@gfitz
Military-Environmental History, #envhist Department of Engineering and Society, UVA, Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities U. Stavanger, History of Airborne Disease, Technology, Chemistry, Biology, Senses, CW & BW… and ships and railroads.
This is yesterday's news...However as someone who studies the history of military technology, let me note that one does not normally see the government cut off ties to a major military contractor AS we are GOING to war.
The Pentagon Can’t Afford This A.I. Fight www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/o...
Answering my own post it seems in the near future it might be Hillsdale College and Liberty University. Word fail!!!!
So who exactly is left advising the "Department of War," producing policy papers, and just as importantly training the next generation within our officer corps? Just wondering...
Pentagon to Cut Ties With Top Universities and Think Tanks www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...
Norway’s Century-Long Watch on the Northern Lights www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/s...
Someone asked me last week what I thought the worst thing about AI products in higher ed was - I replied that they eroded and destroyed the social compact of trust and expertise between teacher and student.
Greenland does not need US hospital boat sent by Trump, says Denmark
Some good news for historical truth-telling: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...
Fact: People in Denmark and Greenland live longer than Americans. They, unlike the US, have good, free, nationalized health care. So, if anybody should send a medical ship, it should be Denmark.
GOOD NEWS: The world’s largest steam-producing heat pump is now online in Finland, delivering 12 MW of superheated steam from waste heat and CO₂-free electricity.
Proof that industrial heat can be electrified at scale.
www.pv-magazine.com/2026/02/19/w...
Trump threatens to inflict American public-health standards on Greenland.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/u...
U.S. Military Deployment in the Middle East in Anticipation of a Possible Military Operation Against Iran - 17 Feb 2026 Created by ®EGYOSINT X Abraham Lincoln CSG Gerald R. Ford CSG On Deployment Turkey Syria Iraq Egypt. Iran UAE USS Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carrier USS WinstonS. Churchill USS Bainbridge USS Mahan Air Defense Deployement ed Kuwait Bahrain • Qatar. Saudi Arabia Yemen Oman Arabian Sea Created by BEGYOSINT Approx 160 flights by C-17A (Since 16th Jan) Djibouti Gulf of Aden (Muwaffaq Salti AB) 18x flights by C-5M (KSA, Qatar & Djibouti) 20-22x KC-135 & KC-46 Tankers +24 F-15E (Muwaffaq Salti AB) ★ Numerous Flights by C-130H/J 1x RC-135 SIGINT (Chania, Greece) 30x F-35A fighters (Muwaffaq Salti AB) 4x MC/HC-130J (2x Muwaffaq Salti AB) (2x Diego Garcia NSF) 3x EA-11A BACN (Prince Sultan AB) F-16 deployed at the UAE & KSA WC-135R Nuke Sniffer (Midenhall, UK) 2x E-3 Sentry AWACS (Midenhall, UK) 6x EA-18GA (Muwaffaq Salti AB) + USS Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier (Arabian Sea) USS Frank E. Petersen (Arabian Sea) USS Spruance (Arabian Sea) USS Michael Murphy (Arabian Sea) Other assets in the ME USS Roosevelt (Mediterranean Sea) USS McFaul (Persian Gulf) USS Mitscher (Persian Gulf) USS Delbert D. Black (Red Sea) Ohio-class (unknown location) THAAD At least one additional battery (KSA or Qatar) MIM-104 Patriot Multiple battaries across the region 土 +99 C-17A & C-5M flights transferring AD Battaries By @TheIntelFrog
This is somewhere between 40-50% of deployable US air power (and it’s still growing). On a scale with the Gulf Wars.
Whole 🧵
We are the laughingstock of the world because of our moronic and psychotic president. Deservedly so.
New York City police officers rescued a bald eagle in distress during a patrol along the Hudson River. The authorities took the injured bird to a rehabilitation center in New Jersey, which is working to stabilize it to allow for further testing and treatment. nyti.ms/3OQvGtC
Early 20th Century Print of Ardglass Fish Curing Curing Herrings, Ardglass - a close in view showing workers on the pier cleaning fish. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Ardglass). Date: circa early 1900s. Mary Evans Picture Library makes available wonderful images created for people to enjoy over the centuries. © National Museums NI / Mary Evans
Division of labour? primacy of the sexes? Or just a community functioning as a whole organ entity?
Picture of Curing Herrings, Ardglass pier, with fish ladies/lasses gutting and sallting the herring as they are landed on Northern Ireland Early 20th Century. #coastalhistory #tcdtceh #coastsinmind
This is unacceptable.
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.
He finally died.
I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...
NEW: A Georgia railroad owned by a descendant of an enslaver is using eminent domain to take land owned by descendants of the enslaved. If you want to understand how slavery still shapes power today, start here: capitalbnews.org/georgia-rail...
Staring in Agent Orange...again
"Societies are defined by their libraries — by what we hold, what we lend, what we borrow and return, the knowledge we create, values we defend.
An attack on the library sector is an attack on public knowledge, and it includes the reading public — you, me, all of us."
— @shannonmattern.bsky.social
March 27, 1936: Portraits of the Führer are raised on official buildings across Berlin. This one at the Potsdamer Railway Station reads "Freedom - Peace"
#tdih 1942 Executive Order 9066
President Roosevelt authorized WWII incarceration (internment) of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent.
About 122,000 people sent to prison camps.
Many of their homes, businesses, and farms were confiscated.
#TeachTruth ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ex...
84 years sounds like a long time. And I know in some ways it is. But it's also not that long. I still have living relatives who were in the camps and who were old enough to remember it. This isn't abstract or ancient history. It's part of the living memory I grew up with.
A fair but devastating review of a terrible best seller that should be ignored. Study the footnotes to find the good stuff to read.
Strategic Bombing and the Pop History Problem
open.substack.com/pub/secretar...
Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.
Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, is back with her picks for environmental history worth reading (and listening to) from January!
niche-canada.org/2026/02/12/e...
#envhist
"In this episode of Weathered, host Maiya May investigates what history reveals about system collapse, failed cities, and civilizations that didn’t survive climate shocks. Were they doomed? Or did they miss warning signs we’re seeing today?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4pS...
#envhist #climhist
Federal cuts to agriculture science will hurt farmers and grocery shoppers, experts say - @thenarwhal.ca
thenarwhal.ca/canada-agric...
#aghist #cdnhist #envhist #agriculture #histsci
#IndigenousStorytellingMonth Reading
"Hunger, Healing, and Indigenous Food Sovereignty" by Tabitha Robin
niche-canada.org/2021/08/31/h...
#envhist #cdnhist #indigenous #foodhistory #foodsovereignty
