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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bubba's got back (Mar-a-Lago face with McDonald's booty)

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The schools that stood up to Trump thug demands—first Wesleyan and Princeton, then Harvard, then many others who were emboldened—have won in court and earned honor in history and support from alums. Columbia showed that appeasement always loses. It's never enough. Don't do it, Yale.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

What a tremendous piece from David Pressman and Arne Duncan. Yale trustees will own any capitulation to President Trump. It will be their historical legacy, it will be their shame. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | Yale’s trustees face a decision with profound consequences

A lesson from Hungary: Boards don't capitulate to authoritarians. The people on them do.

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Tell us why Usha never consented to visit without telling us Usha never consented to visit.

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

If agentic AI were worth a damn, surely it would devise a way to spare me from March Madness discourse. Yet, alas, here we are, again -- as always.

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

people use the shorthand, "it's because of capitalism" to explain why our modern condition is so fucked, but i think "it's because of nationalism" might be equally if not more accurate

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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

meta-discursive comment: the incentives of social media where making an incorrect naive prediction is seen as much more embarrassing than making an incorrect cynical one are very bad.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Five years ago.

Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

It's funny how us parochial Americans generally seem to perceive that the EV revolution is stalling or reversing when in fact it's accelerating rapidly worldwide. 25% of cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs! It's mostly just the US that's being left behind

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I'm watching folks steadfastly insist that 'actually military history isn't popular' and, like, just the most casual glance at what public-facing history content and books draw views should tell you that if this is your experience, something is probably wrong in your department.

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hannah draper @jankypants.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Absolutely delightful thread. Stick around for the nether regions discussion!

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Heather Antos @heatherantos.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die." --Dick Cheney probably

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

"Neither divided nor corrupted," can you even imagine?

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Şimdi tüm kitapçılarda…

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

GEM de Ste. Croix: “The Helot danger was the curse Sparta had brought upon herself, an admirable illustration of the maxim that a people which oppresses another cannot itself be free.”

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The comparison of Israel to Sparta is literally what Hannah Arendt predicted would happen back in 1947.

Writing for Hannah Arendt:
"And even if the Jews were to win the war, its end would find the unique possibilities and the unique achievements of Zionism in Palestine destroyed. The land that would come into being would be something quite other than the dream of world Jewry, Zionist and non-Zionist. The “victorious” Jews would live surrounded by an entirely hostile Arab population, secluded inside ever-threatened borders, absorbed with physical self-defense to a degree that would submerge all other interests and activities. The growth of a Jewish culture would cease to be the concern of the whole people; social experiments would have to be discarded as impractical luxuries; political thought would center around military strategy; economic development would be determined exclusively by the needs of war. And all this would be the fate of a nation that—no matter how many immigrants it could still absorb and how far it extended its boundaries (the whole of Palestine and Transjordan is the insane Revisionist demand)—would still remain a very small people greatly outnumbered by hostile neighbors.

Under such circumstances (as Ernst Simon has pointed out) the Palestinian Jews would degenerate into one of those small warrior tribes about whose possibilities and importance history has amply informed us since the days of Sparta. Their relations with world Jewry would become problematical, since their defense interests might clash at any moment with those of other countries where large numbers of Jews lived. Palestine Jewry would eventually separate itself from the larger body of world Jewry and in its isolation develop into an entirely new people. Thus it becomes plain that at this moment and under present circumstances a Jewish state can only be erected at the price of the Jewish homeland."

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Gee, I wonder who the helots are in this schema.

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

This reminds me of the hooding incident in Iraq that deeply scarred US-Turkish relations and was a footnote at most to the US public

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I suspect this would play out differently than Giuliani having Yasser Arafat seized in the middle of a performance of Beethoven's Ninth at the Lincoln Center in 1995 during celebrations for he U.N.'s 50th anniversary.

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Strong Napoleon III vibes from Trump. Purports to be a restoration, actually more of a last gasp.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 29/08/2025

My increasingly close-held crank take is that we need to be way better about casting off childish things, or at the bare minimum recognizing they’re for children and feeling weird about that

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Çağdaş Üngör @cagdasungor.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Imagine the NY Times headlines if Chinese authorities did the same at their border. www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/c...

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Deleting social media presence before visiting the US

Column: In 2025, social media has moved from self-expression to self-entrapment

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Awaiting report from the hereafter on whether fairies do indeed wear boots.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/07/2025

Ethiopian War Pigs cover!!!

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If I Were King @ifiwasdaking.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Yes, that's pretty good. And I rarely disagree with you. But, really, this here is the best version and it ain't close: youtu.be/8kVYdLjoyPE?...

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uKanDanZ - WAR PIGS (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by ukandanz

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

If living in Istanbul has taught me anything, it's that animal "shelters" are a form of barbarism masquerading as civility.

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Let the cats run feral, to sleep in cafes and be fed off humanity's surplus, as they do in Istanbul. NYC's rodent problem will be gone in a month and communal life will acquire a certain extra sweetness.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Subject for another time, but *living* outside the US, for at least 6 months at a stretch but preferably 1 -2 years or more, is incomparably enlightening. In many cases more "affordable," because longer stays usually involve some kind of job, an exchange program, etc. (About 14 yrs total for us)

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I remember almost 25 years ago hearing that Bush was going to start a "Department of Homeland Security" and thinking "that sounds like Nazi stuff, I hope we don't get into a bunch of Nazi stuff" and here we are

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

WASHINGTON—With the United States facing a daunting array of problems, leading historians reminded the nation that when making tough choices, it never hurts to stop, take a look at similar situations from the past, and then think about whether the decisions people made back then were good or bad.

theonion.com

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions

WASHINGTON—With the United States facing a daunting array of problems at home and abroad, leading historians courteously reminded the nation Thursday that when making tough choices, it never hurts to ...

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I've been wondering about this myself. As an expat, I'm really out of touch with such matters. Have prices improved? I have my doubts. Why is there no talk about such things? I have my suspicions.

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Shades of Corcyra wagging the Athenian dog, for all my Thucydides heads out there. N.B. this excludes IR bros who only cite the Melian dialogue and other cherry-picked passages out of context.

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

The degree to which the entire American establishment carries water for a small nation that compromises its security and interests and betrays its purported principles is shameful--or would be, if it still had the capacity for such sentiment.

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Further proof, if any was needed, that Hawai'i is the best state.

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The Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association @andottoman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Join OTSA and Samuel J. Hirst, Bilkent University, for a WOT’SAp Friday event on June 20 at 12PM CST “Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey and Statist Internationalist 1919- 1939." To register, please visit: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Starting soon! Come listen to @samueljhirst.bsky.social talk about his great new book!

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