My mother's half-brother was in the battle at Anzio and was in a cavalry unit that marched up through Italy and into Russia, where he saw scenes of mind-boggling carnage that deeply scarred him psychologically.

Not one of these family members came back to the US praising Nazis. Quite the contrary: they had stories to tell, when they were willing to talk.

I remember and am shaped by those stories. And I'll keep remembering.

#CitizenJournalism #Substack #broligarchy
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His brother received medals for bravery due to his actions on flight missions into the Low Countries to liberate them. Their brother-in-law had a brother who died a hero's death in France at the hands of Nazis.

My mother's brother was in the first Army unit who arrived on the scene of the Gardelegen massacre soon after it took place. He captured an SS officer, risking his life to do that.

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I'd miss all these if I took a purist approach to an imperfect platform — though I absolutely do think the question of a platform boosting pro-Nazi voices has to be discussed openly.

Unlike many of those using that discussion now to divide progressives into purer and less-pure camps, I actually have some historical proximity to these questions due to my age.

My father was a WWII soldier wounded at the attack on Pearl Harbor.

#CitizenJournalism #Substack #broligarchy
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I just subscribed to Citizen Journalism on Substack and look forward to reading its postings there — as I do to reading incisive, informed progressive commentary by Cadwalladr, Anne Applebaum (whom she cited in this posting), as I do the other 74 good commentators to whose Substack blogs I subscribe, usually for free, since I'm a senior citizen on a fixed income who already stretches that income by donations to multiple worthy groups.

#CitizenJournalism #Substack #broligarchy
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"Substack, has the familiar problems of other VC-funded platforms, but it has also become a thriving hub for independent journalism. And I believe we need to build media networks not empires and collaborating with properly independent voices is how we build a new information ecosystem free from billionaire influence."

#CitizenJournalism #Substack #broligarchy
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"It’s an initiative from the Citizens, a non-profit seeking to hold Silicon Valley companies to account. It runs most of its activities including its newsletter, the Citizens Dispatch, from Ghost which is widely seen as the ethical alternative to Substack.

But they’ve joined me over here on Substack too because there’s no doubt there is a growing audience here."

#CitizenJournalism #Substack #broligarchy
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"Amid the noise of this week’s news cycle, there was one story this week that chilled me more than any other and is worth spelling out here: the decision by the domestic German intelligence service’s to label the AfD an extremist group.

I read this article on a beautiful spring day in a London park bursting with blossomy loveliness. And it brought home the cognitive dissonance, the normalcy bias, the huge and gaping gap between what is happening in the world right now and our day-to-day inability to understand it, let alone prevent it."

Carole Cadwalladr

#Broligarchy

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The founding members of the club, which has already sold many of its membership slots acc/to organizers, include Cameron & Tyler #Winklevoss, the #cryptocurrency execs whose company, #GeminiTrust, had been targeted by the #SEC until #Trump named new agency leaders, who in April put a hold on the federal lawsuit.

#JeffMiller, a lobbyist & top #Trump fundraiser, is another founding member. In the Q1 of this year, he has registered to represent 39 new corporate clients, including the #crypto firm #Tether, an overseas operation that was a longtime target of US regulators until recently….

@dannotdaniel @dangillmor Yes, but vultures didn’t kill the carcasses they feed on.

But #TrumpRussiaCollusion is deadly to #freedom and the global #economy.

@Gina @mike @kev
I was switching instances before this as my situation dictates I need a supportive community in that regard. As a trans woman, I'm marginalised, ridiculed and used as a political pawn. See #wokeagenda and #uksupremecourtruling.
I'm disappointed in the comments that I see about this is a FOSS instance not politics. If the FOSS community is that short sighted then feel free to block me and move on. I'll miss Fosstodon but not the #broligarchy and I don't mean everyone btw.