Brigitte Le Normand 🟥
Historian of Yugoslavia in global context. Urban Planning, migration, maritime transportation. Believer in speaking out for/amplifying the silenced. she/her.
- Gut-wrenching episode of this American Life on ICE told though 911 recordings. I can see very little difference from the Black Shirts or SA. open.spotify.com/episode/0LMg...
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- I'll be presenting today at 4:15 pm CET at the Global History Colloquium of the FUB, on "A Global History of Socialist Rijeka: How a Port Connected Yugoslavia to the World." Please dm me if you would like to join online and I'll send you the link! www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/en/termine/C...
- Never in my wildest dreams, as a 23 year old reading Sofia Petrovna in an East European literature class at the U of Toronto, did I think there would be affinities so close to home. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
- Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art. At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always a prelude to fascism.” - Guillermo del Toro
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- I've been listening to the first episode of this podcast, and it makes me so sad. www.canadaland.com/shows/what-i...
- Disappointing yet not entirely surprising. A lack of moral courage. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/a...
- I think the appropriate term is "ICE thugs" or "goons" rather than "monkeys"
- No comment. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...
- Not quite sure what to make of the fact that there is no word in English for the adjective "solidaire"...?
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- Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥Scientific funding is a net negative: "European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
- Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥The FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something
- Did the US just colonize Venezuela??
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- Commenters on BB: "who cares if she was a Nazi in the last the decades of her life. What a fabulous sexy actress she was brave enough to speak her mind she will be sorely missed RIP." 🙄
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- Academic friends, l'd love your opinion. If you had to choose between your top choice publisher (based on the other books they publish, quality of the publication), and second choice but with Open Access, who would you pick and why?
- Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥The hero who disarmed one of the terrorists in Sydney turned out to be 43-year-old Ahmed al-Ahmed — a fruit shop owner and father of two. He was shot twice and is currently in hospital. He is scheduled to undergo surgery. He had no experience with weapons of any kind.
- Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥Horrormeldungen noch und nöcher www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/...
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- Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥When research becomes an AI generated lottery. It reveals the fundamental flaws of the system which has been a lottery for years eualive.net/horizon-euro...
- More evidence that Israel is a rogue state. Who will step in to defend the UN's mandate? What does this erosion of support for the UN mean for its role in global governance more broadly?
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- Additionally, people will have to submit phone numbers and addresses for the last ten years, names of relatives, and biometric data. People who are critical of US values or government to be denied entry. Just another measure closing the US border, and isolating Americans from diversity.
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- Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥Israel is still throttling the aid supply to Gaza. And Britain is still supplying Israel with arms and maintaining normal diplomatic relations. The genocide continues, as does British complicity. 26 months and counting. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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- We're hiring an Assistant Professor in European Political History since 1900 (History Department). Research focusing on the political history of Europe since 1900, including themes such as democratisation, European integration, international cooperation, colonialism or war and peace lnkd.in/e8diCbrD
- Several professors have at this point been fired for their Pro Palestine activism, in what is nothing less than a broad rolling back of academic freedom. I fear nothing will put a stop to this other than active organizing.
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- Chilling testimony from a priest who attended an ICE protest.
- Former minister of education Eppo Bruins, best known for gutting higher education in the Netherlands for no reason at all, further demonstrates his complete lack of understanding of academia by arguing that knowledge and politics should be completely divorced. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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- Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥New review out now! In Europe without Borders (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2025), Isaac Stanley-Becker explores the contested creation of free movement for goods and people in the Schengen area. Eike Klages reviews the book. Read the review here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/the-p...
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- Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥Ironically, PM Carney skipped COP30 in Brazil, to announce that the federal government will fast-track the American-owned Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas project in British Columbia. 👎😒 Media release> dsfdn.org/CarneySkipsC...
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- Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥An excellent PhD opportunity for someone to work on family separation during WW1 or WW2. I've done some research on Italian emigrant families separated when the father was serving in the Italian Army and it's a really fascinating area of study. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/phd...
- University lecturer suspended at Indiana university for suggesting link between "make America great again" slogan and white supremacy: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
- Meanwhile, in my neck of the woods, the US has removed information on black soldiers from the Margraten war cemetery. nltimes.nl/2025/11/10/l...
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- Still relevant.
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- Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥Evidence of mass killings by RSF in El-Fasher, Sudan, are chilling. They must be a wake up call for the rest of the planet too. Countries must be pressured to stop sending weapons into their proxy war in Sudan. It starts with acknowledging the horror.
- Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥This is how it's going with domestic investigations. It's not. It's exactly what "unwilling or unable" is made for. #WarCrimes #Gaza #IHL #Israel www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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- Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥📣 3 post doc roles on GreenFrontier @erc.europa.eu project - fantastic opportunities to work on an exciting project on socio-ecological relations in Italy, Spain & Poland. And best of all, a chance to work with @georgeiorda.bsky.social as team lead #PoliticalEcology #Conservation ⬇️
- My employer, @maastrichtu.bsky.social, has done the right thing and suspended collaboration with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem after a Human Rights and Due Diligence committee established their close ties to the Israeli army. #BDS www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/um-deci...
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- Gaining insights into the Dutch electoral system, voter behavior, and the trends we can see with these elections @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social @bettovanwaarden.bsky.social @luanarusso.bsky.social @historikarin.bsky.social
- Recovering the hostages was never the aim of Netanyahu and his fascist coterie.
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- What's the US so pissed off about? Canada is just pushing regime change in a foreign country... 😆 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
- Palestinian poet Zayna Azam's poem Write My Name was set to music and performed a month ago by hundreds of ordinary people in a public square in Groningen. Beautiful and ever timely. youtu.be/9m27USdH7ms?...
- Next level doublespeak
- So much for Trump's peace.
- Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America
- This is what the US has turned into. I lived there for seven years. It's really hard to believe and accept this.
- Israel has not delivered on its promise to allow said through, and head killed 28 Palestinians since the start of the ceasefire. People are still starving and dying.
- Ah, so was he the one who hid the stash of classified documents in the Mar Al Lago bathroom?
- BBC trying to brand Croatian pace of life à la "hygge" - next step is "pomalo" coffee table books and travel shows.
- In a tiny container on Maastricht's Markt, a beautiful and moving exhibit of work by Gaza artist Ahmed Muhanna. An artist who has dedicated himself to art therapy for children in the midst of genocidal war. In the absence of paper, he has painted on WFP boxes.
- Let us not forget that the US might have helped to rein in the violence - but for decades it has also been crucial in enabling that violence. And that violence will continue as long as Palestinians do not have self determination.
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- NPR, telling it like it is: Machado, a.k.a. the Nobel peace prize winner, described as "far right leader." What was the Nobel prize committee thinking?? www.npr.org/2025/10/11/n...
