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I commend to you this brilliant essay from the Hannah Arendt Center: The Significance of Overt Racism. It discusses how the Nazis used antisemitism to undermine the rule of law, and how Trump's expressed antipathy towards Muslims and Latinxs fits right into that pattern: [...] Arendt discloses for us how we might go about apprehending the ( Read more... )

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Stein, the Green party’s candidate in the presidential election, formally filed for a recount with Wisconsin authorities shortly before the state’s 5pm deadline on Friday. She also planned to request recounts in Michigan and Pennsylvania in the coming days ( Read more... )

The one positive thought I've had in all this is that, in reviewing how Hitler did what he did, it's become clear to me that Trump (or more properly the grassroots fascist movement that put him at their head) moved prematurely - and looks like he will continue full steam ahead ( Read more... )

(h/t conuly!)

The Day Hitler Blinked, by Barbara Ash: Day and night for a week in early 1943, hundreds of unarmed German women did something that was unheard of in Nazi Germany ( Read more... )

My bedside reading is a book on the history of the community mental health system, from the 1950s to 1992, when it was written: Treating the Poor: A Personal Sojourn Through the Rise and Fall Of Community Mental Health, by Matthew P. Dumont, MD. It was actually a discard by another therapist in Cambridge, and I snatched it up not least because, in ( Read more... )

There is a Change.com petition to be presented to the Electoral College, asking them to make Clinton president instead of Trump. The goal is 5 million signatures, and they're just shy of 4.5 million right now ( Read more... )

I am frustrated by folks on the left who - let me say, I appreciate they're trying to figure out what the left needs to do differently to fix things, it's just ( Read more... )

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