“And thus poor Charley sickened and grew worse, and fell into heavy danger of death, and lay severely ill for many a long round of day and night. [...]I silently prayed to our Father in heaven that I might not forget the lesson which this little sister taught me…. #bookstodon
“I was very sorrowful to think that Charley's pretty looks would change and be disfigured, even if she recovered — she was such a child with her dimpled face — but that thought was, for the greater part, lost in her greater peril. When she was at the worst, and her mind rambled again [...]”
..Esther and Charley take in a vagrant Jo, who seems to be suffering the ill-effects of a raging fever. By the next morning, Jo has vanished, but he has left his illness behind him. Although Dickens does not identify the contagion as smallpox, he does mention Smallpox, the narrator (Esther) does express her concern that, should Charley survive, she will be much disfigured. Esther tends her young maid throughout her illness.
Subsequently, Esther herself is stricken, suffering not only the skin problems associated with the disease, but also blindness. Given the virulence of both smallpox viruses, the British goverment in the 1850s, enacted a series of laws that made vaccination against smallpox compulsory.
Scanned image and text by George P. Landow; additional text by Philip V. Allingham. Via Victorianweb
note: #rfkjr wants to bring #smallpox back. Back to a time of ‘horse and buggy’. Back to this---it’s so unnecessarily. Unnecessary suffering for RFK Jr.’s ego & wealth.
[NYTimes] : Iranian President Helicopter Crash
Helicopter With Iran’s President Goes Down; No Sign of Life at Crash Site
The country’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, was also in the copter. By Farnaz Fassihi
A source in Tehran close to the presidency told me that Raisi has been confirmed dead, and that the authorities are looking for a way to report the news without causing mayhem. I have not been able to independently confirm this.
[NYTimes]: Helicopter Carrying Iran’s President Has Crashed, State Media Reports
Rescuers are trying to locate the helicopter on which President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian were traveling, state media reported. Their status is unknown.
Now its Katy Tur: Every time I check in on @Msnbc they're talking sensationalizinghand-wringing over the MTG - Crockett ..etc exchange.
Move on. Don't overplay your hand #MSNBC. Do some real reporting ..
[Meduza-Telegram channel]: Robert Fico is in a “life-threatening condition,” according to the Slovak Prime Minister’s Facebook page.
The post also reports that Fico is being transported by helicopter to a hospital in Banska Bystrica because the journey to Bratislava would take too long. #slovakia#fico
[Mash, Telegram channel]: At the moment, the helicopter with Fico arrived at the hospital of the Faculty of F.D. Roosevelt in Banska Bystrica. The shooter has been identified. This is a native of the Slovak city of Levice. He is 71 years old. Before the assassination attempt, he shouted to the Prime Minister, “Robo, come here,” and opened fire.
The prime minister's condition is extremely serious. He previously had three gunshot wounds - in the chest, stomach and arms. #slovakia#fico
[The Bell, Telegram] An unknown assailant shot several times at Slovak Prime Minister Fico
An assassination attempt was made on the life of the Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, who occupies a conditionally pro-Russian position. An unknown person shot him as he left a building in the town of Gandlova. The shooter has been detained.
UPD. The prime minister's condition is preliminary and he is in hospital, where he was taken by helicopter.
[NYTimes]: Nicole Shanahan Ventures Onto the Stump for Kennedy
The Silicon Valley lawyer, chosen by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his running mate, made her first solo outing on the stump. She is to appear alongside him at a rally on Monday in Austin, Texas. By By Chris Cameron
@NicoleShanahan parroting Kremlin talking points: “We have sent hundreds of billions of dollars to a former actor to lead a military position — a proxy war — on behalf of this country against russia,” ms. Shanahan said of military aid to ukraine and of the country’s wartime president, volodymyr zelensky.
@NicoleShanahan ‘Supported stringent border restrictions pushed by house republicans, endorsed an ultraconservative congressman the day after he moved with other hard-right republicans to oust the house speaker last week and, adopting the language of those conservatives, criticized what she called “the uniparty in congress.”
Right wing extremism. The intolerant right wing. That is Nicole Shanahan.
@NicoleShanahan should be ashamed of herself. This appalling appropriation :“Bobby Kennedy is finishing the story of what was robbed from his father and his uncle,” Ms. Shanahan said at a cocktail lounge in midtown Houston. “His father and uncle were murdered for taking a stand. They were both shot in the head. They were silenced.”
This just feels so filthy. Exploitation. Its gross.
When Trump responds to Cohen re Melania: "How long do you think I'll be on the market for. not long"
What Trump is saying is he's fine divorcing Melania and just finding the next wife. #michalecohen#hushmoneytrial
[NYTimes]: Susan Hoffinger, the prosecutor, picks up where she left off, with Michael Cohen on the verge of describing having made the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels. She shows him a series of emails with Keith Davidson, who was Daniels’s lawyer in 2016. Davidson, who has already testified he was frustrated by a delay in receiving the payment, says in the email that it wasn't necessary for him to speak to Cohen, and that he just wanted to be paid. ..
“I used the holiday of Yom Kippur as a way of just once again trying to delay” the payment, Cohen says. Yom Kippur, the day of repentance, is often considered the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
Davidson testified earlier in the trial that he thought Cohen was using the Jewish holiday as an excuse to avoid making the hush money payment — to try to push the issue to beyond the election when the story would no longer matter. Cohen confirms Davidson's impression here. By Jonathan Swan
