Margaret Thatcher was born on this day in 1925. She’s been dead for eleven years now, but it’s probably a good idea to keep checking. Bring garlic and a sharpened stake.
A deeply shocking and appalling story. How the US government funded attacks, denial and outright lies to protect the pesticides industry from its critics. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Network includes derogatory profiles of figures such as UN experts and food writer Michael Pollan, and is part of an effort to downplay pesticide dangers, records suggest
23 September 1938 | A German Jewish girl, Mirjam Helene Friedmann, was born in Berlin. The family fled to Prague in December 1938. On 16 October 1941, Mirjam was deported to Litzmannstadt ghetto & at the end of August 1944 to Auschwitz. She was murdered in a gas chamber.
23 September 1874 | A Jewish man, Albert (Avram) Franco, was born in Constantinople. He lived in Paris. In February 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
A lot going on right now. Just a reminder that in five days, Missouri plans to execute an innocent man. innocenceproject.org/time-is-runn...
It’s up to Gov. Mike Parson to grant clemency and commute Mr. Williams’ sentence to life without parole.
Breaking: Nurse Zakaria Al-Akhen was killed as a result of an attack by Russian forces, Assad and Iranian militias on the town of Taftanaz in the Idlib countryside, Syria.
*long stare*
This Homeland Security report about how they helped Trump fake an Antifa conspiracy in cities like Portland is a bombshell, and yet completely unsurprising. Thank you @wyden.senate.gov for surfacing it.
A new Homeland Security report details orders to connect protesters arrested in Portland to one another in service of the Trump's imaginary antifa plot.
17 September 1939 | The Soviet Union invaded Poland, assisting the Germans, as agreed in the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact & its secret protocol that divided Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland & Romania into German and Soviet "spheres of influence." #unredeemed 1/7
BREAKING NEWS: Assad's forces and Russia bombard with heavy artillery the vicinity of the village of Kansfra in the countryside of Idlib, Syria.