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"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...
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...
Pauli Murray reads "Dark Testament” | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
Pauli Murray—an Episcopal priest, attorney, and civil rights activist—became an enduring voice for freedom and equal opportunity during her lifetime (1910–1985).
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January 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
"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...
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...
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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."
On this day in 1954, the Supreme Ct. decided Brown v. Board. While a law student at Howard in the 1940s, Pauli Murray wrote a paper that NAACP lawyers used to develop their arguments attacking the constitutionality of racially segregated public education.
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www.paulimurraycenter.com/pauli-murray...
Pauli Murray's Innovative Legal Spirit — Pauli Murray Center
Pauli Murray fundamentally shaped how we understand equality, the law, and American constitutional jurisprudence. Murray’s legal impact and scholarship defined and defended the rights of African Ameri...
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May 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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."
A quote from Nesta Webster’s 1926 pamphlet The Need For Fascism In Great Britain archive.org/details/webs...
December 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
A quote from Nesta Webster’s 1926 pamphlet The Need For Fascism In Great Britain archive.org/details/webs...
A 1925 NYT review of her book: "It must not be supposed that Mrs. Webster condemns all secret societies… She has nothing but praise for Fascismo, which is a secret order; and it is fair to assume that if she had not chosen to ignore the Ku Klux Klan she would have pronounced a benediction upon it."
Secret Societies Passing On the Tradition of Revolution; Freemasonry, Labor Unions, Freudianism, Esperanto, Theosophy and International Finance as the Enemies of Organized Government SECRET SOCIETIES ...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
A 1925 NYT review of her book: "It must not be supposed that Mrs. Webster condemns all secret societies… She has nothing but praise for Fascismo, which is a secret order; and it is fair to assume that if she had not chosen to ignore the Ku Klux Klan she would have pronounced a benediction upon it."
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1944: "Although money and power were offered as never before, good music and honest musicians were and always will be arch-enemies of fascism."
Hanns Eisler | Contemporary music and fascism
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November 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
1944: "Although money and power were offered as never before, good music and honest musicians were and always will be arch-enemies of fascism."
1944: "Although money and power were offered as never before, good music and honest musicians were and always will be arch-enemies of fascism."
Hanns Eisler | Contemporary music and fascism
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November 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
1944: "Although money and power were offered as never before, good music and honest musicians were and always will be arch-enemies of fascism."
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My favourite Baldwin video:
November 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
My favourite Baldwin video:
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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.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism - Wikipedia
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September 14, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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.
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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.
April 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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.
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"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."
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."
You Want it Darker | Video | The Rabbi Sacks Legacy
Watch You Want it Darker from The Rabbi Sacks Legacy.
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May 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
"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."
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."
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"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."
The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
Abstract. In this explosive new book, Stefan Kühl shows for the first time the full extent of eugenic/racist connections between Nazi Germany and the Unite
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November 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
"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."
Navalny didn’t believe Russia was a fascist country and hoped to defeat Putin by democratic means. That’s why he is dead and his wife is a widow. Can we recognize the cues that they missed?
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Navalny didn’t believe Russia was a fascist country and hoped to defeat Putin by democratic means. That’s why he is dead and his wife is a widow. Can we recognize the cues that they missed?
"Fascism is no longer an isolated incident in the individual history of a few countries. It has developed into a universal movement," wrote Karl Loewenstein in 1937, explaining why it is impossible to defeat fascism using only democratic tools and norms. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"Fascism is no longer an isolated incident in the individual history of a few countries. It has developed into a universal movement," wrote Karl Loewenstein in 1937, explaining why it is impossible to defeat fascism using only democratic tools and norms. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
"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."
The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
Abstract. In this explosive new book, Stefan Kühl shows for the first time the full extent of eugenic/racist connections between Nazi Germany and the Unite
doi.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
"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."
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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.
November 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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.
2017: "Navalny emphasized that authoritarianism reigns in Russia , but he disagreed with the controversial thesis that the Russian Federation is developing into a fascist state." www-delfi-lt.translate.goog/ru/abroad/ru... Garry Kasparov thought differently and left Russia in 2013.
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
2017: "Navalny emphasized that authoritarianism reigns in Russia , but he disagreed with the controversial thesis that the Russian Federation is developing into a fascist state." www-delfi-lt.translate.goog/ru/abroad/ru... Garry Kasparov thought differently and left Russia in 2013.
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.
November 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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.
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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.
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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.
The two countries are clearly very different, but the topic is fascism. 1. Is Russia fascist now? 2. Was it fascist in 2013? 3. How can we determine this? If there are no objective criteria that apply across different countries, then the term becomes meaningless.
I think Russia is neo-fascist, yes. Close, but not yet at North Korea levels. (I think NK is the only thing that really qualifies as a fascist regime in the world right now.)
Do you think Russia is currently fascist?
November 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The two countries are clearly very different, but the topic is fascism. 1. Is Russia fascist now? 2. Was it fascist in 2013? 3. How can we determine this? If there are no objective criteria that apply across different countries, then the term becomes meaningless.
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.
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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.