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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 2h

The head of the ADL is a literal Nazi apologist.

Jonathan Greenblatt ®
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What was reported in @politico is offensive and very concerning. But I'm also glad that many leaders, including @EliseStefanik and @RepMikeLawler, spoke out strongly and swiftly against these hateful statements. This is what leadership looks like - and is how decency and morality can be modeled.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3h

Remember when Biden bungled a comment and it sounded like he called all MAGA garbage, quickly corrected and it was still a 3 day news story?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 4h

The most corrupt administration, the most corrupt party, the most corrupt people

They’re all crooks

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 4h

Somehow it's only "demonizing half of the country" when Democrats mildly criticize Trump supporters. This just doesn't count

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 5h

Republicans will never cease to claim 39-year old white guys are "kids" and 12-year old black boys are "men"

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 15h

JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’

Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 7h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 7h

In 2024, I wrote a story for Texas Monthly about Michelle Haas, whose complaints resulted in the removal of books about slavery from historic Texas slave plantations. Haas sued us, alleging defamation, and was represented by the preferred lawyer of billionaire J.P. Bryan. Today, we won on appeal.

The header of the appeals court decision:

NUMBER 13-25-00005-CV

COURT OF APPEALS

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

The conclusion of the appeals court decision, which states: The trial court's judgment is reversed. We remand the cause to the trial court with

instructions to (1) grant appellants' TCPA motion to dismiss, (2) award court costs and reasonable attorney's fees to appellants in accordance with the statute, (3) consider whether to assess sanctions against Haas in accordance with the statute. See TEX. Civ. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 27.009(a).

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Enrahj @enrahj.bsky.social · 18h

Apologies! And it’s Wernher von Braun

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher...

Wernher von Braun - Wikipedia

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 22h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Enrahj @enrahj.bsky.social · 19h

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19h

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Dr Emily Skeletonpain @limeyemily.bsky.social · 20h

Unfortunately this isn’t the revenge fantasy it’s being made out to be, especiallu not whent it comes to the women. Massive CW for rape and trauma-based suicide english.elpais.com/culture/2022...

In the Günther family home, 12 people died - some poisoned themselves, some slit their wrists, and some were shot with a hunting rifle. Huber describes the horror of a witness to multiple gang rapes by Soviet soldiers (almost two million German women were sexually assaulted at the end of the war).
Afterward, many of the rape victims staggered down to the Tollense River and drowned themselves. Some led their children by the hand into the river after loading stones into their pockets, purses and backpacks, unwittingly emulating Virginia Woolf's suicide in 1941.

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Enrahj @enrahj.bsky.social · 20h

It’s very coear in the historical record that the Red Army user mass rape as a weapon of vengeance. It was partly a reaction to the Wehrmacht’s unspeakable horrors but the record ic clear. www.theguardian.com/books/2002/m...

‘The Russian soldiers raped every German female from eight to 80’

Antony Beevor, author of the acclaimed new book about the fall of Berlin, on a massive war crime committed by the victorious Red Army

www.theguardian.com

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 20h

A Border Patrol agent in tactical gear wearing a skull mask and sunglasses covering his face

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Enrahj @enrahj.bsky.social · 20h

Yes! To add: most of the suicides described in the book were rooted in (justifiable) fear of the rampaging Red Army, as opposed to social stigma or shame. www.theguardian.com/books/2019/j...

Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself by Florian Huber review – the downfall of ordinary Germans

A bestselling German study of mass suicides as the Red Army advanced in 1945 raises questions

www.theguardian.com

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Enrahj @enrahj.bsky.social · 20h

You mischaracterize my point and the historical record: many low-level Nazi government functionaries (schoolteachers, low-level bureaucrats, etc.) were re-absorbed into German society and the state. I have said this many times explicitly during our discussion, and before you even entered the thread.

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Enrahj @enrahj.bsky.social · 20h

It’s strange that neither you nor Gabrielle identify a point, despite your dramatic rhetoric.

Here’s my point: Rooting out fascists from the state and society requires a focused and sustained long-term project. They don’t simply kill themselves in large numbers.

newrepublic.com/article/6678...

Amnesty and Amnesia

Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past: The Politics of Amnesty and Integration By Norbert Frei Translated by Joel Golb (Columbia University Press, 365 pp., $35)In this grim account of the formative yea...

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Enrahj @enrahj.bsky.social · 20h

Schoolteachers are not ordinary citizens? Coates brief summary of Judt barely touches on the vast scale of how many ordinary Nazis were reintegrated into society and government structures. It actually became a driving issue in 1960s-70s West German anti-fascism.

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Enrahj @enrahj.bsky.social · 20h

In Judt’s Postwar he makes clear that many Nazi “ordinary citizens” retained their positions in the new “denazified” state apparatus. Ta-nehisi Coates review here: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 21h

How many employees and staffers of this administration must be outed as Hitler Admirers before it becomes a widely accepted Problem

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Enrahj @enrahj.bsky.social · 21h

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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Enrahj @enrahj.bsky.social · 21h

Or they became an official in the Federal Republic (or occasionally the GDR). Many Nazi- linked industrialists retained their commercial power. Let’s not overlook how problematic the post-war transition was.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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