Podcasts, videos, books and articles of the week 147 - Alligator Auschwitz Edition

Podcasts, videos, books and articles of the week 147 - Alligator Auschwitz Edition

America is getting it good and hard, just like it voted for.

But first Ben's work:

I... was a project designed to show that beyond the charity images , the medals and parades, being a military veteran was so much more. A decade on from the first poster featuring Dr Mary Read, I'll be sharing the 100+ posters and the stories of those veterans who took part. www.iamaveteran.co.uk

Writer Ben (@benskipper.bsky.social) 2025-07-01T10:32:04.342Z

Back to murderous politics!

A post I wrote in August warning about everything that is happening.

Deportation doesn’t mean deportation
It means mass murder, ethnic and political genocide (updated)

Current state of affairs is, here is your Auschwitz:

Krassensteins (@krassenstein.bsky.social) 2025-07-01T16:40:33.133Z

Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2025-07-01T14:13:36.704Z

Here is your SS:

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

David Burbach (@dburbach.bsky.social) 2025-06-29T11:33:45.843Z

Musk getting threatened with DOGE

Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) 2025-07-01T13:35:42.722Z

You are not defeating Trump with lawsuits

Interesting read.

Don Dechert (@dondechert.bsky.social) 2025-06-30T23:13:04.269Z

Its all legal

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal theonion.com/think-t...

The Onion (@theonion.com) 2025-06-23T20:20:00.000Z

How not to fight Trump

True story.

Puff the Magic Hater (@mskellymhayes.bsky.social) 2025-06-29T19:53:35.687Z

Two good pieces by Greg Olear

Sunday Pages: “Jack and Jill”
A nursery rhyme by Mother Goose
Fascism in the USA Enters the Fifth & Final Phase
A survey of the work of fascism experts shows that, five months into the Trump Redux, our democracy is reeling. Can it be saved?

Stalker: Meth of Florida

Natalia Antonova🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@nataliaantonova.bsky.social) 2025-06-27T01:54:43.435Z

Don't worry, it will end soon

Denise Richards' beauty combined with Denise Richards' intellect combined with the introspection of a cucumber

Meghan Markle launches ‘thoughtful’ collection of wines
Duchess of Sussex expands As Ever product line in latest foray into lifestyle branding

Some good news

And speaking of Russians, our (prescient) book is still out

Phil has a new book out now!

Also on Amazon.

Ben has new book out - two links

Trooping the Colour
Today Trooping the Colour gathers crowds of tourists; along with the pomp and ceremony it is an event filled with tradition that spans many hundreds…

Amazon below

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Phil

Dr Philip W Blood (@philipwblood.bsky.social)
Writes about the history of war - latest book ‘War Comes to Aachen’ - about a German city in the age of Total War. See my latest research discussed weekly in A Historian’s Diary on Fallout.Substack.com #skyhistorians

Ben

Writer Ben (@benskipper.bsky.social)
I write about aviation, military history, contemporary social themes and occasionally agriculture (Erotic Tractors™️ a speciality). One of the Fallout Triumvirate. Your sensitivities are not my priorities, and vice versa.

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