Actually, no. I had small kids then and it was very nice and cozy and special and I got to spend lots of quality time with them

This is the exact same RFK saying the exact same stuff he does now. The big bad corporations are doing vaccines and stuff to make you sick and all the experts and agencies are corrupted by them, and they're like Nazis really, so I'm gonna go clean house and stop them. It's the same shtick.

In Haaretz ist heute ein Artikel über posttraumatische Belastungsstörungen bei israelischen Soldaten, die zuletzt in Gaza gedient haben. Ich habe einige der Aussagen im Artikel über die Verbrechen, die sie dort begangen haben, übersetzt. Dazu gehört tatsächlich eine Trigger-Warnung:

Nodes, Edges, and the Historian’s Craft: Knowledge Graphs as Research Notes How moving from Word docs to network graphs transformed my research workflow and how LLMs made it possible.

Knowledge graphs are transforming my research methodology. Claude Code allows me to build knowledge graphs as I take notes from primary sources.

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Now try to imagine your 2015 self being shown this post. cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...

What began as a lecture on the field's evolution is turning into a paper. An animation mapping the affiliations of over 3,000 authors published in the EHR over the last century (Latin America is the most underrepresented region).
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Line chart of the estimated share of newborns who die before reaching the age of five from 1950 to 2023 where child mortality in China spikes to about 1 in 3 children during the Great Leap Forward (1958 to 1962), producing a noticeable uptick in global rates. After the 1960s both China and world rates decline steadily to low single digits by 2023.

China’s Great Leap Forward caused a dramatic spike in child deaths—

Child mortality rates in China have fallen from more than 20% in 1950 to less than 1% today.

But this steady progress was interrupted in the late 1950s during the “Great Leap Forward”.

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

But instead they just don’t care. They don’t really bother to push back. They don’t worry how it will be perceived. They know they can do anything, no matter how bad, and their insensate numbskull supporters will never question it, nor will the opposition or media ever truly push the issue.

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Orbán’s Ceaușescu moment. Booed at his own rally, ranting and pointing fingers. His final message: Ukraine hatred.

"Some 2.1 million Gazans are now crowded into less than half the area they lived in before the war, trying to survive in harsh conditions amid rubble they cannot clear."

We see this in every war, images and videos that serve as stark reminders of how life carries on, even in a war zone.

An Iranian girl plays on swings at a beach in the city of Bandar Abbas as smoke rises into the air from a nearby naval base that was targeted by US strikes.

I’m going to wheatpaste this article to telephone poles until everyone reads it

Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice. Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.

Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

Add the Falklands, which, if scaled to your US analogy, is not good. Though we are still thirty years out in your analogy.

UN General Assembly voting board showing results for a resolution on the transatlantic slave trade, with 123 countries voting in favour, 52 abstaining, and 3 voting against (United States, Israel, Argentina), alongside a list of countries and their votes.

Today, the UN General Assembly voted to condemn the transatlantic slave trade as a crime against humanity.

➡️ 123 countries voted in favour.

➡️ 52 abstained.

➡️ 3 voted against: USA, Israel, Argentina. 🤐

The globalization of double standards through right-wing autocrats really makes you wonder about the short-term disadvantages of norms-bound behavior.

A week ago, @vdeminstitute.bsky.social published its latest annual report. A record 41% of the world’s population lives in countries undergoing autocratization.

Yet aside from outlets like Guardian, ZEIT, SRF, media coverage across Europe has been strikingly limited. Why? www.srf.ch/news/interna...

PROGRAM 2026 LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY IN NEW PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL CAPITALISM: ACTORS, CONCEPTS, AND PROBLEMS OF SCALE 10.04.2026 08.05.2026 05.06.2026 04.09.2026 02.10.2026 06.11.2026 04.12.2026 Sven Beckert (Harvard University): A Conversation with Sven Beckert: Capitalism in Latin American History Roy Hora (Universidad de San Andrés - Buenos Aires): Capitalism and Society in Argentina in the 19th and 20th Centuries Rossana Barragán (CIDES - UMSA - La Paz): The Empire of Work: History of the Social Production of Silver from Potosí for the World Pablo Pryluka (CUNY - New York): Markets, Consumers, and the Making of Developmental Capitalism in Postwar Latin America Constanza Castro (Universidad de los Andes - Bogotá): "En este puerto está el mundo". A Microhistory of Global Tobacco: Honda, Columbia, 1846 — 1880 Melissa Teixeira (University of Pennsylvania): "Tem que dar certo": Inflation and the Remaking of Brazilian Democracy John Tutino (Georgetown University): The Revolution that Remade Global

With 11 other colleagues, we are launching a new online seminar series about Latin America in global history on Zoom. Here's the program for 2026. First meeting with @svenbeckert.bsky.social on Apr 10 at 4pm CET. All welcome. Link in program below, website to follow soon.

Danmark forberedte sig på muligt angreb fra USA: Fløj poser med blod til Grønland og gjorde klar til at sprænge landingsbaner i luften Nøglekilder i Danmark og Europa fortæller nu for første gang, hvad der skete i de mest kritiske dage, hvor Donald Trump truede med at tage Grønland "på den hårde måde".

Remarkable story from Denmark's nat'l broadcaster. "When Danish soldiers were flown to Greenland in January...they brought explosives so they could destroy, among other things, the runways in Nuuk & Kangerlussuaq [to] prevent US mil aircraft from landing" www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

There was a time when this guy was actually a reasonably serious commentator on economic policy. Like Nate Silver, he decided to take the mask off, & it's just incredibly ugly now.

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Pourquoi l’article du Figaro (18 mars 2026) signé Paul-François Paoli est-il une attaque ABSOLUMENT SCANDALEUSE contre Johann Chapoutot, Nicolas Offenstadt, Gérard Noiriel… et contre la recherche universitaires en général.

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You spent the entirety of Biden’s presidency calling him a warmonger for supporting Ukraine.

Zum Tod von Jürgen Habermas: Er verteidigte die Vernunft – auch, als es vergeblich schien Als scharfsinniger Denker, glänzender Essayist und begnadeter Polemiker hat Jürgen Habermas die gesamte Geschichte der Bundesrepublik begleitet und in Atem gehalten. Nun ist er im Alter von 96 Jahren ...

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📢 We are accepting submissions for issue 11.2 of Global Histories: A Student Journal! Please complete your submission by March 31, 2026 🗓️

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Really sorry to hear about Ricardo Pérez Monfort‘s passing, who I remember as an untiringly curious and original scholar and a real mensch. He went too early.

The Housing Angle Strait of Hormuz Edition

It's very likely that an oil shock helped to crater housing production in the 1970s and could be about to do so again. publiccomment.blog/p/the-housin...

North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.

We are quantifying this exact pattern and find:

Israelis double as likely to be described using humanizing frames. Palestinians overwhelmingly described wrt infrastructure damage.

Palestinians 6X more likely to be discussed in relation to their govt. Israelis paired with govt 5% of the time.