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Aviel Roshwald

@avielroshwald.bsky.social
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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) blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/O…

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The Verge @theverge.com · 3h
Larry Ellison’s TikTok has shut down the promotional account for Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary. www.theverge.com/tech/1013453...
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TikTok bans Musk documentary account
Larry Ellison’s TikTok has shut down the promotional account for Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary.
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Thomas Cheney @thomascheney.bsky.social · 4h
The US is a rogue state and should be treated as such
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4h
Don't know what happened with the No Kings account, but it's clear what's happening here. Assume the worst when something happens on a fascist-owned app or website.
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Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social · 4h
This was a fun lecture! Check it out if you want my take on the environmental history (#EnvHist) of the Moon.
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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 23h
“Do you think you are being treated as a scapegoat for his own problems?” Zelenskiy took a long pause, glanced at the papers on his podium, and then looked up, smiling. The whole room laughed. “This is my answer,” Zelenskiy said. --------- Trump made his big play and he's still a laughing stock.
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Zelenskiy Smiles as Entire EU Summit Laughs at Trump
All of Europe knows why Donald Trump is really attacking Ukraine and its president.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
So now she’ll be a lawyer? www.cnn.com/2026/10/16/p...
cnn.com
Trump fires Katie Zacharia as White House press secretary after five days, advisers say | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump has fired Katie Zacharia as press secretary, advisers to the president said, ending her turbulent week-long stint as the White House’s top spokesperson.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
I do love that passage in Herodotus where the Spartans mass for battle as the Persians try to win them over with a candlelit dinner.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
I cannot say enough how much making a gotcha point about the president "not actually dropping a nuclear bomb" is counterproductive to the goal of him *not actually dropping a nuclear bomb.*
Headquarters &
@HQNewsNow•17m
Trump says he wants to drop the Mother of AIl Bombs on Iran, and describes it as "a tiny nuclear bomb"
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FINNERTY EXCLUSIVE
ADDRESSES THE STATE OF IRAN WAR
NETANYAHU, RUBIO DISCUSS IRAN AS ISRAEL WEIGHS MILITARY ACTION
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
As someone with a poor sense of direction, I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve invaded the wrong country by accident.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“The Voice,” but with contestants declaiming historiographical essays.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Breaking: Country grapples with historical reckoning as it comes to grips with generational challenge of navigating past inflection point.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I recently hung out at a bar in the U.S.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It has been confirmed that Zacharia has been to a bar. Trump’s New Press Secretary: Not-Quite Attorney at Law www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/u...
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Katie Zacharia Is Trump’s New Press Secretary. But Is She a Lawyer? (Gift Article)
Katie Zacharia told The New York Times that the confusion over her legal credentials was the result of one big misunderstanding.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/10/14/s...
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World’s oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey | CNN
Archaeologists working off the coast of Turkey have found a shipwreck dating back around 4,700 years, making it the oldest in the world.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Word on the street is that Katie Zacharia will be booted out no later than Friday evening.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
NEW: I wrote about why so many people wanted to believe that Ukrainian airstrikes on a Russian data center reduced troll and bot activity online, even though it's almost certainly not true. Featuring @noupside.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Drone strikes didn't take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe It
A viral rumor illustrates people’s hunger to make sense of the division we see online.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Global idiocy supplies remain unaffected by Hormuz/Bab el-Mandeb closures, reports indicate.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The current consensus among historians is that, if it hadn’t been for history, the multinational empires of pre-1914 Europe and the Middle East could have lasted forever.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Claude brownies are the new pot brownies.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
We should have stopped this at Flying Toasters.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Voices-in-your-head diplomacy is so much more efficient than shuttle diplomacy. “Well, they agreed. You know why? Because I said, ‘You agreed.’ That’s why,’ he told reporters as he left the White House for a rally in Youngstown, Ohio.” www.cnn.com/2026/10/11/p...
cnn.com
Trump suggests Russia and Ukraine did not agree to his ‘energy ceasefire’ before he announced it | CNN Politics
US President Donald Trump expressed irritation with Russia and Ukraine a day after he announced a so-called “energy ceasefire,” which appeared to take both countries by surprise.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m always impressed when an official fails to meet this administration’s standards for public ethics. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump and Rubio weigh firing Kimberly Guilfoyle after reports of improper conduct
Senior official says president and US secretary of state are ‘extremely pissed off’ by conduct of US envoy to Greece
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
i think now would be a good time for prominent voices in the U.S. to say that they stand with Somali people in this country.
Donald J. Trump
@reaDonald Trump
The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants.
There is Violence, Murder, and Mayhem all over the State. The people of Minnesota must fight back. You have been robbed, and abandoned by your State Government. Your Governor is an incompetent thief who doesn't want to get involved. He just wants to get out of town with as much as he can steal, and then, lead a quiet life. The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back! If you need, the Federal Government will come to your
rescue.
Governor Tim Walz, and Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, must
immediately ask for Federal help - and leave the rest to us! President DONALD J.
TRUMP
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I wonder how many people with land acknowledgments in their signatures would be prepared to donate their property.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If I had eyebrows like that, I wouldn’t need any further qualifications either.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It’s the eyebrows.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My faith in our Leader has been rattled.
News story about Trump wearing a cheaper brand of suit than he claims he always wears.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Chances of the inevitable happening remain uncertain.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Re Ilhan Omar Worth your time: Oct 1992 letter from Republican US Attorney on an investigatory step before election: "[I]t amounts to prosecutorial misconduct and violates the most basic fundamental rule of Department of Justice policy. I cannot be a party to such actions."
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"An armed, non-state actor controls a major international waterway,” @alishihabi.bsky.social said, referring to Bab al-Mandab. “It is inconceivable that the U.S. would have allowed this to happen in the past.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...
washingtonpost.com
12 killed, hundreds injured in Saudi Arabia airport attack as Houthi strikes intensify
An attack Saturday on the airport left several injured and forced the kingdom to temporarily suspend operations.
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Voice4Justice @voices4justice.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Brigadier General (Res.) Yoel Feldschuh, former head of the Intelligence Directorate of the Israeli Air Force and a senior fighter pilot was arrested a short time ago by police officers from the West Bank 🧵
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Excellent point.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So she’s highly qualified for this position.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
PSA: Remember to always be very very nice to Donald and to Claude. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...
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ICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEO
Surveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If we’re not nice to Claude, it could go all misanthropic on us.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Difficult to say which sociopathic entity has the more fragile ego: Donald Trump or (Mis)Anthropic Claude.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This administration is giving gutter politics a bad name.
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Martin Reich @martinreich.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
lol
Hundreds of Thousands of Prominent Trump Allies Reported Missing After Ukrainian Strike on Russian Data Center
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
That, ironically enough, was the defining trait of the Bolsheviks, who were named after their faith in the power of bullshit.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Historical Tidbit of the Day: The Mensheviks were so called because they believed in the importance of being a mensh. 
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
More Videos of the Russian data center in the Vladimir region are coming in. They show the moment of one of the impacts. Yandex has officially acknowledged that the data center ceased all operations.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/10/2026
After leaving tanker, oil from Exxon Valdez devastates Alaskan coastline on its own, killing over 250,000 seabirds.
Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ruin a book by adding a word: For Whom the Cow Bell Tolls
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ruin a book by adding a word: Navigating a Sentimental Journey
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ruin a book by adding a word: Maybe Moby Dick
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ruin a book by adding a word: War and/or Peace
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ruin a book by adding a word: Super Great Expectations
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Deep down, he knows he’s an idiot followed blindly by other idiots.
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