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People would laugh at me because I use big words. But they’re exciting and descriptive words, like… like “enraptured” and “glorious”! If you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you? Anne with an E (2017— )

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…the thing with October is, I think, it somehow gets in your very blood. Unapologetically. Almost ruthlessly.

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters (via wnq-writers)

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Watch: Latina journalist Maria Hinojosa epically shuts down a condescending Trump adviser on the word “illegals”

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Maybe you missed this, but you’re not in a dialogue. Your views are beside the point. Argue all you want—your adversaries are glad to see you waste your breath. Better yet if you protest: they’d rather you carry a sign than do anything. They’ll keep you talking as long as they can, just to tire you out—to buy time. They intend to force their agenda on you. That’s what all the guns are for, what the police and drones and surveillance cameras are for, what the FBI and CIA and NSA are for, what all those laws and courts and executive orders are for. It’s what their church is for, what those racist memes are for, what online harassment and bullying are for. It’s what gay bashings and church burnings are for. This is not a dialogue. How could you be so naïve? A dialogue—from which some of the participants can be deported at any time? A dialogue—in which one side keeps shooting and incarcerating the other side? A dialogue—in which a few people own all the networks and radio stations and printing presses, while the rest have to make do with markers and cardboard signs? A dialogue, really? You’re not in a dialogue. You’re in a power struggle. All that matters is how much force you can bring to bear on your adversaries to defend yourself from them. You can bet that if you succeed, they will accuse you of breaking off the dialogue, of violating their free speech. They will try to lure you back into conversation, playing for time until they need no more stratagems to keep you passive while they put the pieces in place for tyranny. This isn’t a dialogue—it’s a war. They’re gambling that you won’t realize this until it’s too late. If freedom is important to you, if you care about all the people marked for death and deportation, start taking action.

Crimethinc, This is Not a Dialogue: Not Just Free Speech, but Freedom Itself (via mychemicalinsurrection)

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Hidden Figures (2016) dir. Theodore Melfi

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How has the world gotten to this point jfc

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It’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Never forget the Porjamos–the genocide of over a million Romani people by the Nazis.

Never forget the Farhud, a Nazi-inspired pogrom in Iraq, 1941.

Never forget the Nazis also killed Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews.

Never forget Aktion T4, a the so-called “mercy killings” (genocide) of those called “useless eaters” (disabled people). Never forget that this policy of eugenics was directly inspired by the USA’s eugenics movement and purposefully exported there.

Never forget that the parents of the first disabled child killed in Aktion T4 wanted their child dead.

Never forget the hundreds of Black Germans who were forcibly sterilized by the Nazis.

Never forget the “inverts” and “homosexuals” who were rounded up and sent to their deaths because they were deemed a threat to the “Aryan Race.”

Never forget the “nice Germans” who didn’t “care about politics” and silently watched their neighbors be taken away to be tortured and killed.

Never forget the Resistance.

Never forget the anti-fascists and the Partisans who were of many nations, including Jews, who fought the Nazis and rescued concentration camp survivors.

Never forget the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, an armed resistance of Jewish people that saved thousands of lives from the concentration camps.

Never forget the smaller acts of resistance like industrial sabotage practiced by those in the concentration camps to reduce their contribution to the Nazi war machine.

Never forget the communists, anarchists, trade-unionists, and other radicals who opposed Nazism and who were incarcerated and killed.

Never forget the Danish gentiles who saved 90% of its Danish Jewish population of 7,000 while under years of Nazi occupation.

Never forget that the United States of America’s xenophobic, racist, eugenicist, antisemitic, ableist, and anti-Romani immigration quotas policy condemned millions of people to death.

Never forget the fate of the M.S. St. Louis.

Never forget that Nazism was fairly popular in the USA until Germany declared war on it.

Never forget that antisemitism persisted during that time and was heightened during the McCarthyism.

Never forget the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party of Germany) who violently suppressed political radicals (including killing the Jewish communist Rosa Luxemberg and other members of the KPD) during the Wiemar Republic, inadvertently aiding the Nazis.

Never forget that this and their “lesser of two evils” strategy that led Hitler to become Chancellor.

Never forget Magnus Hirschfeld, a sexologist, Homosexual Transvestite*, and German Jew–and his Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Science). *his own terms

Never forget that the Nazis burned it and all the works in his library.

Never forget the “Masculunists” (the forerunner of today’s “homonationalists”), their hatred for Magnus Hirschfeld, and their support of the Nazis who later betrayed them in the Night of Long Knives after using them like the tools they were.

Never forget Willem Arondeus, a Dutch Homosexual gentile artist, writer, and resistance leader who led a group in bombing the Amsterdam Public Records Office on July 1st 1943 in order to hinder the Nazi round-up of Jews.

Never forget his final words: “Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.”

Never forget Chiune Sugihara who saves tens of thousands of Lithuanian Jews by disobeying orders and giving them (often false) visas.

Never forget that the city of Shanghai brought in tens of thousands of Jews, more than any USA city.

Never forget the USSR, not the USA or Britain, liberated most of the concentration camps and captured Berlin, ending the war.

Never forget the Japanese-Americans who liberated Dachau that USA textbooks never mention.

Never forget the Kapos.

Never forget that the world knew.

Never forget all the Holocaust survivors who escaped the concentration camps and arrived in Britain, the USA, and the USSR and told the world their stories.

Never forget the silence.

Never forget that the entire chain of command for the USA, including President Roosevelt, ordered the air force not to bomb the railways leading to Auschwitz and the gas chambers which would have saved thousands.

Never forget that it was the Tuskegee Airmen–a racially segregated, all-Black division–that disobeyed orders and bombed the railways to Auschwitz.

Never forget that Hitler’s plans of genocide were inspired by the United States of America’s genocide of its Indigenous Peoples.

Never forget Henry Ford and all the other American Nazi-collaborators.

Never forget the pogroms just after the Holocaust officially ended.

Never forget that never again means never again to anyone.

Never forget the betrayal.

Never forget the solidarity.

Never forget that “first they came for the Socialists.”

Never forget that an injury to one is an injury to all.

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In May 1939, as the Nazis were tightening their chokehold on Europe, the United States government rejected the SS St. Louis, a German passenger vessel carrying 937 refugees who were trying to dock at the Port of Miami.

Almost all of those refugees were Jews fleeing violence in Germany and Eastern Europe, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The ship was eventually forced to return to Europe, where 254 of its passengers were killed.

On Friday, to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a pair of Jewish scholars — Russel Neiss and Charlie Schwartz — started tweeting the names of the people who were aboard the SS St. Louis, under the handle @Stl_Manifest. Read more