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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Map 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)

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Last month, the Pentagon fired the publisher and editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes. Two opposite headlines this morning show the results were swift.

Hormuz shipping traffic falls to single digits, data shows
By Reuters
September 10, 2026 10:48 PM CDT

Oil shipments through Strait of Hormuz rise with US military assistance

By ALISON BATH STARS AND STRIPES Published 27 minutes ago

Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2026-09-11/middle-east-iran-hormuz-navy-tankers-22817340.html
Source - Stars and Stripes

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Tough 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

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026

Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage:

At one point Mr. Trump asked attendees to raise their right hands and pledge to him that he would vote with their family and friends.
Dutifully, they did.

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the same issue where I found this map has like six essays all about the Coconut Grove disaster. Truly horrific -- and happened right in the backyard of the Boston-based NFPA

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

they mean what they say -- best I can tell they produced these maps annually from founding in 1907 into present day. Could make for a really cool data set for some sort of spatial history project

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“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."

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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.

A small machine, the front resembles a smiling face, and its back reflected in the mirror behind it resembles a horrified face.

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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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If 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...

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The Party of Baristas - Dissent Magazine

Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

huh! i'll try this again, www.davidfedman.org/tokyos-warda...

War-Damage Trees — David Fedman

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

And 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 wander

Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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Could 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...

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Exclusive | Trump’s Top Advisers Confront Possibility That Iran War Lasts Through End of Term

The president still says he expects the war will end “immediately” after midterm elections this fall.

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

and 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....

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/09/2026

my 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

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or email me at dfedman at uci dot edu and i'd be happy to share a pdf

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if you're ever in Tokyo you should see them for yourself: www.davidfedman.org/tokyos-warda...

War-Damage Trees — David Fedman

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I highly encourage you to see them for yourself. Here's our running inventory, including geolocation data: www.davidfedman.org/tokyos-warda... It's been really fun to set students loose on the city with the coordinates and see what they learn through some good ol 街歩き

War-Damage Trees — David Fedman

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Hi 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

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email me: dfedman at uci dot edu

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