Pieter Johan Timmerman fought Nazis during the invasion of the Netherlands then joined the police but refused to work for the Germans and committed acts of resistance.
He was send to Germany for forced labour but got sick and died.
This week he was re-buried on the Grebbeberg, along his comrades.
How come encyclopedias never give casualty statistics for policies like Indian Removal or Jim Crow, but have entire sections for estimating casualties from genocides like Rwanda or Darfur? Shouldn't ethnic cleansing in the Soviet Union or United States be treated the same?
I tried the RSVP link but only got an error message. Any hints as how to find a working link would be much appreciated!
#OtD 19 Jul 1958 a group of Black students began a sit-in at the whites-only counter of Dockum's Drug Store in Wichita, Kansas, to protest segregation. After 23 days, the owner caved and desegregated all nine of his stores. More info here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9107...
This is just the beginning of the unnecessary and tragic deaths resulting from the Trump regime’s dismantling of govt agencies and the firing of public servants who worked to inform the public and make us all safer.
"This Fourth of July, I invite every American to start their day by learning about the doctrine of discovery. Allowing the reality of the dehumanizing nature of this doctrine to temper your celebrations." (2015) sojo.net/articles/who...
Allow me to present a voting member of the ACIP committee who makes decisions for Americans about vaccines.
There have been numerous outbreaks in Amish communities that would controlled by vaccination like a measles outbreak in Ohio in 2014.
#medsky
When they think no one is looking.
*Cops damaging their own cars?
#OtD 19 May 1933 Germany's Nazi government abolished collective bargaining – the principle of workers collectively negotiating with employers over pay and conditions. Instead, conditions were to be regulated by labour "trustees", appointed by Hitler stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9129...
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.
David Geier has apparently been commissioned by HHS secretary RFK, Jr. to study potential links between vaccination and autism.
He and his father have 2 papers in 2017/2016 claiming to show Hep-B vaccination greatly increases risk of autism/obesity.
However, their studies have FATAL FLAW...
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with
@freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
An NPR investigation uncovered 40,000 vets facing foreclosure due to a VA mistake. A rescue program is helping many of them, but others fear being left out if Congress cuts this new lifeline.
Overflow crowd for Bernie/AOC rally in Greeley, CO — the small one today, big one is in Denver later
Vandalism and threats of violence to ANYONE scare me. What incentive would a dictatorial leader need to impose Marshall Law?
"I have been chosen to preserve the form of constitutional government set up by our forefathers with the cream, the head, and the flower of our Protestant Christian manhood." - Donald J Trum-, no, WD Pelley, creating the Silver Shirts (US fascists) in 1933
But even if every federal worker were fired, it wouldn’t make a dent in the massive deficit increase Trump is proposing. The total federal employee payroll amounts to $271 billion—nowhere near enough to offset the trillions being added to the debt. So what’s the purpose here?
Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.
As an autistic person-and we are used most frequently in anti-vaxx arguments-I'd rather be autistic than dead from a preventable disease... or neurotypical for that matter.
Just throwing that out there for the first "but autism" commenter.
In 1985 in Africa 25 vaxxed children were compared with 25 unvaxxed for 5 years.
In the vaxxed group one got mild measles while 4 had suspected whooping cough.
Among the unvaxxed 11 got measles leading to 2 deaths & an unvaxxed child died of tetanus.
This is why we don't do these studies anymore.
Churchgoers recruited by Samaritan’s Purse have helped hundreds of Altadenans recover valuables. via @laist.com
Otto and Elise Hampel were Germans who wrote and spread hundreds of anti Nazi cards across Berlin during WWII.
They were beheaded with a guillotine in 1943.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_an...
Today is the start of #BlackHistoryMonth in the US. It is also the anniversary of #OtD 1 Feb 1960 in Greensboro, NC, when four Black college students refused to move from a Woolworth's lunch counter after they were denied service stories.workingclasshistory.c...
Thank you, Canada!
With the RFK Jr. confirmation hearing this week Weakened Update interviews a special guest...measles.
Dr. Paul Offit from last week's Roundtable on Vaccines:
"The problem is not only that we've largely eliminated these diseases...we've eliminated the memory of these diseases. Parents are now more scared of the safety of vaccines, real or imagined, then the diseases they prevent."
