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21 June 1903 | German Jew, Erich Bundheim, was born in Emden. A merchant. He emigrated to the Netherlands. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 17 July 1942 in a transport of 2,000 Jews deported from Amersfoort and Westerbork. No. 48060 He perished in the camp on 22 August 1942.

21 June 1932 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Ibolya Farkas, was born. In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

21 June 1911 | A Pole, Bogdan Tarczewski, was born in Rybitwy. A farmer. In #Auschwitz from 22 November 1941. No. 22740 In 1943 he was transferred to Neuengamme. He perished on 3 May 1945 on Cap Arcona ship in Lubeck Bay.

I have been leaked the Trump Administration's draft proclamation for July 4, 2026. The basic message is that America was founded as a Christian nation, but from the beginning there was an anti-Christian/Illuminati/Marxist conspiracy against freedom that we are still called upon to defeat today.

1/10 What if I told you MAGA isn’t just politics, it’s the militant wing of a fake Christianity? At the heart of this crusade is the 7 Mountain Mandate,a doctrine preaching domination over democracy.If we don’t name it now, it will define our future #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

Since NYT covered it, @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu wrote on US harassing Karim Khan via Microsoft last month. The Death of the Internet and Karim Khan's Inbox www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/22/d...

Someone has gone through and actually run the numbers on molestation crimes against children. The politicians who commit these crimes are overwhelmingly Republican. 67% of politicians convicted between February 10, 2023 and May 23, 2024 nationwide were Republicans. www.whoismakingnews.com

20 June 1885 | Polish Jew, Israel Michel Lerner, was born in Tarnów. He emigrated to Belgium. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 15 September 1942. he was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional. We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.

If you YouTube her name, the glut of anti-her content that is both annoying/nonsensical and also gets a ton of actual views will make u understand even more deeply why and how gamergate won

Meanwhile back in the London underground.....

The Senegal women’s national basketball team cancelled a 10-day training camp in the U.S. from June 22 to July 3 after the U.S. rejected visas for five players, six staff members and a ministerial delegation. So embarrassing!

Pete Hegseth's not the only Trump ally nor the only Trump nominee to express doubts that the executive branch should follow court orders, full stop. It's a disturbing trend, especially when the doubters are themselves federal judicial nominees. My latest for @msnbc.com: msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

Bc the left has (justifiably) vacated Elon's Nazi bar, they're missing some world class trolling @gavinnewsom.bsky.social has been doing, particularly of Stephen Miller. I share a selection of that in this post. www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/20/g...

Take it from me, a guy who went from a divisive political asshole to a proud, woke Democrat in just 15yrs, redemption is way better than retribution. Trump is all about retribution. Fuck that. We need a politics of redemption. Today’s Substack. Here.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...

20 June 1915 | A Polish Jew, Mordka Werber, was born in Radom. In #Auschwitz from 20 February 1942. No. 23120 He perished in the camp on 9 March 1942.

20 June 1898 | A Polish man, Tadeusz Skalski, was born in Nowy Targ. Polish Army officer. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Tarnów on 14 June 1940 in the first transport of Poles. No. 722 He perished in the camp on 15 May 1941.

AI will be a major cause of impoverishment and disempowerment through scams, mass unemployment, and the weakening of unions. It will produce volumes of effective mis- and disinformation that further entrenches MAGA politicians who won't regulate tech.

1/ BREAKING: 16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked This is not just a leak – it’s a blueprint for mass exploitation. These credentials are ground zero for phishing attacks and account takeover. www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...

by the way, the Skrmetti majority cited a 2007 case that gives states the authority to pass laws when there is "medical and scientific uncertainty.” It's called Gonzales v. Carhart and abortion opponents want to use it to effectively ban abortion pills nationwide: newrepublic.com/article/1918...

Juneteenth went uncelebrated by the White House. That alone says everything you need to know about this regime.

I have been stigmatized for many reasons over my life. But the social death of not being an AI booster right now is 🔥🔥

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

Looks like #OrangeTaco is giving the Middle East the ol' Infrastructure Week treatment.

Christo-fascism will lead to the destruction of America.

Let God be clear. The people who want war in the Middle East to bring about the “End Times” are MONSTERS.

No fear: This young man has more bravery and everything to lose, but he is showing up to fight. We need people in both chambers to take some cues from him. I am sick of Wall Street Dems and autocratic followers on the reich. Rise ⬆️ !

Half formed thought, but it seems noteworthy that the two dominant ideologies on the US right these days are Christian Nationalism which ascribes to a contingent human belief system transcendent meaning, and AI which imagines a future in which contingent human cognition has been rendered obsolete.

Telling me "the subway is so dangerous now" is my immediate sign that you need your TV taken away and your news algorithm adjusted www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...?

Thorn, a company that helps tech platforms detect child sex abuse images and videos, says X (formerly Twitter) stopped paying invoices several weeks ago, and it is no longer providing services to the social media company. NBC reports X hashtags are now flooded with users offering CSAM images.

The New York Times is, sneakily, one of the most anti-trans organizations in the country

Thousands of academics have said Ai is shit. It can’t even count or make meeting calendars with proper dates. It can’t even DO INVENTORY for my shop. Like wtf? IT CANNOT DO SIMPLE counting tasks- which is why we made computers to begin WITH! ASK 🧪

19 June 1899 | A German Jewish woman, Rosa Neumann, was born in Boedingheim. She emigrated to France. In September 1942 she was deported from Drancy to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

Once again, I recommend Justice Sotomayor’s powerful dissent, which she read from the bench. (The SCOTUS equivalent of screaming.) It’s all straightforward and accessible. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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The bottom line from Apple’s research is stark: we’re not witnessing the birth of AI reasoning. We’re seeing the limits of very expensive autocomplete that breaks when it matters most. ninza7.medium.com/apple-just-p...

19 June 1914 | A Polish man, Leon Szrama, was born in Krakow. A railway worker. In #Auschwitz from 10 January 1941. No. 9226 He perished in the camp on 29 June 1942.

19 June 1908 | German Jew, Hans Heumann, was born in Barmen-Elberfeld. He emigrated to the Netherlands. In August 1944 he was deported from Westerbork to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.

19 June 1890 | A Polish Jew, Hermann Balsam, was born in Tarnów. A construction engineer. In #Auschwitz from 15 December 1941. No. 24500 He perished in the camp on 8 January 1942.

Every year that passes, I come to better appreciate just how traumatic members of the US elite find it to be yelled at by progressive young people. It is *vastly* more upsetting to them than being yelled at by reactionaries. They warp their entire identities & ideologies around it!

Who could have predicted that Canadian tourism would dry up just because the US President stated numerous times that Canada should be the 51st State & that he could destroy us economically if we did not bend to his will, he applied illegal tariffs & then started detaining and disappearing visitors?

Not ok: "waved by Jan. 6 rioters at the Capitol in 2021 and has become associated with...Trump’s supporters who deny the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The flag has also been linked to Christian nationalists, who believe that the US should be a Christian nation rather than a secular one"

After reading this devastating piece about how Musk and DOGE vandalized Social Security and wasted money and staff in ways that hurt the program and its beneficiaries, I think it should be renamed DOGI, Department of Government Inefficiency: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

The anti-abortion movement and what it has wrought is more horrifying than any horror movie. It is a rejection of the dignity of life and a mockery of human wellbeing

“OK, Boomer” just got flipped on its head. At protests across the country this past weekend, older Americans turned out in force, leading chants, waving signs and showing that resistance has no age limit. And their passion isn’t just inspiring. It might be what helps save democracy.

Feel like this piece is newly relevant today...