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A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

Sad to read this, remember the good times when times are bad

Agreed!

NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed

In the context of an EU and its member states rebuilding strategic self-reliance the issue is not expanding capacity, which is happening, but rather time needed to expand it until the US has less leverage and Russia less power

Vance and Putin have a time window of 5-7 years until Europeans close it

The White House is laser focused on threatening a military takeover of Greenland.

Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?

U.S. special operations units transit UK en route to Europe Recent U.S. military air movements into the United Kingdom indicate a redeployment of American special forces into Europe, UK Defence Journal understands.

"Similar increases in C-17 activity at the base were observed ahead of U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in June 2025."

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George Grosz (German 1893-1959) Prost (Cheers), 1920; watercolor, pen, and ink on paper. Grosz was known for his caricatural drawings and paintings depicting Berlin life in the 1920s and was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity movements during the Weimar Republic.

European Parliament, Council Reach Provisional Agreement On EU-Mercosur Safeguards - Danish Presidency - reports

60,000 is the *low end* estimate.

...as the central bank at the core of the global payments system.
It reflects shutdown-disrupted data, a dual-mandate squeeze, a lame-duck Chair, and the lack of a clear strategic framework from the world’s most powerful central bank, which has been overly data-dependent for a protracted period.

Pulp: Tiny Desk Concert Jarvis Cocker croons, coos and dances his way through this career-spanning Tiny Desk with Pulp.

Jarvis Cocker croons, coos and dances his way through this career-spanning Tiny Desk with Pulp. n.pr/4pbIgkn

Wine barrels in the port of Oran (Algeria) in 1912. During most of the 20th century, Algeria was the world's largest wine exporter. #winehistory

Anything 2D will be Open Source within 5 years

And make money

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Oh God.

Andriy Parubiy, a key Euromaidan revolution figure and former Rada speaker, has been assassinated in Lviv.

29 years ago today, Jamiroquai released the music video for 'Virtual Insanity'

I've mentioned before that the logic of Trump II points toward dissolution of the union. And the three straightest paths to that are ending rule of law, corrupting elections and tanking the dollar.

Trump and MAGA are speedrunning all three.

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

What Happened When Hitler Took On Germany’s Central Banker Hans Luther was the principled and respected president of the Reichsbank—but he wouldn’t accede to Hitler’s demands.

Hans Luther was the principled and independent president of Germany’s central bank, Timothy W. Ryback writes. “But when Luther wouldn’t accede to Hitler’s demands, he feared for his life and had to leave”:

the global, alt-right, 'anti-woke' advocates are specifically against the idea of a remembrance culture, and this has has been mainstreamed via social media.

YouTube video by The Forgotten Podcast Peter O'Toole | Drinking In Dublin With Peter Finch

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US 30-year Treasury yield reached 5.01%, the highest since late May, increasing by 3.2 basis points to 5.003%

Archaeologists discover 3,500-year-old city in Peru Researchers believe Peñico served as a trading hub linking ancient Pacific coast communities with those living in the Andes and Amazon.

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