Dr MacPongo💙

Proud citizen of the world

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

12 September 1926 | A Belgian Jewish boy, Boris Grünbaum, was born in Anderlecht.

He was deported to #Auschwitz in 1942 and registered in the camp. He perished don 17 September 1942.

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

“He’s selfish, and on the whole quite uninformed”

Actor Brian Cox criticises Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and says the UK needs “to be in Europe again” to deal with issues like the war in Ukraine

#BBCLauraK https://t.co/CkTHGctZ4k

[Dr MacPongo💙 @macpongo]

@BBCRadio4 @bbcpress @BBCInOurTime Thank you so much, Lord Bragg. Such a valuable and entertaining show. Truly Reithian in the very best sense.

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31 August 1876 | Dutch Jew, Abraham de Jong, was born in Amsterdam. A diamond polisher.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 31 July 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

AI is rubbish at history. It just makes stuff up. I gave ChatGBT a go yesterday, thinking it might boost my productivity, and it fed me a completely bogus quote by Pindar. But making sure it WAS bogus took time - so far from boosting my productivity, AI had actively sabotaged it.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

A few weeks ago I wrote about a South Carolina woman who had been arrested for a miscarriage.

I was lambasted with comments about how it was a stillbirth, how she was a horrible mother etc.

Today we found out it was an 18 week loss & she DID go to the hospital for care🧵

[mar ⸆⸉ @realfvcknlegacy]

gaza has reached level 5 starvation which means its irreversible even if food becomes available again. their bodies are gonna be permanently damaged. let that sink in.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

The regime wants to hang her to make an example.

The death sentence of #Pakhshan_Azizi has been confirmed for the third time.

She is one of many brave women the Islamic Republic is trying to punish for the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising.

And yet… the free world still does business with this government. The world still treats this regime as legitimate. Meanwhile, women like Pakhshan, on death row, inside prison, declare the regime illegitimate without fear.

Be her voice.

[Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs]

Male life expectancy in Glasgow is also 73, meaning if the pension age were to rise to 74 that the average Glaswegian man wouldn't even claim a state pension.

There's massive class injustices in these proposals, including the forms of work we'd be asking folk to do in their 70s.

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18 July 1934 | A Belgian Jewish girl, Betsy Cohen, was born in Antwerp.

In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

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21 June 1932 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Ibolya Farkas, was born.

In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

[Sara Wahedi @SaraWahedi]

I’m trying so hard to stay hopeful while thinking of ways to support Afghan women and girls.

But I’m furious.

How is it in 2025 and a group of men can still decide women shouldn’t open a book? To learn? To sit in a classroom?

It’s one of the greatest shames of our humanity.

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31 May 1941 | An Italian Jewish boy Mario Sonnino was born in Rome (on the left).

On 23 October 1943, he was murdered in a gas chamber at #Auschwitz II-Birkenau. He was killed together with his sister Césira and his brother Sandro.

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24 May 1930 | A French Jewish girl, Tova Zarcon, was born in Paris.

On 20 January 1944 she was deported from Drancy to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

[🦖Obsolesence @Obsolesence]

The female inmate, Jayney, accused of calling a man a man, has lost the opportunity for parole. She faces an additional sentence because she called a man a man. @scottishprisons & @ScotGovJustice faces no consequences - yet - for putting men in female prisons. 5/

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9 May 1939 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Mihaj (or Mikaj) Schön, was born.

In 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.