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Aviel Roshwald
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History Professor.

Comparative study of nationalism.

Latest book—Occupied: European and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937-1945 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2023)
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Aviel Roshwald is an American historian and professor of history at Georgetown University.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · Oct 10
I’m a history professor focusing on 20th-century Europe, with a particular interest in the comparative history of nationalism and of responses to Nazi aggression. My most recent book is Occupied: European and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937-1945 (Camb. Univ. Press, 2023).

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MS NOW @ms.now · 10h
BREAKING: A person has been detained for questioning in the Nancy Guthrie case, according to a law enforcement source.

@marcsantianews.bsky.social reports.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 13h
AI claims it can have a bath. But can it really though?

www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'We feel it in our bones': Can a machine ever love you?
Artificial intelligence can write you a passable love poem and some people even have romantic feelings towards it. But is the feeling mutual?
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 13h
Montgomery County is horrified by the swastika and antisemitic graffiti scrawled on Shaare Tefila in Olney. Our community sends the congregation our sympathy, solidarity and affection. I know anyone trespassing and defacing property like this will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Shaare Tefila congregation in Washington suburbs defaced with antisemitic graffiti
Signs outside the Conservative congregation in Olney, Md., were spray-painted with a swastika and an antisemitic slur
jewishinsider.com

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 13h
Morouns now in charge of North American infrastructure.
maxboot.bsky.social Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 13h
The Moroun family had previously called on Mr. Trump to halt the construction of the Gordie Howe bridge — which, once opened, would compete with the Ambassador Bridge for the more than $300 million in daily cross-border trade. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...
Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada
www.nytimes.com

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 13h
Google’s updated motto: What’s the harm in a little harm?
socialmedialab.ca Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 13h
"Google handed over a trove of personal data about a student and journalist to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in response to a subpoena that had not been approved by a judge" techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 13h
"Google handed over a trove of personal data about a student and journalist to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in response to a subpoena that had not been approved by a judge" techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...

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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 13h
Active shooter in school in Tumbler Ridge in east-central British Columbia, police say
Active shooter in school in Tumbler Ridge in east-central British Columbia, police say
RCMP say the "original suspect" is believed to be dead, but officers are working to determine whether a second suspect is involved.
www.thestar.com

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 13h
The Moroun family had previously called on Mr. Trump to halt the construction of the Gordie Howe bridge — which, once opened, would compete with the Ambassador Bridge for the more than $300 million in daily cross-border trade. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...
Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada
www.nytimes.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h
Now we learn the billionaire owner of a bridge that will compete w/the new Canada-MI bridge met with Lutnick right before Trump issued his threat to shut down the new bridge. The Trump admin is a lawless mafia gangster extortion racket existing to enrich oligarchs at our expense.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 14h
The FDA’s stance is consistent with its new mission as the Federal Death Agency, officials explained.

www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/h...
FDA refuses to review Moderna’s application for mRNA flu vaccine, company says | CNN
The US Food and Drug Administration has refused to accept an application from Moderna to review its first mRNA seasonal flu vaccine, the company said Tuesday, in another setback for the technology tha...
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Bob Bradley @bobbradley.bsky.social · 20h
In 1933, artists began leaving the Prussian Academy of Arts rather than support Nazi political policy:

Ricarda Huch
Max Liebermann
Heinrich Mann
Käthe Kollwitz

Today, Berlin has many reminders honoring those artists, who remained loyal to their personal standards.
Heinrich Mann's grave marker, along with that of his wife, Nelly, in the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery, Berlin, Mitte. He died in exile in Santa Monica, but his remains later were moved to back to Berlin.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 22h
Republicans go down a rabbit hole.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 22h
The investigation could well expand to cover Bugs Bunny, Rep. Fudd indicated.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 22h
Elmer Fudd would be proud.

www.rawstory.com/stringr/hous...
House GOP launches Bad Bunny probe: 'Worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction'
Rep. Mark Alford (R-TX) revealed that House Republicans are "investigating" Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show because they suspect it was "much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction."Du...
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 22h
I guess this not a spoof?

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 22h
"A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins."
Charles Lamb, born on this day in 1775

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 23h
Rep. Mark Alford (R-TX) revealed that House Republicans are "investigating" Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show because they suspect it was "much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction.
House GOP launches Bad Bunny probe: 'Worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction'
Rep. Mark Alford (R-TX) revealed that House Republicans are "investigating" Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show because they suspect it was "much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction."During a Tuesday interview on Real America's Voice, Alford told the hosts that he and other House Repu...
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 23h
Trump regime imposes sanctions on non-fascist states.
denverpost.com The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 23h
NEW: The Trump administration plans to rescind $600 million in public health funds from four states led by Democrats because it finds the grants “inconsistent with agency priorities,” according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
Trump Administration to cut $600 million in health funding from Colorado, 3 other states
The Trump administration plans to rescind $600 million in public health funds from four states led by Democrats because it finds the grants “inconsistent with agency priorities.”
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 23h
NEW: The Trump administration plans to rescind $600 million in public health funds from four states led by Democrats because it finds the grants “inconsistent with agency priorities,” according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
Trump Administration to cut $600 million in health funding from Colorado, 3 other states
The Trump administration plans to rescind $600 million in public health funds from four states led by Democrats because it finds the grants “inconsistent with agency priorities.”
trib.al

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 23h
JUST IN: A federal judge in Michigan has rejected the administration's attempt to obtain the state's voter rolls.

Judge Hala Jarbou, a Trump appointee, said the law does not require the state to turn them over.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
The next logical step would be for ICE to finance itself and create a wealth of corruption opportunities by exploiting detainees as a pool of enslaved labor.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
A Gulag Archipelago under our very noses.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
What was the topic again?

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
Well, ya know, AI can’t learn without making mistakes it can learn from. #CollateralDamage
histoftech.bsky.social jennifer uncoolidge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d
When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
To be sure.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
Which reminds me of that time…
avielroshwald.bsky.social Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
I digress, therefore I am.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
Is there any chance at all that it could end up backfiring by disproportionately disenfranchising MAGA voters?

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
I digress, therefore I am.

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d
An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University
Immigration Court Drops Case Against Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk
The Turkish national had been arrested by plainclothes federal officers outside her apartment.
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jennifer uncoolidge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d
When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com