Tom LeBlanc
@twleblanc.bsky.social
☝️Fall Colors I'm not crazy about avatars with two people. I hate having to guess who's who.
"The president wasn't even mad about the Saddam Hussein comparison! But he was very upset about the Cheesecake Factory" -- here's Obama's full riff about the "phony outrage" over his Trump/Cheesecake Factory comments and how it illustrates that "these are not serious people"
The US periodically murders, without trial, people in boats that it has deemed to be involved in drug smuggling. Again: this is murder, plain and simple. There is no law, national or international, that can even pretend to justify it. The US has simply claimed the right to murder whoever it wants.
U.S. military says 5 were killed by a strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific
Trump has sought to justify the attacks by saying they stem the flow of drugs into the U.S., but critics have questioned the overall legality of the boat strikes as well as their effectiveness.
pbs.org
29 October 1904 | Polish Jew Chaim Sznajder was born in Warsaw. He emigrated to France. On 25 June 1942 he was deported from #Pithiviers to #Auschwitz. No. 42586 He perished in the camp on 12 August 1942. His wife Marjam survived the war. --
29 October 1913 | A Dutch Jew, Alexander Pach, was born in Amsterdam. A clerk. In #Auschwitz from 17 July 1942. No. 48310 He perished in the camp on 10 August 1942. --- Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
28 October 1934 | Dutch Jewish girl, Esther Louise Pachter, was born in Amsterdam. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in October 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- Children at Auschwitz. Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"
“This is the first time ever that we have had to engage in scenario planning to safeguard against potential federal interference in elections…It seems like the federal government is now adversarial to the states.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/u...
Election Officials Fear Trump Administration’s Interference in Midterms Voting
State and local plans for Election Day include how to react to potential ICE raids, misbehavior by federal election monitors and attempts to seize votes or machines.
nytimes.com
Winning is not enough. There is no incentive for DOJ to stop. Indeed, they may well get ‘atta boys for having angered federal court judges. Sanctions, contempt and ultimately impeachment are essential
Losing in Court Isn’t Enough; DOJ Must Be Sanctioned
🚨 6 Days to the Midterms 🚨
open.substack.com
28 October 1892 | A Polish Jew, Josef Brandt, was born in Tarnów. A clerk. In #Auschwitz from 2 April 1942. No. 28747 He perished in the camp on 19 May 1942. --- Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
28 October 1938 | Dutch Jewish boy Rudi René Hond was born in Amsterdam. In August 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- A short video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
The funny thing about this is that the plane will land and ICE will NOT be there to take the foreign criminal into custody and export him back to his country, as they claim is their job. Just one more self-own for the party of personal responsibility.🤷♂️
I appreciate there is good public interest reporting going on. I do however notice this series of reports was met with glacial silence in the profession, a deathly hush that endured until the writer won awards, at which point it became clear everyone had read it www.theguardian.com/news/2022/ju...
The Moscow moves: how Mandelson’s firm helped Uber reach Russian elite
Leak shows how the former Labour minister used his access to pro-Kremlin oligarchs, including some now under sanctions
theguardian.com
28 October 1893 | A Pole, Karol Kumuniecki, was born in Żywiec. A Polish Army officer. In #Auschwitz from 7 January 1941. No. 8961 He was shot in the camp on 25 January 1943. --- Watch a short video about Block 11 and its yard where shooting executions were held: https://t.co/VBgDxkWLMa
Dr. Gladys West's complex calculations & computer modeling laid the vital foundation for the creation of GPS. Her data analysis culminated in an incredibly accurate, detailed mathematical model of the Earth's true shape, known as a geoid. 🧵 She was born #OTD in 1930. #WomenInSTEM
On this day in 1941, a 44 year old Polish man perished in Auschwitz after being incarcerated for 1 year, 1 month and days. Before being imprisoned he was a mechanic. His name was Antoni Sroczyński Support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
Salinas community members stood together and chased ICE away 💪
🔥🔥BREAKING: Drones struck the Azot chemical plant in russia’s Tula region overnight, sparking a fire. One of russia’s largest chemical plants, it produces materials used in explosives manufacturing for the russian military.
Some Lula supporters apparently shouted his name out their window when it was announced he won and a cop pointed his gun at him and they took what is possibly the greatest image of a cop ever taken, like genuinely this would go hard as a cover for a Rage album its so poetic.
27 October 1918 | Norwegian Jewish woman, Tonny Segal, was born in Kristiania (today Oslo). She arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. --- Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
ICE Remember this
𝙾𝙻𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙰 🤍 🇲🇽 𝟺𝚃𝙷 𝚃𝚁𝙰𝙽𝚂𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝙴𝚁@olivia4t.bsky.social · 2d ago🆘 Ms Rachel: “Moms - #ICE broke the wrist of a 20-year-old student who has special needs on his way to school. They had the wrong person. He’s a US citizen, not that it would be okay if he wasn’t a US citizen. They left him on the side of the road with no medical care..
Brazilian judge orders investigation into JD Vance illegally financing Bolsonaro's campaign in Brasil www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...
Brazilian judge orders investigation into JD Vance donor network
A presidential candidate in Brazil alleged that Vance’s Rockbridge Network discussed potential aid to the campaign of Flávio Bolsonaro. Rockbridge denies involvement.
washingtonpost.com
On this day in 1924, a stateless Jewish boy was born in Brno. Raised in an orphanage, he tried to emigrate to Peru in 1940. On 8 Sep 1942 he was deported to Theresienstadt, and on 1 Oct 1944 to Auschwitz, where he perished. His name was Emil Weigl. Support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
On this day in 1936, a Jewish girl born in Žatec. On 3 Aug 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt with her parents, and on 20 Aug 1942 to Riga. They all perished in the Shoah. Her name was Doris Friedová.
