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Профиль Vively“But the hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing.” — W.E.B. Du Bois
“The U.S. bombed southern Iran again the night of July 29, killing a father, mother and their two-year-old child in a home on Qeshm Island, at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz. Two more children, ages seven and nine, were wounded.”
#otd 1922 — leaders of Italian labor organizations proclaimed a general strike in response to fascist offensives against them. The proclamation avoided class-based arguments, liberally appealing instead to law-and-order legalisms, and the strike collapsed as the liberal press sided with Fascists.
cjh.uchicago.edu“Ensley was in his wheelchair, surrounded by everything he owns stuffed in trash bags, sitting out in the heat …. He'd been a patient at the Waters of Springfield nursing home when … they insisted that he go to the hospital for a psych evaluation …. the nursing home refused to take him back”
“In central Manchester, for example, there are few public toilets to access and free drinking water is not easy to find. In June 2026, reports have highlighted multiple instances of homeless people in the city suffering illness and sunburn from high temperatures”
#otd 1932 — new elections were held in Germany after the parliamentary crisis generated by the Nazi Party taking 18% in the previous election. The Nazis earned 37% of votes and became the largest party in the Reichstag. This provided an opening for Nazi leader Hitler to exploit the crisis. #history
Nazis Take 33.1 Percent of Vote in Reichstag Elections - Zachor FoundationIn the Reichstag elections in 1924, the Nazis received only 3 percent of the votes and were considered a phantom party. The political and economic crises that swept Germany in the late 1920s animated ...www.zachorfoundation.org“Ostensibly for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis programs, the agreement Washington offered Ghana would run for five years, but it required Accra to share 25 years of its citizens’ health records. Those data provisions led President John Dramani Mahama to reject the deal.”
Each US F-35 jet (as a total unit) costs $135 million. Triple the loss. share.upscrolled.com/en/post/c5b7...