"the evidence is quite clear that voters don’t think Democrats are too extreme. They think Democrats are weak." There's your answer peeps. Look like you're willing to fight MAGAism, and support candidates - left or center - who will fight.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

New in PN: Moderate Democrats have a choice to make "They can spend the next three months reinforcing Republican messaging about their party & making it less likely Dems take power. Or they can put the 'battle for the soul of the party' off for a while and do what they can to help their party win."

As the Clacton by-election approaches, Kevin Harris reflects on the development of a rhetorical "culture of victimhood," from Oswald Mosley to Nigel Farage, in the latest for Broadsides. www.nacbs.org/post/from-mo...

From Mosley to Farage? Victimhood, Legitimacy, and the British Far Right

"Farage’s success therefore suggests not the return of fascism unchanged, but the normalisation of rhetorical forms formerly associated with the far right, after they have been detached from overt fas...

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So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

That's right, racist. The inbred "heritage Americans" of the traitorous Confederacy got their asses kicked by a motley assortment of immigrants in the U.S. Army.

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d ago

Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

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US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil

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4 nations, but ultimately 1 major UK crisis.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 6d ago

The terrible, stupid waste of UK universities policy continues. Your cash down the drain. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

In the 1800s French “wetlands considered unhealthy and unproductive were drained and replaced with pine forest” for timber and resin. Now it’s burning: "This isn't a fire in a natural forest. It’s a fire in a forest that was planted there to support industrial activity." www.cbc.ca/news/world/h...

A human-made forest is at the centre of France's raging wildfires | CBC News

Scientists say climate change is driving the extraordinary fire conditions gripping western Europe, but that the scale of those fires cannot be understood without looking at how humans drastically cha...

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Paedophile financierJeffrey Epstein shown sporting Zuckerberg's Meta glasses as part of a guerrilla campaign at bus stops across London by the activist group Everyone Hates Elon. www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

Spoof Epstein ads go up around London in protest against Meta AI glasses

The activist group Everyone Hates Elon targets smart glasses in a guerrilla campaign over privacy risks and non-consensual recording

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HCR beautifully articulates the logic of this administration. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

July 26, 2026

From the time he took office in January 2025, Trump and his cronies have not simply challenged laws or constitutional provisions.

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For #historians - Call for Papers for a conference on women's mobilization in the Americas during WWI in Buenos Aires on 13-14 May 2027 This conference invites scholars from related disciplines to submit their research examining the roles played by women across the Americas during the Great War.

Celebrating Independence Day this year with football and this version of Paul Simon’s amazing song #IndependenceDay youtu.be/u6Mv0X-1qLA

Allen Toussaint - American Tune (Live on Austin City Limits)

YouTube video by Nonesuch Records

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French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.

Lionel Messi 🇦🇷 is the second player in history to score 17 goals at a World Cup. Marta did it first! 🇧🇷👑

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Utopias of Violence

The Unlearned Lesson of the Iran War

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@thenacbs.bsky.social Great news about a @jbritishstudies.bsky.social article from January

Eamonn O’Keeffe@1812andallthat.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pleasantly surprised to learn my January @jbritishstudies.bsky.social article was covered in a recent issue of Historie, a chain of Scandinavian history magazines! Check out doi.org/10.1017/jbr.... for my original "From Amputee to Author" article.

📢New article in JBS! 📗"'Captured at Sea': Maritime Conflict and the Circulation of Art in Early Modern Britain" by Rebecca Earle Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢Introducing 1776: Views from the British World! Timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence that launched a revolution that created the USA, this series complicates traditional narratives of this event by situating it in a larger British world context.

I’m really pleased to see my article on “The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign” in the @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Many thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this research. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New article in JBS! 📗"The Invention of the English Historic Town: The Place of Vernacular Architecture, ca. 1780-1850," by Rosemary Helen Sweet Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Check out our editor Roey Sweet's latest article in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Focusing on case studies of Shrewsbury, Chester, York, Coventry, and Bristol, Roey's article analyzes how the concept of the “historic town” emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century doi.org/10.1017/jbr....

Journal of British Studies@jbritishstudies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢New article in JBS! 📗"The Invention of the English Historic Town: The Place of Vernacular Architecture, ca. 1780-1850," by Rosemary Helen Sweet Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Broadsides will be celebrating Pride with a series of pieces throughout the month that highlight queer and trans histories. In this first essay, @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social explores the risks of making a person's transness the center of their history. www.nacbs.org/post/roberta...

Roberta Cowell: Britain’s reluctant “trans” pioneer

"Ironically, the trans-centric view also obscures aspects of her life that could be meaningful for the modern trans community, like the fact that there was little, if any, controversy around her eligi...

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My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

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There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

Internal AutoZone memo: “.. We’re facing the largest supply shortage of lubricating fluids in the modern history of America. Realistic, middle-of-the-road estimates are for our average available supply in this product category to drop by 40%.” (via Costa Oil) $AZO

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Two photos. Same room. Same flags. Same astronauts. In one, the President stands with them, smiling, centered, human. In the other, the President sits scowling, rambling, diminished. Four astronauts. Two presidents. And the faces tell you everything.

Can you imagine going back to 1776 and telling the Founding Fathers that in 250 years, the King of England would be standing in the United States Capitol lecturing American lawmakers about the importance of democratic norms?

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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit

The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

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This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.