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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 · 6h
What is fueling your skepticism?

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 6h
So to speak!

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 11h
This should still enhance AI’s ability to make consistently evil choices.

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 11h
My new record comes out Friday! You can download it or buy a CD on Bandcamp - all my released stuff is there.

But for the first time, this record will also be on....vinyl! Yes, due to the magic of on-demand vinyl, you could spin the black circle for my indiefolk album elasticstage.com/michaelmunnik
A bearded bespectacled man in a striped green, cream, and butterscotch striped jumper grins while holding a fuchsia 45 album sleeve called If Words Could Mend a Heart by Michael Munnik. He sta as before a piano in a teal painted room, on top.of which is a record turntable and a lamp.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 14h
I don’t understand the technical details, but basically, 1984 is here.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 15h
I feel there should have been more Yiddish at the Superbowl halftime show.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 15h
Such a Pavlovian response from the Right.
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16h
Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin
Illegal aliens and Latin hookers twerking at the SuperBowl. Not a single white person or English translation at the Super Bowl. This isn’t White enough for me. Cant even watch a Super Bowl anymore because immigrants have literally ruined everything.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 15h
"TikTok’s Terms of Service now explicitly include tracking of location and citizenship status (among other identity markers, such as sex)." newrepublic.com/article/2059...
How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE
In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.
newrepublic.com

Reposted by Shibley Telhami, Marc Lynch, Aviel Roshwald

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 15h
Annexation.

Israeli security cabinet expands powers in occupied West Bank in move that finance minister says will “fundamentally change the legal and civil reality” there. He said the govt was “burying the idea of ​​a Palestinian state”

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Israeli security cabinet expands powers in occupied West Bank
Ultranationalist finance minister says measures intended to bury ‘idea of a Palestinian state’
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16h
Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin
Illegal aliens and Latin hookers twerking at the SuperBowl. Not a single white person or English translation at the Super Bowl. This isn’t White enough for me. Cant even watch a Super Bowl anymore because immigrants have literally ruined everything.

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Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · 19h
Republicans getting destroyed by a bunny at halftime
Monty Python's rabbit of caerbannog scene as knights flee from the deadly rabbit

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d
Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/
Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
Preliminary reports suggest the entire Trump team just spontaneously combusted. #BadBunny

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 1d
This is the most incredible #SuperBowl halftime show that I have ever seen. Bad Bunny’s celebration of Latin American culture is just the statement of defiance against the Trump administration and xenophobia that this country needed. Thank you.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
Soup or bowl is a false choice.

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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 1d
Book in the wild! Book in the wild!
@adamrothman.bsky.social's SLAVE COUNTRY at Arlington's Central Library!
Adam Rothman's "Slave Country" (Harvard UP, 2005), on a book stand at Arlington, Virginia's Central Library display for Black History Month

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
If I were a religious person, I would not interpret the raining down upon us of giant blocks of ice as a sign of God’s favor.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d
Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:

Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down

Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged

Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
Trump’s tightening stranglehold over mass-media journalism is becoming more palpable by the week.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
Marc Bloch to be inducted into French Panthéon. 🗃️

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gregjenner.bsky.social Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 1d
This is rather special. Marc Bloch was a titan of modern historiography, and a big influence on me as a young history student. He was a brilliant French medievalist murdered by the Gestapo for both his Jewishness and his contribution to French resistance, but they couldn’t kill his work
lemonde.fr Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 1d
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 1d
This is rather special. Marc Bloch was a titan of modern historiography, and a big influence on me as a young history student. He was a brilliant French medievalist murdered by the Gestapo for both his Jewishness and his contribution to French resistance, but they couldn’t kill his work

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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 1d
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
La date du 16 juin avait été dans un premier temps pressentie pour son entrée au Panthéon, mais la cérémonie a dû être décalée de quelques jours en raison du G7 à Evian-les-Bains.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
It breaks my heart, but it’s a fake heart from Walmart, and upgraded replacement models are on sale this weekend.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Gonzales on Liam Ramos and his family: "They're not gonna qualify for asylum. So what do you do with all the people that go through the process and do not qualify for asylum? You deport them. I understand that 5-year-old and it breaks my heart. I also think, what about that 5-year-old US citizen?"

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
The reason elections should be nationalized is so that tyranny can be rationalized.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d
My contribution to Super Bowl Sunday is this Jewish Aramaic incantation bowl with a demon on it. From Nippur, Mesopotamia, circa 6th-7th century CE.

Truly a super bowl.
Incantation bowl with an Aramaic inscription around a demon. From Nippur, Mesopotamia 6th–7th ce

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Gonzales on Liam Ramos and his family: "They're not gonna qualify for asylum. So what do you do with all the people that go through the process and do not qualify for asylum? You deport them. I understand that 5-year-old and it breaks my heart. I also think, what about that 5-year-old US citizen?"

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 2d
“It’s cold here all the time and the food is poor. For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.”

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Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 2d
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need a lot more of this.

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Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
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