Seen at the No Kings protest today:

> "IMPEACH THIS FAUX-KING MORON!"

John-Paul Himka - Wikipedia

Have finished reading John-Paul Himka’s Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust: OUN and UPA’s Participation in the Destruction of Ukrainian Jewry, 1941-1944 (Ibidem, 2021). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John-Paul_Himka

The spring sky is full of snow.

Wait until the MAGA/MAHA Viagra pipeline come to a halt.

Nearly half of generic Rxs used in the US come from India, which relies on The Strait of Hormuz to import critical materials used to manufacture and ship them- 90% of all Rxs filled in the US are generic brand.

www.cnbc.com/2026/03/16/s...

This evening Jan Böhmermann called Hegseth the “U.S. minister for fragile masculinity” on his German satirical show ZDF Magazin Royale. 👏

Pentagon plan expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content The plan puts barriers on the use of wire service content and prohibits information that is not “consistent with good order and discipline.”

Pentagon orders Stars & Stripes to limit the use of wire services, eliminate comic strips and other syndicated material. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2...

This evening Jan Böhmermann called Hegseth the “U.S. minister for fragile masculinity” on his German satirical show ZDF Magazin Royale. 👏

Devastating report: Hannah Allam, "Trump DoD Axed a Program Meant to Limit Civilian Casualties", Propublica, March 10, 2026. www.propublica.org/article/trump-defense-de...

My brief reaction: https://stoneman.blog/bad

Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school.
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...

Collaborating at Speed: The Team Behind the Living Handbook of Digital Scholarly Editing

Und hier stellen sich die cool kids vor, die beim Booksprint #DSEatDHIP dabei sind, sowohl die Glücklichen vor Ort bei Sonnenschein in Paris als auch die Externen Autor:innen https://dhdhi.hypotheses.org/13056

Crosspost from https://stoneman.blog/bloodlust

Donald Dump's bloodlust will cost many more lives and weaken the country far beyond what he's already accomplished in the past 14 months. Whether he'll learn anything from his mistakes is doubtful, and what his hangers-on conclude is anybody's […]

His son, George W. Bush, leveraged the return of a martial ethos to U.S. politics for even more extensive military interventions. Still grappling with the trauma of the second Bush's wars, the United States now has to come to terms with the unhinged bellicosity of an ignorant Donald Dump and his […]

Vietnam should have taught us a bit of healthy humility, but instead our apparent reticence to use military force after the fall of Saigon came to be framed as a pathology, dubbed Vietnam syndrome. After the successful liberation of Kuwait in 1991, George H. W. Bush even proudly asserted, "By […]

Crosspost from https://stoneman.blog/bloodlust

Donald Dump's bloodlust will cost many more lives and weaken the country far beyond what he's already accomplished in the past 14 months. Whether he'll learn anything from his mistakes is doubtful, and what his hangers-on conclude is anybody's […]

@xankarn "…always the dregs, the shills, and the lapdogs." Which one is he?

You can’t spell POTUS without POS.

Record label from an old 78 of the anti~Hitler song shared on the blog post.

An anti-Hitler foxtrot -- shared for no particular reason at https://stoneman.blog/foxtrot

@M_K_Schumacher Kann ich mir gut vorstellen. War auch so in früheren DH-Projekten, z.B. in einer DHI-Vorlesung in Washington: markstoneman.com/2016/10/20/tonights-lect...

An anti-Hitler foxtrot -- shared for no particular reason: markstoneman.com

Why does MAGA undermine science? Deny and erase history? Poison the information ecosystem?

1. Because authoritarians must be the only source of truth.

2. Because disoriented subjects depend on the regime for security.

3. Because nihilism is an effective way to divide and rule.

MAGA wants us […]

"The Convergence of Two Sins:
These two events, (1) the myth of #statelessness and (2) the #immunity from legal liability, fed each other. The fantasy of a separate cyberspace provided the ideological cover for the exceptional legal treatment worldwide. Why burden these pioneers with old-world […]

@josemurilo It's probably no accident that this stuff occurred while neoliberalism was taking a victory lap after the revolutions of 1989–91. We let the ball drop in so many ways.

yeaaah... Substack is a bad idea. Look into Outpost or Ghost, and stop supporting literal Nazis. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/reveal...

Newsletter: Groundhog Day This short email begins with a thought I had in late October 2024. The few words and photos I've posted since my previous newsletter follow. * * * First posted on Oct 27, 2024 ### Historical Contingency It's one thing to criticize presentist thinking and optimistic notions of human progress that don't comport with professional historiography. It's quite another to be punched in the face repeatedly by the reality of historical contingency in our national experience these past few decades. * * * First posted on Feb 8, 2026 ### Groundhog Day These days, I often have no words, which for me is saying something. Perhaps I'm still processing the American insanity that makes every day feel like I'm stuck in a time loop à la Harold Ramis's 1993 film "Groundhog Day." Or maybe I'm growing numb and dumb. In any case, I took this photo in North Conway on the actual Groundhog Day last week with nary a rodent in sight. * * * First posted on Jan. 24, 2026 ### The Current Terror There are federal agents and administration officials who will have to face murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and other serious charges after the rule of law is reestablished in this land. But how to end the current terror? Heather Cox Richardson has thoughts. Watch her comment on today's killing of Alex Pretti on YouTube (37 min). * * * First posted on Jan 30, 2026 ### Winter Stroll Seen in North Conway Village on Wednesday afternoon, Jan 28

The latest, very short iteration of my newsletter is out: Groundhog Day.

Text Shot: These days, I often have no words, which for me is saying something. Perhaps I'm still processing the American insanity that makes every day feel like I'm stuck in a time loop à la Harold Ramis's 1993 film "Groundhog Day." Or maybe I'm growing numb and dumb. In any case, I took this photo in North Conway on the actual Groundhog Day last week with nary a rodent in sight.

In the woods on a sunny afternoon, the shadows of trees playing on the snow.

Crosspost via https://stoneman.blog/groundhog

The assault on MN has been a political disaster. An economic disaster. A legal disaster. And a moral disaster.

Trump only cares about the first of these and that’s why the fucker is going down.

Keep the faith. Fight this maniac. The old man is running on fumes.

@davi_cath Wow!

What a great term: TIL that Karl Marx coined (?) the word „peacemongering“ to describe Western countries‘ attitude vis-à-vis Russia‘s aggression against the Ottoman Empire. (Found in Timm Graßmann‘s excellent „Marx gegen Moskau. Zur Außenpolitik der Arbeiterklasse“. Stuttgart 2024.)

Dear Media: Could we please stop calling ICE terror in U.S. cities a "federal crackdown"? That legitimizes their presence and actions.