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3 December 1918 | A Czech Jewish woman, Marie Löwyová, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.
December 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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26 November 1918 | A Polish Jew, Franciszek Fejwuszek, was born in Łódź. A garderer.

In #Auschwitz from 9 January 1942.
No. 25394
He perished in the camp on 20 March 1942.
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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23 November 1910 | A Polish Jew, Moszek Hepner, was born in Żelechów. A worker.

In #Auschwitz from 16 January 1942.
No. 25747
He perished in the camp on 16 March 1942.
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Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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What is Starfleet’s policy on sedition?🤔
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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This was such a fun photo to set up, taken by Thomas Reiter through a sleep station window on Mir. The sun was so bright we were all squinting like crazy. But I love how it shows the texture of the Shuttle's rough, protective hide, and the glimpse of humanity (and my moustache) against the universe.
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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relatedly, ralph nader deserves to be remembered for the rest of time as someone who voluntarily assisted in a critical attack on american democracy, the importance of which far outweighs any of his consumer advocacy
bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on
i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Forge Ahead
Billie Rae Busby
2017
November 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.

Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I did not know this.
The US nuclear triad was not created intentionally. The term originated only in the 1970s as a post-hoc justification for an accidental artifact of the arms race, born of Air Force-Navy rivalry, unsynchronized war plans, secrecy, arbitrary decisions, contractor competition, and pork-barrel politics.
November 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is is indeed incredible. Traces Epstein all the way back to WWII!
⚡️Incredible dossier by French Sovietologist/historian Françoise Thom, exploring the 🇷🇺Soviet/Russian angle of late financier Jeffrey Epstein‘s sordid activities and connections to late mogul Robert Maxwell in detail. This looks far greater than mere „kompromat“ gathering... A long read, but worth it.
Cesspool and Chaos: the Russian Connection in the Epstein Affair - European Security
In this explosive article, French historian Françoise Thom highlights the close relationship between the late financier Jeffrey Epstein and the father of his accomplice Ghislaine, Robert Maxwell, the ...
european-security.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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15 November 1941 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Robert Julius de Vries, was born in Haarlem.

In March 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz with his mother Lea. On 5 March they were murdered together in a gas chamber after the selection.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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A local bakery just posted this photo on Facebook. I’ve gotten stuff from her before. Nice older lady. I do not know if she made it but…it’s perfect. Perfect.
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 AM
It's amazing how true this is
Person: wow you travel all over the world that must be glamorous

Me sitting in a deserted hotel lobby at 3:45am with Coldplay playing over the PA waiting for an airport shuttle after four hours of sleep: it sure is (checks vending machine for food)
November 15, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Pause and contemplate that this is an accurate assessment of the situation
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
WTF?! The underage sex trafficking is just the tip of the iceberg isn't it?
"THIS IS NOT WHAT I DO." - Epstein, after suggesting that he will "pass on" a proposal if the redacted party on the other side of the email wishes him to do so
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The stuff dreams are made of; the ultimate MacGuffin
The gem, a mysterious stone billions of years old, was shaped into a falcon’s head through a seven-year effort using specially invented tools
‘Uncuttable’ black diamond finally shaped to become world’s largest
www.thetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
We've reached the point of food drives for TSA and ATC !!
November 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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There’s nothing more American than your family going from being a target of bigotry to being a purveyor of it within a generation or two.
November 4, 2025 at 11:03 PM