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Start w/ the Golden Rule. Identity traits we're born w/into don't determine character. Nationalism makes neighbors into enemies to benefit the ruling classes. Equal rights for ALL, everywhere. Migration = survival adaptation. Anti-migrant = psychopathy.

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Wide Mind | Fierce Heart 🦓🥄 @wydmindfeersart.bsky.social · 2d

We like to cordon evil off to make evil the domain of a few demented individuals... who seem quite different from us. But whether it's the transatlantic slave trade or Nazism or genocide... We see again and again that evil... is the product of demented social orders.

-John Green

Wide Mind | Fierce Heart 🦓🥄 @wydmindfeersart.bsky.social · 27d

The current(illegitimate) occupants of the US White House led a violent, attempted self-coup. Afterward, the Supreme Court forced him onto the ballots —in contravention of the US Constitution— and the highest-ranking Dem politicians didn't even protest the ruling. MSM normalized it all and moved on.

Wide Mind | Fierce Heart 🦓🥄 @wydmindfeersart.bsky.social · 28d

The abdication by US for-profit media to inform society about sociology, philosophy, or human rights; whilst nurturing support for ultranationalism, militarism, worship of wealth and physical strength, and everything as competition cultivated support for fascism.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrana...

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 14h

it was only acceptable to be anti-Nazi from 1942-1945

Americans who were anti-Nazi before 1942 were persecuted after the war

Nazi sympathizers like Joe McCarthy were idolized

the US let "ex" Nazis run Germany after the war, and assimilated them into American business culture

onion person @junlper.beer · 19h

genuinely why do so many americans have a nazi phase or become genuine nazis. on a fundemental level you’d think that we’d have as much shared hatred for nazism as we do for the british

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Wide Mind | Fierce Heart 🦓🥄 @wydmindfeersart.bsky.social · 7h

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 9h

should be required reading, imo

Wide Mind | Fierce Heart 🦓🥄 @wydmindfeersart.bsky.social · 7h

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 9h

should be required reading, imo

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 7h

In the 1961 trial of the Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in Israel, his defense lawyer, Robert Servatius, argued that various other peoples, such as the Native Americans, had been murdered, but this didn't result in a criminal prosecution.

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𝖛𝖛𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖊𝖉 𝖈𝖑𝖔𝖜𝖓 @novatoreanhovvl.bsky.social · 7h

the kkk, the silvershirts, the john birch society, the know-nothings, the southern aristocrats, the northern industrialists, the slavers, jim crow, manifest destiny

just to name a few examples

onion person @junlper.beer · 19h

genuinely why do so many americans have a nazi phase or become genuine nazis. on a fundemental level you’d think that we’d have as much shared hatred for nazism as we do for the british

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sydnorigami @curtsydnor.bsky.social · 8h

John Powell was a celebrated Virginia composer/pianist, UVA faculty, and effective political advocate of the states proto-Nazi anti-miscegenation laws

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 8h

“‘The Germans are beating us at our own game’: American eugenics and the German sterilization law of 1933”

‘The Germans are beating us at our own game’ - Egbert Klautke, 2016

This article assesses interactions between American and German eugenicists in the interwar period. It shows the shifting importance and leading roles of German ...

journals.sagepub.com

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 8h

Racial Integrity Laws (1924–1930) - Encyclopedia Virginia

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · Jun 28

My new piece is about a community in the Blue Ridge who doesnt know a Helene strength storm is coming because the weather alerts have been privatized, & after losing their home, take refuge in the large camps of unhoused people living in the former National Park.

Read/Listen here
As Time Draws Near

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 8h

This one too. The nazis were in communication with VA eugenicists, propagandists, & politicians. They admired the centuries old racial hierarchy & confederate history. Staunton VAs Joseph DeJarnette was even quoted saying “the Germans are beating us at our own game”.

Pure America: Elizabeth Catte

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 9h

should be required reading, imo

the cover of hitler’s american model: the united states and the making of nazi race lA by james q. whitman

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Bluesky mods aid genocide by banning Palestinians @pastures.myatproto.social · 15h

The difference between Doomerism and realism is this: realists can admit to themselves that as things stand now, this country is headed for possibly one of the darkest periods of human history, one for which it will be the primary cause of great suffering. Doomerism is passivity in the face of that.

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 17h

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8h

This is nuts. And we would like to know more about these "guided missile warheads."

Good reporting via @juddlegum.bsky.social / @popular.info

ICE’s spending on weaponry has soared more than 700 percent this year

The $71.5 million spent so far has paid for guns and armor, chemical munitions, “guided missile warheads," and "explosive components.”

www.motherjones.com

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Shelley Powers @burningbird.net · 15h

No Democrat should EVER vote for any Trump person. And I'm disgusted with those who do

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 17h

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 18h

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 11h

Update on Richard LA, TikToker who was shot by U.S. Marshal during a targeted stop.
@eltragon.bsky.social

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 14h

Why the fuck are Democrats confirming this despot's judges. Why are Democrats giving a single fucking inch on anything, while he is waging war on our country?

Be. A. Fucking. Opposition. Party.

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 17h

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

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𝕭𝖎𝖌 𝕶𝖗𝖎𝖘 @realbigkris.bsky.social · 14h

But keep voting for Trump's judges bsky.app/profile/sena...

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 17h

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

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violaplayer26.bsky.social @violaplayer26.bsky.social · 8h

Ironic when you consider (and most USians don’t know) the level of support Pinochet had from the US government. Including toppling Allende (on 9/11/73) and helping him consolidate his power.

Reaping what we have sown indeed.

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violaplayer26.bsky.social @violaplayer26.bsky.social · 7h

US social media is like watching the stages of grief.
Denial-this isn’t happening
Anger-those mother %^*
Bargaining-if we’re peaceful
Depression-it doesn’t matter what we do
Acceptance-you’re under reacting

Can I suggest we skip to Acceptance and hold on to Anger as fuel for the hard work needed?

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violaplayer26.bsky.social @violaplayer26.bsky.social · 14h

It’s shit like this that made me register as an independent.

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 17h

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 20h

Another day, another attempted massacre in a country where it's easier to get an assault rifle than a passport.

Billy Joe Cagle arrived at the airport with an AR-15 and 27 rounds of ammunition. He "had the intention to inflict harm to as many people as he could."

Man who planned to shoot up Atlanta's airport is arrested in a terminal following a tip, police say

Police have arrested a man accused of threatening to open fire at the world’s busiest airport in Atlanta

www.ajc.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 15h

don't EVER bring up who someone voted for when you're deciding their worth, or if they should receive human rights.

that's fascist, no matter the politics you are gripping in your hand.

when you see tragedy, train yourself to go "that's terrible; we should help" instead of "who'd they vote for"

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Piper @bricksheep.bsky.social · 14h

The remarkable thing is everyone still playing dumb to the situation 50+ years after you could read what the fuckers who architected the southern strategy wrote.

And at some point you have to stop believing that the very intelligent people in these conversations are just missing the issue

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Piper @the-pied-piper.bsky.social · 14h

I don’t know how to capture the scale of this.

There is no pretense at all. No higher purpose. Not even the thinnest appeal to pretending to value democracy or the concept of representative government.

Just, point blank, “The purpose of this map is to increase the Republican share of seats.”

Piper @the-pied-piper.bsky.social · 15h

One of the most remarkable things about the NC redistricting is how enthusiastically Republicans will say “we didn’t use any racial data to draw these maps. We only used partisanship data” without, you know, acknowledging WHY Black North Carolinians don’t vote Republican.

Racist fucks.

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