History

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

attributed to Edmund Burke

The Story of Fascism in Europe
Fascism and the Economy, Corporations, and Totalitarianism Rick Steves Classroom Europe    [archive]
Mussolini and Fascism in Italy Rick Steves Classroom Europe    [archive]
The Defeat of Fascism in 1945 Rick Steves Classroom Europe    [archive]
Nrnberg Hitler's Propaganda Stage Rick Steves Classroom Europe    [archive]
Nrnberg Rallies The Stage for Hitler's Propaganda Rick Steves Classroom Europe   [archive]

Extremism
MTG votes against bill to combat antisemitism and invokes antisemitic trope in her reasoning CNN Politics    [archive]
Trumps Citizens Arrest Fantasy Is a Dangerous Game    [archive]
The Legal Defense For Fox's Tucker Carlson He Can't Be Literally Believed NPR    [archive]
Belief that US needs a civil war is uncommon but stronger among MAGA Republicans    [archive]
Letter It is terrifying to consider what injustices Trump would commit if reelected    [archive]
American Fascism Why Trump's base turned into a religious cult that will blindly follow him off a cliff, and how to break the spell. - www.Malloy.rocks    [archive]
Neo-Nazi Leader Gets Prison for Disturbing Threats Against Journalists    [archive]
Opinion Europe May Be Headed for Something Unthinkable The New York Times    [archive]
The Nazi-Sympathizing Pinstriper Who Inspired the 'Von Dutch' Trucker Hat    [archive]
Marine Veteran Trains White Supremacists in Military Tactics   [archive]
Nick Fuentes' White Nationalist Groyper Army Moves to TikTok    [✚ add]
Jack Posobiec Hails 'End of Democracy' at CPAC    [✚ add]
MAGA right's new fascist man-crush- He's been dead for 50 years    [✚ add]
'Look In The Mirror'- JD Vance Blames Political Violence On Democrats, Bemoans Being Called A 'Nazi' In Remarks At North Caro    [✚ add]
Teaser of Indiana Jones mocking fascists in 1937 removed after complaint it somehow about Charlie Kirk - Boing Boing   [✚ add]

"Not to act is to act."

Francis McPeek, 1945

Book Review The Kingdom the Power and the Glory by Tim Alberta The New York Times    [archive]
Former county clerk faces trial on election interference while claiming God is on her side Baptist News Global    [archive]
I went to CPAC as an anthropologist to understand Trumps base they believe more than ever he is a savior    [archive]
Kanye West Announces 2024 Presidential Bid in Thanksgiving Tweets - Rolling Stone    [archive]
The New House Speaker Once Helped Force the Government to Pay for a Noahs Ark Theme Park Heatmap News   [archive]
ACLU to file lawsuit against Louisiana law requiring 10 Commandments in schools    [✚ add]
Christian nationalism and Sharia- Why religious theocracy threatens democracy    [✚ add]
Understanding accused Minnesota shooter Vance Boetler's ties to Christian nationalism   [✚ add]

"In 1989, five black teenagers-the "Central Park Five"-were arrested for the gang rape of a white woman jogger in New York City's Central Park. Newspapers at the time were filled with breathless accounts of "wilding" black lawless teens rampaging and raping white women. At the time, Donald Trump took out full-page ads in several New York City newspapers, describing them as "crazed misfits" and calling for their execution. Subsequently, it emerged not only that the Central Park Five were innocent, but that they were known to be innocent to many of those involved in their prosecution. Years later, all five were completely exonerated and given a cash settlement by the City of New York."

Jason F. Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

Holocaust
Tattoos and Numbers The System of Identifying Prisoners at Auschwitz Holocaust Encyclopedia    [archive]
Wannsee Conference - Wikipedia    [archive]
Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Holocaust Encyclopedia    [archive]
Auschwitz Holocaust Encyclopedia    [archive]
Final Solution In Depth Holocaust Encyclopedia   [archive]
Auschwitz Museum and Memorial appeals for emergency funding   [✚ add]

"Book-banners, after all, insist that the entire community should see things their way, and only their way. When a book is banned, a whole set of thoughts is locked behind the assertion that there is only one valid set of values, one valid set of beliefs, one valid perception of the world. It's a scary idea, especially in a society which has been built on the ideas of free choice and free thought."

Stephen King