A German minister accused the fascist-tinged far-right party of secretly planning mass deportations if it gets power.

*AfD leader "wolf in sheep’s clothing," says German Social Democrats head.*

The head of the Michigan Republican Party has been ousted by the state committee after claiming to have won votes within the party that in fact perse had lost. Now, following the lead of their greatest inspiration, perse has refused to honor the vote that ousted per, and the two fractions look like fighting in court soon.

It is beautifully ironic for Republicans to get a taste of their own medicine. I laugh at their predicament. Will they learn a lesson from it? Will they recognize, in these events, a reason not to support the bullshitter as candidate for president? *How an Alabama utility wields influence by financing news broadcasting.*

*As the election looms, we must be alert to [the insurrectionist's] threats of vigilante justice.*

The insurrectionist has already bullied senators into voting not to convict him of insurrection. Now his followers are threatening judges. Next November he will surely launch his fanatics into bigger violence. We must be ready to defeat it crushingly so that it cannot try again.

*Fears grow for largest remaining hospital in Gaza as Israeli forces bombard Khan Younis*, bombing sometimes very close to the hospital.

On the ethical issues of fictionalizing parts of a movie which claims to present true events.

It is impossible to recount history with perfect accuracy, no matter how hard you work. Even for recent history there are always things which the best research cannot determine. For events further in the past, there are often disagreements about how to interpret the primary sources, and even major uncertainties. You may have to choose which interpretation to dramatize. Whichever you choose, it may be mistaken or only part of the truth. One can only do one's best.

But that doesn't excuse intentionally choosing not to do one's best. I am deeply disappointed by gratuitous falsification of history simply to make the plot "more exciting". When I learned that The Great Escape was mostly fiction, I felt cheated by it. It presents a notice which tries to acknowledge that parts are fiction, but phrased misleadingly: the notice states that the way they dug and used the tunnel were accurate, but did not explicitly say that most of the rest was not.

Even in Midway, which is mostly accurate, some points have been made erroneous -- and it would have been so easy to get them right.