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These are the times when character and oaths truly matter.
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

submitted 114 days ago • 1089 comments

A thread. 🧵👇 On Christmas day, 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—a father of six children, the oldest of which had been nearly paralyzed as his country fought a deadly civil war—wrote a poem seeking to capture the dynamic and dissonance in his own heart and the world he observed around him. 1/10

submitted 148 days ago • 1 comment

Merry Christmas to all

submitted 148 days ago • 183 comments

Evangelical leaders telling followers to back Trump fits "any reasonably Christian sense of what constitutes idolatry," writes @aselrod.bsky.social in Arc Digital. "It is perverse, if not now uncommon, to conflate spiritual rectitude with adoration for the US or support for particular politicians."

submitted 151 days ago • 10 comments

So Long, Farewell, Auf Widersehen, MSNBC open.substack.com/pub/tonyludl... Corporate media is dead.

submitted 162 days ago • 1 comment

“The problem, though, is that business appears more efficient in large part because what it does is usually simpler than what the government does.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...

submitted 164 days ago • 14 comments

The answer to “Biden has violated a norm by pardoning Hunter” isn’t “no he hasn’t violated that norm” or “it’s justified to violate that norm” but “BULLSHIT that’s a norm.” In fact, political pardons have been offered by both Republicans and Democrats. /1

submitted 171 days ago • 154 comments

Long thread: I've been thinking a lot about government service and what it means in light of Trump's nominees for some of the most powerful positions in our nation. It led me to examine the oaths each member of the government takes (one for both the executive and legislative branches and one for 1/

submitted 171 days ago • 1 comment

As a retired lawyer, this article gives me hope. Let “them” understand that we are serious people. We don’t play cult games. We aren’t going anywhere. Our work isn’t over until “they’re” gone. wapo.st/3ZuOUrJ

submitted 172 days ago • 16 comments

Hey @economist.com ...why don't you have a post on this article on your bluesky site? Afraid of the feedback you'd get? Fucking ghouls.

submitted 172 days ago • 0 comments

Read this by @markhertling.bsky.social Too many people have forgotten what it means to be an American, to live by American values. Some of us are too far gone and will never be back. But today the rest of us should read this - and remember. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

submitted 174 days ago • 102 comments

Since there’s a lot more people following me now, I’ve updated this with people you should be following instead of me for defense issues. go.bsky.app/L8jnuau

submitted 176 days ago • 13 comments

Good read.

submitted 174 days ago • 0 comments

"But her statement — the day after she held a phone call with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump — did not make clear who had offered what."

submitted 174 days ago • 1 comment