Thatβs also why Vivek isnβt exactly lying when he says he didnβt mean to say Acton lied about being raped as a child. He doesnβt think she lied; he thinks that being raped disqualifies her from office, because she belongs to the class of people power is wielded against, not the class that wields it.
I donβt think this is exactly whatβs going on, or all thatβs going on. Itβs not that Republicans are constructing an elaborate psychological defense against evidence that Trump is a rapist. Itβs that they like that heβs a rapist, and they like rape: it enacts the power of the strong over the weak.
The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because itβs pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.
In my experience, most Trumpists know he is a rapist and are fine with it, the same way they are accepting of priests, coaches, etc raping those in their care.
They inhabit world of rank and privilege in which the lower classes must accept what they must from the upper clases.
Just a little back of the envelope math: Most research finds the rate of SA reports determined to be false after investigation to be 4-6 percent. Many canβt be conclusively proven or disproven, so letβs even imagine it might be as high as 12%. Applying that rate to Trumpβ¦
22 October 1916 | A Polish Jew, Mendel Rotberg, was born in TomaszΓ³w Mazowiecki.
In #Auschwitz from 20 February 1942.
No. 23666
He perished in the camp on 23 March 1942.
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Anyways, I love those of you who refuse to tolerate this shit in your lives. Anyone who is sympathetic to this garbage should be socially radioactive. Personal lives, professional lives, whatever. Freeze them out.
this, more than anything, is why the elite have continued to back him even as he plunges into historical levels of unpopularity
βwe can be complete assholes without consequenceβ is the best thing that ever happened to them and they will fight to the death to protect that right
Itβs hard to cope with the reality of being surrounded by people who at best ignore things like this, and at worst actively cheer it. Countless Americans who enjoy cruelty for the sake of cruelty.
Even when it traumatizes children.
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage.
Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.
Note on pieces like these, not only is there no suggestion that Republicans should distance themselves from him, there's no hint that there's a reason to. No recap of his CSAM machine. No inflammatory racist quotes. No mention of the DOGE death toll. No history of his fabulist quotes.
28 August 1911 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Klaartje Henrietta Ziekenoppasser-Dormits, was born in Saint Paul in the USA.
Registered in #Auschwitz.
She perished on 28 February 1943 as a result of complications after sterilization experiments conducted by Carl Clauberg.
28 August 1911 | A Pole, StanisΕaw Andrzejak, was born in Kalisz. An electrician.
In #Auschwitz from 14 May 1942.
No. 35363
He perished in the camp on 14 August 1942.
This guy - Tony Lefebvre - is the of CEO Signature Aviation.They are fixed-base operations business, located at 200 airports, worldwide.
Sig. Aviation facilitates airlines, such as Global X, to human traffic immigrants kidnapped by ICE. Here's their number: (407) 648-7200.
"The worst of the worst" was campaign sound bites that could be clipped and played to sway low information voters, but the project was always mass ethnic cleansing. After all, it's a white nationalist project.
27 August 1889 | A German Jew, Adolf Eberle, was born in Leschnitz (today LeΕnica in Poland).
In #Auschwitz from 18 November 1941.
No. 22738
He perished in the camp on 30 January 1942.
My theory-
Most pundits/media figures live in safe blue cities and rarely or ever encounter a real true MAGA.
Annoying liberals? Yeah, they know these people personally.
But a firebreathing wackjob who wants to hang women who get abortions?
Nope don't exit in their universe.
I don't think people understand just how many Republican lawmakers, even the ones who usually look and sound relatively normal, think that Genesis is an historical document about stuff that happened in the same way the French Revolution or the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 happened.
BREAKING:
After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back.
And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post.
They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately.
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
If you havenβt noticed, it is Canada that is fighting for decency and respect in international relations, and the USA that is acting without honor or logic.
All Americans who believe in doing the right thing must stand with Canada.
24 August 1903 | A Polish Jewish woman, Izabela Kaczmarek, was born in Bratislava. She lived in Bydgoszcz.
In August 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz from #Litzmannstadt ghetto. She did not survive.
Liev Schreiber: "Lot of people think that I'm involved in Ukraine because I have Ukrainian grandparents, but I'm involved in Ukraine because I'm American, and I think that the cause of democracy is probably clearer here than anywhere else in the world right now, at least to me."
I don't know who needs a real pickmeup today, but in recent court filings about the wealth owned by Andrew Tate, they indicate the Bugattis and Aston Martin he always bragged about owning...
were rented.
All of them.
These people are NOT "deported";
Deported is when you are returned to your country of origin and set free.
These people are imprisoned without charges or trial or right to protest their innocence in an archipelago of gulags.
When a few men -- Cubans -- refused to get off ICE plane in *Liberia* yesterday, agents *pressed knees into their necks,* forced them back on the plane and banished them... to Equatorial Guinea.
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/w...
If you read one thing this weekend,make it this piece about the barbaric crimes that the russians have committed against Ukrainian civilians.Then share it with others so that no one doubts the necessity of defeating the russians and holding them to account β the only way freedom can return to Europe
22 August 1941 | Hungarian Jewish girl BeΓ‘ta Donner was born.
In May 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
I think itβs a good idea to commit to remembering during times like these.
Trump will lose. The project will fall apart.
In a couple of years time, some of us will be in rooms - at drinks, dinners, kid parties, whatever - with folks who chose Trump & built their career/fortune/fame on his hate.
21 August 1915 | A Pole, JΓ³zef Moskalik, was born in Bochnia. A tinsmith.
In #Auschwitz from 10 January 1941.
No. 9255
He was shot in the camp on 11 November 1941.
ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin.
His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota.
He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert.
Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley childrenβs prison.
Elections have consequences: New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed legislation that bars the state from extraditing individuals facing out-of-state investigations over reproductive or gender-affirming care.
newjerseymonitor.com/2026/08/20/s...
20 August 1895 | A French Jew, Isaac Pinto, was born in Constantinople. He lived in Paris.
In #Auschwitz from 7 June 1942.
No. 38862
He perished in the camp on 12 July 1942.
When your government says itβs planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, itβs time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable.
When I was younger, it was always hilarious to hear 3rd World petty dictators talk like this- Wild hyperbole, florid blood curdling threats, all of which made them sound pathetic rather than fearsome.
Speak loudly and carry a small...stick.
If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.
Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22
#BREAKING: LA Supervisor Holly Mitchell has written a motion directing the LA County Sheriff's Dept to identify deputy gangs within its ranks.
If passed, the names of the gangs could be made public as soon as next year.
www.patreon.com/lasdgangs/po...
Jon Ossoff: "I don't think anything illustrates the times more aptly than that the draft-dodging crook president, who has plunged our nation recklessly into a war he knows not how to end or to win, tried to imprison this man who embodies American heroism."