Convincing. A must-read. However, as someone who worked for a long time trying to convince governments to do things they didn't want to do, I'm not sure humanity's leaders will address the issue before it's too late.
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Convincing. A must-read. However, as someone who worked for a long time trying to convince governments to do things they didn't want to do, I'm not sure humanity's leaders will address the issue before it's too late.
The latest from the Antifa Tabernacle Choir
https://youtu.be/Vs24tGpzxWc
The whole world knows the truth.
From the front cover of French newspaper Le Monde. By Guffo.
“When there is no longer any place to talk to each other, politics becomes a face-off between the isolated individual and the grand narratives of the media – and in this face-off, discourses that offer simple answers have a structural advantage,” the study adds.
Rough translation: "Too many powerful people are suspects - including my bosses - so, we're not going to investigate. To hell with the victims. To hell with justice."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/01/epstein-files-todd-blanche-deputy-ag
"Slovakia’s prime minister told EU leaders at a summit last week that a meeting with Trump left him shocked by the US president’s state of mind, five European diplomats briefed on the conversation said.
Robert Fico, one of the few EU leaders to frequently support Trump’s stance on Europe’s weaknesses, was concerned about the US president’s 'psychological state,' two of the diplomats said. Fico used the word 'dangerous' to describe how the US president came across..."
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-florida-robert-fico-eu-summit-nato/
27 January 1917 | A Polish woman, Anna Bak, was born in Częstochowa. A tailor.
In #Auschwitz from 19 January 1943.
No. 29649
She perished in the camp on 22 June 1943.
Italians [RIGHTLY] furious over deployment of ICE agents to bolster US security at Winter Olympics
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/27/europe/italy-ice-agents-security-olympics-intl
"While designed to incapacitate or control a person without causing death or permanent injury, they can cause serious or fatal injuries, especially when used improperly."
(sometimes intentionally improperly)
https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2026/01/27/less-lethal-weapons-guide/
@andrewstroehlein ... Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about 'Western civilization,' while armed brutes try to tear it down by force." 2/2
@andrewstroehlein "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. 1/2
"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that (the depraved are) the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave."
This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this day last year, I wrote this for Human Rights Watch. Seems even more relevant today.
Sure, let's ask the Trump regime's murderous masked thugs to come over to Europe and "help with security" - wtf?
Trump regime thugs are murdering people in the streets, kidnapping children, and sending people to be tortured.
While that's all happening, it may be easy to miss this: the regime is also shredding the idea of privacy.
They use nazi-style slogans.
They wear nazi-style coats.
They make nazi-style salutes.
The Trump regime has no new ideas. They only know how to imitate past mass murderers - in words and in actions.
So does everyone outside the USA
@lnxtx I think that was tried once in the 1860s, and it didn't go so well.
Every American owes a huge debt of gratitude to the brave people in Minnesota who are risking their lives to video the horrific crimes of masked thugs under Trump's vicious regime.
All of us who are not there should be sharing their recorded truth about these crimes and doing whatever we can to see that this reign of terror ends, and the perpetrators are brought to justice.