Further to the Foregoing

08:49 Friday, 30 January 2026
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Two weeks ago, I posted The Fourth Reich.

Today it occurred to me that Tom Homan is a good fit for Ernst Rohm, leader of the SA, the Brownshits, er, I mean Brownshirts. It seems CBP is little more than a militia loyal to Donald Trump, and, like Rohm, Homan doesn't have an "official" position within the administration. The SA was a party organization.

The video is a bit tedious to listen to, but it is informative and you'd do well to watch the whole thing. I started it at Rohm's introduction.

It's not a perfect fit, nothing ever is. But again, history doesn't repeat, but it sure does rhyme.

A day after The Fourth Reich piece, I posted All Nazis All the Time, where I mentioned:

ICE detention centers are concentration camps people!

So I was pleased to hear Heather Cox Richardson say the same thing in last night's Politic's Chat. She makes her concerns very clear, and says far more than my claim, which I view as merely a blinding glimpse of the obvious.

There are still people who stop listening or reading if you make any reference to Nazi Germany or Hitler in comments about the Trump administration. Not all of them are MAGA, some of them are just unwilling to believe the evidence before their very eyes. They're fools.

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Snow Cone

07:32 Friday, 30 January 2026

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Palate cleanser.

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the marmot is not on strike

07:15 Friday, 30 January 2026
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Because the marmot is not an economic activity.

So I'm here scratching personal itches, and maybe providing a moment of distraction for those who may have some free time disengaged from the economic activity of the state.

If you're looking for some tips on becoming a better member of the resistance, look no further than Beardy Guy Musings. Guy's pretty hardcore. Maybe not as hardcore as Stephen Miller, (strong Goebbels' "total war" speech energy there), but pretty hardcore.

If you're shopping for gas masks tomorrow, Kottke posted a link to this guide from The Verge.

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Betteridge's Law of Headlines

07:11 Friday, 30 January 2026
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Does Tim Cook even care about Apple’s image anymore?

History will not be kind to Tim Cook.

Capitalism destroys your soul. Consumes it. Annihilates it.

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Chain of Events

06:29 Friday, 30 January 2026
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I was thinking about how I was going to be buying books going forward. I buy a lot of used books from eBay, which is just a front-end for a lot of online used book sellers anyway. But sometimes I can't find what I'm looking for as a used book. I looked around and Barnes and Noble is online, as is BAM (Books-a-Million). Made a mental note of that and stopped thinking about where I was going to buy new books.

Then I read this piece in Kottke (who is observing the general strike today), which led to this piece in Vox, which led to this article in The Atlantic (link may or may not "work" as I'm copying the "free" link from Vox). But also in the Vox piece was a link to the book it's about, The Dual State, which you will note is a link to bookshop.org.

Now I know where I'm going to buy my new books.

I've set up a bookshop.org account, and named a bookstore in Ithaca as the one I wish to support. I've also ordered The Dual State (yesterday). The last book I ordered from Amazon, last week, is supposed to arrive today. It was Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics Sixth Edition, by Alfred Korzybski, which is the book that gave us, "The map is not the territory," and which influenced Dr. Douglas E. Kelley, which I learned about from The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, which was the basis of the movie Nuremberg.

Everything is connected.

And I'm beginning to develop a genuine problem with where I'm going to put all these books.

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Delete Amazon

05:59 Friday, 30 January 2026
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Slept better last night than the one before, though my Apple Watch still bitched at me that I wasn't doing it right.

Anyway, while I was awake I wondered what I could do as part of the "general strike," to convey some sort of signal that I'm not ok with what's going on.

When I canceled Prime, I don't know how much that conveys to Amazon corporate. They probably track those metrics, but they probably don't obsess over them since it's a yearly subscription fee, and most people probably "get over it," and re-up. So, what could I do that might be more of a signal that I was done with Amazon.

Then it dawned on me.

Delete the app.

It's not that strong a signal, because you could always still use the browser. But I suspect the Amazon app is just infested with as much spyware as they can get past Apple, which is probably more than we know.

If a lot of people deleted the Amazon app on their phones, that might be a signal they might receive.

So, I deleted the app and I'm putting this out into the ether.

Maybe you can't stay home from your job. Maybe you have to buy gas or milk or whatever. But how much inconvenience is it to delete the Amazon app?

I say go for it.

And fuck Jeff Bezos.

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