The diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jewish scholar married to a non-Jew in Nazi Germany, wrote extensive diaries covering his life from 1933-1945. I'm going to pull excerpts from the diaries from the same date, starting in 1933. (We'll see how long I can keep this up.)

Too many Americas have placed their identity in the hands of a degenerate. When they finally see Trump for what he is, unpleasantness will ensue.

Curved, a cooler straight 🖤 #shotoniphone #mobilephotography #classicmono

Berlin’s Historic Market Halls Ian Farrell dives into Berlin’s nineteenth-century Markthallen… www.slowtravelberlin.com/berlins-hist...

ICE has nothing to do with legitimate immigration control. The remit of these thugs is to terrorize and cow citizens into accepting the overthrow of democracy by corporate aristocracy.

Is it possible the DOJ is stalling release of the Epstein papers for a second reason: the public would realize just how corrupt and evil the economic and social elite are; there would be massive riots; the country would collapse into a chaos of warring states.

@notyurpoppop.bsky.social Vienne!!!

The buses are warming up in DC for the coming long knife purges by the White House.

'Turn in your neighbors, and life will be better for you.' Logic circa 1930s Germany, now DHS policy.

Amazon is selling web services to DHS. Bezos is profitting from injustice and human misery. Don't buy from Amazon.

open.substack.com/pub/essentia... Extreme far right dude with weird hair fails miserably in Dutch politics. Sounds familiar.

Every fabricator needs material to produce a product. As Hannah Arendt observed, the process of fabrication destroys the material. Trump fabricates an American mythology for his consumers. His material is a collection of facts that he destroys by transforming them into lies.

I have to agree. I'm not admirer of Nixon, but he was smart and read a lot. He had inner demons, but his worst day was 100 times better than Trump's best day.

When we were in Paris, we went to Curie's laboratory with our grandkids. Primitive as it was, she was better equipped than today's physicists who sit in an office and stare at a chalkboard.

Popes no longer have standing armies, but they still have political power.

NO LIES 👇 DETECTED.......

James Henry Hammond, Senator from South Carolina defended slavery by pointing out that factory laborers in the north were no different from slaves. He almost sounds Marxist. What is the difference between theoretical freedom and actual freedom other than a dream?

Up until recently most countries viewed immigrant workers as temporary guests with no path to citizenship. This was true in Germany up til the 90s. I had friends in IT leave without a green card. Now, this is changing, suggesting we're transitioning into some new form of nationhood.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

medium.com/amor-mundi/h... "A corrupt press can be criticized, corrected, challenged. An intimidated, instrumentalized, or defactualized press cannot."

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

We watched The Third Man. One of the great postwar films of the late 40s.

They say you can't judge a book by the cover, but Bovino is doing his best to disprove that.

Good to see Santa Barbara still has a few rowdies willing to stand up to ICE.

Thank you! ✊💚 Danish veterans, many of whom fought alongside U.S. troops, stage a silent protest as they march from Kastellet to the American embassy in Copenhagen.

This pattern scratches an itch in my brain. 😄 #forest #nature #photography #Teutoburgerwald #wander

open.substack.com/pub/germanre... Germany's Wirtschaftswunder is past. But you don't solve structural problems in the economy by forcing a dwindling number of working age people to work longer, harder and faster even if that is the usual center right trope.

Good Bye! 🖤

In their early 20s, kids borrowed money and went to Cold War Berlin, Madrid, Florence, etc. for a year or two of study. Totally alone, they discovered who they were as Americans. It would be a shame if they couldn't do this anymore.

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p... A great read today for fans of Tolkien or Timothy Snyder.

ICE and CBP agents seem to enjoy gratuitously breaking glass—from car windows to store fronts to homes. It’s an expression of unchecked power and dominance: “We’re in charge. We break and shatter what we want.” And nights of broken glass have been a harbinger of worse to come.

As soon as people are in the streets, a few Republicans in Congress get nervous and go to visit Trump, and Trump reverses course. This is how democracy works here...when it works. If it doesn't work, Trump just runs amok. To some extent, we have ourselves to blame for the current mess.

As bad as the first half is with rape and murder, everyone is wondering what is in the second half, that they won't let us see?

Your moment of zen

Sunrise over Portland, Oregon #Scape #Photography #Portland #Oregon 📷

When the evangelical crowd ignores evidence of Trump's vile sexual abuses, remember their minds have been poisoned since Reagan with doubt in government institutions. They doubt bureaucracy, hate it. Trump offers them hope, and their childish religious faith transfers to a new dispensation.

I sometimes despair that the camera can never really capture just how amazing the natural world can be. But sometimes, just sometimes, the winter light hits those reeds and all those reflections pop... #birds #birdphotography #birding #photooftheday #photography #NatureIsAmazing

The longer Trump and MAGA stall, the more information leaks out, the greater the public rage. The result is obvious and will be spontaneously unpleasant.

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among everything else this week dunno if you heard but coding is over. huge opp for humanities folks. should be megaphoning 'learning to think never goes out of style'

St. Michael's Mount, Marazion, Cornwall, England 📷 Baxter Bradford

The reviews for “Melania” are going to be far more entertaining than the movie. What a fabulous headline:

Remembering coming into Bergen, Norway from Reykjavík a couple of years ago.

Thanks to bad religion, Americans have a serial love affair with assholes in public service.

The Senate finally did something that made sense. Too bad it takes the government murdering peaceful citizens on the street and the following public outrage to make that happen.

Trump says one thing and does another. The point of "immigration control" is to provoke fear and chaos in the masses so that he can declare martial law and become a dictator. Everything he says is a lie with a hidden agenda.

Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis, frustrated by the response to the shootings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, have suggested they could resign en masse. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

We may be transitioning away from nation states defined by geographic borders and ethnicity. Trump may be more a symptom than a cause of transitional chaos. What comes next is as always unknowable. It probably won't be monarchical government. We tried that already.

How could the Nobel committee have missed giving him the Peace Prize? So confused...not.