“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
11.09.2025 13:47 — 👍 45338 🔁 8514 💬 630 📌 261@ebriesacher.bsky.social
Germanist, public historian, voracious reader, activism always, former union patient, terribly unfunny Gen X vibes. Author of Festival, Culture, and Identity in Lübeck: Nordic Days, 1920-1960 (Lexington, 2023).
“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
11.09.2025 13:47 — 👍 45338 🔁 8514 💬 630 📌 261Some thoughts about the loss of my cousin and the broader question of 9-11 memory. 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
11.09.2025 11:02 — 👍 46 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1Solidarity friend. Thanks for putting this so succinctly.
11.09.2025 13:56 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Love this for us!
05.06.2025 23:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I've been quiet here, but definitely looking to be more communicative. Checking in on everyone, hope you're making a way through all . . . this.
24.03.2025 14:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I guess it could happen here after all.
10.02.2025 16:33 — 👍 168 🔁 17 💬 8 📌 0it needs to be said that while democratic elected officials are trying to get into the USAID building which was shut down by musk, CNN and MSNBC are showing the entirety of a trump press conference.
03.02.2025 18:57 — 👍 11822 🔁 3557 💬 468 📌 313all you people who told us to calm down can go fuck yourselves
28.01.2025 20:55 — 👍 53708 🔁 8159 💬 1087 📌 465Yep. And now finding ways to combat it. Cheers, friend.
29.01.2025 01:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
In 1935, in compliance with the Nuremburg Laws, the German military dismissed all Jews serving in its ranks.
Just sayin.
For those who care about education, here’s your graph for calls today on federal grants being frozen. Please if you are in a state that went for Trump, CALL CONGRESS, and point out that it hurts your state disproportionately MORE.
www.datawrapper.de/_/skaST/
That's really interesting--and I can totally see it, because it's such a salient experience in a lot of places.
26.01.2025 16:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0👇👇👇
09.01.2025 00:46 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0By all means let's keep building AI data centers that use a water supply the equivalent of Guatemala's yearly consumption. I mean, what could possibly go wrong
08.01.2025 23:24 — 👍 1170 🔁 445 💬 15 📌 10Holy cow!
10.12.2024 01:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yep, she indexed my book. Highly recommend.
10.12.2024 01:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you for the help with all this. The perils of getting reoriented!
05.12.2024 14:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is awesome--thank you so much!
05.12.2024 14:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is awesome. Thank you!!
05.12.2024 14:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you friend!!
04.12.2024 11:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I definitely am behind the curve--would love any help! How do I get on that list? I'm slowly discovering the starter pack thing. 
Happy to join the party! 😁
Using some of this in my book on homemade COVID facemasks. Material culture is activism.
04.12.2024 03:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I am so very slowly remembering a) I have an account here b) I have to rebuild my whole "thing" and c) I am hopelessly technologically unsavvy. 
It's like learning my Gen-Alpha daughter's slang EVERY MOMENT. 
Skibidi.