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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) https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Occupied-by-Aviel-Roshwald/9781108790826
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We must immediately establish a new Department of Handbag Security to ensure the safety of the Secretary of Homeland Security’s belongings.

C'mon PETA, take credit. Now's your moment.

Cabinet member in charge of keeping the “homeland” safe fails to secure her own handbag after stuffing it with $3000 in cash. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

HEY KID YOU WANT TO BE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

Sending this post back in time 20 years as an inscrutably cryptic warning.

I hope she's not a crab. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...

BREAKING NEWS: The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

Of only he had lived to complete the exorcism on Vance. Farewell to the first environmentalist Pope, a good man who did his best.

Everything J. D. Vance touches, dies.

J. D. Vance’s latest accomplishment. www.cnn.com/webview/worl...

ONE IF BY LAND TWO IF BY D.C. the north end church in boston it’s 250 years today @northendpage.bsky.social

So who will replace Headset as Secretary of Defense?

@maddow.msnbc.com My dad is 98, WWII USNavy Veteran. Showed up for democracy in San Diego today. "I fought for it once, I'll fight for it again!" 💙🇺🇸💙 THIS is what democracy looks like!!!!

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I love this statement because you can read it two ways and both are 100% true.

My _9YO_ kept secret the news I was going to be on Jeopardy and how I did for over 4 months from her closest friends, which was hardly a top-secret matter of national security. How betrayed must all the troops risking their lives feel right now -& all those who passed rigorous security clearances.

This is not the behavior of people confident that their fascist dreams are inevitable. Keep fighting. We won't win them all, but it's working. www.salon.com/2025/04/20/g...

They want to incriminate Headsmash for being a good family man!

Roanoke College in Virgina recently dedicated a sculpture on its campus to memorialize the school's ties to slavery. Roanoke's study of its history is impressive and sobering, and much of the research was conducted by students. Great work & not easy at this moment. www.roanoke.edu/news/authors...

1/2 We know Trump's view on immigrants. What does God think? "You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God." - Leviticus 19.34

“American Extortionist” Japan opposition lawmaker Shinji Oguma voiced sharp criticism of Trump tariffs, warning against capitulation to what he referred to as 'American extortion. Japanese with English subtitles youtu.be/EIao2kkB7Gg?... English Dubbed Version www.facebook.com/reel/2001801...

I aspire to one day live under a government that just ransacks the country without gratuitously persecuting people.

Alito thought he could slo-mo his dissent to get these folks in the air and on to a torture prison.

New State Department hiring guidelines will eliminate discrimination against spineless ignoramuses.

At Easter, just like Festivus, it is The Airing Of The Grievances which is the most special part of the festival.

Van Hollen gives the finger to Newsom’s finger in the wind.

A person told me they changed their research agenda because of conservative threats on certain subjects. I wrinkled my nose, because I’ll be damned if I’m going to be scared away from doing my research because some white folks don’t like it.

I've been researching and writing about Black German history for decades now. I didn't enter the field because it was popular. I won't stop discussing race, racism, sexism, homophobia and all the other discriminatory practices in Germany and beyond. They can kiss my grits.

The beauty of the arrest quota, as Stalin figured out during the Great Purge, is that it empowers the secret police to first arrest people arbitrarily, then retroactively concoct some random justification for it.

The quota system was a great incentive for the Soviet secret police during Stalin’s Great Purge.

Just as during the Vietnam War, when many American families, including that of the urbanist Jane Jacobs, flocked north, today the continent’s fourth-largest city is welcoming disaffected U.S. academics and scientists. @airmail.news airmail.news/issues/2025-...

King Charles should use the occasion of Trump’s visit to annul the Treaty of Paris and detain him as an insurrectionist.

July 4 this year might be a good occasion to declare independence from all this crap.

Mina expects better of America.

There are some bright spots in the latest season of Veep.

To be ill is to be a subversive. To be a sociopath is to be a patriot.

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

The dead are coming back to life under this messianic presidency!

What if we had a national strike on May 1st?

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.