Carolyn Mitchell
@carolynmitchell.bsky.social
Historian and teacher. Believes in science, writes fiction.
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This was from 2024, but sadly it remains just as relevant today. Deeply troubling.
January 30, 2026 at 10:08 PM
This was from 2024, but sadly it remains just as relevant today. Deeply troubling.
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Die Gesellschaft zu spalten, indem man Neid und Missgunst schürt oder Minderheiten verunglimpft, schafft übrigens keinen einzigen Arbeitsplatz.
Nur, falls das noch nicht erwähnt wurde.
Nur, falls das noch nicht erwähnt wurde.
January 31, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Die Gesellschaft zu spalten, indem man Neid und Missgunst schürt oder Minderheiten verunglimpft, schafft übrigens keinen einzigen Arbeitsplatz.
Nur, falls das noch nicht erwähnt wurde.
Nur, falls das noch nicht erwähnt wurde.
Logik, die 🙄
Ich habe Wirtschaftsministerin Reiche heute damit konfrontiert, dass das Arbeitsvolumen in Deutschland heute auf dem höchsten Stand seit der Wende ist
January 29, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Logik, die 🙄
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»Fakten hören nicht auf zu existieren, nur weil sie ignoriert werden.«
Aldous Huxley hat das schon im letzten Jahrhundert gesagt, und es ist immer noch richtig.
Aldous Huxley hat das schon im letzten Jahrhundert gesagt, und es ist immer noch richtig.
January 29, 2026 at 7:24 AM
»Fakten hören nicht auf zu existieren, nur weil sie ignoriert werden.«
Aldous Huxley hat das schon im letzten Jahrhundert gesagt, und es ist immer noch richtig.
Aldous Huxley hat das schon im letzten Jahrhundert gesagt, und es ist immer noch richtig.
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January 29, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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January 29, 2026 at 6:13 AM
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Chief Judge Schilitz of MN (Scalia clerk) orders ICE director Todd Lyons to appear before him Friday. Says his "patience is at an end." Says his order to release or hold bail hearing for a detainee was defied as have dozens of other such orders.
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January 27, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Chief Judge Schilitz of MN (Scalia clerk) orders ICE director Todd Lyons to appear before him Friday. Says his "patience is at an end." Says his order to release or hold bail hearing for a detainee was defied as have dozens of other such orders.
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Twice this week when meeting a new person I've gotten an excited "Wow, it must be an exciting time to be a political scientist!" and both times I've answered "Not really. That's like telling someone it's an exciting to be a surgeon when there's a 63 car pileup on the highway."
January 26, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Twice this week when meeting a new person I've gotten an excited "Wow, it must be an exciting time to be a political scientist!" and both times I've answered "Not really. That's like telling someone it's an exciting to be a surgeon when there's a 63 car pileup on the highway."
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I love how they went from "Guns Don't Kill People" to "A Gun Can Kill People Even If You Don't Use It!"
Bessent: I'm sorry he is dead, but he did bring a semiautomatic weapon to what was supposed to be a peaceful protest.
Karl: There's no evidence that he brandished the gun whatsoever
Bessent: But he brought a gun!
Karl: We do have a second amendment in this country.
Karl: There's no evidence that he brandished the gun whatsoever
Bessent: But he brought a gun!
Karl: We do have a second amendment in this country.
January 25, 2026 at 5:18 PM
I love how they went from "Guns Don't Kill People" to "A Gun Can Kill People Even If You Don't Use It!"
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English writer Virginia Woolf was born #OTD in 1882.
Woolf is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. #literature #litsky #booksky
newyorker.com/magazine/195...
Woolf is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. #literature #litsky #booksky
newyorker.com/magazine/195...
January 25, 2026 at 3:26 PM
English writer Virginia Woolf was born #OTD in 1882.
Woolf is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. #literature #litsky #booksky
newyorker.com/magazine/195...
Woolf is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. #literature #litsky #booksky
newyorker.com/magazine/195...
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Bitte lest es, für die Hoffnung
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I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.
January 24, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Bitte lest es, für die Hoffnung
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„Die Mission ist, für die zu sprechen, die es nicht geschafft haben. Es sind nicht nur die sechs Millionen Juden. Es sind alle Menschen, die man umgebracht hat. Unschuldige Menschen, so viele Kinder.
Und Menschen haben es getan. "
Guten Morgen mit Margot Friedländer
Holocaust-Überlebende

Und Menschen haben es getan. "
Guten Morgen mit Margot Friedländer
Holocaust-Überlebende

January 24, 2026 at 7:12 AM
„Die Mission ist, für die zu sprechen, die es nicht geschafft haben. Es sind nicht nur die sechs Millionen Juden. Es sind alle Menschen, die man umgebracht hat. Unschuldige Menschen, so viele Kinder.
Und Menschen haben es getan. "
Guten Morgen mit Margot Friedländer
Holocaust-Überlebende

Und Menschen haben es getan. "
Guten Morgen mit Margot Friedländer
Holocaust-Überlebende

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A blessing for this evening. From the Black Rock Prayer Book.
January 22, 2026 at 2:58 AM
A blessing for this evening. From the Black Rock Prayer Book.
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Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 22, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.
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No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
January 21, 2026 at 2:49 PM
No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Politics Are Not America First. They’re Me First.
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:18 AM
This ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...
A good article.
A good article.
Opinion | They Were Ordinary Germans. We Are Ordinary Americans.
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:40 AM
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...
A good article.
A good article.
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“…There is some information in there that isn't familiar to a lot of people. Including that the US is currently holding three times as many people in immigration detention as were detained in the entire Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich.”
I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:45 AM
“…There is some information in there that isn't familiar to a lot of people. Including that the US is currently holding three times as many people in immigration detention as were detained in the entire Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich.”
Ja, viele Kinder lesen ungern, aber weder werden Klassiker z.B. in NRW in Mittel- und Oberstufe in einfacher Sprache gelesen, noch sind die angesprochenen Aspekte (Leselisten an Uni) neu. Inkompetenz ist hier nicht hilfreich.
Abwärtsspirale im Deutschunterricht
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Abwärtsspirale im Deutschunterricht
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
zeitung.faz.net
January 20, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Ja, viele Kinder lesen ungern, aber weder werden Klassiker z.B. in NRW in Mittel- und Oberstufe in einfacher Sprache gelesen, noch sind die angesprochenen Aspekte (Leselisten an Uni) neu. Inkompetenz ist hier nicht hilfreich.
Abwärtsspirale im Deutschunterricht
zeitung.faz.net/data/643/rea...
Abwärtsspirale im Deutschunterricht
zeitung.faz.net/data/643/rea...
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„Mythen, Visionen, magische Praktiken handeln vom Tod, auch Geschichtsschreibung, Literatur, Poesie oder Kunst. Das daraus gespeiste Wissen formt alle sinnliche Wahrnehmung und alle Haltung im Leben bis hin zum eigenen Sterben.“ So Johannes Fried am 5. 10. 1993 in der F.A.Z. Er ruhe in Frieden.
January 19, 2026 at 7:41 PM
„Mythen, Visionen, magische Praktiken handeln vom Tod, auch Geschichtsschreibung, Literatur, Poesie oder Kunst. Das daraus gespeiste Wissen formt alle sinnliche Wahrnehmung und alle Haltung im Leben bis hin zum eigenen Sterben.“ So Johannes Fried am 5. 10. 1993 in der F.A.Z. Er ruhe in Frieden.
Jetzt wird im Himmel weiterdiskutiert. Klug und stets mit einem Lächeln. Ich habe viel von ihm gelernt.
Nachruf von @pbahners.bsky.social auf Johannes Fried, der am 17.01.2026 in Heidelberg verstorben ist: www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
Johannes Fried tot: War Karl der Große wirklich groß?
Er erneuerte seine Zunft aus dem Geist radikalen Zweifels und wollte sie sogar zur Hirnforschung bekehren: Zum Tod des Frankfurter Historikers Johannes Fried.
www.faz.net
January 20, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Jetzt wird im Himmel weiterdiskutiert. Klug und stets mit einem Lächeln. Ich habe viel von ihm gelernt.
Another insightful albeit frustrating article worth reading.
And again: where is Congress?
And again: where is Congress?
It is not up to the armed forces to put a stop to Trump’s ghastly ideas of war against NATO. The United States is not run by the military, nor should it be. Americans, and their elected representatives, must take this burden away from the armed forces—now.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Military Is Being Forced to Plan for an Unthinkable Betrayal
Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do.
www.theatlantic.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Another insightful albeit frustrating article worth reading.
And again: where is Congress?
And again: where is Congress?
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Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
January 20, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
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Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw
Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:01 PM