Mark Stoneman
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Dear Media: Could we please stop calling ICE terror in U.S. cities a “federal crackdown”? That legitimizes their presence and actions.
January 17, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Dear Media: Could we please stop calling ICE terror in U.S. cities a “federal crackdown”? That legitimizes their presence and actions.
Before I check my social media these days, I have to steel myself against the possibility of new horrors that have not yet filtered through to me.
January 16, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Before I check my social media these days, I have to steel myself against the possibility of new horrors that have not yet filtered through to me.
The U.S. federal government is deliberately terrorizing American cities and is happy to sanction unnecessary and therefore illegal deadly force. The agents might be poorly trained; their leadership and culture is clearly rotten.
January 8, 2026 at 4:17 PM
The U.S. federal government is deliberately terrorizing American cities and is happy to sanction unnecessary and therefore illegal deadly force. The agents might be poorly trained; their leadership and culture is clearly rotten.
Quoth Shower Cat:
> "Trump creates an impossible dilemma for those of us who look at the world in analytic terms. We can’t turn our analytic brains off, but it’s impossible to analyze something like this without creating the impression that there is actually a plan of some sort, even when we […]
> "Trump creates an impossible dilemma for those of us who look at the world in analytic terms. We can’t turn our analytic brains off, but it’s impossible to analyze something like this without creating the impression that there is actually a plan of some sort, even when we […]
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January 5, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Quoth Shower Cat:
> "Trump creates an impossible dilemma for those of us who look at the world in analytic terms. We can’t turn our analytic brains off, but it’s impossible to analyze something like this without creating the impression that there is actually a plan of some sort, even when we […]
> "Trump creates an impossible dilemma for those of us who look at the world in analytic terms. We can’t turn our analytic brains off, but it’s impossible to analyze something like this without creating the impression that there is actually a plan of some sort, even when we […]
Recent Geopolitical Developments: markstoneman.com
Recent Geopolitical Developments: markstoneman.com
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January 5, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Recent Geopolitical Developments: markstoneman.com
The current U.S. administration knows how to blow stuff up, kidnap people, and promise draconian legal action, but will they be able to make a viable case against Maduro in a U.S. court? Their self-parodying social media posts do not inspire confidence in anything they say or do.
January 3, 2026 at 3:11 PM
The current U.S. administration knows how to blow stuff up, kidnap people, and promise draconian legal action, but will they be able to make a viable case against Maduro in a U.S. court? Their self-parodying social media posts do not inspire confidence in anything they say or do.
Echo Lake, North Conway, NH, on Dec. 28, 2025
January 1, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Echo Lake, North Conway, NH, on Dec. 28, 2025
“Malanka: Ukraine’s winter ritual of masks, mischief, and good fortune” kyivindependent.com/malanka-u…
January 1, 2026 at 1:29 AM
“Malanka: Ukraine’s winter ritual of masks, mischief, and good fortune” kyivindependent.com/malanka-u…
Seasonal affective disorder, your days are numbered. The winter solstice is only two days away. 😎
December 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Seasonal affective disorder, your days are numbered. The winter solstice is only two days away. 😎
Kyiv Independent video: One night with a Kyiv family amid Russia’s mass attack (29 min)
December 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Kyiv Independent video: One night with a Kyiv family amid Russia’s mass attack (29 min)
Am reading a fascinating collection of Ukrainian World War II narratives preserved in family memories and papers: _World War II, Uncontrived and Unredacted: Testimonies from Ukraine_ , edited by Vakhtang Kipiani (Ibidem, 2022).
December 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Am reading a fascinating collection of Ukrainian World War II narratives preserved in family memories and papers: _World War II, Uncontrived and Unredacted: Testimonies from Ukraine_ , edited by Vakhtang Kipiani (Ibidem, 2022).
Finished reading Andrey Kurkov’s _Diary of an Invasion_ (Mountain Leopard Press, 2022) and _Our Daily War_ (Open Borders Press, 2024). Lots of observations and vignettes about life in Ukraine during war, but also before.
December 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Finished reading Andrey Kurkov’s _Diary of an Invasion_ (Mountain Leopard Press, 2022) and _Our Daily War_ (Open Borders Press, 2024). Lots of observations and vignettes about life in Ukraine during war, but also before.
I feel sick every time I hear the U.S. president conflating Ukraine’s gradual loss of land with its overall strategic position. Is his team really so ignorant? Or is this yet another instance of their favoring the interests and nihilism of the few over the interests and values of the many?
December 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I feel sick every time I hear the U.S. president conflating Ukraine’s gradual loss of land with its overall strategic position. Is his team really so ignorant? Or is this yet another instance of their favoring the interests and nihilism of the few over the interests and values of the many?
'One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This' by Omar El Akkad: markstoneman.com
'One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This' by Omar El Akkad: markstoneman.com
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December 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
'One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This' by Omar El Akkad: markstoneman.com
I took this photo before cleaning off the car and moving it for the snowplow last Wednesday.
December 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I took this photo before cleaning off the car and moving it for the snowplow last Wednesday.
I signed up for Proton Mail for the email. It was never very good, but lately it’s been getting in my way and even undoing my work. Worse, the company shows no signs of trying to improve the experience. Instead they add things I neither want or need: AI, a crypto wallet, documents…
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I signed up for Proton Mail for the email. It was never very good, but lately it’s been getting in my way and even undoing my work. Worse, the company shows no signs of trying to improve the experience. Instead they add things I neither want or need: AI, a crypto wallet, documents…
Capped off a dark, cold day with whole wheat blueberry pancakes and applesauce. Made an octogenarian happy.
November 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Capped off a dark, cold day with whole wheat blueberry pancakes and applesauce. Made an octogenarian happy.
People thinking about how to create web spaces for more productive and meaningful interactions might profit from a recent post by Mark Bernstein that draws inspiration from interwar Vienna’s coffee houses. See “Design for Amiability: Lessons from Vienna,” A List Apart, Oct. 15, 2025. It is also […]
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November 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
People thinking about how to create web spaces for more productive and meaningful interactions might profit from a recent post by Mark Bernstein that draws inspiration from interwar Vienna’s coffee houses. See “Design for Amiability: Lessons from Vienna,” A List Apart, Oct. 15, 2025. It is also […]
It’s snowing.
November 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It’s snowing.
Windy day. Went most of it without internet, except for what my phone could muster.
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Windy day. Went most of it without internet, except for what my phone could muster.
According to ATESH (Military Movement of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars) on Telegram: "The occupiers are using a meat processing plant in the rear area to store the bodies of Russian soldiers from the Pokrovsk direction. ATESH agents from among the Russian Armed Forces report that the Russian […]
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November 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
According to ATESH (Military Movement of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars) on Telegram: "The occupiers are using a meat processing plant in the rear area to store the bodies of Russian soldiers from the Pokrovsk direction. ATESH agents from among the Russian Armed Forces report that the Russian […]
I forgot to mention that a short edition of Stoneman’s Corner went out on Nov. 19th: Newsletter: Snapshots, Great Depression, Siege Humor.
Newsletter: Snapshots, Great Depression, Siege Humor
Posted Oct 7, 2025 ∞
## Fall Foliage
Seen in my neighborhood this morning.
## No Kings Protest in Mt. Washington Valley
Posted Oct 18, 2025 ∞
Just saw a Maine lobster at the protest—along with many dogs, two dinosaurs, and many hundreds of humans of all ages, from babies to humans powering their own rollators. There is a group all in yellow, too.
Posted Oct 18, 2025 ∞
### A Few Snapshots from the Protest
I'm guessing some 500 people were there, but it could have been more.
Posted Oct 18, 2025 ∞
You get repeated turnouts like this in rural New Hampshire, and you know authoritarianism’s foundations are wobbly.
Posted Oct 9, 2025 ∞
## Photograph of Young Man on Relief in 1940
> Hayward, California [1940]. Youth on Relief. Looking in his pocket for his surplus commodities card. 'Not having a job is bad enough, but you keep goin' down and purty soon you're here and the spirit is gone. I turn my face when somebody I know real well comes along the sidewalk. It takes the spirit when you're in here and then you haven't anything left.'
This image stems from a federal food aid program during the Great Depression. For me, the quoted recipient of aid represents a familiar story about pride, dignity, shame, and fear that the self-righteous who reject the provision of such aid fail to grasp.
Photo and caption by Rondal Partridge for the National Youth Administration, April 17, 1940, from the series Study of Youth Photographs, Record Group 119: Records of the National Youth Administration, National Archives Catalog, NAID: 532121.
Posted Oct 13, 1993 ∞
## Sarajevo Siege Humor
"Sarajevo siege humour, winter of 1992-1993: creamy leather gun holster displayed as a hot fashion item in the window of an erstwhile shoe shop."
Photo and caption by Christian Maréchal, 1993, Wikimedia Commons. License: CC BY 3.0.
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November 1, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I forgot to mention that a short edition of Stoneman’s Corner went out on Nov. 19th: Newsletter: Snapshots, Great Depression, Siege Humor.
@help Are Bluesky replies supposed to show up in my Microblog Timeline now? According to my settings, they should only be going to the Mentions. Just a heads up.
October 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
@help Are Bluesky replies supposed to show up in my Microblog Timeline now? According to my settings, they should only be going to the Mentions. Just a heads up.
A new Kyiv Independent documentary, “The War They Play” (65 min), looks at Russia’s criminal reeducation and militarization of children in occupied Ukraine. According to Igor Vorobyov, head of the Warrior Center (for children) in Volgograd Oblast, “If you want to defeat the enemy, raise their […]
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October 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A new Kyiv Independent documentary, “The War They Play” (65 min), looks at Russia’s criminal reeducation and militarization of children in occupied Ukraine. According to Igor Vorobyov, head of the Warrior Center (for children) in Volgograd Oblast, “If you want to defeat the enemy, raise their […]
Robin DeRosa has words for a state whose investments in higher education are the lowest per student in the country. "This winter, close to thirty tenured faculty at my regional public university in New Hampshire will “voluntarily” leave their positions…" "I am gutted for New Hampshire, and […]
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October 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Robin DeRosa has words for a state whose investments in higher education are the lowest per student in the country. "This winter, close to thirty tenured faculty at my regional public university in New Hampshire will “voluntarily” leave their positions…" "I am gutted for New Hampshire, and […]