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So, waking up to Holocaust Remembrance Day on the tv. Was just struck by the interesting and terrifying detail from a podcast I had just heard that the famous arbeit mach frei portal was put there along with the extension of the rail line into Auschwitz from the rail station some distance away in May 1944. The Final Solution had been in full swing since 1942. The Nazi regime had just invaded their ostensible ally Hungary in March 1944 -- who had until then had resisted handing over to them their Jewish citizens -- with a goal being the elimination of Hungary's Jews. So, the rail line is extended because otherwise the Nazis have to carefully march the camp's new arrivals several hundred meters from the rail station with all their worldly possessions. The portal with the "work makes you free" is constructed to give the ones who are clinging to the idea that this is a labor camp one more euphemism to cling to. all with the goal of murdering a population of people who could have been warned. Some estimates are that 800,000 Jews at the start of WWII with some 600,000 who died. Some 400,000 were murdered in the period May to July 1944. The 20 percent who were not murdered were used as slave labor and used in medical experiments. Yes it matters that (y)our racist uncles or coworkers are allowed to be idiotic racists.

screw Sinclair. Shouldn't the Saudis bail them out like they bail all these loony tunes extremists?

concur

He's barely in the closet anymore.

One of the funnier quips around my career field is to respond to someone baiting us with evil or danger with "Not today, ISIS" which is my way of saying. I'm not weighing in on this.

Seth...speaks truth

Can you imagine how any person would ever vote Republican if MTG was the VP pick?

If any of you have seen the Deutchland 83 series (and the subsequent seasons...this will look familiar.

As someone who studied the Russian/Soviet procurement process in the past...this amuses me They spend the money but their technology isn't any good unless they stole it from someone. Likely with the help of some profiteering crap in Western countries.

well ok

Buddy's is legit great. My kids who grew up in Virginia really love our Buddy's visits when we hit the Detroitoplex. The ABC thing is still available. It's a thing from the days of Cantonese diaspora restaurants who had to accommodate midwestern tastes... newly immigrant Chinese places around Northern Virginia cannot fathom the concept of large chunks of battered boneless chicken breast on a bed of rice and lettuce with some goopy sauce.

At least some good things are happening. Germany just survived a coup attempt. Nobody is talking about that anymore in this country.

Ask him what weird food -- that the average person would be disgusted with -- did he grew addicted to in BC? Or ask him what that is for Michigan. I think the weird idiosyncratic stuff is getting harder and harder to identify. Somewhat related, I'm almost dismayed to see the "Detroit-style" pizza being lauded all over the place when it wasn't really what I grew up eating in Livonia. But the thing I get when I go back to Michigan, Almond Boneless Chicken is non-existent anywhere outside the bubble of the Detroit suburbs. When I introduced this "wonder dish" to my buddy from upstate NY he was [shrugs] "what the hell is the big deal?"

https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1617877901113978880?s=20 This story. :--( I think he's talking or he wouldn't be out on bond. Unless the judge is also a scumbag.

Not me.

Nothing explains fighting tooth and nail to prevent document return when the national archives KNEW what was missing.

Trump narrative hardest hit

Somebody wants this story to die.

ahh...I caught the end and didn't see it. Maybe Lawrence O will cover it.

What the heck is up with CNN? I realize some Trump fan bought into them and rearranged their editorial policies to be more fair to Orange assholes. This story isn't even a blip on their radar. edit: searched and found on the website https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/23/politics/fbi-official-charles-mcgonigal/index.html

Drudge finally has the story on the front page. Still does not appear on CNN front page. I won't even bother with FNC

we will be shadow boxing all over on this stuff