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A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

11 November 1921 | A Polish Jew, Adolf Zwerdling, was born in Przemyśl.

In #Auschwitz from 8 August 1942.
No. 57379
He escaped from the camp on 24 October 1942. He was captured & perished in the camp on 17 December 1942.

"So look the sand's black and it smells like death and sewage but don't worry, we've tested it and it's definitely fine.

Except for the microbes. Don't touch the microbes."

www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

Damning Video Shows DHS Agents Pepper-Spray a Baby The Department of Homeland Security has denied it.

"President Donald Trump’s federal law enforcement crackdown has hit a disgusting new low, after federal agents reportedly pepper-sprayed a 1-year-old in Chicago and then lied about it."

Leaked footage from inside an ICE detention facility near Houston. No beds, no bathrooms, hundreds of men, women, and children in one combined cell/room. They are kept in freezing conditions.

Reminding us what a President can be.

Dear Senators Shaheen, Hassan and King: While I disagree with the deal you negotiated, I respect you.

But GOP Senators do not respect you. They spat in your faces by secretly including a corrupt provision to pay 8 GOP Senators.

I request that you reverse this provision in Jan.

Brandon Silverman explains how many social media platforms have made their data — and therefore their role in any number of societal concerns within the public interest — increasingly opaque by limiting access to researchers, even as they sell that same data to companies.

Here, none of the four Waller factors are satisfied. To begin with the fourth factor, the Court’s sole finding were that the use of the husher would serve efficiency and protect jurors’ privacy. The interest in efficiency is not “overriding” when it conflicts with a defendant’s constitutional rights. While juror privacy could be an “overriding interest” in some instances, it is not an overriding interest where no juror has expressed concern or requested additional safeguards. See Cable News Network, Inc. v. United States, 824 F.2d 1046, 1048 (D.C. Cir. 1987) (holding that “in order to minimize the risk of unnecessary closure trial courts should require prospective jurors to make affirmative requests for private voir dire examination…”) (citation modified).

As @ryanjreilly.com has been reporting, Trump appointee Carl Nichols unilaterally decided to conduct voir dire in sandwich thrower Sean Dunn's trial over husher phones, so no one can follow along.

This is fairly insane.

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One of my students asked to take home an extra breakfast for her mom and an extra lunch for her dad, in case you’re wondering how the loss of SNAP benefits is affecting kids.

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‘This Is Voter Intimidation’: Outrage Erupts as Trump Admin Sends ICE to Polling Locations With millions geared up to vote in a key off-year election, including a hotly watched redistricting measure in California, the Donald Trump administration has ignited fierce backlash by deploying fede...

MORE: dailyboulder.com/this-is-vote...

Fact-check: true

Former chair of the Tennessee libertarian party 👇🏽

In any case, I'd love to read a piece interviewing Mike Johnson's constituents.

Louisiana has nearly 800,000 SNAP recipients and the food pantries in his district hub of Shreveport are already scrambling to make up the difference. I bet there will be some stories there.

Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.

"ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds." www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

Designating Antifa as FTO Could Threaten Civil Liberties Trump's plan to designate Antifa as an FTO has implications extending beyond anti-fascist activists to the architecture of US civil society.

The Trump admin is considering designating Antifa as a foreign terrorist organization.

Thomas E. Brzozowski argues this move would create an unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism authorities into the domestic political space and threaten civil society.

www.justsecurity.org/122643/antif...

This is correct.

His cult keeps saying “well, he was elected president, he doesn’t have to follow the rules now” but the correct attitude is “well, he was elected president, and therefore he has to follow the rules.”

He even swore an oath to do that. Honest!

House Republicans want to strip Zohran Mamdani of citizenship, possibly deport NYC mayoral frontrunner over form omissions The first immigration case Zohran Mamdani may have to confront as mayor could be his own – as Republicans fire up calls to probe his sworn statements on citizenship forms and “deport” t…

Such deranged, casually fascist shit.

3. Trump's pardon for CZ came after Binance structured a $2 billion investment with USD1, a Trump-backed cryptocurrency.

The transaction is expected to result in tens of millions of annual profits for Trump and his family.

Infographic titled “Republican Ecosystem.” Four large curved arrows form a clockwise loop: Donors at the top (magenta), Campaigns on the right (gold), Advocacy Media at the bottom (blue-purple), and Activists on the left (sage green). Each arrow feeds the next, depicting a self-reinforcing cycle. From the Campaigns segment, a smaller gold arrow points outward to a label “Mainstream Media” beside a purple color swatch, indicating spillover influence on non-partisan outlets. Credit “Matthew Sheffield, flux.community” appears at bottom left.

Infographic titled “Democratic Ecosystem.” Three large curved arrows form a clockwise loop: Donors at the top (magenta), Campaigns on the right (gold), and Activists on the left (sage green). Together they create an incomplete circle with a visible gap at the bottom. A small blue square labeled Advocacy Media sits outside the loop, connected by a thin arrow from Activists, showing weak integration. To the right, a large blue box labeled Mainstream Media represents the dominant external media sphere. Credit at lower left reads “Matthew Sheffield, flux.community.” The design contrasts with the “Republican Ecosystem” version by emphasizing the Democratic side’s weaker feedback loop between activists, donors, and media.

Since Barack Obama, Democratic presidential candidates and "dark money" groups have raised more money than Republicans--often doubling them.

So much of the Dem money is wasted. Publishing a piece on this Sunday explaining these graphs and much more. I need your help to make the piece viral. Thanks!

Attended panel on what’s up with US at Oxford featuring my pal @antheabutler.bsky.social, author of WHITE EVANGELICAL RACISM, & queer historian Colin Johnson. Kinda thing that might normally be sleepy, a few history nerds. So packed there was no standing room. People are alarmed.

Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...

NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

It's time for another round:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQd4...

Remember: Tom Holland Rule in effect. You must repost (here or elsewhere) if you see this.

Merkley: "What we've seen is that democracies no longer die bc men w/guns go in and take it over. Instead, it's electeds who erode the separation of power. If you have a rubber-stamp Congress & courts that deliver more power to the executive, suddenly you have an authoritarian state. It's here now."

Gather ‘Round Folks
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Let’s keep it in perspective..

"Defiance Til Death"

#SheShed 🇺🇸

Holy buckets. This is exactly what the Oregon Silver Shirt fascist I’m writing about thought children should be taught about Communism ca. 1965 (minus the more recent references).

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Trump Admits Americans Didn’t Vote for His Military Crackdowns Yet he and his party keep pretending they have a mandate.

Trump Admits Americans Didn’t Vote for His Military Crackdowns
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-admi...