lynn kess

Native New Yorker. Bigly fan of Tom Brady & New England Patriots . Luxury travel consultant. Legal geek. Evolving political activist.

[Variety @Variety]

CBS will stand down and stop any further action on takedowns of Stephen Colbert's public access show.
https://t.co/1109nMx7rH

[Harry Litman @harrylitman]

I have not pulled the trigger on this since Jan 2021 and the pardons of all the Jan 6 defendants, but I think there's a strong argument that the settlement of Trump's bogus, unconstitutional case in return for a $1.8b fund for 'Biden weaponization' is an impeachable offense.

[Henshi @HenshiG]

82 years ago today, two young men crawled out of a woodpile in occupied Poland and began walking — straight into the unknown.
One was just 19. The other, 26.
For two endless years they had endured the unimaginable inside Auschwitz — the worst place on earth. They had seen selections, gas chambers, and crematoria running day and night. They had counted the trains, the souls, the murdered.
And they refused to stay silent.
Their names were Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler.
Vrba had stood on the Judenrampe for months, watching train after train arrive, memorizing the horror no one outside was supposed to know. Wetzler had worked in the mortuary, witnessing the machinery of industrial murder up close.
In early 1944, they learned the Nazis were preparing for the slaughter of nearly 800,000 Hungarian Jews. New rails, new killing facilities — everything was being scaled up for mass murder on an unthinkable scale.
They could not wait any longer.
On April 7, 1944, they slipped into a hidden cavity inside a massive woodpile, surrounded by petrol-soaked tobacco to confuse the dogs. They lay there for three terrifying days and nights as SS guards and search parties hunted them. On the evening of April 10 — exactly 82 years ago — they finally emerged and began their journey.
They walked 80 miles over eleven harrowing nights through hostile territory. Moving only in darkness, hiding by day, crossing rivers, guided by stars, sustained by the quiet bravery of Slovak peasants who risked everything to help them.
On April 21 they reached Slovakia. There, they dictated the first detailed eyewitness report of Auschwitz — 33 pages of precise, devastating truth: layouts of the gas chambers, capacities of the crematoria, transport-by-transport death counts. They estimated 1.75 million Jews had already been murdered.
The Vrba-Wetzler Report reached the Vatican, Allied intelligence, and Jewish leaders. But it sat for weeks while the world hesitated.
Then, in June 1944, it broke into the Swiss press. Public outrage followed. Roosevelt, Churchill, the Swedish king, and the Red Cross applied pressure. On July 9, Hungarian Regent Miklós Horthy ordered the deportations stopped.
Because of their courage, the remaining 200,000 Jews of Budapest were spared deportation. Those lives were saved.
Vrba and Wetzler risked everything because they believed the truth still mattered — that if the world only knew, it would act.
They were right.
Their report became one of the most important documents of the 20th century, entered into evidence at Nuremberg. It stands as eternal proof that two ordinary young men, armed only with memory and unbreakable will, can pierce the darkness and change history.
Never forget the price they paid to speak.
Never again should the world look away.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Amazing! You gotta watch this one.

Another Purim video from the Shelters in Israelis this time singing..

“I Will Survive!”

Israelis truly are the strongest and must resilient people.

[Leslie Young @AkaLazarus]

Heartbreaking. Iran murdered this entire family today in a missile hit in Beit Shemesh.

May Am Israel comfort their grieving relatives and friends.

BDE”. 💔

[Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka]

All the Purim celebrations are down in the bunkers this year in Tel Aviv but spirits are higher than ever

[Afghan Zoroastrian @AfgZoroastrian]

This is what happened to Afganistan in four decades.

Be alert!

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Shame should consume the law firms that settled.

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Breaking: The regime in Iran has now admitted that the IRGC mistakenly bombed an Iranian school yesterday, killing many children.

Sadly, bad actors have exploited the death and war fog to help the Iranian regime hide this crime and avoid accountability.

Among the people who circulated these lies blaming Israel and America for killing the schoolchildren were @Malala and @zarahsultana, who are known for being unreliable sources of information and for spreading lies and misinformation against Israel without mentioning that the sources are all parroting Hamas.

Please share the additional information below!

H/T @NiohBerg

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:

Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"

And, it included a non-party in the caption.

These are the people who want access to your voting records and who my team fights in court every day.

[Avi Mayer אבי מאיר @AviMayer]

Columbia University’s anti-Israel student group, CUAD—which organized the campus encampment—just tweeted “Death to America” in Persian.

[TheJewishAlly @TheJewishAlly]

“I survived because I refused to let them take my soul.” – Edward Mosberg, Holocaust Survivor

Edward Mosberg was just a teenager when the Nazis tore his world apart. He lost nearly his entire family, endured forced labor, and survived Mauthausen concentration camp. But even after the unimaginable, he chose to live a life of purpose and remembrance.

Wearing his striped concentration camp uniform with pride at memorial marches, he stood as a living testimony — not of brokenness, but of defiance and dignity.

His message to the world: “Never forget. Never be silent.”🕯️

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

There are no penguins in Greenland. All Penguins live in the southern hemisphere except one species from the Galapagos Islands.

Perhaps you shouldn’t have dismantled the Department of Education so quickly.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

💥 BOOOOM!!!
Mayor Jacob Frey just gave the best answer to a stupid question by Kristen Welker:

"I'm sorry. I offended their delicate ears, but I dropped an F-bomb, and they killed somebody. I think the killing of somebody is the inflammatory element here, not the F-bomb."

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

An arsonist set fire to Beth Israel Congregation, the largest synagogue in Mississippi. A house of worship whose history stretches back to 1860 was reduced to ruins in a single moment by the flames of Jew-hatred.

The arson against Beth Israel is a repeat of history. In 1967, the Ku Klux Klan bombed the same synagogue in a campaign of terror directed at Rabbi Perry Nussbaum, whose home was also bombed for his righteous alliance with the Civil Rights Movement.

Domestic terrorism against Jews never happens in a vacuum. Instead of extinguishing the fires of antisemitism, American politics is often guilty of fanning the flames.

[US Holocaust Museum @HolocaustMuseum]

The arson attack on Mississippi’s largest synagogue is yet another vile attack against the Jewish people and American society as a whole. It must be universally condemned. We stand with the Jackson community and thank law enforcement for swiftly apprehending a suspect.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

📍 Tehran:

Absolutely massive crowd.

Currently, the regime doesn't want anyone to know that President Trump has now by every estimation decided to help the revolution succeed.

If you have any access to people inside Iran, spread the news.

[John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz]

MIssissippi's largest synagogue destroyed in an arson attack on the Sabbath. The fact this isn't the biggest story of the morning, or the day so far, should tell you just how normalized anti-Semitic action is becoming.

https://t.co/NcDLqTpWD6

[Kent Wascom @KentWascom]

Renee was one of my students years ago. I held her baby. She was kind and talented, a working class mom who put herself through school despite circumstances that would’ve crumpled the pathetic rich boy politicians who sadistically abetted her murder

God damn them all