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Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 21h

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 · 1h

“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 · 4h

Livia Soprano.

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 5h

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 · 18h

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 · 7h

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 · 14d

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 · 10h

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 · 22h

#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

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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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 3d

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...

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

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

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Allan Hailstone @allhails.bsky.social · 3d

East Berlin, 9 September 1959. I post photographs taken on my Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publishing). #Berlin #DDR #GDR

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 4d

I'm an Americanist but long ago made it a habit to read everything @historyned.bsky.social writes, so I'm excited to get my hands on this new book!

Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 11d

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 · 3d

To be fair, probably a few Informatics and Non Fungible Token Institutes that could use a rebrand right now.

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

Ironically there it was primarily a legal matter-Soviets has agreed to specific air corridors but had no legal obligations on the ground. Stalin claimed to be strictly enforcing treaty agreements

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

Also this: www.instagram.com/share/_tYdsi...

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David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 4d

I'm reading this now and enjoying it very much... recommended you read it, sofort!

Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 11d

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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