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[Scott Dworkin @funder]

California just made it a literal felony for federal agents or law enforcement to touch ballots or tamper with voting machines without a warrant. Gov. Newsom just drew a massive line in the sand against regime interference: 👇 https://t.co/uvhlt1fCmj

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

'If you do not stop speaking right now you will not graduate'.

This 17-year-old's speech was cut off after she mentioned people suffering around the world. 'Free speech' is a myth in the US.

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

Keep posting this so nobody forgets that this was one of the worst events in American history.

Never has a sitting president encouraged his supporters to believe a lie so deeply that they’d be willing to attack or democracy.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Auschwitz, 1943: Dr. Mengele ordered her to kill the babies she delivered.
She looked him in the eye and refused.
Over two years, she brought 3,000 babies into hell—and never lost a mother.
The Arrest
Stanisława Leszczyńska was 47 years old, a Catholic midwife from Łódź, Poland, when the Nazis arrested her in 1943.
Her crime? Helping Jewish families and Polish resistance members.
On April 17, 1943, she arrived at Auschwitz with her daughter Sylwia. Prisoner number 41335.
Most people sent to Auschwitz were murdered within hours.
But Stanisława had a skill the Nazis needed: she was an experienced midwife.
They assigned her to the maternity ward.
The "Ward"
Calling it a "maternity ward" is grotesque.
It was a filthy wooden barrack called Block 24, with three-tier wooden bunks where pregnant women—starved, sick, terrified—waited to give birth.
There was no medicine. No clean water. No anesthesia. No surgical instruments. No diapers or blankets for newborns.
Just wooden boards, darkness, and the smell of death.
Stanisława was expected to deliver babies in conditions where survival was impossible.
And then came the orders.
The Orders
Nazi doctors—including Dr. Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death"—had specific instructions for babies born in Auschwitz.
Jewish babies: Kill them immediately. Usually by drowning.
Polish babies: If they looked "Aryan," they might be taken for "Germanization." The rest? Kill them too.
Stanisława was ordered to kill the babies she delivered.
The Refusal
She refused.
"No," she told the Nazi doctors. "I will not kill babies."
It should have been a death sentence. Prisoners who refused direct orders were shot, beaten to death, or sent to the gas chambers.
But the Nazis had a problem: there were hundreds of pregnant women in the camp. Someone had to deliver those babies. Stanisława was the only trained midwife.
So they let her live.
But they made sure she understood: if she didn't kill the babies, someone else would.
Two Years in Hell
For two years, Stanisława Leszczyńska delivered babies in hell.
She worked with her bare hands, no gloves, no sterilization. She tore strips from her own clothing to tie umbilical cords. She used cold water from the camp's contaminated supply.
She had no pain medication—women gave birth in agony, trying not to scream because screaming could bring guards who would beat them.
She delivered babies in the dark, by feel.
She delivered babies while guards stood nearby, mocking, threatening.
She delivered babies knowing most would die within hours or days.
The Conditions
The conditions made survival almost impossible:

Starvation: Mothers were malnourished, producing little or no breast milk
Cold: Wooden barracks in Polish winter. Newborns froze
Infection: No clean water, no sanitation
Murder: Guards routinely drowned newborns in buckets, in front of their mothers

Of approximately 3,000 babies Stanisława delivered, only a few hundred survived the camp.
Most died within days. Some within hours.
But Stanisława fought for every single one.
The Miracle
She baptized babies in secret when mothers requested it—a dangerous act. She kept hidden records of births. She did everything she could to give these children a chance.
And she achieved something medically extraordinary:
Despite delivering 3,000 babies in the most horrific conditions imaginable—no medicine, no equipment, in filth and darkness, with malnourished mothers—Stanisława never lost a mother during childbirth.
Not one.
Every woman she attended survived the delivery itself.
That doesn't mean they survived the camp. Many were murdered later. Many died from disease or starvation.
But during labor, during those crucial hours of delivery, Stanisława's hands kept them alive.
The Guardian Angel
One survivor, Anka Nathanson, later testified: "She was our guardian angel. In Auschwitz, where there was only death, she brought life."
Another survivor remembered: "She would whisper to us during delivery, 'Think of something beautiful. Think of your baby's future. Don't let them take your hope.'"
Stanisława maintained her humanity in a place designed to destroy it.
The Confrontation
When Mengele came to inspect the maternity ward and demanded to know why she wasn't killing babies, she told him:
"I am a midwife. I bring life. I do not take it."
He could have killed her on the spot.
He didn't.
She delivered babies while her own daughter Sylwia was imprisoned nearby. She didn't know from day to day if Sylwia was alive.
She delivered babies while surrounded by gas chambers and crematoriums.
She brought life into the worst place humanity has ever created.
Liberation
January 1945. The Soviet Army approached Auschwitz.
Stanisława and Sylwia survived. They were liberated and returned to Poland.
After the war, Stanisława testified at trials. She never stopped practicing midwifery. She continued helping mothers and babies until retirement.
In 1970, she wrote "Report of a Midwife from Auschwitz"—clinical, detailed, devastating. She documented everything.
Stanisława Leszczyńska died on March 11, 1974, at age 78.
The Catholic Church began investigating her for beatification—recognizing her as someone who embodied Christian values of protecting life and refusing evil even at risk of death.
Why Her Story Matters
When we talk about the Holocaust, we talk about six million Jews murdered. Eleven million people total.
We don't often talk about pregnancy in the camps. About women giving birth while guards mocked them. About babies born into conditions where survival was impossible.
Stanisława Leszczyńska's story reveals something important: Even in Auschwitz, moral choices existed.
She could have followed orders. Many would have, maybe justifiably, to survive.
She refused.
She chose to bring life, even when life seemed hopeless.
She chose to defy Nazi doctors, even when defiance could mean death.
And because of her choice:

Some babies survived
Every mother survived delivery
Women giving birth in hell had someone treating them like human beings
Mothers in the darkest place on Earth had someone whispering, "Think of something beautiful"

The Legacy
Stanisława Leszczyńska delivered 3,000 babies in Auschwitz.
Most died. The conditions made survival nearly impossible.
But she never stopped fighting for life.
She never followed the orders to kill.
She never lost a mother during childbirth.
She was ordered by Mengele himself to murder newborns, and she looked at the man who sent thousands to death and said: "No."
In a place built for death, she brought life.
In a place designed to destroy humanity, she preserved it.
In Auschwitz—where hope itself was supposed to die—a 47-year-old midwife delivered babies with her bare hands and whispered to mothers: "Think of something beautiful."
Her name was Stanisława Leszczyńska.
And she deserves to be remembered.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

STRANGE HOW ELECTIONS IN AMERICA WERE CONSIDERED SAFE UNTIL A SERIAL LIAR WHO'S ALSO A CONVICTED FELLON TOLD AMERICA THEIR ELECTIONS ARE RIGGED 🙄🤡

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Kharkiv is a city of the wounded: wounded people, buildings, and souls.

If all these broken buildings could speak, they would probably tell us how hurt and tired they are, just like we, citizens, are. They would tell us how they fear loud noises, and how they still hope for better times someday. How they mourn the people they could not shield, and how, against all odds, they refuse to fall, just like everything else here.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel dropped a bomb on Mona’s home in Mansouri, South Lebanon, today.

Mona is not a fighter.

She is an environmental activist who dedicated her life to protecting endangered sea turtles.

Because of Israel, Mona is now fighting for her life in a hospital bed.

[Greta Berlin @Truegreta]

BREAKING: HELL YES! Albania strikes a crushing blow against Jared Kushner's corrupt private island development by FREEZING the bank accounts of a major company tied to the project.
And it gets even better...
According to Albanian reporter Lindita Cela, the nation's anti-corruption prosecutors have frozen the accounts of a landholding company involved in Kushner's $4 billion luxury resort plans.
The move comes as massive protests sweep the country, with local residents incensed at the idea of Ivanka and Jared gobbling up coveted real estate to create a vacation spot for the Epstein Class. The slogan “Albania Is Not for Sale" has been spreading like wildfire and clashes between police and protestors are increasing in intensity.

The asset seizure was ordered by the Special Prosecution Against Corruption and Organized Crime and is part of a broader investigation into possibly fraudulent property titles.
Suspiciously, the company in question is owned by Qatari oligarchs Moutaz and Ramez Al-Khayyat. Kushner's ties to dirty Gulf money are well-established. They blossomed during his time in the first Trump administration, where he twisted American foreign policy to benefit specific actors in the region in return for massive investments and business advantages. This deal is rotten all the way to the core.

The Al-Khayyats have snatched up property along a protected stretch of coastline of the Adriatic Sea and it's here and on a nearby island that Kushner intends on erecting his resort for the top 1% of the top 1%. Given what we know about the Trump family, it's safe to presume that the development will serve as a paradise for pedophiles, war criminals, and human traffickers.

But this time, Jared bit off more than he can chew. Albanians are a proud, defiant people. They've survived centuries of larger regional powers seeking to divide their land, rewrite their history, and erase their culture. They're not going to let one greedy businessman defeat them now.

We stand with Albania!
Kushner out! Ivanka out!
Do you stand with the Albanian people?
Please 📷 and share to demand more investigations into Kushner!

@OccupyDemocrats

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

Oleshky are blocked again.

New harrowing details from locals:

"We were bringing humanitarian aid and food into the city. People went ahead to check the road — and that’s where an explosion happened.

Then came a series of blasts, one after another. The vehicles stopped, and no one knew where else the road was mined — even the roadside turned out to be deadly.

The wounded were pulled out and rushed away as fast as possible. Some didn’t make it to the hospital. Others were saved at the very last moment.

After that, every attempt to enter or leave failed again — the road simply doesn’t let anyone through. The city is cut off again."

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

MAJOR BREAKING: Canada bans Texas cattle over flesh-eating screwworm outbreak.

Remember that Trump/DOGE pushed broad USDA staffing and budget cuts that affected APHIS, which happens to be the the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, responsible for overseeing screwworm in cattle at the federal level.

Thanks Trump for screwing us, you worm....

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

You have to read this. 

Trump demolished the East Wing of the White House and replaced it with a private ballroom funded by corporate donors. Now we know what they got for it. 

More than half of the publicly identified donors to that $400 million project won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion in the 6 months after they gave. Most of those same companies also had federal enforcement actions against them suspended by the Trump Administration during the same period. 

There is no honest word for that other than corruption. 
https://t.co/r40hZyargd

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: O.M.G. The woman accusing Graham Platner of "intimidation" has been EXPOSED as a top Republican operative who has worked with his opponent, Susan Collins!

This is EXACTLY what they did to Al Franken…

On Thursday evening, the New York Times ran a story in which a woman, Lindsey Fifield, accused Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner of grabbing her by the arm, twisting her arm, and of standing in a doorway menacingly blocking her exit.

The New York Times could not corroborate any of her accusations, but ran the story anyway, along with allegations from a few other women that Graham Platner could be unsettling, had dark thoughts, and generally had spooky vibes as a boyfriend.

They also spoke to several other women who said he was a lovely boyfriend and they happily supported his candidacy.

It’s now coming out that Lindsey Fifeld is a lifelong GOP operative who has worked with Platner’s Republican opponent, Susan Collins, and successfully persuaded her to vote in favor of Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s Supreme Court justice who is an ACTUAL rapist.

In one message to a friend, Fifeld wrote “I will personally go campaign for Collins.”

Reporter Ryan Grim at Drop Site News reports that “In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.”

“In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.“

“The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was ‘a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns.’”

“Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and [Zionist extremist Bethany] Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then.”

It should be noted as well that Lindsey Fifeld has a long history of making up baseless lies about Palestinians targeted by the Trump administration like Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk.

Folks, pardon our French, but this is *bullshit.*

This is an abhorrent attempt to weaponize domestic violence and the mental trauma of dealing with PTSD in order to sink a leftist candidate who staunchly opposes the Israeli genocide of Gaza.

Oh, and if that wasn't enough, the reporter on this article is Katie Gluek, an ardent Zionist whose parents are Israeli settler-occupiers in the West Bank.

Platner’s campaign responded with “Let’s be very clear: This is a lifelong G.O.P. operative who’s dedicated her career to electing Republicans.”

What else is there to say?

Graham Platner is obviously a very imperfect person, but we are not electing him to be our boyfriend. He has been very open about his struggles with PTSD; he saw four of his squadmates killed in an IED explosion in Iraq.

This smear campaign, based on uncorroborated allegations by a woman who literally said she would work for his opponent, is part of his punishment for being a progressive who isn’t afraid to stand against Israel, to stand against the health insurance behemoths, and to demand a better life for the American people.

They managed to sink Al Franken like this. They will NOT succeed again!

[Monitoring World @WorldMonitorUS]

@yousef_ki1 .

[Ahmet Gemici @ahmetgemici2990]

Posso farvi una richiesta? Per favore, non smettete di parlare della Palestina. Lasciate un punto per influenzare l'algoritmo. 💔🇵🇸 Mi seguireste per sostenere?

[Mia @MiaForTrump]

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s business partners, the Alexander brothers, have been convicted on 19 counts of sex trafficking.

It’s odd how often sex offenders appear in the Trump family’s inner circle.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel just carried out another horrific massacre in South Lebanon.

Dropping massive bombs near Jabal Amel Hospital in Tyre — wiping out 3 apartment blocks full of civilians.

People are still buried under the rubble.

This is an American-backed, American-funded genocide.

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

They think if they do it behind high walls and private security, America won't notice. But the truth about Delaney Hall is out. From maggot-infested food to locking out state inspectors, this private prison is a humanitarian crisis funded by your tax dollars. Stop the secrecy. Share this everywhere. 💥 #ShutDownDelaneyHall

[Walid Mahmoud @walidmahmodrouk]

For those who don’t know:

Israel doesn’t allowing the entry of prescription lenses or eyeglass frames into Gaza.
Not weapons.
Not military equipment. Glasses.

When civilians are denied even the most basic tools needed to see, it raises serious questions about the human cost of these restrictions.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Fuck you @CNN . This isn’t an incursion, it’s an illegal invasion and occupation. Israel is committing acts of genocide in Lebanon and you are aiding them with your propaganda.

Today I watched as an Israeli flag flew over Beaufort Castle, a @UNESCO world heritage site. I watched as the Israeli army bombed the area with white phosphorus. I photographed the destroyed castle with the Israeli flag flying over it; as if they are proud of the destruction they caused.

Shame on you and your correspondents in Beirut.

I’m eager for you to face the same fate as the propagandists at Nuremberg.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

I am DEVASTATED.

Our beloved, beautiful cat Sunny, after just 2 years of age, passed away today after a thrombotic embolism, or a blood clot.

We found him in our backyard, tiny little thing, almost 2 years ago, and he leaves a giant hole in our family.

Broken hearted.💔😭