Tom Fleischman
@tomfleischman.bsky.social
History @University of Rochester; environment, pigs, Germany; backyard pond tinkerer
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ICE detained a hospital chaplain/Imam worked primarily in the NICU, comforting families especially those whose babies were dying. His colleague speaks out www.tiktok.com/t/ZT68UAPXp/
Chaplain Ayman—Imam Ayman Soliman— has been my colleague for four years. ICE detained him at a routine check-in. Ayman is an asset to our community, and we are demanding his release. #aymansoliman ...
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July 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
ICE detained a hospital chaplain/Imam worked primarily in the NICU, comforting families especially those whose babies were dying. His colleague speaks out www.tiktok.com/t/ZT68UAPXp/
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SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
April 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
Between the mild intellectual dark web apostasy and death of the pope, we’re about to get a ton of @mattsitman.bsky.social audio content.
this fwiw has always been my view, that the shallow incoherence of “antiwokeness” owes itself mostly to the fact that its more aesthetics and social positioning than anything else
The more uncharitable analysis -- which I think is more accurate -- is that *none* of this is based around intellectual or even political principles but is ultimately based around the question of what kinds of media cocktail parties do you want to be invited to...
April 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Between the mild intellectual dark web apostasy and death of the pope, we’re about to get a ton of @mattsitman.bsky.social audio content.
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
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This is a smart @derekkrissoff.bsky.social essay on the life of books for a college undergraduate in 2025.
It is a reminder of the subtle ways physical books can help create community and meaning in a world that needs those connections.
derekkrissoff.substack.com/p/students-a...
It is a reminder of the subtle ways physical books can help create community and meaning in a world that needs those connections.
derekkrissoff.substack.com/p/students-a...
Students and the social life of books
Impressions from a year of parenting
derekkrissoff.substack.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This is a smart @derekkrissoff.bsky.social essay on the life of books for a college undergraduate in 2025.
It is a reminder of the subtle ways physical books can help create community and meaning in a world that needs those connections.
derekkrissoff.substack.com/p/students-a...
It is a reminder of the subtle ways physical books can help create community and meaning in a world that needs those connections.
derekkrissoff.substack.com/p/students-a...
It’s giving 1936 Olympics.
With some countries (including Germany), advising citizens not to travel to the United States for fear they won’t be able to get in/out in the current climate, I asked FIFA president Gianni Infantino if that is a concern ahead of the Club World Cup this summer. His response 👇
April 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
It’s giving 1936 Olympics.
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Adolf Eichmann, 2025:
“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”
ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’ • Michigan Advance
The leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American citi...
michiganadvance.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Adolf Eichmann, 2025:
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New — ICE will release the mother and children they shackled and unlawfully abducted from Sackets Harbor, NY in late March after relentless pressure from the town.
I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...
I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...
April 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
New — ICE will release the mother and children they shackled and unlawfully abducted from Sackets Harbor, NY in late March after relentless pressure from the town.
I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...
I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...
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Just when I am about to fall into a black hole of despair at the demise of serious journalism and public discourse capable of improving humanity, comes a podcast like this: marktwainstudies.com/newspapers/
Newspapers Worse Than Dead, But Print Is A Rent Strike (A Tale of Today, Episode #15)
The second part of our meditation on journalism in Gilded Ages, then to now.
marktwainstudies.com
April 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Just when I am about to fall into a black hole of despair at the demise of serious journalism and public discourse capable of improving humanity, comes a podcast like this: marktwainstudies.com/newspapers/
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Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS 📚
www.wordsandmoney.com/four-of-the-...
www.wordsandmoney.com/four-of-the-...
Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS
Shuttering IMLS would be "an act of monumental neglect, violating the very foundation of America and what it stands for as a country," the publishers assert.
www.wordsandmoney.com
April 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS 📚
www.wordsandmoney.com/four-of-the-...
www.wordsandmoney.com/four-of-the-...
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DOGE has now turned its sights on a small agency that provides support for community programs in every state. The National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds museums, historic sites, libraries, educators and media outlets across the country, has been told to slash staff by 70-80 percent.🧵
April 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
DOGE has now turned its sights on a small agency that provides support for community programs in every state. The National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds museums, historic sites, libraries, educators and media outlets across the country, has been told to slash staff by 70-80 percent.🧵
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"It has come for science because it was never just about the Humanities, but about how we assess American progress through infrastructures of new knowledge and its application." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/02/t...
The Humanities as Canary: Understanding this Crisis Now - The Scholarly Kitchen
The Humanities have always been the canary in the coal mine of the full knowledge industry. What information can help us understand this crisis and its implications?
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April 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
"It has come for science because it was never just about the Humanities, but about how we assess American progress through infrastructures of new knowledge and its application." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/02/t...
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Deception Island skates by again. Clever bastards
The Trump administration also imposed retaliatory tariffs on two sets of uninhabited islands: Svalbard and Jan Mayen; and Heard and McDonald Islands.
April 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Deception Island skates by again. Clever bastards
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@ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social Welcome to the Central European History Society (CEHS) and their journal, Central European History (CEH). Give them a follow if you are so inclined!
March 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
@ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social Welcome to the Central European History Society (CEHS) and their journal, Central European History (CEH). Give them a follow if you are so inclined!
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“The leaving the power on the table story might be the great story of higher education right now.
We have so much & yet are absolutely terrified to use it.” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I think about this quote almost every day. If HigherEd folds pocket Aces again we may never be dealt another.
We have so much & yet are absolutely terrified to use it.” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I think about this quote almost every day. If HigherEd folds pocket Aces again we may never be dealt another.
The arbeiterjugending of US HigherEd will be accomplished by administrators “agreeing” to continue to be the R&D arm for O&G, MIC, pharma, tech, etc. in exchange for converting to a reactionary indoctrination curriculum. It’s a bad deal. Nobody has to take it. But that doesn’t mean they won’t.
March 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
“The leaving the power on the table story might be the great story of higher education right now.
We have so much & yet are absolutely terrified to use it.” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I think about this quote almost every day. If HigherEd folds pocket Aces again we may never be dealt another.
We have so much & yet are absolutely terrified to use it.” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I think about this quote almost every day. If HigherEd folds pocket Aces again we may never be dealt another.
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again sheer naked ambition should be sending more Dems in the AOC / Crockett / Sanders / Frost etc direction
Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
March 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
again sheer naked ambition should be sending more Dems in the AOC / Crockett / Sanders / Frost etc direction
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Having researched/written about ideological exclusion/deportation for over two decades ...
Public attention & Press reporting are ESSENTIAL.
Legal rep & Legal challenges are ESSENTIAL.
Following cases & reporting new ones are ESSENTIAL.
Describing the CHILLING EFFECT on free speech is ESSENTIAL.
Public attention & Press reporting are ESSENTIAL.
Legal rep & Legal challenges are ESSENTIAL.
Following cases & reporting new ones are ESSENTIAL.
Describing the CHILLING EFFECT on free speech is ESSENTIAL.
The US has a long history of using ideological exclusion/deportation (barring/expelling based on political beliefs, expressions, & associations) as a tool of political repression. 🗃️
I wrote about that history in "Threat of Dissent." ⬇️
@harvardpress.bsky.social
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
I wrote about that history in "Threat of Dissent." ⬇️
@harvardpress.bsky.social
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Threat of Dissent — Harvard University Press
“Suspicion of foreigners goes back to the earliest days of the republic…Kraut traces how different ideologies would be considered intolerably dangerous according to the dominant fears of a given era. ...
www.hup.harvard.edu
March 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Having researched/written about ideological exclusion/deportation for over two decades ...
Public attention & Press reporting are ESSENTIAL.
Legal rep & Legal challenges are ESSENTIAL.
Following cases & reporting new ones are ESSENTIAL.
Describing the CHILLING EFFECT on free speech is ESSENTIAL.
Public attention & Press reporting are ESSENTIAL.
Legal rep & Legal challenges are ESSENTIAL.
Following cases & reporting new ones are ESSENTIAL.
Describing the CHILLING EFFECT on free speech is ESSENTIAL.
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Wenn die Bürgerschaft die komplette Förderung entzieht bleibt da halt nicht mehr viel: taz.de/Koloniales-E...
Koloniales Erbe der Hansestadt: Hamburg sägt Forschungsstelle ab
Die Forschungsstelle zur Aufarbeitung von Hamburgs kolonialem Erbe gilt als Vorbild. Doch streicht der Senat Gelder und besiegelt damit wohl ihr Ende.
taz.de
March 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Wenn die Bürgerschaft die komplette Förderung entzieht bleibt da halt nicht mehr viel: taz.de/Koloniales-E...
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To mark the 80th anniversary of the March 10, 1945 firebombing of Tokyo, a thread introducing one of the most remarkable primary sources I've come across in the archive:
Gen. Thomas Power's eye-witness report, recorded while circling over the firestorm for nearly two hours. 1/
Gen. Thomas Power's eye-witness report, recorded while circling over the firestorm for nearly two hours. 1/
March 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
To mark the 80th anniversary of the March 10, 1945 firebombing of Tokyo, a thread introducing one of the most remarkable primary sources I've come across in the archive:
Gen. Thomas Power's eye-witness report, recorded while circling over the firestorm for nearly two hours. 1/
Gen. Thomas Power's eye-witness report, recorded while circling over the firestorm for nearly two hours. 1/
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It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!
March 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!
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Nach der Bundestagswahl lud der #FCSP zu einer Veranstaltung mit dem Historiker Patrice Poutros ein, um im Rahmen des Black History Months über die Asyldebatte und Rassismus im Wahlkampf zu sprechen. Auch Oladapo Afolayan sprach über die Perspektive von Schwarzen Menschen in unserer Gesellschaft.
Oladapo Afolayan und Patrice Poutros diskutieren über Migration und Rassismus - FC St. Pauli
Kurz nach der Bundestagswahl lud der FC St. Pauli zu einer Diskussionsveranstaltung im Clubheim ein.☠ Es wurde über die Asyldebatte und Rassismus im Wahlkampf gesprochen. Auch FCSP-Spieler Oladapo Af...
www.fcstpauli.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Nach der Bundestagswahl lud der #FCSP zu einer Veranstaltung mit dem Historiker Patrice Poutros ein, um im Rahmen des Black History Months über die Asyldebatte und Rassismus im Wahlkampf zu sprechen. Auch Oladapo Afolayan sprach über die Perspektive von Schwarzen Menschen in unserer Gesellschaft.
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Ph.D. Workers and Their University Both Backed a Union Election. Then Trump Won.
U Rochester tells unionizing students to try luck with NLRB
The University of Rochester gave multiple reasons for backing out and leaving students to try their luck with the NLRB, which has been drastically transformed since the president took office. Other st...
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March 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Ph.D. Workers and Their University Both Backed a Union Election. Then Trump Won.