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Richard E Frankel

@refrankel.bsky.social

Professor of German History comparing antisemitism in Germany and the US, late 19th, early 20th century. And yes, it’s painfully relevant to the 21st. University of Louisiana at Lafayette. richardefrankel.com

created October 10, 2024

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Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

Fortunately for them, America isn’t a meritocracy.

2/9/2025, 11:19:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

“Suspected” being the operative word here.

2/9/2025, 11:02:03 PM | 25 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social)

Yep

2/9/2025, 8:25:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

All Democrats should be saying this… loudly and repeatedly.

2/9/2025, 8:23:47 PM | 21 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

How are children gonna be able to truly appreciate the ability to breathe if they don’t experience a good drowning every once in a while?

2/9/2025, 6:32:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social)

Putin hails friendship with China as Kim Jong Un joins show of force while Trump weeps silently into his pillow

2/9/2025, 1:02:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

How is he not taking it all the way with Trump Department of War™️??

2/9/2025, 12:43:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

Apartheid billionaire Nazi hired by Nazi President of the United States still doing the Nazi thing.

2/9/2025, 1:58:09 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trash doesn’t stand a chance against the mighty United States military!!!

2/9/2025, 1:19:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

Can a narcissist totally lacking in empathy recognize the total lack of empathy in another narcissist?

1/9/2025, 4:20:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social)

Because it’s totally and completely and absolutely normal for the President of the United States to wear a shirt with his name and job embroidered on the front.

1/9/2025, 4:00:37 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

They just released the new “Trump Smiling On Death’s Door” cardboard cutout. Not bad.

1/9/2025, 3:32:22 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

They gave him that hat in case he wanders off—people will know which country to return him to.

1/9/2025, 3:30:49 PM | 42 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social)

This is so ridiculous!!! $8 trillion in tariff revenue, hundreds of thousands of new jobs??? Seriously?? I mean, it’s at least 2 trillion new jobs… at least!!!

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1/9/2025, 3:11:08 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

The Onion: Next Week’s News, Today

1/9/2025, 3:04:14 PM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social)

@theonion.com: Next Week’s News, Today

1/9/2025, 3:03:47 PM | 8 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

I would like to vouch for the exemplary character of this man, the Grand Imperial Cyclops of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Mobile Klavern.

1/9/2025, 2:57:11 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

And the mothers named them all Rudy.

31/8/2025, 8:35:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

Mr. Giuliani also delivered babies by two separate women (both twins!!) at the same time and then rescued a small lamb caught in a hunter’s trap on the side of the road.

31/8/2025, 8:29:13 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

He also delivered babies by two separate women at the same time and rescued a small lamb caught in a hunter’s trap on the side of the road.

31/8/2025, 8:26:15 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social)

Allow me to explain propaganda in two pictures.

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31/8/2025, 6:05:11 PM | 7 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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BREAKING: Failed Businessman Notorious For Not Paying People Who Work For Him Reportedly Working Hard To Not Pay People Who Are Working For Him

31/8/2025, 5:31:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They laughed about grabbing… well, you know.

31/8/2025, 4:24:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

Never trust people who are called experts by Stephen Miller.

31/8/2025, 2:11:19 PM | 6 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

GORKA: Forgive me if I prefer to remain in the Bubble.

31/8/2025, 1:22:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social)

Nearly 87% of Germans said yucky bread was one of the main reasons they voted for the Nazis in 1932. Not a lot of people know that.

31/8/2025, 1:03:12 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social)

Hey US Department of Labor! The Soviet Union called. They want their propaganda back!

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31/8/2025, 12:57:17 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

Those are the tiniest hands I’ve ever seen.

31/8/2025, 12:20:35 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t think Trump understands.

31/8/2025, 12:19:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social)

I didn’t know you could have snowflakes in Florida

30/8/2025, 3:37:14 PM | 31 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

We now go live to Jake Tapper for comment.

30/8/2025, 12:00:32 PM | 112 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

“Pushing the boundaries” is a strange way of saying “destroying.”

30/8/2025, 2:51:06 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social)

Center for Disease Cultivation and Dissemination

29/8/2025, 4:51:48 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

Donnie must be soooo jealous.

29/8/2025, 4:49:02 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

She wants to spend more time castrating farm animals.

29/8/2025, 3:32:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

Environmental Protection Agency plans to dramatically reduce its protection of the environment

29/8/2025, 3:32:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump Picked this Man to Help Run the FBI Because He Has a History of Prosecuting Influential Democrats

29/8/2025, 2:48:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

When your government is actively working to kill you.

29/8/2025, 2:47:08 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

The federal government is scaling back its role in preventing violent extremism, choosing instead to promote it through right-wing racist paramilitaries and other Nazi-like groups.

29/8/2025, 2:37:24 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

When you absolutely positively have to squeeze a little antisemitism into everything you say.

29/8/2025, 2:35:11 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"A mural of the Statue of Liberty in shame" by JDL Street Ar in Lille , Roubaix France 🇫🇷

Mural by JDL Street Art in Roubaix, Lille, France, depicting the Statue of Liberty covering her face with both hands in a gesture of shame. The figure is painted in shades of grey with teal accents on the torch and crown, set against a muted background with a golden halo-like circle. The artwork spans the side of a tall brick building, contrasting modern street art with historic European architecture in the surrounding cityscape.
29/8/2025, 7:32:21 AM | 17471 3916 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

Nazi leader orders government to use Nazi chat bot

29/8/2025, 2:23:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

If you believe in American exceptionalism you don’t understand history.

29/8/2025, 2:21:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social)

Con Artist Who Knows Absolutely Nothing About Science, Medicine, and Public Health Made a Claim. Let’s Take Him Seriously

29/8/2025, 12:33:05 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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BREAKING: Nazi Car Company Sucks

29/8/2025, 12:27:47 PM | 10 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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He wants to be asked? So if we asked Donnie to leave… and not come back would he do it?

28/8/2025, 8:31:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s why I had to vote for the Nazi.

28/8/2025, 8:29:33 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social)

$220 million. Do you have any idea how many yachts or private jets for billionaires that money could have paid for??? What a waste….

28/8/2025, 8:27:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) reposted

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

28/8/2025, 7:41:57 PM | 10650 3454 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social)

Army parade ‘disappointed’ Trump… at least the parts he was actually awake for.

28/8/2025, 6:26:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

And have Navy pilots strafe a few Army columns… you know… for the fun of it.

28/8/2025, 6:09:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

Unless you’re wealthy or a corporation.

28/8/2025, 6:02:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

He said he thinks. I don’t believe it.

28/8/2025, 1:09:02 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

“Computers are people, my friend.” —Mitt Romney

28/8/2025, 1:08:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hello Speaker Johnson. I’m sure you agree with Donald Trump that Joe Biden could’ve done anything he wanted to do because he was President of the United States. Right?

28/8/2025, 1:06:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

I blame Joe Biden.

28/8/2025, 12:40:12 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

I’d say it’s more like Mafia business. “Nice business you got there. Sure would be a shame if something was to happen to it. Know what I mean?” In order to keep doing business you give the Family a cut. Otherwise, well….

27/8/2025, 7:13:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

Relevant experience is woke.

27/8/2025, 6:08:11 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social)

Just re-arming with Subway’s latest, “The Un-Indictable.”

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27/8/2025, 3:15:12 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

He prays to Lucifer.

27/8/2025, 3:13:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m sure the president will get right on the task of combatting this vicious and disgusting example of antisemitism.

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27/8/2025, 2:27:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

When you hire graduates from Trump University School of Law™️

27/8/2025, 2:26:04 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trash stands no chance against the brave warriors of the United States National Guard!!!

27/8/2025, 2:24:01 PM | 4 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

American President calls American city “a hellhole.”

27/8/2025, 2:21:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Guy who works for a 34-count convicted felon says he’s gonna drive out crime.

27/8/2025, 2:06:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

They can check to see if he has any history of mortgage fraud….

27/8/2025, 1:53:17 PM | 27 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

Psychotic. And extremely antisemitic.

27/8/2025, 1:50:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

Hello, is this the White House? It is? Great! Yes, umm, I just spotted an example of some really disgusting and dangerous antisemitism that I’m sure the president will want to combat as soon as possible. Thank you!!

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27/8/2025, 1:48:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

Just waiting for Republicans to call for a ban on open-carry of sandwiches in DC.

27/8/2025, 1:24:57 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

I consider Donald Trump to be a despicable gutter racist.

27/8/2025, 12:54:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

I think they should use nuclear weapons. They can get rid of hurricanes, they can get rid of trash.

26/8/2025, 11:16:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

🤦‍♂️

26/8/2025, 6:15:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

“It’s a very strong preventative,” says man who has never seen the relevant data says and who couldn’t even come close to understanding it if he did.

26/8/2025, 5:52:59 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social)

Make Amerika Segregated Again

26/8/2025, 5:30:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In case you were wondering what a really stupid Kennedy sounds like.

26/8/2025, 5:14:09 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

A Cabinet of the Worst.

26/8/2025, 5:12:02 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms so they can shoot little kids playing in a public park, shall not be infringed.

26/8/2025, 3:43:41 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m sure Trump University™️ already beat you to that.

26/8/2025, 3:27:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

In case you were wondering what a very stupid President of the United States sounds like.

25/8/2025, 4:13:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

Seven Years War War of 1812 War of the Roses Spanish-American War Boer War Hundred Years War Ended them all. Amazing!

25/8/2025, 4:08:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

Slob who got away with trying to violently overthrow the government and destroy democracy thinks some other slob got away with murder.

25/8/2025, 4:05:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

They don’t actually have to let him get away with it. That they do is a choice. They are accomplices in the destruction of American democracy and the establishment of a fascist dictatorship.

25/8/2025, 4:00:43 PM | 54 15 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

That makes total (non)sense.

25/8/2025, 3:58:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

OK, grandpa. Finish your doodling and then come upstairs to bed.

25/8/2025, 3:21:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

Any journalist who continues to sit through these propaganda sessions has no sense of self-respect or professional ethics.

25/8/2025, 3:13:10 PM | 17 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

You know what this means for South Korea, don’t you? The most terrifying weapon in the history of terrifying weapons… TARIFFS!!!!!!!! 😱

25/8/2025, 2:17:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump Fence™️

25/8/2025, 1:45:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

But does she feel truthy? That’s the question.

24/8/2025, 4:10:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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According to Ivy League graduate J D Vance, unconditional surrender means negotiation… 🤔

24/8/2025, 2:18:55 PM | 33 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

Perhaps the biggest historical example is “Nazism was a reaction to Bolshevism.”

24/8/2025, 2:10:20 PM | 15 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

I guess we’ll find out just how enthusiastic Republicans still are about “stand your ground” laws.

23/8/2025, 11:40:05 PM | 19 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

I only use peer-reviewed doctors.

23/8/2025, 11:04:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

I guess they need to cut more funding for science and healthcare.

23/8/2025, 7:34:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s nice that he wears shirts with his name on them. I imagine he forgets who he is quite often.

23/8/2025, 3:46:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m seriously hoping this is a rhetorical question.

23/8/2025, 3:40:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

When you think you’re above the law. And really stupid.

23/8/2025, 12:11:20 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent

Reality just doesn’t favor Republicans.

22/8/2025, 11:40:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social)

REPORTER: Can you take a question about Ukraine and make your response totally about you… and throw in some of your typical bullshit, too? TRUMP: I'm not happy about anything having to do with that war. I settled 7 wars, and actually if you think about pre-wars, add 3 more so it would be 10.

22/8/2025, 11:39:37 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump: I said, “Hey, Intel. That’s a nice business you got there. Sure would be a shame if something were to happen to it.”

22/8/2025, 8:14:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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BREAKING: Boss Tony Soprano says Davey Scatino agreed to give the DiMeo Crime Family a stake in his sporting goods company.

22/8/2025, 8:06:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view