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Neufmaisons. Une institutrice, ses enfants et, derrière ce mur, une radio clandestine... Démasquée, torturée, Andrée Gadat prend tout sur elle en espérant sauver son collègue. En vain. "On ne fusille pas une femme pareille" aurait dit un Allemand. Si. Le 3 septembre 1944. 31 ans. https://t.co/sXevqj2XsQ #Histoire #Résistance #Mémoire

🇫🇷 31 août 1944, le Général de Gaulle dit sa fierté de son fils Philippe dans une lette à son épouse : « Philippe est venu dîner avec moi hier soir, puis il a regagné son régiment qui est au Bourget après avoir contribué à le prendre. Ils sont maintenant au repos et l’ont bien mérité. Leurs combats à Alençon puis à Argentan, puis au sud de Paris à Antony et à la Porte d’Orléans pour entrer dans la ville, puis dans Paris de l’Ecole militaire au Palais Bourbon à la rue Royale au Luxembourg aux gares du nord et de l’est où l’ennemi était retranchés ont été durs. Après, ce n’était pas fini car il leur fallut reprendre Saint-Denis, Le Bourget, Stains. Philippe s’est parfaitement bien conduit. Nous pouvons en être fiers. » #Histoire #DeGaulle #Résistance

31 août 1943. Cologne. Renée Lévy va être décapitée. « Je suis française, aurait-elle dit, et j’ai bien fait de servir mon pays. Je regrette seulement de n’avoir pas pu en faire davantage ». 36 ans, agrégée, parmi les tout premiers résistants… Combien auront fait plus qu’elle ? https://t.co/mFt1V7R304 #Résistance #Histoire #Mémoire

I was wrong about Lindsay Clancy. Here's why I changed my mind. She was never diagnosed with postpartum depression or psychosis. She was not on 13 medications at once. She was not "hearing voices." She was not abandoned by her family. She was diagnosed with a mood disorder - never psychosis - and went to a variety of doctors who all prescribed different medications, which she took unreliably and not simultaneously. She only heard a voice one time - and that was right before she killed her kids. Extremely atypical for psychosis. She carefully planned her children's murders down to the minute. She researched the distance of a restaurant she'd ask Patrick to go to. Added on a last-minute errand before he left. Calmly answered his phone call in the middle of her crime. Brought her children down to the basement one by one, overpowering their resistance and killing them slowly. It does seem like she had support from her family. She may have still been overwhelmed, but it's not true that all of her cries for help went unanswered. I originally placed too much blame on the many SSRIs she was prescribed. Is it still possible these SSRIs had a negative effect? Absolutely. But the case that these drove her into a psychotic episode is weak. “According to U.S. HHS Child Maltreatment data, mothers account for roughly 70% of child maltreatment fatalities involving a single parent, compared with roughly 30% involving a father, when parent-plus-nonparent cases are included and cases involving both parents are excluded. And interestingly, the “70% mothers / 30% fathers” finding is remarkably persistent across the years, rather than being a phenomenon confined to one particular period” - ChatGPT Feminist Taxonomies of Lindsey Clancy If I am to be born as a woman, life should not be continued If I am to mature as a woman, I should not marry If I am to have sex as a woman, I should not be made pregnant If I am to be made pregnant as a woman, I should not give birth to my child If I am to give birth to my child as a woman, my child should not live

Eighty-two years ago, men and women resisted to liberate France from Nazism. I commemorated their memory and their actions in Tremblay-en-France, Sevran, and Villepinte. In these times of bad neo-fascist winds, remembering is more than ever a duty. (translated)

30 août 1942. Révolté par les rafles, l’évêque de Montauban demande à ce qu’il soit dit à la messe que "tous les hommes, aryens ou non aryens, sont frères". Son diocèse met tout en œuvre pour cacher les juifs. Arrêté en juin 1944, il sera libéré par les Alliés. Pierre-Marie Théas https://t.co/3WDFMMrhk2 #Histoire #Mémoire #Résistance

29 août 1941, rappel à Dieu d'Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves, catholique et royaliste, héros de la résistance, fusillé par les allemands. « Je ne vous demande pas de prier pour moi, je sais que vous le ferez. Pensez que la prière pour les morts rapproche les vivants de Dieu, et par là est bonne. Que l'on continue à faire dire une messe par semaine à Verrières pour les morts de la famille. (...) Que personne ne songe à me venger. Je ne désire que la paix dans la grandeur retrouvée de la France. Dites bien à tous que je meurs pour elle, pour sa liberté entière, et que j'espère que mon sacrifice lui servira. Je vous embrasse tous avec une infinie tendresse. » #Résistance #Histoire #France

🇫🇷 FLASHBACK | Il y a 85 ans jour pour jour, Le 29 août 1941, Honoré d’Estienne d’Orves, figure de la Résistance, était fusillé par les nazis au Mont-Valérien. Capitaine de corvette, il avait fondé le réseau de renseignement Nemrod pour la France libre avant d’être arrêté à Nantes en janvier 1941. Honoré d’Estienne d’Orves sera fait Compagnon de la Libération à titre posthume et restera l’un des symboles des premiers résistants français. #Résistance #Histoire #Libération

Jean-Luc Crucke, federal minister of Mobility, presents a plan to resolve the overflight crisis in Brussels, which is causing anger and resistance in the face of residents' concerns and European regulatory obligations, as time is running out before a critical judicial deadline. (translated)

The Sweetened Lie I once dated a girl who said she’d go along with “2+2=5” if someone truly believed it—she wouldn’t correct them if it might upset them. In her mind, sharing a delusion was safer than truth and conflict. This mirrors what’s happening in the West: we’re losing the capacity to seek truth. Two forces may play roles: declining testosterone among young men and the feminization of institutions. Testosterone is linked to assertiveness and resistance to social pressure, and research suggests it can reduce short-term deception and conformity to group norms. Testosterone has also fallen in men across wealthy nations since the late twentieth century, making pressure easier to accept. Meanwhile, healthcare, universities, media, and other institutions are increasingly female-dominated. Critics argue that female-led cultures may prize consensus and harmony, making dissent costlier. Combined with less internal resistance, external penalties for resisting pressure can produce enforced conformity. Jung warned that failing to integrate the “masculine” side of the psyche can lead to rigidity and ideological capture. Arendt noted that totalitarianism doesn’t require belief in lies—only behavior that acts as if one believes. My ex embodied that dynamic. Nietzsche argued strength is tolerating truth, while the weak require truth diluted and sweetened. The first step is personal: refuse to participate. Accept the cost of nonconformity, build physical strength to support mental strength, and above all, refuse to tell the lie.

When Pathology Takes Power If the last decade in the West felt unstable, you’re not imagining it. Andrew Lobaczewski studied how psychological pathology can spread into politics and produce “pathocracy”: societies where disordered personalities gain disproportionate power. He argued that revolutionary upheaval drives “negative selection.” Healthy people are pushed out or leave; manipulative, lying, and ruthless personalities rise through institutions. The system keeps its name and funding, but its character changes. At the top are essential psychopaths—empathy- and guilt-free exploiters. Beside them are schizoids who treat people as data and design control systems from abstract theories. Next come spellbinders: charismatic figures who package authoritarian ideas in the language of compassion, using invented moral standards for convenience. Then the spellbound: true believers. Around them gather conformists who comply to protect careers, while resisters are targeted and bystanders adapt to avoid trouble. Lobaczewski estimated a small minority builds the system, a larger group serves it, and most merely adjusts. Over time, society becomes the censor: truth turns dangerous, sanity is labeled extremism, and resistance is punished. The point isn’t only that bad ideas harm. It’s that pathological personalities can exploit good intentions, ideology, and institutional power—so the real conflict is psychological health versus pathology, and healthy institutions must be able to recognize the difference.

On August 28, 1944, the Nice resistors rose up against the German occupiers. As the hours passed, the population joined them, and the insurrection became that of the entire city. Nice did not wait for someone to come and liberate her. She fought for her freedom and achieved it. (translated)

The Tolerance That Censors Institutions preach tolerance, yet disagreement is increasingly punished. As protected classes expand, demands for compliance, surveillance, and reporting grow. A tolerance-saturated society becomes hostile to dissent. Many call it hypocrisy, but the contradiction may be strategy. In 1965, Herbert Marcuse’s *Repressive Tolerance* argued that liberal “equal hearing” can perpetuate oppression. “Liberating tolerance,” he claimed, must discriminate: intolerance toward the Right, tolerance toward the Left. Why? Classical Marxism expected industrial workers to revolt from misery. Instead, comfort increased and revolution stalled. The Frankfurt School offered a remedy: capitalism colonized consciousness, creating “false consciousness.” If factory revolt won’t start, revolution must begin in the formation of minds—culture, education, psychology, entertainment. If so, neutrality becomes the enemy. Free debate spreads the system’s ideas. Elections let prisoners choose their preferred warden. Liberal freedoms act as “steam valves,” releasing pressure to prevent revolt. Tolerance becomes directional: oppressive ideas are suppressed; liberating ideas are amplified. Censorship and punishment are reframed as freedom’s highest expression. Marcuse also recognized liberal resistance to censorship and proposed “emergency” suspensions when oppression is deemed urgent—a logic echoed when speech is treated as harm and coercion as protection. The unsettling possibility is that nothing is malfunctioning: tolerance may function as a weapon. The final stage requires no visible censor—the individual internalizes it, policing their own thoughts.

Five Warnings Carl Jung Left Us Totalitarianism grows where people stop knowing themselves. In The Undiscovered Self (1957), Jung warned that individuality must be lost before oppression can take hold. Here are five of his clearest warnings. 1) Reason fails when fear takes over. Rational debate works only until emotional intensity passes a threshold—then slogans replace thought. 2) The most dangerous people can look normal. “Latent” destructive tendencies can hide under ordinary appearances, especially when society becomes a mob. 3) You don’t really know yourself. Conscious awareness is only the surface; the unconscious (“shadow”) pushes you to project what you refuse to face onto others. 4) When people lose God, they may make the State their god. The religious impulse can shift into politics, turning leaders into sacred figures. 5) The defense is the formed individual. Resistance to the mass requires someone “organized in his individuality”—disciplined self-knowledge, not crowd identity. Where love stops, power begins—and violence and terror follow.

Pathocracy: How Institutions Become Captured by the Pathological **Pathocracy** is the process by which institutions are gradually converted to serve the pathological. It often starts when normal people lose the ability to distinguish honest, well-intentioned behavior from manipulative and perverse motives. The institution may keep its name, image, and stated purpose long after it has changed in practice. A key warning sign is the normalization of pathological individuals: when a community treats the judgments of manipulative, conscienceless people as equal to those of everyone else, pathocracy is already underway. These individuals are rarely obviously unstable; they are often composed, confident, and even charming—so alarms don’t trigger. As more institutions are pathocratized, the pathological begin coordinating across them, reshaping society to match their impulses. Lobaczewski described roles such as ideological architects (producing simplistic “two camps” doctrines), marketing teams (simplifying reality into emotionally compelling narratives), and then psychopaths taking command to capture institutions. He estimated about 6% could become the new authority class and ~12% the intermediaries who make the system function, with at most around a fifth genuinely backing it. The rest usually build quiet networks of resistance. The central lesson of political ponerology: totalitarianism isn’t made only by a single tyrant—it emerges when society can no longer tell the pathological from the honest.