Anthony Alaniz

This generation knows “nothing of the terror which the slave-power inspired; but it may be faintly conceived, when a professed minister of the Christian religion … said that it were better for him, rather than denounce slavery, "to murder his own mother, and lose his soul in hell!” C.M. Clay, 1886

The German Churches and the Nazi State | Holocaust Encyclopedia How did Christians and their churches in Germany respond to the Nazi regime and its laws, particularly to the persecution of the Jews? Learn more.

The response of American Christians to the rise of MAGA fascism bears similarities to German Christians’ response to the rise of the Nazis. Some courageous German Christians confronted evil, but most went along. They attended church on Sunday while supporting the operators of the death camps. 🧵 1/

Yes. I have done this.

Epstein Files Reminder: USA has a child marriage epidemic—it's even worse than you think Despite more than 300,000 documented child marriages since 2000, Republicans are fighting to keep it that way

Gaetz rapes 17 year old child
Kelly whitewashes rape of 15 year old child
OK judge frees man who raped two teen girls

These are all symptoms of the cancer of child marriage in America—with 300K+ such cases since 2000.😳

Has your state banned child marriage yet?
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First I survive four days taking Chicago public transportation with my family and now this video appears—I’ve never felt manlier.

Uh.

Stop me if you've heard this before:

If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF???

They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015

What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

Lincoln: I have read and re-read the Bible, Shakespeare, and many, many political speeches. I will now produce some of the most original, powerful, and evocative works of the American civic canon.

AI: I have indiscriminately hoovered up many, many words. I will now produce some slop.

lol. The "religious freedom" crusaders are literally trying to ban people from praying outside of immigration jails.

YouTube video by Dan McClellan Responding to Charlie Kirk on the US founding

This is a fantastic debunking of Charlie Kirk’s Christian nationalist version of the American founding:

youtube.com/watch?v=EAjs...

Trump’s Politicized Prosecutions May Hit a Roadblock When the president puts his political enemies on trial on pretextual grounds, jurors have the option of refusing to convict.

A reminder that if you are called to be part of a jury in a political prosecution you have a right to refuse to convict on the grounds the prosecution is unjust. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

White europeans literally forced Black Africans into slavery, and depended on the Chinese to build the west of America-- so as to have these groups do the lions share of backbreaking manual labor to build this country.

So.. uh... good luck with that, America.

TN Man Finally Free After Month In Jail For Mean Comment About Saint Charlie Kirk There goes newshero Phil Williams, breaking innocent people out of jail!

“While we first heard about this godawful fuckery from the Intercept, it’s probably not a coincidence that charges were dropped but directly after Phil Williams shined a light on them.” www.wonkette.com/p/tn-man-fin...

About 60% of U.S. workers are not white men. Wouldn't know it from Trump's Department of Labor.

Are we still supposed to pretend that neither bigotry nor misogyny are key to Trumpism?

Let’s call them the Little Bitches Brigade. With whiney military members like this, it’s no surprise why we lost Afghanistan.

Pathetic. This is why I do no stand for the pledge—fuck these cucks.

Good. Identify those wannabe Klansman.

1. Graham Platner is an oyster farmer and Marine Corps veteran who’s running for the United States Senate in Maine. He’s trying to knock off Susan Collins. He’s presented himself as a common-man candidate who stands against oligarchy, genocide and the oppression of the little guy.

A noticeable upgrade from the old uniforms.

White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

Why is Pope Leo meeting with an alleged sex offender?

The pontiff met with a disgraced Opus Dei cardinal this past week - but has completely ignored pleas from victims of this abusive group for him to meet with them

What's going on?

🧵 A THREAD

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

“Trump seemed to be very proud to have ‘Blacks for Trump’ at all of his rallies and behind the podium, but not behind him in the cabinet meetings…”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Saving this one for later…

Not to gas myself up but I think my piece on shitposting from like, 2017, is a great companion piece to @sarahjeong.bsky.social's incredible, important Verge article

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage