Joshua Andy
@andyjc17.bsky.social
Historian of the Holocaust, Russia, and Eastern Europe. Father and Husband. Coffee. Books. Golden retrievers.
It’s the people’s house. You twat.
October 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It’s the people’s house. You twat.
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Everyone realize that the reason the government is "shut down" is that the Republicans failed to pass a budget by Sept 30th, as they are required to do by law, and the government just ran out of money?
By law the Republicans were required to have a budget for the new fiscal year in place on September 30th.
Anyone seen the budget? Are they are here in DC working on one?
Don't we think media, commentators should be asking Rs where their budget is? Do they intend to actually create one?
Anyone seen the budget? Are they are here in DC working on one?
Don't we think media, commentators should be asking Rs where their budget is? Do they intend to actually create one?
October 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Everyone realize that the reason the government is "shut down" is that the Republicans failed to pass a budget by Sept 30th, as they are required to do by law, and the government just ran out of money?
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Today I learned that Police Academy Mission to Moscow was filmed during the 1993 constitutional crisis while Moscow was under Marshall law with the explicit approval of the office of Boris Yeltsin. Remind me again, how history is boring. 🤔
October 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Today I learned that Police Academy Mission to Moscow was filmed during the 1993 constitutional crisis while Moscow was under Marshall law with the explicit approval of the office of Boris Yeltsin. Remind me again, how history is boring. 🤔
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It's actually good to point out Bari Weiss's shitty inaccuracies, her lack of any real journalistic experience or original ideas, and the fact that she's failing upward, promoted by antidemocratic oligarchs who have no interest in reporting the truth.
October 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
It's actually good to point out Bari Weiss's shitty inaccuracies, her lack of any real journalistic experience or original ideas, and the fact that she's failing upward, promoted by antidemocratic oligarchs who have no interest in reporting the truth.
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And by the way, almost every single Neo-Nazi I track on a daily basis believes strongly that Tucker was talking about Jews.
Message received.
Message received.
Tucker Carlson tells a story that appears to blame Jews for killing Jesus (they didn’t) and also killing Charlie Kirk.
September 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
And by the way, almost every single Neo-Nazi I track on a daily basis believes strongly that Tucker was talking about Jews.
Message received.
Message received.
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We should trust ourselves and those we address to be able hold two thoughts at the same time: That we must forcefully condemn political violence - but also acknowledge that it festers and thrives in a deeply unhealthy political culture that Kirk himself helped create.
September 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We should trust ourselves and those we address to be able hold two thoughts at the same time: That we must forcefully condemn political violence - but also acknowledge that it festers and thrives in a deeply unhealthy political culture that Kirk himself helped create.
What @fetterman.senate.gov gets wrong in his interview with CNN is historians compare but don’t equate Trump with other historical autocrats. History helps us explain the present. I encourage him to read work by @benjamincarterhett.bsky.social especially The Death of Democracy
September 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
What @fetterman.senate.gov gets wrong in his interview with CNN is historians compare but don’t equate Trump with other historical autocrats. History helps us explain the present. I encourage him to read work by @benjamincarterhett.bsky.social especially The Death of Democracy
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Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
September 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
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What’s happening to CBS News is neither complicated nor subtle.
www.mediamatters.org/cbs/how-cbs-...
www.mediamatters.org/cbs/how-cbs-...
September 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
What’s happening to CBS News is neither complicated nor subtle.
www.mediamatters.org/cbs/how-cbs-...
www.mediamatters.org/cbs/how-cbs-...
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Old Soviet joke for today:
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
August 30, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Old Soviet joke for today:
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
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The military needs to understand that if it goes along with Trump’s plans, it will lose the goodwill it has worked so hard to rebuild with the U.S. public since Vietnam.
August 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The military needs to understand that if it goes along with Trump’s plans, it will lose the goodwill it has worked so hard to rebuild with the U.S. public since Vietnam.
Lasting peace= Ukraine whole and free of Russian troops.
August 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Lasting peace= Ukraine whole and free of Russian troops.
Russia troops leave all occupied Ukraine and stop killing civilians through an air war. There. Peace.
August 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Russia troops leave all occupied Ukraine and stop killing civilians through an air war. There. Peace.
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"Ford projects that it will lose $2 billion in profits this year alone because of higher tariffs; General Motors forecasts losses of $4 billion to $5 billion by the end of the year." The deal of the century. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
So, About Those Big Trade Deals
If you read the fine print, the “concessions” from America’s trade partners don’t add up to much.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
"Ford projects that it will lose $2 billion in profits this year alone because of higher tariffs; General Motors forecasts losses of $4 billion to $5 billion by the end of the year." The deal of the century. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
Europe - tomorrow stand up and be counted. America after doing all the wrong things, will return. But right now the mantle of the free world is in Kyiv, Berlin, Paris, London, Helsinki, Brussels, Prague, Oslo, and Ottawa.
August 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Europe - tomorrow stand up and be counted. America after doing all the wrong things, will return. But right now the mantle of the free world is in Kyiv, Berlin, Paris, London, Helsinki, Brussels, Prague, Oslo, and Ottawa.
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"The rise of fascism in the United States convinced the Guthrie family and their associates that the music scene needed a dose of Guthrie’s anti-authoritarian, anti-racist, Nazi-punching ethos." #woodyguthrie #folkmusic #antifascist
New Music from Anti-Fascist Folk Singer Woody Guthrie Released
With this reveal of 22 previously unheard songs, the Guthrie family hopes the radical messages in “Woody At Home” will inspire the next generation of protest songwriters.
inthesetimes.com
August 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
"The rise of fascism in the United States convinced the Guthrie family and their associates that the music scene needed a dose of Guthrie’s anti-authoritarian, anti-racist, Nazi-punching ethos." #woodyguthrie #folkmusic #antifascist
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Explosions in Kharkiv ‼️ more drones are buzzing in the air, air defense is firing.
FUCK RUSSIA‼️
FUCK RUSSIA‼️
August 18, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Explosions in Kharkiv ‼️ more drones are buzzing in the air, air defense is firing.
FUCK RUSSIA‼️
FUCK RUSSIA‼️
As authoritarian regimes grows at home, Trump meets with authoritarian in chief.
August 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
As authoritarian regimes grows at home, Trump meets with authoritarian in chief.
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I hope the ghost of Ronald Reagan appears and haunts him! What a degrading spectacle.
Trump claps for Putin as he greets him on the red carpet in Alaska.
August 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I hope the ghost of Ronald Reagan appears and haunts him! What a degrading spectacle.
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<<stage whisper>>
It was never about jobs.
It was never about jobs.
Yes! Humanities majors get jobs!
Which is quite separate from humanities *departments* getting funding. We're under-funded for ideological reasons, alongside mistaken cultural assumptions about employability.
But our majors get jobs! At a high rate! History is a *good* major, so is Classics!
Which is quite separate from humanities *departments* getting funding. We're under-funded for ideological reasons, alongside mistaken cultural assumptions about employability.
But our majors get jobs! At a high rate! History is a *good* major, so is Classics!
August 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
<<stage whisper>>
It was never about jobs.
It was never about jobs.
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Live your life with the confidence of a mediocre rich man with brain worms who’s never accomplished anything
RFK has announced that he is developing a vaccine against all viruses. Yes, every single one. The whole, uh, "phylum"
August 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Live your life with the confidence of a mediocre rich man with brain worms who’s never accomplished anything
Peace plan for Ukraine:: Ukraine whole and free. That’s it
August 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Peace plan for Ukraine:: Ukraine whole and free. That’s it
If Only My Father Could Choose to Deny the Holocaust Ever Happened www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/o...
Opinion | If Only My Father Could Choose to Deny the Holocaust Ever Happened
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 6:32 AM
If Only My Father Could Choose to Deny the Holocaust Ever Happened www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/o...
After watching Long Way Home I had to try @vollpension.bsky.social interaction Wien.
July 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
After watching Long Way Home I had to try @vollpension.bsky.social interaction Wien.
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I am still on my social media hiatus but logging in to share the response of my friend @hpollingalay.bsky.social to the Omer Bartov NYT piece.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...
Opinion | Israel and Gaza: Is It Genocide?
www.nytimes.com
July 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I am still on my social media hiatus but logging in to share the response of my friend @hpollingalay.bsky.social to the Omer Bartov NYT piece.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...