@pizzohistorian.bsky.social
All pics and opinions mine unless otherwise indicated. Historian. History professor at Murray State University: Modern Germany, Eastern and Southern Africa, the World Wars, Genocide, & Slavery. Director of KIIS Austria & SiR Berlin Program. All views mine.
I have a second piece out today, on the RSS, or the Sangh. You might be unfamiliar with them but they're the largest fascist network in the world. There's a new monitoring project aimed at tracking the group's disparate fronts, including the overseas ones, and I got to write about it.
This looks like an amazing show. Reminder, nearly half of samurai were women. www.ft.com/content/0734... "The British Museum’s Samurai show proves the brush is mightier than the sword"
Read an interview with the editors! www.upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...
I’ll be talking about this tonight.
“A Few Thoughts For Those Who Can’t Sleep”
About 10:30 ET
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The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't.
They won't only be for brown and Black people.
The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.
The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.
My @liberalcurrents.com essay on the “repeal the 19th” guys from last November
www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
Another thing to add to the Dem platform: all of these contracts were plainly procured through fraud, not one of them will be honored, and all culpable parties will be prosecuted.
This isn't a "radical" demand, it's the bare minimum required to re-establish the rule of law.
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
Introducing Selling Safety! A report that lays bare the ethnically dubious world of marketing and selling police surveillance technology, how effectiveness numbers are manufactured, the role police play in a massive for-profit industry, and new critical questions for reporters and law makers.
Young women are the future of progressive politics... and they want to/will leave the U.S. in record numbers. I see this among my students too.
You realize that once warehouses are converted to concentration camps they aren't going back to warehouses...
Linda Davis, a K-8 special education teacher, was killed today after ICE pursued a driver fleeing a traffic stop in Georgia.
Linda Davis is one of many people who have died after coming into contact with ICE. The government doesn't record these deaths, but we do.
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
The U.S. killed 11 more civilians in boat strikes yesterday -- 8 in the Pacific Ocean and 3 in the Caribbean.
We're tracking the increasing toll of these extrajudicial killings in a tracker @theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
Just got my author copy of Black Atlantic Worlds! I’m honored and delighted to be a part of this volume.
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978088...
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.
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what bugs me about "what about assimilation!?" arguments is the fact that american history is one long proof that america is very good at assimilating immigrants, and always has been
*right now* 28% of americans are immigrants or children of immigrants!
gabydelvalle.substack.com/p/the-spirit...
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"The Path to American Authoritarianism: What Comes After Democratic Breakdown" by Profs Levitsky and Way. Answer: Electoral Autocracy coupled, I would add, with rule of law breakdown aka systemic lawlessness whenever the ruling regime feels it is warranted
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
An unelected South African has taken control of the US Treasury and is deciding to stop payments on American obligations, in violation of numerous court orders, and admits in the Oval Office that he has done so upon incorrect information, while the President sits impotently behind the Resolute Desk.
Accurate!
So @pizzohistorian.bsky.social and I are teaching modern Italy this semester and there is precedent for the pope excommunicate people over politics. Just saying.
(I’m not catholic… but it would be funny.)
Recently, UNC Press authors have had their US visas revoked and talks canceled.
For over 100 years, we have stood for academic freedom and open discourse, and continue to do so. Read more on the UNC Press Blog ⬇️
Was soll in den paar Jahren Faschismus schon passieren?
Ach ja.
"China recently displaced Russia as the largest arms exporter to countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Beijing has captured a 10% share of an arms market that is increasingly crowded & competitive...Approximately 70% of all African armies now operate Chinese armoured vehicles" (IISS)
The temperature at noon on Monday will be 22 degrees which is the same temperature it was in 1961 when Kennedy was inaugurated.
The ceremony was held outside.
Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
The American Historical Association vetoed a resolution passed overwhelmingly by its members to condemn Israel's destruction of educational systems in Gaza.
In so doing, they told the youngest & most active members of a field under threat that their professional and moral outrage doesn't matter.
I wanted to share some thoughts on what to expect from the second Trump presidency and its early days.
Cruelty. Violence. Intimidation. Huge cultural shifts. And wholesale plundering by the oligarchs who bought Trump and the presidency.
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