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Ben Ratskoff on Holocaust memorialization, immersive traumatization, and hyperreal antisemitism at the Nova Exhibition: thediasporist.de/schlock-and-...
Schlock and Awe – the Diasporist
Ben Ratskoff on the immersive traumatization at the Nova Exhibition
thediasporist.de
October 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Ben Ratskoff on Holocaust memorialization, immersive traumatization, and hyperreal antisemitism at the Nova Exhibition: thediasporist.de/schlock-and-...
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this is basically like the fabrication of Iraq WMD lies but instead of manufacturing a war it is a conspiracy to deport a completely random person
This whistleblower says he pressed Trump officials for evidence of Abrego Garcia's MS-13 ties. He refused to sign a brief that he said contained falsehoods. He was fired.
The whole case stinks from top to bottom in many other ways, too. Here's a rundown:
newrepublic.com/article/1977...
The whole case stinks from top to bottom in many other ways, too. Here's a rundown:
newrepublic.com/article/1977...
July 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
this is basically like the fabrication of Iraq WMD lies but instead of manufacturing a war it is a conspiracy to deport a completely random person
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"The new proposal faces a raft of hurdles: There is no developer in place for two of the locations, all of the sites require changes to current zoning rules and community leaders say the city had already pledged to preserve one of the sites for a new school." gothamist.com/news/inside-...
Inside the deal to kill housing at Elizabeth Street Garden
After a controversial deal to save the Elizabeth Street Garden, how long will it take to build new housing?
gothamist.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"The new proposal faces a raft of hurdles: There is no developer in place for two of the locations, all of the sites require changes to current zoning rules and community leaders say the city had already pledged to preserve one of the sites for a new school." gothamist.com/news/inside-...
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A certain type of guy is so allergic to coalition-building or taking a W that if anyone he deems uncool embraces his preferred candidate, it’s proof of something nefarious or insincere.
June 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A certain type of guy is so allergic to coalition-building or taking a W that if anyone he deems uncool embraces his preferred candidate, it’s proof of something nefarious or insincere.
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If you’re in line to make a stay in line joke, this is a New York City election and it’s “stay ON line”
June 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
If you’re in line to make a stay in line joke, this is a New York City election and it’s “stay ON line”
Um, based?
Huge: NY Gov. Kathy Hochul ordering the construction of at least 1 GW of nuclear power
Exclusive | New York to Build One of First U.S. Nuclear-Power Plants in Generation
Gov. Kathy Hochul has directed the state’s public electric utility to add at least 1 gigawatt of new nuclear-power production.
www.wsj.com
June 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Um, based?
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The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.
June 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.
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Really not looking forward to being told by an evaluation committee that I don’t need to travel to African archives, I just need an LLM to scrape the internet (which by then will be full of racist slop)
Everything is horrible about this, but my personal punctum is this little tidbit that isn’t even on the topic itself. A) the whole point of our profession is to sift through lots of material, that’s how you find topics and b) this is patently untrue, as any actual historian knows!
June 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Really not looking forward to being told by an evaluation committee that I don’t need to travel to African archives, I just need an LLM to scrape the internet (which by then will be full of racist slop)
Hell yeah Long Island
NEW: 12 masked armed men try to enter a homeless shelter without saying who they are. ICE agents park outside an elementary school, sparking fear and a car accident. Local police respond to a call about a possible assault, only to find ICE.
Inside one day on LI:
theintercept.com/2025/06/13/i...
Inside one day on LI:
theintercept.com/2025/06/13/i...
ICE Agent Fled From Angry Residents Outside New York School — and Got in a Car Crash
Masked and unidentified ICE agents lurking near schools sparked fear, confusion, and a car crash in Latino-heavy New York suburbs.
theintercept.com
June 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Hell yeah Long Island
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low key most evil part of the budget bill you may not have heard of is a new tax on remittances. which will raise like literally functionally no money for the states but will somehow at the same time manage to help starve several hundred thousand kids to death
June 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
low key most evil part of the budget bill you may not have heard of is a new tax on remittances. which will raise like literally functionally no money for the states but will somehow at the same time manage to help starve several hundred thousand kids to death
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It's worth remarking how much the conspiratorial fantasies Greenblatt is spinning about student protesters - part of a cabal of foreigners which connects every social movement to every other, loyal to foreign nations overseas - parallels the historic structure of conspiratorial antisemitism.
SCOOP w/@jacobkornbluh.bsky.social
"There is a through line from Occupy Wall Street to BLM to ‘defund the police’ to ‘River to the Sea,’” Greenblatt said of anti-Zionist protesters. "These are the same kind of nihilists."
forward.com/news/726133/...
"There is a through line from Occupy Wall Street to BLM to ‘defund the police’ to ‘River to the Sea,’” Greenblatt said of anti-Zionist protesters. "These are the same kind of nihilists."
forward.com/news/726133/...
Exclusive: ADL chief compares student protesters to ISIS and al-Qaeda in address to Republican officials
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, said the protesters were acting like members of ISIS and al-Qaeda.
forward.com
June 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It's worth remarking how much the conspiratorial fantasies Greenblatt is spinning about student protesters - part of a cabal of foreigners which connects every social movement to every other, loyal to foreign nations overseas - parallels the historic structure of conspiratorial antisemitism.
So embarrassing that the only historian-public figure in the US is Tim Snyder…
May 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
So embarrassing that the only historian-public figure in the US is Tim Snyder…
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Immigration court arrests are likely going to continue this week, with dozens of people around the country each day who were doing exactly what the government asked being arrested and thrown in detention and stripped of their right to a hearing because ICE wants to juice the numbers.
A Bronx high schooler showed up for a routine immigration court date. ICE was waiting.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/05/27/bronx-high-school-student-detained-by-immigration-ice-agents/
https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/05/27/bronx-high-school-student-detained-by-immigration-ice-agents/
A Bronx high schooler showed up for a routine immigration court date. ICE was waiting.
A NYC public school student’s arrest was part of a nationwide blitz of immigration authorities detaining migrants in courthouses in an effort to speed up deportations.
www.chalkbeat.org
May 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Immigration court arrests are likely going to continue this week, with dozens of people around the country each day who were doing exactly what the government asked being arrested and thrown in detention and stripped of their right to a hearing because ICE wants to juice the numbers.
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Two years after one of the deadliest shipwrecks in the Mediterranean and with all survivors' witness accounts describing how it was caused by the Greek coastguard, charges are being brought against 17 officials, incl the captain, crew, chief of coast guard and others www.bbc.com/news/article...
Greek coastguards charged over 2023 migrant shipwreck
Seventeen coastguards have been charged by a Greek naval court over the deadliest migrant boat disaster in the Mediterranean Sea for a decade.
www.bbc.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Two years after one of the deadliest shipwrecks in the Mediterranean and with all survivors' witness accounts describing how it was caused by the Greek coastguard, charges are being brought against 17 officials, incl the captain, crew, chief of coast guard and others www.bbc.com/news/article...
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We found DHS labeling LEGAL immigrants gang members for tattoos: roses, clocks, playing cards covering up a scar from a childhood accident, a Puerto Rican song lyric, the Real Madrid logo, a callout to Call Of Duty videogame, many crowns w/ loved ones’ names like these on Andry:
May 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We found DHS labeling LEGAL immigrants gang members for tattoos: roses, clocks, playing cards covering up a scar from a childhood accident, a Puerto Rican song lyric, the Real Madrid logo, a callout to Call Of Duty videogame, many crowns w/ loved ones’ names like these on Andry:
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Subtlety has never been a strength of mine. Juan Soto's heel turn.
May 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Subtlety has never been a strength of mine. Juan Soto's heel turn.
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my brain broke when i read a comment that people should listen to arabs who have direct experience with TSA/CBP/ICE rather than lawyers
it's like a rehash (read: gross misreading) of local knowledge/decolonial epistemologies, weaponized for the purpose of sabotaging people by making them act stupid
it's like a rehash (read: gross misreading) of local knowledge/decolonial epistemologies, weaponized for the purpose of sabotaging people by making them act stupid
May 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
my brain broke when i read a comment that people should listen to arabs who have direct experience with TSA/CBP/ICE rather than lawyers
it's like a rehash (read: gross misreading) of local knowledge/decolonial epistemologies, weaponized for the purpose of sabotaging people by making them act stupid
it's like a rehash (read: gross misreading) of local knowledge/decolonial epistemologies, weaponized for the purpose of sabotaging people by making them act stupid
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This is a great little fact that I will hold onto for as long as the R46's are still around.
In 1977, New York City changed its seal to designate 1625 as its official year of establishment. But in 2025, you can still ride subway trains that are so old the wallpaper has the pre-77 city seal listing 1664 as the year the city was born nygroove.nyc/the-one-plac...
The one place where New York City is still 361-years-old
Take a close look at the fading wallpaper on some subway trains and you can find a surprise.
nygroove.nyc
May 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This is a great little fact that I will hold onto for as long as the R46's are still around.
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The New York Post truly is the modern equivalent of Der Stürmer
May 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The New York Post truly is the modern equivalent of Der Stürmer
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We have to share a city and a country with a bunch of people who think it's funny to own the libs by cheering on an unjustifiable homicide. These people shouldn't be allowed to show their faces in public, let alone set dialogue for public policy.
May 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We have to share a city and a country with a bunch of people who think it's funny to own the libs by cheering on an unjustifiable homicide. These people shouldn't be allowed to show their faces in public, let alone set dialogue for public policy.
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Absolute monarchy recognizes America is a Burgerliche Gesellschaft.
As part of the red-carpet treatment, Saudi officials arranged for a fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit to accompany President Trump during his stay.
According to local reports, the unit was set up near the Saudi Royal Court.
According to local reports, the unit was set up near the Saudi Royal Court.
May 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Absolute monarchy recognizes America is a Burgerliche Gesellschaft.
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Fired a black person who was qualified, hired a white person with no qualifications whatsoever. The Trump administration in a nutshell bsky.app/profile/axio...
Trump naming Todd Blanche — the former defense attorney from his hush money trial — as acting Librarian of Congress
Trump naming his former defense attorney as acting Librarian of Congress
Todd Blanche already holds the number two position at the Justice Department.
www.axios.com
May 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Fired a black person who was qualified, hired a white person with no qualifications whatsoever. The Trump administration in a nutshell bsky.app/profile/axio...
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Super, sich über Definitionen zu streiten ohne mal zu schauen, wer sie eigentlich gerade wie anwendet. Akademischer Ringelpiez aber als Politik.
May 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Super, sich über Definitionen zu streiten ohne mal zu schauen, wer sie eigentlich gerade wie anwendet. Akademischer Ringelpiez aber als Politik.
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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."