David Fedman

1/ Holy shit, this woman who earns less than $50K is spending her nights and weekends finding furniture for NYC public housing residents, aka God's work www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

From my read so far, most of the U.S. press does not often qualify this administration with the "corrupt" label in stories that quite evidently call for it. But time will show there was no other to qualify what this government is doing, just as @vermontgmg.bsky.social writes here.

If you really thought that you'd credit Patrick Freyne, (@patrickfreyne.bsky.social) and you'd also be correct.

Watch this with Trump at his side, remember the dissents in the birthright citizenship case — www.lawdork.com/p/six-opinio... — and understand there are no limits, no places they wouldn’t go.

Appalling. The point of this is not that DOJ thinks it can win this suit. It’s to create a “placeholder” suit to block certification for as long as possible while the litigation plays out, denying Peltola her seat.

The Russians hacked Jared's phone. Then Dutch cyberspies then reverse-engineered that hack, giving them unprecedented access to his world. Bananas story in @vanityfair.com

🚨Bloody hell. Ebola has spread 2,000 miles away to Abuja, capital of Nigeria (Africa’s most populous country and a major global travel hub).🚨

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

Learning a lot from this new roundtable on the legacy of Carter Eckert and his impact on the field of Korean studies: read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-k... I won't soon forget Kirk Larsen's quip at an AAS forum a few years back: "Koreanists, too, have their own BCE marker: Before Carter Eckert."

Read this article and now I’m low key obsessed with reading lot about horror as a response to climate-induced fears about migration and housing. I don’t have time for this flight of fancy. 😂 daily.jstor.org/frankenstein...

Great soccer practice reading, courtesy of @aseh.bsky.social @envirohistory.bsky.social! (Plus, great cover image (a wonderful Hiroshige print), @dfeds.bsky.social!)

😳 Trump loses it and SNAPS at a string of reporters, says Ilhan Omar might "go to jail," calls Somalia "a shit house," and boasts that thanks to a new program he announced today Americans "will make millions of dollars by turning others in" during absolutely deranged Oval Office event Supercut:

I think if Ohio voters *really* think about what that ad means, they'll conclude that it means Republicans trust the people who defend pedophiles more than they trust the victims of pedophiles.

This is not the news I wanted to read today. It is clear that the uncontrolled outbreak in the DRC is not tenable and we will continue to see imported cases outside of the DRC. Kenya and now Nigeria. This is a regional/ global emergency. www.wsls.com/health/2026/...

I wrote about men in groups in connection with Jane Doe and the Cornell case. Some of what I discovered in my research shocked even me (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/o...

📕 New book by M. X. Mitchell titled "Unsettling Sovereignty: International Law, Nuclear Weapons, and US Extraterritorial Power in Postwar Oceania" www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

To my friends in the Toronto area, you're invited to the launch for The Broken Machine, this Wednesday 21 October. ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/book-.... Join us for refreshments and complimentary copies of the book while they last. @mitpress.bsky.social @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social

This is the most incredible, instructive, and destructive development in modern politics.

This summer, I went on a road trip of sorts to visit nearly two dozen other buildings designed by Minoru Yamasaki, the architect of the World Trade Center. What did I find? Read the story. Free link here. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/a...

In this explosive follow up to the story about the American Historical Association's use of DC lobbyists to silence AHA member Palestine advocacy, we have this: AHA is conducting a witchhunt of its Council. Loyalty oaths. Lawyers. Threats. Authoritarian behavior. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Shooting at a car to stop a shoplifter is not justified. Even if no one was harmed, let alone shooting to death a 1 year-old baby.

Suspect this is the tip of the iceberg with regards to the graft operation currently being run out of the White House

The US is delaying the shipment to Ukraine of a large batch of already paid for Patriot interceptor missiles, - Kyiv Independent reports This comes as Russia launches one of its largest bombing campaigns against Ukrainian civilians, ahead of a

Oh.

(Grim) reading recommendation requests for a seminar I'm teaching on writing about mass violence: If you wanted to showcase models for powerful, memorable, or unique approaches to narrating mass death/violence, what would you assign? Any period/topic/event welcome. I have the atomic bomb covered

We're hiring! Assistant Professor of the Social Dimensions of Wildfire Please amplify

Hot off the press! 📚 Glad to see 𝘈 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴, edited by Stephen Mosley, now in print. I had fun writing the chapter on "Work, Energy, and Power," with thanks to Stephen for shepherding the whole project to completion. #envhist #envhum #histstm

An attempted attack on a Hindu temple came amid a weeks-long right-wing frenzy over "The Indian Question"; police found a manifesto from the alleged shooter "containing statements expressing white supremacist and extremist ideologies."

Announcement!!! Big news!!! 📢📢📢 My book, The Racialization of Print, has a cover (!!), and a webpage, and pre-orders are now available! Coming in Spring, 2027, from @uncpress.bsky.social and @oieahc.bsky.social Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30% uncpress.org/979889313492...

So my book now has a cover, featuring one of my favorite archival images. Forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2027!

Logan Jones, whose company rushed to destroy DC trees this weekend on Trump's command, is "super friendly, responsive, ambitious, and accommodating". Surely he would respond to your constructive feedback on what you think about his ambitions. 4/

Flooding on Balboa peninsula in Orange County, CA on October 9, 2026.

Conference: Taking Root: Conserving Trees and/as Heritage takes place on 29–30 October 2026 at the University of Vienna www.heritagestudiesvienna.com/news-events/...

The fact that the tree is as old as the United States should not be lost on anyone. What a metaphor.

yeah, and I think we'll have to start sending kids to brain gym young (like 5 or 6), obviously with age & developmentally appropriate brain workout content that they can work up through in, like, graded levels with qualified brain fitness instructors.

You really can’t make this shit up.

Really enjoyed this portrait of @minjinlee.bsky.social.

Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.

Just a remarkable choice, this headline. No other leader of any other country in the history of the UN would get that headline after giving an address with that quote.

Any historians of Modern Korea applying for the amazing job at UC Irvine should also apply for the other amazing job at Northeastern! Deadline also on 10/1. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...