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#philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker signed a law making civil rights trailblazer Caroline LeCount the first Black woman to have a city street named after her. Better yet, the street had previously been named after Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, the author of the Dred Scott decision in 1857. The city is currently renaming all of the streets named after him. #ushistory #Heroes #sheroes #civilrights #history phillytrib.com/news/local_news

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2e jour, #Heroes

Acte de naissance de l'historien et résistant Marc Bloch, arrêté, torturé, puis exécuté par la Gestapo le 16 juin 1944 à Saint-Didier-sur-Formans dans l'Ain.

L'étrange défaite et L'apologie pour l'histoire ou Métier d'historien résonnent avec beaucoup de force, aujourd'hui comme hier.

L'acte est conservé aux #ArchivesDeLyon sous la cote 2E 815 (acte 1598 du 6/07/1886, folio 351v).

#genealogie #histoire #resistance

@exploreyourarchive @archivistodon

British volunteer Callum Tindal-Draper, 22, died defending Ukraine against Russia on November 5

The former NHS worker from Cornwall was killed at an observation post.

"He fought till he could no longer hold them off," his mother said.

He'll be buried in Ukraine.

Glory to the Heroes!

:telegram: Live: Ukraine

#Ukraine#Heroes#UK

"In the first summer of the war, back in 2022, Oleksii and his friend Andrii Pilshchykov, callsign Juice, went to the #US to push for more weapons for #Ukraine. Their target: the F-16 fighter jet."

"However, the initial pledges to provide #F16 only came the next summer. It was that summer, on August 25th 2023, that Andrii Pilshchykov – Juice – died in a plane crash during training. One year and one day later, Oleksii was killed."

#AirDefence #Heroes #Ukrainians #Europe

open.substack.com/pub/countero

The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak · The grave of Ukraine’s first F-16 pilot killed in actionBy Alessandra Hay

> Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
>
> On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.

...

> Signal stands as a counterfactual: evidence that venture capitalism and surveillance capitalism—hell, capitalism, period—are not the only paths forward for the future of technology.

wired.com/story/meredith-whitt