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Memorial -Erinnern ist Widerstand
Auszeichnung für "Memorial" Gründerin Irina Scherbakowa (76)
https://www.hessenschau.de/kultur/memorial-gruenderin-irina-scherb…

"Memorial"-Gründerin Irina Scherbakowa erhält Ludwig-Landmann-Preis
Irina Scherbakowa erhält am Dienstag in Frankfurt den "Ludwig Landmann-Preis für Mut und Haltung". Die Menschenrechtsaktivistin ist eine der prominentesten Kritikerinnen von Russlands Präsident Putin.

Goodbye John, it was good to know you.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/memoriam-john-l-young-cryptome-co-founder

In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder
John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was among the first people to see the need for an online library of official secrets, a place where the public could find out things that governments and corporations didn’t want them to know. He made real the idea – revolutionary in its...

Designs for Queen Elizabeth’s Memorial Reflect a ‘Quietly Monumental’ Life Close to Nature https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/designs-for-queen-elizabeths-memorial-reflect-a-quietly-monumental-life-close-to-nature/

Designs for Queen Elizabeth's Memorial Reflect a 'Quietly Monumental' Life Close to Nature
Organized by the Queen Elizabeth Memorial Committee, the chief aim is to design “an emotionally powerful place” in St. James' Park.

Q: How do you get to Chairman Mao Memorial Hall?
A: Praxis, praxis, praxis!

Another Mysterious Anti-Trump Statue Has Appeared on the National Mall
Like last year's "memorial" to Jan 6 rioters, this one, too, has a permit—and a Hollywood connection.
https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/06/17/a

50 years ago today, the #GratefulDead at winterland for the bob fried memorial boogie, still officially masquerading as jerry garcia & friends. tonight it's the dead with mickey hart (still a guest) on 2nd drums. ned lagin set to join, but doesn’t. keith godchaux on rhodes. 2 short satisfying sets.
partial soundboard:

I am astonished that the #Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial
https://www.auschwitz.org/en/
still supports or at least has an account on X (Twitter). They have at least one account here. @…
I have written them to express my dismay and have urged them to drop their X account with no response. I believe that it would help if as many of us as possible would write them to express your feelings about this.
https://www.auschwitz.org/en/contact/
Please boost.

What is the most important WWII memorial?
Americans: Normandy
The rest of the world: Auschwitz-Birkenau
This, likely, also explains the election of Donald Trump and the general shrug to his demolition of US democracy...
#wwii #ww2

Am running across occasional uses of the phrases “Mastodon tweet” and “Bluesky tweet”. Hmm… I think that’s OK. Twitter is irretrievably gone so let’s memorialize it in a short, pleasant, instantly-understandable new idiom.

@…
I see that your organization still uses and supports X (Twitter). How can the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum support this evil, fascist dictator, Elon Musk? It truly baffles me.