TIL that in 2017, “Big Tobacco” companies were finally forced to air ads in the US that admitted their products were deadly and addictive. This came after 11 years of appeals by the companies to delay and weaken the nature of the ads. [source, comments]

When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live – forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence – knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer... But murder it remains.
- Friedrich Engels

­🏢 David Coquille sillonne Marseille à vélo. Et puis, méticuleusement, il poste des photos sur X avec le hashtag #BalanceTonTaudis: ici une chambre de 9m2 aux murs noircis d'humidité, là un escalier qui menace de s'effondrer #AFP
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🇪🇸 Plus de 10.400 migrants sont morts ou ont disparu en mer en tentant de rejoindre l'Espagne en 2024, selon un rapport publié jeudi par l'ONG espagnole Caminando Fronteras. Le nombre de décès est 58% supérieur à celui enregistré par l'ONG l'année dernière #AFP
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Translation :
🇪🇸 More than 10,400 migrants died or disappeared at sea while trying to reach Spain in 2024, according to a report published Thursday by the Spanish NGO Caminando Fronteras. The number of deaths is 58% higher than that recorded by the NGO last year.

And that's for spain only.