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Seriously fuck the Myanmar Junta, attacking a vigil during a festival (and not for the 1st time) in Bon To Village, killing 32 & injuring 50.

The Junta needs to be removed root & branch from Myanmar & the people's of Myanmar desperately need help as the attacks escalate & even more get displaced.

"I welcome their hatred" is exactly the right quote to pull for this situation.

"This case…squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us.

The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

OMG this William G. Young opinion that just dropped (12:30pm) in AAUP v. Rubio.
It begins with a postcard sent to Chambers and Young's reply

card: "Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?"

WGY: "We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution"

Atsuko Okatsuka Details Comedian “Censorship Rules” at Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Comedy Festival The comedian revealed on Threads that she turned down an offer to appear at the festival where Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Bill Burr and Pete Davidson are set to perform.

Maybe they will use the platform to raise the issues of freedom of speech and press freedom?

No, they wont.

Championing freedom of speech by doing state-sponsored gigs in Saudi Arabia.

This speech is giving a lot of material to future "who said it better- Trump or Mussolini" listicles.

Author copies for

Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social arrived today!

If you re-post this by Sept 30 we'll put you in a drawing & send the winner a free signed copy anywhere they happen to be on the planet.

Given the general state of the world, and the specific state of British academia, it feels good to be back in a classroom teaching today.

Stop blaming migrants and tackle UK’s real problems, 100 charities tell home secretary A letter warns Shabana Mahmood that ‘targeting refugees will do nothing to tackle’ problems with housing and the NHS

I'm obviously being hyperbolic, but it seems clear that the Labour leadership is eager to adopt a Reform-lite approach to immigration policy. As pointed out by many, many people, including people within the party.

Oh. And I guess some folks might vote for the Tories, though I'm not sure why at this point.

British voters now have two major parties to choose between, both of which base their platforms mostly on disliking foreigners and locking up (certain kinds of) protesters. The main difference seems to be that one party has a red rose in their logo, for some reason.

It looks like you got added to a starter pack?

Paramilitary groups love targeting journos and other civilians documenting their abuse of power.

Title and abstract for the linked article

🚢 Michael Yeo, 'Before the port city: coastal settlements and colonialism in Borneo'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

The Imperial Gaze: Affective Governance, Hybrid Cartography, and China’s U-Shaped Line This article develops ‘the imperial gaze’ concept to explore how maps not only represent the world, but also do things in geopolitics, even provoking mass demonstrations. It examines China’s early-...

Hey all, my article "The Imperial Gaze: Affective Governance, Hybrid Cartography, and China’s U-Shaped Line" is published in _Geopolitics_ today: it's OA, so please click and download, for free!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Black Scare in Asia: Governments blame “anarchists” for mass discontent - Freedom News Popular uprisings in the Philippines, Nepal and Indonesia need no help to be leaderless ~ Simoun Magsalin ~ September 2025 became a month of an Asi…

Today the symbol of rebellion is the straw-hat pirate. But it is the fear of *amok masa*, the fear of anarchy itself, that declares to the world insurrection and revolution is still possible.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/09/25/b...

What a nice view!

First page of 'Counting the Stakes: A Reassessment of Vlad III Dracula’s Practice of Collective Impalements in Fifteenth-Century South-eastern Europe', by Denes Harai, new research article in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. Abstract: 'Dubbed ‘the Impaler’ by his contemporaries, Vlad III Dracula (c. 1431–76), was accused of the slaughter of between 40,000 and 100,000 individuals, 20,000 of them allegedly impaled at the Wallachian capital Targovişte. Although historians have often considered these figures inflated, none of the numerous studies dedicated to the voivode of Wallachia have undertaken a methodical evaluation of the extent of this exaggeration. This article takes up this historiographical challenge by examining all available documentation. In so doing, it provides a full reassessment of the practice of impalement in fifteenth-century south-eastern Europe. Contrary to assumptions of previous scholarship, Vlad’s use of impalement was influenced simultaneously by pre-existing Hungarian and Ottoman practices. Quantitative analysis shows that only 7–10 per cent of the impalements claimed by sources can be considered plausible and proposes a new data-driven estimation of Vlad’s impaled victims. Finally, a comparison with other rulers shows that, while Vlad ordered collective impalements more frequently, the average number of victims per impalement was similar to that elsewhere in south-eastern Europe.'

Image of Vlad III Dracula from c.1488 text: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, public domain.

'Counting the Stakes: A Reassessment of Vlad III Dracula': new in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/46iJfIU

In this new article, Dénes Harai reconsiders the victims of 'Vlad the Impaler' (c.1431-76), the historical inspiration for Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula #Skystorians 1/2

In Memoriam: Paul A. Cohen (1934-2025) - Association for Asian Studies Paul A. Cohen, who died on September 15, 2025 at the age of 91, made significant contributions to both the interdisciplinary field of Chinese studies and the discipline of history. The most obvious wa...

My tribute to Paul Cohen as historian & mentor to many www.asianstudies.org/in-memoriam-... cc @lmansley.bsky.social

Kudos to my colleagues @jimmillward.bsky.social and Chandra Manning for organizing and leading this effort. 🗃️

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research.

Run, don’t walk.

Do I know any London-based students who could assist with taking some photos of documents at the National Archives in Kew? Probably a few days worth of work. Feel free to reach out to me via email or DM.

Xenophobia has always been a significant political force, but today it feels like there is hardly any pushback to it. Labour's response to this insane policy proposal is to say there aren't as many undeserving poor foreigners as Farage claims there are. The numbers are wrong, not the morals

Farage vows to scrap settled status, placing thousands at risk of deportation Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services

Farage promising to abolish indefinite leave to remain, and kick out everyone in the UK currently holding settled status, should cause shock and outrage. It probably would, a decade ago. Today I'm not so sure.

Look at the ratio. Almost like the olden days.

Come and work with our fab Americanists - a dynamic (and super nice!) group within @camhistory.bsky.social. We're hiring for a permanent position in twentieth century US history.

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The paper is partly an argument for why both "new cold war" and "polycrisis" are bad ways of framing the current disorder, and partly a call for a closer engagement between constructivist theory and historical IR as a way to better grasp the international politics of the present.