Elizabeth Drummond
@eadhistory.bsky.social
Historian | Nationalism | German-Polish borderlands | Max Thalmann | German Studies Collaboratory | usual disclaimers that views my own and reposts ≠ endorsements | she/sie | https://eadhistory.org/
Skystorians 🗃️: For my spring Nazi Germany course I want students to think about popular representations of resistance. I’m looking for films, games, and graphic narratives. I have a list started but would love to hear your favorites! Thanks in advance!
November 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Skystorians 🗃️: For my spring Nazi Germany course I want students to think about popular representations of resistance. I’m looking for films, games, and graphic narratives. I have a list started but would love to hear your favorites! Thanks in advance!
I agree with the critique of AI, but I just really don't like tricking/entrapping students.
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
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November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I agree with the critique of AI, but I just really don't like tricking/entrapping students.
So great that LMU's radio station KXLU got so much love in the @nytimes.com. Also that WFUV from @fordham.edu got a shout out.
I love college radio and I wrote about my favorite station for The New York Times... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
College Radio Keeps Its Cool
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November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
So great that LMU's radio station KXLU got so much love in the @nytimes.com. Also that WFUV from @fordham.edu got a shout out.
The Mignonette is also the subject of an Avett Brothers' album of the same name and a Broadway musical "Swept Away" using the music of the album. I saw the musical last year, and as odd as it might be to say this about cannibalism, it was a great time.
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Opinion | A Victorian-era cannibalism case poses a simple but profound question
“The custom of the sea” ended with a landmark conviction in Britain after a shipwreck.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The Mignonette is also the subject of an Avett Brothers' album of the same name and a Broadway musical "Swept Away" using the music of the album. I saw the musical last year, and as odd as it might be to say this about cannibalism, it was a great time.
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West LA Freeway Brigade kicked ass today. JUSTICE FOR SURVIVORS and AX ICE got tons of honks! Didn’t see a single finger today… but maybe due to my bumble bee costume blocking my vision!
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@indivisiblewestsidela.com
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
@jerilryan.bsky.social
www.visibilitybrigade.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:11 AM
West LA Freeway Brigade kicked ass today. JUSTICE FOR SURVIVORS and AX ICE got tons of honks! Didn’t see a single finger today… but maybe due to my bumble bee costume blocking my vision!
@indivisiblewestsidela.com
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
@jerilryan.bsky.social
www.visibilitybrigade.com
@indivisiblewestsidela.com
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
@jerilryan.bsky.social
www.visibilitybrigade.com
Excuse me, what now? The swastika is merely "potentially divisive"? "Potentially"?!
The thing that I have most associated with the Coast Guard was how great they were during Katrina...but this will change that.
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The thing that I have most associated with the Coast Guard was how great they were during Katrina...but this will change that.
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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November 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Excuse me, what now? The swastika is merely "potentially divisive"? "Potentially"?!
The thing that I have most associated with the Coast Guard was how great they were during Katrina...but this will change that.
wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
The thing that I have most associated with the Coast Guard was how great they were during Katrina...but this will change that.
wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
One of the things I learned when I lived in Mississippi was that a lot (maybe even most?) Black households had guns for protection. So this isn't as new as we might think it is, but thinking about the reasons why they had guns then should also tell us a lot about today.
The image of gun ownership in America has been white, rural and Republican, but that's been changing as more liberals and minorities have been buying guns, especially after the 2024 election.
More liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans say they're buying guns out of fear
The image of gun ownership in America has been white, rural and Republican, but that's been changing as more liberals and minorities have been buying guns, especially after the 2024 election.
n.pr
November 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
One of the things I learned when I lived in Mississippi was that a lot (maybe even most?) Black households had guns for protection. So this isn't as new as we might think it is, but thinking about the reasons why they had guns then should also tell us a lot about today.
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The Vatican returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada, a historic restitution that is part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture. n.pr/43T2xmD
Pope Leo returns 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada
The Vatican returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada, a historic restitution that is part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture.
n.pr
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The Vatican returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada, a historic restitution that is part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture. n.pr/43T2xmD
We don’t get much rain here in LA. So – with caveats about the dangers of mudslides, esp. in the burn zones, & flooding & about how lifelong Angelenos don’t know how to drive in the rain – this is wonderful! Esp. on the weekend when we can just curl up & read or watch a movie or binge a show. 🌧️☔️
November 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
We don’t get much rain here in LA. So – with caveats about the dangers of mudslides, esp. in the burn zones, & flooding & about how lifelong Angelenos don’t know how to drive in the rain – this is wonderful! Esp. on the weekend when we can just curl up & read or watch a movie or binge a show. 🌧️☔️
The title and blurb make this seem like it is very different from the article it actually is. It's worth clicking through to actually read the article.
We’ve come to accept that there’s a crisis among young men. But “you can just as easily argue on the behalf of a woman crisis as a man crisis—or, perhaps most accurately, for an ongoing multidirectional crisis affecting us all,” Jessica Winter writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/LgnYm_
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The title and blurb make this seem like it is very different from the article it actually is. It's worth clicking through to actually read the article.
Nancy Pelosi could hold together a caucus. Schumer can’t. Time for a new leader.
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Nancy Pelosi could hold together a caucus. Schumer can’t. Time for a new leader.
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Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
So a new version of “Physogs”! This link is from the Huntington but our special collections also has the game. Always interesting to see students dig into it. hdl.huntington.org/digital/coll...
November 7, 2025 at 4:55 AM
So a new version of “Physogs”! This link is from the Huntington but our special collections also has the game. Always interesting to see students dig into it. hdl.huntington.org/digital/coll...
I finished the latest episode of Only Murders in the Building last night and, well, you be the judge...
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I finished the latest episode of Only Murders in the Building last night and, well, you be the judge...
I will never not think of these two photos when I hear the name Pelosi, also when she maintained decorum during the SOTU and then very publicly ripped up T's speech afterwards.
📷 left: Andrew Harnik/AP/REX/Shutterstock (I think); 📷 right: White House
📷 left: Andrew Harnik/AP/REX/Shutterstock (I think); 📷 right: White House
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I will never not think of these two photos when I hear the name Pelosi, also when she maintained decorum during the SOTU and then very publicly ripped up T's speech afterwards.
📷 left: Andrew Harnik/AP/REX/Shutterstock (I think); 📷 right: White House
📷 left: Andrew Harnik/AP/REX/Shutterstock (I think); 📷 right: White House
This news has been under-reported in all of that good news for the Dems from last night. Mississippi Dems flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat and broke the Republican Senate supermajority (after 6 years, not 13). Johnny DuPree, who was mayor when I lived in Hattiesburg is one of those Senators.
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate.
Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
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Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
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Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This news has been under-reported in all of that good news for the Dems from last night. Mississippi Dems flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat and broke the Republican Senate supermajority (after 6 years, not 13). Johnny DuPree, who was mayor when I lived in Hattiesburg is one of those Senators.
I seems that I am in the “putting a note in my calendar to remind myself that I am parked on a different level of the parking garage from my usual spot” stage of life.
November 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I seems that I am in the “putting a note in my calendar to remind myself that I am parked on a different level of the parking garage from my usual spot” stage of life.
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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
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Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez
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New York is a-changin'.
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
New York is a-changin'.
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Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇
When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.
When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.
i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇
When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.
When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.
It's been such an honor and so much fun to serve as emcee for LMU's Global Conversations this fall! Three fascinating conversations and Finding Your Roots episodes: John Legend, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and Joe Manganiello, each in conversation with FYR creator Professor Henry Louis Gates.
November 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
It's been such an honor and so much fun to serve as emcee for LMU's Global Conversations this fall! Three fascinating conversations and Finding Your Roots episodes: John Legend, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and Joe Manganiello, each in conversation with FYR creator Professor Henry Louis Gates.
I love this photo. It shows, like his videos, how much Zohran Mamdani loves NYC & New Yorkers in all their diversity. Cuomo doesn't; he seeks power for its own sake, & his vile racist fearmongering reveals contempt for that diversity. 📷 Brandon Stanton, Humans of New York (from FB), dearnewyork.com.
November 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I love this photo. It shows, like his videos, how much Zohran Mamdani loves NYC & New Yorkers in all their diversity. Cuomo doesn't; he seeks power for its own sake, & his vile racist fearmongering reveals contempt for that diversity. 📷 Brandon Stanton, Humans of New York (from FB), dearnewyork.com.
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Today is only the beginning.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Today is only the beginning.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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November 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Today is only the beginning.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.