100%. when you take a step back and realize how much insane shit has been completely normalized, it’ll make you stop in your tracks. have had several of those moments in the last month.

ps: next time you should throw them for a loop by pointing out that Nuremberg was arguably a failure (many, many war criminals got off scot-free because we needed West Germany as a Cold War ally) and that this time we'll need to do the job right.

what's the building where the Municipal Services Building is now?

turning a double murder into a lifetime of grift really sums up the conservative movement in the US today!

and, of course, the fact that most journalists, public figures, and politicians are Twitter power users has therefore warped their perspective on public opinion and, by extension, discourse in general

"thank you for your attention to this matter" was a nice touch

that story was totally wild. checked all the "only in Philly" boxes. walked by the museum many times and always wondered about it, since it looked like a time capsule from 1989.

anyway, good to know he's staying on brand!

is this the guy who was living in **ahem** running the Polish-American museum in Old City?

Yup. Check out Jeffrey Herf’s “Reactionary Modernism” for the classic exploration of that dichotomy in the Nazi context.

they are planning to, though.

relatedly: imagine being so narcissistic that you need the entire world to love you because daddy didn't love you enough.

how this whiny, pathetic beta became the paragon of alpha male masculinity will always remain a mystery to me.

the deranged White House website about January 6 is the terminally online Trump regime's attempted equivalent of the Ehrentempel ("temple of honor") built by the Nazis in Munich.

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrente...

they want it to be their Beer Hall Putsch so badly, even down to the dead “patriots”

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

sending you lots of love, Dan. been a fan of yours going back to the Deadspin days. so sorry you have to deal with this and get well soon!