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Ned Richardson-Little

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Historian of international crime, international law, human rights and the illiberal right in Germany at ZZF Potsdam. Also teaching at FU Berlin. he/him. Principal Investigator: #OtherGlobalGermany and #il_liberal

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 12d

35 years ago today, the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist and its territory was absorbed into the Federal Republic. If you want to learn more about the rise and fall of the GDR on this auspicious #TagderEinheit, you can check out my new book: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-de...

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 5m

Julian Reichelt is now claiming the refusal of the CDU to collaborate with the far right AfD into the equivalent of the East Germans building the Berlin Wall.

Anton Rainer @antonrainer.bsky.social · 4d

Julian Reichelt legt sich sehr deutlich fest: Die AfD als wahrer Hüter bürgerlicher Politik, die Brandmauer als moderne Berliner Mauer, die eingerissen werden muss - und die CDU-AfD-Koalition als neue Deutsche Einheit.

Nicht neu, aber so hart formuliert wie nie zuvor.

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German at Portsmouth @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social · 2h

15 October 1950: young volunteers remove rubble from the demolished Schloss in East Berlin (via Bundesarchiv)

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 13h

Took fifty years but there was a conviction last year for a border killing from 1974. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Ex-Stasi officer sentenced to 10 years in jail over 1974 Berlin Wall killing

A former officer for Communist East Germany's Stasi secret police was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday for the fatal shooting of a Polish firefighter at a border crossing between East and West Berlin 50 years ago.

www.reuters.com

Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 13h

East German border guard shooting policy but the death strip is the Caribbean and the targeting profile is “men in boats”. No wonder they can‘t find even military lawyers used to signing off on the most dubious of drone strikes to approve this outright murder.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 13h

The US Navy continues its descent into open piracy in the name of counter narcotics interdiction.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 14h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 16h

Just in time for a World Cup where anyone who isn't also an American will get deported

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Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social · 19h

I am so excited to see @renatakeller.bsky.social’s book in the world! This is a terrific and brilliant history of the Cuban Missile Crisis and its impacts across the Americas — it’s also accessible and super engaging. Highly recommended!!

Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow is my book's official pub date! I'm celebrating by tackling a whole new social media platform and hosting an #AskMeAnything on Reddit! Join me and ask me anything about my book, the Cuban Missile Crisis, my hobbies, publishing...whatever! @uncpress.bsky.social @sonyabonczek.bsky.social

Blurb for Renata Keller's book The Fate of the Americas

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18h

“What’s happening here is a very specialized industry that’s enabling some of the world’s worst dictators and despots to undermine the foundational pillars of liberal democracy.”

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

www.motherjones.com

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 21h

Livia Soprano.

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 22h

The architects of the Iraq War–Condoleezza Rice, John Bolton, and Philip Zelikow–recently appeared at German foreign-policy circles.

MALCOLM JORGENSEN warns against rehabilitating the neocons – and explains why they should not be advising on a new security order:

verfassungsblog.de/the-neocons-...

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Lukas Schemper @lukasschemper.bsky.social · 1d

How do we make sense of the fact that a humanitarian organization - the German Sea Rescue Society - thrived under the Nazi regime? In a new article in HSSH, as part of my wider research interest into the historical connections between voluntary sea rescue societies & the state, I argue that... (1/4)

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Holger Klein @holgi.bsky.social · 23h

Parlamentarische Demo-Beobachtung: Polizisten schlagen Linken-Politiker*innen

Gleich zwei Linken-Bundestagsabgeordnete erleben Polizeigewalt. Sie verfolgten als parlamentarische Beobachter*innen Demonstrationen in Berlin.

www.taz.de

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Joan Miró @joanmiro.bsky.social · 15d

Figures and Dog in Front of the Sun https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/figures-and-dog-in-front-of-the-sun

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 1d

Historical research methods pre-google from 1935: www.youtube.com/watch?v=awsm...

Charles Laughton recites President Lincoln's 'Gettysburg Address' - "Ruggles of Red Gap" (1935)

YouTube video by adam28xx

www.youtube.com

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 1d

#Berlin makes losses in the millions on its ... residential parking permits. Because the price of about €10 per year is lower than the costs to the administration (which is about €42). www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/koste...

Kosten für Verwaltung sind viel höher als Einnahmen: Berlin macht Millionenverlust mit Anwohnerparkausweisen

Bei jedem neu ausgestellten Anwohnerparkausweis zahlt das Land drauf – und zwar immer mehr. Auch, weil der Preis seit 2008 nicht erhöht wurde. Bringt das angekündigte Parkkonzept der CDU bald die Wend...

www.tagesspiegel.de

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d

From @gjmartin.bsky.social (writing for @stanfordaaup.bsky.social) laying out why no university should sign Tr*mp’s “Compact” stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...

From the Community | We must refuse the 'Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education'

Associate professor Greg Martin writes on behalf of the Stanford's AAUP chapter to condemn the White House's compact on higher education.

stanforddaily.com

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 1d

Strong “46th henchman to roll up on John Wick thinking he’s got this” energy

Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 2d

We need to talk about comp lit on comp lit violence more in our meta discourses about post secondary education.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 2d

Most diagnoses of “academia” (and many subfields) are actually just English PhDs yelling at each other about stuff in English departments

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 2d

Great topic and even better poster design!

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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 8d

Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...

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Philo @opfuchs.gay · 3d

New books today:

* Bruno Munari - Supplemento al dizionario italiano
* Walt Odets - Out of the Shadows
* @historyned.bsky.social - The German Democratic Republic
* Mark Rowlands - The Happiness of Dogs
* Tomasz Jedrowski - Swimming in the Dark

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 3d

I am moving towards a theory that the church is the only institution to have mastered the synthesis of the two forms bsky.app/profile/rich...

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 3d

hope you enjoy it! (Munari is really messing with the colour scheme :))

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 3d

This is when people start to make dossiers on unit commanders in strategic locations and key positions in the hierarchy.

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