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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They just suck the life out of the game. The only one I like is the baseball pitch one — quick and easy.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just get rid of them entirely. Games happened for years and years without them and everybody survived.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I would just like to note that the Allies started winning WW2 when they moved from naming their tanks after racist Confederate loser traitors (Stuart, Lee) to naming them after righteous Union winners (Sherman). The British caught on to this earlier, renamed the Lee the Grant, and never looked back.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There reallly are continuities over time — even centuries — with how various iterations of a country wage war.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seconded. Great book by Ed Westermann.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Really put a damper on the matters at hand (as well as on my view of that particular department as a whole).

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At my former university, I was on the Academic Life Committee that examined cases of academic dishonesty. A full professor in the business dept. on the committee said (paraphrasing) that almost all papers in his discipline were plagiarized so we should take it easy on students. So, that checks out.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At least Stakhanov actually did something.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can't go wrong with either Petty or The War on Drugs.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Countries would never name things after criminals, traitors, or other scoundrels. Simply doesn’t happen.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just look at the immense amount of scholarship on the German army — particularly in the East — published in the last 30 years. Any serious historian recognizes the criminality of the army and its men across an immense spectrum of war crimes.

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Jay Geller @jaygeller.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"AfD, CDU ban new Holocaust 'stumbling stones' in Heidenau [ . . . ] The initiators of the Heidenau ban argue that, while remembering Holocaust victims is an essential task, the placement of stones leads to 'passersby walking over or even stepping onto the names of the victims.'" My thoughts below.

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AfD, CDU ban new Holocaust 'stumbling stones' in Heidenau

Activists, politicians and representatives of Holocaust victims reacted with anger after the center-right CDU party joined forces with the AfD to ban new Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in the easter...

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"The world's greatest deliberative body" at work.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

An excellent article from the always readable Mike Finger.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Looks like they have a legit pass rush this year.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Appreciated this. I attended Martin H. Glynn school for fourth and fifth grade and played many a basketball game on its outside courts. Can't remember ever learning about the man in school, though (unlike Martin Van Buren).

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just so happens I’ve been looking at the fighting in Ukraine in late 1943 and I’d like to add this report from the commander of the 101st Jäger Division from December 1943:

A report on the German infantry from December 1943 detailing instances when German troops simply disobeyed orders for various combat missions from officers and NCOs.

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Samuël Kruizinga @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We're hiring a postdoc for #BLOACKADE (ERC Synergy Grant) : the final position we'll be advertising for the project. 4-year, full-time, Modern History, at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, supervised by Prof @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social . 🧵

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My experience with Pen & Sword was fine, though it was clear copy-editing was generally on us.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Question for German historians: are there any English-language journal articles or book chapters on memory of the Nazi period and the Eagle’s Nest/Berchtesgaden that would be appropriate for an undergrad class? 🗃️ #skystorians

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

@earlfckinweaver.bsky.social Thank you for bringing Opus, Steve Dallas, Bill the Cat and Company to my attention.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I met him once at a conference when I was in graduate school and he was quite gracious with his time. Wonderful is the right word to describe him.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Exactly. Support the dream of what America could be.

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Hush-Kit aviation news, history & satire @hushkit.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Spent years building up a big following on Twitter, essential for publicising my aviation blog, which I live from. Desperate to leave it & publicise on nicer platforms, but I have too few follows. If you want to help me escape, do give this a share. Much obliged. My blog here: hushkit.substack.com

A Sea Harrier FA.2 facing the camera on a post that says: Spent years building up a big following on Twitter, essential for publicising my aviation blog, which I live from. Desperate to leave it & publicise on nicer platforms, but I have too few follows. If you want to help me escape, do give this a share. Much obliged. My blog here: hushkit.substack.com

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

His comparison of German and French battlefield approaches in May 1940 are also quite interesting.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It's not fascism until it happens to me.

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dallas @liketexas.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

If a historian doesn’t revise previous history in their research, then that research is pointless because the entire purpose of research is the creation of new knowledge. There would be no need for history at all if we just repeated the same ideas a nauseam without adding any new information.

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Harry C. Merritt @harrymerritt.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I was interviewed about my book, Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service. My thanks to @peripheralhist.bsky.social for the thoughtful questions and the chance to share my thoughts! bsky.app/profile/peri...

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Just once I would like to hear a policymaker give a Memorial Day speech that reflected on the costs of sacrifice that included the admonition to think carefully and critically before putting our sons and daughters in harm’s way.

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Rok Stergar @stergarr.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Nourishing Victory: Food Shortages and Post-Imperial Transition in the Bohemian Lands and Slovenia, edited by Václav Šmidrkal and me and published by @ceu-press.bsky.social will start shipping in about a week. At the same time, the open-access e-book will be available for download.

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Nourishing Victory: Food Shortages and Post-Imperial Transition in the Bohemian Lands and Slovenia

An aggravating food shortage was the central internal crisis in Habsburg Austria during the First World War, and it posed a major challenge to the consolidation of the successor states. Nourishing Vic...

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

And I always thought Churchill was the wordsmith.

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I have been thinking about how, in Asimov's "Foundation and Empire," the Mule’s empire collapses almost immediately after his death because it was built on a single person rather than a system, revealing his institutional impact as dependent entirely on its leader charismatic force.

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Mordy Ovits @mordyovits.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Everything’s a conspiracy if you don’t understand how anything works.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Class in the US is entirely a matter of aesthetics now. Rich suburban kids are “country”. Beard Dudes who look like they love IPAs are “working class.” Teachers who make $32,000 a year but have to dress up sort of nice in JCPenney clothes are “elites“. None of these words mean anything anymore.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

In short, I want a society which treats anti-intellectualism, from the anti-humanities 'that's just book learnin' sort to the anti-vaxxers, with the sort of searing cultural contempt those choices and ideologies deserve. Because a grown-ass adult who believes that should feel shamed.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Anna Bikont once gave a talk at Wheeling Jesuit University about her book on the killings in Jedwabne. After meticulously detailing what happened (& the cover up), she took questions. The first comment was “but we Poles are such a friendly people. We would never do that.” Kinda proved her point.

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