cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/mop/p/673692/cops-always-lie

This is an older photo from last September. The monochrome really makes the shadows and textures pop.

‘It is rule 62 of the Olympic Charter that we have to have a condoms story,’ says IOC spokesman Mark Adams

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“We have to have a working-class-centered politics if we are going to succeed,” she said, “and also if we are going to stave off the scourge of authoritarianism, which provide political siren calls to allure people into finding scapegoats to blame for rising economic inequality, both domestically and globally.”

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“We’re seeing, in economy across economy around the world, including in the United States,” she said, “that extreme levels of income inequality lead to social instability and drives in a sense in authoritarianism, right-wing populism and very dangerous domestic internal politics. And that is a direct outcome of, not just income inequality, but the failure of democracies over decades to deliver, the failure to deliver higher wages, t

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.myserv.one/post/26010482

“President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration agenda has supercharged opposition in cities where he has deployed federal agents to conduct raids, and communities in states including New York and Missouri are already working to block the next step the Department of Homeland Security plans to take in its push for mass deportations: acquiring massive warehouses across the country to use as immigrant detention centers.

““Thirty-eight billion dollars,” said Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.). “That’s what Trump is spending to turn warehouses into human holding facilities. Not on schools. Not on healthcare. Not on veterans. On warehousing humans.””

Fritz Paul Schmenkel was born into a working-class family. His father was a member of the Communist Party of Germany, and his son inherited his father's views. Unlike many millions of Germans after the Nazis came to power, Fritz tried to sabotage the new regime in every way. In 1939, he deserted from the army, for which he was later sentenced to one and a half years in prison.

After the start of the Great Patriotic War, Fritz asked the camp commander to send him to the active army on the Eastern Front. He then declared that he had repented of his past and wanted to fight against Bolshevism, but his true goal was to defect to the Soviet side. On the front, Schmenkel stayed for a month and a half, after which, in November 1941, he seized an opportune moment to desert from the German army.

For several months, Fritz Schmenkel hid from the Gestapo and field gendarmerie in the forests and villages of the Smolensk region, until in February 1942, he was taken from the village of Kurganovo by partisans of the "Death to Fascism" unit. Schmenkel was able to explain to them that he wanted to fight against fascism on the side of the Soviet Union, and he was soon accepted into the unit, given a new name - "Ivan Ivanovich".

As part of the partisan unit, Fritz Schmenkel bravely fought against the Hitlerite invaders. He managed to kill about 150 fascists and capture several convoys of weapons and food. For his military merits in 1943, "Ivan Ivanovich" was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

At the end of 1943, after undergoing special training, Schmenkel was sent with two scouts behind enemy lines north of Orsha, after which contact with the group was lost. It was later established that the scouts had fallen into an ambush, and Schmenkel miraculously managed to survive. After this, he made contact with local partisans, among whom was a traitor, and Fritz was soon arrested by the occupiers. On February 22, 1944, the anti-fascist was executed in Minsk.

On October 6, 1964, on the recommendation of the State Security Committee of the USSR, "for active participation in the partisan movement, exemplary fulfillment of the combat tasks of the command during the Great Patriotic War, and the heroism and courage shown", the German citizen Fritz Paul Schmenkel was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Source -> https://t.me/kompartya/11563

Thus, when you're tempted to share a Politico article, please look instead for an article from a different source.

(Also, if you're wondering, know that Axel Springer, the mass media company, has nothing to do with Springer, the science publisher (the one with the chess knight logo; it's named after Julius Springer; it deserves criticism of its own, but a different kind.)

I can't believe this is real

https://www.hhs.gov/about/leadership/robert-kennedy.html