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
Hungary just elected a new PM who wasted zero time — he shut down state propaganda, called out the corrupt officials by name, and started the reckoning on day one. It made me want to write down exactly what that should look like here. So I did.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
i believe the technical term is pontiffmogging
bleak AF
the internet was a mistake
Looking at 1930s Foreign Ministry debates over new civil aviation routes to the Japanese empire and struck by how often they point to growing connections btw Euro-American metropoles and their colonies in Asia
By 1935, regular air service linked London-Singapore; Amsterdam-Batavia; and Paris-Saigon
i'm good, thanks
good call! thank you
My old university NTNU in Trondheim is finally! recruiting a fully tenured associate professor in modern environmental history. This is a great opportunity for the right person. #envhist
President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak on Crime, Also I’m Dr. Jesus Christ
A+ headline.
defector.com/president-ex...
This second edition is essential reading - for everyone. If there’s one book I’d recommend in environmental history, it might be this.
With an introduction by @brdemuth.bsky.social! #EnvHist
the convergence of artemis II spalshdown footage and news of another SOUTHCOM strike in the Pacific had me shook for a second
Takaichi announces a new push on constitutional revision, Akazawa earns a reprimand for comments about monetary policy, and another poll shows the public strongly behind the prime minister, particularly in her response to the Hormuz crisis.
open.substack.com/pub/observin...
Prime Minister Mark Carney and
Finnish President Alexander Stubb took the ice for some drills with the PWHL Ottawa Chargers.
Absolutely amazing.
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i confess i haven't searched high and low, but beyond this book I have very few leads. should probably start by going back and studying the footnotes. i guess im mostly curious about new approaches, and imagine there out there somewhere
thank you!
thank you!
Water level chart for Lake Mead, showing 2026 dropping along a similar trajectory to 2022, which reached record lows in the summer, and well below the last couple of years.
Water level chart for Lake Powell, showing 2026 nearing 2022 and 2023 record lows, well below 2024 and 2025
Lakes Mead and Powell not doing so hot
Sometimes I am angry, other times deeply saddened, when I contemplate the extreme violence some folks have done to our legal history and the public’s collective memory. Every day I write, I am reminded of it again. And again.
question: are there historians working at the intersection of science, med, and enviro centering the study of allergies? like a burgeoning field of critical allergy studies?
I've been wanting to write on plantation forestry in postwar Japan and the hist of hay fever, and I'm looking for inspiration
