#collaborator

[semioticapocalypse]

Robert Capa. Collaborator. Chartres. August 16, 1944

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[originalleftist]

Gavin Newsom has turned his coat.

CA Gov Gavin Newsom "Completely Aligns" With Charlie Kirk On Trans Issues In Podcast

The California Governor, in the launch of his new podcast, announced that he completely aligned with far-right, anti-LGBTQ+ influencer Charl

This is beyond disappointing, beyond terrifying, beyond catastrophic.

California is the biggest state. Of all the states, it is the one that could most effectively resist the fascist MAGA regime, and provide a sanctuary for marginalized people it targets.

Instead, Governor Newsom has apparently chosen to throw trans people systematically under the bus in order to suck the dick of Reich-wing talking head Charlie Kirk.

California is not a safe state for trans people. Frankly, I do not think it is a safe state for anyone.

Remember this when this motherfucker tries to come in as the Democrats' Great White Male Hope next Presidential primary. He cannot be trusted. He is an opportunistic coward. If he will sell out trans people to pander to people who will never support him anyway, he'll sell out anyone and anything else if he thinks it's convenient.

Hopefully we can get someone better in as governor of CA when his term ends, if there's still an America by then. Any chance Kamala Harris is interested in running for Governor?

[theworldatwar]

French police, aided by US soldiers lead a suspected German collaborator away from a baying crowd during the liberation of Paris - August 1944

[not1-2disappoint]

#lonewolf

[throwbackmovie]

Sheryl Lee Ralph as Glenna in the TV series V – 1984

[adammoliwell]

Fix, Flex, or Flunk? School library schedules are the key to deeper student learning

School librarians are perfectly positioned to implement responsive scheduling to better support staff and student academic performance.

Here is a short ignite-style presentation explaining some finer details.

[scotianostra]

On May 10th 1949 Norman Baillie-Stewart, Scottish soldier and Nazi collaborator, was released from prison.

Although born in London,  Baillie-Stewart was from Scottish stock, he changed  his name from Wright to Stewart in a nod to his heritage, and he thought it was more in keeping with his sense of where he mistakenly thought he stood amongst his fellow soldiers. 

Baillie-Stewart had graduated from the prestigious military college, Sandhurst, and gained a commission in the equally famous, Seaforth Highlanders. However, military life became quickly not to his liking. With his heightened sensitivity regarding social class status, he became distraught by the snobbishness of his regiment’s officers.

It was this unhappiness, along with an obsession with a German girl in 1931, which led him to offer military secrets, which were very trivial, to Germany. Germany alerted the British Government, and they soon put Baillie-Stewart under arrest. After trial, he was sentenced a short prison term in the Tower of London, one of the last, or the last person to serve a prison sentence in the London landmark.  He perceived he had received unfair treatment  on release from prison in 1937 was a very bitter man.

He travelled to Austria, where he promoted the union of that country with Germany. Anti-Nazi Austrians upset with a foreigner’s meddling in their political affairs, eventually had him deported, and he next went to Germany, desiring to become a German citizen. To prove his loyalty, he began serving as a broadcaster on a radio station, which employed non-Germans as pro-German media mouthpieces. Management however quickly found him not as enthusiastically Nazi as others and he was soon sacked, being replaced by the more famous Lord Haw-Haw, William Joyce.

After the war, the authorities viewed Baillie-Stewart more as a nuisance than as a menace. Compared to other traitors, there was less evidence to convict him of treason, he was however eventually tried for the lesser charge of “committing an act likely to assist the enemy”. He was found guilty and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.

On release he ended up spending the rest of his life with a changed name in obscurity in Ireland.

There’s a bit more about him here https://blog.twmuseums.org.uk/the-tank-and-the-officer-in-the-tower/