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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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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 11h
It is manifestly wrong to label Trump-regime officials as neo-fascists, given the utterly derivative nature of their fascism.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 14h
Rubio warns European leaders of danger of losing shared heritage of soporific clichés.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 14h
I’m starting to worry about the guardrails of idiocracy.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 14h
Robert Duvall, Chameleonlike Actor of Film, Stage and TV, Dies at 95 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...
Robert Duvall, Chameleonlike Actor of Film, Stage and TV, Dies at 95
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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 14h
To mark Lithuania’s Independence Day, we’re revisiting C. Westerhoff’s study on the Ober Ost "laboratory."

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1947...

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 14h
What do the words “moral” and “principle” mean?

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Janet Mills @janetmillsforme.bsky.social · 16h
Once again, Susan Collins has caved to Trump and is supporting efforts to rig the rules and silence voters.

Maine has one of the highest voter participation rates nationwide –– and as Senator, I'll fight like hell to protect your right to vote from attacks on our democracy.

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Victor Klemperer Journal @klempererjournal.bsky.social · 16h
16. Februar 1934

#VictorKlemperer #Tagebücher #NS #Nationalsozialismus
#Faschismus #Antisemitismus #Shoah #Holocaust #Antiintellektualismus #Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit #Medizin #Propaganda
16. Februar 1934 In der Fakultät sitzen jetzt Privatdozenten und Studentenschaft; Annemarie zeigte in ihrem medizinischen Fachblatt heftige Angriffe gegen die medizinischen Ordinarien zugunsten der Nichtordinarien (und Heilkundigen); Alledem liegt das gleiche System zugrunde: Man stützt sich auf diejenigen, die bisher sich zurückgesetzt fühlten, auf die (wirklich oder scheinbar) »Entrechteten«, auf die Hungrigen, auf die Masse der kleinen Leute. Früher hieß es in solchem Fall: Gegen die Großkopfeten oder gegen die Kapitalisten! Jetzt, viel zugkräftiger, gegen die Juden! English: February 16, 1934 Outside lecturers and the students now sit on the faculty; in her medical journal, Annemarie showed me fierce attacks on the professors of medicine and in favor of the non-professors and lay healers. It is all based on the same system: They look for support from those who until now felt themselves neglected, on those (really or seemingly) " without rights," on the hungry, on the mass of little people. In the past the word was: against the eggheads or against the capitalists! Now, much more appealingly, against the Jews!

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 16h
Mordor cosplaying as The Shire.
garethwatkins.bsky.social Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 18h
Fun fact: Palantir employees are known internally as 'Hobbits'. Western civilization is 'The Shire' and 'protect The Shire' is the unofficial company motto.
dommedeluise.bsky.social "soft wood" bitch mahogany™ @dommedeluise.bsky.social · 19h
EVERY PALANTIR BIGWIG: i am evil. this is an evil company with expressly evil goals.

EVERY PALANTIR EMPLOYEE: [eating the 24 dollar erowhon strawberry] anyone else get a weird feeling in the pit of their stomach when they go in to the office

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Selim Koru @selimkoru.bsky.social · 16h
Turkish state TV just aired a scene where an Ottoman prince slaughters Jewish merchants on screen while the Khaybar chant plays in the background. This is new territory — even for TRT. I wrote about what it means, and why almost nobody in Turkey noticed or cared.
The State as Edgelord
TRT's revenge fantasy and the audience that didn't show up
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 16h
I think we should take this as an opportunity to post more positive things about ICE, such as how positively disgusted we are by ICE’s wanton criminality.
jessicacalarco.com Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h
They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d
Posting about ICE on Instagram is now enough to get you an “administrative subpoena.” 👀

@nytimes.com #$META
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

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Jean (J.A.) @gibbensauthor.bsky.social · 17h
Why don't they simply clarify their intent: Have the person — any person — vote FIRST and then check their ballot. If they have voted REP, the vote is good and counts. If they have voted DEM, the vote is clearly compromised and the person should be investigated. Of course, THAT vote is invalid.

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Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · 17h
The Center for Research on Antisemitism (ZfA) at TU Berlin is calling for applications for the Eva Reichmann Book Prize, to be awarded for the first time in 2026 to an outstanding book in the fields of Antisemitism Studies or Holocaust Studies:

www.tu.berlin/en/asf/resea...

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 18h
Fun fact: Palantir employees are known internally as 'Hobbits'. Western civilization is 'The Shire' and 'protect The Shire' is the unofficial company motto.
dommedeluise.bsky.social "soft wood" bitch mahogany™ @dommedeluise.bsky.social · 19h
EVERY PALANTIR BIGWIG: i am evil. this is an evil company with expressly evil goals.

EVERY PALANTIR EMPLOYEE: [eating the 24 dollar erowhon strawberry] anyone else get a weird feeling in the pit of their stomach when they go in to the office
goldstein.bsky.social Capybaron Goldstein @goldstein.bsky.social · Jan 6
Palantir co-founder says it exists to kill communists.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h
They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d
Posting about ICE on Instagram is now enough to get you an “administrative subpoena.” 👀

@nytimes.com #$META
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 19h
Very!

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 19h
Happy Not-This-President’s Day, everybody!

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 19h
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Producer of hit Israeli TV show 'Tehran' found dead in Athens hotel
Greek Media Reported That Suspicious Bruising Was Found on Dana Eden's Body, Prompting Authorities to Examine a Possible Murder. Eden's Production Company Published a Statement Saying That 'Rumors Sug...
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 19h
If AI is now in charge of writing, it’s time to fire the now-redundant editor.
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20h
A conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories.

Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”

You can’t make this shit up.

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By Chris Quinn, Editor, cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer A college student withdrew from consideration for a reporting role in our newsroom this week because of how we use artificial intelligence. It reminded me again how college journalism programs are failing to prepare students for the workforce. I mentioned this in a column before, and readers asked me to explain

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20h
A conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories.

Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”

You can’t make this shit up.

www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
By Chris Quinn, Editor, cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer A college student withdrew from consideration for a reporting role in our newsroom this week because of how we use artificial intelligence. It reminded me again how college journalism programs are failing to prepare students for the workforce. I mentioned this in a column before, and readers asked me to explain

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 20h
"Only you can prevent Tyranny"
Poster spotted in Washington DC

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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦🍁 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 1d
Oh MAGA. You realized you can't find your birth certificates?
Oops!
Careful about what you hope for.
What you VOTE for.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
Status update: it slid off.
avielroshwald.bsky.social Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
It’s not like American democracy is going to slide off the edge or anything.
Photo of ice sheet about to slide off house roof.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
If the rule of law is cultural software, it may be time for a reboot.

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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 1d
I’m a minimalist, even though I know that minimalism is just a plot by big small to sell more less

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
It’s not like American democracy is going to slide off the edge or anything.
Photo of ice sheet about to slide off house roof.

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 1d
Now in #paperback, The Price of Collapse by Timothy Brook provides an entirely new approach to the economic and social history of China, exploring how global climate crisis spelled the end of Ming rule.

Out now! Read a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

#History #MingDynasty
The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China by Timothy Brook. How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history’s mighty empires.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
The great majority of Americans no longer have to carry the burden of sustaining the consumer economy, that task having been outsourced to a dozen or so billionaires.
gabrielzucman.bsky.social Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 1d
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
Updates are underway. Please leave your political options open.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
I have finally fallen behind the times. No clear notion what this even is. I look forward to staying behind the times indefinitely.
timkellogg.me Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 1d
Token Anxiety

i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
Token Anxiety Nikunj Kothari C @nikunj • Feb 13 A friend left a party at 9:30 on a Saturday. Not tired. Not sick. He wanted to get back to his agents. Nobody questions it anymore. Half the room is thinking the same thing. The other half are probably checking the progress of their agents. At a party. All the parties are sober now. Young people don't drink because they're going back to work after. Not inspired by Bryan Johnson, although that's probably a factor. The buzz they want now runs on tokens per day. I keep noticing it on walks through the Mission. Laptops glowing everywhere. Cafes, sidewalks, heck even park benches. People walking with screens open like a flashlight guiding them somewhere. Less drunk laughter on the streets these days. More keystrokes. Dinner conversations used to start with "what are you building?" That's over. Now it's "how many agents do you have running?" People drop the number the way they used to drop their follower count. Quietly competitive. The flex isn't what you've accomplished anymore. It's what's working while you're sitting here not working. The vocabulary is what really gets me though. People describe models the way sommeliers describe wine. This one has better taste. That one hallucinates with more confidence. Opus is bold, Codex is smooth. They talk about harnesses and reins like they're controlling horses. Invisible whips directing invisible labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep "Claude on a tight leash for code review but give it more slack for creative work." We've started borrowing the language of how we treat animals for something none of us actually understand yet. Waking up and checking what your agents produced overnight is the first thing now. Before coffee. Before texts. You open your laptop and grade homework you assigned in your sleep. Some of it is good. Most needs rework. But you start shipping a plan before you sleep just so you can wake up to more code written overnight. Saturdays became uninterrupted build windows. No meetings, no Slack, twelve hours of you and your agents. Sunday morning X is all terminal screenshots and shipping receipts. "What'd you ship this weekend?" replaced "what'd you do this weekend?" The anxiety is rational, which is why it sticks. Every week some new benchmark drops that makes last month's workflow feel prehistoric. Codex ships overnight processing. Opus gets faster. Context windows double. None of it reduces the pressure. It multiplies it. You can do more now. And someone already is. The window to be first at anything feels like it's shrinking by the day. Literally, by the day. I replaced Netflix with Claude Code. I lie in bed thinking about what I can spin up before I fall asleep, what can run while I'm unconscious. Reading a novel feels indulgent now. Watching a movie without a laptop open feels wasteful. This voice in my head that says "something could be running right now" just doesn't shut off. I'm not even building a company. I'm just addicted to building my random ideas. Everyone here knows they should step away more. That's not the problem. The problem is what your brain does when you try. I still take a x ss walks. The agents come with me now.