
Vice Chair, Cheshire Town Council. Advocate @BikeCheshire VP @Mediabids. Proudly pro-democracy & pro-America. UConn & Trinity Alum.
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Jim Jinks 🇺🇸 retweeted
Washington has discovered a brilliant financial strategy. Cut benefits for people who need them, cut taxes for people who don't, and borrow the difference from people who aren't old enough to vote.
History is clear about where all this ends.
Incredible story.
June 20, 1942. A car pulls up to the main gate of Auschwitz.
Inside are four men in SS uniforms. The guard doesn't raise the barrier fast enough, so the officer in the passenger seat leans out and screams at him in German to open the damn gate.
The guard snaps to attention and lets them through.
None of them were SS. All four were prisoners. And they had just stolen the car right out of the camp.
The man who yelled at the guard was Kazimierz Piechowski, prisoner number 918. He had been in Auschwitz for two years, since the camp's very first months, when it held mostly Polish political prisoners. He was 22.
His friend Eugeniusz Bendera, a mechanic working in the camp garage, came to him with news. His name was on a list to be executed. He wanted out. He knew where the SS kept their cars. And he could drive.
Piechowski knew something too. Because of his work assignment, he knew there was a storeroom full of SS uniforms and weapons.
So they planned the impossible.
They recruited two more men, a Polish army officer named Stanisław Jaster and a priest named Józef Lempart. On a quiet Saturday, when fewer guards were around, the four of them pushed a cart full of trash out through the camp gate. The one with the words Arbeit Macht Frei over it. To the guards, they looked like just another work detail.
Once outside the inner fence, they slipped into the building with the storeroom. Piechowski climbed in through a coal chute, unlocked the door, and they grabbed SS uniforms, pistols, and grenades.
Bendera went to the garage and took one of the best cars on site, a Steyr reportedly used by the camp commandant himself, Rudolf Höss.
Then they drove calmly through the camp toward the exit.
As they got closer to the final gate, the barrier stayed down. Nobody moved. Seconds felt like hours. The men in the back were sure they'd been caught.
Then Piechowski leaned out the window and shouted at the guard like an angry SS officer.
The barrier went up.
They drove away and ditched the car later. All four escaped.
The Germans were humiliated. Some of the escapees' families paid a terrible price. Jaster's parents were sent to Auschwitz and died there.
But here's the twist. Stanisław Jaster wasn't just escaping. He was carrying something out. A report from inside the camp, written by Witold Pilecki, the man who volunteered to go into Auschwitz to expose it.
Piechowski joined the Polish resistance and kept fighting. When the war ended, communist Poland arrested him for having served in the Home Army and sent him to prison for years.
He lived to 98 and spent his later years telling his story.
A prisoner who spent two years in Auschwitz walked out through the front gate yelling at the guards. In the commandant's car.
At the very, very least an American President shouldn’t be picking fights with Canada and allying with Putin. Such is the modest height of the bar now.
Jim Jinks 🇺🇸 retweeted
The Kremlin intelligence psyop that has been poisoning American politics for decades is literally burning. Ukraine removed all the Russian bots on social media, just in time for the US midterm election.
Ukraine really is defending the entire free world!
Thank you, Ukraine! 💛💙
Jim Jinks 🇺🇸 retweeted
Ukraine taking out Russia's bot farms weeks before the American election was fucking genius.
It’s hard to believe these races are even this close.
Trump has single handedly driven the economy into a ditch and many Americans are barely hanging on.
They’ll be ‘bogged down?’ As if Republicans have been so busy delivering for Americans these past 2 years.
Steve Bannon, quoted by CBS News, on if Democrats take control of the House.
“I think you’ll see Bobby Kennedy impeached, I’ll think you see Pete Hegseth impeached. I think you’ll see subpoenas flying every day. They will look to destroy President Trump, and we’ll be bogged down for two years.”
cbsnews.com/news/steve-banno…
It’s insane that we can’t police crimes at the highest levels. Because…wait for it…a DOJ policy. In some ways we’re really the opposite of a ‘great power.’
Trump is found to have paid for most of the January 6th protestors. Jack Smith's new document drop shows that the Trump Campaign PAID for travel, hotels, expenses and organizing efforts to bring outside radical organizers to the Capitol on January 6th. Trump and his lackeys planned the assault on our Capitol.
Jim Jinks 🇺🇸 retweeted
The humble bicycle is a wonder drug that doesn't even require a prescription.
Reduce heart disease, cancers, diabetes, stroke, and dementia.
Bike more, live longer.
People will die this winter, in the U.S. because they can’t afford to heat their homes. More casualties of Trump’s incompetence and corruption.
Jim Jinks 🇺🇸 retweeted
People who didn’t really know Greenland existed a year ago are now confidently explaining the strategic implications of a nothingburger agreement that basically just reaffirms the same agreement we’ve had since the 1950s
Given that Trump can’t even fix the reflecting pool, no one should be surprised he’s lost the Strait of Hormuz.
As it turns out, to be ‘great again,’ we just need a better President.
“It is all Biden's fault”
🔸Gas was $3.12 per gallon when Biden left office. It is $4.33 today.
🔸Diesel was $3.63 a gallon when Biden left office. It is $6.27 today.
🔸America was not at war when Biden left office. We are at war with Iran today.
🔸Inflation for 2024 was 2.9%. It is 3.4% today.
🔸Wage gains for 2024 were 3.9%. Today, 3.1%.
🔸Real Wage Gains were +1.0% in 2024. Today, they are -0.3%.
🔸GDP growth was 2.8% in 2024. In the second quarter of 2026, it was 1.5%.
🔸The number of uninsured Americans decreased by almost 1 million over Biden's term. It has increased by 3 million since he left office.
🔸Home electricity prices have risen 12% since Biden left office.
🔸The native-born employment rate has decreased by ~1.7% since December 2024—the opposite of what a big deportation effort was supposed to do.
You can't blame the last administration for everything bad happening 20 months into a new administration that enacted tariffs, started a war, and kicked people off their healthcare to give more tax breaks to corporations and billionaires.
Jim Jinks 🇺🇸 retweeted
Republicans losing to Democrats on immigration and the deficit is some real staring-into-the-political-abyss stuff.
New York Times/Siena poll
Trump approval rating: 38%
Generic ballot: Dem 51%, GOP 43%
Issue breakdown 👇👀
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