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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Book contract signed! Khrushchev’s Generals: Loyalty, Expertise, and the Limits of Political Control 1953-1964 will be published by @univpressofkansas.bsky.social. Manuscript due Nov 2027. Excited and grateful to finally be publishing my dissertation work.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Mrs Halyna Kucher, principal of a Kyiv school, was killed by Russia today. Her husband and three-year-old grandson were killed today, too. Mrs Halyna underwent cancer treatments for many years. Deepest condolences...

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 06/07/2026

Yup. There's no reason to NOT play Balogun. To paraphrase Office Space, FIFA is the one that sucks, not Balogun.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The Russian attack on Kyiv: in one of Kyiv's districts, a residential building was badly damaged. There are people trapped under the debris. Lost homes, possessions, memories and dreams. Russian scum.

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Just finished my 15th year teaching at an independent, private school in the US. What occurs in the classroom and the intellectual curiosity of my students still excites me. My colleagues are wonderful. But bureaucratically it’s beginning to rival the Soviets.

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Prepping for a new course next fall.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 02/06/2026

If using AI for writing means you never have to stop, backtrack, or start over, you’re missing the most important part of the process, writes Eve Fairbanks: theatln.tc/FqOCuLuP

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Heading to @eui-eu.bsky.social and @eui-euarchives.bsky.social in a few weeks for research. Any tips or recommendations?

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This was a wonderful read. I’m adding it to my reading list for 19th and 20th c survey courses.

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 27/05/2026

Do not let the White House convince you that they are dictating what happens for the 250th. They're doing a bunch of stuff, but it's all fleeting spectacle. There is genuine, thoughtful, history-focused programming happening all over the United States. Get offline and go find it.

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Whose story gets told? Ringelblum and Oneg Shabbat tell a Jewish history of the Warsaw ghetto, but not a complete one.

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Realising now that Stephen Miller and his ilk are the Breckinridge Long of this generation. Far right podcasters are Father Coughlin and the militias are Silver Legion of Pelley. We’ve been here before and have the means to change course.

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Absolutely not. @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social was wrong in 2003 on Iraq and wrong again. NATO has no reason to bail Trump and Bibi out of this mess. Both rail against democracy and support far right parties across the alliance. NATO is busy arming and protecting the Western alliance eastern flank.

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I am fairly confident the oil markets were manipulated today again. Drive prices low then buy…. Iran stating that Straits remain closed.

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Redesigning semester offerings on survey European history classes. 19th age of revolution and reform and 20th c the turbulent 20th. Seeking out new books for these classes and crowdsourcing ideas. Please respond especially if you have new scholarship and would be willing to zoom to class in 26-27

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

hello good morning howdy, I am teaching undergrads today for the first time in a long time and I hate that I have to start with the AI speech. Has to happen. I just hate it.

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I was educated by Cold War generation of professors. One served in Vietnam. Another in military intel in W Germany. Travelling with them as an undergraduate showed me the world and new culture. They taught me places are not their governments.

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I want my tax dollars to go for healthcare, childcare, science and research, the arts and humanities, public lands and national parks. A hell of a lot of thing instead of war against the world. I want more money for the State dept and diplomacy. For education. For public transportation.

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

NATO makes the US and the world more secure, ever more since 2014. Trump can’t single-handedly remove the US.

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Russia has entered the war to provide intel on US forces in the region. Trump refuses to rebuke dear leader.

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

If we look European diplomacy post Vienna 1815 - balance of power? Consensus of power? It may help us understand present day geopolitics. Two powers in USA and China. UK France Germany powers really in name only. Russia a power because others allow it to be viewed that way still.

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Ukraine can help Gulf States and US defend against Iranian drones. Russia is struggling and even losing territorial gains in Ukraine. Russia benefits from high oil prices Asian energy markets struggle. Region is destabilising. Geopolitical nightmare for an administration of idiots in DC.

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

And we all trust frat bro Kash ?

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

"We've finally created the WOPR from the 1983 movie "whatever you do don't create the WOPR" aka Wargames."

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Come to @cjewishhistory.bsky.social March 19 for book launch on Older Jews and the Holocaust by @joannasliwa24.bsky.social @ceschmidt.bsky.social and Betsy Anthony. It’s worth it. I’m making the day trip to NYC from Pittsburgh programs.cjh.org/event/older-...

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Older Jews and the Holocaust - In-person Program

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Up next. Necessary reading from Jason Stanley in these dark times in America.

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

@ankahajkova.bsky.social work has illuminated voices and identities hidden by history. Challenging dominate narratives Anna provides us with an important new work of scholarship. Will be using it in class in the spring.

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate. Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Dr Andy peace plan: Russian forces leave Ukraine ICC and ICJ investigations and tribunals for war crimes, crimes against humanity and possible genocide against Ukraine Long-term rebuilding and infrastructure plan for Ukraine. NATO and EU membership for Ukraine. Severe sanctions Russia

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The US is working with neo-fascist, neo-imperialist Russia against the world order. Ukraine’s borders are the internationally recognised 1991 borders.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

They are aware that Russians quite literally wrote the capitulation document that some people in the White House and sadly many people in the media refer to as a peace plan.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

It’s not that complicated, people.

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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 26/11/2025

'There is no peace process. This is not negotiations over peace: it is the transmission of surrender demands from Russia with the active facilitation of the United States.' Read @keirgiles.bsky.social analysis on the Trump administration's proposed 28-point peace plan for Ukraine⤵️

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Trump pressures Ukraine to accept peace deal: Early analysis from Chatham House experts

Chatham House analysts give their initial analysis after Zelenskyy was pressured by Trump to accept a White House plan to end the war with Russia.

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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

It is not normal for a U.S. envoy to coach the Kremlin on how to influence an American president, especially in a way that undercuts Ukrainian and American national interests. As I told @NPR's Morning Edition.

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Just how many Secretaries of State does the US currently have?

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Witkoff is not buying the Russian narrative. He is selling it.

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Navalny compares Ukraine to Afghanistan. Putin, much like the late Soviet gerontocracy needed a distraction from real problems and to refocus ‘toward imperial hysteria’.

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

The war against Ukraine began 2014 with the illegal seizure of Crimea. It could end today with the complete Russian withdrawal and justice for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide carried out against Ukraine

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Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I hope Ukraine tells the American pedo president to stuff it. I hope Europe supports him.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Holy crap. This is most likely a real reaction to Trump driven threats. It is also evidence that MAGA is entering a civil war and that the GOP has officially been driven into a ditch a year ahead of midterms that could end Trump 2.0 on Day 1 of the 120th Congress.

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