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[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Mollie Maggia's jaw came away in pieces in her dentist's hands in 1922, and when she died that September, aged 24, her death certificate said syphilis.

She had been a dial painter at the United States Radium Corporation in Orange, New Jersey, one of hundreds of young women, most in their teens and early twenties, painting glowing numbers onto watch faces with a paint called Undark. To keep a fine point on the camel-hair brush they were taught to shape it between their lips. Lip, dip, paint, hundreds of dials a day. The supervisors told them radium was harmless, good for them even. The girls painted their nails and teeth with it for fun and walked home glowing in the dark.

Then their teeth began falling out. Jaws rotted and snapped. Spines crumbled. Doctors had no name for it, and the company did not offer one.

It had one. In 1924, under pressure, it paid Harvard specialists to study the factory, and they reported that radium was the cause. The company sat on the report and let it be known that its workers were in good health. Its own examiner told sick women they were well. When the deaths kept coming, the whispering started that dial painters were loose girls, and that it was syphilis.

Grace Fryer began losing her teeth in 1922 and spent two years looking for a lawyer brave enough to take on the company. In 1927 she sued, with four other women, and the papers named them the Radium Girls. That autumn Mollie was dug up to settle the syphilis question. Her bones were radioactive. The company stalled, knowing its accusers were dying, and by the first hearing in January 1928 two of the five could not raise their arms to take the oath.

They settled that June for $10,000 each and $600 a year. The judge who brokered the deal turned out to own shares in the company. The man who had invented the paint died of radium poisoning that November.

In Illinois, at the Radium Dial Company, Catherine Donohue gave her evidence in 1938 from her sickbed, weighing about five stone, and was dead within months. Her case helped win American workers the right to sue over the diseases their jobs gave them.

The women were told they were young and healthy and had nothing to fear, and when they started dying, the company found it easier to attack their virtue than admit what was in its paint.

Their graves in New Jersey still set off a Geiger counter.

[Choxaway @likeuson]

@eDrotning I can’t imagine the Mafia would employ Kushner. He’s a bit of a dick isn’t he.

[Choxaway @likeuson]

@NotTheirScript I have never in my long life seen a shared bathroom in. Shared lavatories yes but bathrooms? Never.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has reportedly threatened to drive oil prices near zero by pumping at full capacity unless Russia stops sending Iran weapons that end up with the Houthis.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Judging by the briefing given to the press by Medinsky, head of the Russian delegation, nothing at all has changed: Russia maintains maximalist demands for Ukraine to surrender.

​He also insulted Europeans throughout the entire briefing for no reason other than to show dominance (though it only succeeded in showing he is an asshole).

​This is all just an upsetting waste of time, where Russia uses negotiations to get the US to pressure Ukraine while using the time to kill more of us. This isn't going to work.

​No negotiations will yield results until Russia is pressured hard enough to actually want to stop. This is achievable only by arming Ukraine, confiscating Russia's frozen assets, and tightening sanctions. Until then, negotiations will just be a cover to keep killing us.

[Choxaway @likeuson]

@Herzeg11 Absolutely gormless

[Choxaway @likeuson]

@angelshalagina I see you and I’m always relieved to see you again

[AlleNeune 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @AlleNeune999]

Viele checken nicht, dass wir das Zehnfache ausgeben müssen, wenn wir der Ukraine nicht helfen.

Die Fragestellung ist bereits falsch. Es ist keine Ukraine-Hilfe, es ist eine Hilfe für ein freies Europa. 🇺🇦🇪🇺

https://t.co/zuyATVVtkF

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

When I spoke at the UN in Geneva they cleared the room after me of all women because the Taliban would not entertain them in their Meeting! Disgraceful useless out of date organisation

[Norma @JoonesNorma]

The amount of kids who died in the 1970s and 80s due to lack of personal mobile phone ownership was phenomenal. It was a daily tragedy.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

They were announced in January. They’re being reannounced today because Big Green (RWE) and Big Capitalism (KKR), who will benefit from the massive state subsidies already being poured into these projects, have demanded more (to cover rising costs of developing offshore wind). So Labour has obliged with another £1 billion from the so-called National Wealth [Destruction] Fund. Life is truly grand for the crony capitalists.

[WW3finalboss @WW3finalboss]

🇺🇦 ZELENSKYY HAS CARRIED THE WEIGHT OF A NATION AT WAR, AND THE WORLD HAS WATCHED HIM CHANGE.

There is something deeply human about watching Volodymyr Zelenskyy after years of war.

The exhaustion is visible. The demands on him have been relentless. Every new attack, every destroyed neighbourhood, every conversation with grieving families and every difficult negotiation adds another burden.

He entered the presidency as a former comedian. He could never have imagined that his time in office would come to be defined by Europe’s largest war in generations.

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion, Zelenskyy remained in Kyiv.

That decision became one of the defining images of Ukraine’s resistance.

Years later, the circumstances are different, but the responsibilities remain enormous.

He must ask allies for weapons while they debate budgets. He must negotiate with foreign leaders whose priorities do not always align with Ukraine’s. He must speak about peace while knowing that millions of Ukrainians will have to live with the consequences of any agreement.

And he must do all of this while his country continues to endure Russian attacks.

There is a particular cruelty in the expectation that a wartime leader must always appear strong, confident and reassuring, even when the people he represents are exhausted.

Zelenskyy is not beyond criticism. No democratic leader should be.

Ukrainians have every right to question his decisions, disagree with his policies and eventually choose another president.

But political accountability and recognition of personal endurance are not mutually exclusive.

Whatever people think of Zelenskyy’s presidency, the burden of leading a country through years of invasion, destruction and uncertainty deserves to be understood rather than reduced to political slogans.

Perhaps the most revealing thing about his leadership is not any single speech or photograph.

It is the extraordinary contrast between the life he once knew and the responsibility he continues to carry.

And behind him stands a country whose soldiers, families, volunteers and ordinary citizens have endured sacrifices that no leader could ever fully express in words.

Ukraine’s resilience belongs to its people.

Its president has spent these years trying to represent that resilience to a world whose attention does not always last as long as the suffering.

The war has changed Zelenskyy. It has changed Ukraine. And the decisions made about Ukraine’s future will outlast every politician involved. 🇺🇦

[Choxaway @likeuson]

@OGGY_North You’re not alone and yes, anything running through Kushner is an utter waste of time.

[Choxaway @likeuson]

@clumsyoaf33 Hopefully it’s a phase she’ll grow out of with your support. Keep on with the positive yet realistic vibes.

[JP Lindsley | Journalist @JPLindsley]

Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has laid out a five-point plan for peace in Ukraine:

1. Integrate Ukraine into NATO’s missile, air and drone defences and send all Patriots to Kyiv

2. Unfreeze Russian assets and give them to Ukraine

3. Enforce more sanctions on Russia and ban all Russian fossil fuel supplies to Europe

4. Move the Coalition of the Willing into Ukraine to defend rear areas and critical infrastructure

5. Develop ironclad security guarantees and expel countries from the Coalition that aren’t willing to fight Russia if a ceasefire breaks down

[Choxaway @likeuson]

@Jenny_1884 £200 cash. When the power goes down the card readers will fail but shops will still accept cash.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Why is it acceptable for Putin and Trump to call for new leadership in Kyiv but somehow unacceptable to call for new leadership in Moscow?

[BMcArthur @bmcarthur20]

This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.

"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive.

A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.

You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.

Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.

Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.

And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging, insurrectionist, running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban in Afghanistan thanked you very much for losing again.

And you're calling Greenland poorly run?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.

'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.

Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.

And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.

So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth."

This was published by Annalise B Winterborne on TikTok.

#DemsUnited

[Choxaway @likeuson]

@Dplanet In short they’re saying that all the women lied. Incredible.

[Aaron Rankin @Aaron_R_Rankin]

A man who was so pro remain that he quit as PM so as not to implement the result of the Brexit referendum now says rejoining is a silly idea

Burnham’s EU Reset is becoming more radioactive by the hour