Ethan Mark
@ethanmark.bsky.social
Historian of modern Japan and Indonesia at Leiden University. Author, Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History; translator, Grassroots Fascism (吉見義明の「草の根のファシズム:日本民衆の戦争体験」の英訳). Lover and player of funky music
There are various theories for Trump's rudderlessness on foreign policy issues such as Iran, China and even Israel. But most of them tend to focus on Trump's own inherent inconsistency and irrationality.🧵
June 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
There are various theories for Trump's rudderlessness on foreign policy issues such as Iran, China and even Israel. But most of them tend to focus on Trump's own inherent inconsistency and irrationality.🧵
Knicks have their work cut out for them going back to Indiana for Game 6.
Hopefully they can take a tip from the 1994 Knicks, who succeeded at the exact same thing
youtu.be/Kkxvqs2ellA?...
Hopefully they can take a tip from the 1994 Knicks, who succeeded at the exact same thing
youtu.be/Kkxvqs2ellA?...
Throwback. NBA ECF 1994 New York Knicks vs Indiana Pacers Game 6 Full Highlights HD
YouTube video by The Throwback
youtu.be
May 30, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Knicks have their work cut out for them going back to Indiana for Game 6.
Hopefully they can take a tip from the 1994 Knicks, who succeeded at the exact same thing
youtu.be/Kkxvqs2ellA?...
Hopefully they can take a tip from the 1994 Knicks, who succeeded at the exact same thing
youtu.be/Kkxvqs2ellA?...
Yesterday's Leiden teach in "Genocide in the 20th century: Lessons from history" was recorded and can be viewed here!
video.leidenuniv.nl/media/t/1_km...
The only issue is the sound is not great. But if you click the "cc" button you get automatically generated subtitles which are actually ok
video.leidenuniv.nl/media/t/1_km...
The only issue is the sound is not great. But if you click the "cc" button you get automatically generated subtitles which are actually ok
Maja Vodopivec's Personal Meeting Room - Leiden University MediaSpace™ video portal
video.leidenuniv.nl
May 9, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Yesterday's Leiden teach in "Genocide in the 20th century: Lessons from history" was recorded and can be viewed here!
video.leidenuniv.nl/media/t/1_km...
The only issue is the sound is not great. But if you click the "cc" button you get automatically generated subtitles which are actually ok
video.leidenuniv.nl/media/t/1_km...
The only issue is the sound is not great. But if you click the "cc" button you get automatically generated subtitles which are actually ok
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Genocide: Lessons from 20th Century History. My colleague @ethanmark.bsky.social has organised this important roundtable. Attend! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
Genocide: Lessons from 20th Century History
Genocide. The Nazi German-engineered extermination campaign against the Jews during the Second World War is understandably synonymous with the term, but right up to the present day, modern history has...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
May 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Genocide: Lessons from 20th Century History. My colleague @ethanmark.bsky.social has organised this important roundtable. Attend! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
"Too Late" is my first ever single released across all major platforms, as the Natty Professor! It was recorded and produced by my new collaborator Ibo Jacob, who also plays on it. Yours truly on lead vocals, bass and some of the keyboards. Enjoy and share!
music.youtube.com/watch?v=2zTV...
music.youtube.com/watch?v=2zTV...
Too Late (feat. Ibo Jacob)
YouTube video by Natty Professor - Topic
music.youtube.com
April 20, 2025 at 9:07 AM
"Too Late" is my first ever single released across all major platforms, as the Natty Professor! It was recorded and produced by my new collaborator Ibo Jacob, who also plays on it. Yours truly on lead vocals, bass and some of the keyboards. Enjoy and share!
music.youtube.com/watch?v=2zTV...
music.youtube.com/watch?v=2zTV...
A perfect metaphor for how well Trump has thought this all through
April 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A perfect metaphor for how well Trump has thought this all through
In confronting China, Trump thinks he's Reagan confronting the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
But the right analogy is Britain confronting the US in the 1950s: Imperial arrogance aplenty, but you're overextended and outmoded.
And a direct confrontation will only speed the inevitable.
But the right analogy is Britain confronting the US in the 1950s: Imperial arrogance aplenty, but you're overextended and outmoded.
And a direct confrontation will only speed the inevitable.
April 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
In confronting China, Trump thinks he's Reagan confronting the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
But the right analogy is Britain confronting the US in the 1950s: Imperial arrogance aplenty, but you're overextended and outmoded.
And a direct confrontation will only speed the inevitable.
But the right analogy is Britain confronting the US in the 1950s: Imperial arrogance aplenty, but you're overextended and outmoded.
And a direct confrontation will only speed the inevitable.
Trump has us all enrolled in the most expensive Econ 101 class ever
April 9, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Trump has us all enrolled in the most expensive Econ 101 class ever
premature fascistization (n):
Attempting to carry out a radical and radically self-destructive fascist policy before you have implemented enough fascist indoctrination and social control to prevent mass resistance
Attempting to carry out a radical and radically self-destructive fascist policy before you have implemented enough fascist indoctrination and social control to prevent mass resistance
April 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
premature fascistization (n):
Attempting to carry out a radical and radically self-destructive fascist policy before you have implemented enough fascist indoctrination and social control to prevent mass resistance
Attempting to carry out a radical and radically self-destructive fascist policy before you have implemented enough fascist indoctrination and social control to prevent mass resistance
Make America Inflate Again
April 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Make America Inflate Again
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As Black Monday Approaches, Environment Heaves Sigh of Relief
April 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
As Black Monday Approaches, Environment Heaves Sigh of Relief
He gave everything he had in the Senate last week, but that includes exactly nothing for Palestinians, including women and children, who continue to be slaughtered in their thousands with our weapons.
Shame on you Cory Booker.
Shame on you Cory Booker.
April 5, 2025 at 6:20 AM
He gave everything he had in the Senate last week, but that includes exactly nothing for Palestinians, including women and children, who continue to be slaughtered in their thousands with our weapons.
Shame on you Cory Booker.
Shame on you Cory Booker.
Trump, Nov 2024: I won because of high prices!
Trump voters, Nov 2024: Damn right! He understands us!
Trump, April 2025: Americans don't care about high prices!
Trump voters, Nov 2024: Damn right! He understands us!
Trump, April 2025: Americans don't care about high prices!
April 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Trump, Nov 2024: I won because of high prices!
Trump voters, Nov 2024: Damn right! He understands us!
Trump, April 2025: Americans don't care about high prices!
Trump voters, Nov 2024: Damn right! He understands us!
Trump, April 2025: Americans don't care about high prices!
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maybe we shouldn't be disappearing students via secret police for opposing the actions of a state that behaves in this way
Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
maybe we shouldn't be disappearing students via secret police for opposing the actions of a state that behaves in this way
This is Trump's Barbarossa.
Except he's attacking the stock market instead of the Soviet Union.
And it's a solo flight:
Kamikaze economics
Except he's attacking the stock market instead of the Soviet Union.
And it's a solo flight:
Kamikaze economics
April 4, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is Trump's Barbarossa.
Except he's attacking the stock market instead of the Soviet Union.
And it's a solo flight:
Kamikaze economics
Except he's attacking the stock market instead of the Soviet Union.
And it's a solo flight:
Kamikaze economics
Wow the new electric BMW has a range of 701km!*
*A battery that big and heavy means an immense burden on rare natural resources, many of them obtained through slave labor. It also means a car so heavy that it tears up the road and goes quickly through specially required, heavily polluting
*A battery that big and heavy means an immense burden on rare natural resources, many of them obtained through slave labor. It also means a car so heavy that it tears up the road and goes quickly through specially required, heavily polluting
April 2, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Wow the new electric BMW has a range of 701km!*
*A battery that big and heavy means an immense burden on rare natural resources, many of them obtained through slave labor. It also means a car so heavy that it tears up the road and goes quickly through specially required, heavily polluting
*A battery that big and heavy means an immense burden on rare natural resources, many of them obtained through slave labor. It also means a car so heavy that it tears up the road and goes quickly through specially required, heavily polluting
What's going on in Gaza is simple.
It's only "complicated" if you can't acknowledge your own racism.
It's only "complicated" if you can't acknowledge your own racism.
March 30, 2025 at 7:58 AM
What's going on in Gaza is simple.
It's only "complicated" if you can't acknowledge your own racism.
It's only "complicated" if you can't acknowledge your own racism.
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A very enlightening discussion of Shiori Ito's explosive documentary "Black Box Diaries" and its complex reception in Japan, coauthored by my friend/colleague Chelsea Szendi Schieder
A very enlightening discussion of Shiori Ito's explosive documentary "Black Box Diaries" and its complex reception in Japan, coauthored by my friend/colleague Chelsea Szendi Schieder
Can Shiori Ito’s documentary open Japan’s black box? ｜Chelsea Szendi Schieder & Atsushi Funahashi
hasenao The country is wracked by ongoing high-profile sexual assault scandals, but Japanese theaters won’t yet screen Ito Shiori’s Oscar-nominated documentary film. An edited version of the text was...
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March 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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A very enlightening discussion of Shiori Ito's explosive documentary "Black Box Diaries" and its complex reception in Japan, coauthored by my friend/colleague Chelsea Szendi Schieder
A very enlightening discussion of Shiori Ito's explosive documentary "Black Box Diaries" and its complex reception in Japan, coauthored by my friend/colleague Chelsea Szendi Schieder
Funniest thing I've discovered this week: Re-reviewing A Whole New Thing, the very first album by Sly and the Family Stone which came out in the magical year of 1967, as recently as 2007, Rolling Stone gave it 2/5 stars.
Hahahahahahahahaha!🧵
music.youtube.com/watch?v=5sFO...
Hahahahahahahahaha!🧵
music.youtube.com/watch?v=5sFO...
Advice
YouTube video by Sly and the Family Stone - Topic
music.youtube.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Funniest thing I've discovered this week: Re-reviewing A Whole New Thing, the very first album by Sly and the Family Stone which came out in the magical year of 1967, as recently as 2007, Rolling Stone gave it 2/5 stars.
Hahahahahahahahaha!🧵
music.youtube.com/watch?v=5sFO...
Hahahahahahahahaha!🧵
music.youtube.com/watch?v=5sFO...
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It’s time once again for that most sacred of Canadian federal election rituals: re-viewing the funniest clip there is on YouTube.
Les érections fédérales par Stephen Harper [Original]
YouTube video by Guillaume Lussier-Dulude
youtu.be
March 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
It’s time once again for that most sacred of Canadian federal election rituals: re-viewing the funniest clip there is on YouTube.