How do societies come back? #history #historyshorts #historyfacts

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vJz6O5Zrcts

 

Many Opioid Victims Will Be Shut Out of Purdue’s $7.4B Bankruptcy Settlement — ProPublica

Nearly 140,000 people filed claims against the company for the harm they said its drugs caused. Fewer than half of them will get any compensation…

 https://www.propublica.org/article/purdue-settlement-leaves-opioid-victims-behind

Trump’s pardons are costing shooting survivors millions

Most of that figure is from a single case. Last year, Trump pardoned HDR Global Trading Limited, the owner and operator of the crypto exchange BitMEX, which had been ordered to pay $100m in fines for flouting anti-money laundering laws. Trump issued the pardon, the first for a corporation, just hours before the payment was due. Because the pardon calls for the “remission of any and all fines, penalties, forfeitures, and restitution ordered by the Court”, that $100m will never make it to the Crime Victims Fund...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/17/trump-pardons-cost-shooting-survivors-millions

 

Read the Room, Donald | Paula Poundstone

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jbK5ZTS92Cg

 

‘Standing up for our workers’: US unions raise thousands for victims of ICE crackdown

Labor unions are fundraising and providing mutual aid for workers affected by ICE surges in Minnesota and across US…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/12/ice-immigration-union-fundraisers

 

My reaction to Pam Bondi saying "I'm not going to get in the gutter with you.”

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3OnC9Q5Xg0s

 

Trump Administration Erases School Shooting Victims at ATF Headquarters – Mother Jones

"…Since resuming office, Trump shut down the Office of Gun Violence Prevention and set the stage to undo years of progress on reducing gun violence, as my colleague Mark Follman wrote. Trump then directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to "examine all orders, regulations, guidance, plans, international agreements, and other actions of executive departments and agencies" from Biden's term to assess whether they "infringe on the Second Amendment rights" of Americans. .."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/trump-administration-erases-school-shooting-victims-at-atf-headquarters/ 

 

‘You get sucked in’: crypto scam victims on how they lost thousands

Like in any call centre, the script is always the same. For the victim it starts by clicking on a (fake) social media ad or news alert. The promotion tips a great crypto investment but it's a trick, leading only to fraudsters impersonating a real business. 

Eager investors hand over a relatively small sum at first, say £250, and before they know it – thanks to clever software displaying a seemingly live trading screen – they are getting rich. But the profit is fiction, serving as bait: victims lose the big money trying to cash out. The windfall is "just one step away", blocked by the need for one more payment – a broker's fee, or a tax bill. It only ends when the victim is broke...

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/mar/07/crypto-scam-victims

Opinion | It's time for Biden to strongly attack the White-grievance industry - The Washington Post

"MAGA voters think everyone else is the problem. As perpetual victims, they feel entitled to ignore the demands of civilized society — e.g., self-restraint, care for actually vulnerable people, pluralism, acceptance of political defeat. Their irritation with mask-wearing gets elevated over the lives of those most susceptible to a deadly pandemic. Their demands to display an armory of weapons mean schoolchildren become targets for acts of mass gun violence. Their religious zealotry, fed by the myth that Christianity is under attack, means poor women cannot have access to safe, legal abortions…"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/30/maga-threat-biden-must-sharpen-attacks/

Victory on Roe imminent, Republicans cast themselves as victims - The Washington Post

Some supporters of overturning Roe on the political right quickly drew an odd comparison: The protests at the Supreme Court were not simply protests but, instead, the dawn of a new, real insurrection — something more serious than what occurred at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Comparisons were made to the protests in the summer of 2020 that occasionally devolved into vandalism and violence...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/10/victory-roe-imminent-republicans-cast-themselves-victims/

Trump's Attempt to Tie Gun Reform to Immigration Shows Contempt for Victims - Newsweek

After Tragedies Donald Trump has a history of using harmful, false rhetoric to paint minorities and immigrants as undeserving, dangerous and unwelcome. He claimed immigrants are disproportionately violent and threatening. He told some minorities to "go back" from where they came. He called majority-black cities rat-infested. ....
https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-idea-tie-gun-reform-immigration-shows-contempt-those-killed-el-paso-dayton-opinion-1452885

Injured Victims At An El Paso Hospital Refused To Meet Trump During His Visit - BuzzFeed News

Trump and the first lady visited the hospital Wednesday, where eight patients injured in the mass shooting were still being treated.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/claudiakoerner/injured-victims-el-paso-hospital-refused-trump

Trump Hurt, Confused Over Insufficient Praise For El Paso Trip - Vanity Fair

The president apparently thought he should've been nominated for sainthood for his response to the mass shooting, and reportedly threw a fit on Air Force One over not getting more "credit."....
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/donald-trump-el-paso-hospital-visit

Some El Paso victims wouldn’t meet Trump, medical center spokesman says - The Washington Post

Trump's visit to El Paso was unwelcome for many elected officials and other residents, who believe Trump's rhetoric about immigrants and the border has emboldened anti-immigrant groups.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/some-el-paso-shooting-victims-wouldnt-meet-trump-medical-center-spokesman-says/2019/08/08/aa8e5efa-b991-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html

Judge strikes down Trump policy blocking domestic violence victims from asylum - POLITICO

The judge ruled that policies blocking the alleged victims from obtaining "credible fear" of return to their home country violated federal immigration law. ....
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/19/trump-policy-domestic-violence-victims-asylum-1069107

This list of lives lost in mass shootings grows longer. Here are their names. - The Washington Post: Opinion

We remember the names of those lost in the Nov. 7 mass shooting in California and call for the new Congress to act.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-list-of-lives-lost-in-mass-shootings-grows-longer-here-are-their-names/2018/11/16/ef545246-e9fe-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html

Republican Governor Says Trump Makes People Into Victims, Encourages them to Blame Others, and Will Never Heal or Unite - Newsweek

John Kasich said he "held out the hope for a couple years" that Donald Trump would unify the country, but has now become "convinced he can't." ....
https://www.newsweek.com/republican-governor-says-trump-makes-people-victims-1220666