Samuel Blaine Keeley

Historian of Modern Germany/Europe, at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg: @FAU_Germany.

Alumnus of: @IEG_Mainz, @UCLA, @HumboldtUni, @FloridaState

[Samuel Blaine Keeley @sbkeeley]

"Don't tell me what to do."

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@AndrewHammel1 The culture is characterized by very stubborn resistance to change. It's maddening.

And yet, reality has a way of insisting upon itself, as we can see by the sky high sales of monoblocks/mini-splits.

In 10 years, I hope that hospitals/Pflegeheime/schools will have AC, at least.

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@HardMoneyLex @qaulv "Es geht doch" ist das Mantra.

Auch wenn es doch nicht mehr geht.

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Ein Kulturkampf unserer Zeit

https://t.co/CmCsBB8a5P

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Happy to announce that I've landed a position at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, and I'll be teaching courses in both the modern and early modern history departments.

I started teaching last week!

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New publication: a mini-essay in "German History," (vol. 43.1) in the Forum, "Writing History Biographically" (Edited by Mary Lindemann & Benjamin Marschke).

I'm excited to appear in print alongside so many awesome scholars!

Free Link: https://t.co/2DVgYuATd2

@GermanHistSoc

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No single party has ever had a majority of the vote since reunification in 1990. The last (and only) time it ever happened was for the CDU in 1957 under Adenauer, when they got 50.2%.

I doubt AfD will ever crack 30%, let alone 50%.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Indeed, congratulations @Alice_Weidel!

At this rate of growth, @AfD will be the majority party by the next election.

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The German government is indeed a mess and the current regime will lose power, but Germany won't "fall." It will be replaced by a new coalition led by the CDU, probably with the SPD, so... a rather status-quo centrist government with a center-right (and not illiberal) Chancellor.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

This is a dark time for Western liberalism. Autocratic & corrupt Trump has won in the US. The French government will fall tomorrow & France appears ungovernable. The German government will fall soon & is a mess. The UK government is there but weak. The Canadian government soon to fall.

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Well... It's a big day in German politics, too.

Scholz says he'll do a confidence vote in January. He'll fail.

Next election will yield either: another Gro-Ko, or maybe CDU+Greens. That's it.

Let's hope that Trump gets along well with Friedrich Merz...

https://t.co/8P0gYVpItR

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@umichvoter Hey @umichvoter, @NateSilver538 just referenced this tweet by you on Sam Harris' postcast episode about the election. @MakingSenseHQ

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I didn't quite expect that Kaiserreich Generals would enter the last-minute discourse of the election.

[Yoni Appelbaum @YAppelbaum]

When Trump told his chief of staff he admired "German generals," Kelly asked him: “‘Do you mean Bismarck’s generals? Do you mean the kaiser’s generals? Surely you can’t mean Hitler’s generals? And he said, ‘Yeah, yeah, Hitler’s generals.’
https://t.co/oq8UH4o92B

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@BenBrun86 Done!

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Publication!

Excited to finally share a chapter was published in a volume full of great scholars: @MarionRomberg, Ines Peper, @JSpanUK, Tryntje Helfferich, @realDavidLuebke, and Jeroen Duindam.

Eds: Ben Marschke, Dan Riches, Alexander Schunka, Sara Smart (also contributors)

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I also want to thank my friends and colleagues: @RyanHoselton, Sky Michael Johnston, Britta McEwan, and Jared Poley for their thoughtful and generous comments on my piece along the way!

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This book was the product of conferences in Gotha and Portland on religious plurality, and I'm looking forward to reading the other contributions.

And! I'm happy to have been able to extend the conversation into the nineteenth century -- when religion does indeed still matter!

[Jonathan Spangler @JSpanUK]

@PaPaERC academics learning how to gamble. High stakes faro with assignats.

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@chromeunboxed Yeah, this device has been out for over a year and it is just *always* sold out on the HP website.

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@jonathanbfine Trash can aside, it's amazing how powerful the sentiment of being on the "right side" of history is, for so many people.

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@jbarro CAHSR is a Group!

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@ZaidJilani The polling suggested that Brown would've been weakest against Dolan (of the 3 Rs), so Moreno is maybe a better opponent for him.
Dems could really use some Sherrod Browns in all red state.

And I agree with you. Brown didn't seem interested in having a nat'l profile, either.