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History MA Candidate at Queen’s University. she/her • 🇨🇦

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

'@AuschwitzMuseum begins emotional work of conserving 8,000 shoes of murdered children'

@AP: In a modern conservation laboratory on the grounds of the former Auschwitz camp, a man wearing blue rubber gloves uses a scalpel to scrape away rust from the eyelets of small brown shoes worn by children before they were murdered in gas chambers.

Colleagues at the other end of a long work table rub away dust and grime, using soft cloths and careful circular motions on the leather of the fragile objects. The shoes are then scanned and photographed in a neighboring room and catalogued in a database.

The work is part of a two-year effort launched last month to preserve 8,000 children’s shoes at the former concentration and extermination camp where German forces murdered 1.1 million people during World War II. Most of the victims were Jews killed in dictator Adolf Hitler’s attempt to exterminate the Jews of Europe.

Read more: https://t.co/m7LadjXdGL

[Bruce Arthur @bruce_arthur]

Again, these are passport interiors from 1997 and 2009, when Canadian history apparently did not exist

[Merrick 🦂 @punishedmother]

I have PCOS. It made me have horrible body acne in my teen years, I still have the scars. It’s put me in the hospital several times. I struggle w hirsutism. It really sucks watching transphobes reinforce my body is disgusting while claiming to be protecting me.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

#YomHaShoah Among 1,3 million people deported to the German Nazi #Auschwitz camp 1,1 million were Jews (1 million of them were killed). See their countries of origin.

Learn more about Jewish prisoners & victims of Auschwitz: https://t.co/VtGNd0oDZ1

[Ian Haworth @ighaworth]

.@joerogan saying “the idea that Jewish people are not into money is ridiculous. That’s like saying Italians aren’t into pizza” would make sense if Jews invented money and/or Italians had been massacred because of a conspiracy that they control the world through pizza.

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

We shouldn’t be all that bothered that an American jet took down the cylindrical balloon over Yukon.
NORAD is an integrated command structure. The F22s stationed in Anchorage were closer than our CF18s in Cold Lake.
The system worked. Three balloons in a week is the problem.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

1 February 1920 | A Pole, Wacław Kamiński, was born in Białka. A blacksmith.

In #Auschwitz from 30 July 1941.
No. 19678
He was shot in the camp on 23 July 1942.

[Fatima Syed / @fatimabsyed.bsky.social @fatimabsyed]

Doug Ford wants to shift more of York Region’s sewage to Lake Ontario — a decision made the same day as Bill 23 that may break an international Great Lakes agreement AND forever destroy the health of 2 lakes that give us drinking water.

New by me:
https://t.co/Z8IM4BcqGA #onpoli

[GIFFORDS @GIFFORDS_org]

Today, Florida officials were asked how they’ll know if someone is legally allowed to carry a gun if they pass permitless carry?

They said they’ll know AFTER that person commits a crime.

That’s their plan. Wait until people get shot.

[Ian Copeland, PhD @IanCopeland5]

"Vaccines cause blood clots"

And yet, antivaxers aren't concerned with COVID-19 induced blood clotting.

The rate of clotting from COVID-19 is substantially higher than that of vaccination.

Explain antivaxers....

https://t.co/bZRHAV9gZt

[Oleksa Drachewych @ODrachewych]

As we slowly reach 11 months since Russia’s escalation in its war against Ukraine, I figure I should update my thread on statements about the war in response to recent discussions. 🧵

[Duty To Warn 🔉 @duty2warn]

James Comey felt compelled to announce the reopening of the Hillary email investigation because it had already been leaked by two agents at the NY FBI office, one of whom we now learn was a Russian agent.
Don’t tell me Putin didn’t steal the 2016 election.

[T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @TRyanGregory]

Hello Canada! 🇨🇦

A few things you might not know about the pandemic...
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[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

78 years ago today over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army. 1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over. Today we all remember. We must remember. | #Auschwitz78

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

Now that Pierre Poilievre is officially the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, let's examine his and the CPC's recent connections to residential school denialism, a thread🧵:

[THEO♅ʙʀoмɪc @theobromic_]

bernini was raised by an established sculptor acquainted with the pope himself and was brought to rome at age 8 to receive the best training one could ask for in renaissance italy, never needing to study or work in any other field

this is a stupid tweet

[CBC News @CBCNews]

THREAD: Thirty years ago, 14 women were killed in a mass shooting rampage at École Polytechnique. The engineering school massacre fractured Montreal. These are the victims. Most were engineering students, on the cusp of graduation. All had plans for the future. 1/16

[حيدر | Haydar @chronicalihere]

“I don't care how much theory you got, if it don't have any practice applied to it, then that theory happens to be irrelevant.”

The FBI and Chicago PD murdered Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton in his sleep on this day in 1969. He was only 21 years old.

[Andrew Stroehlein @astroehlein]

The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

Nazi ideology proclaimed that Germany and the world had to be cleared of Jews.

See our online lesson about how the ideology of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party led to extermination of Jews: https://t.co/44CuvWefO4