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Peter Stern was born in Nuremberg in 1936, a German Jew. His father died in the Holocaust; he and his brother somehow survived Bergen-Belsen. Today he's protesting what's happening in America. "I came to say that something as nasty as that can happen again, and it can, without me saying something."
April 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Russia Asks to Buy Boeing Jets With Frozen Assets in US Talks. It would be absolutely outrageous if the US agrees to this instead of handing over the Russian assets for compensation to Ukraine. I seriously hope this isn’t even being considered.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Russia Asks to Buy Boeing Jets With Frozen Assets in US Talks
Russia has asked the US to let it buy Boeing Co. aircraft using money from billions of dollars in frozen state assets once there’s a ceasefire in Ukraine, according to a person in Moscow familiar with...
www.bloomberg.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
open.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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March 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Stalin and his successors couldn’t silence it. Mao and his successors couldn’t silence it. Khomeini and the ayatollahs couldn’t silence it. But Donald Trump has just silenced the voice of freedom. My latest @postopinions.bsky.social column. wapo.st/43PyNYo
Opinion | Stalin, Mao and Khomeini couldn’t quell freedom’s voice. But Trump did.
The world’s autocrats are doing somersaults about the silencing of the Voice of America.
wapo.st
March 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Meet Evan Anzoo, a five-year-old boy in South Sudan who died when Elon Musk shut down USAID and the boy lost access to his HIV meds. Musk says no one has died because of the aid shutdown, but that's because he didn't look. RIP, Evan, you deserved better. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Who made this. 🤣
March 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
We Live in the Dumbest Times
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
We Live in the Dumbest Times
Plus, a defense of Al Green.
open.substack.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM