Kate Brown

Environmental historian of Soviet and, sometimes, American history. Author of Manual for Survival (#Norton ) and Plutopia.

[Kate Brown @katebrownMIT]

Tom Bailie, a courageous farmer who spoke for nuclear downwinders everywhere is no longer among the living. I'll miss his late-night phone calls. https://t.co/XJmk53L5dP

[Kate Brown @katebrownMIT]

@chillpad has no real customer service, just an AI pushing you articles. You can call but no voice will hear about their faulty product

[Kate Brown @katebrownMIT]

@JoeSondow I'm having the same problem with my Chili pad. Leaks like a seive and there's no way for fingers to fix it.

[Kate Brown @katebrownMIT]

Ok, explosives on the roof of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is making me really nervous.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Now we have information from our intelligence that the Russian military has placed objects resembling explosives on the roof of several power units of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Perhaps to simulate an attack on the plant. Perhaps they have some other scenario. But in any case, the world sees – can't but see – that the only source of danger to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is Russia and no one else. Unfortunately, there was no timely and large-scale response to the terrorist attack on the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. And this may incite the Kremlin to commit new evil. It is the responsibility of everyone in the world to stop it, no one can stand aside, as radiation affects everyone.

[Kate Brown @katebrownMIT]

Exxon isn't even trying to stop climate change. Even compared to other oil giants, they look bad. Boycott!
https://t.co/nJoVovYqUc

[Kate Brown @katebrownMIT]

@JuliaDavisNews This newscast--the whole thing, from the eyeball stage set, to the mens' half-alive faces, to the terrifying word--shatters my sense of the world. I wish it were just a sci-fi film.

[Kate Brown @katebrownMIT]

The U.S. doesn't have enough native seeds and plant stock to restore habitat. A former student, Eve Allen, who taught me more than the other way around, is working to fix that problem. https://t.co/DomD9qb0uq

[Kate Brown @katebrownMIT]

You can never go home again. Kenda Mutongi on diaspora life. Brilliant. https://t.co/3bavI5M3rn

[Kate Brown @katebrownMIT]

Yes. This is another way that the Chornobyl region is a hot spot.

[Kate Brown @katebrownMIT]

Sounds like a case of harassment.

[Will Deringer @WilliamDeringer]

This is so messed up. As university faculty, your classroom should be open to all qualified students at your institution. I can’t imagine ever writing an email like this. (Relevant here that Harvard+MIT have liberal cross-reg).

Sorry you’ve been subject to this, @so_radhikal

[Kate Brown @katebrownMIT]

Before you start to think that fusion will save the climate, read this. https://t.co/D3R5ZCjGBK

[Kate Brown @katebrownMIT]

Ariel Lambe's "Seeing Madness in the Archives" is one of the most courageous essays I've ever read. Just out in the AHR. https://t.co/X96ThnBdBb

[Kate Brown @katebrownMIT]

Marjoleine Kars delivered the Cundill Prize lecture last night. Brilliantly.

[Cundill History Prize @CundillPrize]

@MarjoleineKars delivers the 2022 Cundill Lecture: ‘A Great Slave Revolt Up Close: Guyana, 1763’ #CundillHistoryPrize

[Polina Ivanova @polinaivanovva]

On a snowy afternoon in Moscow last week, a trickle of people entered a vast hall under the Kremlin walls, past riot police, to see a v unusual new show: an exhibition on Ukraine.

For a walk through the Kremlin view of the world, a thread:
https://t.co/FZKyQ9n9Z7

[Norman Wirzba @NWirzba]

A happy surprise to win this book award! @CambUP_Religion @CambridgeUP

[Kate Brown @katebrownMIT]

AHR podcast: Martha Hodes recounts how she came to write a book about her experience as a child hostage on a kidnapped plane. https://t.co/SUEvBX51Qd @MarthaHodes @AmHistReview

[Kate Brown @katebrownMIT]

Super article by Rustam Khan on how a Soviet city comes together from pipes to rails. “The Master Rarely Casts His Eye Here”: Water and Urban Infrastructure in Postwar Vladivostok https://t.co/5B3Y254xQt

[Kate Brown @katebrownMIT]

Nowhere to hide: How a nuclear war would kill you—and almost everyone else. - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists https://t.co/WNDmyFU3cn

[Kate Brown @katebrownMIT]

Super fun! toxic waste exploration in St. Louis. https://t.co/9oqAQgZClL

[Kate Brown @katebrownMIT]

An ad for Russians traveling to the US. Beware. Gay people! Eeeek. Even worse, vegetarians! The scariest thing, though, is that the Russian traveler appears to relish eating gray, airplane food.

[Проф. Преображенский @prof_preobr]

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Соловьёв опубликовал у себя очередной ролик-страшилку для тех, кто собирается уехать из России.
Всё, как вы любите.
В Америке все геи.
И ещё там вегетарианцы запрещают русским есть мясо.
Я не шучу.
Смотрите.