| second: The correct response to the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau was not better training for the guards.
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. . . the U.S. is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich and just before the start of World War II. In addition, the Department of Homeland Security, in its language and images in press releases and on social media, is directly aping Nazi propaganda.
It’s a process.
The death camps were launched after almost a decade after the Nazi concentration camp system was first created. Before, during, and after the Nazi era, other concentration camp systems have existed around the world.
Concentration camps involve the mass detention of civilians without due process on the basis of political, racial, ethnic, or religious identity. And that is where we’re at right now. . . . |
| Brenda: Stress test today. ACK! |
| second: Why disgraced Rush Hour director Brett Ratner was the only man for the Melania Trump documentary. The director, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women, lost a lucrative production deal during the #MeToo era. Now, as Kevin E G Perry reports, he is plotting a Hollywood comeback with an expensive documentary about the First Lady and Trump-backed plans to revive his most famous franchise. He is set to direct Rush Hour 4, a sequel to his blockbuster action-comedy trilogy, which Paramount greenlit after President Donald Trump personally requested it. [go to link] |
| second: 6ixStringJoker, there is no evidence that Selena Gomez "flipped" or changed her political stance. Instead, she has continued her vocal advocacy for immigrant rights, expressing distress over immigration crackdowns. She faced criticism, including calls for her deportation from a former political candidate, for a tearful Instagram post regarding undocumented immigrant arrests. But I expect 6ixStringJoker to continue insisting that up is down and evil is good because that is what Trumptards do. |
| second: On Monday India and the European Union concluded negotiations on a breakthrough free trade agreement. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission — the EU’s executive branch — called it “the mother of all deals.” That description is somewhat over the top. Yet the agreement is in fact historic and important in ways that go beyond economics. For it shows that the world is becoming ever more estranged from an erratic, abusive United States. In other words, other countries are moving, step by step, toward an economic divorce from America.
Unlike Donald Trump, who thinks of international trade as a zero-sum game, the Europeans and the Indians understand that a free trade agreement between them is a very good deal for both parties. [go to link] |
6ixStringJack: Your little J6 narrative is precicely the reason why you lost Selena Gomez. She woke up and realized what an asshole she looked like talking about what tiny little thing happened one day 5 years ago when we see nothing but chaos in the streets brought about by your cult every single day and she couldn't live with that anymore.  |
| 6ixStringJack: Yeah. Trump had a stroke. Sure buddy. He's still 1,000 times quicker and brighter than your pudding-brained ex-president that you lied and told everyone was okay until he flubbed that debate and you had a fucking meltdown. You're fucked dude. It's hilarious watching you break down and watch what's left of your evil little spirit die off in real time. |
| 6ixStringJack: You would know. You're the only authoritarian here. |
| second: Authoritarianism doesn’t disappear with the news cycle. The administration’s automatic lies about the killings and slander of the victims are less a cover-up of facts than a display of utter contempt for them. Trump, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, FBI Director Kash Patel, and other top officials seem to invite incredulity as a way to flex their power: We say black is white. Agree or you’re a criminal. When Stephen Miller recently claimed that geopolitics is ruled by the “iron laws” of “strength” and “force,” he was expressing the administration’s approach to domestic governance as well. Those words are iron laws on American streets. [go to link]/ |
| second: In Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, Trump and his supporters were prevented from stealing an election and overthrowing the Constitution by democratic institutions—Congress, the courts, the police, the media, and public opinion. But the insurrection never ended. By the time Trump returned to power and pardoned the insurrectionists, almost half of the country believed that January 6 was a patriotic demonstration, a false-flag operation, or just no big deal. Throughout 2025, institutions that once restrained the presidency weakened or fell away one by one, until earlier this month Trump told The New York Times that the only limit to his power is his own mind. That same day, January 7, authoritarianism had its predictable consequence in freezing Minneapolis with the execution of Renee Good. [go to link]/ |
| second: All the evidence that Trump had a stroke: Dr. Bruce Davidson joins Joanna Coles to explain the evidence suggesting that Trump likely suffered a prior stroke, highlighting everything from his reported daily dose of 325 milligrams of aspirin to his garbled speech. [go to link] Dr. Bruce Davidson explains to Joanna Coles why stroke survivors often suffer from sleep disturbances and depression, two symptoms that have been seen in Trump. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: You're nothing but an online bully, and that's all you've ever been. The world is tuning all of you and your ilk out completely and we're leaving you behind. Forever. |
| 6ixStringJack: Nobody except for Ted believes that you have any daughters. You've never had sex in your life, let alone did you get married. Stop fucking your cats. |
| second: 6ix, I post to get your instantaneous reactions, which my daughter reads. She and her colleagues are "concerned" once you lose medicaid coverage. |
| 6ixStringJack: You stopped looking in the mirror decades ago and didn't even realize at any point in time that you became everything you have always professed to everyone else that you hate. And right now the blinders are coming off and everyone is seeing people just like you for exactly who you are. |
| 6ixStringJack: You just lost Selena Gomez now too, man. Everybody hates you white liberal motherfuckers. |
| 6ixStringJack: But you keep going to more extreme, dark holes in the internet like the Kiev Independent and Andrew Tobias' shittakes and whatever other nooks and crannies you can still manage to slurp up some of your poison like the dog you are. Your cup once runneth over, but now the well is drying up and you're running out of places to get your daily fix. |
6ixStringJack: Your only problem in life is that you haven't heeded a single one of my warnings up until now, and the only reason for that is because you haven't personally paid the price for not doing so. You will though, and then you will.  |
| second: Exclusive: Trump's top envoy negotiating Ukraine's fate displays 'shocking' lack of knowledge about war, politics [go to link] |
| second: Americans’ confidence in the US economy falls sharply in January to lowest level since 2014.
But c’mon — why so glum? Corporate profits are strong and billionaires have never done better! Isn’t that enough? [go to link] |