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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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Political science 48%
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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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Food pyramid replaced with scone henge.
Makary: "We ended what was a corrupt food pyramid"

They replaced the food pyramid with a tube of tallow.
Fun fact: half of the “experts” who wrote RFK Jr’s new food guidelines—which push people to eat more red meat, saturated fats, beef tallow, & full fat dairy—have financial ties to the livestock & dairy industries

Looks like RFK Jr & Makary CREATED a corrupt food pyramid
Makary: "We ended what was a corrupt food pyramid"

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Fun fact: half of the “experts” who wrote RFK Jr’s new food guidelines—which push people to eat more red meat, saturated fats, beef tallow, & full fat dairy—have financial ties to the livestock & dairy industries

Looks like RFK Jr & Makary CREATED a corrupt food pyramid
Makary: "We ended what was a corrupt food pyramid"

Some respondents must be confusing him with his dad or something.

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It’s crucial to target the most altruistic immigrants first, as they cause the worst damage to the regime’s xenophobia campaign.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.

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Makary: "We ended what was a corrupt food pyramid"

U.S. still a source of global inspiration.
Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the party supported by JD Vance and Elon Musk, are now looking to ICE in the US for inspiration and saying Germany needs an ICE of its own. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
European far-right parties push for ICE-style police
Fringe figures want to follow the Trump playbook for tackling unauthorized migration.
www.politico.eu

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Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the party supported by JD Vance and Elon Musk, are now looking to ICE in the US for inspiration and saying Germany needs an ICE of its own. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
European far-right parties push for ICE-style police
Fringe figures want to follow the Trump playbook for tackling unauthorized migration.
www.politico.eu

Scientists need to stop instigating unfounded panic about how supposedly “bad” Hell is.
Crossing climate tipping points "would lock the world into a new and hellish 'hothouse Earth' climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach."

Probably fine.
Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware
www.theguardian.com

It all makes perfect sense once one has consumed the right kind of mushrooms.

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So you thought you knew what the "B" in LGBT stood for
Crossing climate tipping points "would lock the world into a new and hellish 'hothouse Earth' climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach."

Probably fine.
Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware
www.theguardian.com

Dream on!
Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office

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Signed away my privacy forever as a 14 year old on Instagram in 2012 yet obsessively shred my physical mail as if it’s 1980 and I’m being monitored by Soviet spies
notice that in the video quoted here the person who said he is engaging in protest for the first time in his life says, with emotion, “that’s not who we are,” in reference to ICE terrorizing grade schoolers.

think about this person every time you see someone scolding someone else for saying that
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.

“The Right people voting, electing the Right leaders.”
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

Withering lows plumbed in review of Wuthering Heights.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/m...
‘Wuthering Heights’ Review: Margot Robbie, Amok on the Moors
www.nytimes.com
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where The Sun Goes At Night
Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night
After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.
www.theatlantic.com

We’ll need a third lane on Washington Metro escalators.

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Alexei Navalny died in a penal colony above the Arctic Circle on 16 Feb 2024, he was 47. His “symptoms are textbook” for epibatidine poisoning, a toxicologist confirmed The Insider. How exactly the samples were taken out of the country remains unclear

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NPR @npr.org · 1d
Nike's battery-powered footwear system, which propels wearers forward, is part of a broader push to help humans move farther and faster.
'E-bike for your feet': How bionic sneakers could change human mobility
Nike's battery-powered footwear system, which propels wearers forward, is part of a broader push to help humans move farther and faster.
n.pr
I’ve talked with two different people who’ve experienced this (and are aware of it)
ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say
www.nytimes.com

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Nature fact: Danger Coyotes are more dangerous
This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.

The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...
www.latimes.com
Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.
no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 1d
A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU