Michael Rothberg

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A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

On Time and Its Discontents--a virtual panel discussion on Thursday, March 5 at 4pm US Eastern.

Looking forward to this virtual discussion on "Time and Its Discontents" next week with Nitzan Lebovic, Carolyn Biltoft, and Ethan Kleinberg (moderated by Shellen Wu).

Open Letter of Scholars in Support of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

Open Letter by over 1000 scholars in support of Francesca Albanese and her commitment to international law, universal human rights and legal accountability

In the absence of accountability, justice becomes unattainable.

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Justice Department Sues University of California Over Antisemitism

Well, the DOJ has done it: they have filed a lawsuit against the University of California over antisemitism.

The complaint contains some falsehoods. But as someone who teaches and writes about Title VII, I'm equally struck by what the complaint doesn't say.

A few thoughts— 🧵

This is the key point

Worth reading the whole thread...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

The Ferocity of Responses to Tim Walz's Anne Frank/ICE Comments Are Revealing When Minnesota Governor Tim Walz invoked Anne Frank while criticizing ICE deportations in his state, the backlash was immediate and fierce. Walz, who earned a master’s degree in Holocaust education, s...

The Trump administration is doing Holocaust revisionism, altering the historical record about the legal status of Jews under Nazism to avoid the possibility people might draw uncomfortable parallels to today. I wrote about it here: religiondispatches.org/2026/02/05/f...

For sure, and for sure.

*finishing, obvs

Great piece, David. I'm finish a book on Holocaust comparisons that is very much in the spirit of what you and @emilyctamkin.bsky.social are arguing here.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

I'm guessing the other 75% don't necessarily support a single democratic state with equal rights for all?

rep omar, liam ramos and his dad, rep castro!

liam and his dad are home!

and someone please get rep. castro a coat!

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Must read from Fintan O'Toole in the NY Review of Books:

It was huuuuge!

Massive anti-ICE demonstration at UCLA today. I'd estimate more than 2,000 people--overwhelmingly students of color. It was beautiful!

@canaciksoz.bsky.social

Massive anti-ICE demonstration at UCLA today. I'd estimate more than 2,000 people--overwhelmingly students of color. It was beautiful!

Perennial suffering has as much right to expression as a tortured man has to scream; hence it may have been wrong to say that after Melania you could no longer make documentaries. But it is not wrong to raise the less cultural question whether after Melania you can go on living.

There's a future for us! ;)

"untrained"

When will it be enough for you, @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ? When will you be moved? You should be standing in the streets of Minneapolis. You should be shouting from the rooftops. What a pathetic pair of cowards.

Yesterday, Minneapolis conducted a general strike against ICE.

Today, ICE responds by murdering someone in cold blood in the street.

Any idea what the time frame is?

Very illuminating discussion!

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