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my professor really liked this and said that it should be 'the nucleus of a chapbook' (so like 15-30 poems of the same theme that I would attempt to get published) but now I feel awkward because I think that she thinks HE DIED? but it turns out, everything will be alright! his heart recovered! the FIP meds are working!

On this day, 23 July 1944, 19-year-old French communist resistance fighter Madeleine Riffaud saw a German military officer taking a walk over a bridge on the river Seine in Paris and got off her bicycle. As he looked at the Louvre, she took out her gun and shot him twice in the head, killing him. As she cycled away, she was pursued and knocked off her bike by French collaborators in a car. Riffaud tried to shoot herself to avoid torture but was captured and handed over to the Nazi SS. She was beaten repeatedly, escaped but was recaptured and deported to a concentration camp. There, she was released in a prisoner swap, and took part in the armed uprising which liberated the city in August. She later recounted to Agence France-Presse in an interview, “It was joyous… People were falling in love and kissing each other without knowing each other. After years of having to do everything in secret, we could fight in the open.” Riffaud survived the war and later became a journalist, supporting and reporting on anti-colonial rebellions in Algeria and Vietnam. She eventually passed away in 2024, at the age of 100. Learn more about resistance to the Nazis in episodes 63, 64, 72, and 77-80 of our podcast. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, on our website, or wherever you listen to podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/working-class-history/id1355066333

i hate when people ask me really deep-cut hyper-nuanced wibbly-wobbly impossible-to-answer questions about dc canon, such as "how old are the characters supposed to be"

wanna be clear too this isnt even about characters like bart or kon who have complicated ages due to speedster stuff/cloning/whatever. like yeah ok those are objectively weird situations but BECAUSE they're weird the comics do at least tend to clearly spell out whats going on. both impulse 95 and yj98 clearly spell out multiple times that bart is chronologically 3 but physically/mentally 15 because his speeding accelerated his age and he was raised in vr. ok makes sense. now explain to me how the fuck old tim drake is supposed to be in current canon

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*street shot of zohran mamdani clad in nasty lil suit and hard hat* five months ago i was elected mayor of new york city. in that time, we have managed to COMPLETELY defeat the Staten Island Minotaur at no additional cost to the new york taxpayer

LE TUVE QUE SACAR UNA COLILLA DE CIGARRILLO AL NOVIO DE MI GATAAAAA

a la mierda a ese guacho le queda la mitad de una nomás

society if “nonsexual nudity” extended to trans women