David Fedman
@dfeds.bsky.social
historian of japan/korea/the environment | words: davidfedman.org | digital archive: JapanAirRaids.org | film: https://papercityfilm.com/
Here's a downloadable inventory—including geolocation data—of the 200+ trees in Tokyo known to carry traces of wartime bombing in their morphology
www.davidfedman.org/tokyos-warda...
Happy to share a lesson plan/walking route I've developed, if anyone's taking students to Tokyo anytime soon
www.davidfedman.org/tokyos-warda...
Happy to share a lesson plan/walking route I've developed, if anyone's taking students to Tokyo anytime soon
February 17, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Here's a downloadable inventory—including geolocation data—of the 200+ trees in Tokyo known to carry traces of wartime bombing in their morphology
www.davidfedman.org/tokyos-warda...
Happy to share a lesson plan/walking route I've developed, if anyone's taking students to Tokyo anytime soon
www.davidfedman.org/tokyos-warda...
Happy to share a lesson plan/walking route I've developed, if anyone's taking students to Tokyo anytime soon
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How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
February 17, 2026 at 3:17 PM
How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
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It's like ICE is completely ignoring every lesson that moderately competent police forces are forced to learn, like "don't do high speed chases in densely populated areas with low risk targets"
ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.
Savannah teacher killed in crash by man fleeing from ICE
According to the Chatham County Police Department, Monday morning’s fatal crash was the result of a chase between Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and a suspect.
www.wtoc.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:29 AM
It's like ICE is completely ignoring every lesson that moderately competent police forces are forced to learn, like "don't do high speed chases in densely populated areas with low risk targets"
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We can’t trust anything coming out of this administration. It’s getting tiresome.
February 16, 2026 at 11:50 AM
We can’t trust anything coming out of this administration. It’s getting tiresome.
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Popping up across Brooklyn... All of the people featured in the windows are Black people.
February 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Popping up across Brooklyn... All of the people featured in the windows are Black people.
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on the one hand on the other hand
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academic writing
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academic writing
February 16, 2026 at 5:16 AM
on the one hand on the other hand
🤝
academic writing
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academic writing
Now, alongside a memorial wall and a museum glorifying North Korean soldiers fighting in Russia's war against Ukraine, a special housing block for the families of those killed:
apnews.com/article/nort...
apnews.com/article/nort...
North Korea opens a housing district for families of its soldiers killed in Russia-Ukraine war
North Korea says it completed a housing district in Pyongyang for families of soldiers killed while fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine.
apnews.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Now, alongside a memorial wall and a museum glorifying North Korean soldiers fighting in Russia's war against Ukraine, a special housing block for the families of those killed:
apnews.com/article/nort...
apnews.com/article/nort...
on the one hand on the other hand
🤝
academic writing
🤝
academic writing
February 16, 2026 at 5:16 AM
on the one hand on the other hand
🤝
academic writing
🤝
academic writing
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While MLPS was a victory, moral and tangibly, for ICE resisters, don't call it 'a retreat.' The dystopia is just getting started
Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
No, ICE isn’t ‘retreating.’ It’s loading up to invade your town. | Will Bunch
A much-hyped ICE pullback from Minneapolis is a blip in a looming nationwide surge of arrests, concentration camps.
www.inquirer.com
February 15, 2026 at 6:25 PM
While MLPS was a victory, moral and tangibly, for ICE resisters, don't call it 'a retreat.' The dystopia is just getting started
Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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A former Democratic colleague of hers once told me that Susan Collins is “usually there when you don’t need her and never there when you actually do.” The moderate brand she projects is entirely performative. It’s always surprised me that Maine voters don’t seem to care.
February 16, 2026 at 12:16 AM
A former Democratic colleague of hers once told me that Susan Collins is “usually there when you don’t need her and never there when you actually do.” The moderate brand she projects is entirely performative. It’s always surprised me that Maine voters don’t seem to care.
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No it’s what he said. Read what he said.
February 16, 2026 at 12:10 AM
No it’s what he said. Read what he said.
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Broadly speaking: reality tv is bad for democracy, influencers are bad for democracy, streamers are bad for democracy, YouTubers are bad for democracy.
Exceptions to all categories exist, but it’s astonishing how absolutely clogged our political and media ecosystems are with low-info narcissists
Exceptions to all categories exist, but it’s astonishing how absolutely clogged our political and media ecosystems are with low-info narcissists
February 15, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Broadly speaking: reality tv is bad for democracy, influencers are bad for democracy, streamers are bad for democracy, YouTubers are bad for democracy.
Exceptions to all categories exist, but it’s astonishing how absolutely clogged our political and media ecosystems are with low-info narcissists
Exceptions to all categories exist, but it’s astonishing how absolutely clogged our political and media ecosystems are with low-info narcissists
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I've been reading 1950s-era novels and travelogues about Japan and these male writers just could not be normal about Japanese women. Looking at you James Michener (and Ian Fleming for that matter).
February 14, 2026 at 10:27 PM
I've been reading 1950s-era novels and travelogues about Japan and these male writers just could not be normal about Japanese women. Looking at you James Michener (and Ian Fleming for that matter).
i can think of 50,000 reasons not to believe this
Homan: "When they say 'stop racial profiling' -- that's just not occurring. ICE will briefly detain and question somebody based on reasonable suspicion. It has nothing to do with racial profiling."
February 15, 2026 at 8:08 PM
i can think of 50,000 reasons not to believe this
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The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.
February 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM
The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.
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Historians of police, imperialism, and counterinsurgency all tapping the sign right now
This thread seems to confirm my very strong prior that a big part of what's wrong with DHS is that it blurs foreign and domestic authority, and by doing so inherently promotes bringing military and intelligence behavior into the civilian world
I worked in a Democratic presidential administration and, even then, DHS was very often the most problematic, obstinate part of negotiating a civil/human rights provision into executive branch policy.
I have been thinking about this a lot in recent weeks and want to offer a short 🧵with reflections:
I have been thinking about this a lot in recent weeks and want to offer a short 🧵with reflections:
February 15, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Historians of police, imperialism, and counterinsurgency all tapping the sign right now
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What type of country allows someone charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court to join a Board of Peace to deal with the aftermath of the devastation/death that they created? Answer: A country ruled by greed and corruption, otherwise known as the US. www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/ne...
Netanyahu
www.icc-cpi.int
February 15, 2026 at 12:49 PM
What type of country allows someone charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court to join a Board of Peace to deal with the aftermath of the devastation/death that they created? Answer: A country ruled by greed and corruption, otherwise known as the US. www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/ne...
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The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
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I can think of several dozen historians who would be happy to lecture @jaketapper.bsky.social about why "concentration camp" is, in fact, an apt term.
God the gall of @jaketapper.bsky.social lecturing that Minneapolis small business owner about the meaning of the word "concentration camp" while people are being crammed into poorly resourced buildings by the thousands and shuttled off never to be heard from again
February 13, 2026 at 1:00 AM
I can think of several dozen historians who would be happy to lecture @jaketapper.bsky.social about why "concentration camp" is, in fact, an apt term.
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Sharing some exciting news- some brightness- my book Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II published by @uwapress.uw.edu has received the Caroline Bancroft History Prize from the Denver Public Library Special Collections and Archives! Arigaa! Thank you for engaging in AK Native history!
February 14, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Sharing some exciting news- some brightness- my book Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II published by @uwapress.uw.edu has received the Caroline Bancroft History Prize from the Denver Public Library Special Collections and Archives! Arigaa! Thank you for engaging in AK Native history!
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“Model airplanes,” a thoroughly depressing cartoon from a May 1943 issue of 国民防空
[Child A] “Your airplane flies well.”
Child B] “But it jumped into someone’s garden and won't come back.”
[Child A] “What are you talking about? That’s an excellent suicide attack.”
[Child A] “Your airplane flies well.”
Child B] “But it jumped into someone’s garden and won't come back.”
[Child A] “What are you talking about? That’s an excellent suicide attack.”
February 13, 2026 at 9:13 PM
“Model airplanes,” a thoroughly depressing cartoon from a May 1943 issue of 国民防空
[Child A] “Your airplane flies well.”
Child B] “But it jumped into someone’s garden and won't come back.”
[Child A] “What are you talking about? That’s an excellent suicide attack.”
[Child A] “Your airplane flies well.”
Child B] “But it jumped into someone’s garden and won't come back.”
[Child A] “What are you talking about? That’s an excellent suicide attack.”