing sites.

The Department of Homeland Security is planning to house migrants at two new military installations as the Trump administration increasingly turns to the armed forces to bolster its aggressive immigration crackdown.

Story by @stevenbeynon.bsky.social

Bad for the military, possibly more humane than these for-profit ventures

Trump Says ‘I Absolutely Love’ That Stephen Colbert Got ‘Fired’ and ‘I Hear Jimmy Kimmel Is Next’ Trump weighed in on CBS's announced cancelation of Stephen Colbert's late-night talk show and is seemingly hopeful Jimmy Kimmel will be next to get axed.

again, no mention at all that the incoming new owners of CBS are the Ellison family, billionaire friends of Trump, who are already shaping the trajectory of the new CBS via Skydance execs before the deal ink is dry

that's apparently just not relevant enough to mention

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

The solidarity that Rümeysa Öztürk and her fellow detainees showed each other in a for-profit ICE center is stunningly moving (& I love that she wrote this to fulfill a promise to her new Armenian aunty). The treatment they received is completely horrifying.