Reposted by David FedmanDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 57mReally enjoyed this portrait of @minjinlee.bsky.social.nytimes.comMin Jin Lee Was Underestimated for Half Her Life. Then She Started to Write. (Gift Article)A torch bearer for the great 19th-century tradition of social realism, she’s become one of the most important novelists of her generation. 0236
Reposted by David FedmanAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 15hTomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America. 14467093080
Reposted by David FedmanRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Just a remarkable choice, this headline. No other leader of any other country in the history of the UN would get that headline after giving an address with that quote. 461367337
Reposted by David FedmanPhilip Thai @philipthai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Any historians of Modern Korea applying for the amazing job at UC Irvine should also apply for the other amazing job at Northeastern! Deadline also on 10/1. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comAssistant Professor, Modern Korean HistoryAbout the Opportunity The College of Social Sciences and Humanities and its ten tenure units are the home of the Experiential Liberal Arts. Through its research, teaching, and engagement missions, the... 054
Reposted by David FedmanSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 18/09/2026chat is it good if leaders in a nuclear power are posting like this after a 3hr security briefing 2654791
Reposted by David FedmanPBS News @pbsnews.org · 17/09/2026Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard has died. She was 81. Her 1974 book “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” drew comparisons to Henry David Thoreau as a nonfiction meditation on nature, religion and the meaning of life itself. 36814
Reposted by David FedmanDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026It is so important, and so valuable, to have @jamellebouie.net saying this in the pages of the NYT.nytimes.comOpinion | The G.O.P. Has Gone Off the Deep EndThe Republican fringe is becoming the Republican mainstream. 1032956
Reposted by David FedmanDaniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Some people complain that they do not think military history is popular; We LOVE it at TTU. We are hiring TT in US War and Society Pre-1945 We are also hiring modern South/Southeast Asia and Medieval Europe. networks.h-net.org/jobs/70330/t...networks.h-net.orgTexas Tech University - Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of United States War & Society, pre-1945 | H-NetAs a faculty member in the Department of History, you will be expected to: 165
Reposted by David FedmanDavid Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Map of conflagrations in 1942 causing more than a quarter-million-dollar's worth of damage, compiled by the NFPA (whose members, mostly fire prevention-professionals, were instrumental in weaponizing fire and delivering it across the Pacific) 064
Reposted by David FedmanBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Last month, the Pentagon fired the publisher and editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes. Two opposite headlines this morning show the results were swift. 271446516
Reposted by David FedmanJason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Tough problem to solve, too. Sink $400 million (must be way more than that) & accept that Iran could just whack it again. Fall back to Diego Garcia (like now) & accept the distance penalty. Maybe scatter to Oman (Salalah, Duqm) or UAE but still vulnerable + inefficient. No one site replaces Bahrain 34412
Reposted by David FedmanWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage: 1082734835
Reposted by David FedmanAnjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026“You do my dad's legacy and the legacy of all these victims no honor by using this tragedy to spread hate…I've had to grow up and spend the past 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers and sisters, to hate on people who don't look like them." 41078267
Reposted by David FedmanJess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls. 2255421125
David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Map of conflagrations in 1942 causing more than a quarter-million-dollar's worth of damage, compiled by the NFPA (whose members, mostly fire prevention-professionals, were instrumental in weaponizing fire and delivering it across the Pacific) 064
Reposted by David FedmanNoam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If you're lucky, someone will eventually review your book in a way that almost makes you jealous of their insights into the material. It's fair to say that the historian Gabe Winant has just published that review of my book. dissentmagazine.org/article/muti...dissentmagazine.orgThe Party of Baristas - Dissent MagazineNoam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay. 2297
David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 10/09/2026And if you happen to be in Tokyo please go see them for yourself! Here's our running inventory, including geolocation data: www.davidfedman.org/tokyos-warda... It's been fun to set students loose on the city with the coordinates and see what they learn about war memory through a good ol wanderdavidfedman.org 1114
Reposted by David FedmanBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Could be some complications with doing ‘Venezuela’ in Iran. Anyway, sure am glad the ‘President of Peace’ is steering clear of forever wars. www.wsj.com/world/middle...wsj.comExclusive | Trump’s Top Advisers Confront Possibility That Iran War Lasts Through End of TermThe president still says he expects the war will end “immediately” after midterm elections this fall. 813135
David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 10/09/2026and while I'm at it, I'll share an excellent new (open access) article by Dylan Plung on the US Strategic Bomb Survey in Japan & the many interpretive perils that lurk beneath the surface of its scientific polish Ive wanted someone to write this for a long time! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 041
Reposted by David Fedmanjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/09/2026my bet is that he'll flip if it's a 50-50 or 51-49 dem senate, so dems need to somehow get to 52 to be safe 2344183573
Reposted by David FedmanDavid Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Hi friends, happy to share a labor of love: an essay in the latest issue of Environmental History on Tokyo's war-damaged trees (戦災樹木), the more than 200 hundreds trees scattered across the city that carry scars of wartime bombing in their morphology www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/0/0 55531
David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Hi friends, happy to share a labor of love: an essay in the latest issue of Environmental History on Tokyo's war-damaged trees (戦災樹木), the more than 200 hundreds trees scattered across the city that carry scars of wartime bombing in their morphology www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/0/0 55531
Reposted by David FedmanMary McNamara @marymcnamara.bsky.social · 27/08/2026In their coverage tonight ABC News studiously avoided any mention of climate change. But in the Himalayas the threat of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOF) is well-known. 13514
David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 20/08/2026TIL the man chiefly responsible for all firefighting efforts across the UK during World War II was named Aylmer Firebrace (He gave quite a lecture in 1943 to the American chemists developing new incendiary weapons on fire's "obliterating capacities") en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aylmer_...en.wikipedia.orgAylmer Firebrace - Wikipedia 052
Reposted by David FedmanRick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 18/08/2026By Gian Gentile. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | Assuming why military personnel serve ignores a basic factTrump’s comments about recent U.S. casualties, and some responses, misunderstand military service. 012
Reposted by David FedmanKim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Very excited to see this in print! 1194
Reposted by David FedmanDaniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 18/08/2026It always feels more real once you have it in your hands! Be sure to check out my chapter on testing space technologies, specifically underwater robots and food production facilities, in the Antarctic. #histsci #histSTM #envhist 1236
Reposted by David FedmanGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18/08/2026OK. @jamellebouie.net has a great takedown of our pundit class. Exhibit 1 is David Brooks. Guess what? Yale just hired him to teach undergrads. 1/ youtu.be/46tpqFxfomI?...youtu.beThe pundits have completely lost the plotYouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie 541169343
Reposted by David FedmanDavid Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Something feels off about this June 1943 roundtable on "Pregnancy and Delivery During Air Raids." I just can't put my finger on it... 092
David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Something feels off about this June 1943 roundtable on "Pregnancy and Delivery During Air Raids." I just can't put my finger on it... 092
Reposted by David FedmanFared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The Pentagon is introducing a Western civilization course in its military-family schools that emphasizes Christianity and classical education. The move is part of Pete Hegseth’s broader push to make the roughly 160 Pentagon-run schools more patriotic and classically oriented. 13310
Reposted by David FedmanDavid Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Much has been written about the 1942 incendiary tests on model Japanese and German villages at the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. Lesser known is the inverse scene just four months later in Osaka, where officials conducted firefighting trials using American incendiaries captured on the China front: 0162
David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Much has been written about the 1942 incendiary tests on model Japanese and German villages at the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. Lesser known is the inverse scene just four months later in Osaka, where officials conducted firefighting trials using American incendiaries captured on the China front: 0162
Reposted by David FedmanNicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Anyway, if you or someone you know is a currently serving sailor or Marine deployed aboard a ship and dealing with poor conditions, @taskandpurpose.com wants to hear from you. taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-ab...taskandpurpose.comNavy to swap USS Abraham Lincoln for George Washington in the Middle EastThe US military reportedly plans to send the aircraft carrier USS George Washington to the Middle East to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln. 12250125
Reposted by David FedmanRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/08/2026“I am not a coward! I am a gullible, naive idiot!” Ok, senator. But kids are going to die either way. 38940159
Reposted by David FedmanJustin Pyke @justinpykehistory.bsky.social · 14/08/2026My next video for @milavhis.bsky.social is finally live! The 1931 bombing of Jinzhou is an obscure but interesting episode - a rogue Kwantung Army officer, improvised bombing methods, captured Chinese aircraft, and one of the first bombings of a city since the end of WWI. youtu.be/m_9ALx9C_0I?...youtu.beJinzhou 1931: 11 Japanese Bombers, Angry Leaflets and a Shocked WorldYouTube video by Military Aviation History 24215
Reposted by David FedmanJesse Johnson @jljzen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026How U.S. bombing surveys helped city in Japan grasp civilian sentiments of WWII www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08...japantimes.co.jpHow U.S. bombing surveys helped city in Japan grasp civilian sentiments of WWIIYears of work by a late historian in Tochigi Prefecture’s Utsunomiya has shed light on lesser-known impacts of the war on Japanese civilians. 153
Reposted by David FedmanMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/08/2026All of this stuff needs to go. It's kindling for the authoritarian arsonists. 114125
Reposted by David FedmanMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/08/2026We could avoid all of this simply by not covering elections this way & waiting until all the results are in, instead of doing hours of theater & creating space for authoritarians to sow doubt about voter fraud because they've passed laws forbidding the timely counting of ballots in WI & elsewhere. 18737149
Reposted by David FedmanJesse Johnson @jljzen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Takaichi doubles down on ambiguity over nonnuclear principles at Nagasaki ceremony www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08...japantimes.co.jpTakaichi doubles down on ambiguity over nonnuclear principles at Nagasaki ceremonyUnlike previous leaders, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi again described the government’s current position, without making an explicit commitment about the future of the principles. 002
David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 09/08/2026A clever cartographic contrivance by Charles Owens, map-illustrator for the LA Times, to convey the vast distances of the Pacific War to American audiences Detail from "Japanese retreat before Allies drive to Philippines." (May 29, 1944) 083
Reposted by David FedmanAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/08/2026You can’t reverse the disruption of hundreds of thousands of lives, or the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. 23976180
David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 09/08/2026this Yomiuri headline, "No Changes Needed in Air Defense System," jumps to stratospheric heights of delusion when you consider its date: August 10, 1945 161
Reposted by David FedmanRyan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Another recent example of “The Ocean Always Wins” to add to my coastal geomorphology unit. www.sfgate.com/california/a...sfgate.comSurf spot Tamarack State Beach lost most of its sand in less than 2 weeksThe beach had recently undergone a sand replenishment project. 1326
Reposted by David FedmanDavid Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Some pretty spectacular geographic marginalization of the US in this 2016 world map by a Chinese scholar, who invites the viewer to "See the World From Another Perspective" 24416
David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Some pretty spectacular geographic marginalization of the US in this 2016 world map by a Chinese scholar, who invites the viewer to "See the World From Another Perspective" 24416
Reposted by David Fedmantenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 07/08/2026University of California, Irvine (UCI) (@ucirvine.bsky.social) is hiring: Assistant Professor of Korean History #assistantprofessor #histsky #post1945koreanhistory 121