Nick Johnson
@nickjohnson89.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, University of Münster
Author of Scripting Genocide: The Wannsee Conference on Television (De Gruyter, 2025)
Louisianan still searching for flavor in Westphalia
Author of Scripting Genocide: The Wannsee Conference on Television (De Gruyter, 2025)
Louisianan still searching for flavor in Westphalia
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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He beat the wrap.
🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
He beat the wrap.
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Universities, public sector admin - this shit will happen in Germany if you all use AI now and integrate it into your day-to-day.
So loss making OpenAI is now begging for US government money to finance its research based on unproven promises of riches to follow at some unspecified date. Is anyone else recalling renaissance alchemists persuading rich patrons to support them because they'd be turning lead into gold any day now?
November 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Universities, public sector admin - this shit will happen in Germany if you all use AI now and integrate it into your day-to-day.
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"Dear Martha, we've been camped outside Richmond for going on 30 days. Overhead the sandwiches are exploding day and night. The smell of the onions and mustard is overwhelming."
November 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"Dear Martha, we've been camped outside Richmond for going on 30 days. Overhead the sandwiches are exploding day and night. The smell of the onions and mustard is overwhelming."
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Thank god he was wearing the vest.
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thank god he was wearing the vest.
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Gestern der Bericht über die fragwürdigen 9 Mios für Mansours Projekt zu muslimischem Antisemitismus, heute zur korrupten Mittelvergabe an Antisemitismus-Projekte durch Chiallo. Konservative Politik instrumentalisiert den Kampf gegen AS für ihre eigenen Zwecke. & beschädigt ihn dadurch nachhaltig.
November 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Gestern der Bericht über die fragwürdigen 9 Mios für Mansours Projekt zu muslimischem Antisemitismus, heute zur korrupten Mittelvergabe an Antisemitismus-Projekte durch Chiallo. Konservative Politik instrumentalisiert den Kampf gegen AS für ihre eigenen Zwecke. & beschädigt ihn dadurch nachhaltig.
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31. Oktober 1935
#VictorKlemperer #Tagebücher #NS #Nationalsozialismus #Faschismus #Antisemitismus #Shoah #Holocaust #Emigration #Exil
#VictorKlemperer #Tagebücher #NS #Nationalsozialismus #Faschismus #Antisemitismus #Shoah #Holocaust #Emigration #Exil
![31. Oktober 1935
Frau Isakowitz ist eine Woche in London gewesen; es besteht für ihren Mann die Möglichkeit zahnärztlicher Zulassung ohne Examen in England. Sie erzählt, die Rabbiner predigten von den Kanzeln den
Boykott deutscher Ware[.] Ihre christliche Wirtin sagte ihr in bezug auf Hitler: »And there is nobody who kills this big swine?«: Man sage, wir seien von Irrsinnigen regiert, seien völlig bankrott - es könne nicht mehr lange dauern. Aber am Dienstag waren wir auf dem Bahnhof zwanzig Minuten mit Marta zusammen, die nach Prag fuhr: Stimmung der Berliner Juden sei trostlos: »Wir erleben nicht das Ende dieser Tyrannei, das Volk hängt begeistert am Führer.«](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ufnjx64i4xylrakp6232l4eu/bafkreidm5ft7oxdru2ypg4ymo6xfy7kyk7e2gq4txb4ipwxypeludnjrlm@jpeg)
October 31, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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it's all just nazi groyper slop from a bunch of 20-something brains stewed in the most esoteric Nazi edits set to synthwave music possible, and every single one of them should be blacklisted from society forever when DHS is dismantled.
October 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
it's all just nazi groyper slop from a bunch of 20-something brains stewed in the most esoteric Nazi edits set to synthwave music possible, and every single one of them should be blacklisted from society forever when DHS is dismantled.
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I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
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We live in an episode of Veep
October 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
We live in an episode of Veep
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The vibe I bring to the function
October 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The vibe I bring to the function
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Important part of our history that we shouldn’t erase, I’m told
Vs
Not, apparently
Vs
Not, apparently
October 25, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Important part of our history that we shouldn’t erase, I’m told
Vs
Not, apparently
Vs
Not, apparently
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Also alle stressen sich immer rein wegen Datenschutz und IT Sicherheit aber würden dann Verwaltung und Lehre mit KI machen?? Wie geht das eigentlich zusammen.
October 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Also alle stressen sich immer rein wegen Datenschutz und IT Sicherheit aber würden dann Verwaltung und Lehre mit KI machen?? Wie geht das eigentlich zusammen.
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And it’s thus no coincidence that right-wing parties have used exactly this kind of images before in a similar manner: if your politics is all about offering imaginary solutions to mostly phantasmatic problems, generative AI is the perfect tool for propaganda. Every slogan can become an image
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October 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
And it’s thus no coincidence that right-wing parties have used exactly this kind of images before in a similar manner: if your politics is all about offering imaginary solutions to mostly phantasmatic problems, generative AI is the perfect tool for propaganda. Every slogan can become an image
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Happy 2 year anniversary of the publication of my Eisenhower & the Holocaust book. Increasingly timely and topical. You can get a copy for yourself at all the usual places.
And thank you to my awesome editor @rabeari.bsky.social and @dgb-history.bsky.social for making it happen!
And thank you to my awesome editor @rabeari.bsky.social and @dgb-history.bsky.social for making it happen!
October 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Happy 2 year anniversary of the publication of my Eisenhower & the Holocaust book. Increasingly timely and topical. You can get a copy for yourself at all the usual places.
And thank you to my awesome editor @rabeari.bsky.social and @dgb-history.bsky.social for making it happen!
And thank you to my awesome editor @rabeari.bsky.social and @dgb-history.bsky.social for making it happen!
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Never mind every other single abominable or corrupt thing to this miserable moment, the extrajudicial and unevidenced execution of 34 human beings by the U.S. Navy on the orders of a U.S. President acting in peacetime is sufficient for his impeachment and conviction.
If we were a republic, I mean.
If we were a republic, I mean.
October 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Never mind every other single abominable or corrupt thing to this miserable moment, the extrajudicial and unevidenced execution of 34 human beings by the U.S. Navy on the orders of a U.S. President acting in peacetime is sufficient for his impeachment and conviction.
If we were a republic, I mean.
If we were a republic, I mean.
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Let me be clear: People with Nazi tattoos have no place in the United States Senate. They should be in the Department of Homeland Security or the Executive Office of the President.
October 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Let me be clear: People with Nazi tattoos have no place in the United States Senate. They should be in the Department of Homeland Security or the Executive Office of the President.
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Maybe the History channel was right to only show documentaries on the Nazis back in the day because since it switched over to alien archaeology we now have people trying to claim the SS death’s head is an obscure symbol known only to the most esoteric of historical experts.
October 22, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Maybe the History channel was right to only show documentaries on the Nazis back in the day because since it switched over to alien archaeology we now have people trying to claim the SS death’s head is an obscure symbol known only to the most esoteric of historical experts.
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They’re not against academic freedom, you see, but what you do isn’t real scholarship. They’re not trampling freedom of the press, you just happen not to be a real journalist. They believe in the democratic process. You just happen not to be a real party, interest group, citizen, human being… (2/2)
October 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
They’re not against academic freedom, you see, but what you do isn’t real scholarship. They’re not trampling freedom of the press, you just happen not to be a real journalist. They believe in the democratic process. You just happen not to be a real party, interest group, citizen, human being… (2/2)
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It’s worth pointing out that the reason it makes no sense to engage with bad faith attacks on institutions like the press and universities in good faith in the hope to not erode your standing, is simply that in attacking you, they‘ll simply deny you that standing. (1/2)
October 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It’s worth pointing out that the reason it makes no sense to engage with bad faith attacks on institutions like the press and universities in good faith in the hope to not erode your standing, is simply that in attacking you, they‘ll simply deny you that standing. (1/2)
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Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
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"i use it for research" congratulations your research is now measurably worse and slower. all the parts you think are getting faster are just parts where you don't know what's being eluded and misconstrued.
"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”
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October 21, 2025 at 3:17 AM
"i use it for research" congratulations your research is now measurably worse and slower. all the parts you think are getting faster are just parts where you don't know what's being eluded and misconstrued.
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shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump
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Heute geht es in der Praktischen Übung „Geschichtsbegehung“ um Denkmäler. Wir starten mit einer Begegnung und nutzen dafür die „Handreichung zur Erschließung von Denkmälern“ von @benjgrey.bsky.social, @hannahsr22.bsky.social, @mbaeumer.bsky.social und Mara Weise. #MAPH1-25 #PublicHistoryHH
October 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Heute geht es in der Praktischen Übung „Geschichtsbegehung“ um Denkmäler. Wir starten mit einer Begegnung und nutzen dafür die „Handreichung zur Erschließung von Denkmälern“ von @benjgrey.bsky.social, @hannahsr22.bsky.social, @mbaeumer.bsky.social und Mara Weise. #MAPH1-25 #PublicHistoryHH
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Thursday November 6, Charles H. al-Hayek will talk about #PublicHistory #heritage and social media
Talk is hybrid so you can also attend online
@c2dh.uni.lu @uni.lu #Lebanon
www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...
Talk is hybrid so you can also attend online
@c2dh.uni.lu @uni.lu #Lebanon
www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...
Between Fact and Fiction: Competing Historical Narratives and Social Media Instrumentalization in Contemporary Lebanon
This lecture by Charles al Hayek contextualizes seven conflicting perspectives on Lebanese history and examines their instrumentalization through social media platforms
www.uni.lu
October 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Thursday November 6, Charles H. al-Hayek will talk about #PublicHistory #heritage and social media
Talk is hybrid so you can also attend online
@c2dh.uni.lu @uni.lu #Lebanon
www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...
Talk is hybrid so you can also attend online
@c2dh.uni.lu @uni.lu #Lebanon
www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...