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I can't believe Elon Musk called me a groomer and made me lose my job, all the while he'd begged Epstein to let him rape children.

February 1, 2026 at 1:02 AM

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JoCat

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Also fuck ICE

January 27, 2026 at 9:55 AM

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JoCat

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fine Gobbo, I'll teach you Fireball

January 27, 2026 at 9:50 AM

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Jacob Geller

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The best time to make comparisons to the Holocaust is *before* they start throwing people in concentration camps. We're already too late for that. Why teach about history if you're not willing to do this? Why remember it at all?

January 27, 2026 at 1:30 PM

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Jacob Geller

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The US Holocaust Museum currently has an exhibit called "Americans and the Holocaust" in which it repeatedly highlights how America failed to respond to the clear and obvious crisis that was happening to European Jews. And yet, to compare this to other historical events is "unacceptable"?

It was very difficult to immigrate to the United States. In 1924, the US Congress passed the Johnson-Reed Act in order to set limits on the maximum number of immigrant visas that could be issued per year to people born in each country.

These quotas were designed to limit the immigration of people considered “racially undesirable,” including southern and eastern European Jews. After 1938, only 27,370 people born in Germany could immigrate to the United States each year.

Potential immigrants to the United States had to collect many types of documents, including proof of identity, police certificates, medical clearances, tax documents, a ship ticket, and exit permits prior to obtaining a visa. Most also had to find an American financial sponsor who had the resources to guarantee they would never become a burden on the United States.

The US government made no exceptions for refugees escaping persecution, and did not adjust the immigration laws in the 1930s or 1940s. The waiting lists for US immigrant visas grew as hundreds of thousands of Jews attempted to flee Europe.

The St. Louis
On May 13, 1939, the German transatlantic liner MS St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany, for Havana, Cuba, carrying 937 passengers, most of them German Jews. When the ship arrived in Havana, the passengers learned that the landing certificates they had purchased were invalid, and the Cuban government forced the St. Louis to leave its harbor. As the ship sailed toward Miami, passengers sent telegrams to loved ones and public officials in the United States pleading for assistance. But they did not have entry visas, and the US government did not allow the passengers to land.

What Happened to the St. Louis Passengers?
After the St. Louis passengers failed to find refuge in the Western Hemisphere, the ship sailed back to Europe. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee aid organization worked with the US State Department to persuade four countries—Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium—to admit the passengers. One year later, many of the refugees found themselves living under Nazi occupation again, after Germany invaded multiple western European countries. Of the 937 St. Louis passengers, 254 were murdered in the Holocaust.

In early 1943, US State Department officials blocked reports about the mass murder of Jews from reaching the United States. Some at the State Department wanted to avoid any increase in public pressure to aid Jews and thought that if the American people did not have information about the atrocities, they would not protest.

In April, US and British representatives met in Bermuda to discuss the possibility of assisting European Jews. Neither country, however, intended to loosen its restrictive immigration policies or to actually take any decisive rescue action.

Congressional Hearings
In November 1943, a group of congressmen, influenced by activist Peter Bergson, introduced bipartisan resolutions in the House of Representatives and Senate calling for President Roosevelt to create a government commission to rescue Europe’s Jews. In secret testimony before Congress, Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long declared that the State Department already had admitted 580,000 refugees, a claim soon publicly proven false.

Treasury Department Investigation
At the same time, US Treasury Department staff investigated the State Department’s delays and obstruction in sending relief into Europe to aid Jewish refugees. They discovered that State Department officials had deliberately suppressed reports about the murder of Jews. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. agreed to present their findings to President Roosevelt.

January 27, 2026 at 1:24 PM

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Jacob Geller

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I have felt increasingly out of step with mainstream Judaism over the past several years, but I cannot imagine how you could work at a Holocaust Museum and envision your role in this way. I just cannot imagine.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13d

The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.

Tweet from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges."

January 27, 2026 at 1:17 PM

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i know it's 90% off but a warning to potential customers not to buy the steam version of heavy rain. it is not safe. it installs heavy rain on your computer

January 13, 2026 at 2:50 AM

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Oregon 🕎🎲

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Biggie and Tupac be like ..

January 10, 2026 at 8:51 PM

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brettangell.bsky.social

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Morning sunshine at John’s Bay, Maine. Plein air watercolor from summer.

#pleinairwatercolor #maine #summer #watercolor

January 11, 2026 at 12:16 PM

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Cashew

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The canine’s study

January 3, 2026 at 4:40 PM

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HOW THE FUCK ARE WE GONNA RUN VENEZUELA WHEN WE CANT RUN OUR OWN NATION

January 3, 2026 at 5:44 PM

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DahRui! 🍉 | @GianMLG in Twitter !!

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i love this dumb sweater trend going on 😭 it looks so silly

December 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM

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Jacob Geller

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Jacob Geller

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This is exactly what I do upon finishing a podcast

James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · Dec 8

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

December 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM

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been getting into tf2

November 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM

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JoCat

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thread of some of our favorite photos
Groom's party including my best 'man' Kate and her sword at the ready to cut down anyone who needs to be

November 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM

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ceej

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no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

unioncity.bsky.social @unioncity.bsky.social · Nov 9

I for one will welcome our Chinese overlords #Beerjacket #China #Tsingtao

November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM

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Bruce Little

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All 31 Moms for Liberty candidates lost their 2025 elections!

November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM

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“Yeah man, a year ago I put an ad up on craigslist for a couple roommates, but I enjoyed the company so much I opened up our place to whoever! And that’s how we started our commune!”