History Professor. Comparative study of nationalism. Latest book—Occupied: European and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937-1945 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2023) https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Occupied-by-Aviel-Roshwald/9781108790826
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"All that stuff about a True Volk and out-of-touch-elites; I think a lot of the centrist crowd actually believe of themselves that they are elites, who are out of touch, who are somehow less Real than others." sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/07/comp...
Yeah, well this is the 21st century, and we have no law.
Call me old-fashioned but wouldn’t a Reader’s Digest version do the trick (alt. a log-line per chapter)? (H/t @avielroshwald.bsky.social)
Private Intelligence Corporate Kickbacks Law Enforcement Blinds All Lovers of Liberty
These lame weasel words seem designed to avoid saying the obvious: This wannabe dictator has been gleefully shredding the Constitution; he is Framers’ worst nightmare and the sort of autocratic figure “conservatives” used to denounce open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Calling a spade a spade is just not done in polite society.
With AI as God, no need for Bible.
White House says 2pm announcement is DoD related, now this.
My eyes have been opened. It’s the pickleball conspiracy that lies behind all the other conspiracies assailing us. How Pickleball Took Over Thousands of Tennis Courts, as Seen From the Sky www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Maduro accuses Trump administration of pursuing regime change amid US naval buildup in the Caribbean
If only!
All the money extorted from Ivy League schools to fund a refounded Trump University.
No honor among skeeves.
Or Benny Hill, perhaps.
The message will be read on Trump’s behalf by the animatronic Abraham Lincoln from Disneyland.
Vance more anti-Ukraine?
Right. It was a social-media post.
And the MSM will ask nothing, do nothing, and move right along. And for get about even conjecture on their part.
My guess is that journalists fear that asking too many questions will cost them White House access (which begs the question: what’s the point of having access if you can’t ask substantive questions?).
Everything is JUST FINE OVER AT THE WHITE HOUSE!!! What additional proof could you possibly ask for beyond the ALL-CAPS?
“Weekend at Donald’s”. We’re living in a horror simulation based on a shitty comedy.
Reagan had polyps removed & the entire nation got detailed explainers & knew when he went under/came to In 2025, media owners/execs think covering Trump’s health crisis would be bad for them politically & are shielding him **Every US reporter** is sticking with their owners over doing journalism
A mere one year ago, this was The Central Issue Of Our Political Age. It's not even news in today's papers.
New book review: Degroot on Sokolsky, Pierre: _Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star, The_. Columbia University Press, 2024. Published by H-Environment. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20123939
He’s clearly being shielded from significant public exposure while he recuperates from something, degenerates from something, or both.
Trump signs executive order requiring all Americans to prostrate themselves in the direction of the White House every morning.
⚡️ Update: EU confirms von der Leyen’s plane hit by GPS jamming, Russian involvement suspected. "We can confirm there was GPS jamming," European Commission spokesperson Arianna Podesta told the media, adding that Bulgaria suspects Russia to be behind the “blatant interference.”
RFK Jr aims to ban the mRNA vaccine developed under what is now seen as Trump’s woke first administration.
wow
Will Trump be parachuting into Caracas at the head of our forces?
He’s exhausted after spending the day trying to fake photographic evidence of having played golf yesterday.
Spike Milligan's headstone reads "I told you I was ill" in Gaelic, because the church wouldn't approve it in English.
I can’t think of a more fitting epitaph than “NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE.”
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
I wish I could master such concision.
Lots of William Gladstone “rescuing women” vibes
The spokesperson insisted that the accident had absolutely nothing to do with the previous incident which featured so prominently in the press release.
This month spoke w the ambassador of a longtime close US allied country. The indignities, damage, and "the cruelty is the point" (tm A Serwer) that this allied country has been put through would defy belief, except that we see counterparts every day in ICE / MAGA news. Just for the record.
Get well, Mr. Mayor. Whoever did this is dethpicable.
Rudy Giuliani was in a car crash “after helping a domestic violence victim.” This is also right after he saved a boy from a burning house and on his way to perform open heart surgery on a stricken golden retriever. He was taken to Four Seasons Total Hospital to treat minor injuries.
White House denies Trump had any involvement in that Giuliani thing.
So Giuliani is now a Quixotic knight errant, roaming the country in search of people he can rescue from harm?
It was a series of unfortunate events.
The city is now sharing know your rights info and other resources here: bit.ly/fafochicago
˙ Bis zu 450.000 Polen haben im Zweiten Weltkrieg in der deutschen Wehrmacht gedient. Lange galten sie als Landesverräter – doch die historische Wahrheit ist komplizierter. Das zeigt eine Ausstellung in Danzig. Von Jacek Lepiarz für die Deutsche Welle. . www.dw.com/de/polen-die...
Back in Rome ready for the first day of the new term tomorrow In the late 40s my Nonna went to Uruguay for a few years & was engaged to a man out there She came back to Italy to say her goodbyes & collect her possessions. But when she stepped off the boat in Genova,
Trump to award honorary U.S. citizenship to that guy who stole a tennis-star-gifted hat from a kid on TV.
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
In 2024 Sen. Merkley & I visited the Rafah gate on the Egypt-Gaza border. On the other side was Gaza’s thriving city of Rafah—home to 270K. Today we saw it reduced to rubble. The Netanyahu govt has gone beyond targeting Hamas to waging a war of destruction against all Palestinians. It must end.
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
Meanwhile, Homeland Security to be rebranded as Department of War on America.
Think about it: Without war, there would be no way for peace to break out.
A fair point. Very fair indeed.
The Constitution is so complicated that, implicitly, it is meant to be tossed aside at the President’s convenience.
Filiu is correct. If encourage everyone to preorder his forthcoming book, ‘A Historian in Gaza’ “The Islamist movement, instead of prioritizing the integrity of the Palestinian people, repeatedly provides Israel with pretexts to devastate the Gaza Strip” No paywall: archive.md/2025.08.31-1...
I don’t see what the problem is. I understand they had a guy called A. R. Yan pose for this image, and I think it came out quite nicely.
I nominate the Cracker Barrel man.
Every authoritarian regime that embraced this aesthetic inflicted violence and chaos on its society
I don’t see what the problem is. I understand they had a guy called A. R. Yan pose for this image, and I think it came out quite nicely.
Just a joke, of course. In real life, the other two branches have already abolished themselves.
#NewMexico Department of #publicheath issues an order directing pharmacies to still give #Covid #vaccine despite new federal restrictions “order that removes those limitations so that pharmacies can vaccinate people of all ages, including children under 6 months old” www.koat.com/article/stat...
Trump issues executive order abolishing the other branches of government.
Greetings! I’m here at Metro Detention Centee, the site of a 24/7 protest in Los Angeles. Just got here, a dispersal order is being announced via loudspeaker by DHS.
I got arrested yesterday! (real drop off from being a corporate law firm associate five months ago. or upgrade.) I was blocking vehicles leaving from ICE’s Broadview, IL, staging ground and de facto detention center at 1930 Beach St. full statement (for now) below.
As our neighbors vanish daily, this serves as a meaningful way to honor them and highlight the extent of this issue throughout the city’s
The only scientific thing about this statement is that it is falsifiable.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
The US Holocaust Museum is planning to "upgrade" its exhibit on the US response to Nazi Germany, and staff are concerned the Trump administration wants to downplay the extent to which the Immigration Act of 1924 doomed more European Jews to die. abcnews.go.com/US/upcoming-...
After a fresh infusion of formaldehyde, our President is as good as new this weekend.
Business ethics for the win!
Mysterious Pre-Islamic Arabian Script Deciphered www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/archae...
The overlap between the astrology world and Trump world are coming into public view. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I still want to see him swim the Potomac, Mao-style.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/m...
The Age of Treason
The Uncivil War
So many netizens tonight seem to be indulging in the kind of hopeful flights of fancy typically reserved for kids on Xmas Eve. It’s all silly, of course. But seeing the joy it brings warms the heart. We haven’t lost the capacity to dream.
Deconstruction.
The Great Regression
It was a joke.
I think it’s just that he hasn’t been seen by the press pool in a couple of days.
If Trump is actually ill, I truly hope that he's getting the best medical attention that RFK Jr. can offer.
find you someone who looks at you the way the burnt piece of bacon looks at the shriveled Cheeto
Parody is dead, you know.
Parody is definitely dead.
A resonant echo of the famous September 1939 headline: “How the Hitler-Stalin Alliance Is Pushing the Boundaries of Poland.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
How is it possible that the Trump regime has yet to create a Department of Astrological Science?
Health officials under JB Pritzker, who is showing how to take on Trump, are moving forward. They're exploring buying vaccines in bulk themselves. Mass. Gov Maura Healey is in talks with multiple other states about coordinating purchasing of pediatric vaccines. newrepublic.com/article/1998...
1/ This week, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer demanded that the Wikimedia Foundation hand over information on editorial policies & individual contributors to help the committee investigate "propaganda" on Wikipedia. These demands are offensive to 1st Amendment values
We could call it a Constitution.
US builds up forces in Caribbean as officials, experts, ask why reut.rs/424dRev
Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa states openly that with the assistance of other NATO intelligence services, Portugal has concluded that Trump is a Russian asset under the operative control of Putin. pt.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
93 Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners from across the city have written a joint letter opposing Trump's takeover: "This takeover is a direct attack on the freedom and independence every community deserves." 51st.news/opinion-a-jo...
Campuswide power outage closes libraries, limits service at UMD College Park
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
this is misinformation & should be taken down, as it could deter folks from seeking vaccination. in short, it depends on the state whether you need a prescription for off-label vaccination — in many cases, you may not need one. here is much better vaccine info @ YLE: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Final #empireworld event. With @ahirshah.bsky.social
What’s with Trump’s sudden compulsion to seize train stations? Has this something to do with the old line about Mussolini’s having supposedly made the trains run on time?
In what some critics are characterizing as a break from traditional norms, the Trump Administration is embracing rabid fascism.