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David Pizzo

@pizzohistorian.bsky.social
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All pics and opinions mine unless otherwise indicated. Historian. History professor at Murray State University: Modern Germany, Eastern and Southern Africa, the World Wars, Genocide, & Slavery. Director of KIIS Austria & SiR Berlin Program. All views mine.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/04/2026
If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭
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Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I have a second piece out today, on the RSS, or the Sangh. You might be unfamiliar with them but they're the largest fascist network in the world. There's a new monitoring project aimed at tracking the group's disparate fronts, including the overseas ones, and I got to write about it.
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The Many Faces of the World’s Biggest Neo-Fascist Network - Truthdig
A new research project sheds light on the globe-spanning reach of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the movement behind India’s far-right BJP-led government.
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This looks like an amazing show. Reminder, nearly half of samurai were women. www.ft.com/content/0734... "The British Museum’s Samurai show proves the brush is mightier than the sword"
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The British Museum’s Samurai show proves the brush is mightier than the sword
A magnificent exhibition reveals how these fearsome warriors lived on, long after their fighting days were over
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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Read an interview with the editors! www.upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...
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Author's Corner with Bryan A. Banks and Cindy Ermus, editors of THE GLOBAL AGE OF REVOLUTIONS
<p>Today, we are happy to bring you our conversation with Bryan A. Banks and Cindy Ermus, editors of <em>The Global Age of Revolutions: A History from
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I’ll be talking about this tonight. “A Few Thoughts For Those Who Can’t Sleep” About 10:30 ET m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
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Dr. Joanne Freeman
Professor Joanne Freeman is an award-winning historian who studies the politics and culture of America's past to better understand our history as a nation, and the roads and choices that have led us t...
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't. They won't only be for brown and Black people. The targets will keep expanding. It will not end. The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
My @liberalcurrents.com essay on the “repeal the 19th” guys from last November www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
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Women Should Make Babies, Not Vote: Why Some on the Far Right Want to Repeal the 19th Amendment
The far right takes losses at the ballot box as evidence that women do not deserve their rights.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Another thing to add to the Dem platform: all of these contracts were plainly procured through fraud, not one of them will be honored, and all culpable parties will be prosecuted. This isn't a "radical" demand, it's the bare minimum required to re-establish the rule of law.
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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Introducing Selling Safety! A report that lays bare the ethnically dubious world of marketing and selling police surveillance technology, how effectiveness numbers are manufactured, the role police play in a massive for-profit industry, and new critical questions for reporters and law makers.
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"Selling Safety": A Journalist's Guide to Covering Police Technology
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Young women are the future of progressive politics... and they want to/will leave the U.S. in record numbers. I see this among my students too.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 17/02/2026
Linda Davis, a K-8 special education teacher, was killed today after ICE pursued a driver fleeing a traffic stop in Georgia. Linda Davis is one of many people who have died after coming into contact with ICE. The government doesn't record these deaths, but we do.
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A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured
ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas 
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by 
@micarosenberg
 et al for ProPublica:
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The U.S. killed 11 more civilians in boat strikes yesterday -- 8 in the Pacific Ocean and 3 in the Caribbean. We're tracking the increasing toll of these extrajudicial killings in a tracker @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Just got my author copy of Black Atlantic Worlds! I’m honored and delighted to be a part of this volume. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978088...
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Black Atlantic Worlds — Harvard University Press
Landscapes are key to the Black Atlantic. The history of how Africans and their descendants populated and transformed nations, regions, and ecosystems has always been attentive to the multiple meaning...
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously. newrepublic.com/article/2013...
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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down
How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11/02/2025
what bugs me about "what about assimilation!?" arguments is the fact that american history is one long proof that america is very good at assimilating immigrants, and always has been *right now* 28% of americans are immigrants or children of immigrants! gabydelvalle.substack.com/p/the-spirit...
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The spirit of Ellis Island
look at my leftist public intellectuals dawg
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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Are you a teacher covering the Holocaust or Nazi Germany in your #GCSE or #ALevel curriculum this year? Our educational website #TheHolocaustExplained includes free downloadable resources drawing on unique materials from our archive 🔗
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Educational Resources – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools
This section features educational resources on different topics related to Nazism and the Holocaust. Each resource draws upon original primary sources from The Wiener Holocaust Library’s archive. It…
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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"The Path to American Authoritarianism: What Comes After Democratic Breakdown" by Profs Levitsky and Way. Answer: Electoral Autocracy coupled, I would add, with rule of law breakdown aka systemic lawlessness whenever the ruling regime feels it is warranted www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
An unelected South African has taken control of the US Treasury and is deciding to stop payments on American obligations, in violation of numerous court orders, and admits in the Oval Office that he has done so upon incorrect information, while the President sits impotently behind the Resolute Desk.
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Dr. Antje Gamble @drantjegamble.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
So @pizzohistorian.bsky.social and I are teaching modern Italy this semester and there is precedent for the pope excommunicate people over politics. Just saying. (I’m not catholic… but it would be funny.)
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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Recently, UNC Press authors have had their US visas revoked and talks canceled. For over 100 years, we have stood for academic freedom and open discourse, and continue to do so. Read more on the UNC Press Blog ⬇️
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Academic Freedom and Open Discourse - UNC Press Blog
For over 100 years UNC Press has championed the principles of academic freedom, open discourse, and the free exchange of ideas—values essential to a democratic society and the pursuit of knowledge.  R...
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Robert Steiner 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @derluemml.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Was soll in den paar Jahren Faschismus schon passieren? Ach ja.
Zerbomtes Köln am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The temperature at noon on Monday will be 22 degrees which is the same temperature it was in 1961 when Kennedy was inaugurated. The ceremony was held outside.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The American Historical Association vetoed a resolution passed overwhelmingly by its members to condemn Israel's destruction of educational systems in Gaza. In so doing, they told the youngest & most active members of a field under threat that their professional and moral outrage doesn't matter.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I wanted to share some thoughts on what to expect from the second Trump presidency and its early days. Cruelty. Violence. Intimidation. Huge cultural shifts. And wholesale plundering by the oligarchs who bought Trump and the presidency. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/back-into-...
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Back Into the Breach: Thoughts on the Second Trump Presidency
We shouldn't have to deal with this. But, unfortunately, we're going to.
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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
TIL that the venerable Crock Pot was invented by Irving Nachumsohn, who was Litvak, a Lithuanian Jew. These are my people!! (I'm Litvak on both sides). He also was the first Jewish engineer at Western Electric. A nice way to head into Shabbat. Good shabbos!! #JewSky
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A Brief History of the Crock Pot
More than eighty years after it was patented, the Crock Pot remains a comforting presence in American kitchens
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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Caribbeanists/scholars of slavery: consider signing this important petition about the burial grounds of enslaved people at Newtown plantation in Barbados www.change.org/p/put-the-he...
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Sign the Petition
Put the Heritage District Project on Pause
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 10/01/2025
If you’re at all familiar with Peter Thiel’s youth in apartheid South Africa/Namibia — where his German dad helped run a concentration camp-like uranium mine under military control that violated international law — his name-checking the Truth and Reconciliation Commission here is especially gross.
A screenshot of the headline for Peter Thiel’s FT op-ed, “A time for truth and reconciliation.”
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Yes, "Hatred Was His Job". cc obit and op-ed writers over here, who've done their worst to invent a Jean-Marie Le Pen who never existed since the fascist thug died.
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Camilla de Koning @camilladekoning.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
It's here, it's happening, it's out! @ramonanegron.bsky.social @jessicadenoudsten.bsky.social @fatahblack.bsky.social and I present to you as editors a three part volume: West Africa, At Sea and Conflict Management and Discourse. New and exciting research on the Dutch Transatlantic Slave trade!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Professors: If you are restructuring your syllabi for the semester to reflect the new administration, some people may use that language to attack you. This is what happened to a co-author teaching about the American Presidency. heterodoxacademy.org/blog/academi...
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Constructing ‘Campus Craziness’ - Heterodox Academy
The demonization of Ken Mayer exemplifies how the 'campus craziness' narrative is created -- and lays bare the cynical opportunism at its core
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David Pizzo @pizzohistorian.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
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Names of 425,000 suspected Nazi collaborators published — BBC News
The names of Dutch people investigated for working with the Nazis during World War 2 are available online for the first time.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/12/2024
CEO Unveils Bold New Plan To Undo Damage From Last Year’s Bold New Plan theonion.com/ceo-unveils-...
CEO Unveils Bold New Plan To Undo Damage From Last Year’s Bold New Plan
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
The fact that the FBI didn’t hold a press conference announcing the largest seizure of self-made explosives in history tells you everything you need to know about race and ideology of the suspect. Wanna guess? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/u...
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F.B.I. Says It Found Largest Cache of Homemade Explosives in Its History at Va. Farm
Investigators discovered more than 150 devices, mostly pipe bombs, on a property outside Norfolk, court papers say.
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Unseen History @unseenhistory.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
U.S. president Jimmy Carter with Nigeria's Head of State, Olusegun Obasanjo (1977).
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David Pizzo @pizzohistorian.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
What a way to end this awful year: apple.news/AQz5Z3UB_SvK...
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Jimmy Carter, 39th president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 100, his son says — The Washington Post
The tenacious Southerner was turned out of office after one term. But he had a brilliant post-presidential career as a champion of health, peace and democracy.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
the richest man in human history runs a burner account on the social media platform he bought for himself where he showers compliments on his own parenting to compensate for the fact that his actual kids don’t speak to him
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States. “I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”
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Art Spiegelman Won’t Shrink Back From Controversy
The artist has illustrated more than one contentious New Yorker cover in his career, chronicled in a new film, and his next project will be no less gutsy.
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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
I’m reading!!!!! Hallelujah I’m reading! Thanks @gabriellehecht.bsky.social for the excellent intellectual company.
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Ubiquitous Kerfuffle™ @eleanoraquitaine.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
"In short, four of Maga’s most influential voices are fiftysomething white men with formative experiences in apartheid South Africa. This probably isn’t a coincidence." www.ft.com/content/cfbf...
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Musk, Thiel and the shadow of apartheid South Africa
The parallels between South Africa then and the US today are striking
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Akil N Awan @akilnawan.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
The state of humanities funding in the US is shocking. For every $1000 the feds spend on research, humanities receive a $1.30 🤯 Of the ~$54 billion in research the federal govt funds in U.S. higher ed, only $69 million goes to the humanities (=0.13% of fed total) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Humanities Decline in Darkness: How Humanities Research Funding Works | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
Humanities Decline in Darkness: How Humanities Research Funding Works - Volume 1
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
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Israel burns northern Gaza’s last functioning hospital; patients and staff removed
Israeli military vehicles surrounded the hospital, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, and communications had been cut off.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
It’s bizarre how the US ruling class take holidays in European cities where they can enjoy nice public spaces, public transit, pedestrianised streets, mixed-use neighbourhoods, public healthcare and nice architecture, and then go home and deny these things to their citizens.
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Hunter S Thompson's Tequila @hsthompsontequila.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Mmk. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘Godfather of AI’ shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity over next 30 years
Geoffrey Hinton says there is 10% to 20% chance AI will lead to human extinction in three decades, as change moves fast
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