Peter Hilliker
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Peter Hilliker
@petehilliker09.bsky.social
Keeping up with global politics in hopes to keep myself and those around me educated in such a frightening time.
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I want to share with you a piece from a German documentarian on the chilling parallels between ICE and Hitler’s Brown Shirts (reproduced with his permission). Please read and share.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-ice-and-hitlers-brown-shirts
Trump’s ICE and Hitler’s Brown Shirts
Lessons From Two Eras
robertreich.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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To: European leaders

From: Robert Reich

It is impossible to appease a tyrant.

Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/memo-to-europe-remember-neville-chamberlain
January 21, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
January 20, 2026 at 3:50 PM