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[Alyssa @asm419]

@Poshmarkapp It won’t let me DM you without being verified

[Alyssa @asm419]

@Poshmarkapp SERIOUSLY I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR 7 DAYS TO GET A RESPONSE FROM SUPPORT ON MY CASE. PLEASE HOW DO I TALK TO A HUMAN

[Alyssa @asm419]

@Poshmarkapp please have your AI support actually respond when someone opens a case

[Alyssa @asm419]

@Poshmarkapp I have opened a case and tried to get support for FOUR days. Your AI support will not respond. Please the buyer and I agree what needs to be done. What do I need to do to get a response?!?

[Alyssa @asm419]

@Romy_Holland Once your kid is 7-8, you hire a HS kid at $15-20/hr to keep them alive. Before that, you pay more for someone CPR certified, trustworthy and experienced. Your kid is in diapers & can’t tell you if something bad happened — stop being cheap.

[Alyssa @asm419]

The totenkompf is not obscure - it is well-known as a Nazi symbol. Platner calls himself a WWII history buff. He bragged about it being a Nazi tattoo. Platner is a Nazi supporter. Infuriating to see people handwave it away.

[Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan]

If you're unironically calling Graham Platner a Nazi, you're not a serious person.

He's a doofus who got drunk with his military unit overseas, they all got a tattoo, he later learned it was an obscure Nazi symbol and he stupidly kept it anyway because he thought it looked cool.

[Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky]

Our survey wasn't perfect . Reality probably differs somewhat from the exact numbers we show here.

But even if we have over-estimated the "can't leave house share" by 200%

The share of kids prohibited from playing in the yard SHOULD BE 0%!!!

[NWS Milwaukee @NWSMilwaukee]

Flash Flood Warning including Menomonee Falls WI, Mequon WI and Germantown WI until 10:15 PM CDT

[Jonah Platt @JonahPlatt]

To be a well traveled Jew today is to visit city after city, country after country, where societies enjoyed the fruits of Jewish labor & culture until eventually turning on us, stealing all our stuff, murdering and pushing us out, and erasing every trace of our existence. Fun!

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Sara Cohen lived eight months. Her father never held her. Her mother carried her to Auschwitz.

This is what we remember.

Sara was born on May 13, 1943, in Groningen, Netherlands. A healthy baby girl, six pounds, four ounces, with dark eyes. Her mother, Carolina, had already lost two children, and now she had a newborn to care for. But her husband, Joseph, had been taken a month before, deported to a concentration camp without ever having met his daughter.

Carolina brought Sara home to J.C. Kapteynlaan 7b, a house in Groningen, where she lived with her two older children. Alone, she fought to keep them alive in a Nazi-occupied world. For eight months, Carolina did what mothers do—she cared for her children, fed Sara, changed her, and likely sang to her. But she knew, deep down, the knock on the door would come. And it did, in February 1944.

The family was taken to Westerbork, a transit camp in northeastern Netherlands. Thousands of Dutch Jews passed through it on their way to the extermination camps of Poland. At Westerbork, they lived in crowded barracks, waiting. Every Tuesday, a train would leave for the east, filled with people who knew their fate, but not the details. Carolina and her children, Sara now eight months old, were put on one of those trains.

The journey to Auschwitz lasted three days, spent in sealed cattle cars. No food, no water, no sanitation. People stood pressed together, old and young alike, enduring the agony of travel before reaching the camp. When the train stopped, the doors opened, and SS officers separated the arrivals into two lines: those who could work and those who could not.

Carolina, holding Sara, with her two toddlers beside her, was sent to the left. There was no selection for her. Mothers with babies were immediately sent to the gas chambers. Babies couldn’t work. Children couldn’t work. Carolina and her children had no chance to survive.

Sara Cohen was murdered in Auschwitz at just eight months old. Her mother, Carolina, was murdered beside her, along with her two siblings. Her father, Joseph, who never got to meet his daughter, was murdered in another camp. The entire family was erased from existence, their names lost to history.

Sara Cohen’s name lives on, though—remembered in documents, in a birth certificate, a deportation record, a line in the Auschwitz death registry. She is remembered because we refuse to forget.

Sara would be 82 today. She might have had children, a career, a life full of experiences. Instead, she lived eight months. Her father never held her. Her mother carried her to Auschwitz. And we carry her memory now.

Zichrona livracha. May her memory be a blessing.

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

Senior officials in Israel were informed:
Khamenei has been eliminated. His body was recovered from the ruins of his palace.

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

I've watched rising anti-Semitism on the left for the better part of two years now, and every single time it's pointed out, it's met with denial and whataboutism. Yes, anti-Semitism on the right is objectively worse! But "we're not as bad as the party of Nick Fuentes" is not an acceptable position.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

"It’s not that our Jewish siblings don’t just feel unsafe, as though this is some failure of psychological strength on their part. They are, in fact, not safe. They are clearly not safe. Not here in the United States. Not in Israel. Not anywhere."

Read: https://t.co/PWfbqfh8Su

[Carly Pildis @CarlyPildis]

A sober and beautifully rendered cry for accountability on antisemitism on the left and in the world. Wow. Thank you @cmclymer for making me feel
less alone during the time I spent within your words.

https://t.co/GFYIuc12rU

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

Lots of fascinating (and mostly depressing) data here:

“Raising children who climb trees, ride bikes, meet up with friends, and play instruments is hard work, even in places where parents who make these decisions are more common. Even in such locales, it is an uphill struggle, one for which societal support is lacking (at least compared to societal pressure to succumb to an online, screen-heavy childhood). To put it sharply, the type of parenting our society most actively supports is keeping children quiet by putting them in front of a screen. Most Americans, we find, believe children get too little supervision, not too much, even though children today have less unsupervised time than children of almost any prior generation. When American parents hover over their children or plop them in front of a screen, they’re simply conforming to the parenting that mainstream America endorses and supports.”

[Carter Skeel @CarterSkeel]

"Parents choosing to give their kids independent and tech-lite childhoods report greater difficulty in parenting, despite achieving positive outcomes such as better mental health."

Sobering new findings!

https://t.co/ENUvUfnssT

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

The autism epidemic is a myth: The increase is only in expansive overdiagnosis of kids "on the spectrum," e.g. "Would rather be alone than with others,” “Has difficulty making friends,” and “Is regarded by other children as odd or weird.” Severe cases (no language, socially unresponsive, etc.) have decreased. By my former grad student @AdamOmaryPhD https://t.co/mS6miGWM86

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

I might be incorrect in places here & welcome correction.

The psychological trauma from directly killing victims was documented among the mobile killing squads. The Einsatzgruppen—the specially-formed SS mobile killing units—were operating from the very beginning of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, and this psychological trauma was documented among these units. While the Einsatzgruppen were drawn from the SS, SD (security service), and Order Police, and received ideological indoctrination, they were not given special psychological training or screening to handle the trauma of mass murder.

There's a famous incident in August 1941 where Himmler attended a mass shooting in Minsk and vomited afterward, which led him to order Arthur Nebe—commander of Einsatzgruppe B and head of Nazi Germany's Criminal Police—to find "less stressful" methods for the killers. Einsatzgruppen commanders had reported concerns about morale and the psychological impact of the shootings on their men, including cases of heavy drinking, breakdowns, and requests for transfer.

Following Himmler's order, Nebe conducted experiments for “less stressful methods" in September 1941 on Soviet mental patients, testing automobile exhaust. These experiments led to the development of gas vans—trucks with sealed cargo compartments where victims were packed in and carbon monoxide from the engine's exhaust was pumped into the sealed space.

The vans were intended as an efficient method of mass murder that also "alleviated" the psychological toll on the perpetrators, those who had previously been using the “sardine packing” method, among other acts of shooting.”

But, according to postwar testimonies and historical documentation, drivers could still hear victims screaming and pounding on the walls, which they found deeply disturbing. Personnel still had to remove bodies and clean the compartments of . . . the debris left from this type of murder. The vans were slow (some victims took twenty minutes to die) and couldn't handle the scale of extermination the Nazis desired.

So mass shootings remained the primary method in the East. The limitations of the gas vans eventually led to the development of stationary gas chambers in the death camps.

Now, the best work on the psychological effects on perpetrators is by Christopher Browning, I believe. I hesitate to cite too directly by memory and I don't have his book in front of me, but with that caveat I will explain what I remember (could be flawed in places).

Browning's work focuses on Reserve Police Battalion 101—which was Order Police, not Einsatzgruppen—recruited in 1942. These were middle-aged, working-class men, "ordinary" precisely because they weren't elite SS troops or specially trained killers. He has argued for similar group effects as we see in psychological research. There were a few truly sadistic people. There were fewer brave people who refused to do the task. These were people who vomited after mass murder, etc, then refused to do anymore.

Importantly, men who refused were generally not punished—they could step aside—which, per Browning's thesis, makes the compliance of the majority even more psychologically significant. The vast majority of people were "Ordinary Men," who followed the orders of the sadists.

So the answer is: no, they weren't specially recruited or trained to be immune to psychological trauma. They experienced it too. The difference is that most of them kept doing it anyway—through conformity, deference to authority, and peer pressure—even when they had the option to step aside.

All of this, of course, culminates, in some respect with Auschwitz-Birkenau and the other camps that used gas in the aim of completely exterminating Jews from the earth. The Nazi methods of mass-killing became “refined” and, in some ways, more psychotically accelerated, over time. And, yes, they did have to "handle" the fact that many of their own members were increasingly unable, for various reasons, to carry out the ultimate goal: elimination of every Jewish human--including the elderly & the children--on earth.

All of this, among other things, is why one should regard any "This is like the Holocaust" comparisons w/ extreme wariness. Not "this is genocide," but specifically "this is like the Holocaust."

The Holocaust's distinctive characteristics—its industrial systematicity, bureaucratic organization, technological refinement, and totality of genocidal intent—make casual Holocaust comparisons historically problematic. The shooting campaigns in the East, in Soviet territory--the use of the "sardine method"--shooting combined with the weight of human bodies--then the use of gas vans—then, finally, the use of gas chambers at Birkenau and elsewhere.

The iterative process of "perfecting" mass murder at ever-greater scales while managing the psychological impact on perpetrators. All of this is linked. All of it is part of what the victims suffered; but also part of the extreme lengths the Nazis went to to achieve their goal: the elimination of Jews from earth.

It is a horror story. It really is.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

The videos from Bondi Beach are extremely hard to watch.

Just like on October 7 at the Nova festival, young Jews were hunted down and murdered. The images are the same: the same pure hatred, the same devastation.

This is not about war. Not about Palestinians. Not about land. Not about Zionism.

It is about killing Jews.
The world must understand this now.