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Michael Rothberg
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Memory, politics, critical theory, literature & sushi. At home in Berlin & Los Angeles. Author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization and The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators.
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The Trump administration is doing Holocaust revisionism, altering the historical record about the legal status of Jews under Nazism to avoid the possibility people might draw uncomfortable parallels to today. I wrote about it here: religiondispatches.org/2026/02/05/f...
The Ferocity of Responses to Tim Walz's Anne Frank/ICE Comments Are Revealing
When Minnesota Governor Tim Walz invoked Anne Frank while criticizing ICE deportations in his state, the backlash was immediate and fierce. Walz, who earned a master’s degree in Holocaust education, s...
religiondispatches.org
February 5, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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liam and his dad are home!

and someone please get rep. castro a coat!
rep omar, liam ramos and his dad, rep castro!
February 1, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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Must read from Fintan O'Toole in the NY Review of Books:
January 30, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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Massive anti-ICE demonstration at UCLA today. I'd estimate more than 2,000 people--overwhelmingly students of color. It was beautiful!
January 28, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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Massive anti-ICE demonstration at UCLA today. I'd estimate more than 2,000 people--overwhelmingly students of color. It was beautiful!
January 28, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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When will it be enough for you, @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ? When will you be moved? You should be standing in the streets of Minneapolis. You should be shouting from the rooftops. What a pathetic pair of cowards.
January 24, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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Yesterday, Minneapolis conducted a general strike against ICE.

Today, ICE responds by murdering someone in cold blood in the street.
January 24, 2026 at 4:06 PM
mrothberg.bsky.social
Very illuminating discussion!
danieldenvir.bsky.social Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 23d
Trump is clearly not the isolationist many believed he was. From the wreckage of bipartisan imperialist consensus, Trump's creating a new MAGA model empire. New Dig episode analyzing MAGA Empire and the history that made it with Aslı Bâli and Greg Grandin www.thedigradio.com/podcast/maga...
MAGA Empire w/ Aslı Bâli and Greg Grandin
Featuring Aslı Bâli and Greg Grandin on the MAGA model of US imperialism.
www.thedigradio.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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(We Don't This) Fascist Groove Thang
(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang (Remastered 2006)
YouTube video by Heaven 17 - Topic
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January 22, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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BREAKING — ChongLy Scott Thao's family has released a statement disputing DHS's outrageous justification for his arrest.

"He does not live with, nor has he ever lived with, the individuals DHS claims were targets of this operation...[the family] does not know the individuals DHS references."
January 19, 2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Family Statement Correcting DHS Claims – ChongLy Scott Thao The family of ChongLy Scott Thao categorically disputes the Department of Homeland Security’s public statement regarding the ICE operation conducted on January 18, 2026, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Mr. Thao is a United States citizen with no criminal record. He does not live with, nor has he ever lived with, the individuals DHS claims were targets of this operation. The only people residing at the home are Mr. Thao, his son, his daughter-in-law, and his young grandson. They do not know the individuals DHS references. ICE agents did not present a warrant, did not ask for identification, and nevertheless forcibly entered the home with weapons drawn. Mr. Thao went willingly with ICE, despite knowing he had done nothing wrong. During the operation, Mr. Thao was removed from his home wearing only underwear in approximately 12-degree weather, in full view of his family and neighbors. He suffers from severe psoriasis, a serious medical condition that is exacerbated by extreme cold and stress. This treatment was unnecessary, degrading, and deeply traumatizing. The family strongly objects to DHS’s attempt to publicly justify this conduct with false and misleading claims. These statements have caused additional harm to a family already struggling to recover from a terrifying and unjustified encounter. The family is actively pursuing legal representation and has filed complaints with the ACLU of Minnesota and the Office of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. Due to the ongoing legal process, no further comment will be made at this time. We ask the media to report responsibly and refrain from repeating inaccurate statements that place an innocent family at further risk. Louansee Moua Spokesperson ChongLy Scott Thao Family
January 19, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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Multidirectional resistance
joelhs.bsky.social Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 21d
Germany has Stolpersteine, "stumbling blocks," small plaques memorialize the locations where Jews were abducted during the Holocaust. Inspired by that project, Minnesotans have been making signs to mark the locations where ICE has abducted community members. www.npr.org/2026/01/13/n...
How Minnesota faith communities are resisting aggressive immigration operations
As immigration enforcement actions have ramped up in Minnesota, people of faith have been at the forefront of the response to ICE detentions and the killing of Renee Macklin Good by a federal agent.
www.npr.org
January 19, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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We will win because history and the majority of historian are on our side. The Palestinian Historians Group respond to the @historians.org latest veto

www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47115
We Refuse to be Silenced: The Palestinian Historians Group Responds to the AHA Council Vetoes
We, the Palestinian Historians Group, are outraged by the American Historical Association Council’s decision to veto two resolutions that members passed by 78 and 79 percent at the AHA Annual Business...
www.jadaliyya.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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Superb contextualization of all the bad things by Nikhil Singh.
Homeland Empire • EQUATOR
From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is trying to create a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity
www.equator.org
January 15, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Superb contextualization of all the bad things by Nikhil Singh.
Homeland Empire • EQUATOR
From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is trying to create a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity
www.equator.org
January 15, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Deborah Lipstadt didn’t wait until the suspect in the MS synagogue fire was arrested. She wanted to use the moment to blame protesters against genocide in Gaza. At his court appearance today, the suspect said “Jesus Christ is Lord” when read his rights by judge. Lipstadt is a shameless propagandist.
Tweet by Deborah Lipstadt on the fire that destroyed an historic synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi before the suspect was identified: “This is a major tragedy. But it’s more than that. It’s an arson attack and another step in the globalization of the intifada.”
January 13, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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If you’re in LA or NYC, go see it.
December 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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If you’re in LA or NYC, go see it.
December 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Pleased to support this open letter calling on the German state to commemorate and seriously engage with the history of colonialism.
December 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Pleased to support this open letter calling on the German state to commemorate and seriously engage with the history of colonialism.
December 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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„The Targeting of the Palestinian Academy“ sollte eine wissenschaftliche Konferenz an der @lmumuenchen.bsky.social heissen. Die Universität hat beschlossen, dieses Targeting selbst aktiv zu unterstützen. Ein Skandal. 1/
November 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Wait till you get to Volume II...
johncusack.bsky.social John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · Nov 18
This is so good …
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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The Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network invites you to an online panel: "Denying Genocide: Comparative Reflections from Armenia, Bosnia, the Holocaust, and Palestine."

Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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The Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network invites you to an online panel: "Denying Genocide: Comparative Reflections from Armenia, Bosnia, the Holocaust, and Palestine."

Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM