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• Medieval political historian • connecting current rhetoric to historical examples • exploring how present and past politicians rewrite the past •

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The reality is and one that many American academics and experts are unwilling to utter is that these are death camps and just because the ash isn’t falling from the ovens yet doesn’t change that reality.
Anne Frank likely died in a typhus epidemic that spread through the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

History rhymes, it rhymes

Close the camps, set fire to the prisons
ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.
February 2, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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The use of disease as a weapon of extermination is not new it was a major component of the Nazis systematic slaughter of Jews, Roma, lgbtqia folks and others just as it was used by Americans against native peoples during the cleansing of the country during westward expansion history rhymes
February 2, 2026 at 1:03 AM
And if you’re in the group of people that likes to listen to information instead!

#history #politics #holocaust #holocausthistory #ai
February 1, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Gen-AI is rewriting the Holocaust. I’m very concerned about it, let’s talk about what’s going on and why it’s a risk: 🧵

#ai #genai #history #holocaust #holocausthistory
February 1, 2026 at 3:08 AM
History repeats itself - and so does politicians’ language when they’re trying to win people over

MAGA’s rhetoric about violence in Minnesota parallels an English king trying to gain control of Scotland

So what is that language meant to do?

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#medievalhistory #iceout #minneapolis #politics
January 27, 2026 at 5:05 AM