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The Social Security Administration’s records include all Social Security numbers, comprehensive medical records for disability benefits, bank information, earnings records and more, Altman said. “There is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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I wrote about JD Vance's visit to Dachau today, and how Christians appropriate sites of Jewish murder into Christian penitential narratives: religiondispatches.org/jd-vance-is-...

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Bien que menacé, l'abbé refuse de fuir. "Je serai arrêté, dit-il, dans l’une de mes églises à l’issue de la Messe du dimanche." C'est ce qui se produit, le 13 février 1944. La torture lui est fatale. "C’est de sa faute, dira un de ses bourreaux, on ne pouvait le faire parler". Henri Péan. 42 ans.

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Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your purse/backpack at any given moment: 1. Notebook 2. Masks 3. Rose quartz heart 4. Dog treats 5. Anti-eczema hand cream

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Excellent article by @rbreich.bsky.social: Trump is the most lawless president in American history | Robert Reich www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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@literaturesc.bsky.social I noticed a Day Off on #anthonypowelltogether for this Friday, and it says Day Off 1. How many days off do we get? :) Only asking because I am flying to Maine early on Friday and wondering if I should take the heavy volume or not. I will be back in DC on Wednesday.

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#anthonypowelltogether Best quote so far in this volume: "... literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed only to those who possess them already." So true. So true.

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#anthonypowelltogether "A French writer who'd been a regular officer said the whole point of soldiering was its bloody boring side. The glamours, such as it was, was just a bit of exceptional luck if it came your way." I am sure Vigny skipped "bloody" though. Brits and their "bloody" puns.

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#anthonypowelltogether "One never takes lessons to heart. It's just a thing people talk about - learning by experience, and all that." True. If we learned our lessons, on the global scheme of things, we would be forever prosperous and at peace.

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#anthonypowelltogether "... the army is a world of the will, accordingly is the will is weaker, the army is weak."

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#anthonypowelltogether "...being judicious about other people's love affairs is easy, often merely a sign one has not understood their force or complexity "

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#anthonypowelltogether "Kedward dealt in realities. There is much to be said for persons who traffic in this corn, provided it is always borne in mind that so-called realities present, as a rule, only a small part of the picture."

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#anthonypowelltogether "... in the army -as in love- anxiety is an ever-present factor where change is concerned."

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So much evil in one photo it is actually staggering

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2025 Books by Post-Soviet Authors -- Thanks to @sashavasilyuk.bsky.social for keeping track of all the upcoming 2025 books by immigrant writers from the former USSR, writing in English and publishing in the US. Take a look -- it's quite a bounty of riches! Authors include: @shustry.bsky.social,

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If European leaders don’t get their act together soon one of them will have an announcement like this.

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During his visit to a US base in Germany, Def Secretary and rapist racist, Pete Hegseth, was booed by military families. #3E

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#anthonypowelltogether "The potential biographies of those who die young possess the mystic dignity of a headless statue, the poetry of enigmatic passages in an unfinished or mutilated manuscript, unburdened with contrived or banal ending "

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#anthonypowelltogether "(...) he died as mysteriously as he had lived, like many other young men to whom war put an end, an unsolved problem."

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#anthonypowelltogether "Robert Tolland, serving in France with his Field Security Section, was also killed. The news came in a letter from Isobel. Nothing was revealed, then or later, of the circumstances of Robert's death."

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#anthonypowelltogether "This was the week leading up to the withdrawal through Dunkirk..." I.e., it was the week before May 26, 1940 when the withdrawal started... Therefore the Begian military had not yet surrendered... #factchecking

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#anthonypowelltogether I beg to differ with the WW2 History presented. The Belgian Government did NOT surrender, but the Belgian military did, on order of the King of Belgium. On May 28, 1940. The King remained in Belgium as a POW. The Belgian government flew into exile to London. #factchecking

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#anthonypowelltogether Life in the Armed Forces: "You never know in the Mess whether you're sitting next to a sex-maniac of nineteen or a middle-aged man who doesn't know the facts of life."

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#anthonypowelltogether Heavily borrowing from Tolstoy's first sentence in Anna Karenina with this: "All love affairs are different cases, yet, at the same time, each is the same case."

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#anthonypowelltogether "His romanticism, though innate, was essentially limited -as often happens- by sheer lack of imagination." Does Nick imply that all Romantic people have no imagination??

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#anthonypowelltogether All this talk of Vortigern, Hengist, and Hersa... made me want to re-read #GameofThrones I wonder if George R.R. Martin will ever publish the 3 last books....

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#anthonypowelltogether Of course Gwatkin would fall in love with Maureen. How can Nick be so blind to the obvious?

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#anthonypowelltogether "I wonder whether what we call politeness isn't just weakness," he had once remarked.

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#anthonypowelltogether "You're find the army more glamorous, Rowland?" "Yes," he said eagerly, "glamorous. That's the word. Don't you feel you want to do more in life than sit in front of a row of ledgers all day long?..."

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Call to action: US national protest on Monday February 17 at your State Capitol or White House. Spread far and wide. End Impunity End Oligarchy End Autogenocide #3E #USprotests #eyesontheoval

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May this February be every accommodationist’s nightmare. Fuck racism. Fuck racists. Fuck national greatness.

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So some of them are not even of legal age to drink but are already occupying critical positions at DOGE. Hitler Jugend, version 2025

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