Feb 22, 1943 - Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans Scholl & friend Christoph Probst, were beheaded by the Nazis just 4 days after their arrest at Stadelheim Prison in Munich for public resistance to the Reich via distributing leaflets as the White Rose Movement 🤍🌹
The Scholl siblings began sharing their feelings with a few of their friends, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Willi Graf, & Kurt Huber, their psychology & philosophy professor. All were later tried & executed: Schmorell (age 25), Graf (age 25), & Huber (age 49).
Their intellectual resistance activities started on 27 June 1942. Sophie Scholl explained that, "Somebody... had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we do...
Jeffrey Yass is a key benefactor behind both the Moderate PAC, which fights progressive primary challengers in the United States, and the Kohelet Policy Forum, which is working to reshape the political system in Israel.
Kohelet’s stated aims are to “secure Israel’s future as the nation-state of the Jewish people” and “broaden individual liberty and free-market principles in Israel.
NSM and 'Empire State St*rmers' handed these out in NYC today protesting a Broadway show about Frank who was murdered based on the false conspiracy being promoted on the flyer.
If only this was something rare. But time and again cops take the side of the far-right who are engaging in hate crimes and even when engaging in outright assault.
As of July 2022, only 7 states have banned underage marriages, with no exceptions.
The 10 states with the highest per-capita rates of child marriage are:
Nevada
Idaho
Arkansas
Kentucky
Oklahoma
Wyoming
Utah
Alabama
West Virginia
Mississippi
60,000 marriages since 2000 occurred at an age or spousal age difference that should have been considered a sex crime
In about 88% of those, the marriage license became a “get out of jail free” card for a would-be rapist under state law but ok if married
In the other 12% of those marriages, the state sent a child home to be raped. The marriage was legal under state law, but sex within the marriage was a crime.