David Fedman

Having a hard time distinguishing this from actual 1930s German propaganda now

Today at school dismissal, I followed a suspicious pickup around for a bit, keeping an eye on them, trying to figure out if they were ICE. Then I realized they were keeping an eye on me also. Then I realized they were, in fact, other parents. Life in Minnesota, January 2026.

Quote from Trump just minutes ago:

"The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places.... The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting."

In modern history, there's never been a bigger threat to our Constitution and our way of life than and his enablers.

Nobody warned us that the polycrisis would be so ridiculously stupid.

New book Monday...starting this new work by @renatakeller.bsky.social
Latin America's Cold War experience is very often overlooked or simply used as a backdrop to the US-Soviet conflict, without recognizing that local actors all have agency and influence. Looking forward to this!

Unfinished.
#LiamRamos

The Trump regime illegally redacted the names of various men, including the President, who likely committed heinous crimes against women and girls, while illegally releasing nude photos and names of possible victims.

These people are truly evil.

Watching Dr. Strangelove (1964) and as always I find Group Captain Mandrake by far the most interesting character because he lives up to and subverts national/class stereotypes.

Absolutely the fuck not

Trump says he’s closing the Kennedy Center for two years for renovations, as if everyone can’t see he’s trying to hide yet another abject failure resulting from him seizing control.

Nothing has changed and these masked, armed federal paramilitaries are just as aggressive and lawless as ever.

The thing about this Epstein shit is that you have no idea where the bottom is. I feel like I'm learning that space aliens are real. It's far bigger than I could have imagined. This is something that is going to affect how future generations of American view their country.

They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.

DHS in Portland used Hexachloroethane gas a few days ago, really dangerous stuff in your lungs, acutely and long term. Need a combo respirator filter to help with it. most NATO countries consider it an illegal chemical weapon now. Evidence the feds have tried to hide their use of it previously.

ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants

They aren’t deescalating anything. They’re claiming new extra-constitutional powers.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

Peter Attia 1752 Niall Ferguson 59 HR McMaster 35 Janna Levin 27 Roland Fryer 9 Derek Thompson 6 Mark Hyman 5 Roger Carstens 3 Arthur Brooks 2 Reihan Salam 2 Elliot Ackerman 0 Masih Alinejad 0 Caroline Chambers 0 Clare de Boer 0 Andrew Huberman 0 Casey Lewis 0 Patrick McGee 0 Lauren Sherman 0

Looking at the list of 19 new CBS News commentators, the median number of times they appear in the searchable Epstein database is 2 and the mean is 100

Remember when Mearsheimer added a China chapter to his book and suddenly he was on all the panels and talk shows as an Asia Knower? good times.

Judge Calls DOJ's Statements On Slavery Exhibit Display 'Dangerous' And 'Horrifying' Senior U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe told the Justice Department's attorneys, "“You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way.”

A federal judge warned Justice Department lawyers that their statements on a slavery exhibit display in Philadelphia were "horrifying."

"You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way"

Great, important work

Shelters takes on new meaning in early postwar.

The man entering the shelter is wearing a shirt labeled “capitalist” and holding bags marked “tax evasion.” Shidehara at the top screams “This is an alert for property tax and profits tax”

From Kato Etsurō, Okurareta kakumei (1946)

MJHA is delighted to announce that the 2026 Modern Japan History Association Book Prize has been awarded to Simon Partner (Duke University) for "Koume's World: The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration" (Columbia University Press, 2024)!

reminder that a small handful of Republicans in the House and Senate could end this madness today

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

Musk to Epstein: ‘What Day/Night Will Be the Wildest Party on Your Island?’ New emails show Musk has been lying about his relationship with Epstein.

New emails show Musk has been lying about his relationship with Epstein.

I understand it's hard for some to use the term concentration camp, even for those horrified by what's happening. And there are settings (e.g., court) where it may not be helpful today. The key thing to realize is that there's an arc of how detention regimes tend to go, and we're recognizably on it.

Shelters takes on new meaning in early postwar.

The man entering the shelter is wearing a shirt labeled “capitalist” and holding bags marked “tax evasion.” Shidehara at the top screams “This is an alert for property tax and profits tax”

From Kato Etsurō, Okurareta kakumei (1946)

Far From Minneapolis, Memphis Remains Under a Different Federal Crackdown

The book will be written about geographies of authoritarianism and how this regime zeroed in on cities w/ large Black populations, African immigrant populations, Black leadership and histories of Black protest. That book has already been written many times over about US history, but history repeats

ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.

This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...