i was tested as a child before i was put in the gifted program—i scored over 130. you are living proof of dunning-kruger.

The preferred term is “Killing Center.” We [Holocaust scholars] try not to call the the 5 Killing Centers (denoted because they had gas chambers) “Death camps” anymore because death occurred at all of the concentration camps, over 40,000 of them. Also, it puts the agency on the killers, and the choices they made to…

This is living history. Anne Frank might have lived to be an aunt or grandmother had not people gone crazy. She would be 86 in a better world.

While some camps made a weak effort to conceal their murderous operations, Sobibor was clearly a death camp: prisoners were often taken straight from the trains to the gas chambers. After an uprising in October 1943, Nazis destroyed the camp and attempted to eradicate all evidence of the killings. But researchers have…

Especially because “Mazel Tov” means “Good luck” or “Congratulations” in Hebrew. Why did they get that? Was it a birthday present? A good luck charm? A reward for good grades? A bat mitzvah present? These little heartbreaking leftovers from a person’s life.

These little heart-rending human touches do us a service in remembrance. It’s hard to encompass the idea of 11 million people murdered in death camps; it cuts us closer to reality to see the life of one or two of the victims and try to understand what they went through, and then realize that everyone murdered in those…

I’m looking at the pattern on Ravelry. Yup, you knit a 17"X11" rectangle then seam the sides

I Fucking love to knit. I had not heard of the pussy hat project though.

Seems a bit ambitious for a first knitting project, but I’m sure hers will turn out marvelously! I’m already on my fifth pussy hat; I just wish I were able to get up to the March and show ‘em off there.

But here’s the thing, all the doom and gloom the Right ranted about Obama never happened. No gun control, he was not a Muslim, nor a Kenyan etc etc. However, just in the last week the Republicans voted in the middle of the night to strip millions of their health care benefits, already introducing legislation to…

Democrats tried to focus on a single issue in 2016: Defeating Trump to ensure women, people of color, Muslims, and our environment were protected. Sanders most dedicated (and almost overwhelmingly white) base decided that wasn’t important enough.

I’m torn between my belief in freedom of expression and my sheer annoyance towards a certain type of vegan.

fave joke thus far:

UK: Brexit.

My Senator...leading The Resistance today.

Debbie Reese would be a great person to interview for this discussion: https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com

Really? Really? Can we ever...EVER stop eating our own? We (progressives) have the biggest single enemy (obvious) to defeat since...Christ I don’t even know who...and we’re still doing this? We’re going to criticize and alienate white people who are late to the party for being late to the party? Now is not the…

Do you know what’s educational and a great way to see animals’ behaviours? Documentaries. BBC’s Planet Earth series are magical. Get the DVDs, watch them on your high-def big screen TV and be amazed by nature. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll learn cool stuff. And if you want to experience nature up close and…

There are many reasons to not present much of the evidence. Much of it can be surmised by what level of confidence each agency gave it. NSA can only give moderate confidence because of the way NSA gathers its evidence. The FBI and CIA almost certainly have human assets at high reaches of the government and their lives…

I am with the Force; The force is with me.