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I stand with Israel.🇮🇱🇺🇸

[Henshi @HenshiG]

Hiram Bingham IV had a Yale degree, a Harvard law degree, and a prestigious family name.

He threw it all away to save 2,500 Jews.

June 1940. Marseille, France. With Paris fallen and the Vichy regime signing an armistice with Hitler, Article 19 sealed the fate of countless refugees: “surrender on demand” all those named by the Germans — Jews, anti-Nazis, artists, writers.

Tens of thousands flooded Marseille, the last escape port. They lined up at the U.S. consulate, desperate for visas.

Most diplomats followed State Department orders to delay, reject, and slow-walk applications under antisemitic pressure from Breckinridge Long. Many never got a second chance.

Hiram Bingham IV, 36-year-old Vice Consul, refused to comply.
Son of a governor, father of five, he signed visas as fast as he could — to Jews, Communists, socialists, artists, anyone the Gestapo hunted.

He accepted forged papers, typed affidavits, and kept going even after his boss threatened him and Washington demanded he stop.

Working with Varian Fry, he helped save Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, and countless ordinary Jewish families, orphaned children, and elderly refugees.

When needed, he hid people in his own villa and smuggled them to safety. He even paid from his own pocket.

In just ten months, Bingham issued 2,500 visas — an underground railroad run by an American diplomat.

The State Department punished him: demoted to Lisbon, then Buenos Aires.

He continued exposing Nazis in South America anyway.

Passed over for promotion, he resigned in 1946 at 42, with eleven children to support. He returned to a small Connecticut farm, worked odd jobs, and never spoke of Marseille — not to his wife, not to his children.

For 42 years, his heroism remained hidden.

He died in 1988 at 84, forgotten by the world. No major obituary. No recognition.

Then, in 1991, his son found a hidden bundle behind a chimney: documents, cables, and lists of the lives he saved. The family was stunned.

The papers went to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Survivors and their descendants came forward.

In 2002, Secretary of State Colin Powell posthumously honored him with the Constructive Dissent Award.

In 2006, the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp in his name.

Hiram Bingham IV had every reason to follow orders. Instead, he broke them — knowing it would cost his career, his security, everything. While others obeyed and advanced, he chose what was right.

Today, tens of thousands of people owe their lives to one man’s signature.

A quiet hero who saved 2,500 souls and asked for nothing in return.

[RaskDerangementSyndrome @RaskDS40]

@firemandeanbuck “Literally everyone” did not get a speeding penalty.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

On June 10, 1942, the mutiny of Polish prisoners from the penal company took place. They were employed digging the main drainage ditch in Auschwitz II-Birkenau, so-called Königsgraben [king’s ditch].

According to the plan prepared in advance, the escape was supposed to happen after the whistle signalizing the end of the working day. However, due to heavy rainfall, on that day the work was finished earlier, which left the majority of prisoners disoriented.

At the sound of the whistle only about 50 of them began the escape in the course of which the SS men shot 13 prisoners. On the next day, in reprisal for the escape, they shot the next 20 prisoners and about 320 were murdered in the gas chamber. Initially, only nine prisoners managed to flee the pursuit, but the majority of them were shot or captured after some time.

Link to our online lesson about escapes from Auschwitz: https://t.co/B7WVzzqq6h

Listen about the mutiny in our podcast: https://t.co/HHn47kVs4P
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Excerpts from an account by August Kowalczyk, recorded at the meeting held on 10 June 2012 on the 70th anniversary of his escape from the Penal Company

The beginning I remember as if it was a slow motion film. I approached the clothing without any anxiety, put on my trousers, shirt and an overcoat. I had earlier ripped off the rags with my number on them in order to keep the escape anonymous. I approached the previously prepared shovel , put it on my shoulder, took a few steps towards the SS man, took aim and lunged, but he sprang to his feet as if he were really on a spring. My mates fled. I dropped the shovel on the ground and tried to get out of the SS man’s field of view. I saw Mietek Kawecki running in front of me, but he was already wounded, slowing down the run, until he dropped to the ground. The neighbouring group was to escape as well, but ‘their’ SS man didn’t know about it and our flight started first.
That’s why he focused on me and tried to cross my path. He shot… 10 metres, 8, 6… He whacked me with the gun barrel on the shoulders. I turned back. Another fugitive emerged, the SS man followed him, I turned again, and with two other mates we ran into the bushes and went on running. I started the ‘striptease’ I had planned earlier. One boot went one way, the other-the other way. I put on the running shoes that I had managed to take from one of the German Kapos. The idea was to deceive the police dogs that the SS used. The jacket, the shirt, and the trousers followed the boots-I tossed them all the way into the bushes. I was only in my boxer shorts and the trainers. The bushes ended, we had about 40 m of meadow ahead, followed by another patch of scrub. My mates were running. The SS man shot twice-he missed. I ducked into a bush and saw him begin reloading. I thought that I would have managed to cover the distance by the time he had finished. My reasoning was correct, but the execution failed, as he reloaded and cocked the gun, and I was still in the bush. He must have seen me, because he took aim… Then, as I went flying across that meadow, I must have broken the 60 m world record for running. He shot twice and missed, I made it into the bushes, then across an old bed of the River Vistula. I lost one of the trainers in the marshes, threw the other one away, jumped into the water, went about 200 m down the river with the current, and left on the other bank.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Mr. Platner,

Ratio.

That's it. That's the whole rebuttal.

You are someone who, by the virtue of his Reddit posts, manages to be simultaneously a filthy-literal-Communist and anti-Semite. That in itself is an egregious sin, because literal, card-carrying Communists are fundamentally at odds with America's norms.

But if that weren't enough, you have voluminous Reddit posts defending the Nazi Totenkopf symbol. You clearly knew the tattoo you got and you defended it publicly. There's no either/or way about it.

Scum attracts scum. Which is why you can comfortably swim in both literal-Communist and literal-antisemitic far-right circles.

I am no fan of Sue Collins. But the fact you are running against her, that you have even the smallest chance of defeating her --

you, as someone who is a self-admitted Communist, someone who has Nazi sympathies -- not to mention all the horrific, personal-life stuff --

You are the worst candidate in history, right AND left. You are the authoritarian evil that every "democracy" group speaks about, yet they will hypocritically not say a word against because they believe that being anti-Trump is more important than allying with Communists or Nazis.

You are not "populist." On the contrary:

You are the perfected example of how liberal democracy has rotted so far that they'd rather stay silent about you, hoping you'll win against the most moderate Republican in the Senate, than to hand Trump the possibility of retaining the Senate.

[ICE Boston @EROBoston]

ICE Boston arrested Henry Alexander Hernandez Amaya, a twice-removed criminal illegal alien from El Salvador.

His criminal history includes a conviction for carnal knowledge of a child 13-14 years old without force, for which he was sentenced to 12 months incarceration.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

10 June 1903 | A Polish man, Adam Sokop, was born in Nowy Targ. A stationmaster.

In #Auschwitz from 5 April 1941
No. 11510
He perished in the camp on 1 November 1941.
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📖 "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: https://t.co/actXXCUbM1

[RaskDerangementSyndrome @RaskDS40]

@TheFootyFeed

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@BBCNews “Stabbing?”

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@KenRoth Suicidal empathy produces:

[RaskDerangementSyndrome @RaskDS40]

@88brookie @loganpaddock @PuckReportNHL Read the(female)judge’s decision. She ruled, “I do not find the evidence of EM to be EITHER(emphasis added)credible or reliable. In this case, I found ACTUAL CONSENT(emphasis added again)not vitiated by fear.”

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@SoveyX @KenzieMarieInWA

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@RoKhanna @grahamformaine A little light reading tonight Ro?

[Gretchen Smith @codeofvets]

EVICTION MISSION
#Tucson #Arizona

Army veteran Conell is being evicted. He got behind on rent due to a car accident. Let’s stabilize this vet. Moving forward he can maintain, he is in need of stop gap assistance. $3K

https://t.co/cOwKkx6988

[Theo Wold @RealTheoWold]

An Idaho father was murdered last night in a car crash caused by an illegal alien who was driving drunk.

Mike Vasquez was a native of Caldwell and was just 35-years-old. He leaves behind his wife Jacky and their young children, who were in the car with him and were severely injured in the crash.

His killer is 28-year-old Nixon Amilcar Ixcoy Lix, an illegal alien from Guatemala, who is now being charged with vehicular manslaughter and never should have been in Idaho in the first place.

I am beyond infuriated.

Every illegal alien in Idaho needs to be deported. Every NGO resettling them here needs to scrutinized and held accountable for their complicity in crimes like this. And every cheap labor Republican in our state government needs to be removed from office.

This has to end.

[A Soldier's Whisper @SoldiersWhisper]

US Marine Corps 1st Lt. Nicholas Aaron Madrazo, 25, of Bothell, Washington, was a dedicated communications officer serving with Combat Logistics Battalion 37.

On September 9, 2008, while supporting combat operations in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, his vehicle was struck by a roadside IED. Nicholas and fellow Marine Capt. Jesse Melton III were killed in the blast. 🕊️

Madrazo had been promoted to First Lieutenant in April 2007 and volunteered for deployment to Afghanistan because he wanted to make a real difference in the lives of the Afghan people.

Known for his leadership, professionalism, and commitment to his Marines, Nicholas embodied the Marine Corps ethos of selfless service. He was laid to rest with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery on September 24, 2008 — the 504th service member from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to receive that honor.

His family and fellow Marines remember him as a man who reached beyond his assigned mission, always striving to help others.
#TheAfghanistanWar
#History #RIP

[Johnny B. Good @Cat5SMASHICANE]

Hey kids, don't mess with us old guys. I laughed way too hard at this. I'm gonna hit the lottery and hire Steve Inman to walk behind me and narrate my life. I just need to find action every few hours to give him something interesting to talk about. 💥🤣💥🤣💥🤣💥🤣💥🤣💥🤣💥🤣💥

[Luke Murphy For Congress 🇺🇸 @LukeMurphyFL]

After 9/11, I refused to sit on the sidelines. I served in Iraq and nearly died defending our country because America is worth fighting for.

We can’t sit on the sidelines in this election either.

North Florida needs a WARRIOR in Congress - not a politician.

Join Team Murph. 🇺🇸🫡 https://t.co/iERvRwbipa

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@prmade313raised

[FBI Boston @FBIBoston]

@HSINewEngland @MassStatePolice The Trinitarios have been charged in connection with 15 murders over the last decade.
Our investigation has also resulted in the apprehension of seven illegal aliens from the U.S. who have either been deported or are currently in deportation proceedings. https://t.co/xgW98Ff0UA

[FBI Boston @FBIBoston]

Roughly 250 special agents & task force officers with #FBI Boston, @HSINewEngland & @MassStatePolice took down 26 alleged members of this extremely violent Dominican street gang that has fueled addiction, violence, intimidation& fear in our region.