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Historian, editor, and translator for hire (🇩🇪 to 🇺🇸); longtime resident of Washington, DC, now caregiving in Conway, NH (he/him) 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🗽 🌐 markstoneman.com 🗞️ stoneman.page 🔁 @markstoneman.org (from 🦣)

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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 29/09/2026
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Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Friends in Berlin and Germany, save the date for my book launch November 5th at the Schwules Museum. I'll be in conversation with some very special-to-me guests. Consider it a teaser! www.schwulesmuseum.de/veranstaltun...
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Russia is escalating because Russian leadership is panicking. After four years of senseless colonial war Vladimir Putin has achieved nothing. Sergei, I know you’re listening. Tell your boss – enough is enough!” - @radek-sikorski.bsky.social, probably my favourite diplomat of our time.
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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Our new Digital Archives LibGuide is online! libguides.uwf.edu/digital_arch...
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LibGuides: UWF Digital Archives: Collections
This guide describes and provides easy access to the collections stored in the UWF Digital Archives. Our collections include historical newspapers, manuscript collections, government documents, and hi...
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 20/09/2026
Roy Cohn, the gift that keeps on giving.… BTW, “Gift” in German means “poison.”
Text Shot: Above all, Trump learned one very big thing from Cohn: that the veneer of morality in the American upper class is very thin. Cohn proved conclusively that there is no limit to its tolerance for corruption. Trump got that message—and so did Jeffrey Epstein.

—Fintan O’Toole, “Devils in America,"The New York Review of Books, Oct. 8, 2026, 12.
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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#OpenAccess! Planting Seeds of Knowledge: Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century, edited by Heinrich Hartmann and Julia Tischler is now available in paperback : bit.ly/4gplnbE #History #EnvironmentalStudies #SustainableDevelopmentGoals
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Before war , I never really imagined a scenario in which North Korea would become a very real enemy l my people would actually need to fight - but here we are www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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North Korea's Kim vows to expand ties with Russia, backs victory in 'sacred war'
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he would "expand and deepen" joint work with Russia ​in a message to Russian President Vladimir ‌Putin, state media KCNA reported on Tuesday.
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 18/09/2026
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The 51st @51st.news · 14/09/2026
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 14/09/2026
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
US ECONOMY IS LOSING EXTERNAL INVESTMENT AT RECORD LEVELS. Germany is in the lead, reducing investments in the US by $76 billion. And it moved it to China and Europe. Foreign capital is not staying in the US. Slowly but surely major companies and sovereign investors are leaving the US - and its
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
you can, if your library has books or subscriptions, have research labs for humanities courses, the way STEM courses have labs you can make communal spaces for writing you can emphasize process over productivity the choice to learn is always the student’s; that’s life. but you can make it easier
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 12/09/2026
Via stoneman.blog/ns Rüdiger Suchsland's "Hitler's Hollywood: German Cinema in the Age of Propaganda" (Kino Lorbeer, 2018) made for interesting viewing this evening. It weaves a fascinating array of scenes and themes into a … 1/2
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Mark Stoneman @blogfeed.markstoneman.com.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Rüdiger Suchsland’s “Hitler’s Hollywood: German Cinema in the Age of Propaganda” (Kino Lorbeer, 2018) made for interesting viewing this evening. It weaves a fascinating array of scenes and themes into a personal rumination of what Nazi Germany’s cinema might reveal about mindsets in the country […]
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 10/09/2026
Sore body, restless night. Yesterday's vaccinations seem to be hard at work.
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Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Boah! Ich bin sprachlos - Grüne gehen auf BSW zu?! Ich falle vom Glauben ab, wenn das stimmt. Liebe Leute, die BSW ist zu 100% eine Kremlpartei! AfD und BSW gehören zusammen. Der Kreml ist ein faschistischer Trupp! taz.de/Nach-der-Wah...
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Nach der Wahl in Sachsen-Anhalt: Grüne gehen auf Wagenknecht-Partei zu
Die Grünen öffnen sich für den BSW-Vorschlag eines unabhängigen Ministerpräsidenten. Das sagte Spitzenkandidatin Susan Sziborra-Seidlitz der taz.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 08/09/2026
Much of BET’s digital journalism is no longer available on the live web. Internet Archive has preserved more than 199,000 BET articles over the years. They can now be accessed through the Wayback Machine & a new pilot explorer: wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/bet-explorer/
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump told 9/11 families that he was rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center -- an obvious and shocking lie. Here's how the New York Times reports it. This is like reporting George Wallace's "segregation forever" speech as "Governor speaks at inauguration. Some remarks controversial."
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Trump Honors 9/11
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President Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to a volunter firefighter who saved numerous people. He also added to a disputed account of his actions that day.
Sept. 8, 2026 Updated 1:54 p.m. ET
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 07/09/2026
Sometimes I prefer social media at times I should be sleeping so I can hear about the misery and insanity in other countries with a lot less pestilential news oozing out of the White House. Dumpy Donny does bad stuff overseas, but people seem to be taking him less seriously these days.
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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.
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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 31/08/2026
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 02/09/2026
Another apt metaphor for this fecking administration. Maybe Dumpy Donny could give the clean-up job to his Florida guy who did such fine work on the Reflecting Pool. Or perhaps SecDef needs to fat shame the vessel or test its testosterone levels.
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Annette Werberger @awerberger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Immer wieder interessant mit wie viel Einfallsreichtum manche vom putinistischen Imperialismus ablenken.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I really believe this. Trans people have taken some of the worst hits the administration could deal out, and unlike many elites and august institutions we haven't shrunk away or compromised ourselves. We're standing strong. At a time like this, that matters.
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 02/09/2026
Russian 'Democracy' youtu.be/oh1NuwWq5zU #RussiaIsATerroristState
Text Shot: In one federal TV studio, the cameras were rolling, the host was ready, but the politicians were nowhere to be found. Another Russian broadcast managed to do slightly better: one candidate actually appeared in the studio, but … he spent his alloted minute in complete silence.

–TVP World’s “Break the Fake” with Benjamin Lee, Sept. 2, 2026, https://youtu.be….
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 02/09/2026
Ukraine identifies another asymmetric weakness in the terrorist state—its size, its underdeveloped transportation system, its reliance on air transport. "Zelensky vows 'Russian sky will be de facto closed,' warns airlines, foreign governments…" kyivindependent.com/the-russian-sk… #RussoUkrainianWar
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BREAKING: Zelensky vows 'Russian sky will be de facto closed,' warns airlines, foreign governments as Putin accuses Ukraine of state terrorism
"Today we want to warn every airline that uses Russian airspace, every insurer, everyone who still uses key Russian airports — Russian skies are becoming completely dangerous," Zelensky said.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/09/2026
AND ITS CALLED IN THE FIRST FEW MINUTES! Ed Markey, incumbent, beats the anti-trans Democrat Seth Moulton in the primary race for Massachusetts Senate. Congressman Moulton had made targeting trans people part of his repertoire in the immediate aftermath of the 2024 election. He goes down.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
That's it! Moulton is officially a loser, Markey projected to win!!
Primary results from Massachusetts on NBC's website projecting Ed Markey as the winner over Seth Moulton
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Met a gun owner on my walk who wanted to talk to me about protecting the 2nd Amendment but she also believes in universal background checks and required training and was shocked to learn the NRA opposes all that - and this is a conversation I have with gun owners all the time.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/09/2026
In the very first batch of votes, anti-trans Democrat Seth Moulton is down 40 to Ed Markey in the Senate Primary for Massachusetts. Moulton had made targeting trans people a centerpiece of his post-2024 positioning, whereas Markey heavily defended transgender people and their rights.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Putin's trip to the SCO summit didn't go quite the way he planned. His attempt to convince Xi Jinping to approve the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline failed. And Modi bluntly told him to end his war in a public meeting with media. Russia's global influence continues to crumble.📉🫟
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 31/08/2026
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 31/08/2026
"Ultimately, we depend on the stories we tell each other." –Yaroslav Hrytsak, Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation, trans. Dominique Hoffman (PublicAffairs, 2024), last paragraph.
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 30/08/2026
The snark is a bit to strong with me today. Better get off of here now.
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 30/08/2026
I just watched Oz Katerji’s “The Battle for Kyiv” (Byline Media, 2024). It covers events that happened 4 1/2 years ago, but it still feels immediate.… continued at markstoneman.com/2026/08/29/i-just-… #RussiaIsATerroristState
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 29/08/2026
"Solovyov the Unhappy" markstoneman.com/2026/08/29/solovyo… #RussiaIsATerroristState
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
running the entire DoD like the worst platoon commander you've ever heard of, incredible
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 27/08/2026
If a subscription-based app requires a login just to look at it, I delete it. If a website requires me to disable my ad blocker before I’ve even seen it, I move on. #LifeIsTooShort
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Laurel Gale @laurelgale.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I was going to procrastinate today, but I'm running out of time. I guess I'll have to procrastinate tomorrow.
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 27/08/2026
"How a Ukrainian [youth] survived FSB filtration and escaped Russian occupation" (Kyiv Independent, Aug. 26), youtu.be/pdCwslqd-EA #RussiaIsATerroristState
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 26/08/2026
“Former Pussy Riot member escapes Russia after 3 years of forced work for FSB” by Kate Tsurkan, The Kyiv Independent, Aug. 24, 2026. kyivindependent.com/former-pussy-ri… FWIW, I posted a longer comment there. #RussiaIsATerroristState
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Former Pussy Riot member escapes Russia after 3 years of forced work for FSB
"They began recruiting me, threatening me in every possible way, humiliating me, saying some very unpleasant things, threatening to kill my family, and telling me that I would never in my life be able to prove who killed my mother," Rita Flores said.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tried a new thing today where I talked about academic history writing from day one and why it's work and not like a beach read and how to do it and we'll see how that goes but it's making me feel better about asking them to do the reading, starting from first principles.
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 24/08/2026
Taken with my iPhone SE 3rd gen in panorama mode on the Boulder Loop Trail in Albany, NH, on Sat. The elevation gain to the top is only about 925 feet, but that was meaningful for me. It’d been too long since I walked on granite ledges with a view. stoneman.blog/boulder-loop-1
Short trees and shrubs on granite ledges in milder weather than they often face. Green trees below, a mountain in the distance. Gray sky.
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 24/08/2026
"My Phone's Unreliable Activity Measurements on a Hike" markstoneman.com/2026/08/24/my-phon…
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 24/08/2026
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 24/08/2026
Taken with my iPhone SE 3rd gen in panorama mode on the Boulder Loop Trail in Albany, NH, on Sat. The elevation gain to the top is only about 925 feet, but that was meaningful for me. It’d been too long since I walked on granite ledges with a view. stoneman.blog/boulder-loop-1
Short trees and shrubs on granite ledges in milder weather than they often face. Green trees below, a mountain in the distance. Gray sky.
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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Clearly, something is amiss in Germany's capital when even Irish journalists have reason to point the finger and laugh at a German government that not only refuses to act against russian aggression, but also seems to actively aid russian attempts to undermine German society.
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Why is Berlin still giving Russia a house in the heart of the city?
Four years into the Ukraine war, Berlin is still deciding what to do about the Russland-Haus
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Mark R. Stoneman @markstoneman.com · 24/08/2026
"My Phone's Unreliable Activity Measurements on a Hike" markstoneman.com/2026/08/24/my-phon…
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