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Brother Hitler It’s 1939, Hitler is in full control, and Thomas Mann is wondering what has become of his culture, and in what way is he partly responsible for it.  Just came to mind as I was contemp…

iamyouasheisme.wordpress.com/2016/11/05/b... "That Man is My Brother" / "Bruder Hitler" by Thomas Mann

Two cats sitting on top of cages and looking at the ceiling

Two cars on the floor staring up at the ceiling

Two young kittens in a cage taking notice

A cat standing on her hind legs to reach for a moth

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

I’m A Psychologist Who Specializes In Narcissists. Here’s What We Need To Do To Stop Trump. "The same patterns that destabilize families destabilize democracies."

www.huffpost.com/entry/psycho...

Resharing this.

Pelosi Says Police May Arrest Federal Agents Who Violate California Law

Gift article.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

Updating my LEGO White House

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

Caption on the little village local IG describing ICE in their neighborhood today attempting to enter businesses and residents resisting their entering.

Photo of two doors with a chain lock.

The IG page @littlevillagelocal posted a few videos and a photo of what happened in the nhood today. Their caption was so moving! It spoke to ICE attempting to enter doors throughout the nhood but people and businesses resisting and locking their doors. La Villita Se Defiende.

Tesla Q3 earnings call is starting, and even though I definitely have better things to do from both a professional and mental health perspective I'll be doing a live thread 🧵

ALSO GRAHAM PLATNER IS 41 YEARS OLD.

He made those posts just a few years ago and the white folks are waving it off like he was an 18 year old enlisted Marine with snot running down his nose.

You can shoot guns at Brown people but cant think for yourself til you 41?! SHUT YOUR ASSES UP.

Notice how it’s always, “the Bible must inform our laws!” until it comes to the +2,000 verses in the Bible that discuss the generous use of wealth and possessions in a way that prioritizes the needs of the poor, this sick, the stranger, the vulnerable, and the oppressed.

Opinion | There’s a Reason Trump Fears No Kings

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...

THAT MAN IS MY BROTHER And if genius is madness tempered with discretion, this sly sadist and plotter of revenge is a genius MARCH 1, 1939 | THOMAS MANN WERE it not for the frightful sacrifices which continue to be offered up to the fatal psychology of this man; were it not for the ever-widening circle of desolation which he makes, it would be easier to admit that he presents an arresting phenomenon. Yet, hard as it is, we must admit it: nobody can help being preoccupied by the deplorable spectacle. For he has chosen—in default, as we know, of capacity to wield any other-to use politics as his tool; and politics always magnify and coarsen the effects they produce. So much the worse for us all; so much the worse for all Europe today, lying helpless under his spell; where he is vouchsafed the role of the man of destiny and all-conquering hero, and where, thanks to a combination of fantastic chances -or mischances - everything is grist that comes to his mill, and he passes unopposed from one triumph to another.

Back in 1939, Thomas Mann wrote an essay called Bruder Hitler. Esquire magazine ran it with the title “That Man Is My Brother”.

Here’s an archived link: archive.ph/kPMHn

Partners with God in Creation: A Look at Process Theology Despite my love of Jewish culture and community, I couldn’t bring myself to fully acknowledge God – a loving Creator in an imperfect world – so I ignored God entirely.

reformjudaism.org/blog/partner...

This is mind-blowing. Truly. What a story.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

the evolution of language is so neat

Opinion | You Caught Me. I’m Speaking Spanish.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

Deep in the reeds: Australian scientists put dollar figure on floating wetlands’ global water quality savings ‘We’ve worked out that no matter how hard you engineer something, nature filters everything much better than anything else’, says academic

No matter how complex something is crafted artificially, nature crafts far better.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The President lives and dies by the numbers. All his claims are about numbers. Suddenly, @nytimes.com is focused on content, not numbers?

Seems like maybe the protest numbers are not things this administration wants us to hear.

Sometimes you just have to report the numbers.

You hate it how companies like Google and Microsoft keep shoving AI down your throats, you have no idea how much worse this is for tech workers in regular companies, who have to actually report on how this crap improves productivity.

“People [in tech jobs] worry that not being seen as uncritical AI cheerleaders will be a career-limiting move…for those who aren't insiders in the tech industry, it's vital that you understand that you've been presented with an extremely distorted view about what tech workers really think about AI”

npr: so, no kings

tyrannosaurus rex: yes

npr: how shall I put this

trex: this interview is over

This is great and heartening.

There could be solid ICE counter-recruitment campaigns launched to discourage people from working for them and to encourage those working for them to quit. There are lots of examples of such campaigns from anti-war organizing.

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

When even HBR is talking about workslop...
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

illustration of a frog in a blue scarf and statue of liberty crown holding a torch under the words statue of ribbity

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Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

It’s apple picking season so I am required to share this incorrect but humorous review of Stayman Winesap apples with you

Videos show Russian youths chant anti-war song in St. Petersburg A crowd of young people sang an anti-war song in St Petersburg by the musician Noize MC.

www.newsweek.com/videos-russi...

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.