They don’t hate Democrats; they hate the previous Republican Party for being too woke to gain permanent power and stop Obama. The same hatred extends to fucking Reagan and his welcoming of immigrants.

The Kishinev pogrom of 1903 is linked to different events, including the creation of the NAACP. "The ground was laid, and the hatred fanned by a local anti-Semitic newspaper run by a notorious Jew hater named Pavel Krushevan, himself the most likely author of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion."

Too few are aware that, although Russia has roughly 2–3 times more military casualties than Ukraine, it has 20–30 times fewer civilian casualties. This is because Russia, the aggressor, targets civilians, while Ukraine does not. It’s as black and white as it gets

Also on the list: Marcel Dalio and Madeleine LeBeau, who appeared in Casablanca as the croupier Emil and Yvonne. With tears streaming down her face as she sang La Marseillaise, Madeleine LeBeau embodied the spirit of French resistance.

Toda una vida Me estaría contigo No me importa en qué forma Ni dónde, ni cómo Pero junto a ti youtu.be/sNmIpe_QAEg Osvaldo Farré, the great Cuban composer, dedicated the bolero to his wife.

Ben Sasse was an early champion of investigating Jeffrey Epstein and the way he was treated.

Trump’s complete lack of inner life has been known for decades. Mark Singer described him as "a fellow with a suspicion that an interior life was an intolerable inconvenience."

thanks to bluesky, this was one of my top stories of the year lol. not that i do it for the numbers but, lmao

When writing The Diversity Myth, Thiel and Sachs were dying to use a slur against Condoleezza Rice, Stanford’s Provost. "I still think that almost every point we made was right… Today, it calls itself 'woke' and fights for 'diversity, equity, and inclusion.' " newcriterion.com/article/the-...

Trump’s obsession with trade deficits stems from his belief that selling something to someone is equivalent to stealing money from them. His father’s real estate business, selling overpriced apartments, is his frame of reference.

Ay-ay-ay, cómo me duele el amor Ah-a-ah-ay, corazón espinado ¡Cómo duele, me duele, mamá! youtu.be/t6omUxqhG78 Genuinely artistic songwriting is a response to human pain.

As the New York Times reported in 1931, August Rohling was fired for forgery and died in poverty. www.nytimes.com/1931/01/28/a...

"Lokteff, who questions the Holocaust and mass killings of Native Americans, frequently hosts Holocaust deniers on her show." www.haaretz.com/us-news/.pre... In 2019, Steve King, a Republican congressman from Iowa, got in trouble in his own party while retweeting Lokteff. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

"I have never belonged to a party nor a church. A person cannot be free & belong to either." In 1906, Mark Twain helped Maxim Gorky, a fellow writer, raise money for the Russian revolution. "Because we were quite willing to accept France's assistance when we were in the throes of our Revolution..."

The guardrails are gone and all the conspiracy theorists are here.

Buckley in 1964: “It is doubtful just what enduring benefits the Southern Negro would receive from the intervention of government on the scale needed to, say, integrate the schools in South Carolina…" The readers didn’t know about his family’s close ties to South Carolina and its segregationists.

Tu m'as promis les notes de Mozart, pas des plats cassés Tu m'as promis d'être ta reine, j'ai eu pour sceptre un balai Tu m'as promis Et je t'ai cru Tu es foutu (tu-tu-tu-tu, tu-tu-tu-tu, tu-tu-tu-tu, tu-tu-tu-tu) youtu.be/oXMV2RBQwiY Broken expectations may lead to a catastrophic failure of trust.

Sarah Rogers, the State Department official who hectored Europeans about free speech, is seen here with a far-right German AfD deputy, Markus Frohnmaier, whom two Kremlin documents obtained by @spiegel.de described as "a parliamentarian under our absolute control." spiegel.de/politik/ausl...

In his opening statement as the chief US prosecutor in Nuremberg, Robert Jackson used the words "cruel" and "cruelty" more than a dozen times. He said about the Holocaust, "History does not record a crime ever perpetrated against so many victims or one ever carried out with such calculated cruelty."

Trump indicated his position on unions during his first term by nominating Peter Robb, who helped Reagan bust the air traffic controllers' union, to be the NLRB general counsel.

Lacking support from the Birchers, Richard Nixon lost the 1962 California gubernatorial election. "Nixon repudiated… John Rousselot and Edgar Hiestand, who represented heavily Republican districts—a move that further cut into his vote... ‘I could not look myself in the mirror if I support them’…"

An even bigger question is: How come that literal Russian agents are now running American intelligence and counterintelligence?

Lookin’ good this morning, as always, to me. Americans should acquaint themselves with this man — and therefore with their country.

The event that radicalized Peter Thiel was Jesse Jackson’s visit to Stanford on MLK Day in 1987 and Jackson’s talk of the "Rainbow Coalition." In response, Thiel founded The Stanford Review, which eventually led to his linking up with Elon Musk and the PayPal mafia, and to his patronage of JD Vance.

Bill Buckley himself on Franco and his fascist regime: "He is not an oppressive dictator. He is only as oppressive as it is necessary to be to maintain total power, and that, it happens, is not very oppressive, for the people, by and large, are content." archive.org/details/Rumb...

Fun fact: American consultants from Harvard (sponsored by USAID) enabled the Russian oligarchs to steal the country's resources in the 1990s. "Shleifer went on to work closely with Chubais in the loans-for-shares privatization program that permanently transformed property relations in the country."

Мамо моя, ти вже стара, А я щаслива, молода. Я жити хочу, я люблю. Мамо, не лай доню свою. youtu.be/d5mEKV3CsB0 Becoming an adult is letting go of the psychological dependence on your parents.

On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”

Buckley didn’t particularly like uneducated morons, but he saw their utility. "And National Review was founded as a vehicle in support of Joe McCarthy… And it was understood to be that; it was not a secret, it was not hidden from anyone. It was McCarthyite intellectuals who founded National Review."

"This is our portion, this is our testament, This is America, dual-brained creature, One hand thrusting us out to the stars, One hand shoving us down in the gutter." www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ide...

A good occasion to celebrate the contribution of Pauli Murray. "Murray argued Plessy v. Ferguson should be frontally attacked… Her professor, Spottswood Robinson, provided her paper to Thurgood Marshall’s team and helped them develop their argument against segregation."

Dec. 1, 1775: General orders for the British Army in Boston take note of a dangerous epidemic: "The Small Pox spreading universally about the Town, makes it necessary for the safety of the Troops, that such men as are willing, and have not had that distemper shou’d be inoculated immediately.”

I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...

1944: "Although money and power were offered as never before, good music and honest musicians were and always will be arch-enemies of fascism."

Dear Miss Perkins is on sale for twenty dollars www.amazon.com/Dear-Miss-Pe...

My favourite Baldwin video:

Fascism "produces, by inhibiting sexual curiosity and sexual thinking in the child, a general inhibition of thinking and of critical faculties…" (Wilhelm Reich in The Mass Psychology of Fascism, 1933) Reich studied in Vienna under Freud and belonged to the second generation of psychoanalysts.

Russia went from a home of 5 million Jews in 1900 to 50 thousand now. After chasing millions of Jews away, it got very good at cultivating Jewish connections, such as Lev Leviev, who counts both Trump and Putin among his personal friends. Leviev installed "Putin's rabbi" Berel Lazar, who met Lauder.

One, two, three, they're gonna run back to me Climbing over mountains and a-sailing over seas youtu.be/0uLI6BnVh6w Dave Bassett’s secret to successful songwriting is connecting with the artist to let their personality shine through the song.

"What Leonard Cohen taught us is that even in the midst of darkness, there's light. Even in the midst of death, there's life. Even in the midst of hate, there's love. And even with our dying breath, we can still say ‘Halleluya.’ That is the power of love to redeem the brokenness of the world."

"The American Immigration Restriction Act of 1924 was applauded by German racial hygienists. Hans F. K. Gunther, a famous German race anthropologist, praised the measure… One other important German figure, in a famous book from 1924, was full of praise... the book was Mein Kampf."

Putin was assassinating political opponents and journalists long before anyone called him a fascist. In 2003, Freedom House categorized Russia as "partly free." If it is fascist now, the transition happened sometime in the past and was overlooked by many observers, including Alexei Navalny.

The comparison should be to Navalny in 2013, when, according to Kasparov, fascism had arrived in Russia. No one stopped him from running for mayor of Moscow at that time.

Remember the time Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts had to change the title of his book after the Project 2025 uproar? Foreword by J. D. Vance

Esa negra linda que me tiene loco Que me come poquito a poco youtu.be/YuF4qnfGmfs Cumbia originated from Afro-Colombian traditions in Colombia's coastal region and has since expanded throughout Latin America. Blending cumbia and post-punk while performing an old Cuban song invigorated Mexican music.

They used to accuse people who escaped Nazi Germany of "premature antifascism." "After the war, Feuchtwanger was accused of ‘premature antifascism,’ placed under surveillance by the FBI and the House Un-American Activities Committee, and repeatedly taken in for questioning."

65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.

Baila baila baila baila Baila baila baila me Esta rumba a ta gitana Que yo siempre cantaré youtu.be/vU2b4ubuWNM The best cultural inventions often happen at the crossroads of cultures. Flamenco originated from the exposure of Romani migrants from Northern India to the Arab-Andalusian music culture.

Hunters in the Snow https://www.wikiart.org/en/pieter-bruegel-the-elder/hunters-in-the-snow-1565

Glenn Beck was drinking from the same well. Fox News, January 2010: "Woodrow Wilson, this is an evil S.O.B. Man, you need to read about Wilson. Bad dude. He passed the Revenue Act of 1913. Blatantly unconstitutional, but people let it slide..." www.mediamatters.org/glenn-beck/s...