“Palestine doesn’t exist in history,”
Meanwhile Jewish girl Anne Frank in 1944
“Margot wants to become a nurse later on, and then to go to Palestine to work with babies.”
A US senator killed a 28 year old woman, left her to drown, spent zero days in jail, and then served 40 more years in the Senate. 57 years ago tonight. Almost nobody remembers her name.
57 years ago tonight, July 18 1969, on a tiny island called Chappaquiddick that most Americans could not find on a map, the most infamous car accident in US history happened while the entire world was staring at the sky waiting for men to walk on the moon.
Senator Ted Kennedy left a cottage party for the "Boiler Room Girls," the young women who had worked themselves to exhaustion on his brother Bobby's campaign the year before Bobby was shot, and he drove off with 28 year old Mary Jo Kopechne around 11:15 pm. He said he was taking her to the ferry.
Instead the car went off the Dike Bridge, a narrow wooden bridge with no guardrail, and flipped upside down into the black tidal water of Poucha Pond. Kennedy got out. Mary Jo did not.
And here is the part history never forgave: he did not knock on the lit up house just yards away that had a phone, he did not call police, he walked back to the party and then he went to bed.
He reported it roughly 10 hours later, the next morning, only after two fishermen had already found the car and her body. The diver who pulled her out, John Farrar, said she had likely survived for a while inside an air pocket and might be alive today if anyone had simply called for help that night.
Two days later Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon, and so the greatest achievement in human history shared the front page with a drowned woman and a senator who waited until sunrise.
The punishment for all of it: a guilty plea to leaving the scene, a two month suspended sentence, not a single day served. He kept his Senate seat for 40 more years until he died in 2009, one of the most powerful men in the country.
Strip away the famous last name and you are left with something painfully simple. A young woman trusted the wrong man to drive her home, and he chose himself.
Say her name tonight. Not his. Mary Jo Kopechne.
Saying you’re worried about China interfering in our elections after you got paid over $300 million by an Israeli family is pretty hilarious. Israel has interfered in our politics more than all other countries combined.
This is where we at y’all. Trump got his wish. For women to be punished.
Married Fort Worth, Texas couple find out wife is miscarrying at 13 weeks.
Sent home with Misoprostol. Wife takes two rounds of the drug. It doesn’t work.
They go back to the same hospital. Turned away. Go to another hospital requesting a D&C so that sepsis doesn’t set in.
The hospital said she wasn’t SICK enough for a D&C so they got a third round of Misoprostol and were sent home.
At home wife passes out unconscious, blood and bodily fluid everywhere.
She’s rushed to the hospital they say “Thank God you brought her in.”
Fuck Republicans vote Blue!
#DemsUnited #AbortionIsHealthCare
NFL players are asking for the same commitment made by team owners and FIFA for the World Cup fields to be made in prioritizing NFL players’ preference to play on natural grass.
"America is a golden calf, & we'll suck it dry, chop it up, and sell it off piece by piece until there is nothing left but the world's biggest welfare state that we'll create and control. This is what we do to countries that we hate.
We destroy them very slowly."
-Netanyahu 1990
“Wildfires” are ravaging Norway right now.
This is almost unprecedented.
Why does every western country that sanctions Israel experience a “natural disaster” shortly after?
Ben Gvir is posting videos showing off the execution chamber where he will exterminate thousands of Palestinian hostages.
Imagine if Hitler broadcast videos of his gas chambers to gloat like this.