… Literally not a female at the table. Photo posted by the White House.

During the Prague uprising of 1945, the Russian Liberation Army, comprised of Soviet defectors, turned against the Germans by defecting from the German command. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_...

Oh, mother, tell your children Not to do what I have done To spend your lives in sin and misery In the house of the rising sun youtu.be/N4bFqW_eu2I Folk songs are the heartbeat of a nation because they echo the suffering and hopes of the oppressed.

El Palomo y la Negra se van a casar Por haberse encontrado otra vez en el mar Ya venían casados de vidas atrás Faltaba nomás una rumba y mezcal youtu.be/UgvR5S4RBh8 The highest expressions of human creativity come from a fusion of cultures.

Navarro told Trump that tariffs would help in the 2018 midterms. For a time, he was neutralized by Rob Porter, who was fired in February 2018.

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

Aggressive gerrymandering occurred in Hungary in 2014. It took five more years for Freedom House to acknowledge that Hungary was no longer a free country. freedomhouse.org/report/freed...

I don’t cheat on myself, I don’t run and hide Hide from the feelings that are buried inside I don’t compromise and I don’t pretend I don’t even care if I ever see her again Most of the time youtu.be/oq7EM8jjNUs To be human is to feel discontent between the world that exists and the one that could be

At his Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden in October 2024, Trump made sure to thank Muslims, who delivered Michigan to him. "By the way, did anybody see yesterday? Did anybody see what took place? I was with the Muslims yesterday in Michigan… And these are people, by the way, they’re great."

June 2018 mention of Maria Ryan: "Rudy Giuliani has been bragging to pals about having an affair with a married woman with ‘big boobs,’ sources tell The Post." pagesix.com/2018/06/13/r... At that time, Paul Manafort was heading to jail, and Rudy was busy keeping him silent.

Lavrov is a corrupt mf with a secret lover. "Polyakova has been lounging at the villa, hotel, and yacht owned by Deripaska. The yacht became famous when Nastya Rybka surreptitiously filmed conversations that took place there between Deripaska and Sergei Prikhodko, Russia’s ex-deputy prime minister.”

The next book covers Noem and prairie dresses and home decor and Noem’s late dog: share.google/23ZOgfb0lZen...

Carlson’s priorities lie elsewhere. He would support invading Canada.

OCCRP's 2015 investigation of the Panama Papers exposed Putin's corruption, which motivated his attack on American elections in 2016. "Putin believed the Panama Papers attack was sponsored by Hillary Clinton's people — this, in a way, provided him with a 'justification' for a retaliatory operation."

I’m scared, ain’t you boys scared? I wonder if he’s gonna show us what bad is? Boys, we got a man with a dog collar on Maybe we ought to throw old Spike a bone? youtu.be/a4HVtB7CIBo Bigotry is always and foremost an expression of fear.

In his 1913 anti-Bund treatise, Lenin cited Kautsky to declare that the Bundists were "reactionary Jewish bourgeois who want to turn back the wheel of history." Later, Soviet doctrine proclaimed that assimilation was "a reliable and progressive path toward the resolution of the Jewish question."

Lenin exploited the pogroms to rise as the party leader by suppressing the Bund and forming the Bolshevik faction. Those who didn’t follow him into the revolution and instead moved to America or Palestine made a better choice for their families. Glorifying the Bund today distorts that history.

A quote from Nesta Webster’s 1926 pamphlet The Need For Fascism In Great Britain archive.org/details/webs...

Hillman died in 1946 and did not get a chance to express his support for Israel, the progressive cause of 1948. ILGWU, at David Dubinsky’s recommendation, provided a $1,000,000 loan to Golda Meir and a $220,000 donation to Haganah and Histadrut. That part of the Bund legacy is worth remembering.

Sometime, in the middle of the night And you're so long, and so long and so long Tings gonna change, things gonna change Change change change youtu.be/HSbBSphYeZo Maintaining hope by rupturing the continuity of time is the higher function of music.

Well, it goes from St Louie, Joplin, Missouri Oklahoma City looks, ooh, so pretty You'll see Amarillo and Gallup, New Mexico Flagstaff, Arizona, don't forget Winona Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino youtu.be/vifUaZQL8pc The poetry of roads is a staple of American culture.

It's hard to admit, but in 1933, Jabotinsky had the clearest understanding of Hitler’s plans. He dismissed the optimism of those who preferred to wait it out rather than run.

Stop Jewish Domination of Christian America! (Scrolling thru old files today. Sort of busman's holiday)

The coalition that defeated Pinochet in Chile was pretty broad: "each member party had its own color depicted in the rainbow: orange for the Humanists, green for the Social Democrats and ecologists, red for the Socialists, blue for the Christian Democrats, yellow for the Democrats".

"Kevin Downing, a Washington attorney who represented Paul Manafort, initially represented both Parnas and Fruman after their arrests for campaign finance-related charges. According to Bondy, he told the two men that Manafort sent them greetings and was glad to hear he was representing them."

I wrote about how the debate over Democrats engaging influencers like Hasan Piker is missing the point. The question is not whether to talk to these people, but how to do so in a way that makes the audience smarter—one that scrutinizes not just the influencer’s opinions, but their facts. Gift link:

"We had a democracy, yes, but it was torn by elements within. Above all, there was fear. Fear of today, fear of tomorrow, fear of our neighbors, and fear of ourselves. Only when you understand that - can you understand what Hitler meant to us." youtu.be/xGfHkdR3tXs

Vladimir Surkov, Putin's chief adviser, discusses the strategy of preserving the dictatorship in Russia by planting chaos abroad: "Social entropy is very toxic. It is not recommended to work with it in our home conditions. It should be taken somewhere far away for disposal on foreign territory."

I’ve been down on the bottom of a world full of lies I ain’t looking for nothing in anyone’s eyes Sometimes my burden seems more than I can bear It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there youtu.be/RZgBhyU4IvQ A thread of existentialism connects Dylan’s "Not Dark Yet" with Cohen’s "You Want It Darker"

1924 DNC platform: "We pledge ourselves to maintain our established position in favor of the exclusion of Asiatic immigration." www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/19... Sure, Mayor Mamdani, let’s make the Democratic Party great again.

Clark Clifford, JFK’s advisor and Truman’s campaign architect, offered an insightful critique of the Dukakis campaign that remains relevant today. wapo.st/4cund7K

Folks have asked about Buckley's use of the term "Judeo-Masonic." The US right has long debated whether "the radical left conspiracy" is ackshually just "the jews" or whether it's "more complicated than that" and includes the Bavarian illuminati. Yes, it's this stupid. bsky.app/profile/sfom...

Interesting photo of Joe Rogan & RFK Jr with Trump in the Oval Office today by Allison Robbert...

Antisemitism as the red-brown glue has been attempted elsewhere. At the 1992 congress of the National Salvation Front in Russia, the line "Zionophile television will pay dearly!" was met with a standing ovation. Igor Shafarevich, the nation’s best-known antisemite, was the keynote speaker.

Notes made by Lev Parnas during his meeting with Dmitry Firtash in Vienna included replacing Firtash’s lawyer from Lanny Davis to Joe/Victoria.

One push of the button And a shot the world wide And you never ask questions When God’s on your side youtu.be/a3UXYJzelk4 Aversion to war is one of the deepest American traditions.

Fascism succeeds when it destroys the left-center alliance. Stalin learned this from his experience of propping up Communists against Social Democrats in Germany in 1932. That’s why he used this tactic against Truman in 1948. Putin knows it from his experience of propping up Bernie Sanders in 2016.

Reagan gained support from the farmers by campaigning on lifting Carter’s embargo on selling grain to the Soviet Union. In 1981, he fulfilled his promise. About one-third of the Soviet grain supply came from imports.

"Neither fascism nor communism can win so long as there remains a democratic middle way, which unites hopes of freedom and of economic abundance; so the destruction of the middle way becomes the first priority for both." The 1948 horseshoe theory. Stalin propped up Henry Wallace to help Republicans.

It was Ronald Lauder who recommended Finkelstein to Netanyahu.

I hope more people focus on the import of this turnout last year. Not least bc standing up to bigotry can itself be a rallying cry.

Soros’s teacher, Karl Popper, explained that the main purpose of democracy is to enable the peaceful removal of bad rulers from power.

Vote 'em out (vote 'em out) Vote 'em out (vote 'em out) And when they're gone, we'll sing and dance and shout youtu.be/PgriEg9u0xg

The end of Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime is a victory not just for Hungary, but for people who value democracy around the world. Congratulations to Tisza, to incoming leader Péter Magyar, and to Hungarians everywhere.

Meet Janusz Korczak 📚 Born July 22, 1878, in Warsaw, he was a pediatrician, educator, and writer who became one of the most influential voices for children’s dignity and rights, and a man remembered for the choice he made at the end of his life. #EternalLight 1/10

Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.

They would not bow their knees to Idols made of gold They wouldn’t burn They were protected by the Fourth Man in the fire They wouldn’t bend They wouldn’t bow, they wouldn’t burn. youtu.be/OoLCYj66qfg Blind obedience to false idols is never a virtue.

"The Hungarian people will never forget. We shall not forget. And out of hatred and tears is born the resolve to carry forward the struggle till freedom is triumphant." www.nytimes.com/1956/11/05/a...

Isn’t it interesting when a socialist hero is a plane hijacker instead of Golda Meir, the head of a socialist government?