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Fintan Hoey
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Historian of U.S.-Japanese relations at Franklin University Switzerland. 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈
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Dismantled by DOGE, a Foreign Policy Center Finds New Life www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Dismantled by DOGE, a Foreign Policy Center Finds New Life
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November 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚

Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!

Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
September 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
fintanhoey.bsky.social
So do I.
kerim.one Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · Jul 24
This is the painting I use when I want to explain settler colonialism to my students. (And yes, I checked, this is real.)
You're absolutely right. Here's a more accurate description: A social media post from the Homeland Security account (@DHSgov) with a verified checkmark and Follow button. The post text reads "A Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending." followed by "American Progress - John Gast." The image shows a 19th-century painting depicting a large female figure in flowing white robes floating above a vast landscape. She holds a book in one hand while trailing ribbons or banners flow behind her. The scene spans from left to right across a dramatic landscape with storm clouds on the left transitioning to clearer skies on the right. On the left side of the painting, Indigenous people on horseback are fleeing toward the darker, stormy area, along with buffalo and other wildlife retreating from the advancing figure. The center and right portions show covered wagons, a steam locomotive with smoke, telegraph poles, small settlements, and various settlers. Mountains are visible in the distant background, and the overall composition moves from wilderness and displaced Indigenous peoples on the left to Euro-American settlement and development on the right. (ALT Text by Claude AI)
July 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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The world was forever changed in the early hours of the morning 80 years ago today.

In the quiet desert basin near Alamogordo, New Mexico, a plutonium bomb was detonated, beginning the Atomic Age in what is known as the Trinity Test. 🧵 #NukeSky
July 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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80 years ago this morning—at 5:29 AM (Mountain War Time)—about 35 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, the nuclear age began with a big bang. Contrary to widespread assumptions, the area surrounding the remote Trinity test site was not uninhabited, and the fallout did not drift away harmlessly.
A black and white, high-speed photograph of the Trinity explosion at 0.025 seconds, showing what looks like a very large, slightly irregular bubble with a curtain of dust all around its bottom edge against a pitch dark sky. A scale indicating “100 meters” shows that the fireball was already approximately three times that size. Another black and white photograph of the Trinity explosion a few milliseconds later, showing an almost ghostly mushroom cloud with glowing tendrils rising from the ground above the very bright fireball. Another black and white photograph of the Trinity explosion with the same 100-meter scale, this time at 60 seconds post-detonation, showing a very large and billowy mushroom cloud rising into the sky. Another black and white photograph of the Trinity explosion taken some minutes after the previous photograph and showing the ominous looking mushroom cloud at a distance, its top spreading out and merging with regular clouds.
July 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Two days after the recording, I just listened to this, and if I may say so, I don't think I've done a better interview.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaSA...
Making sense of the '12-day war' between Israel and Iran | Start Here Q&A
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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June 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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🙄
June 25, 2025 at 5:33 AM
fintanhoey.bsky.social
This is disastrous.
June 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17
June 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Trump was too weak to stand up the hawks and powerless to stop Netanyahu's war. They two will have co-ownership of the ensuing disaster.

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Iran nuclear crisis moves to tragedy
With President Trump’s failure to persuade Prime Minister Netanyahu not to start what will likely be a long-term conflict, Israel’s multi-targeted attacks against Iran’s nuclear and missile programmes will likely push Iran into more secretive and dangerous nuclear pursuits.
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June 14, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Is he going to rename it the USS Dan White?
June 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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simonpratt.bsky.social
Writing lets us organise our experiences and express their implications. It's hard because doing that is hard. If we never write, we never learn to represent our judgements in ways that can be studied for bias, meaning, or novelty. Nor communicate our worlds to others. This is a form of death.
simonpratt.bsky.social Simon Frankel Pratt @simonpratt.bsky.social · May 7
I am not smart enough to imagine a good solution to AI cheating. If you're not feeling as helpless as I am, maybe read this article? I simply don't know what to do unless it's things like return to in-class handwritten essays—an inferior way to stimulate and test students. nymag.com/intelligence...
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
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May 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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New at Observing Japan: Remarks by an LDP lawmaker suggest that “Liberation Day” may prove as important for Japan as the Zelenskyy meeting at the White House was for Europe.

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Japan's "Zelenskyy moment"
Tokyo's growing realization that there is no going back
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April 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Awful news
ewong.bsky.social Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · Apr 3
NEW: Elon Musk's DOGE guys are dismantling the Wilson Center, a key foreign policy research group funded by private money and Congress. Its head, Mark Green, a former GOP Congressman, resigned after DOGE entered this week. Our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...
April 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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alanbeattie.bsky.social
Hiroshima being woke is not the outcome I expected, and yet here we are.
March 7, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Some examples from Japan:

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fintanhoey.bsky.social Fintan Hoey @fintanhoey.bsky.social · Feb 27
Very true. Here’s Japanese PM Sato to US Ambassador Edwin Reischauer in 1964.
“Sato launched into problem of nuclear defense, stating his views coincided with those expressed to him by British PM Wilson that if [Page 56] other fellow had nuclears it was only common sense to have them oneself. Japanese public he realized was not ready for this but would have to be educated to this point, and he felt younger generation showed hopeful signs of going this way. Nuclears he had discovered were much less costly than was generally assumed and Japanese scientific and industrial level was fully up to producing them. He then hastily added that, of course, Japan had none of “imperialistic” ambitions of past so U.S. should not be worried by what he said. In next few years he felt Japan must basically rethink whole defense problem. In this connection he repeated several times that constitution must be revised, though time not yet ripe for this.”
February 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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OTD 1779, Captain Cook was killed by Hawaiians as he attempted to kidnap their King. ✊🗃

A throwback to Meg Foster's @mfoster-history.bsky.social piece reflecting on the adhoc counter-narratives by Indigenous visitors to the Oceania exhibition in 2019:

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Counter-Narratives of Empire and the 'Oceania' Exhibition
'Stolen', 'plundered' and 'more than art'. Meg Foster looks at the living spiritual and cultural meanings of 'objects' featured in the Oceania exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
February 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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michaelschulman.bsky.social
RIP my inbox. nymag.com/intelligence...
The Lorne Michaels Book-Event Thread Is the Reply-All Disaster We Need
Susan Morrison’s invitation quickly went haywire, thanks to some boomer journalists and Tina Fey.
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February 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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“Did none of the West’s leaders, with all the collective wisdom of their armies of pundits and think tanks, see this coming?”
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Erasmusprijswinnaars - Praemium Erasmianum Foundation
It takes only a glance at a newspaper nowadays to see that much of what we once took for granted is either being cast aside or turned on its head. Indeed, with floods sweeping away entire cities, and ...
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December 1, 2024 at 9:49 PM
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OTD - November 13, 1982 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington DC.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund was established in 1979 to establish a memorial to the veterans of those who served in the Vietnam War. By July, 1980, Congress had allocated a two-acre site next to
B&W, Aerial view of the memorial. Wedge shape clearly defined on the left of the photo with crowd of people gathered to the right, separated from the memorial by the sunken passageway
November 13, 2024 at 1:03 PM
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Mark your calendars!

Carol Gluck's 2024 MJHA Distinguished Annual Lecture, titled "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Modern Japanese History: Time Past, Present, Future," will be Thursday, 12/5 from 7:00-8:30 pm ET (Friday 12/6 9:00-10:30 am JST)!

REGISTER FOR ZOOM HERE: mjha.org/event-5944148
November 12, 2024 at 5:53 AM
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nhledbetter.bsky.social
Someone had to do it, so I did: Military History (Very Broadly Defined) starter pack. This is just a start but already at over 100, with a 150 account limit on packs. Therefore I didn't duplicate the WWI or WWII history starter packs. Let me know if you want to be included, deleted, or...
November 9, 2024 at 5:53 AM
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Haven't seen one of these for SHAFR / US in the World people, so thought I'd make one given that I'm currently trapped under a cat. Happy to add people!

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November 10, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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So ahead of the curve 😂
September 18, 2024 at 9:12 AM
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Today marks the 79th anniversary of Japan's surrender ceremony aboard the USS Missouri, a spectacle heightened by a show of force mission flown by hundreds of aircraft

Judging by post-flight interrogation forms submitted by each crew, some were less than enthused to make the trip from Saipan
September 3, 2024 at 4:24 AM