Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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PUSD is being 'held harmless' for enrollment drops due to the fire, but they are punishing our kids by taking 2 teachers. Altadena has been through enough!! Don't balance your budget on the backs of our kids! @pasadenaunified.bsky.social

🚨 NEW from me: Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump's immigration crackdown, has a financial stake of up to a quarter million dollars in Palantir, a key ICE contractor. Experts cite conflict of interest concerns Read it @pogo.org: www.pogo.org/investigatio...

Stephen Miller’s Financial Stake in ICE Contractor Palantir

Over a dozen Trump appointees in the White House and Department of Homeland Security have owned stock in the controversial company raising privacy concerns across the political spectrum.

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My new hero

L.A. TACO@lataco.bsky.social · last yr.

Protesters from No Kings Day are jumping fences to avoid being kettled and arrested by police in downtown L.A. One older woman in a wheelchair has been surrounded by police. ~ @shoton35mm.bsky.social

We found out that ICE is staying at the AC hotel in #Pasadena and now there's a couple of hundred people protesting #NoICE

Altadena Arts Magnet's playground blacktop is being used as a parking place for the heavy equipment that's spending all day on lead and asbestos filled ash. What is the remediation plan, PUSD? I hope it's not just hosing off the asphalt.

This Maxar Technologies sat image with SWIR shows what was on fire in Altadena, California this morning at 10:45 a.m. local time. Nearly everything.

Oh look! It’s a gallery of things I must now order online because it takes 20 minutes to find the Keeper of the Deodorant Key

Shabazz Stuart@shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 2y ago

I get the need to safeguard from shoplifting but this CVS setup is insane.

Let’s talk a bit about what you, an average German newspaper reader in 1933, would have learned about Hitler’s rise to power. Let’s assume you read the “Vossische Zeitung”, a comparatively liberal middle-class newspaper. In modern times, the Berlin State Library library let’s you read it online: 1/