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tomfleischman.bsky.social
History @University of Rochester; environment, pigs, Germany; backyard pond tinkerer
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again sheer naked ambition should be sending more Dems in the AOC / Crockett / Sanders / Frost etc direction

Having researched/written about ideological exclusion/deportation for over two decades ... Public attention & Press reporting are ESSENTIAL. Legal rep & Legal challenges are ESSENTIAL. Following cases & reporting new ones are ESSENTIAL. Describing the CHILLING EFFECT on free speech is ESSENTIAL.

FYI for anyone out there interested in the history of Italian Fascism and Digital History.

To mark the 80th anniversary of the March 10, 1945 firebombing of Tokyo, a thread introducing one of the most remarkable primary sources I've come across in the archive: Gen. Thomas Power's eye-witness report, recorded while circling over the firestorm for nearly two hours. 1/

It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!

Nach der Bundestagswahl lud der #FCSP zu einer Veranstaltung mit dem Historiker Patrice Poutros ein, um im Rahmen des Black History Months über die Asyldebatte und Rassismus im Wahlkampf zu sprechen. Auch Oladapo Afolayan sprach über die Perspektive von Schwarzen Menschen in unserer Gesellschaft.

Ph.D. Workers and Their University Both Backed a Union Election. Then Trump Won.

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

the German soon evinced his complete ignorance of the White Whale

Very generative questions from @oliviastowell.bsky.social. I really appreciate being featured in this exciting new publication (@mid-theory.bsky.social) which everybody should check out!

Is there a better email signature image? Probably not

Incredible post from one of my favorite historians. Come for the history of urban fire and fire fighting; stay for the interactive, high-res image of an 18th century Japanese scroll.

Never thought I’d see brooklyn with nary a yellow cab.

If you want to have a nice cry, this is the episode for you. Highly recommend

The holidays are a particularly difficult time for incarcerated people & their loved ones. This @prisonpolicy.bsky.social article shows contact between families have positive impacts for everyone. Sadly, serious issues with phone calls & visitation persist in MA. www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2021/12...

I talked to Hell Gate about things that are going on over here at NYU. Check it out.

Brown has a $7.8 billion endowment, yet blames enrollment and faculty for a piddly $65 million deficit. How many millions are shoveled out the door to ed tech? How much do they pay finance managers for the endowment? I bet it adds up to more than $65 mil www.browndailyherald.com/article/2024...

So are we all just going to act normal and pretend that scientists didn’t just revise the global sperm whale population count to double the previous estimate?? Seems like a BIG DEAL to me and yet no one is talking about it. This came out two years ago! Come on, sheeple!

Check out the big brain on Brad

I have had occasion to regret elements of my book over the past decade, even elements of this specific passage. I don't think it's stopped being basically true though.

The next history book on Palestine will have Joe Biden in it: defector.com/the-next-his...