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🧵 This man was America's first world war hero, but you won't find him in history books. He was called a "one man army", and yes—he was Black. His name: Sgt. Henry Johnson. (cont)
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
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Pope Leo is JD Vance’s Joyce Carol Oates.
Young woman wearing a sweater and a necklace, with a thoughtful expression.
22 January 1925 | Dutch Jewish girl, Frieda Henriette Citroen, was born in Amsterdam.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork oin September 1942. She did not survive.
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📖The fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/
"You tell me that Hitler is a mighty bad man. I guess he took lessons from the Ku Klux Klan. You tell me Mussolini's got an evil heart. Well, it mus-a been in Beaumont that he had his start-- Cause everything that Hitler and Mussolini do, Negroes get the same Treatment from you." --Langston Hughes
If we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.
Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.
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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
The Trump administration is a criminal enterprise.
Happy birthday to Steve Earle, born on this day in 1955. A fearless country, rock, and folk songwriter whose songs, from "Guitar Town" to "Copperhead Road," continue to shape American music and still just a badass.
If you can guess the Elton John lyric you’re amazing.
This visibly gets to him so people should keep doing it.
A Red Lake Ojibwe descendant was snatched by ICE in Minneapolis, and a Plains Cree woman was questioned.
This is in addition to the four Oglala Lakota men who reportedly were grabbed by ICE.
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100% this!👇
He kidnapped the president of Venezuela for them
And oil companies are like
Meh
The Beatitudes are
a radical manifesto
of a kingdom way of life
because Jesus reveals
who is in
and who is not.
@scotmcknight.bsky.social
Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by
In the early days of bluegrass, when the genre was still finding its identity and pushing its boundaries, a handful of musicians emerged with the intensity and drive to help shape its future... #bluegrass #musiclegend #legends
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
Black and white portrait photograph of a middle-aged man smiling broadly at the camera. He is wearing a large white cowboy hat tilted slightly forward, a dark suit jacket, and a striped dress shirt with the top button undone. The background is a plain, softly graduated gray studio backdrop. The lighting highlights his face, showing wrinkles and a friendly expression.
On this day in 2022, Ian Tyson died.
Born in Victoria, BC in 1933, he rose to fame as part of the duo Ian & Sylvia with his partner Sylvia Tyson. He wrote several folk songs including Four Strong Winds and Someday Soon. He had two gold and a platinum albums in his solo career.
I support DEIA!
Do you?
D-Diversity
E-Equity
I-Inclusion
A-Accessibility
I hope every progressive will commit to examining their language & biases & think about equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
No one is perfect. We all have growing to do. That's okay. Let's all learn together.
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Vintage black and white photo of a young boy with short hair, wearing a dark turtleneck sweater.
6 December 1937 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Sallo de Vries, was born in Borculo.
He was deported to #Auschwitz in October 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
Green cards are not easy to get.
The process is arduous, lengthy and expensive.
Trump is threatening to “re-examine” and denaturalize green card holders from 19 countries.
This will destroy lives. Tear apart families.
It won’t make America any safer.
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
29 November 1923 | A Polish Jew, Rubin Schiff, was born in Jasło. A tailor assistant.
In #Auschwitz from 18 December 1941.
No. 24702
He perished in the camp on 29 December 1941.
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Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: https://youtu.be/_ZaWqIsmY4U
Portrait photograph of a young girl. She has longer blonde hair and is wearing a dark blouse with a white collar. Her mouth is slightly open.
29 November 1930 | French Jewish girl, Rosa Rafal, was born in Paris to Mechla and Chaim.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 21 August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
