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I was Hitler’s neighbour: ‘If he’d known we were Jewish, we’d have been sent to Dachau’ In 1929, Edgar Feuchtwanger was five years old and living with his family in Munich when Adolf Hitler moved into a flat opposite. At first, his parents thought they were safe hiding in plain sight – until they weren’t The odds were against Edgar Feuchtwanger reaching the age of 100. He was born on 28 September 1924 into a time of poverty and political turmoil in post-first world war Germany. He was also born into a Jewish family in a society that was about to turn to National Socialism, an ideology that would ultimately be responsible for the murder of 6 million Jews. In 1929, when Feuchtwanger was five, something happened that made his long life even more unlikely. He got a new neighbour: Adolf Hitler. In October that year, Hitler moved into the grand second-floor flat at Prinzregentenplatz 16 in Munich. His previous flat, on the other side of the Isar, the river that divides Munich, had become too small. Munich to him was the “Capital of the Movement”, a title he awarded the city officially in 1935. From 1929 on he lived in nine rooms in this corner building, with its long balconies and baroque facade. His staff moved in with him, and, soon, devotees and high-ranking SS officers were flocking to the flats nearby. Diagonally opposite, at Grillparzerstrasse 38, with a direct view of Hitler’s flat, lived the Feuchtwanger family. Continue reading...

I was Hitler’s neighbour: ‘If he’d known we were Jewish, we’d have been sent to Dachau’

I  know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.

This is more than a "must-read".
Please read, share, consider it... As long as the FRW racist ideology of #zionism is confused with #Judaism, the pathetic claims of antisemitism to silence protest at what Zionism is "achieving" will continue.
Do I need to say that @saradowse.bsky.social is Jewish?

Don’t worry, staying in Australia

my god i'm hard to shock but holy fuck

The state of the newspapers this morning: a near-universal attack on trans people, most of it grossly exaggerating the implication of yesterday's ruling. Almost joyous in its spite.

Trans women to be searched by male officers after Supreme Court ruling — The Independent Announcement comes as the equalities boss says the ruling is “enormously consequential”

This is monstrous and horrifying … and surely illegal … it basically suggests that the Gender Recognition Act does not exist as LAW. Falkner’s reading of the ruling is also completely unnuanced. Must be challenged … @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com

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‘Trans people are protected under equalities law …’ ‘the EHRC exists to support and protect trans people…’

These increasingly read like meaningless words given the interpretation and spin being adopted by public bodies and government ministers.

Who Would Jesus Cut From Medicaid? States are kicking millions of people out of their health care program. As a Christian, I want a world where everyone is worthy of care.

"When Jesus says, 'love thy neighbor as thyself,' I imagined this meant, well, help thy neighbor, assist thy neighbor, care for thy neighbor, nurture thy neighbor — all without condition or justification, just as Jesus did." sojo.net/articles/who...

Oh, Jacinta, Jacinta, Jacinta…

Trump officials renew opposition to ruling on Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador The Justice Department’s latest legal filing asserted that courts cannot direct President Trump’s foreign policy by forcing the return of a man unlawfully sent to a Salvadoran prison.

All the supposed Christians in the Trump administration should be appalled by this, especially during Holy Week, when we remember another man unjustly imprisoned...

"U.S. Renews Opposition to Bringing Back Maryland Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvador" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

What kind of sociopathic scumbags fight this hard to not return a wrongly deported man?

He would be deputy PM to a PM Dutton who used his very first speech to parliament (in 2002) to brand civil libertarians as "the criminal lawyers media operative" and the trade union movement as a "dictatorship"

Their Church Basement Used to Host Quinceañeras. Now It Houses Mauritanian Muslims Muslims migrants from western African nations are increasingly among those arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. Grace Lutheran in LA is welcoming them in.

“I keep telling them, ‘This is not your church,’” Pastor Maria said. “It’s the community’s. It’s the migrants’. It’s only here to help people, to be their home in a time of need.”

A soccer player was deported to El Salvador for having a Real Madrid tattoo. A makeup artist for crown tattoos honoring his parents. Tattoos are an unreliable indicator of gang membership: buff.ly/lWRMmpv #immigration
By Beth C. Caldwell, Southwestern Law School

Where is our humanity?

Exactly!

He's already openly gloated about rigging this election and said people will never need to vote again. Just like project 2025, they're telling us exactly what they are doing/have done

YouTube video by Reuters 'In four years, you don't have to vote again,' Trump says | REUTERS

I’m old enough to remember this youtu.be/gE7xoHJkgvE?...

They are sadists in the White House.

Why ‘borderline’?

Not lightly? After he so lightly called Zelenskyy a dictator? C’mon…

The charts have it. Australian economy on the mend - Michael West While many still struggle with high prices and unaffordable housing, the Australian economy is showing many signs of improvement.

Australia's media and opposition paint a tale of woe says @alanaustin.bsky.social - charting the good news: full employment, falling rates, retail sales etc
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/australias-e...

"You cannot serve God and billionaires."
- Matthew 6:24b (A Literal Application Translation)

For those who identity as Christian,

In Genesis 1, the singular image of God is places on the singular "āḏām" (humanity as a singular entity).

One cannot discriminate or target trans people, immigrants, it any other group of humans without doing that action against the Imago Dei and God Zirself.

Image from the White House's social media bragging about deportations with a person chained.

It's interesting that one Christian Messiah came to set the prisoners free (Luke 4:18).

But the Christian maga Messiah has come to put people in chains.

The "trans debate" has very little to do with trans people and everything to do with bodily autonomy.

If a politician can determine something as core to your being as your gender, then they can control your whole body.

It's always been about sadistic control over others.

At what point in recent history did it become OK to take the Kremlin’s side? Seriously, this just shocks me

Excellent report on one consequence of Texas abortion ban: Sepsis.
Rate of sepsis up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the 2nd trimester
www.propublica.org/article/texa...