{"id":38791,"date":"2020-01-26T08:17:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T16:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38791"},"modified":"2020-01-26T08:17:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T16:17:44","slug":"open-thread-1-26-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/26\/open-thread-1-26-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–1\/26\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a busy day here in the CatBox, as WWWendy will be here in about an hour.  I\u2019m feeling a bit better as, after throwing up most of the day yesterday, I kept supper down.  Then I kept breakfast down this morning.  Have a great Sunday!<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s took me 4:07 (average 5:28).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a> and YouTube<\/a>:  Even before the gas chambers were destroyed and the savage toll of years of industrialized mass murder revealed to the world, prisoners at the largest Nazi concentration camp were already repeating two words: Never again.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

But as the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz approaches, an occasion being marked by events around the world<\/a> and culminating in a solemn ceremony at the former death camp on Monday that will include dozens of aging Holocaust survivors, Piotr Cywinski, the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum<\/a>, is worried\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026Across Europe and in the United States, there is concern about a resurgence of anti-Semitism<\/a>. Toxic political rhetoric<\/a> and attacks directed at groups of peoples \u2014 using language to dehumanize them \u2014 that were once considered taboo have become common across the world\u2019s democracies.<\/p>\n