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astridme.bsky.social
Historian of modern Germany, Europe, and the environment | author of West Germany and the Iron Curtain (OUP, 2019) + Zonenrandgebiet (Ch. Links, 2022) | Atlanta, Moabit | I wish I were in Greifswald
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my gosh, all the anguish, the heartbreak, the damage ... for what!?

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Mein Feed auf einer anderen Plattform hat einen Uptick an guten Nachrichten: Niederlassungserlaubnis, Einbürgerung. Wer 2015/16 angekommen ist, schafft es langsam durch den BAMF-Dschungel. Ich hoffe, einer der Journalist:innen hier greift das Thema mal auf.

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"...EPA last week ordered its staff to start canceling grants already awarded... According to the email, the termination order involves grants from nine programs ... 'It’s basically the entirety of EPA’s research grant portfolio,' says a source within the agency."

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Will we reach a point where the US hands out $$$ for free!? Asking for a friend…

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Sweet moment at #ASEH2025: historian Richard Tucker receives the Distinguished Scholar Award @aseh.bsky.social

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The point of the purge. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

@pavlasimkova.bsky.social Look what I found at ASEH!

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

ok, what now? I wasn't watching for 5 minutes.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Off to #ASEH25 If you are there, I will solve the mysterious question of how the UN Climate Secretariat got to Bonn. @aseh.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Maddening.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

#Handsoff ATL @booker.senate.gov

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#handsoff ATL was beautiful!

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely worth the read this morning: Tara Zarah on collapsing globalization and how similar developments have played out in the past www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/o...

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www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #envhum #envhist

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

@ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social Welcome to the Central European History Society (CEHS) and their journal, Central European History (CEH). Give them a follow if you are so inclined!

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The latest EO seeks to reinstate Confederate monuments in a further backlash against BLM. Which is what their whole ideological agenda is about. 1/2 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

@ykomska.bsky.social Don't spend the day without mushrooms. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/s...

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