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Paul Lerner

@plerner.bsky.social

Lifelong Panican ๐Ÿ—ƒ๏ธ Historian of modern Central Europe, consumer culture, human sciences, migration, and Jews. Here to talk about fascism and cats. Mostly cats.

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RFK Jr. Recommends Eating Good Cancer To Kill The Bad Cancer WASHINGTONโ€”Suggesting an unorthodox alternative to standard oncological treatments, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued recommendations Friday that encourage Americans to ...

Took me a while to realize this was The Onion
theonion.com/rfk-jr-recom...

08.08.2025 19:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is outstanding!

08.08.2025 19:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

oops

08.08.2025 19:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿคฎ

08.08.2025 17:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They are talking to each other but why aren't they banding together to resist?

08.08.2025 17:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Strong Anschluss vibes

08.08.2025 16:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I know this isnโ€™t the point but does he really think those provinces would elect Republicans, and after a Trump invasion? Maybe Alberta would but

08.08.2025 16:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I finally found a chatbot I can relate to

08.08.2025 15:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Better not to look

08.08.2025 14:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That wore off pretty fast

08.08.2025 13:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Does Netanyahu really believe the pictures are fake or is he just repeating right wing talking points?

08.08.2025 06:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Only Netanyahu can make Trump seem reasonable

08.08.2025 06:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No 1 streaming show in the US now (per CNN)

08.08.2025 05:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just watched it. The botox! Dora the Explorer! So good!

08.08.2025 05:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Yesterday, we led a protest of hundreds of Jews and Palestinians near the border with Gaza and carried sacks of flour on our backs to demonstrate against the mass starvation our government is creating so close by. (1/4)

07.08.2025 13:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Disgusting. Disgraceful.

07.08.2025 21:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's reassuring, thanks!

07.08.2025 21:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sounds like it yeah

07.08.2025 18:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm sorry but "it can't be genocide because we haven't killed them all yet" is just not gonna work

07.08.2025 18:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wonderful, hopeful essay!

07.08.2025 14:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Iโ€™m Captain Ahab and I Say We Must Never Transition Away from a Whale-Based Energy Industry When I heard that the globalist oligarchs and fat cats in the Washington marshland were conspiring to invest in alternative, non-whale-based energy...

"Reducing our dependence on whales as an energy source will send us sliding down the slippery, spermaceti-lubricated slope to socialism. If we give up whaling, what will those lackwits come for next? Will I have to surrender my peg leg for a titanium prosthetic?"

07.08.2025 01:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 895    ๐Ÿ” 273    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25

And smoking is good for you too

07.08.2025 14:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Gee thanks

06.08.2025 22:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Itโ€™s hard to find good research assistants these days

06.08.2025 22:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Still life with Rusty

06.08.2025 14:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've done it that way since the pandemic. I don't think I could move if I didn't smell those fumes in the morning!

06.08.2025 00:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Are you still looking? I know some grad students who work at the Huntington and might be interested.

06.08.2025 00:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

*go to (damn it)

05.08.2025 23:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I hate it when you got to a coffee shop to get some good work done and then you get in the groove and it's really humming but you bump into an acquaintance you haven't seen in years (hey, professor) and before you know it he is informing you that Islam is not compatible with democracy

05.08.2025 23:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is he still on the roof

05.08.2025 21:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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