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Mary Dudziak
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Law, history, politics. Latest book: Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism.
https://makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com/ #lawsky 🗃

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Mary Louise Dudziak is an American legal theorist, civil rights historian, educator, and a leading foreign policy and international relations expert. She is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University. .. more

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · Dec 5
Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism is on sale at the @umasspress.bsky.social holiday sale! 40% discount when you use the code HOLIDAY for this & other books.
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Making the Forever War
The late historian Marilyn B. Young, a preeminent voice on the history of U.S. military conflict, spent her career reassessing the nature of American global ...
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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 11h
Rest in peace Barbara Black. I was so lucky to be able to take a legal history course co-taught by Black and Robert Cover at Yale Law long ago.
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Barbara Aronstein Black, a First as a Law School Dean, Dies at 92
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 14h
I'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.
“Everybody Showed Up”: Stunning Crowds at Minnesota Day of Strike and Shutdown Against ICE
Extreme cold didn't stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 14h
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

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max nesterak @maxnesterak.bsky.social · 18h
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 2d
🧵ICE's tactics for arresting and holding observers and protestors is ever-shifting, and I'm hearing lots of different stories. Right now, my perspective is that these are your best practices:

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3d
"No Kings" in bright lights above the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
"No kings" above the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 3d
“The speed, the scope and the severity of the attacks on science are beyond anything we’ve ever seen,” says @gretchentg.bsky.social.

My @nature.com story on the human toll of the 2nd Trump presidency.

Thx to @dochfroehlich.bsky.social, @briannosek.bsky.social, @katharinehayhoe.com & others.
‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers
Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.
www.nature.com

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Clio and the Contemporary @cliocontemporary.bsky.social · 3d
We welcome pitches from #skystorians looking to mark historically significant anniversaries or to draw attention to forgotten events. The past is present.
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Call for Contributors: 2026 Anniversaries in Historical Context
Clio and the Contemporary welcomes pitches from contributors looking to mark historically significant anniversaries or to draw attention to forgotten events. In 2026, we remember 1976, 1926, 1876, …
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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 7d
Congratulations!

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Lauren Turek @laurenfturek.bsky.social · 7d
The @cfr.org surveyed members of @shafrhistorians.bsky.social 🗃️, asking us to rank the ten best and ten worst U.S. foreign policy decisions. Here are the results of that survey:
The 10 Best and 10 Worst U.S. Foreign Policy Decisions
For two-and-a-half centuries, the United States has faced a challenging world. Some of its responses have advanced U.S. interests and values. Others have not. We asked members of the Society for Histo...
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 9d
Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning.

I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 10d
40 years ago today, Barbara Donachy’s art installation “Amber Waves of Grain”—which used some 35,000 ceramic miniatures to depict every bomber, missile, submarine, warhead, and bomb in the US nuclear arsenal—opened in Boston after prior showings in New York, Washington, DC, Colorado, and Berlin.
The front page of the January 8, 1986, edition of the Boston Globe, featuring a large black and white photograph of Barbara Donachy placing ceramic warheads on the floor of the museum. The caption notes that the installation "covers several thousand square feet of floor space at Boston's Museum of Science" and that it will be on display until March 2. A black and white photograph by Robert Del Tredici of part of Barbara Donachy’s art installation “Amber Waves of Grain” at the Boston Museum of Science in 1986. In the photograph, a woman stands behind a retractable belt barrier in the museum looking at the installation, which consists of tens of thousands of warhead-shaped ceramic cones covering most of the floor, along with ceramic submarines and ceramic bomber aircraft hanging from the ceiling.

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Oona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social · 10d
Public hearings are happening now in the International Court of Justice on the merits of the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (The Gambia v. Myanmar). Watch here:

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THE HAGUE – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings in the case The Gambia v. Myanmar
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings on the merits of the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (The Gambia ...
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 13d
Brought to you by the party of family values and national security.
nicholasbednar.bsky.social Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 13d
I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14d
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 13d
Whoops-- correction. I'm here a lot. Just had to check that toxic site and forgot which neighborhood I was in!

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 13d
I will be ✍️✍️✍️ this semester, so I will be scarce but reach out if you have questions I can help with. (I am nearly always not on this site tho. Email is best.)

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 13d
Welcome!

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 14d
I’ve been asked for parting words in a few interviews this week, so here they are:

Defeatism is self fulfilling.

You have agency.

This is your Republic to keep.

Let your elected representatives know how you feel.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 14d
This is why I hate seeing “ICE is now the largest police force in the US.”

Not just wrong on the facts—it has less than 1/2 the officers of the NYPD alone.

But it DEF lacks the staff needed to police the US as a whole.

It has ~3,500 commando cosplayers. In a national of 325,000,000.

Cannot win.

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 14d
Federal immigration officers are pulling out of a Louisiana crackdown and heading to Minneapolis in an abrupt pivot from an operation that drew protests around New Orleans and aimed to make thousands of arrests, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Federal officers are leaving Louisiana immigration crackdown for Minneapolis, documents show
Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that federal border agents are pulling out of a Louisiana immigration crackdown and heading to Minneapolis.
www.mprnews.org

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 14d
So to return to this: Mussolini had 200,000 blackshirts for the March on Rome in a country of ~35m. Hitler had 400,000 brownshirts in 1932 in Germany for a population of ~60m.

So around 0.6% of the population.

0.6% of 340m Americans is just over 2 million.

They do not have enough goons.
bretdevereaux.bsky.social "Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · Sep 25
In 1932, on the eve of seizing power, the Nazi goon army - the Sturmabteiling or SA - numbered 400,000 members. By 1933, it was over two *million.*

DHS has 240,00 employees and lot of those are non-goons who have, you know, real jobs.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16d
a few thoughts youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8
Abolish ICE
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 16d
I refuse to stay silent while Secretary Noem breaks the rule of law and terrorizes our communities. I am introducing Articles of Impeachment against her for violating the public trust, obstructing Congress, and self-dealing. Read my full statement: robinkelly.house.gov/media-center...
Rep. Kelly announces plans to impeach Secretary Kristi Noem
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly (IL-02) announced plans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem following the fatal shooting by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.
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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 17d
This @quincyinst.bsky.social program was illuminating.
Interventionism on Steroids - The Trump Takeover of Venezuela  - Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft share.google/VIAnCRDCKy56...
Interventionism on Steroids - The Trump Takeover of Venezuela
Experts discuss the U.S. toppling of Nicolás Maduro and what may come next.
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Richard Primus @richardprimus.bsky.social · 17d
Five years ago this moment, the President of the United States was watching on television as a violent mob overran the Capitol Building, and he did nothing to stop them or help the people trapped inside.

That happened.

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 17d
Looking forward to this!

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 17d
Have I got a podcast for you!
LGM Podcast: The Most Awful Responsibility - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Alex Wellerstein’s The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age challenges standard preconceptions of President Harry Truman’s role in using nuclear weap...
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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 17d
As the subtitle suggests, the struggle for control over use of atomic weapons was deeply consequential and perhaps enabled the nonuse since that time so far.
Getting a hardcopy of course, especially for the endnotes.

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 17d
Just finished the audio book for @wellerstein.bsky.social's magnificent new book The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age
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Most unsettling to me was how normalized nuclear weapons appeared to be following WWII.
The Most Awful Responsibility
\"I thought I knew the story but learned much that I didn’t know. Outstanding!\"— Richard Rhodes “This is historical research at its best.” — Dan ...
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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 20d
With @oonahathaway.bsky.social.