Nicholas Danforth
nicholasdanfort.bsky.social
Nicholas Danforth
@nicholasdanfort.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Wait, so even Susan Collins is calling it illegal but the Times is going with "Legally Untested"??
August 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Arguably the writing has been on the wall for a while
July 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
June 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Submitted
June 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Very much agreed, although when you have Iranian anthropologists writing stuff like this a week into the war it really says something about how its going over
June 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Ironically I think for Ankara the equivalent of Dave Matthews concerts is just me and @stevenacook.bsky.social on Bluesky
June 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
April 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
“The Area of the Technate of North America possesses a plethora of resources necessary for the accomplishment of the social destiny of this continent.”

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April 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
A quick history of the Madawaska Republic

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March 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Joining Col. Frederick Gustavus Burnaby for a ride to Khiva:

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March 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
March 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I really never wanted to be one of those people who complain about the Times middle east coverage, but it is wild how this article rewrites a genocidal threat explicitly directed against the entire Gazan people into a threat directed at Hamas

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/w...
March 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"Outside-the-box solution"
March 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Fun getting to work with the @foreignpolicy.com team on this interactive map as well:

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March 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
In this week’s Midafternoon Map:

Plotting politics on the Palestine-Ukraine matrix

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February 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Also, may not be plagiarism, but come on:
February 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The law gives the president the power to change the US government names for geographic features around the world. The AP's policy is to defer to countries on the names of geographic features within their own territory.
February 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
America has a long tradition of cartographic cartoons gently mocking the parochial outlook of different regions. Not surprisingly, the tradition began in Boston, which produced the most boring and pretentious version of the joke possible:

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February 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
For fuck sake Trump has even succeeded in making Devlet Bahceli sound like the voice of reason
February 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
February 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"house"
February 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Outrageous to suggest Turkey has done anything bad to feel good about not feeling bad about.
February 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Please stop referring to colonization as "nation building."

Whatever you thought of U.S. policies in the Balkans or Afghanistan, we were not actually trying to annex or ethnically cleanse those places.
February 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
People understand the difference between nation building and ethnic cleansing right?
February 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM