everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"
And of course I am the voice of doom in this NYT piece about academic historians and the 250th www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/a...
In major policy shift, Japan scraps limits on lethal arms exports www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04...
Trinity College is hiring a VAP in Japanese History to teach a pre-1868 survey and a natural disasters seminar for 2026-27. Search committee asks for a cover letter, including a brief explanation of their teaching experience, CV, and names of two referees to lidija.petrus@trincoll.edu by May 4.
Alex Jones! Alex Jones!
Such an important and criminally under-studied dimension of the Asia-Pacific War:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Art Smith, during his 1917 barnstorming tour of Japan
Among those attending was Honda Seichiro, a young bicycle mechanic, who, on witnessing Smith’s agility in the skies over Hamamatsu, threw himself into the study of motor vehicles, paving the way for the automobile co. that would bear his name
Ma Yuan's studies of the properties of water, southern Song Dynasty China, ca. 1190 - 1225 CE
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Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.
This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon
Trump set a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz-after cursing at and threatening Iran for closing the passageway-then had the navy seize a ship
And again threatened them with war crimes-while concurrently sending a team of negotiators to engage Iran in peace talks
These acts are irrational and insane
Soichiro*
Art Smith, during his 1917 barnstorming tour of Japan
Among those attending was Honda Seichiro, a young bicycle mechanic, who, on witnessing Smith’s agility in the skies over Hamamatsu, threw himself into the study of motor vehicles, paving the way for the automobile co. that would bear his name
I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again
Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited
Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.
Firing and jailing RFK is the moderate position
Randy Barnett, quote-posting Jeff Clark: This is a travesty. If making allegedly questionable constitutional arguments is a disbarrable offense, bar disciplinary tribunals would be in permanent session.
John Eastman was not disbarred for making "allegedly questionable constitutional arguments," and characterizing the decision that way is risible.
that beep beep beep sound you hear is the president and his family backing a truck up to the US treasury...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
put this in the shitposter hall of fame
It is easy to treat Vermeer as an agreeable intimist—a transcriber of domestic niceties. But he grew up in a world of war, starvation, and massacres. His paintings were safe havens. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/I32VzU
i think folks might be unfamiliar with "the pharisees", so let's make it clear: he's saying the jews run the press, and that they are conspiring to undermine the military. it's not just antisemitism, it's indistinguishable from nazism.
It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen
Thr South Korean president criticized Israel, Israel got super mad about the mention of the Holocaust, and not the far worse reference. The president compared them to imperial Japan, which is like the worst thing a Korean can call anyone or anything www.theverge.com/policy/91358...
Pretty extraordinary that the U.S. is experiencing its worst March drought on record, worse even than the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s. Drought is the most dangerous threat of climate change.
Lots to unpack in this 1940 quote from Fujiwara Yasuaki, then Director-General of Japan's Aviation Bureau, who viewed saw the empire's expanding aerial network as a modern counterpart to the road system that had formed the foundation of Roman power
Imagine this attitude but for healthcare and universal basic income.
So the media is a bunch of villainous Jews and Trump is Jesus. I fully expect the NYT to sanewash this antisemitic lunacy. So far, they’re ignoring it.
Campfire 6”x6” oil
Can’t wait to read and teach this new edited volume by @mmuscolino.bsky.social, which breaks us out of the binary of the Mao era as environmentally destructive vs. sustainable!
#envhist #histstm
My painting COASTAL POPPIES
