Miloš Jovanović
@milosthehistorian.com
Balkan barbarian burrowing through history. Own opinions only, alliteration accidental.
Author of Cites of Dust and Mud | Asst. Prof at UCLA | Yugo Millennial | Cat dad | Basketball fan
Author of Cites of Dust and Mud | Asst. Prof at UCLA | Yugo Millennial | Cat dad | Basketball fan
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Miloš Jovanović
@milosthehistorian.com
· Dec 15
Cities of Dust and Mud: Urbanism and Bourgeois Fantasy in the Balkans, 1820-1920
Urbanism and Bourgeois Fantasy in the Balkans, 1820-1920
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Why do bourgeois elites try to transform cities? What happens when their fantasies fail to materialize?
Learn about the social costs of elite-led urban change in my book! Published by @stanfordpress.bsky.social and available for pre-order today!
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Learn about the social costs of elite-led urban change in my book! Published by @stanfordpress.bsky.social and available for pre-order today!
bookshop.org/p/books/citi...
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Priyamvada Gopal, Insurgent Empire and her argument for “reverse tutelage” in British Empire deserves a shout-out as well.
January 18, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Priyamvada Gopal, Insurgent Empire and her argument for “reverse tutelage” in British Empire deserves a shout-out as well.
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We think of the postwar world order as having been built by the US. But as Getachew makes clear, that world order was completed by the intellectual giants of the African, pan-African and African diaspora liberation movements.
It is no coincidence Trump & Miller are targeting its fundamental tenet.
It is no coincidence Trump & Miller are targeting its fundamental tenet.
January 13, 2026 at 10:50 PM
We think of the postwar world order as having been built by the US. But as Getachew makes clear, that world order was completed by the intellectual giants of the African, pan-African and African diaspora liberation movements.
It is no coincidence Trump & Miller are targeting its fundamental tenet.
It is no coincidence Trump & Miller are targeting its fundamental tenet.
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Let’s hear them out.
More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
January 17, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Let’s hear them out.
To my colleagues, yet another good reason to join @aaup.org on your chapter.
University of California faculty, check out @uc-faculty.bsky.social and find your local chapter.
University of California faculty, check out @uc-faculty.bsky.social and find your local chapter.
We are waiting for Judge Young's order in AAUP v. Rubio, but today he proposed a remedy that is small step forward. He said a remedy could be no ideological deportations for "noncitizens who are members of the @aaup.org and the Middle East Studies Association."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
Judge Proposes Restricting Deportation of Scores of Noncitizen Academics
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:04 AM
To my colleagues, yet another good reason to join @aaup.org on your chapter.
University of California faculty, check out @uc-faculty.bsky.social and find your local chapter.
University of California faculty, check out @uc-faculty.bsky.social and find your local chapter.
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Santa Monica announces it will soon use AI cameras to ticket drivers parked in bike lanes (same vendor as on-bus-camera bus lane enforcement) santamonicanext.org/2026/01/hayd...
Hayden AI to Deploy on Parking Enforcement Vehicles for the First Time (Not Just Buses) - Santa Monica Next
(Image: Santa Monica “yellow flag” bike lane violation (cars parked partially encroaching into bike lane) spotted by AI camera. Image via City of Santa Monica.) Hayden AI is expanding the use of its a...
santamonicanext.org
January 15, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Santa Monica announces it will soon use AI cameras to ticket drivers parked in bike lanes (same vendor as on-bus-camera bus lane enforcement) santamonicanext.org/2026/01/hayd...
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Huge victory today for the future of the Westside of LA—and the future of UCLA.
The LA Metro planning committee, following the Metro staff recommendation, is approving a Locally Preferred Alternative that is a FAST SUBWAY with automated trains, from Van Nuys through UCLA down to the D and E lines.
The LA Metro planning committee, following the Metro staff recommendation, is approving a Locally Preferred Alternative that is a FAST SUBWAY with automated trains, from Van Nuys through UCLA down to the D and E lines.
January 14, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Huge victory today for the future of the Westside of LA—and the future of UCLA.
The LA Metro planning committee, following the Metro staff recommendation, is approving a Locally Preferred Alternative that is a FAST SUBWAY with automated trains, from Van Nuys through UCLA down to the D and E lines.
The LA Metro planning committee, following the Metro staff recommendation, is approving a Locally Preferred Alternative that is a FAST SUBWAY with automated trains, from Van Nuys through UCLA down to the D and E lines.
You: The Global Southeast does not exist.
Me:
Me:
January 14, 2026 at 8:16 PM
You: The Global Southeast does not exist.
Me:
Me:
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semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
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Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...
inthesetimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
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"A lot depends, for example, on whether state and local transportation departments are staffed by car-brained traffic engineers or planners who are genuinely invested in walkability and developing viable mass transit networks."
There's never been a better time to go work in municipal govt
There's never been a better time to go work in municipal govt
The case against Graeberism and for Mamdanism dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
January 12, 2026 at 9:01 PM
"A lot depends, for example, on whether state and local transportation departments are staffed by car-brained traffic engineers or planners who are genuinely invested in walkability and developing viable mass transit networks."
There's never been a better time to go work in municipal govt
There's never been a better time to go work in municipal govt
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Read the full article here:
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coa...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coa...
Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records - Carbon Brief
Coal power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, after each nation added record amounts of clean energy
www.carbonbrief.org
January 13, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Read the full article here:
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coa...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coa...
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ICE has a new tool to use location data from data brokers to identify the movements of protestors. Please remove your phone's Advertising ID and disable always-on location access forapps that sell your data (most of them). Instructions for Android and iOS from the EFF: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
How to Disable Ad ID Tracking on iOS and Android, and Why You Should Do It Now
The ad identifier - aka “IDFA” on iOS, or “AAID” on Android - is the key that enables most third-party tracking on mobile devices. Disabling it will make it substantially harder for advertisers and da...
www.eff.org
January 12, 2026 at 3:03 PM
ICE has a new tool to use location data from data brokers to identify the movements of protestors. Please remove your phone's Advertising ID and disable always-on location access forapps that sell your data (most of them). Instructions for Android and iOS from the EFF: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Join us for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social with Prof. Cathie Carmichael, who will examine the Habsburg garrison complex in Trebinje, and discuss the downfall of #Habsburg military power in 1918.
🗓️ 21 January at 5.30pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🗓️ 21 January at 5.30pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
January 12, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Join us for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social with Prof. Cathie Carmichael, who will examine the Habsburg garrison complex in Trebinje, and discuss the downfall of #Habsburg military power in 1918.
🗓️ 21 January at 5.30pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🗓️ 21 January at 5.30pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
We will get a UCLA station! (in 2035)
I am so happy Fred Rosen and the gerontocracy of Bel Air didn’t get their way. Thousands of students and university workers matter more, it turns out!
I am so happy Fred Rosen and the gerontocracy of Bel Air didn’t get their way. Thousands of students and university workers matter more, it turns out!
January 10, 2026 at 1:37 AM
We will get a UCLA station! (in 2035)
I am so happy Fred Rosen and the gerontocracy of Bel Air didn’t get their way. Thousands of students and university workers matter more, it turns out!
I am so happy Fred Rosen and the gerontocracy of Bel Air didn’t get their way. Thousands of students and university workers matter more, it turns out!
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the thing that drives me crazy is people putting the weights in the wrong place, as if it is somehow too difficult to put the 10 pound plate on the 10 pound plate rack
I don't ask for much gym etiquette wise but if you take 10+ minutes between multiple sets and do not allow people to work in with you I need to speak with whoever raised you (and to have a snack and a nap to deal with my Big Feelings)
January 8, 2026 at 9:07 PM
the thing that drives me crazy is people putting the weights in the wrong place, as if it is somehow too difficult to put the 10 pound plate on the 10 pound plate rack
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I didn’t have a ton of time for it, but I spent a few minutes during our first lecture explaining that a syllabus is an argument, not an encyclopedia. I asked students to imagine they were teaching a class on C20 US history & gave them a list of events to cover, from which they had to choose 5. +
January 8, 2026 at 2:05 PM
I didn’t have a ton of time for it, but I spent a few minutes during our first lecture explaining that a syllabus is an argument, not an encyclopedia. I asked students to imagine they were teaching a class on C20 US history & gave them a list of events to cover, from which they had to choose 5. +
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The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.
(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
/
January 8, 2026 at 12:13 AM
The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.
(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
/
(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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jamal murray has become such a gifted and crafty playmaker. he doesn’t get enough credit for this
January 8, 2026 at 2:00 AM
jamal murray has become such a gifted and crafty playmaker. he doesn’t get enough credit for this
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I want the media to understand just how close what happened today is to where George Floyd was murdered. 0.8 miles.
January 7, 2026 at 8:16 PM
I want the media to understand just how close what happened today is to where George Floyd was murdered. 0.8 miles.
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If you, or anyone you know, is interested in studying Contemporary History at CEU join us for an online info session next week, Wednesday, Jan. 14!
Full details here: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/online-sessi...
Full details here: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/online-sessi...
Online Sessions for Prospective Students | Department of Historical Studies
historicalstudies.ceu.edu
January 7, 2026 at 1:12 PM
If you, or anyone you know, is interested in studying Contemporary History at CEU join us for an online info session next week, Wednesday, Jan. 14!
Full details here: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/online-sessi...
Full details here: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/online-sessi...
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"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:36 AM
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
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“We are locked into a battle we did not seek and our timidity is keeping us on the defensive. It isn’t working. Our pessimism is self-fullfiling.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
We Need to Get Off The Defensive About Immigration
Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:08 AM
“We are locked into a battle we did not seek and our timidity is keeping us on the defensive. It isn’t working. Our pessimism is self-fullfiling.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
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Seriously.
i find it funny when digital rights activists, particularly in the US, speak out about the problems with US tech and even advocate digital sovereignty now, as if their advocacy and opposition to government and regulation didn’t help usher us toward this terrible reality in the first place
January 6, 2026 at 7:56 AM
Seriously.