Matt Lawlor

Black and white portrait of a woman, featuring a focused expression.

10 March 1900 | Jewish woman, Blima Reicher, was born in Chawłowice (today part of Rybnik in Poland).

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Pithiviers on 17 July 1942. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz:
📖 Lesson: https://bit.ly/3O8z0jF
🎧 Podcast: https://bit.ly/3ZokyXc

We are getting to the point where he will confess to raping children and a lot of people will ignore it.

I loved Twitter, despite its many imperfections.

Then Elon Musk fucked up Twitter beyond all recognition.

I will never, ever forgive him for that.

I now love Bluesky, despite its many imperfections.

With all due respect please don’t fuck up Bluesky, or I will never, ever forgive you.

Thank you.

Analogy has been made elsewhere. This whole admin is like self inflicted COVID.

new pedestrian risk just dropped

I'm so confused, what exactly is our Iran policy now?

Next obsession clearly marked out now. He’s already moving on from the illegal war and war crimes he’s committed in the last week. Deeply appalling.

Hand motions are getting a bit crazier these days aren’t they? No more just the accordion player thing…

Who all hang on #tangerineklannolini’s every word like it’s the gospel truth.

Yep. A mendacious con man is at the helm of the ship of state around here. It’s pretty amazing.

It didn’t try to drive her off that bridge.
It did everything it could and only the bridge stopped it. Wow.

Why doesn’t anyone in the Trump regime seem to care about the fact that Russia is helping Iran target US troops?

Not cratering employment. And now apparently not even a massive oil price shock driven by the latest illegal war and expanding package of human rights violations and war crimes.

I continue to be impressed at the ability of the equity markets in this country to commit to lower taxes and literally let else nothing get in the way. Not insane and corrupt tariff policy, not trashing of the independence of the Fed, not multiple, ongoing illegal wars and human rights violations.

"You want my fuck-palace-in-the-sky? Come and take it."

Long long long after any space saver could possibly be justified by the last storm…

A cartoon of Pete Kefsbreath shouts at American flag-draped coffins: “STOP TRYING TO EMBARASS THE PRESIDENT!”

Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves

A man adds wood to the fire in an evaporator for boiling off sap

Sugaring season

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the President of the United States. Happy 250 years of independence. 🤦‍♂️

On this day in 1925, a Jewish girl was born in Warsaw, Poland. Living in France, she was rounded up with her family and interned in Drancy then deported to Auschwitz on the 9 Sep 1942 where they all perished. Her name was Esther Markowicz

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On this day in 1896, a Jewish woman was born in Paris. Interned in Drancy, she was deported to Auschwitz on the 18 Jul 1942 where she perished. Her name was Alice Bicart

Please support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

Would love some help a week from today!!!

Probably could get trains AND healthcare.

A yellow lab carrying a giant branch that is wider than the sidewalk

Solid snow bank find for the Branch Manager

Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.

No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%