Grant W. Turner

Hitler, Jews, and the Holocaust Hitler blamed Jews for Germany’s problems. Over the years, the Nazis targeted Jews with increasingly evil treatment, leading to the "Final Solution" — mass extermination. We visit the Auschwitz-Birken...

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day — and with masked troops in our streets, law-abiding neighbors being disappeared, a president othering and dehumanizing entire communities in our country, and big mysterious prisons awaiting his scapegoats, history is speaking to all of us.

Excellent account that is even more relevant today than when it was originally made.

The Traveler & American Democracy with Rick Steves YouTube video by Rick Steves' Europe

Traveler/historian @ricksteves.bsky.social is concerned about what's going on in our country, and the possibility of losing our #Democracy. So am I. #Fascism #Authoritarianism www.youtube.com/watch?v=E20u...

Rick Steves and the Defense of American Democracy Rick Steves recently delivered a powerful address in defense of American democracy in his hometown of Edmonds, Washington.  We’ve all been thinking and reading about this topic a lot, but I think Rick...

My friend @ricksteves.bsky.social calls out MAGA’s lies and policies that are eroding democratic norms, including how federal budget choices are shifting wealth from working people to the rich.

Watch in the link below.

#EndPoverty #PovertyAbolitionists #DefendDemocracy

A conversation with Jack Smith ’94 YouTube video by Harvard Law School

Former Special Prosecutor, Jack Smith, speaks to @hls.harvard.edu

youtu.be/2M8vsVfVdpo?...
#polisky #legalsky

Killing drug lords won’t end Mexico’s cartels. Ending the drug war might. The death of El Mencho shows why decades of prohibition enforcement have only strengthened cartels.

Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes was a bad man. But it remains to be seen if his death will only kick off yet another round of cartel warfare.

Early Edition: March 9, 2026 A curated guide to major news and developments over the weekend.

Today's news roundup:
-G7 to discuss joint release of emergency oil reserves
-Trump sons back new drone company targeting Pentagon sales
-Florida bar retreats from statement saying Lindsey Halligan was under investigation
👇
www.justsecurity.org/133391/early...

JNIM fighters killed 15 Beninese soldiers in an attack on an army base near Benin's border with Niger.
www.africanews.com/2...

New paper by Dr @rogercre.bsky.social & colleagues expose hidden risks in global food system.
Shows how food‑trade globalisation makes some regions more vulnerable to production shocks, plus their tool estimating how much countries must boost reserves of any food category to withstand 20% of shocks👇

DHS wants to build a system to surveil Americans’ travel records Previously unreported documents show the agency has asked companies for input. Last year, a similar program was shuttered over public outcry.

SCOOP: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the US Secret Service want to build a tool for tracking US travelers’ flights and other personal information, according to previously unreported documents reviewed by Mother Jones.

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Inside the latest, and scariest, iteration of America’s endless abortion wars After Trump’s mass pardons of anti-abortion activists, threats and harassment at clinics have surged.

“I have a bomb, I have a bomb. Don’t let anyone in or out of the clinic, or I’ll set it off.”

After Trump’s mass pardons of anti-abortion activists, threats and harassment at clinics have surged.

The story behind the BBC refusing to air a documentary about Israeli attacks on Gaza hospitals Two veteran journalists produced a documentary that showed evidence of war crimes in Gaza. But the BBC refused to air the film. Why?

Two veteran journalists made a documentary about Israeli attacks on Gaza hospitals, but the BBC later refused to air it.

This week on Reveal, we team up with @kcrw.com to investigate why and what it says about the future of journalism:

Then they came for the Dreamers Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.

Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.

The list of impeachable offenses keeps growing Nixon couldn't have dreamed of all of Trump's abuses of power.

Nixon could not have dreamed of such a revenge-fest.

Trump looks increasingly desperate to restrict voting rights He is now threatening not to sign any other bills until Congress passes the SAVE America Act.

Trump's looks increasingly desperate to restrict Americans' voting rights. Here's his latest threat targeting the November midterms:

New footage yet again contradicts DHS claims about its killing of a US citizen Body camera video obtained by CBS News in the Ruben Ray Martinez case is another example of the administration misrepresenting lethal action from immigration agents.

Body camera footage newly obtained by CBS News shows the moments leading up to and after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot US citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in March 2025 and contradicts the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the killing.

A wave of quittings reveals the AI industry’s gloom and doom What's behind the existential terror seizing Silicon Valley?

“The people building this technology are simultaneously more excited and more frightened than anyone else.”

Evangelicals love Donald Trump for many reasons, but one of them is especially terrifying End Times.

If you want to understand how Trump's self-created crisis in Iran fits into his foreign policy, revisit our deep-dive into our End Times president.

A knock on the window and a glimpse of America’s surveillance future “This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a special France 24–Mother Jones report.

“This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society.”

The DHS is using Mobile Fortify, an app that allows officers to photograph a person’s face and immediately query DHS databases for matches, on protestors.

The BBC just remade Lord of the Flies — the story that taught generations humans are fundamentally savage.

But when it ACTUALLY happened in real life? Six boys shipwrecked for over a year built a functioning society.

What conservatives did to Bud Light in 2023, that's what progressives should do to ChatGPT in 2026.

OpenAI is so vulnerable right now. With enough pressure, I think it's actually possible to take the whole company down.

quitgpt.org

This is the most important thing happening in the world right now.

Trump and Hegseth want killer drones + mass surveillance of Americans.

Anthropic refuses to build it. While most tech companies fall in line, they are prepared to pay the price for their principles.

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded.

2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning.

Go to quitgpt.org.
Cancel your subscription, delete your account.
And tell at least one person why.

My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman

When oil prices spike, inequality rises.
Recent research by @sorrytobekurt.bsky.social & co-authors shows oil shocks hurt low-income workers the most, lowering earnings growth & job prospects while high-income workers are largely unaffected.
Read more: bit.ly/4rRXNHw

Must read. It’s long, and I’m only 1/2 way through, but god damn.

EXCLUSIVE: The Secret War Between Jared Kushner and Jeffrey Epstein Led to Epstein’s Death—and the Second Iran War The key to unlocking the Trump-Epstein Scandal’s secrets—including, now, the Second Iran War—is to understand the Scandal as a proxy war between two men set on gaining control of U.S. foreign policy.

(🚨) EXCLUSIVE: The Secret War Between Jared Kushner and Jeffrey Epstein Led to Epstein’s Death—and the Second Iran War

This book-length work acts as Book 4 of the 1200-pg. epic PROOF OF DEVILRY—a Proof Series entry that’s the most expansive journalistic enterprise related to Epstein ever published.

Is JSOC Spinning Up to Capture Uranium in Iran? YouTube video by EYES ON GEOPOLITICS

@theteamhouse.bsky.social subsidiary podcast, Eyes On Geopolitics, hosts an expert panel that discusses the latest reports that Trump is considering sending special forces in to secure Iran’s nuclear facilities, especially Fordow

youtu.be/I2UmT3kQDfE?...
#irsky #polisky

🇺🇦 Zelensky: Over the past week, Russia has attacked our country thousands of times. The enemy has used almost 1,750 strike drones, 1,530 guided bombs, and 39 missiles against our people. Civilian infrastructure is under attack: energy and residential buildings.