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Ned Richardson-Little

@historyned.bsky.social

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Historian of international crime, international law, human rights and the illiberal right in Germany at ZZF Potsdam. Also teaching at FU Berlin. he/him. Principal Investigator: #OtherGlobalGermany and #il_liberal

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 7d

35 years ago today, the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist and its territory was absorbed into the Federal Republic. If you want to learn more about the rise and fall of the GDR on this auspicious #TagderEinheit, you can check out my new book: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-de...

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 2h

The German government is currently trying to get people to work more while also not properly funding childcare to actually give people time to do that work. Similar to underfunding public transit and killing bike lanes to be pro-car when its just pro-traffic. Some systemic thinking would be nice...

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 4h

With all of these suggestions, I'm struggling to stay in the top 10.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 4h

Sadly the Canadian Embassy in Berlin hasn't left twitter for Bluesky so I can't tag them in a *subtle* attempt at scoring a free book launch party.

Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 4h

Great moments in Canadian-German collaborations (this is the best I can come up with):

The cover of Glenn Gould - Bach the Goldberg Variations

Packages of Tim's Canadian Mini-Brownies - Das Original)

The cover of The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State by Ned Richardson-Little

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 5h

The lizard part of my brain says there has to be a way to spin this geopolitical turn towards promoting my book, but sadly academic programs don't train you how to exploit this sort of thing.

The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 1d

Diplomatic Circles: ‘Canada is getting more and more important for us,’ says visiting German Bundestag member

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

‘Canada is getting more and more important for us,’ says visiting German Bundestag member

In a wide-ranging interview, Johannes Winkel talks a renewed Canada-German relationship, Trump shocks, European security, and the future of free trade.

www.hilltimes.com

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 5h

In my classroom, there is always a delay. Between question and answer. That space—the stutter, the pause, the gesture—is where actual teaching happens. Not in the bullet points or the Google Doc comments, but in the moment someone says, “I don’t know if this makes sense, but—” and suddenly it does.

Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

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Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz @wannseekonferenz.bsky.social · 6h

Unsere Direktorin Deborah Hartmann im Interview: "Und natürlich versucht die AFD, auf diese Art und Weise Druck aufzubauen, sie versucht, Ängste zu schüren, sie versucht uns Mitarbeitende an diesen Orten einzuschüchtern und zu verängstigen, und da sehe ich doch ein sehr großes Problem."

Jan Lormis @janlormis.bsky.social · 8h

In Deutschland sehen sich Museen & Gedenkstätten zunehmend mit politischer Einflussnahme konfrontiert. Wie sieht das in Berlin/Brandenburg aus? In dem Beitrag gibt es u.a. Einschätzungen aus dem @wannseekonferenz.bsky.social. #MuseumMitHaltung #Erinnerungskultur #Geschichtsbewusstsein

Museen und Gedenkstätten im Kampf gegen zunehmende politische Einflussnahme

In den USA will Donald Trump die Nationalmuseen ideologisch ausrichten – mit finanziellen Drohungen. Auch in Deutschland wächst der politische Einfluss auf Museen, besonders dort, wo Erinnerungskultur und gesellschaftliche Themen im Fokus stehen. Eine Recherche von Viktoria Kleber vom rbb Kulturrechercheteam zeigt: Der Druck kommt zunehmend von rechts – und trifft auch Mitarbeitende persönlich.

www.radioeins.de

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 9h

"The Dekoloniale project involved the development of decolonial city tours, groundbreaking exhibitions, and powerful artistic interventions, all documented in this book."

I'm delighted to see this book has now come out.

www.falschrum.org/dekoloniale/

Dekoloniale Erinnerungskultur in der Stadt / Memory Culture in the City – Falschrum Books

www.falschrum.org

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Sascha Schmidt @saschaschmidt.bsky.social · 23h

Hoyerswerda 1991: Der Auftakt zu einer Welle rassistischer Gewalttaten. Tagelang griffen Neonazis & Anwohner*innen ein Wohnheim für Vertragsarbeiter*innen sowie eine Unterkunft für Geflüchtete an. Bis die Geflüchteten in Bussen aus der Stadt gebracht wurden... Eine neue Doku. Unbedingt anschauen!

Hoyerswerda '91 - Eine Stadt, die Gewalt und ihre Aufarbeitung - hier anschauen

Im September 1991 kommt es scheinbar aus dem Nichts zu einer öffentlichen Hetzjagd in Hoyerswerda. Eine stetig wachsende Menge aus 'einfachen Bürgern' und Neo-Nazis belagert eine ganze Woche lang das ...

www.ardmediathek.de

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 1d

The pandemic is shaping up to be the antithesis of WWII where for decades the shared sense of horror and sacrifice managed to create a kind of solidaristic social compact in a lot of affected countries.

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Christian Bangel @christianbangel.bsky.social · 1d

Ich hab über meine Heimatstadt Frankfurt (Oder) und ihren OB-Wahlkampf geschrieben.
Versucht, mit der Lupe auf eine Stadt zu schauen, in der die AfD fix 30% kriegt. Und die anderen Parteien sie trotzdem nicht kopieren.
Kann Spuren von Hoffnung enthalten.
(Geschenklink)

www.zeit.de/2025/43/fran...

Frankfurt (Oder): Was sich hier alles spiegelt

Am Sonntag wählt Frankfurt (Oder) einen neuen Oberbürgermeister. Favorit ist hier mal nicht der Kandidat der AfD – sondern ein bislang völlig unbekannter Parteiloser

www.zeit.de

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 1d

Nice day out in Potsdam. The ‘Roman ruins’ in the distance are a folly masking a reservoir. Water was supposed to flow from there into the fountains of the Sans Souci gardens, which didn’t really work. A pumping station (designed to look like a mosque) was later built to solve the problem.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 1d

This is like taking 1930s Austria as a model for how to resist Nazism.

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Markus Hesselmann @hesselmann.bsky.social · 2d

Neues aus Bullerbü. www.tagesspiegel.de/meinung/lese...

„Natürlich ist es dort auch voll“: Warum New York ein Verkehrs-Vorbild für Berlin sein sollte

Unsere Leserin plädiert nach fünf Wochen in der amerikanischen Metropole dafür, sich an deren Mobilitäts-Politik zu orientieren. Und wie sehen Sie’s?

www.tagesspiegel.de

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 2d

I had a roommate years ago who always had get rich quick schemes and one was political merchandise where he just wouldn’t pay for the rights to the photos and art. Today he’s a wildly wealthy fund manager who got his start in business via a celebrity billionaire fraudster.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 2d

Probably my favourite long late antiquity piece of art. The so-called "palimpsest" fresco in Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome shows consecutive layers of paintings from the sixth century (Mary as empress of heaven) all the way to the seventh and early eight century. The level of detail is just amazing.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 3d

As a historian, I truly like the "foreverized pastness" part of this. And I agree, on a daily basis we are floating towards a permanent establishment of badly manipulated memories. A plural of nonsense histories. #skystorians

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 3d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 3d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes the occasion calls for carnations in the rifles of soldiers and sometimes it calls for a gyrating guy in a frog costume. Social mobilization contains multitudes. bsky.app/profile/comp...

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 5d

wizard frog is insane

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Blinde Flecken e.V @blindeflecken.com · 6d

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www.blindeflecken.com/gedenktag#ei...

Blinde Flecken Erfurt e.V. | Gedenktag für die Opfer Rechter Gewalt, 18. Oktober 2025

Erfahre mehr über den ersten offiziellen Erfurter Gedenktag für die Opfer rechter Gewalt, die Veranstaltenden & einzelne Programmpunkte wie z.B. Podiumsdiskussionen, Workshops und das "Antidiskriminie...

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 2d

In many ways, iconic imagery of past protests are often a poor guide to the present because they are so deeply rooted in local conditions of a specific conflict and its informational environment.

damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 2d

i’ve wondered whether the traditional tactic of peaceful resistance to shock the conscience of observers who see nonviolence met with force is still possible in a media environment where only novelty can get the attention of the people you need to be shocked, and portland seems to have an answer

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 2d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 2d

Less dramatic in time, but I remember reading about a public exchange on the future of Germany in the 1950s between Weimar era Chancellor Heinrich Brüning and Stalingrad Field Marshall Friedrich Paulus and seemed deeply wrong chronologically.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 3d

Überwachungsstaat.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

“The records show that the police retroactively created a separate document about the Flock search a week after our article was published, in which they justify the search by saying they were concerned for her safety.”

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 3d

More here: www.uni-erfurt.de/en/universit...

Illiberal Fundamental Rights in Germany from the State Socialist Past to the Populist Right Wing Present

Ned Richardson-Little (ZZF Potsdam) will speak on "Illiberal Fundamental Rights in Germany from the State Socialist Past to the Populist Right Wing Present" as part of the Research Colloquium on the H...

www.uni-erfurt.de

Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 3d

I'll be back at the @unierfurt.bsky.social on November 25 to speak about "Illiberal Fundamental Rights in Germany from the State Socialist Past to the Populist Right Wing Present" combining some of my older research on the GDR with recent work on the AfD and the far right.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 3d

I have been contacted by colleagues asking about phantom publications and it's always terrible when you start thinking "damn, I really should have written that."

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