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13 June 1937 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Naomi Plattner, was born. In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

In the summer of 1988 I came upon Kevin Duckworth and some other guys shooting hoops in a driveway in Northbrook Illinois. (It was Michael Jordan’s driveway; I was delivering flowers sent to him. But that’s a major celebrity interaction in my book.)

I can see how Hitler happened. The last decade or so in the U.S. makes it easy to imagine. Not just Hitler; the Tulsa race massacre, Rosewood, lynching, slavery, the Rwanda & Rohingya genocides & more. There is a wolf pack evil that lurks in the human heart and it’s easily activated by a demagogue.

Below, a press release sent June 6 from an advocate for asylum seekers in Oregon. An excellent documet of the ongoing horrors. I've not included contact information, but can give it to those who wish to follow up. 1/ ----

… And therefore I will …

I told you we’d be back

Donny and Marie.

This is straight out of Nazi Germany.

Daily Walkoff ⚾️ Cubs #285 🟡🟢🟡🟢 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀 dailywalkoff.com Bring on the questions about the 1977 team.

L.A. is a Mexican-American city. The majority of the population is made up of racial and ethnic minorities. We are all happy living together and really do not want to see our friends, neighbors and families being terrorized by federal robo-cops. This is bullshit.

Supreme Court Republicans: it is an emergency if white nationalist incels do not have immediate unfettered access to your sensitive personal data

I will never call it “Roland Garros”. If they don’t want it being called the French Open they should hold it somewhere that isn’t France

Daily Walkoff ⚾️ Cubs #281 🟡🟡🟡⚪️⚫️ 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀 dailywalkoff.com

Tell me your pet’s name with a gif. Just adopted yesterday …