James McDougall
@jamesrmcd.bsky.social
Teaches history, writes stuff, is in theatres whenever possible.
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Le colloque censuré, et maintenu, visible en ligne.
Prise de parole d'Henry Laurens à l'instant.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sSU...
Prise de parole d'Henry Laurens à l'instant.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sSU...
Colloque : la Palestine et l'Europe, poids du passé et dynamiques contemporaines
YouTube video by CAREP Paris
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November 13, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Le colloque censuré, et maintenu, visible en ligne.
Prise de parole d'Henry Laurens à l'instant.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sSU...
Prise de parole d'Henry Laurens à l'instant.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sSU...
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"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Normal Times in Dire Times
Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.
frederickjoseph.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Exactly this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation | Goerge Monbiot
It means breaking with hundreds of years of tradition, but it can’t wait. As hard-right figures spread division and laud autocrats, a fail-safe is vital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Exactly this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.
Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.
Just. Keep. Reading.
Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.
Just. Keep. Reading.
September 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.
Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.
Just. Keep. Reading.
Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.
Just. Keep. Reading.
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Still waiting for it to trickle down...
October 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Still waiting for it to trickle down...
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Am of the opinion we should just respond to the current flag epidemic by flying a wider range of random national flags from lamp posts, roundabouts etc until the situation gets ridiculous and they give up.
October 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Am of the opinion we should just respond to the current flag epidemic by flying a wider range of random national flags from lamp posts, roundabouts etc until the situation gets ridiculous and they give up.
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the other half of this that I've never really gotten over: this all but explicitly amounts to valorizing being "asleep". people are really out here wielding "I have no idea what's going on, historically speaking" as a credential
This is, after all, the original and authentic meaning of "stay woke." In fact, the perversion of "woke" into an epithet is perhaps the defining metaphor of our moment: Historical victims are not only being revictimized, but also mocked for never forgetting this is always a possibility in the US.
September 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
the other half of this that I've never really gotten over: this all but explicitly amounts to valorizing being "asleep". people are really out here wielding "I have no idea what's going on, historically speaking" as a credential
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Fantastic piece, I hope it’s widely read
This is a masterful and subtle discussion of the idea of "settler colonialism" by Aziz Rana in the fall @dissentmag.bsky.social - both in the ways that it can be misused, and the reasons that it remains a meaningful concept www.dissentmagazine.org/article/whos...
Who’s Afraid of “Settler Colonialism”? - Dissent Magazine
If we dismiss concepts because of particular examples of misuse, we encourage the repression of discomforting histories and ideas.
www.dissentmagazine.org
September 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Fantastic piece, I hope it’s widely read
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The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured
September 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured
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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
This. 👇
Ok. They’ve pissed me off.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
September 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This. 👇
Your occasional reminder that it was imperially minded British politicians trying to influence America & ignoring Palestinians’ political rights that started this whole thing off in the 1st place.
Is Trump’s new Palestine plan a breakthrough or diplomatic mirage?
Washington’s roadmap aligns surprisingly closely with a UN-backed plan – but key differences could prove unworkable
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Your occasional reminder that it was imperially minded British politicians trying to influence America & ignoring Palestinians’ political rights that started this whole thing off in the 1st place.
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Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.
• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin
• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin
September 25, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.
• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin
• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin
This isn’t getting as much attention as it should. Orgs like Medical Aid for Palestinians running essential, life-saving clinical services in Gaza face having to suspend their work. Deliberate, cynical move by Isr govt, pls listen to the Israeli historians of medicine who are calling it out.
Important analysis by my Hebrew U colleagues Liat Kozma and Lee Mordechai: "Israel is no longer aiming simply to limit the operations of groups that provide aid, report Israel’s violations of international law, and refuse to be co-opted, but to banish them."
www.972mag.com/israel-ultim...
www.972mag.com/israel-ultim...
Israel’s cruel ultimatum to humanitarian groups in Gaza
Under the guise of re-registration, Israel seeks to force all international NGOs to comply with the GHF model, turning aid into a vehicle for ethnic cleansing.
www.972mag.com
September 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
This isn’t getting as much attention as it should. Orgs like Medical Aid for Palestinians running essential, life-saving clinical services in Gaza face having to suspend their work. Deliberate, cynical move by Isr govt, pls listen to the Israeli historians of medicine who are calling it out.
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If you're starting a postgraduate course in History this autumn, please do consider joining the Royal Historical Society bit.ly/41mTuck
Postgraduate Membership brings access to research funding, events, publications and networks. You'll join an international community of more than 6500 historians.
Postgraduate Membership brings access to research funding, events, publications and networks. You'll join an international community of more than 6500 historians.
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
If you're starting a postgraduate course in History this autumn, please do consider joining the Royal Historical Society bit.ly/41mTuck
Postgraduate Membership brings access to research funding, events, publications and networks. You'll join an international community of more than 6500 historians.
Postgraduate Membership brings access to research funding, events, publications and networks. You'll join an international community of more than 6500 historians.
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AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research.
Run, don’t walk.
Run, don’t walk.
Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London
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September 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research.
Run, don’t walk.
Run, don’t walk.
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In other words, 94% of those killed in Gaza since March 25 were civilians - up from 83% in the first 1.5 years of this genocidal war.
Another symptom of stage 2 of the Gaza Genocide under Trump: fewer casualties so far, but targeting almost entirely civilians.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Another symptom of stage 2 of the Gaza Genocide under Trump: fewer casualties so far, but targeting almost entirely civilians.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Civilians made up 15 of every 16 people killed by Israel in Gaza since March, data suggests
Report from independent conflict tracker Acled indicates one of the highest civilian death rates since start of war
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
In other words, 94% of those killed in Gaza since March 25 were civilians - up from 83% in the first 1.5 years of this genocidal war.
Another symptom of stage 2 of the Gaza Genocide under Trump: fewer casualties so far, but targeting almost entirely civilians.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Another symptom of stage 2 of the Gaza Genocide under Trump: fewer casualties so far, but targeting almost entirely civilians.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased
September 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased
These aren’t an antidote to fascism but they can help you breathe better. Happy Sunday. #ilfautcultivernotrejardin
September 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
These aren’t an antidote to fascism but they can help you breathe better. Happy Sunday. #ilfautcultivernotrejardin
I wrote a thing and it’s coming out in January. www.penguin.co.uk/books/444923.... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/james...
August 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I wrote a thing and it’s coming out in January. www.penguin.co.uk/books/444923.... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/james...
Great piece by Mustafa Bayoumi www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jul/06/destruction-of-palestine-is-breaking-the-world?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi
The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Great piece by Mustafa Bayoumi www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jul/06/destruction-of-palestine-is-breaking-the-world?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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May 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
🚨 Job alert 🚨Join @emorier.bsky.social, @vincentfoucher.bsky.social, @corinnajentzsch.com and me, and be part of a new exciting research project on jihadism in Africa. Two more positions will follow. Feel free to approach @emorier.bsky.social if you have questions. Please circulate widely
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I am a staunch free speech supporter. But after ten years of freaking out about woke students deplatforming right-wing speakers, I don't have the energy to pivot to criticizing a fascist president for launching an all-out attack on free expression at universities.
May 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I am a staunch free speech supporter. But after ten years of freaking out about woke students deplatforming right-wing speakers, I don't have the energy to pivot to criticizing a fascist president for launching an all-out attack on free expression at universities.
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It’s (always) a good day to recognize student movements and to recognize the costs they’ve paid to stand against violence, genocide, segregation and apartheid.
#tdih 1970 Kent State, National Guard shot unarmed college students: protesting U.S. bombing of Cambodia & passing by. Killed 4, wounded 9.
Also remember massacres at
-- Orangeburg (2/8/1968) &
-- Jackson State (5/15/1970)
Study & teach ALL three. ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ke...
Also remember massacres at
-- Orangeburg (2/8/1968) &
-- Jackson State (5/15/1970)
Study & teach ALL three. ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ke...
May 4, 1970: Kent State Massacre
During an anti-war protest at Kent State University, the Ohio National Guard shot unarmed college students, killing four. Students were also killed at Jackson State (May 15, 1970), and Orangeburg (Feb...
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May 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
It’s (always) a good day to recognize student movements and to recognize the costs they’ve paid to stand against violence, genocide, segregation and apartheid.