Rose Ford

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[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

84 years ago today, the Nazis erased an entire village for a crime it didn't commit.

June 4, 1942: Reinhard Heydrich, architect of the Holocaust, dies after Czech paratroopers ambush him in Prague. Hitler demands blood. The Gestapo follows a false lead to a small mining village of 500 people: Lidice. It had no connection to the assassination. None.

At dawn on June 10, every man and boy over 15 was marched to a farm garden and shot in groups of five against the wall. Too slow, the commanders decided. They increased it to ten. Each new group walked past the bodies of their neighbors before joining them. By afternoon, 173 men and boys were dead. Mattresses had been propped against the wall to stop the ricochets.

The women and children were held in a school gymnasium for three days. Then the children were ripped from their mothers' arms. 195 women were shipped to Ravensbrück concentration camp.

The children were told they were being taken to their parents. 82 of them were loaded into sealed trucks at Chełmno and killed with engine exhaust. The youngest was about a year old. Only a handful, judged "racially suitable," were given to German families and stripped of their names.

Then the Nazis erased the village itself. Burned the houses. Dynamited the church and the school. Dug up 400 graves and looted the corpses. Cut down the orchards. Diverted the stream. Rerouted the roads. They filmed it all. Proudly.

But it backfired. The Nazis publicized Lidice as a warning, and the world answered. Towns in Mexico, Brazil, and the US renamed themselves Lidice. Parents named daughters Lidice. The village meant to be forgotten became impossible to forget.

After the war, 143 women came home. Years of searching recovered just 17 of the children. Today the site is a memorial, its centerpiece 82 bronze statues of children standing together, facing the valley where their village used to be.

The Nazis tried to murder a village and its memory. The people are gone. The memory won.

Remember Lidice. June 10, 1942.

[Americans For Tax Fairness @4TaxFairness]

Kristi Noem spent $220 MILLION on a 60-second ad.

Pete Hegseth spent $93 BILLION in one month.

Trump just gave four Big Tech companies a $51 BILLION tax break.

And you’re worried about a single mom getting a few bucks from SNAP to feed her kids?

Wake up, people.

[Team USA @TeamUSA]

Jessie Diggins delivers a relentless effort and claims bronze in the women’s 10km. 🥉🇺🇸

#WinterOlympics

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

A list of countries that currently have mail-in voting:

Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Pakistan
Poland
Portugal
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States
Zimbabwe

[Jonny G 🇺🇦 @dontforgetchaos]

I make no apology for posting this photo. I think it’s a photo that will haunt America in the years to come.

This is what you have become. If you defend this, have a word with yourself.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

They shot Renee Good in the face.
They kidnapped Liam Ramos.
They just executed a man on the street.

Unmask them. Prosecute them. No more secret police.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Another hard-hitting photo from
Yesterday’s protest.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

This is Alex Pretti, a registered nurse and the man murdered by ICE today in Minneapolis protecting a fellow citizen from Trump’s thugs.

RETWEET to honor his life 💔

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨 Another day, another video of ICE agents illegally harassing a U.S. citizen for “proof of citizenship” while she walks through her own neighborhood in Minneapolis.

In the video, a woman is surrounded by masked ICE agents.

One agent tells her, “Do you have ID? If not, we’ll have to put you in our car and ID you.”

That statement alone is unlawful.

She calmly states, “I’m a U.S. citizen.”
The agent immediately demands ID anyway.

She correctly explains that she is not required to carry identification while walking in her neighborhood. There is no law requiring citizens to carry papers, and ICE does not have the authority to detain someone without reasonable, articulable suspicion of a specific crime.

At that point, the agents escalate.

They begin asking where she was born.
She responds, “Minneapolis is my home.”

The agents claim they are conducting an “immigration check” and repeat the question. That is not a legal basis for detention. Citizenship is not determined by place of birth alone, and ICE has no authority to conduct random street interrogations of people not suspected of immigration violations.

When she again refuses to show ID, an agent threatens, “We’re going to put you in our car then.”

That is an explicit threat of unlawful detention.

She says, “I should be able to walk around at 3 without being afraid for my life.”

Instead of disengaging, the agent again demands ID and again demands to know where she was born. She repeats, clearly and correctly, “It doesn’t matter where I was born. I’m a U.S. citizen.”

The agent then attempts intimidation, warning her that lying about being a U.S. citizen could result in federal charges, despite having no evidence she was lying and no lawful basis to continue the stop.

Only after repeated refusals to comply with an illegal detention do the agents finally walk away.

This wasn’t law enforcement. It was a fishing expedition, relying on fear, intimidation, and the false belief that Americans must carry papers to exist in public.

If masked federal agents can threaten to kidnap a U.S. citizen off the street for refusing to answer questions they have no legal right to ask, then the question isn’t whether rights are being violated.

The question is how long Americans are expected to tolerate it.

[Rose Ford @roisinf79]

@MrPitbull07 My late 🐶, a rescue, loved women. I was interviewing a pet-sitter. He wouldn’t go near her, just stared. Normally he’d have his head on a visitor’s lap. I didn’t hire her. A few months later I read that her biz partner was arrested for stealing from clients. He knew.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

BREAKING: Boris and Sofia Gurman, 69 and 61, have been identified as the couple who heroically tried to stop the terrorist as he exited his car before the Chanukah massacre in Bondi Beach.

The couple attempted to prevent him from opening fire. After several minutes of struggle, the gunman overpowered them, regained his weapon, and shot Boris and Sofia.

Boris and Sofia’s selfless act of courage will never be forgotten.

May their memories forever be a blessing.

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

The results if voting red versus the results of voting blue.

States with highest Murder Rates
🔴 Louisiana : 16.8
🔴 Mississippi : 15.4
🔴 Alabama : 12.2
🔴 Missouri : 11.8
🔴 South Carolina : 10.5

States with the lowest Murder Rates
🔴 Utah : 2.2
🔵 Rhode Island : 2.0
🔵 Maine : 1.7
🔵 Vermont : 1.5
🔵 New Hampshire : 1.1

Bottom 5 public school systems (based on test scores)
🔴 Alaska
🔴 Louisiana
🔴 Arizona
🔴 Oklahoma
🔵 New Mexico

Top 5 public school systems (based on test scores)
🔵 New Jersey
🔵 Massachusetts
🔵 Connecticut
🔵 Vermont
🔵 Minnesota

States with the lowest life expectancy in years
🔴 Mississippi : 70.9
🔴 West Virginia 71.0
🔴 Alabama 72.0
🔴 Louisiana 72.2
🔴 Kentucky 73.5

States with the longest life expectancy in years
🔵 Hawaii : 79.9
🔵 Massachusetts : 79.6
🔵 Connecticut : 79.2
🔵 New Jersey : 79.0
🔵 New York : 79

States with the highest infant mortality rates
🔴 Mississippi : 9.11
🔴 Arkansas : 8.59
🔵 Delaware : 8.07
🔴 Lousiana 7.65
🔴 West Virginia : 7.47

States with the lowest infant mortality rates
🔴 North Dakota: 3.29
🔵 Massachusetts : 3.31
🔵 New Jersey : 3.61
🔵 New Hampshire : 3.66
🔵 California : 3.95

States most reliant on the federal government (per dollar)
🔴 Alaska : $2.36 per $1 in taxes paid
🔴 Kentucky: $3.35 per $1 in taxes paid
🔴 West Virginia : $2.72 per $1 in taxes paid
🔴 Mississippi : $2.34 per $1 in taxes paid
🔴 South Carolina : $3.42 per $1 in taxes paid

States least reliant on the federal government (per dollar)
🔵 New Jersey : $0.35 per $1 in taxes paid
🔵 California : $0.50 per $1 in taxes paid
🔵 Minnesota : $0.58 per $1 in taxes paid
🔵 Massachusetts : $0.41 per $1 in taxes paid
🔵 Illinois : $0.60 per $1 in taxes paid

States with the most domestic violence arrests
🔴 Nevada
🔴 Oklahoma
🔴 Missouri
🔴 Kentucky
🔴 Florida

States with the lowest domestic violence arrests per capita
🔴 North Dakota
🔵 New York
🔵 Rhode Island
🔵 Vermont
🔵 Massachusetts

Lowest GDP per capita
🔴 Mississippi : $53,061
🔴 Arkansas $60,276
🔴 West Virginia $60,783
🔴 South Carolina $61,616
🔴 Alabama $65,889

Highest GDP per capita
🔵 New York : $117,332
🔵 Massachusetts : $110,551
🔵 Washington : $108,468
🔵 California : $104,481
🔵 Connecticut : $99,035

States with the highest incarceration rates
🔴 Louisiana : 775
🔴 Mississippi : 717
🔴 Arkansas : 614
🔴 Oklahoma : 598
🔴 Texas : 563

States with the lowest incarceration rates
🔵 Massachusetts : 116
🔵 Maine : 130
🔵 Rhode Island : 152
🔵 Vermont : 153
🔵 New Hampshire : 165

States with the highest obesity rates
🔴 West Virginia : 41.2%
🔴 Mississippi : 40.1%
🔴 Arkansas : 40.0%
🔴 Lousiana : 39.9%
🔴 Alabama : 39.3%

States with the lowest obesity rates
🔵 District of Columbia : 23.5%
🔵 Colorado : 24.9%
🔵 Hawaii : 26.1%
🔵 Massachusetts : 27.4%
🔵 California : 27.4%

States with the worst public transportation:
🔴 Mississippi
🔴 Nebraska
🔴 Wyoming
🔴 North Dakota
🔴 Alaska

States with the best public transportation
🔵 New York
🔵 Massachusetts
🔵 Washington
🔵 New Jersey
🔵 Illinois

States with the lowest college graduation rates
🔵 New Mexico
🔴 Nevada
🔴 Idaho
🔴 Oklahoma
🔴 Alaska

States with the highest college graduation rates
🔵 Massachusetts
🔵 New Jersey
🔵 Connecticut
🔵 New Hampshire
🔴 Virginia

States with the highest sex crime rate
🔴 Alaska : 118.4 per 100k
🔴 South Dakota : 72.6 per 100k
🔴 Nevada : 70.2 per 100k
🔴 Arkansas : 52.0 per 100k
🔵 Michigan 72.4 per 100k

States with the lowest sex crime rate
🔵 New Jersey : 15.1 per 100k
🔵 Connecticut: 18.2 per 100k
🔵 New Hampshire : 19 per 100k
🔵 Maine : 21.3 per 100k
🔵 New York : 22.7

States with the most teen pregnancy
🔴 Mississippi : 26.4
🔴 Arkansas : 24.5
🔴 Louisiana : 23.8
🔴 Oklahoma : 22.9
🔴 Alabama : 22.0

States with the lowest amount of teen pregnancy
🔵 Massachusetts : 6.1
🔵 New Hampshire : 6.6
🔵 Connecticut : 7.6
🔵 Vermont : 7.8
🔵 New Jersey : 8.3

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Federal Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee: “ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence…In all our history we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police.”

RETWEET to thank Judge Young for standing up for our democracy!

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND STORY: French caretakers take the sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy and scrub it into the letters to give them the brown/gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil.
https://t.co/d857dUadap

[William Baude @WilliamBaude]

WILKINSON, Circuit Judge, with whom KING and THACKER, Circuit Judges, join:

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Everybody with ties to Donald Trump should be monitored for short selling stock today

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

This is Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, who represents Madison. He has received more than $1.2 million from the NRA and has voted against every attempt to address gun violence since taking office.

RETWEET to let his constituents know he will do nothing to end gun violence!