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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn

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Historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis | Also: migration, racism, & sexuality in Europe/global | Author of Foreign in Two Homelands (2024) | University of Richmond | Ask me about fascism & my 3 cats

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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social · Nov 18

Hi new followers— I'm a historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis. I also wrote a book about Turkish-German migration, which you can download free (tinyurl.com/kahnbk) or buy from Cambridge w/ discount FTHL2024. I also research queer fascism & gay neo-Nazis.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 23h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 1d

And now @acls1919.bsky.social speaks out. Just. Say. No. To Trump's compact on higher ed. It's extortion plain and simple. www.acls.org/news/acls-st...

ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that p...

www.acls.org

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 1d

All nine institutions must reject this proposal: it is a thinly veiled attack on academic freedom; it is a test case for whether Trumpists can get away with demanding loyalty oaths; it exceeds the president’s powers to begin with
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps | Jan-Werner Müller

The administration is trying to make nine universities an offer they seemingly cannot refuse

www.theguardian.com

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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 2d

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 2d

The Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in U.S. Labor and Working-Class History is now open for submissions!

Full details here: go.illinois.edu/UIPGutmanPrize

cc: @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social

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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, love the cover!

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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 4d

At this point, from my little sphere as professor, I’m like, pedagogically, how do I respond to mass trauma? Not saying kids weren’t traumatized before now, but like we are going to see a generation of young adults who are sick from all this. As educators how do we even begin to respond?

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dpa news agency @dpa-intl.com · 4d

The right-wing billionaire populist Andrej Babiš wins parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic, as his ANO (Yes) party receives 36% of the vote with 90% of the vote counted, official data shows.

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Maximilian Pichl @maxpichl.bsky.social · 5d

Genau, weil die AfD seit Jahren "ignoriert" wird. Das ist doch absurd.

»Wir müssen uns und wir werden uns mit der AfD auch inhaltlich sehr viel stärker auseinandersetzen«, sagte der CDU-Chef in der Sendung »MDR aktuell«. »Ignorieren geht nicht mehr.«

www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Friedrich Merz kündigt härteren Umgang mit der AfD an

Die AfD setzt die Union massiv unter Druck, in einigen Umfragen liegen die Rechtsextremen bereits auf Platz eins. Jetzt reagiert Kanzler und CDU-Chef Merz mit einem neuen Kurs: »Ignorieren geht nicht ...

www.spiegel.de

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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social · 6d

More bad news re: the authoritarian takeover of the Humanities:

thehill.com/homenews/adm...

White House dismisses majority of National Council on the Humanities

The White House dismissed the majority of members on the National Council on the Humanities on Wednesday. Just four of the 26 members remain on the council’s website: Russell Berman, Keegan Callana…

thehill.com

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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social · 7d

Brilliant and spot-on, but terrifying, column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 7d

This new column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social makes me think about when I recently had to talk to the police for yet another safety plan, I tried to “lighten” the mood by saying that we all knew this wasn’t my first rodeo. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

For at least the past 15 years, my colleagues in academia have grappled with angry letters to university officials for doing their jobs. They have weathered campaigns for their firing. They have contended with an internet army obsessed with doxxing them, their parents, their kids. I’ve been contacted by the F.B.I. more than once in my career. Not because I hold any important state secrets or know a biker gang but because one of my colleagues has lived with so much sustained harassment from right-wing “activists” that it has become a matter of federal concern. Watch lists (one of which was constructed by Kirk’s organization) do not distinguish between public intellectuals at wealthy enclaves and hoi polloi who teach popular classes at cash-strapped schools. In either case, an army of trained provocateurs stands ready to destroy their lives to prove their bona fides as conservative activists.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 7d

"Globalist" has long been used by the white power movement to signify a Jewish conspiracy to eliminate the white race. It sometimes means something less alarming, like opposing the UN, worrying about cosmopolitanism, etc, but that's not who this meme is for. This meme is bread & butter racism.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7d

Last night, the ADL took down its "Glossary of antisemitism" which included an entry for the term "globalist," describing it as a far-right codeword for Jews.

Hours later, the official DHS account authors a post with a common far-right meme, saying that "globalists" will be denied entry to the US.

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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 7d

The guys who have to keep proclaiming how tough they are usually aren’t actually tough.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 7d

"we are so much more hardcore than they are" 🤡

a person wearing a blue hurley shirt is dancing

ALT: a person wearing a blue hurley shirt is dancing

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 8d

As the term “defamation” is itself an entry in that glossary, the organization will now have to rebrand itself as simply the Anti League. It will steadfastly oppose all leagues.

jewishinsider.com/2025/09/adl-...

ADL deletes Glossary of Extremism under pressure from conservatives over Charlie Kirk entry

The organization stands by a separate resource that describes Kirk’s Turning Point USA’s ties to ‘extremists’

jewishinsider.com

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 7d

It’s not a dog whistle when she screams it at her audience. She’s inches away from saying “the Jews.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Pam Bondi: "You have these woke DAs who are Soros-appointed. A lot them are Soros-elected."

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 8d

***Job Opportunity***

CUNY Graduate Center - Associate Professor, Black, Race & Ethnic Studies

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CUNY Graduate Center - Associate Professor - Ph.D. and M.A. in Black, Race & Ethnic Studies | H-Net

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 8d

Having served on my fair share of quick reaction forces in my day, this will not end well. They exist purely to bring overwhelming firepower to sudden armed conflicts or to support beleaguered troops. This is a form of domestic warfighting.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump to generals: "Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. This is gonna be a big thing for the people in this room, because it's the enemy from within & we have to handle it before it gets out of control"

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 8d

its like one of those all-hands meetings that could have been an email, but infinitely more cartoon villainy

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."

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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · 8d

📣 Together with Iris Beau Segers, I wrote about the recent far-right violence at an anti-immigration demo in The Hague in the Netherlands. If you are curious about what is happening in the run-up to the elections, this blog is for you 👇🇳🇱

C-REX @crexuio.bsky.social · 8d

📢 New Blog Post! 🚨 Just a month before the Dutch elections, Iris Beau Segers and @leoniedejonge.bsky.social highlight the troubling normalization of far-right ideologies, the democratic erosion, and the recent violence at an anti-immigration demo in The Hague. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Far-Right Normalization and Democratic Erosion: A Pre-Election Update from the Netherlands - C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism

Just a month ahead of the Dutch elections, Léonie de Jonge and Iris B. Segers raise concerns about the growing normalization of extreme-right ideologies and actions, highlighted by the unprecedented v...

www.sv.uio.no

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 8d

"Archives hold many examples of the centrality of paperwork for marginalised groups when rights are unstable or out of reach. They show how migrants use paperwork to imagine rights - to see a right to protection before one exists."

Roundtable reflections on the radical history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️

Changing The Record

How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 8d

"Some" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here

JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 9d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social · 9d

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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social · 9d

My book was a Finalist for two awards at this year’s German Studies Association conference: the David Barclay Book Prize, and the DAAD/GSA Prize for Best Book in History and Social Sciences.

Link to download the open access PDF below 👇

@universitypress.cambridge.org @ghiwashington.bsky.social

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