@plerner.bsky.social
🗃️ Historian of modern Central Europe, consumer culture, human sciences, migration, and Jews. Here to talk about fascism and cats. Mostly cats.
I think she would have done worse with Shapiro, except in PA.
08.12.2025 04:00 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#academicsky drop everything and read this
07.12.2025 17:03 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0I taught it once and might do it again!
07.12.2025 15:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Saw Rock ‘n’ Roll there in 2008. It was amazing!
07.12.2025 07:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0NY Times Spelling Bee is more politically astute today than the Opinion pages
07.12.2025 02:24 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0😹
04.12.2025 15:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good morning
04.12.2025 14:58 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thanks, Richard. Doing ok. I hope so too!
04.12.2025 04:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh wow. So glad to hear that!
04.12.2025 04:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0OMG! We saw them at the Greek Theater in LA back in the 2000s
04.12.2025 04:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Bill Evans will always be cool. A lot ofJeff Tweedy on my side this year for some reason, kind of like when I was actually 43.
04.12.2025 03:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thanks Ben! Means a lot coming from you. I'm trying to write a second piece for them but have been kind of stuck.
04.12.2025 03:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Impressive
04.12.2025 03:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Well done
04.12.2025 02:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Spotify Wrapped says I have the musical taste of a 43 year old and my kid a 72 year old. My work here is done!
04.12.2025 02:24 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Perhaps apropos. In a 1939 internal note, NBC regretted *not* censoring announcer Walter Winchell after he called Hitler a "madman".
03.12.2025 15:00 — 👍 141 🔁 48 💬 3 📌 1One of my favorite podcasts!
03.12.2025 07:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes your gay Nazis should be high priority
03.12.2025 03:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0holy fuck i think i'm writing a play
03.12.2025 02:41 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New paper topic for HIST 600?
03.12.2025 00:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I give up
02.12.2025 22:03 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0Totally racist grandpa dozing in the rocking chair vibes
02.12.2025 19:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Grey cat sitting in a clothes bin
Sunday night blues after a long weekend
01.12.2025 03:31 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Everything sucks but the parrots just came by on their semi-annual trek across LA. This time they didn't land in our tree so I couldn't get any pictures but here's an old image.
moorelab.oxy.edu/research/fre...
It’s mind boggling
30.11.2025 01:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Academic freedom is being eroded internally by university administrators as well as externally by politicians." -USC @aaup.org president Laura Isabel Serna in the LA Times
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
archive link: archive.ph/TxBWo
I think people expected prices to come down and a “tough” immigration policy to keep them safe. But yeah many of us expected something like this because they told us in advance
28.11.2025 22:04 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🗃️ Hot off the presses: "The Power of Photobooks: Crafting (Jewish) History from Below by (my student) @swsamols.bsky.social. Congratulations, Steven!
www.ghi-dc.org/fileadmin/pu...
Good news, just about ten years too late
28.11.2025 17:33 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Nailed it
28.11.2025 17:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
