Last semester in one of my classes a cartoon journalist talked to us about what their work is all about & why it matters. This is a perfect example.
BREAKING: Multiple senior law enforcement officials briefed on the Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting investigation tell NBC News that a dozen people are reported to have been shot, including police officers, and there are deaths. https://t.co/DPFmWxcRud
The VA’s National Suicide Data Report paints a troubling picture for vets ages 18 to 34, for some troops who served in the National Guard or reserves, as well as female veterans https://t.co/8wmOTjikSF
Judge restores federal protections for grizzly bears, blocking planned hunts that would have been the first in the Lower 48 states since 1991. https://t.co/CO0voXrVsH
I'm very grateful to her family for sharing with me her memories of Freddie Oversteegen, the Dutch resistance fighter who killed Nazis and rescued Jewish children as a teenager in the occupied Netherlands.
My piece in the @guardian this weekend https://t.co/pYTt9QEU2V
#HolocaustRemembranceDay
•Estimated 687,000 Holocaust survivors worldwide
•About 100,000 live in the U.S.
—Awareness, U.S. Adults—
•Survey: 11% never heard/not sure they've heard of the Holocaust
•Survey: 41% (2/3 of millennials) don't know about Auschwitz
#NeverAgain
Nazi death camps murdered:
6 million Jews
1.8 Million Polish civilians
7 million soviet civilians
250,000 disabled Europeans
220,000 Gypsies
tens of thousands of 'accused' homosexuals
and countless more.
Today we remember, and say Never Again!
#HolocaustRemembranceDay
A comprehensive study of Holocaust awareness found that 11 percent of U.S. adults and more than one-fifth of millennials haven't heard of, or are not sure if they have heard of, the Holocaust. https://t.co/hRNtOjuQmh