Paul Lerner
@plerner.bsky.social
🗃️ Historian of modern Central Europe, consumer culture, human sciences, migration, and Jews. Here to talk about fascism and cats. Mostly cats.
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Paul Lerner
@plerner.bsky.social
· Feb 24
I wrote this about teaching a fascism class in the age of Trump 🗃️
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/is-he-a-fasc...
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Rusty is ready for the next round of storms
December 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Rusty is ready for the next round of storms
Starting the holiday break with a migraine as my people have done for centuries
a black and white photo of a woman laying in bed with a tcm logo
ALT: a black and white photo of a woman laying in bed with a tcm logo
media.tenor.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Starting the holiday break with a migraine as my people have done for centuries
With our new TABot9000 we don’t have to worry about PhD students or their pesky unions anymore
If you think I'm going to pay $80k a year in tuition you better believe I want my kid taught by an underpaid human TA who is slowly beating eaten alive by ennui and his marinating feelings of grievance over the impossibility of ever landing a tenure track job.
December 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
With our new TABot9000 we don’t have to worry about PhD students or their pesky unions anymore
I'm still getting used to woke MTG and now this?!
oh no Laura shoot I can’t believe no one warned you, a Jewish woman, about this kind of thing, wow dang this must be super upsetting ok byeeeeee
Trump ally Laura Loomer says Democrats "were right"
Loomer has raised concerns about the presence of "neo-Nazis" on the right in a series of social media posts.
www.newsweek.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I'm still getting used to woke MTG and now this?!
Just finished talking to @lisadianne245.bsky.social about her fascinating new book: global.oup.com/academic/pro.... Look for our conversation on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social early in the new year! 🗃️
December 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Just finished talking to @lisadianne245.bsky.social about her fascinating new book: global.oup.com/academic/pro.... Look for our conversation on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social early in the new year! 🗃️
I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Or we could treat others with kindness, compassion, even love
December 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Or we could treat others with kindness, compassion, even love
How many Scaramuccis will Bari last?
December 23, 2025 at 1:02 AM
How many Scaramuccis will Bari last?
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These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
December 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
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Two weeks ago, federal officials pulled Somali-Americans out of line at Faneuil Hall where they waited to be sworn in as naturalized citizens. We will not be quiet. Boston is the cradle of liberty and we stand with our Somali neighbors.
December 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Two weeks ago, federal officials pulled Somali-Americans out of line at Faneuil Hall where they waited to be sworn in as naturalized citizens. We will not be quiet. Boston is the cradle of liberty and we stand with our Somali neighbors.
I’m generally pretty pro-Dylan but Bob’s Christmas recordings are fairly unbearable
December 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I’m generally pretty pro-Dylan but Bob’s Christmas recordings are fairly unbearable
We’re still giving these people the benefit of the doubt!?
BRENNAN: This isn't everything you asked for just yet, but would you acknowledge that they are complying with the spirit if not the intent of your law?
MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
December 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
We’re still giving these people the benefit of the doubt!?
Ernst Bloch hitting hard today
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substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Ernst Bloch, Three Essays on German Fascism (1937-1939)
Part I. Critique of Propaganda
substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Ernst Bloch hitting hard today
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Pitchbot in rare form tonight
Whether it’s Pete Buttigieg learning to speak eight languages or Donald Trump successfully identifying a giraffe, there’s plenty of intellectual accomplishments on both sides of the aisle.
December 21, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Pitchbot in rare form tonight
What do you mean it’s your bed
December 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
What do you mean it’s your bed
There has to be a way out of this mess
Photographer Christopher Anderson captures Marco Rubio looking down into hell, as if puzzling out which circle he'll be in.
December 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
There has to be a way out of this mess
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On the one hand, AI will destroy what we have left of nature. On the other hand, it will also destroy what we have left of culture.
December 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
On the one hand, AI will destroy what we have left of nature. On the other hand, it will also destroy what we have left of culture.
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Randomly came across this discussion of "anxiety neurosis" in Japanese interment camps 🗃️
Of course the internees were worried about starving or being poisoned! I would love to dig deeper into this topic.
Of course the internees were worried about starving or being poisoned! I would love to dig deeper into this topic.
December 17, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Randomly came across this discussion of "anxiety neurosis" in Japanese interment camps 🗃️
Of course the internees were worried about starving or being poisoned! I would love to dig deeper into this topic.
Of course the internees were worried about starving or being poisoned! I would love to dig deeper into this topic.
Randomly came across this discussion of "anxiety neurosis" in Japanese interment camps 🗃️
Of course the internees were worried about starving or being poisoned! I would love to dig deeper into this topic.
Of course the internees were worried about starving or being poisoned! I would love to dig deeper into this topic.
December 17, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Randomly came across this discussion of "anxiety neurosis" in Japanese interment camps 🗃️
Of course the internees were worried about starving or being poisoned! I would love to dig deeper into this topic.
Of course the internees were worried about starving or being poisoned! I would love to dig deeper into this topic.
This is a shanda
Miriam Adelson encourages Trump to serve an illegal third term during a Hanukkah celebration at the White House. The crowd chants "four more years!"
December 17, 2025 at 2:24 AM
This is a shanda
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The Konsum department store was keen to help East Germans stay warm at Christmas
December 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The Konsum department store was keen to help East Germans stay warm at Christmas
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Stephen Miller's grandmother wrote a memoir about fleeing anti-Jewish violence in the Pale of Settlement, in which she write about her Jewish family trapped in what is now Belarus after the 1924 Johnson-Reed Immigration Act, which Stephen Miller has praised. assets.newrepublic.com/pdf/1998-Pre...
assets.newrepublic.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Stephen Miller's grandmother wrote a memoir about fleeing anti-Jewish violence in the Pale of Settlement, in which she write about her Jewish family trapped in what is now Belarus after the 1924 Johnson-Reed Immigration Act, which Stephen Miller has praised. assets.newrepublic.com/pdf/1998-Pre...
As they used to say on Twitter, "the writers are getting lazy."
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM
As they used to say on Twitter, "the writers are getting lazy."
I assume he'll be fired for posting this
Fuck this guy and fuck anyone who supports him.
Donald Trump publicly celebrates, while pretending to send condolences, the double homicide of Rob and Michele Reiner. Bizarrely claims that they were murdered by a MAGA supporter due to “the anger he [Rob] caused” with his “obsession with Donald J. Trump.”
December 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I assume he'll be fired for posting this
