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This is the riveting tale of two brave nonconformists whose dramatic lives open up new perspectives on the history of the twentieth century. Thomas Mann’s two eldest children, Erika and Klaus, were unconventional, rebellious, and fiercely devoted to each other. Empowered by their close bond, they espoused vehemently anti-Nazi views in a Europe swept up in fascism and were openly, even defiantly, gay in an age of secrecy and repression. In 1936, they fled to the United States and chose New York as their new adopted home. From the start, the two were embroiled by the literary and intellectual life, political turmoil, and shifting sexual mores of their times. Andrea Weiss engages their struggles, their friendships (Maurice Wertheim and Annemarie Schwarzenbach, among them), and their liaisons, as the siblings try to adapt to their new lives, all while introducing their work to an American audience for the first time.

Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell teamed up with Wells Fargo Bank and its Russian HQ, using their Russian connections, such as Nikita Lobanov-Rostovsky and Alex Shor, to harass and terrorize this transgender woman. How they spent hundreds of thousands of $$$ to attack my character and good name. How Wells Fargo is now consulting Donald Trump and helping him get away with his crimes. How they hired Doctor Rosenberg out of Los Angeles to have me sexually assaulted because they needed to know whether I have breast implants or "confirmation surgery". How Trump, aided and abetted by Wells Fargo, attacks the LGBTQ community, particularly black trans women. How Putin's influence in the US through transphobia weakens and disrupts America's standing in the world.There are two that always abuse law and justice, those two are above the law and above any accountability in the United States of America: Donald Trump and Wells Fargo Bank. And Wells Fargo Bank (hereinafter “WFB”) is now directly compromised by Vladimir Putin of Russia. I stood up to this in the Bay Area along with very few other brave souls, but how can you go up against Wells Fargo-sponsored hatred machine, even if you had a lawyer? That’s why we need more of us speaking out about this and, more importantly, acting on this.According to very influential on Wall Street and beyond Barron’s magazine, Wells Fargo has been financing Russian military forces. Wells Fargo rented a GRU building in Moscow –why? How did Wells Fargo track down my former boss? All of this is allowed to happen because of the corrupt leaders at Wells Fargo, and those Trump-promoting politicians like Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao, who turned their blind eyes to that, and also their determination to push an anti-LGBTQ+ agenda.Wells Fargo reduces women to our body parts, the same way the Religious Right do, and they do it openly and without consequences. And they refuse to see that they're doing Putin’s work for him. WFBank destroys Native-American lands in the Dakotas, while fleecing US taxpayers by having their HQ there in Sioux Falls, SD, to avoid paying taxes under transphobic Governor Kristy Noem, who hates trans people so much that she banned them from sports.Racists like Foley and current CEO Scharf don’t care (Scharf recently moaned about WFB “lack of black talent”; Scharf’s WASP ancestors were killing those native tribes with pleasure, nothing’s changed, only Foley and Scharf do it now through their $800-an-hour lawyers, like Hutner, Nestor, Briggs, and Lee).TERF ideology propagandist’s (Hutner, who also spews her hatred from her BERKELEY mansion, Pusey, Shor, etc.) history of hatred displays a pattern of mostly white, Christian, non-disabled, and financially stable women deploying their hatred and ignoring the needs of women of color, disabled women and trans women. Entitled privileged white boys like Foley never experience any discomfort.Let’s remember our trans sisters Claire Legato, Muhlaysia Booker, Paris Cameron, Chanel Scurlock, Zoe Spears, Tracy Single, Kiki Fantroy, and Bee Love Slater are all Black trans women who were murdered. Hundreds of transgender people have had their lives taken ruthlessly by those filled with hatred, the hatred that is professed by Hutner, Trump, McConnell, Chao, Foley, Shor, and Monasterio. 82% of them were women of color. However, this is only the number reported – the reality of the situation is likely far worse. Because if you plan on coming out as transgender in San Francisco, this horrible mistreatment awaits you. Not “gentle people”, but violence, hatred, and the bile of Trump surrogates, Putin’s enablers, and neo-Nazis like Foley, Ruffrage, Spencer, TERFs like Shor, Monasterio, Chao, and Hutner. Wells Fargo financially ruins people financially and emotionally simply for standing up for their rights. Let’s tell these white supremacists and Putin worshippers that we are onto them! Let’s take back our democracy and demand changes today!