John Martin
@johnjeffriesmartin.bsky.social
Historian, fascinated by religion, science, politics. Italophile, father, friend.
L'aspetto più sconvolgente del «piano di pace» Usa per l'Ucraina (e i legami tra la cerchia di Trump e gli oligarchi russi)
The demise of diplomacy
The demise of diplomacy
November 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
L'aspetto più sconvolgente del «piano di pace» Usa per l'Ucraina (e i legami tra la cerchia di Trump e gli oligarchi russi)
The demise of diplomacy
The demise of diplomacy
Outrageous censorship. We must push back: Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Outrageous censorship. We must push back: Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Important essay - the whole of the Times’ front page today makes it clear our democracy is in critical condition. We have a lot of work to do!
gifted this very important opinion piece from Tom Friedman, NYTimes. Read it free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
Opinion | The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away
www.nytimes.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Important essay - the whole of the Times’ front page today makes it clear our democracy is in critical condition. We have a lot of work to do!
Profile in cowardice
Speaker Mike Johnson is protecting Jeffrey Epstein and his clients?
Hmmm. . . this might be a good time to remind everyone that Mike Johnson met his "adopted" (never really adopted) son (who never appears in family photos) at a youth camp. And was the dean of a law school named after a pedophile.
Hmmm. . . this might be a good time to remind everyone that Mike Johnson met his "adopted" (never really adopted) son (who never appears in family photos) at a youth camp. And was the dean of a law school named after a pedophile.
July 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Profile in cowardice
Discouraging to see Harvard cave like this - newrepublic.com/maz/post/197...
Harvard just quietly dismantled its undergraduate school’s offices for diversity, equity, and inclusion amid the university’s ongoing battle with Donald Trump’s administration.
newrepublic.com
July 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Discouraging to see Harvard cave like this - newrepublic.com/maz/post/197...
Another self-inflicted wound for America.
Senate narrowly passes Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ spending bill after three Republicans vote no – live updates share.google/Lx9cNCNoHCNq...
Senate narrowly passes Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ spending bill after three Republicans vote no – live updates
Vice-president JD Vance was in the chamber to break the tie
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July 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Another self-inflicted wound for America.
A great scholar www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...
L’historien Pierre Nora est mort
Historien, maître d’œuvre des « Lieux de mémoire », publiés en sept volumes à partir de 1984, le créateur de la revue « Le Débat » est mort le 2 juin, à l’âge de 93 ans.
www.lemonde.fr
June 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
A great scholar www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...
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HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
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On June 4, Durham Co. Library presents “The End of the World: A History of Apocalypse” at Beer Study in Durham. Duke professor John Jeffries Martin will give a talk on the history of the apocalyptic imagination, and then we’ll bring our own sonic apocalypse. This show is free and all ages.
May 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
On June 4, Durham Co. Library presents “The End of the World: A History of Apocalypse” at Beer Study in Durham. Duke professor John Jeffries Martin will give a talk on the history of the apocalyptic imagination, and then we’ll bring our own sonic apocalypse. This show is free and all ages.
This is outrageous. Harvard needs to find a way to continue to resist. A travesty that the national government is attacking this and other universities. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
Trump Administration Cuts Additional $450 Million in Grants to Harvard
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This is outrageous. Harvard needs to find a way to continue to resist. A travesty that the national government is attacking this and other universities. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
This is barbarism—Texas lawmakers moving to greatly increase control of state universities
May 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This is barbarism—Texas lawmakers moving to greatly increase control of state universities
Trump is consistently anti-constitutional. He needs to be removed from office -- Trump Administration Live Updates: President Repeatedly Responds ‘I Don’t Know’ to Constitutional Questions www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
Trump Repeatedly Responds 'I Don't Know' to Constitutional Questions: Live Updates
www.nytimes.com
May 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Trump is consistently anti-constitutional. He needs to be removed from office -- Trump Administration Live Updates: President Repeatedly Responds ‘I Don’t Know’ to Constitutional Questions www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
Terrifying www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Steve Bannon, stratège de la première campagne de Trump : « Nous voulons rendre cette révolution permanente, nous emparer des institutions »
Celui qui conserve une vraie influence dans la galaxie d’extrême droite MAGA décrypte, pour « Le Monde », les ressorts du deuxième mandat du président des Etats-Unis, « incomparable » avec le premier.
www.lemonde.fr
April 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Terrifying www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Harvard resists! Hoping others will follow its lead.
“Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government,” Harvard attorneys wrote to federal officials. “Accordingly, Harvard will not accept the government’s terms.”
If you’ve never given to Harvard, GIVE NOW!
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If you’ve never given to Harvard, GIVE NOW!
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Harvard Will Fight Trump’s Demands | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, University President Alan M. Garb...
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April 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Harvard resists! Hoping others will follow its lead.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets (Gift Article)
Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
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RIP. Always begin my seminar on Conspiracy Theories with The Formation of a Persecuting Society.
Bob (R.I.) Moore, Professor @newcastleuni.bsky.social for many years, died this morning. He leaves behind an impressive body of academic work, including his masterpiece “The First European Revolution, c. 970-1215”. He was also a pioneer of comparative world history. We will sorely miss him.
February 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
RIP. Always begin my seminar on Conspiracy Theories with The Formation of a Persecuting Society.
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Here’s how we’d cover this if it were elsewhere: Musk Junta Seizes Key Governmental Offices
February 1, 2025:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — What started Thursday as a political purge of the internal security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup . . .
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
February 1, 2025:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — What started Thursday as a political purge of the internal security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup . . .
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Here’s how we’d cover this if it were elsewhere: Musk Junta Seizes Key Governmental Offices
February 1, 2025:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — What started Thursday as a political purge of the internal security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup . . .
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
February 1, 2025:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — What started Thursday as a political purge of the internal security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup . . .
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
Not just the LGBTQ community that is in danger. The president has mounted an attack on our many of our major freedoms -- from the military to the judiciary, to the CDC and our public health, and now to free trade. These assaults are not going to stop unless we stand up and fight back. HE/HIS/HIM.
Federal Workers Told to Remove Pronouns From Email Signatures After Trump Order (Gift Article)
The instructions to employees aimed to fulfill orders from the Trump administration, which told agency heads to remove all references to gender identity from official materials by 5 p.m. Friday.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Not just the LGBTQ community that is in danger. The president has mounted an attack on our many of our major freedoms -- from the military to the judiciary, to the CDC and our public health, and now to free trade. These assaults are not going to stop unless we stand up and fight back. HE/HIS/HIM.
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Oooooooooooh looking forward to reading this
When we celebrate Renaissance art w/o acknowledging the terror & violence that shaped it, we repeat the myth of a bad "Dark Ages" & Renaissance "golden age" a very potent piece of propaganda, which is what the book is about
I hope you'll enjoy more like this in coming days! https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS
I hope you'll enjoy more like this in coming days! https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS
Inventing the Renaissance - Ada Palmer
In Inventing the Renaissance, acclaimed historian Ada Palmer provides a fresh perspective on what makes this epoch so captivating.
www.adapalmer.com
January 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Oooooooooooh looking forward to reading this
Palisades Fire Could Test Getty Center’s Efforts to Protect Its Art Collection www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...
Pacific Palisades Fire Could Test Getty Center’s Efforts to Protect Its Art Collection
The museum, which describes itself as the “safest places for art during a fire,” is now in a mandatory evacuation zone. A spokeswoman said it had not sustained damage.
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Palisades Fire Could Test Getty Center’s Efforts to Protect Its Art Collection www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...
Un libro stupendo
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December 29, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Un libro stupendo