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[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

CBS is reporting that Susie Wiles's old lobbying firm has made $186 million under the Trump administration. Tell me again how food stamps that help a single mother feed her child while she works a full time job are the problem.

[Jess Margera @jessmargera]

So today we learned 91 Florida cops were on epstein’s payroll. 91 police offers ignored a child kidnap & rape club for money. Think about that okay

[Baloo E. Shum @ShumBaloo]

Armistice Day
One battalion in 1914
And in 1918
Those who survived

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

NEW: The @nytimes confirms that ICE deliberately electronically "disappeared" tens of thousands of people in detention and ordered contractors to refuse to reveal where they're held to family or lawyers.

30% of all immigrants detained in ICE jails now have their location hidden.

[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.

[‏ً @justjargons]

Hakeem Jeffries pulling some Lord of the Flies shıt by threatening incoming house members is an immediate disqualification for speaker in my book

[Jen Hassum @jenhassum]

Ontario's biggest data centre spilled 5,000 litres of chemicals.
And they weren't up front about it when the near by creek smelled and looked poisioned.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

Israeli Paratroopers cuffed a Palestinian man at the Gilboa crossing near Jenin and proceeded to defecate and smear it on him and try to make him eat it. They also urinated on him and put out cigarettes on him. All this, according to Israeli media and the military police. I truly do not know what to say anymore.

[Janine di Giovanni @janinedigi]

Just returned from West Bank. It is the worse Israeli violence against Palestinians that I’ve seen in 31 years. Settlers acting with vicious impunity while the @IDF stands by or protects the settlers. This level of violence, total erasures of Palestinian communities can’t go on

[The Food Manufacturing Guy @TipOfTheBanana]

Stove Top Turkey Stuffing has more corn syrup than turkey.

The first two ingredients are enriched flour and high fructose corn syrup. The turkey and the turkey broth are both dried, and both come after "contains less than 2% of." Ingredients are listed by weight so the box has more corn syrup than either one.

The savory taste gets a boost from hydrolyzed soy protein. That's soy protein broken down into amino acids, including glutamate. Disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate make the glutamate taste stronger. The added fat is interesterified soybean oil, which has its fatty acids rearranged so it acts like a solid fat without trans fat. BHA and BHT keep it from going rancid. FDA is reassessing the safety of both and hasn't made a finding yet.

A 6 oz box has 2,460 mg of sodium before you add the 4 tablespoons of margarine or butter the directions call for.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

If you are wondering why they are killing journalists, healthcare workers, aid workers, and UN staff, it's because they are the witnesses who will testify in court about the war crimes committed in Gaza and Lebanon.

If you are wondering why they are removing the rubble and the bodies before UN and ICC inspections, it’s because they are the evidence of war crimes committed in Gaza and Lebanon.

If you are wondering why they are calling to dismantle the International Criminal Court and sanction ICC judges, it’s because they are the judges and the court that will prosecute them for the war crimes committed in Gaza and Lebanon.

If you are wondering why they are calling to dissolve the United Nations, terminate UNIFIL's mandate, and sanction UN officials and representatives, it’s because they are the observers who documented the war crimes committed in Gaza and Lebanon.

They are killing the witnesses, the evidence, the observers, and the court, in broad daylight.

[SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @COVID19_disease]

🚨 GOOD NEWS: Mexico, Guatemala and Belize are creating a tri-national nature reserve to protect the Mayan jungle

It will become the second biggest nature reserve in Latin America, behind the Amazon rain forest

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

An IDF statement issued yesterday stated a 14 year old boy was shot dead in the West Bank on Monday, because he planned to throw stones at them. Not threw stones, PLANNED, to throw stones.
This is Zionism.

[DIN Intel Network @DININTELNETWORK]

Veteran detained by ICE: I identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out. Even after I complied, I was taken to a detention center and held for 3 days without charges. No phone call, no lawyer, no medical care, even though my skin burned from the chemicals.

[Elizabeth de la Vega 🇺🇸🦅 @Delavegalaw]

A woman enduring a miscarriage is heartbroken, confused, terrified, often alone and in pain. She's in no shape to sift through blood and tissue in her toilet bowl. The authors of this bill should be named, shamed and never allowed to escape condemnation for their depravity.

[LorH @lorhindle]

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[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

Republicans have introduced a federal ‘catch kit’ bill that would require women to sift thru their blood to separate pregnancy remains from “other solid waste,” put it in a “brightly colored” bag labeled “HUMAN FETAL REMAINS,” and bring their doc.

It’s fucking deranged

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: The 11 House Democrats who missed the vote that killed Thomas Massie's Hegseth impeachment resolution have all received significant pro-Israel AIPAC money in Congress.

Just seven of them voting against the referral motion would have flipped the 211-204 result.

Haley Stevens (MI): $15.9M
Laura Gillen (NY): $551K
Marilyn Strickland (WA): $371K
Steven Horsford (NV): $214K
Nancy Pelosi (CA): $166K
Julia Brownley (CA): $134K
Brittany Pettersen (CO): $125K
Lou Correa (CA): $80K
Frederica Wilson (FL): $39K
Melanie Stansbury (NM): $28K
Jonathan Jackson (IL): $21K

Haley Stevens is the highest AIPAC recipient in Congress.

[Rostam @matsoR]

Chuck Schumer secured 10 million for Haley Stevens, a woman who went on to betray the Democratic Party. Schumer can’t be trusted. His approval ratings among Americans reside in the low 20s.

He’s unfit for Senate Majority Leader.

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

51 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald and her crew were lost on Lake Superior.

Every year the Split Rock Lighthouse shines to honor the 29 crew members whose lives were lost and their families who live on in Minnesota and beyond.