Einmal, ein einziges Mal so viel Dringlichkeit in der Regierung sehen angesichts der Hitzetoten & der klimakrisebedingten Schäden in der Natur & der Wirtschaft wie beim Thema Migration. Was wäre das für eine Ansprache.
Joachim C. Häberlen
@jchaeberlen.bsky.social
Historian of beautiful actions. PhD from UChicago. Past at U Warwick, now teaching and writing in Berlin. Personal Homepage: https://joachimhaeberlen.com/ My book on Protesting in Post-War Europe: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/321011/beauty-is-in-the-
CN Gadjé-Rassismus Antiziganismus Solchen ekelhaften Rassismus gegen Sinti*zze und Rom*nja kriegen wohl die meisten von uns gar nicht mit und unterschätzen ihn! Ich war völlig perplex damals und habe mich umso mehr über das Urteil mit gefreut!
SintiUnionSH@sintiunionsh.bsky.social · 5d agoHeute vor zwei Jahren: Historisches Gerichtsurteil gegen rassistische Diskriminierung @kellylaubinger.bsky.social wollte im Rahmen einer antirassistischen Lesereihe ein Zimmer für @maxczollek.bsky.social buchen. Dieses wurde ihr aus rassistischen Gründen verweigert. Sie klagte und bekam Recht!
#OtD 10 Jul 2013 Ali İsmail Korkmaz, a 19-year-old university student, died following a brutal beating by police in Turkey during the Occupy Gezi anti-government protests stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8209...
If democracy is something that needs to be experienced with our senses, as was recently argued, then this version of Beethoven's Ode to Joy, sung in Beirut in 2019, provides such an experience, even if it feels very much like a message in a bottle these days. www.youtube.com/watch?v=32WL...
Beethoven’s Ode to Joy sang in Arabic by Lebanese protesters
YouTube video by Marwan Chelala
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Read about the NSDAP party convention of 1934 today, made famous by Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the Will. What the film doesn't show: several SA men died because they fell, utterly wasted, into latrines and suffocated in their feces. A deserved death, I suppose... www.bpb.de/shop/buecher...
Nationalsozialismus | bpb.de
Gerhard Paul und Michael Wildt schildern den Nationalsozialismus als Gesellschafts- und Mediengeschichte. Deren Bild- und Tonwelten erschließen der reich bebilderte Band und eine innovative App.
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⚡️BREAKING: Magyar says Orban congratulated him on election win. "Prime Minister Viktor Orban has just called to congratulate us on our victory," Tisza leader Peter Magyar wrote on X. With over 50% of votes processed, the opposition has taken a significant lead over the ruling party.
Orban congratulates opposition leader Magyar on victory in historic Hungarian election
"This has become, and will be, a celebration of democracy," Tisza party leader Peter Magyar said.
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the insanity of the world (or at least significant parts of it) in a nutshell.
Academic News: Finally, my article on adventure playgrounds as sites of democratic learning in the Federal Republic of Germany is freely available. What slides, swings, and constructing wooden huts in concrete desserts have to do with democracy. academic.oup.com/gh/article/4...
Congratulations to Joachim C. Häberlen for his article 'Democracy at Play: Adventure Playgrounds in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1967–1984' which has been awarded the German History 2025 Article Prize! You can read the winning article here: doi.org/10.1093/gerh...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa... a beautiful must read if you care about humanity and love movies (Gift article) Thank you Arash Azizi for writing this and @theatlantic.com for publishing it
What Iran’s Dead Loved and Fought For
A young woman’s online diaries about cinema and literature have become her epitaph.
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If this (what's happening on Moltbook) is the future of the internet (you never whether something is written by AI or by a human being), then I guess it's also the future of humanity. Funny times. www.faz.net/pro/digitalw...
Moltbook: Wie das soziale Netzwerk für KI-Agenten funktioniert
Ein soziales Netzwerk nur für Bots – programmiert, ohne dass eine Zeile menschlichen Codes geschrieben wurde, gebaut auf einer quelloffenen Plattform aus Wien. Moltbook fasziniert das Silicon Valley u...
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Bäume verbuddeln und gar im Meer versenken, gegen die Klimawandel. Interessante und ernst gemeinte Idee; und dennoch, irgendwie zeigt sie die Absurdität der Weltlage. Bäume stehen zu lassen schein nicht en vogue zu sein. www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...
Bäume fürs Klima: Der Meeresgrund als Kohlenstoffsenke
Um Kohlendioxid aus der Atmosphäre zu fischen, werden Bäume gefällt und im Erdboden verbuddelt. Das kostet viel Platz. Nun präsentieren Forscher ein eleganteres Konzept.
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The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
"At least five Native American men have been detained by ICE around Minneapolis following significant immigration raids." ictnews.org/news/i-felt-...
‘I felt like I was kidnapped’: Ojibwe man recounts ICE detainment - ICT
At least five Native American men have been detained by ICE around Minneapolis following significant immigration raids
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Amidst the countless stories of powerful men, and the stories of pain and suffering in history, the story an Italian named Giuseppe Pizzuto deserves being remembered as well: Born in Egypt, he fought in the Italian army during WWI, where he was apparently influenced by socialist ideas. (1/3)
Concise summary of WWI: "Our story begins in that summer of 1914 when a crazy war erupted in Europe. A war like the kind of fights that flare up between coffee-shop dwellers during almawalid. It starts with a chair hitting the lights, leaving everyone in the dark, and then the fight begins. 1/3
“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
Protests are spreading across Iran for a fourth day, with demonstrators calling for the end of the Islamic regime and demanding the return of exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. A member of the Basij force was killed in Kouhdasht, Lorestan, and confrontations are flaring in Fars, Hamedan, and Tehran.
I'm always happy to see my work mentioned, as in this Foreign Policy article (a summary of previous articles on the past and present of movements). However, Beauty Is in the Street is distinctly not about failed movements, but about experimentingi foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/25/g...
A Year of Global Protest
How Gen Z-led movements shaped 2025—and what comes next.
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#OtD 31 Dec 1912 about 160 African workers at the Wankie coal mine in colonial Rhodesia came out on strike. Workers were protesting the poor conditions after dozens had contracted scurvy, resulting in nine deaths over the previous three months stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1143...
Compare the statement about the antisemitic terror attack in Australia by the Israeli Prime Minister with the one by Zohran Mamdani, and ask yourself who more truly cares about condemning antisemitism, as opposed to using it to promote unrelated politics.
Very thankful to see my piece on the Charm of History, and how the study of the past might offer a glimpse of joy and hope these days, mentioned here. I'd be happy to know what folks think! www.historians.org/perspectives...
On the Charm of History – AHA
Finding joy in the past might allow us to imagine a future of joy as well.
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Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe light the first Hanukkah candle this evening, but we could all use some light right now, so here’s my 254th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from last week. Add more below, share widely, & solidarity, all.🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
+ Ein mutiger Somalier verfolgte im Januar in #Aschaffenburg einen Messerangreifer. Für sein Engagement erhielt er von Ministerpräsidenten Söder die Medaille für Zivilcourage. Nun soll er ausreisen – er habe keinen Job. Der Somalier beschuldigt die Behörden.
Kein Job - Held von #Aschaffenburg soll Deutschland verlassen
Ein mutiger Somalier verfolgte im Januar in #Aschaffenburg einen Messerangreifer. Für sein Engagement erhielt er von Ministerpräsidenten Söder die Medaille für Zivilcourage. Nun soll er ausreisen – er habe keinen Job. Der Somalier beschuldigt die Behörden.
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On the Charm of History, now also available online: www.historians.org/perspectives... The joy we can find in the past might enable us to imagine a joyful future once again, rather than seeing nothing but catastrophe. And the joy of teaching smart students.
On the Charm of History – AHA
Finding joy in the past might allow us to imagine a future of joy as well.
historians.org
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
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Publication News: On the Charm of History. www.historians.org/perspectives... What studying the past has to offer, it seems these days, is a stern warning about the perils of authoritariansim or even fascism that are on the rise again. Rarely does history seem to offer a sense of hope ... 1/3
November 2025
Read the November issue of Perspectives on History.
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I was contacted, for the second time, by someone, presumably in the US, who claims to have read my book and offers promoting it in multiple ways (without saying to explicitly or even indicating costs), by someone named Laura's Pavlov. Out of curiousity: is anyone I know familiar with the name?
