Hugh Quigley

Tweets to improve the world. Interests: Tech, People, Business, Social Entrepreneurship, Diversity, Inclusion. N.B. Retweets not necessarily an endorsement.

[Joe Haslam ☘ 🇪🇺 @joehas]

The @MacDonnchada view of @TheRestHistory is in and he won’t be listening further.

I did listen to the episodes on the War of Independence and found them to be good.

But The Troubles is within living memory so you need some backbone.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Speaking to journalist Elizabeth Day, Andy Burnham explained that his father, who has dementia, isn’t aware that his son has become the prime minister of the United Kingdom.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

greater percentage of children killed in Gaza than in Europe's holocaust. that's a hell of a statistic.

[Hugh Quigley @HQwitter]

@FinlayColm @NiecyOKeeffe That is only brilliant. Thanks for sharing

[The Palestinian @InsiderWorld_1]

One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death.

Gaza in 2023 and 2026!

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

My goodness. Never seen anything quite like this just now on French news @le20hfrancetele

A quarter of a million people forced to leave their homes. Firemen exhausted in the unequal fight. Huge area around Bordeaux engulfed in flames

Please give it a watch
My Eng subtitles

[I Deserve it All 🇨🇦 @MelaninisOP_]

I was expecting like maybe a small piece of the mountain BUT IT WAS THE WHOLE FUCKING THING WTF OMG THIS IS THE CRAZIEST THING IVE SEEN ALL DAY THAT MADE ME SAY WTF IRL

[Hugh Quigley @HQwitter]

@em3dia French Class

[Hugh Quigley @HQwitter]

@sommervilletv Hopefully it is also “digital”

[Hugh Quigley @HQwitter]

@newsmulg @JP_Biz This proves that even dark clouds can have a silver lining…

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

HISTORY LESSON

The Nazi Party branded itself the 'National Socialist German Workers' Party' to appeal to working-class men. After staging massive 'pro-worker' May Day rallies on May 1, 1933, the very next day Hitler banned independent trade unions, seized their assets, and arrested their leaders.

On May 2, 1933, the SA (Storm Troopers), SS, and police occupied trade union offices nationwide in a coordinated action. They seized assets, records, and funds while arresting union leaders and officials. Contemporary U.S. State Department reports and other sources noted around 50 prominent arrests in the initial wave, including key figures like Theodor Leipart (chairman of the General German Trade Union Federation, ADGB), Peter Grassmann, and former Labor Minister Rudolf Wissell.

Many more local and regional leaders faced arrests in the following days and weeks. Large numbers endured beatings, imprisonment, or transfer to early concentration camps such as Dachau (opened in March 1933 primarily for political opponents).

Some officials were maltreated immediately, and the action extended to union banks and press offices.

This crackdown dismantled independent German trade unions (with millions of members, many aligned with Social Democrats or leftists) and replaced them with the Nazi-controlled German Labour Front (DAF). It formed part of the broader Gleichschaltung (coordination) process to eliminate independent organizations.

Over the period 1933–1945, thousands of German trade unionists, including leaders, activists, and officials, were arrested and held in prisons or concentration camps. Many suffered torture, extended detention, or surveillance after release. While outright executions of union leaders were relatively fewer in the early phase compared to other groups, many died later from camp maltreatment, disease, execution, or involvement in resistance.

The overall scale of persecution against labour organisers aligns with the regime's aim to crush independent working-class organising rather than immediately exterminate every individual.

This fits the documented pattern of political repression: by the end of July 1933, nearly 27,000 people (mostly political prisoners including communists, socialists, Social Democrats, trade unionists and left-wing activists and intellectuals) were held in early camps and detention sites.

The Nazis moved swiftly after seizing power to neutralise potential opposition from organised labor through mass arrests, violence, and forced integration into a state-controlled structure.

#JustSayin

[Tylor Brand @_Khayyat_]

I need to boost this. Asem is a Palestinian journalist and visual archivist who has written some of the most haunting accounts of famine in Gaza and has some amazing ideas for a digital memory project. If you have any leads, please plass them on

[Spinwatch @SpinwatchOrg]

Where did the term ‘antisemitism’ originate from?

Prof. David Miller (@Tracking_Power) unravels the historical origins of the term and the real context in which it emerged.

#DismantleZionism

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎥 Juliet Lamont, an Australian documentary filmmaker and Gaza flotilla activist, speaks to Double Down News about being raped by Israeli soldiers after the aid vessel she was aboard was intercepted earlier this month.

Lamont says soldiers pulled down her trousers and underwear and that an Israeli soldier forcibly penetrated her vagina while she was in detention. She was among more than 450 activists seized when Israeli forces intercepted the Global Sumud flotilla in international waters. Organizers say at least 15 detainees reported sexual assault or rape while in Israeli custody.

Full interview is linked below.

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

“Honesty, honor, humility, character.

Integrity, truth, compassion.

Humanity, thoughtfulness, morality, true strength.

Don’t let anybody tell you these things don’t matter anymore. They do.”

Springsteen in D.C. last night — and the reaction.

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

🎯

[Hugh Quigley @HQwitter]

@garrymcgovern I’m thinking the exact same thing. Cuban water supply and waste management systems must be in a crisis situation as the US sanctions impact the basic necessities of life.

[Little Bitty Acres @paulding65]

@redpillb0t

[Hugh Quigley @HQwitter]

Emily Hamilton Walsh has gone missing in France yesterday. Please share among any contacts in France.