Germans remember well that fateful day ninety-two years ago this week: February 27, 1933. It started when the government, in the midst of a worldwide economic crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack.
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An 11-year old girl was literally killed by the cruelty saturating her school in Texas. Is this what Americans are willing to stand for?
All we need to do now, is to all become wealthy, white Christian Republican Congressmen and we'll be set. Or, maybe those of us who are not need to make our voices heard.
It has been less than a month since Trump stood in the Capitol Rotunda, his hand nowhere near a Bible, and lied his way through the Oath of Office. And already he's calling himself king?
There’s so much evidence of Trump’s and Musk’s apartheid leanings, it’s pretty much impossible to deny any longer. Which raises the question: Is our media in with the Nazis, or just committed to Not-Seeing them?
"I guess the thing that bothers me most about America is its inclination to make great progress, followed by its zeal to erase it."
America is not yet near where Germany was at the peak of Hitler's power, but Germany wasn't always there either, and that is the point.
Are Elon's actions the sort of drug-addled vision of the future people thought they were voting for? Not likely. But the price of eggs had to be dealt with!
Simple things of beauty and pure help, that we want to grow and nurture, are what are actually worthy of the lion's share of our attention and devotion.
What we saw on Nov. 5 was the real-life equivalent of school administrators handing over the running of classrooms to bullies, fools and miscreants. Or a prison warden handing murderous inmates the keys.
The parallels between 1930s Germany and today's Republican Party are jarring, and need to be taken very, very seriously. So why aren't they?
Silence in the face of oppression is compliance, it's participation.
While Elmo runs rampant, Orange Donald has mostly been golfing, watching Fox News, stubby-fingered-rage-posting and occasionally flamboyantly signing a blizzard of largely illegal executive orders for the cameras.
May we who oppose the cruelty on display, never become so devoid of lightness that we resemble those who celebrate that cruelty.
Florida's legislature refused to act on DeSantis's orders, belatedly remembering they’re a co-equal branch of government, channeled their inner Bugs Bunny, and proclaimed, “Of course, you realize this means war!”
There is no more important message that could be delivered to the American people in 2025 than the ones JFK was set to deliver on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.
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