Well worth reading although sadly no one in the current White House or Department of Defense will understand...
The Warmongers Are Getting History All Wrong www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...
Buster Keaton's THE GENERAL turns 100 this year! 🤩🥳
Revisit this 1926 classic with @joshuastevens97.bsky.social's review!
#TheGeneral #BusterKeaton #classicfilm #silentfilm
Rep Sanchez: You're spending taxpayer dollars to drink milk shirtless in a hot tub with Kid Rock and, somehow, you think that's a better public health message than informing the public about the importance of vaccines.
Archbishop of Canterbury calls for members of the Anglican Communion to join Pope Leo in calling for peace
I stand with the Pope in call for peace, says Archbishop of Canterbury “I urge Anglicans across the Church of England and the Anglican Communion to join with His Holiness in raising our…
Large parts of the business of keeping the US military fed were privatised to civilian contractors.
And then last year DOGE started making cuts in those civilian contractors.
eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Screengrab from Battleship Potemkin
Screengrab from Battleship Potemkin
Screengrab from Battleship Potemkin
Screengrab from Battleship Potemkin
My favorite scene in Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1926) isn't the step sequence, but the funeral for Vakulinchuk on the Odessa docks. It begins with a few mourners, who find his body and a note recounting his heroic death. In the scene, their sadness transforms into revolutionary fervor.
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Isn't the US military's entire thing supposed to be logistics?
Like a big chunk of the commercially available food on the market that exists exists in part because the lines can be easily turned into making food for war
Nice birthday card he sent Epstein.
Happy World Quantum Day, from Physics Today
“We use 40 yrs of global data to demonstrate that TCs experiencing Rapid Intensification during Marine Heat Waves resulted in 60% more billion-dollar disasters… produced consistently higher maximum wind speeds, storm surges, and precipitation rates.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Just had my office full of students, gathered around to listen to the radio, much like Americans on the home front did, absorbing with stunned silence Edward R. Murrow’s 1945 report from the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp.
Listen here: perspectives.ushmm.org/item/edward-...
NATO has been the bedrock of our national security for over 75 years. Walking away from our strongest allies during a period of global instability is a serious mistake that makes every American less safe.
Thursday, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM Climate Histories of the United States: A Roundtable The scholars on this roundtable will discuss how U.S. historians are integrating climate frameworks into their research and teaching, and how historians can provide historical perspective on climate policy debates. Chair: John Brooke, Ohio State University Panelists: • Leila Blackbird, Brown University • Lawrence Culver, Utah State University • Katherine Grandjean, Wellesley College • Eric Herschthal, University of Utah • Emily Pawley, Environmental History, Dickinson College
Logo for the 2026 meeting of the Organization of American Historians conference in Philadelphia, April 16-19, with an illustration of Independence Hall.
I’m excited to be headed to Philadelphia for the Organization of American Historians 2026 conference to participate in a roundtable, “Climate Histories of the United States,” on Thursday at 11 AM. It should be a great conversation! See alt text and link for more info.
www.oah.org/conferences/...
Wait until he hears about Roundup.
Ronald H. Spector, Who Traced Social History in Books on War, Dies at 83 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/b...
NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...
New Owner of Historic Shopping Plaza Pitches a $1.5 Billion Rescue Plan www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/b...
The Awe of a Moon Launch in an Age of Trump, Turmoil and Tribal Divisions www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...
Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy have departed crew quarters and are en route towards their ride to the moon at LC-39B.
In the wise words of Walter Cronkite, “The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us.”
Luna is beckoning. It’s game time.
📸 Max Evans for NSF
Staging. SRB Sep.
LAUNCH! ARTEMIS II LAUNCHES WITH A CREW OF 4 TOWARDS THE MOON
Are you at #ASEH2026 and want to learn more about what on earth has been happening with Greenland? 🇬🇱 Join me, @dagomardegroot.bsky.social @gfitz.bsky.social Ron Doel, and Tom Robertson this afternoon at 2:15!
A photo looking up at a branch of a Yoshino cherry tree in bloom, the branch makes a dark hook/spiral shape and around it delicate blossoms hang from smaller branches against the light blue sky.
A photo of a collegiate gothic building (Smith Hall) behind Yoshino cherry trees in bloom.
A photo of a collegiate gothic building (Savery Hall) behind Yoshino cherry trees in bloom. Early morning sun illumates the top half of the building with golden light. The trees are still in shade.
A photo of Mt Rainier against a greyish sky behind an evergreen-tree covered hill. The lower forground shows a busy intersection.
My campus is prettier than your campus! Thanks @uwcherryblossom.bsky.social
