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The Department of Labor has just posted its second Nazi slogan (in the original, "Germany for Germans") in the last two days.
No one believes this is a coincidence.
They are telling America exactly who they are and what they intend.
No one believes this is a coincidence.
They are telling America exactly who they are and what they intend.
January 14, 2026 at 4:00 AM
The Department of Labor has just posted its second Nazi slogan (in the original, "Germany for Germans") in the last two days.
No one believes this is a coincidence.
They are telling America exactly who they are and what they intend.
No one believes this is a coincidence.
They are telling America exactly who they are and what they intend.
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Just fucking terrifying.
(🚨) The four PROOF reports on Minneapolis—of which the last, just published, is below—have done all they can possibly do to exhaustively detail, in near-book-length form, exactly what happened there, why it happened, and why it’s the start of something far worse.
WARNING: Reader discretion advised.
WARNING: Reader discretion advised.
Trump Administration to Criminally Investigate Beloved Mother of Three It Already Murdered—and Her Grieving Widow, Too
What this regime has already done—and is now planning to do—to a citizen its agent killed in cold blood is among the most contemptible executive-branch abuses of power America has ever seen.
sethabramson.substack.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Just fucking terrifying.
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We’ve invaded countries for using chemical weapons on their own people
Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows
The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.
The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.
October 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
We’ve invaded countries for using chemical weapons on their own people
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Given today’s news, I was recently introduced to this piece by Patricia Routledge, and i always found it really moving.
October 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Given today’s news, I was recently introduced to this piece by Patricia Routledge, and i always found it really moving.
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Why is everything in the UK of worth now "unsustainable"?
October 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Why is everything in the UK of worth now "unsustainable"?
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One reason the revolt on disability benefits is looking so substantial is the line being used to defend it lacks any integrity.
To claim that the purpose of cutting PIP - a non-means tested benefit - is to help people back into work requires saying something untrue.
To claim that the purpose of cutting PIP - a non-means tested benefit - is to help people back into work requires saying something untrue.
June 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
One reason the revolt on disability benefits is looking so substantial is the line being used to defend it lacks any integrity.
To claim that the purpose of cutting PIP - a non-means tested benefit - is to help people back into work requires saying something untrue.
To claim that the purpose of cutting PIP - a non-means tested benefit - is to help people back into work requires saying something untrue.
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The photojournalist Sebastião Salgado, who passed away last month, at the age of 81, documented some of the greatest human horrors of the past century, but he said, “I never. . . photograph the misery.”
Sebastião Salgado’s View of Humanity
The photojournalist documented some of the greatest human horrors of the past century, but he said, “I never, I never, photograph the misery.”
nyer.cm
June 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The photojournalist Sebastião Salgado, who passed away last month, at the age of 81, documented some of the greatest human horrors of the past century, but he said, “I never. . . photograph the misery.”
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For people without this specific resource available to them, the number of friends and family that will need to spend their time to help someone apply, it’s an insane amount of waste, but that’s not on the government balance sheet, so that’s acceptable. It’s infuriating
March 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
For people without this specific resource available to them, the number of friends and family that will need to spend their time to help someone apply, it’s an insane amount of waste, but that’s not on the government balance sheet, so that’s acceptable. It’s infuriating
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I remember considering applying for a benefit when a family member had a severe vision problem. The forms were ludicrous. We didn't apply in the end, as the disability was thankfully only temporary, but I can imagine how soul-destroying it must be for those with intractable problems.
The reality of claiming PIP: a 🧵
1) To claim PIP you have to describe in excruciating detail all the ways you cannot function. This means that you are forced to think in very detailed terms exactly how disabled you are, which often has a devastating effect on the mental health of the applicant 1/?
1) To claim PIP you have to describe in excruciating detail all the ways you cannot function. This means that you are forced to think in very detailed terms exactly how disabled you are, which often has a devastating effect on the mental health of the applicant 1/?
March 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I remember considering applying for a benefit when a family member had a severe vision problem. The forms were ludicrous. We didn't apply in the end, as the disability was thankfully only temporary, but I can imagine how soul-destroying it must be for those with intractable problems.
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A learning disability lasts a whole life. It's not a condition that can be ‘cured’ and the number of people with a learning disability claiming benefits has not increased significantly in recent years. So, why should they be penalised?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ministers struggle to quell MP concerns over benefit cuts
Ministers have been meeting Labour MPs worried about new restrictions to disability payments.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
A learning disability lasts a whole life. It's not a condition that can be ‘cured’ and the number of people with a learning disability claiming benefits has not increased significantly in recent years. So, why should they be penalised?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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People living with disability = some of the bravest people I've met; they're also some of the most able, where able = ability to cope with stuff that a large swathe of the population never have to think about. We must do way more as a society to support and learn from those less able than ourselves.
Most of the time, I have an uneasy peace accord with my body. We don't like each other, but I've accepted her for what she is. I don't spend a lot of time dwelling. That's just a way to suffer. You have to learn to find the meaning in what you have
But sometimes, I see flashes of what I used to be
But sometimes, I see flashes of what I used to be
March 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
People living with disability = some of the bravest people I've met; they're also some of the most able, where able = ability to cope with stuff that a large swathe of the population never have to think about. We must do way more as a society to support and learn from those less able than ourselves.
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Not one word about how they will improve public transportation to help us get to get to work.
Not one word on how they will allow disabled people time off to attend a hospital appointment due to their disability.
Not one word on how they will allow disabled people time off to attend a hospital appointment due to their disability.
Morning briefing: 1m people to have disability benefits cut by Labour — The Times and The Sunday Times
Top stories and features from today’s paper.
apple.news
March 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Not one word about how they will improve public transportation to help us get to get to work.
Not one word on how they will allow disabled people time off to attend a hospital appointment due to their disability.
Not one word on how they will allow disabled people time off to attend a hospital appointment due to their disability.
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The Times reports people will only be eligible for PIP if they score at least 4 points ***in a single activity*** (and more overall). This specifically discriminates against people with mental illness, who generally score fewer points across multiple areas. It would be an absolute disaster. 1/3
March 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The Times reports people will only be eligible for PIP if they score at least 4 points ***in a single activity*** (and more overall). This specifically discriminates against people with mental illness, who generally score fewer points across multiple areas. It would be an absolute disaster. 1/3
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To get ministers to learn what it's like being on disability benefits.
For the next five years, MP wages are to drop down to just £9,100 a year. With constant paperwork, assessments done for any MP expense claims put forward.
For the next five years, MP wages are to drop down to just £9,100 a year. With constant paperwork, assessments done for any MP expense claims put forward.
March 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
To get ministers to learn what it's like being on disability benefits.
For the next five years, MP wages are to drop down to just £9,100 a year. With constant paperwork, assessments done for any MP expense claims put forward.
For the next five years, MP wages are to drop down to just £9,100 a year. With constant paperwork, assessments done for any MP expense claims put forward.
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So this (from www.alliance-scotland.org.uk/policy-and-r...) is about access to social care rather than disability payments, but it captures the kind of degrading hoops that disabled people are made to jump through to justify support. We need less, not more, of this bollocks.
!["... was extremely uncomfortable but did not feel that they were able to refuse. They feared that if they did not comply then they would be denied the support they needed. They described the experience as follows: “The OT says, ‘well I need to see you stripped off and how you do it and wash. Now what do you do for soap and things, if your hands are that bad?’ So, I got my shower gel […] and swooshed it round and got a face cloth, you know, and – so I had to re-wash myself totally, in front of the OT. The pair of them standing taking notes and here’s me trying to kid on I wasn’t – it felt –’ [interviewee unable to continue].” The interviewee queried whether it was necessary to undress in front of the social work professionals in order to demonstrate their process. They stated that the social work professionals responded to their query by saying, “and what’s the problem with somebody seeing you like this?” The interviewee replied that their discomfort with nudity in front of people they did not know stemmed from their religious and cultural background:"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a2qkt4vppgxf6blhgrizicic/bafkreib7uyyh7rkzg43fh6emycy6ikupibv45yhctqy3htekf5n7ew7c2u@jpeg)
!["“I said, ‘well, I’m [specific age], I was brought up in a Catholic household, with the best will in the world it’s held.’ I’d dressed and undressed the night I got married without showing an inch of flesh. It sounds ridiculous to a younger person because it’s different now.” This reason was not deemed an acceptable justification by the social work professionals; the interviewee felt sufficiently pressured that they then complied and showered in front ..."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a2qkt4vppgxf6blhgrizicic/bafkreicm6mwj47hl72gsilbmysfvfpfsufwqb4qnjtcs4zunheuevdtyfm@jpeg)
March 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
So this (from www.alliance-scotland.org.uk/policy-and-r...) is about access to social care rather than disability payments, but it captures the kind of degrading hoops that disabled people are made to jump through to justify support. We need less, not more, of this bollocks.
The Government is planning “catastrophic” cuts that experts say will force disabled people into poverty. Don’t think that’s right? Add your name now. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/no-cruel...
NO cruel cuts to benefits
The Government is planning “catastrophic” cuts that experts say will force disabled people into poverty. Don’t think that’s right? Add your name now.
act.38degrees.org.uk
March 12, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The Government is planning “catastrophic” cuts that experts say will force disabled people into poverty. Don’t think that’s right? Add your name now. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/no-cruel...
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The birth of steampunk: the legendary and prophetic science fiction work of French illustrator and author Albert Robida, published in 1885. Wonderfully illustrated, it depicts life in the 20th century. Aerial travel, video communication, floating sky palaces and equal rights for women.
February 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The birth of steampunk: the legendary and prophetic science fiction work of French illustrator and author Albert Robida, published in 1885. Wonderfully illustrated, it depicts life in the 20th century. Aerial travel, video communication, floating sky palaces and equal rights for women.
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I wonder what the rest of the world is saying about us now. Berlin newspaper.
January 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I wonder what the rest of the world is saying about us now. Berlin newspaper.
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Important follow-up on my pinned report and my recent post about the takeover at OPM: The Washington Post has confirmed the claims below.
There is indeed a takeover of the federal government happening that is being coordinated by people outside the government who have gotten access to U.S. servers.
There is indeed a takeover of the federal government happening that is being coordinated by people outside the government who have gotten access to U.S. servers.
January 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Important follow-up on my pinned report and my recent post about the takeover at OPM: The Washington Post has confirmed the claims below.
There is indeed a takeover of the federal government happening that is being coordinated by people outside the government who have gotten access to U.S. servers.
There is indeed a takeover of the federal government happening that is being coordinated by people outside the government who have gotten access to U.S. servers.
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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Pitching one of those post Bake Off competitive crafting shows, this time based around the making of fancy hats. I'm calling it Who Wants to Be a Milliner? ✨...
January 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Pitching one of those post Bake Off competitive crafting shows, this time based around the making of fancy hats. I'm calling it Who Wants to Be a Milliner? ✨...