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@PiQSuite Older Millenial. I grew up thinking this was core to education but I actually may have been taught about the Holocaust in the broader context of the Schindler’s List marketing campaign. Not sure how much they continue to teach

I’m in the middle of rewatching The World at War again. Must be the dozenth time now. For anyone who hasn’t come across it, it’s a 26-part documentary from 1973 covering the entire Second World War. Narrated by Laurence Olivier. Built around archive footage and interviews with the people who were actually there. Soldiers, civilians, resistance fighters, survivors. It somehow gets more powerful every time I watch it. You pick up on things you missed before. A pause in someone’s voice. The look on a veteran’s face when they’re asked about something they clearly haven’t talked about in years. Survivors describing the worst things imaginable with this quiet, flat matter-of-factness that hits harder than any dramatic score ever could. Olivier doesn’t try to sensationalise any of it. He doesn’t need to. The footage and the testimonies speak for themselves. I keep coming back to the same thought every time I rewatch it. This should be shown in schools. All of them. Not just in the Western World, but everywhere. Not to upset kids for the sake of it, but because nearly everyone who lived through this is gone now. These first-hand accounts are irreplaceable. When that living memory vanishes, all that’s left is what got recorded. And nothing recorded comes close to this series. It’s too easy for history to become abstract. Dates and battles and statistics. But there’s nothing abstract about a woman describing how she hid from the Gestapo, or a soldier struggling to find words for what he saw when the camps were liberated. That’s what keeps it real. That’s what makes sure it stays real. If you haven’t seen it, find it. If you have, watch it again. If you have kids, watch it with them.

@stevehou ?? x.com/stevehou/statu…

Amazing AI short film. Maybe the best I’ve seen yet! This I can definitely see becoming a new commercial product. x.com/yyyole/status/…

Imagine being a pilot hunted through 18,000 foot mountains, struggling for breath, and your clown-ass President is tweeting fucking war crimes while his son is making money off gambling whether you’ll live or die on Polymarket.

Thomas Massie drops a bombshell, saying Pam Bondi was absolutely ready to release the Epstein files until an unknown person got to her and told her she better not. "Somebody got to Pam Bondi and said it’s your job to cover this up."

Rubio: Imagine if Iran funded the well-being of its people, rather than its military Trump, two days later: We can’t fund daycare or Medicaid, we need more money for our military

Pam Bondi has quietly authorized Dan Bishop, a U.S. attorney in North Carolina, to pursue election-related probes across the country. Bishop, a former congressman, voted against certifying Biden's 2020 win. He will also examine voter-roll data DOJ has been collecting from states. wsj.com/politics/the-u…

State Sec. Rubio: “Imagine if instead of spending billions on weapons, Iran spent that money on its people. They’d have a much different country.” Follow: @AFpost

BREAKING: Iran’s Speaker of the Parliament provides trading advice to investors trading US markets: “Pre-market so-called ‘news’ or ‘Truth’ is often just a setup for profit-taking. Basically, it is a reverse indicator. Do the opposite: If they pump it, short it. If they dump it, go long. See something tomorrow? You know the drill.”

@TheStalwart Hrrm but Mr Weisenthal, these new technologically superior (larger) eggs can’t be compared, ah-hem, to those old eggs, which, if we really think about it in an ivory tower way, obviates the higher price of the new, *superior* eggs One can’t be a muggle about this kind of thing

$7 for a single egg in Chinatown today.

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Hey, everybody remember this guy who went viral in 2024 for getting "Trump" tattooed on his forearm? Anyways, he got deported yesterday.

@matthewstoller Yeah that’s cool. But also can we not cut $30mil to libraries? share.google/v6Dwee4xlGGVdL…

Mamdani just cut a $9 million contract that McKinsey has with NYC. And then brags about it publicly. More please.

NYT finally got a community note for its whitewashing language.

BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @AJC. Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers.

Just found out that in 2021, the UN tried to declare food a human right, two countries voted against it. The United States and Israel.

@NYCMayor Maybe take some NYPD money and make a library about police. Just a bunch of books about police and prisons and stuff. To honor them, or whatever.

If the city builds a new library, we want to make sure the construction jobs pay well and get workers home safe. With our two new $7 billion labor agreements, we’ll do both — all while hiring from the local community and completing critical projects faster.nyc.gov/mayors-office/…

MEMPHIS ABC 7 catches a DEEP SIGH from Stephen Miller as Trump peddles his ever-changing justifications about Iran

Zbiór izraelskich filmików z social mediów, które pokazują jak Izraelczycy naśmiewają się z ludzi w Gazie. Śmieją się, z tego, że ludzie nie mają wody, elektryczności, jedzenia. Wiele filmów nagrywali przy obecności dzieci. Całe pokolenia ludzi bez jakiejkolwiek empatii.

We didn't forget that Israel officially published this footage and boasted about how they completely destroyed Gaza

For the record, the president of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year.