Notices by Andrew Stroehlein (andrewstroehlein@mastodon.social), page 2

If our government makes Jews wear yellow stars now, that upstart Hitler fellow won't stand a chance in the next election. 🙄
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/09/starmer-urges-europe-leaders-update-echr-halt-rise-far-right

“For every inch yielded, there’s going to be another inch demanded. Where does it stop?”
- Michael O’Flaherty, the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights.

Exactly.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/13/europe-echr-rethink-moral-retreat-say-human-rights-experts

Every article about Musk in every media outlet should be accompanied by this photo.

He did this twice at the biggest political event of 2025. It's not a secret. He never apologized. Why is this not the standard file photo?

"Slop" - as in, "AI slop" - has to be the word of the year.

If a mass murderer attacks you for exposing his atrocities, you must be doing something right.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/11/28/russia-government-designates-human-rights-watch-undesirable

Symbols of the two regimes that killed the most Americans - now embraced by the Trump regime.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/20/coast-guard-swastika-noose/

Desperate people forced to risk their lives to escape war and persecution - let's rob them of all they've got left!

This is the sick thinking of human traffickers, not decent governments.

So, just to be clear, the US political system is now essentially one fascist-promoting party, one fascist-appeasement party, and a few individual outliers, people who are called nasty names for suggesting policies every other industrialized country has had for decades. Meanwhile, masked thugs keep kidnapping people off the streets.

Such a waste of a potentially decent country.

I responded as an alum, in this email to them.

How Cornell University gave in to the Trump regime's extortion... Here's the "agreement":
https://statements.cornell.edu/2025/documents/cornell-settlement-agreement.pdf

Meet the man tapped to be the Czech Republic's next Foreign Minister, Filip Turek. He has repeatedly endorsed Hitler and belittled the Holocaust. His string of racist vulgarities includes calling Obama the n-word. His sexist ugliness includes rejecting women's suffrage.

Will the country seriously embarrass itself internationally by having this hateful idiot as a minister?
https://denikn.cz/1864721/popalit-cikane-je-polehcujici-okolnost-obama-je-negr-odhalujeme-smazany-svet-filipa-turka/

When people call it fascism, it's almost giving Trump too much credit. It's just a looting spree. All the ideological moves - the murders at sea, the masked goons arresting folks in the streets, the collapse of rule of law - are just cover so he can steal as much of taxpayers' money as possible.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/politics/trump-justice-department-compensation.html

Over the past six weeks, the US has bombed boats in the Caribbean Sea at least six times, killing at least 27 people. Washington says they were “narcoterrorists” and so… And so, what exactly? If the government declares you a criminal, they can then just kill you?

The latest edition of my newsletter looks at Trump's Marine Murders: https://www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/trumps-marine-murders/

I'm old enough to remember Republicans cheering when Ronald Reagan said: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help."

I've never been a member of any party, but I do have a natural suspicion of any government declaring they're "helping" people by doing things those people absolutely don't want the government to do.

Anyway, great fact-check from AFP on another lie-filled video from the Whitehouse: https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.78MJ663

I know people who were raised in a Christian atmosphere and now loudly proclaim to be Christians, who have zero compassion for others.

I also know people who were raised in a Christian atmosphere but are now atheists, who have dedicated their lives to helping others.

So, who absorbed the message, and who didn't?

I'm fairly sure that most US politicians who say [whatever US city] is a "war zone" have never been to an actual war zone.

Read this. Seriously, read it.

The Trump regime is declaring open season on its critics - NGOs, philanthropists, activists. They will be harassed, arrested, jailed. The silencing effect on others who might speak out will be huge.

This is authoritarianism.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/

From 1939: https://www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/archives/goebbels-ends-careers-of-five-aryan-actors-who-made-witticisms.html

There is no organization called "antifa" - so, why label a non-existent group "terrorists"?

This gives the regime maximum scope to hunt down opposition and critics. They label you "antifa", and then they come for you.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/trump-antifa-terrorist-organization

It's definitely not an authoritarian regime trying to silence dissent. No, certainly nothing like that. All comparisons to Nazi Germany are completely absurd.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/politics/jd-vance-charlie-kirk-show.html?smid=url-share