🚨🇵🇸 Football star Lamine Yamal is facing backlash after unfurling the Palestinian flag, with videos online showing some fans tearing his jerseys in Israel.
Now supporters around the world are rallying behind him.
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@I_amMukhtar That Loomer bint looks like she's spent all the Isreali funds going to Turkey to freshen the expression.. Hopkins just bought carbolic soap off Temu
In 1993, a file clerk with no college degree, no law training, and three kids to feed was handed a real estate file.
Inside were medical records.
That made no sense.
Her name was Erin Brockovich, and at that point, life had already hit her hard. Married young. Divorced twice before 30. Working retail jobs, waitressing, anything that kept food on the table.
By 1991, she was filing paperwork at a small California law firm, answering phones and barely covering rent.
Then came the file from a tiny desert town called Hinkley.
She kept reading. Then pulled more files. Same town. Different families. Cancer. Tumors. Miscarriages. Far too many for a place that small.
Something was wrong in Hinkley.
Everybody seemed sick.
Erin started calling residents. Every conversation sounded the same. Someone had cancer. Someone had died young. Someone couldn’t have children.
Then she found letters from Pacific Gas and Electric.
PG&E mentioned chromium in the water—chromium 3, they claimed. Harmless. Completely safe.
But Erin got suspicious.
She went to the library and taught herself everything she could about chromium. There were two forms. Chromium 3 was harmless.
Chromium 6 caused cancer.
That discovery changed everything.
Digging through PG&E’s internal records, she uncovered memos between engineers. They knew it was chromium 6 all along. They had known since 1965, while telling the town there was nothing to fear.
For years, PG&E used chromium 6 in cooling towers, dumping contaminated wastewater into open ponds with nothing protecting the groundwater beneath. Hundreds of millions of gallons seeped into the water Hinkley families drank every day.
Engineers raised alarms.
Management buried them.
And for decades, people kept drinking poisoned water without knowing why they were getting sick.
Erin drove to Hinkley herself, knocking door to door. A woman with breast cancer at 30. A man with a brain tumor at 40. Couples shattered by repeated miscarriages. Children suffering constant nosebleeds.
She asked every family one question: do you want to sue?
More than 600 said yes.
PG&E responded with powerful attorneys and endless excuses, blaming smoking, diet, anything except their own deception.
Then, on July 2, 1996, the company settled.
$333 million. The largest direct-action lawsuit settlement in American history at the time.
A single mother with no law degree had uncovered a forty-year cover-up hiding inside an ordinary file.
Erin Brockovich proved that sometimes the most dangerous thing in the world is an ordinary person who refuses to stop asking questions.
"I’ve got an overwhelming sense of needing to give back.”
Nearly four years after he was brutally attacked outside Stade de France, LFC fan Danny Smith is training to be a psychotherapist to help others deal with trauma. The wait for compensation goes on.
https://t.co/IMyCqJRpzW
Palantir has been granted “unlimited access” to NHS patient data.
This is the same company that is involved in mass surveillance and genocide.
We did not consent to this. Get Palantir out of our NHS, now.
Over the last 4 years, Walk Florrie has grown into a respected grassroots project focused on improving mental health, reducing isolation, and strengthening community ties through walking , conversation, and positive activity.
We are currently organising a unique journey community journey from Dingle in Liverpool to Dingle in County Kerry, creating links between both communities while also honouring friendship, heritage and wellbeing #NeverAlone ❤️💙
⛔️The famous Jewish actress Miriam Margolyes: Hitler has triumphed; he has turned us Jews into nationalist, barbaric criminals who kill women and children. I am eighty-three years old, and I have never felt shame for Israel as I do now‼️
John Lennon: “Working class people around the world have no innate desire to go to war with each other. They have to be conned into it by the sociopaths who will profit from it.” #JohnLennon#War#Peace
@eddiegibbs There's at least a 40-50 million price tag that jars most Eddie, when he signed the 2 year deal it was a cert he'd leave after 1 season and then hopefully bring a fee in. What changed?