Ben Rosenzweig
@benrosenzweig.bsky.social
Ornithological materialist.
Only the future might be outside.
Only the future might be outside.
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Ben Rosenzweig
@benrosenzweig.bsky.social
· Apr 18
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January 27, 2026 at 1:50 PM
I'm now @BenRosenzweig on UpScrolled.
Authoritarianism, family separation and Anne Frank.
1. Chile.
Excerpt from the 2022 University of Wisconsin Press translation of Maxine Lowy’s book, Latent Memory: Human Rights and Jewish Identity in Pinochet's Chile.
1. Chile.
Excerpt from the 2022 University of Wisconsin Press translation of Maxine Lowy’s book, Latent Memory: Human Rights and Jewish Identity in Pinochet's Chile.
January 27, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Authoritarianism, family separation and Anne Frank.
1. Chile.
Excerpt from the 2022 University of Wisconsin Press translation of Maxine Lowy’s book, Latent Memory: Human Rights and Jewish Identity in Pinochet's Chile.
1. Chile.
Excerpt from the 2022 University of Wisconsin Press translation of Maxine Lowy’s book, Latent Memory: Human Rights and Jewish Identity in Pinochet's Chile.
Slightly blurry article on some people seeking to oppose the South Korean authoritarian regime, from the 21 June 1952 edition of The News Journal, the East Radford, Virginia newspaper.
January 27, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Slightly blurry article on some people seeking to oppose the South Korean authoritarian regime, from the 21 June 1952 edition of The News Journal, the East Radford, Virginia newspaper.
Excerpt on Gaetano Salvemini from the ‘Contributors’ page of the Winter 1942 edition of The Antioch Review.
He fled increasing state control of history teaching. Control intending that teaching reflect what the Fascist regime wished to be thought of as positive in Italian history in particular.
He fled increasing state control of history teaching. Control intending that teaching reflect what the Fascist regime wished to be thought of as positive in Italian history in particular.
January 27, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Excerpt on Gaetano Salvemini from the ‘Contributors’ page of the Winter 1942 edition of The Antioch Review.
He fled increasing state control of history teaching. Control intending that teaching reflect what the Fascist regime wished to be thought of as positive in Italian history in particular.
He fled increasing state control of history teaching. Control intending that teaching reflect what the Fascist regime wished to be thought of as positive in Italian history in particular.
R. Louzon article, ‘Fascist French Morocco?’, originally in the December 1937 edition of the French magazine La Révolution prolétarienne, and translated into this English-language version for the ‘They Say’ section of the February 1938 issue of Current History.
January 27, 2026 at 9:34 AM
R. Louzon article, ‘Fascist French Morocco?’, originally in the December 1937 edition of the French magazine La Révolution prolétarienne, and translated into this English-language version for the ‘They Say’ section of the February 1938 issue of Current History.
Excerpts, one just the title, from an article discussing the divine rights of those in authority in relation to slavery, from the 13 December 1851 issue of the US Catholic paper Shepherd of the Valley.
January 26, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Excerpts, one just the title, from an article discussing the divine rights of those in authority in relation to slavery, from the 13 December 1851 issue of the US Catholic paper Shepherd of the Valley.
In the 20th century, at various points white supremacist murders, whether by police, others or both, would sometimes be a spark for a new stage in civil rights struggle.
One of these victims was actually a key figure in the 'Abolish HUAC' movement, which people forget talked in exactly those terms.
One of these victims was actually a key figure in the 'Abolish HUAC' movement, which people forget talked in exactly those terms.
January 26, 2026 at 6:44 AM
In the 20th century, at various points white supremacist murders, whether by police, others or both, would sometimes be a spark for a new stage in civil rights struggle.
One of these victims was actually a key figure in the 'Abolish HUAC' movement, which people forget talked in exactly those terms.
One of these victims was actually a key figure in the 'Abolish HUAC' movement, which people forget talked in exactly those terms.
The Execution of Alex Pretti Broke Me
YouTube video by LegalEagle
m.youtube.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:40 AM
When the world's population now most clearly understands the violence and ethnic cleansing entailed by the Israeli settler-colonial project, the UN Security Council has become no longer primarily a useless promise of law or justice, but an active part of a fascist war on the Palestinian people.
January 26, 2026 at 4:05 AM
When the world's population now most clearly understands the violence and ethnic cleansing entailed by the Israeli settler-colonial project, the UN Security Council has become no longer primarily a useless promise of law or justice, but an active part of a fascist war on the Palestinian people.
When an aging theocracy becomes ever more distant from the beliefs, experiences and desires of a population, maybe especially those of people under forty and those in cities, reactionary rule can become fragile, sometimes sliding between efforts at relative liberalisation and increased repression.
"The people of #Iran are a living through a nightmare," civil society representative tells UN |#SS39
YouTube video by UN Human Rights Council
youtu.be
January 26, 2026 at 3:57 AM
When an aging theocracy becomes ever more distant from the beliefs, experiences and desires of a population, maybe especially those of people under forty and those in cities, reactionary rule can become fragile, sometimes sliding between efforts at relative liberalisation and increased repression.
The reconstitution of the US state is a complicated process, and not all of it is immediately visible.
www.stevevladeck.com/p/205-chief-...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/205-chief-...
205. Chief Judge Schiltz and the Department of Justice
Every federal judge (and justice) should read the two letters from Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz in the church protest case—and what they tell us about the Department of Justice's litigation behavior.
www.stevevladeck.com
January 25, 2026 at 4:45 PM
The reconstitution of the US state is a complicated process, and not all of it is immediately visible.
www.stevevladeck.com/p/205-chief-...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/205-chief-...
I remember when people used to tell me that the Trumpists weren't REALLY fascists because they hadn't created a violent paramilitary above 'the law' to terrorise those deemed enemies and get away with it by deeming as enemies whoever they terrorise.
You know, shirts.
You know, shirts.
January 25, 2026 at 12:14 PM
I remember when people used to tell me that the Trumpists weren't REALLY fascists because they hadn't created a violent paramilitary above 'the law' to terrorise those deemed enemies and get away with it by deeming as enemies whoever they terrorise.
You know, shirts.
You know, shirts.
J. H. O'Dell, 1965
January 25, 2026 at 10:51 AM
J. H. O'Dell, 1965
Excerpt from 'Investigating the Ku Klux Klan', an unsigned text written in the aftermath of the white supremacist murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson and others, from the Spring 1965 edition of Freedomways.
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
January 25, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Excerpt from 'Investigating the Ku Klux Klan', an unsigned text written in the aftermath of the white supremacist murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson and others, from the Spring 1965 edition of Freedomways.
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
I just heard a Republican, obviously unable to criticise the Czar, do the whole "I think his advisors must be confused" thing dad used to talk about when describing sycophants in pre-revolutionary Russia.
January 25, 2026 at 6:27 AM
I just heard a Republican, obviously unable to criticise the Czar, do the whole "I think his advisors must be confused" thing dad used to talk about when describing sycophants in pre-revolutionary Russia.
The surrealpolitik of the maybe unserious but apparently very real retro-imperialism of the new American fascism, six months ago.
Excerpt from Richard Fontaine and Gibbs McKinley’s June 2025 Center for a New American Security book, Global Swing States and the New Great Power Competition.
Excerpt from Richard Fontaine and Gibbs McKinley’s June 2025 Center for a New American Security book, Global Swing States and the New Great Power Competition.
January 23, 2026 at 8:46 AM
The surrealpolitik of the maybe unserious but apparently very real retro-imperialism of the new American fascism, six months ago.
Excerpt from Richard Fontaine and Gibbs McKinley’s June 2025 Center for a New American Security book, Global Swing States and the New Great Power Competition.
Excerpt from Richard Fontaine and Gibbs McKinley’s June 2025 Center for a New American Security book, Global Swing States and the New Great Power Competition.
Excerpt from the 2021 Journal of Visual Culture (JVC) issue called ‘The JVC Palestine Portfolio’.
According to the NSW government, this is anti-Semitic hate speech, rather than something reflecting concerns with solidarity and justice.
doi.org/10.1177/1470...
According to the NSW government, this is anti-Semitic hate speech, rather than something reflecting concerns with solidarity and justice.
doi.org/10.1177/1470...
January 22, 2026 at 4:51 AM
Excerpt from the 2021 Journal of Visual Culture (JVC) issue called ‘The JVC Palestine Portfolio’.
According to the NSW government, this is anti-Semitic hate speech, rather than something reflecting concerns with solidarity and justice.
doi.org/10.1177/1470...
According to the NSW government, this is anti-Semitic hate speech, rather than something reflecting concerns with solidarity and justice.
doi.org/10.1177/1470...
Horrific recent events do NOT ‘show’ that the chant “globalise the intifada” is hate speech encouraging violence, and ‘banning’ this chant is intended to vilify and intimidate the Palestinian community and those opposing the violence of Zionist settler-colonialism.
www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-...
www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-...
NSW Government to crack down further on hateful symbols and slogans
The NSW Government will introduce tough new laws banning hateful symbols and giving police greater powers to remove face coverings during public assemblies.
www.nsw.gov.au
January 21, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Horrific recent events do NOT ‘show’ that the chant “globalise the intifada” is hate speech encouraging violence, and ‘banning’ this chant is intended to vilify and intimidate the Palestinian community and those opposing the violence of Zionist settler-colonialism.
www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-...
www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-...
Important video from February 2023.
January 21, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Important video from February 2023.
A brief thread on some US struggles over housing discrimination.
The 1968 Fair Housing Act finally banned discrimination in renting or selling, incidentally outlawing policies and entrenched institutional practices such as redlining - organised, systematic efforts to limit where black people lived.
The 1968 Fair Housing Act finally banned discrimination in renting or selling, incidentally outlawing policies and entrenched institutional practices such as redlining - organised, systematic efforts to limit where black people lived.
January 21, 2026 at 6:05 AM
A brief thread on some US struggles over housing discrimination.
The 1968 Fair Housing Act finally banned discrimination in renting or selling, incidentally outlawing policies and entrenched institutional practices such as redlining - organised, systematic efforts to limit where black people lived.
The 1968 Fair Housing Act finally banned discrimination in renting or selling, incidentally outlawing policies and entrenched institutional practices such as redlining - organised, systematic efforts to limit where black people lived.
Excerpt from an article on the KKK and the Democratic Party in the South, from the 16 April 1923 edition of the N. C. W. C. News Sheet, a national US Catholic publication.
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
January 20, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Excerpt from an article on the KKK and the Democratic Party in the South, from the 16 April 1923 edition of the N. C. W. C. News Sheet, a national US Catholic publication.
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
Semiotics of Coburg.
January 18, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Semiotics of Coburg.
How Renfrew Christie saw things in the January 1990 issue of African Affairs.
"... another pariah state"
('Moore' is J. D. L. Moore, author of South Africa and Nuclear Proliferation.)
"... another pariah state"
('Moore' is J. D. L. Moore, author of South Africa and Nuclear Proliferation.)
January 17, 2026 at 1:54 AM
How Renfrew Christie saw things in the January 1990 issue of African Affairs.
"... another pariah state"
('Moore' is J. D. L. Moore, author of South Africa and Nuclear Proliferation.)
"... another pariah state"
('Moore' is J. D. L. Moore, author of South Africa and Nuclear Proliferation.)
Excerpt on relations between Apartheid South Africa and Israel, from Helen E. Purkitt and Stephen Burgess, 'South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme: A Historical and International Perspective', in the June 2002 issue of The Journal of South African Studies.
doi.org/10.1080/0305...
doi.org/10.1080/0305...
January 16, 2026 at 7:48 AM
Excerpt on relations between Apartheid South Africa and Israel, from Helen E. Purkitt and Stephen Burgess, 'South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme: A Historical and International Perspective', in the June 2002 issue of The Journal of South African Studies.
doi.org/10.1080/0305...
doi.org/10.1080/0305...
Renfrew Christie has died, a legendary opponent of Apartheid who did key research used by the African National Congress to successfully blow up infrastructure of the nuclear weapons program Israel would help the Apartheid regime to organise.
January 16, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Renfrew Christie has died, a legendary opponent of Apartheid who did key research used by the African National Congress to successfully blow up infrastructure of the nuclear weapons program Israel would help the Apartheid regime to organise.