RevDocPaul
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RevDocPaul
@paulhw.bsky.social
Retired Uniting Church minister. LGBTQIA+ ally
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I was Hitler’s neighbour: ‘If he’d known we were Jewish, we’d have been sent to Dachau’
I was Hitler’s neighbour: ‘If he’d known we were Jewish, we’d have been sent to Dachau’
In 1929, Edgar Feuchtwanger was five years old and living with his family in Munich when Adolf Hitler moved into a flat opposite. At first, his parents thought they were safe hiding in plain sight – until they weren’t The odds were against Edgar Feuchtwanger reaching the age of 100. He was born on 28 September 1924 into a time of poverty and political turmoil in post-first world war Germany. He was also born into a Jewish family in a society that was about to turn to National Socialism, an ideology that would ultimately be responsible for the murder of 6 million Jews. In 1929, when Feuchtwanger was five, something happened that made his long life even more unlikely. He got a new neighbour: Adolf Hitler. In October that year, Hitler moved into the grand second-floor flat at Prinzregentenplatz 16 in Munich. His previous flat, on the other side of the Isar, the river that divides Munich, had become too small. Munich to him was the “Capital of the Movement”, a title he awarded the city officially in 1935. From 1929 on he lived in nine rooms in this corner building, with its long balconies and baroque facade. His staff moved in with him, and, soon, devotees and high-ranking SS officers were flocking to the flats nearby. Diagonally opposite, at Grillparzerstrasse 38, with a direct view of Hitler’s flat, lived the Feuchtwanger family. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 10, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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I  know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.
May 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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This is more than a "must-read".
Please read, share, consider it... As long as the FRW racist ideology of #zionism is confused with #Judaism, the pathetic claims of antisemitism to silence protest at what Zionism is "achieving" will continue.
Do I need to say that @saradowse.bsky.social is Jewish?
May 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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my god i'm hard to shock but holy fuck
Trump and Kennedy are killing children. Right in front of our eyes.
May 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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The state of the newspapers this morning: a near-universal attack on trans people, most of it grossly exaggerating the implication of yesterday's ruling. Almost joyous in its spite.
April 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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This is monstrous and horrifying … and surely illegal … it basically suggests that the Gender Recognition Act does not exist as LAW. Falkner’s reading of the ruling is also completely unnuanced. Must be challenged … @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com

apple.news/AF-xmybWETRO...
Trans women to be searched by male officers after Supreme Court ruling — The Independent
Announcement comes as the equalities boss says the ruling is “enormously consequential”
apple.news
April 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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‘Trans people are protected under equalities law …’ ‘the EHRC exists to support and protect trans people…’

These increasingly read like meaningless words given the interpretation and spin being adopted by public bodies and government ministers.
April 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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"When Jesus says, 'love thy neighbor as thyself,' I imagined this meant, well, help thy neighbor, assist thy neighbor, care for thy neighbor, nurture thy neighbor — all without condition or justification, just as Jesus did." sojo.net/articles/who...
Who Would Jesus Cut From Medicaid?
States are kicking millions of people out of their health care program. As a Christian, I want a world where everyone is worthy of care.
sojo.net
April 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Oh, Jacinta, Jacinta, Jacinta…
Jacinta Price has been busy this weekend trying to scrub the evidence of her family MAGA Christmas, deleting a Christmas Day post featuring her whole family wearing MaGA hats on Christmas Day. It has now been deleted from her personal FB page. She missed this one though, wearing her cap in public.
April 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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All the supposed Christians in the Trump administration should be appalled by this, especially during Holy Week, when we remember another man unjustly imprisoned...

"U.S. Renews Opposition to Bringing Back Maryland Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvador" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...
Trump officials renew opposition to ruling on Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador
The Justice Department’s latest legal filing asserted that courts cannot direct President Trump’s foreign policy by forcing the return of a man unlawfully sent to a Salvadoran prison.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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What kind of sociopathic scumbags fight this hard to not return a wrongly deported man?
April 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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He would be deputy PM to a PM Dutton who used his very first speech to parliament (in 2002) to brand civil libertarians as "the criminal lawyers media operative" and the trade union movement as a "dictatorship"
The Nationals get less support nationally than the Greens, but have an outsized influence over policy. This is who the deputy prime minister would be under a Coalition government. It's not a fringe view – it's the leader of the junior coalition partner saying we don't think some kids deserve rights
The Nationals leader has just said children who commit crimes should have their civil rights "put aside" if anyone was wondering how the campaign was going.
April 8, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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“I keep telling them, ‘This is not your church,’” Pastor Maria said. “It’s the community’s. It’s the migrants’. It’s only here to help people, to be their home in a time of need.”
Their Church Basement Used to Host Quinceañeras. Now It Houses Mauritanian Muslims
Muslims migrants from western African nations are increasingly among those arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. Grace Lutheran in LA is welcoming them in.
sojo.net
April 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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A soccer player was deported to El Salvador for having a Real Madrid tattoo. A makeup artist for crown tattoos honoring his parents. Tattoos are an unreliable indicator of gang membership: buff.ly/lWRMmpv #immigration
By Beth C. Caldwell, Southwestern Law School
April 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Where is our humanity?
April 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Exactly!
March 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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He's already openly gloated about rigging this election and said people will never need to vote again. Just like project 2025, they're telling us exactly what they are doing/have done
March 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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I’m old enough to remember this youtu.be/gE7xoHJkgvE?...
'In four years, you don't have to vote again,' Trump says | REUTERS
YouTube video by Reuters
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March 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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March 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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They are sadists in the White House.
March 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Australia's media and opposition paint a tale of woe says @alanaustin.bsky.social - charting the good news: full employment, falling rates, retail sales etc
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/australias-e...
The charts have it. Australian economy on the mend - Michael West
While many still struggle with high prices and unaffordable housing, the Australian economy is showing many signs of improvement.
michaelwest.com.au
February 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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"You cannot serve God and billionaires."
- Matthew 6:24b (A Literal Application Translation)
February 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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For those who identity as Christian,

In Genesis 1, the singular image of God is places on the singular "āḏām" (humanity as a singular entity).

One cannot discriminate or target trans people, immigrants, it any other group of humans without doing that action against the Imago Dei and God Zirself.
February 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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It's interesting that one Christian Messiah came to set the prisoners free (Luke 4:18).

But the Christian maga Messiah has come to put people in chains.
February 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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The "trans debate" has very little to do with trans people and everything to do with bodily autonomy.

If a politician can determine something as core to your being as your gender, then they can control your whole body.

It's always been about sadistic control over others.
February 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM