Alexa Fleckenstein M.D.

Israel A leading Israeli American scholar of the Holocaust explores and explains his native country's intensifying turn toward violence and exclusion.The distinguis...

From one of our finest historians and moral voices in dark times: Omer Bartov, "Israel: What Went Wrong" (@panmacmillan.bsky.social, 2026; #skystorians). us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Winners & Losers: The Price of Performative Violence The child and the witness.

Winners & Losers ... The Price of Performative Violence ... open.substack.com/pub/lincolns... ...

✂️ Below is one of those remarkable cut-paperworks by Johanna Koerten - “Scissors-Minerva” that are mentioned by @philipkennicott.bsky.social below.

The illusion of shading is produced by hundreds of tiny horizontal cuts.

🗃️ #arthistory #art #skystorians #womenartists

How Trump gets and processes information How Trump is making potentially lethal decisions

The Mad King's Television ... open.substack.com/pub/robertre... ...

Scratch the surface of racism, and you quickly find misogyny. ....I can never understand the women who go along with it. (Of course they think they will benefit from the cruelty to others, including other women).

It strikes me that it’s ’free speech’ & nearly always related to words or writing. It’s never free expression.

It’s always about the ‘right’ to attack, or incite hate, against a minority. It’s never to punch up, always down. You don’t see these tulips upset at the media being silenced by Trump…

Read more books, look at more pictures.

🧵 We have the tail-end of a couple of Gulf hurricanes heading towards us in Ireland. I like when there are dark skies & colours are more pronounced. I see colours as energy & that’s why I love using them powerfully in my one-off ink drawings. You can see them if you scroll down in this thread! [1]

Prester John in a black-and-white-and-red image

The letter was, of course, a fake, but many Christians believed it anyway, because it felt good to live in a world where a mighty Christian king could come and save them. They called this mythical king Prester John.

In the late 1100s, European Christians received a message from an impossibly powerful king in a faraway land. This king ruled over a kingdom that encompassed the Garden of Eden, Cyclopes, and salamanders that lived in fire. 🗃️🧵

Biscuits can’t believe some of y’all haven’t shared all the great public scholarship in today’s #ScholarSunday thread yet. 🗃️

Sunday thought: A national trauma We need to talk about it openly

Sunday thought ... America’s TRAUMA ... open.substack.com/pub/robertre... ...

They’re going to fire a US attorney because they couldn’t find evidence for a crime that was manufactured by the administration?

Banana republic shit

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”

Nailed it.

Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening.

It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president

The need to silence your critics only reveals how weak and fragile you are.

You had your chance to remove and bar him from the presidency after Jan 6. And you chickened out.

Interesting ay?

Warning to you and your loved ones None of us is safe when Trump acts as judge and jury.

Warning ... to you and your loved ones ... open.substack.com/pub/robertre... ...

Cradling her newborn puppy in her paws — a moment of pure love you can feel. 🐶 💖

Found in the Densho Digital Repository

A photograph of a Japanese American boy at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in Wyoming. A row of barracks anf Heart Mountain can be seen in the background. Date unknown, the photograph was taken by Yoshio Okumoto.
🗃 #skystorians

Infrogmation (@Infrogmation@mastodon.online) Attached: 1 image Appeasement of Fascists - "Anything for a Quiet Life", 1938 Cartoon by David Low, published in "Ken" magazine, 3 November 1938 issue. Appeasing fascists won't make them leave you...

mastodon.online/@Infrogmatio... Anti-isolationist cartoon from 1938. See original post for details. You may snooze, but that doesn't mean the fascist predator will leave you alone. The down payment of peace and quiet for the man here is his leg. #EverythingHasAHistory #Cartoons #PoliticalCartoons 🗃️

Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."

Detail of Bruegel's Tower of Babel

🚪 For #Adoorablethursday how many doors do you see❓

Bruegel's Towers of Babel is next in our Renaissance Masterpieces Series!

Details: ideasroadshow.com/documentaries/

🗃️ #arthistory #renaissance #dutch #skystorians #academicsky

what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.

Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.

We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.

Trump’s War on Laughter Will Bite Him in the Ass He hasn't thought this through.

Trump’s War on Laughter ... Will Bite Him in the Ass ... BOROWITZ REPORT ... open.substack.com/pub/borowitz... ...