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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 34m

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 1h

I think there’s space in the market for a completely convoluted mystery novel à la Dan Brown that ends with the realisation that there’s no grand conspiracy except the usual capitalist bullshit, it was just a bunch of smart handymen and being a „symbolologist“ just means overdetermining everything

Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 5h

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 12h

Wie läuft eigentlich der ttt Podcast?

Emily Dische-Becker @emilydische.bsky.social · 1d

Full-circle: Sascha Lobo, half-baked drivel Gen X cringe antideutsch marries Jule, historically unburdened Gen Z. On their shared podcast (should've been called: Lobotomy), she claims Palestinians in Gaza lack the courage and decency exhibited by countless Germans who saved Jews in Nazi Germany

dinu (redeverbot) @dinusau.bsky.social · 3d

junge was willst sagen jule

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 1h

They’re calling it Erebor. Tolkien was right, allegory is dead

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 2d

Holy “parallel establishment”. “Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is sounding the alarm about the Trump administration’s approval of a new bank backed by two GOP megadonors, tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey” … 1/ www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

Trump administration gives initial approval to bank backed by GOP megadonors

Sen. Elizabeth Warren says the approval of Erebor Bank, which is linked to Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey, is a classic example of crony capitalism.

www.msnbc.com

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 1h

I like how people now speculate about a heist movie being made out of this because I’d unironically love to see a heist movie involving a ladder and some e-scooters

Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 9h

Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 12h

Wie läuft eigentlich der ttt Podcast?

Emily Dische-Becker @emilydische.bsky.social · 1d

Full-circle: Sascha Lobo, half-baked drivel Gen X cringe antideutsch marries Jule, historically unburdened Gen Z. On their shared podcast (should've been called: Lobotomy), she claims Palestinians in Gaza lack the courage and decency exhibited by countless Germans who saved Jews in Nazi Germany

dinu (redeverbot) @dinusau.bsky.social · 3d

junge was willst sagen jule

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 18h

Also that article is about how Trump would be the only person that reintroduces protectionism and everyone else surely must be pro-free trade and...that is just completely amazing to me that someone writes this in a UK-based, economy-focused newspaper after Brexit

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 23h

The problem, of course, is not that 'Great Man Theory' was ever unfashionable in the writing of History, but that it has been inescapably there all along.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 19h

Read Marx' Bonaparte essay and you can easily see how in a figure just as crude and stupid as Trump the specific social and political conflicts of mid-century France map out. Read Kershaw's Hitler bio, which is a two-volume repudiation of the last time historians felt GMT had something to say.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 19h

No. No he does not and ironically, the whole point of the "Great Man Theory" (and it always was decidedly a great *man* theory, no matter how often you mention the one woman who is your political hero) is to support figures like him.

An Article Header in the Financial Times: "Trump and the Return of the Great Man theory: The president vindicates an unfashionable view of how history works"

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Don Alfons des Kleinbürgerprekariats @senorfuck.bsky.social · 19h

Our best and brightest.

Screenshot von der BBC-Webseite. Headline: Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre
Darunter: Andrew Harding
Paris correspondent, at the scene

Darunter ist ein Bild von einer Ecke des Gebäudes, von rechts ragt eine lange Leiter ins Bild, sie ist an einem Balkon angelegt.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 19h

Anscheinend sind die Diebe übrigens mit E-Rollern geflüchtet, was lustig ist, weil es zeigt, wie gut die Fahrradinfrastruktur der Rue de Rivoli funktioniert: es ist schneller, den Roller zu nehmen statt ein Auto 😂

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 20h

Ngl, nachdem ich gestern wie üblich im Pariser Westen bissle gewandert bin und von Bars, die "L'Empereur" heissen über Ramschläden, die Joséphine-branded Kitsch verkaufen bis zu Schulen weirder katholischer Sekten mal wieder deutlich gesehen hab, wie durchgeknallt frz. Monarchisten sind: I lol'd.

Tini Tarabiscoté*e / Christina Dongowski @tinido.bsky.social · 20h

So, der Innenminister hat sich geäußert: Es wurde Schmuck & Juwelen aus der Galerie Spollo geklaut, die von unschätzbaren historischem Wert für FR seien. Da werden u.a. die Krönungsinsignien von Napoleon gezeigt. Mal gucken, wie's weitergeht. 3-4 Diebe, flüchtig.

Tini Tarabiscoté*e / Christina Dongowski @tinido.bsky.social · 21h

Raubüberfall auf den Louvre. Es ist niemand was passiert, aber es gibt auch noch keine offiziellen Nachrichten, ob was geklaut wurde & wenn ja was. Der Louvre bleibt erst mal geschlossen.
www.franceinfo.fr/culture/dire...

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Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social · 20h

NO KINGS, NO CROWN JEWELS

leonceundlena @leonceundlena.bsky.social · 20h

Louvre-Heist, und ein paar kunstorientierte Accounts meiner Timeline sind seltsam still.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 20h

Lenin boarding the Kaiser's train comes to mind

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 20h

The original German title for his play that was the basis for the novel is "Weapons for America", which I think goes hard

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 20h

Libé, unter Berufung auf eine "Pariser kulturellen Kreisen nahestende Quelle", sagt, die Vitrinen «Bijoux Napoléon» und «Bijoux des souverains» seien betroffen.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 20h

(Nb I can't help but finding it funny that Americans accusing others of American exceptionalism often fall into the same excptionalist trap. There is a reason why historians today talk about the "Atlantic Revolutions", the American one isn't exceptional historically)

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 20h

Connecting back to the original revolutionary promise to demand it be finally fulfilled is what Marx was all about!

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 20h

Ok taking this stupid point seriously for a moment as a historian, "No Kings" is actually a great slogan, because

- it connects to the original revolutions of the 19th century
- but in its opposition against current oligarchies, it also entails a critique of liberal democracies that spawned them

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 21h

"Ummm, actually, lots of countries that are better than the U.S. have kings, so 'No Kings' is American exceptionalism" is a take I actually saw on the skyline just now from a person with a lot of followers and an academic job

Just... shut the fuck up, please

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 21h

😂

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 21h

😮🤪 *shouting incomprehensible epithets in French*

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André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire @andreloez.bsky.social · 22h

Pourquoi le texte élitiste, sacrificiel, irréaliste, européocentré d'un penseur conservateur de la fin XIXe reste-t-il LA référence de tous les manuels sur la "nation"?
RV demain 20/10 dans le podcast avec Nathalie Richard, Nicolas Mariot et Corentin Marion, "pour en finir avec le Renan national" :)

couverture de l'épisode, pour en finir avec le Renan national

description de l'enregistrement à Blois le 11 octobre

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Jeannine Baker @nenieb.bsky.social · 1d

"The BBC has clanged their doors shut on those histories, those stories, those lives and ways of working that are revealed through the joint industry of the historian and the archivist." @helenwheatley.bsky.social on the devastating decision to limit access to BBC archives. tinyurl.com/y4tnyw9a

Defending the WAC: All the things I haven’t (yet) written by Helen Wheatley

People following the last few weeks of the Critical Studies in Television blog will have seen my brilliant colleagues discussing the essential work that they have been able to do thanks to the…

cstonline.net

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Erica Wagner @ericawgnr.bsky.social · 23h

See @vanessathorpe.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social — a devastating story:

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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