Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS
@waitmanwbeorn.com
Holocaust & Genocide Studies/ History prof/ veteran/single dad/ former goalkeeper/ current fiddler/ Grad West Point and UNC/ he/him
Host of The Holocaust History Podcast
TV/Film Rep: Past Preservers
Psalm 109: 7-18
Host of The Holocaust History Podcast
TV/Film Rep: Past Preservers
Psalm 109: 7-18
Jake Paul is trash.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Jake Paul: US Olympic athletes need to STFU or leave the country, a message from all true Americans
Also Jake Paul: I'm proudly not rooting for the US women's speedskating team because my Dutch girlfriend skates for Team Netherlands
Also Jake Paul: I live in Puerto Rico to avoid paying US taxes
Also Jake Paul: I'm proudly not rooting for the US women's speedskating team because my Dutch girlfriend skates for Team Netherlands
Also Jake Paul: I live in Puerto Rico to avoid paying US taxes
February 9, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Jake Paul is trash.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I wish this man so much ill. So. Much.
February 9, 2026 at 8:45 PM
I wish this man so much ill. So. Much.
Buying this t-shirt should put you on a watchlist.
February 9, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Buying this t-shirt should put you on a watchlist.
YUP!
A lot of people will think ‘good for them! But this is a gutless intervention that says nothing about Andrew and uses ‘focusing on the victims’ as a way to deflect how the institution they are primary beneficiaries of allows abuses of power like this to take place and remain beyond justice.
February 9, 2026 at 8:33 PM
YUP!
This is just horrifying.
Wealthy individuals paid large sums to hunt civilians during the siege of Sarajevo, targeting primarily women and children, in what has become known as the Sarajevo Safari. At least one suspect has been identified as of February 2026. #OpDeathEaters
Clip from Miss Sarajevo (1995)
Clip from Miss Sarajevo (1995)
February 9, 2026 at 8:19 PM
This is just horrifying.
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Really fascinating new episode of the @holocaustpod.bsky.social with @ankahajkova.bsky.social!
There is something here for everyone: history, methodology, intersectionality, and some very important and challenging histories!
There is something here for everyone: history, methodology, intersectionality, and some very important and challenging histories!
On this episode, I talked with @ankahajkova.bsky.social about her remarkable book on queer Jewish lives during the Holocaust.
We had a great discussion about the challenges and complexities of queering the Holocaust and what it teaches us.
Check it out!
thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...
We had a great discussion about the challenges and complexities of queering the Holocaust and what it teaches us.
Check it out!
thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...
Ep. 71. Queering the Holocaust with Anna Hájková - The Holocaust History Podcast
An important part of researching the Holocaust is recovering the stories of the diverse group of victims of the Nazi genocidal project. For a very long time, queer victims have been marginalized...
thhp.buzzsprout.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Really fascinating new episode of the @holocaustpod.bsky.social with @ankahajkova.bsky.social!
There is something here for everyone: history, methodology, intersectionality, and some very important and challenging histories!
There is something here for everyone: history, methodology, intersectionality, and some very important and challenging histories!
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Absolutely FASCINATING that the govt is willing to piss of China - CHINA - by doing this, whole simultaneously denouncing ALL actual refugees in the UK as "illegal migrants".
February 9, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Absolutely FASCINATING that the govt is willing to piss of China - CHINA - by doing this, whole simultaneously denouncing ALL actual refugees in the UK as "illegal migrants".
February 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Random #Olympics thoughts:
1) Ice dancing is not a freaking sport.
2) What happened to the American snowboarders? Like, we INVENTED this damn sport and we're not in the finals?
1) Ice dancing is not a freaking sport.
2) What happened to the American snowboarders? Like, we INVENTED this damn sport and we're not in the finals?
February 9, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Random #Olympics thoughts:
1) Ice dancing is not a freaking sport.
2) What happened to the American snowboarders? Like, we INVENTED this damn sport and we're not in the finals?
1) Ice dancing is not a freaking sport.
2) What happened to the American snowboarders? Like, we INVENTED this damn sport and we're not in the finals?
It’s cold and rainy and I didn’t want to go to the gym.
But I did.
But I did.
a man is standing in front of a sign that says ' usted leadership for a stronger america '
ALT: a man is standing in front of a sign that says ' usted leadership for a stronger america '
media.tenor.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:58 PM
It’s cold and rainy and I didn’t want to go to the gym.
But I did.
But I did.
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“Candidate A supports 90% of what I believe in. Candidate B only supports 10% of what I belive in. Therefore, both candidates fail to support 100% of what I believe in and I will not vote for either.”
And that’s how we got here.
And that’s how we got here.
February 9, 2026 at 11:44 AM
“Candidate A supports 90% of what I believe in. Candidate B only supports 10% of what I belive in. Therefore, both candidates fail to support 100% of what I believe in and I will not vote for either.”
And that’s how we got here.
And that’s how we got here.
I see she’s fast in the ice and slow in relationships.
lol
lol
Fine. Here's Jutta Leerdam winning gold in women's 1000M speedskating and setting a new Olympic record. Yes, her fiancee is Jake Paul and you can see him crying after the race
February 9, 2026 at 6:08 PM
I see she’s fast in the ice and slow in relationships.
lol
lol
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I miss the days when this thing I helped write was actually taught to cadets, officers, and soldiers.
I'm sure it isn't now.
www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/20140...
I'm sure it isn't now.
www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/20140...
February 9, 2026 at 12:15 PM
I miss the days when this thing I helped write was actually taught to cadets, officers, and soldiers.
I'm sure it isn't now.
www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/20140...
I'm sure it isn't now.
www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/20140...
Ah, oh well.
Keep him!
“Information continuing to emerge from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) claims that the M23 armed group has detained Erik Prince, the American national known as the founder and former head of the private military company Blackwater.“
“Information continuing to emerge from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) claims that the M23 armed group has detained Erik Prince, the American national known as the founder and former head of the private military company Blackwater.“
Reports Emerge Claiming M23 Detained Blackwater Founder Erik Prince in Eastern DRC
kigalidailynews.rw
February 9, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Ah, oh well.
To the old guy at the bus stop yelling at a guy who jumped the queue, a guy who has a shaved head covered in tattoos:
I admire your courage, sir, but I’d let this one go.
I admire your courage, sir, but I’d let this one go.
February 9, 2026 at 2:18 PM
To the old guy at the bus stop yelling at a guy who jumped the queue, a guy who has a shaved head covered in tattoos:
I admire your courage, sir, but I’d let this one go.
I admire your courage, sir, but I’d let this one go.
The von Trapp kids are all grown up and raising hell in Newcastle, apparently.
February 9, 2026 at 1:06 PM
The von Trapp kids are all grown up and raising hell in Newcastle, apparently.
I swear to god, eBooks for academic purposes are just awful. The whole "fair use" limitation for downloading chapters/printing/etc just fundamentally misunderstands how research/teaching work and it's unbearably stupid.
February 9, 2026 at 12:28 PM
I swear to god, eBooks for academic purposes are just awful. The whole "fair use" limitation for downloading chapters/printing/etc just fundamentally misunderstands how research/teaching work and it's unbearably stupid.
I miss the days when this thing I helped write was actually taught to cadets, officers, and soldiers.
I'm sure it isn't now.
www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/20140...
I'm sure it isn't now.
www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/20140...
February 9, 2026 at 12:15 PM
I miss the days when this thing I helped write was actually taught to cadets, officers, and soldiers.
I'm sure it isn't now.
www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/20140...
I'm sure it isn't now.
www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/20140...
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@georgeclarke.bsky.social UCU - 10 strike days begin this week at Northumbria University over pension "robbery" www.ucu.org.uk/article/14401
10 strike days begin this week at Northumbria University over pension "robbery"
Northumbria University will be hit with ten days of strike action from Thursday 12 February in a fight to save staff pensions, the University and College Union (UCU) announced today
www.ucu.org.uk
February 9, 2026 at 11:18 AM
@georgeclarke.bsky.social UCU - 10 strike days begin this week at Northumbria University over pension "robbery" www.ucu.org.uk/article/14401
So...the Brit Awards are giving Best Songwriter of the Year to...Noel Gallagher? Who last wrote a song in 2023?
And anyway...Oasis gets a Best Songwriter award?
LOL
This is some North Korea shit. Bleak, man.
And anyway...Oasis gets a Best Songwriter award?
LOL
This is some North Korea shit. Bleak, man.
February 9, 2026 at 10:58 AM
So...the Brit Awards are giving Best Songwriter of the Year to...Noel Gallagher? Who last wrote a song in 2023?
And anyway...Oasis gets a Best Songwriter award?
LOL
This is some North Korea shit. Bleak, man.
And anyway...Oasis gets a Best Songwriter award?
LOL
This is some North Korea shit. Bleak, man.
The fact that Republicans think this guy is good tells you everytying you need to know.
Also, oopsie on that lip syncing, loser.
Also, oopsie on that lip syncing, loser.
guys. the kid rock performance is uh. well it’s exactly what you’d expect
February 9, 2026 at 9:44 AM
The fact that Republicans think this guy is good tells you everytying you need to know.
Also, oopsie on that lip syncing, loser.
Also, oopsie on that lip syncing, loser.
Betamax. BluRay, 3D televisions
Any history of technology people know if there are other technologies that were touted as "here to stay" in the manner of generative AI that...didn't stay?
i guess worth looking into whether people were similarly convinced about other technologies in the past
February 9, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Betamax. BluRay, 3D televisions
I'm just kind of out here doing my own thing, appparently...
February 9, 2026 at 8:25 AM
I'm just kind of out here doing my own thing, appparently...