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One big Holocaust education issue in the US is that people don't know the difference between a concentration camp and an extermination camp (though the two were often linked), so they assume that people referring to a "concentration camp" are being unfairly hyperbolic in a case like this.
It remains wild to me that during the first trump administration there was a long debate over terminology after AOC (correctly) called border internment "concentration camps" and now having concentration camps is a core domestic policy.
The purpose of that stupid debate was to normalize the idea.
The purpose of that stupid debate was to normalize the idea.
Camps where tens of thousands of politically disfavored people will be concentrated.
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December 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
One big Holocaust education issue in the US is that people don't know the difference between a concentration camp and an extermination camp (though the two were often linked), so they assume that people referring to a "concentration camp" are being unfairly hyperbolic in a case like this.
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I’m watching Face Off for the first time, and they just…they just take the faces off.
December 24, 2025 at 5:52 AM
I’m watching Face Off for the first time, and they just…they just take the faces off.
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Every single person involved with this should have "250,000 extra dead people is fine, double that would have been okay to spare my feelings" tattooed across their damn face.
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Every single person involved with this should have "250,000 extra dead people is fine, double that would have been okay to spare my feelings" tattooed across their damn face.
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
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“I will let bridges collapse unless states are racist enough” is really something
December 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
“I will let bridges collapse unless states are racist enough” is really something
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He is promising, on camera, to break his oath to the Constitution by illegally and unconstitutionally usurping the exclusive authority of Congress. Sprinkle in a little 'blowing up the Union' to boot
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
He is promising, on camera, to break his oath to the Constitution by illegally and unconstitutionally usurping the exclusive authority of Congress. Sprinkle in a little 'blowing up the Union' to boot
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You're telling me a boss interfered with her employees' work AND she didn't know what she was talking about? Sorry, doesn't pass the smell test.
December 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
You're telling me a boss interfered with her employees' work AND she didn't know what she was talking about? Sorry, doesn't pass the smell test.
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When the president says “national security” he gets additional powers
And when the president says “emergency” he gets additional powers
And when the president says “terrorists” he gets additional powers
Requires presidents who do so rarely, in good faith, only when circumstances make it necessary
And when the president says “emergency” he gets additional powers
And when the president says “terrorists” he gets additional powers
Requires presidents who do so rarely, in good faith, only when circumstances make it necessary
The White House is now citing "national security" for everything it does. Seriously, check out these headlines. It's just the last few weeks.
If you know authoritarian history, then you know how menacing this is.
If you know authoritarian history, then you know how menacing this is.
December 23, 2025 at 6:07 AM
When the president says “national security” he gets additional powers
And when the president says “emergency” he gets additional powers
And when the president says “terrorists” he gets additional powers
Requires presidents who do so rarely, in good faith, only when circumstances make it necessary
And when the president says “emergency” he gets additional powers
And when the president says “terrorists” he gets additional powers
Requires presidents who do so rarely, in good faith, only when circumstances make it necessary
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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Between the TP USA rally, the 60 Minutes CECOT piece and the daily ICE horror show videos, there should be no doubt this regime is 100% capable of genocide, concentration camps, the whole works.
December 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Between the TP USA rally, the 60 Minutes CECOT piece and the daily ICE horror show videos, there should be no doubt this regime is 100% capable of genocide, concentration camps, the whole works.
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lol at Bari not knowing about the distribution process for foreign markets and not asking and no one volunteering the information.
December 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
lol at Bari not knowing about the distribution process for foreign markets and not asking and no one volunteering the information.
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Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
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You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
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December 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.
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If you needed more evidence that Bari Weiss isn't the sharpest crayon in the box, the fact that she (a) personally spiked the story (b) in a way that left her fingerprints all over the decision (c) at the last possible minute, thus guaranteeing maximal exposure and blowback.
December 22, 2025 at 3:53 AM
If you needed more evidence that Bari Weiss isn't the sharpest crayon in the box, the fact that she (a) personally spiked the story (b) in a way that left her fingerprints all over the decision (c) at the last possible minute, thus guaranteeing maximal exposure and blowback.
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… why is this real…?
December 22, 2025 at 4:36 AM
… why is this real…?
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Yes. The fascist politicians and billionaires who are currently ruining the country are massively mediocre thinkers and monumentally uncreative chumps. They have the advantage of a total lack of morals and a willingness to commit any crime imaginable. But they're losers and they will lose.
they are not brilliant.
the billionaires and institutions in this country are just more craven than we could have ever imagined, even in our most cynical imaginings.
(don't tell me you could imagine. I won't give you a medal.)
the billionaires and institutions in this country are just more craven than we could have ever imagined, even in our most cynical imaginings.
(don't tell me you could imagine. I won't give you a medal.)
December 22, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Yes. The fascist politicians and billionaires who are currently ruining the country are massively mediocre thinkers and monumentally uncreative chumps. They have the advantage of a total lack of morals and a willingness to commit any crime imaginable. But they're losers and they will lose.
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The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
At least six career staff were placed on leave after DHS opened an investigation into whether they misled the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, into taking the test.
dlvr.it
December 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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"effectively unprecedented"
December 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
"effectively unprecedented"
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It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
December 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
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An administration that just straight up hates the country
Trump denies disaster declarations for Colorado fires, flooding: ‘We won’t stop fighting’ trib.al/wfmTdLL
Trump denies disaster declarations for Colorado fires, flooding: ‘We won’t stop fighting’
President Donald Trump denied two disaster declaration requests from Colorado that would have allowed the state to receive federal assistance — a move the state’s members of Congress plan to …
trib.al
December 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
An administration that just straight up hates the country
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Wild attempt to adapt the horniest book in the world under the hayes code, classic for a reason
The Postman Always Rings Twice (the original) is on HBO Max through Dec 31. Generates serious heat. Dunno if the leads got along, but they sure look at each other like they mean it. Some unintentional humor in the way the diner owner serves his wife up to the drifter like a slice of peach pie.
December 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Wild attempt to adapt the horniest book in the world under the hayes code, classic for a reason