More Nazi stuff

Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Are you a fan of the Netflix series Transatlantic? Anna Seghers was one of those German exiles the US Government especially didn't want to help due to her political views. (She did receive help from Varian Fry in Marseille and made it to Mexico). Her novel Transit is based on her experiences.

I mean, how does he know it wasn't the Visigoths?

A must read from our friend @librarianjones.com 💔

That Librarian: Amanda Jones@librarianjones.com · 6d ago

“The human toll on our profession has been devastating. Librarians are being stalked, harassed, fired, and driven from their careers.” publishingperspectives.com/2026/07/cens...

Again and again. And yes, we are angry, and not just because we are booksellers, but because we are Americans and know our own corrupt regime has made us complicit. kyivindependent.com/russia-hits-...

Russia hits another Ukrainian publisher warehouse as attacks on book industry mount

The strike sparked a fire at the publishing house’s warehouse, engulfing around 10,000 square meters (108,000 square feet), Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Syniehubov said on Telegram. One man was report...

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„DU BIST VERRÜCKT MEIN KIND, DU MUSST NACH BERLIN.” – Franz von Suppé – Now boarding direct to Berlin via our Maryland bookstore. #berlin #germany #indiebookstore

Who says you have to read something serious this weekend? Why not have a great laugh instead?

Saddened to learn about the passing of renowned El Paso author and artist Benjamin Alire Sáenz at 71. Rest in peace.

How much heroin are we supposed to add to roadkill bear for flavor?

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 6d ago

it’s legitimately fucking offensive to me as a taxpayer that this entire administration is run by people whose only goal in life is to be on television

what's a little real talk among druz'ya?

Tom Pepinsky@tompepinsky.com · 6d ago

If you're watching, tovarich, just remember that you've already given me a lifetime ban from Russia for this post tompepinsky.com/2022/03/03/h... www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...

Imagine the madness of Aguirre or Fitzcarraldo but set in our times. Two tourists disappear in the jungle, and an obsessed theater director wants this to be his next project. He drags the actors & our narrator deep into the jungle.... #deutschebuchpreis2025 bergstrompressbooks.com/en/fiction/1...

Die Holländerinnen [The Dutch Women]

Dorothee Elmigers bildgewaltiger Roman - eine mitreißende Erfahrung. Wer diesen Text betritt, fällt in den Abgrund unserer Welt und blickt mit aufgerissenen Augen in die Finsternis. Ausgezeichnet mit ...

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🎉🎉🎉 Enormous congratulations to Makenna Goodman and her incredible HELEN OF NOWHERE being longlisted to The Booker Prize 2026! We're ecstatic! 🎉🎉🎉

Presenting the Booker Prize 2026 longlist. Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's Booker Dozen: thebookerprizes.com/bp2026

82 years ago, a group of some 200 Germans, led by von Stauffenberg, attempted to assassinate Hitler. How has the anniversary of this failed attempt been viewed/used politically - during the Cold War by both Germanies & today, by parties like the AfD. bergstrompressbooks.com/en/history/1...

Das deutsche Alibi: Mythos „Stauffenberg-Attentat“ – wie der 20. Juli 1944 verklärt und politisch instrumentalisiert wird [The G

Zum 20. Juli 1944 scheint alles gesagt. Wir wissen, wie Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg die Bombe platzierte, warum der Anschlag misslang und dass es trotzdem aller Ehren wert ist. Dass aber in Wir...

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Sometimes we sit back and think about how inspiring and also incredible it is that books continue to be published, printed, packed, and arrive in our Maryland bookstore. Daily Russian attacks, distribution issues, publishers & printers working, while being worried for their

Still looking for that great read? The new arrivals are ready and waiting for your order! bergstrompressbooks.com/en/new-produ... Order before midnight Sunday and save 15% with the code: 5MZ1KUEC #indiebookstore

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

Of course you need a Kafka bag to put you Kafka books in! Lucky for you, we've got the bag and the books. What's your favorite story? #kafka

Seriously, people, act now to protect Chaco Canyon from these locusts. The regime has given the public only 14 days to comment and to protect. Thousands of years of history and culture will be destroyed for corporate greed. My photos. @raskin.house.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov

Unboxed, in the computer, and ready for you tomorrow! Look at these great fiction and non-fiction titles. Waiting for you in the bookstore. See anything exciting?

Delighted to have this conversation with @lizoksbooks.bsky.social up on @puncturedlines.bsky.social today! I'll post it properly in the next couple of days, with graphics and all. Buy the book from the most wonderful @newvesselpress.bsky.social!! puncturedlines.com/2026/07/15/c...

Creating a Vivid World: A Q&A with Lisa C. Hayden, the translator of Egana Djabbarova’s My Dreadful Body

The publication of Egana Djabbarova’s My Dreadful Body by New Vessel Press earlier this year is an important contribution to feminist russophone literature available to readers in English translati…

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It's all a grift - who gets the contracts, kickbacks, zero science.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 3w ago

That's about 2/3 the annual National Science Foundation budget.

Don't be fooled by its brevity. In his last novel before his suicide in 1942, Stefan Zweig relates the story of an Austrian tortured and held in solitary confinement by the Nazis. His only mental escape, memorizing chess moves. The cost, his grip on reality. Discover this classic tale for yourself.

stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.

Alex Aronson@alexaronson.bsky.social · 3w ago

Amy Coney Barrett just told Congress that it would be inappropriate to explain the reasoning behind the Court’s unreasoned shadow docket orders. As if unreasoned judicial orders are a thing. They are not. The reasoning is the whole point.

My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.

„Toleranz wird zum Verbrechen, wenn sie auf das Böse angewendet wird.“ “Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.” --Thomas Mann

he made the decision to abandon his previous ideals, to bury the patriotism that was once so important to him, and to become, instead, a loud, opportunistic collaborator. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Quintessential Politician of This Era

The late South Carolina senator made a mid-career turn to MAGA.

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Political scientists can speak ill of the dead and the living.

Thomas Lecaque@tlecaque.bsky.social · 4w ago

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

Why read a book? Storytelling is the oldest forms of human communication - it's in our DNA. Sharing stories binds us together, helps us understand others and ourselves better. Escape to distant planets, to the past/future. A reminder that we are not alone in facing the unknown. #read

"Are you, are you Coming to the tree..." Looking to practice your language skills this summer? Join the Mockingjay and her struggle. #studylanguages #read #dystopia