Did something happen in 2016 that led to this? Hmmm, I can't think of anything.
#ButHerEmails
Did something happen in 2016 that led to this? Hmmm, I can't think of anything.
#ButHerEmails
@avielroshwald.bsky.social
37 percent of workers ("Arbeiter") voted for the AfD in today's state election in Baden-WΓΌrttemberg. THIRTY-SEVEN PERCENT. [Cough, cough.]
Are pro-Trump Americans really that clueless about how fundamentally mistrusted America is these days or how loathed T. is throughout most of the world (esp. in Western Europe)?
I guess if you get all your news from Fox News Newsmax, you have a very skewed view of how things are around the world.
She might be more comfortable vacationing in Hungary or Israel.
Excuse me for thinking like a historian of modern Europe.
"Trump Fires Kristi Noem as Homeland Security Secretary" = Night of the Long Knives (sacrificing a "radical" to appease public opinion)
"Trump Says U.S. Should Have Role in Picking Iranβs Leader" = point 5 of the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia
Question for the constitutional scholars:
What is the purpose of Congress? Why does it exist?
Wait, did someone say, β37%β?
www.dw.com/en/germany-n...
Now letβs see a snow-Attlee.
Ian Buruma does not hold back. Wow.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/o...
And what if you donβt want to take 900 history books with you to your retirement home?
The natural thing would be the donate them to the university library, but what if your library says, βNo thanks. We only collect e-books nowβ? And what if you have no grad students who want them? Then what?
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Question for the academics here:
Letβs say youβve been a professor or lecturer for 35 years. In that time you have amassed a huge collection of books on the history of Germany, Mexico, China, or whatever your geographic specialty was. What do you do with them when you retire?
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Leaving aside the manβs politics, why was the head of the FBI partying with the hockey team? Just on the face of it, itβs extremely odd.
Iβm sure it never occurred to William Webster to intrude in the locker room celebration of the Miracle on Ice team in 1980 or any American Olympic team.
Are they really that tone-deaf?
www.reuters.com/sports/berli...
Wow, itβs been a big day for the echoes of German history.
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Ausgerechnet 37 Prozent?!
#IYKYK
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Zuerst waren es das Deutsche Historische Museum im Zeughaus, das Pergamonmuseum und das MΓ€rkische Museum. Und jetzt die Staatsbibliothek? FΓΌr elf Jahre?!
In dieser Zeit kΓΆnnte man eine neue Staatsbibliothek bauen (aber offenbar keinen Flughafen).
www.rbb24.de/kultur/beitr...
There was literally an international hit pop song about this very phenomenon back in 1983.
"Hast du etwas Zeit fΓΌr mich? Dann singe ich ein Lied fΓΌr dich von 99 Luftballons auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont..."
I wonder what she thinks of opera. Most Americans donβt speak Italian or German either.
In Bonn, a cloister was turned into a concentration camp (transit camp) for Jews en route to death camps. And for many years in the 20th century, it was used as a dormitory for female students at Uni Bonn et al. Now it's a seminary for priests.
Your Polish-American family's story of immigration is full of exaggerations & falsehoods? And now that you have expertise on the subject, you're wondering if you should tell your relatives?
Every American Jewish historian of mod. J. history has just entered the chat.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/m...
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The New York Times published photos of Empress Eugenieβs squashed crown. I canβt help but think that itβs a metaphor for the French Second Empire itself.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/w...
Surely Iβm not the only one who thinks that Berlin Olympics β36 is best avoided.
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You have to wonder how much Canadians would miss them if they did secede.
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Itβs great to see Harold interviewed β and somewhat surprising since his specialty is German economic history. Na ja.