Notices by Andrew Stroehlein (andrewstroehlein@mastodon.social)

Rough translation: "Too many powerful people are suspects - including my bosses - so, we're not going to investigate. To hell with the victims. To hell with justice."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/01/epstein-files-todd-blanche-deputy-ag

Italians [RIGHTLY] furious over deployment of ICE agents to bolster US security at Winter Olympics
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/27/europe/italy-ice-agents-security-olympics-intl

Sure, let's ask the Trump regime's murderous masked thugs to come over to Europe and "help with security" - wtf?

https://f24.my/BhNO

This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/the-neighbors-defending-minnesota-from-ice/685769/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8L893jn-xkg4gA0ahaD_Ltw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Trump regime thugs are murdering people in the streets, kidnapping children, and sending people to be tortured.

While that's all happening, it may be easy to miss this: the regime is also shredding the idea of privacy.

https://www.privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5713/trump-administration-wants-your-dna-and-social-media

"The toolbox isn’t particularly varied. President Trump is using all the instruments: the reported quotas for ICE arrests; the paramilitary force made up of thugs drunk on their own brutality; the spectacle of random violence, particularly in city streets; the postmortem vilification of the victims. It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/opinion/state-terror-has-arrived.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HFA.soDc.3KXo-wEIcKA9&smid=nytcore-android-share&fbclid=IwdGRleAPipf9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEem1-Tc9exK--Za22Ov6GezxZa5Bm-uOAi-PtokprtGMdBg3bUKMohxl-_RzY_aem_uEIPXAKLVEP3s33MbtNhyw

Appeasement didn't work with Hitler.

Appeasement didn't work with Putin.

Appeasement isn't working with Trump.

When will Europe learn this most basic lesson about how to deal with imperialist bullies?

https://www.politico.eu/article/hit-back-donald-trump-europe-mulls-unthinkable-options-greenland-threats-ramp-up-tensions/

"...the vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence.

ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval. ...

In Minneapolis ... There are countless videos from ICE Watch observers that show agents leaving without detaining anyone after they encounter resistance."

https://www.ms.now/opinion/minneapolis-ice-watch-protesters-violence-research

"If everyone would just stay out of the Gestapo's way and let them do their job, no one would get hurt."
- Someone in Germany, 1930s

Knut Hamsun, a Norwegian writer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.

In 1943, he sent Joseph Goebbels (Hitler's propaganda minister) his Nobel Prize medal as a gift.

I wrote this a few years from now…
https://www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/why-the-us-collapsed/

How is it that US security forces can go to an enemy country and kidnap its president and his wife alive, and yet they can't handle a gentle mom in an SUV without murdering her?

When did you stop posting on X?

Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.

Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.

Government: We're still posting there.

"Why is the government posting on a deepfake child porn site?"

That's the question to ask them, journalist friends.

So, if Maduro is found guilty of 34 felonies, he gets returned to the presidency, right?

Using US taxpayer dollars to bomb people and steal another country’s oil for oligarchs to sell to US taxpayers. Taxpayers pay twice, the rich get richer, and climate change from burning fossil fuels gets worse, spreading disasters globally. Murder, corruption, theft, terrorism, climate destruction - all in one.

"In his 1941 book, Escape from Freedom, the German psychoanalyst Erich Fromm argued that the rise of fascism could be explained in part by people preferring to surrender their freedom in exchange for the reassuring certainty of subordination. AI offers a new way of surrendering that burden of having to think and decide for yourself."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/26/ai-dark-ages-enlightenment

If you attend a performance here, if you perform here - you are collaborating in the establishment of authoritarianism in the US.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/19/politics/kennedy-center-trump-sign

Where is the leadership? Rather than copying racist, attention-seeking buffoons, how about doing what leaders should be doing and providing your own vision?

Adopting far-right policies to stop the far right gaining influence - continues to be the stupidest idea in European politics today.

You cannot "out far right" the far right. If you adopt one policy they want, they will always have more (and darker) policies to push. So, what then? You just keep following them down the path towards more human rights abuses and eventually atrocity crimes?

And how long will it take voters to figure out you're just a cheap copy and then vote for the original?