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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · Apr 2

Also, putting tariffs on a US military base...
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Apr 2

The stupidity in Trump’s new tariffs is apparently limitless.

He has introduced a 10% tariff on the British Indian Ocean Territory.

The only inhabited island there is Diego Garcia, home to US service personnel.

TRUMP HAS PUT A TARIFF ON A US MILITARY BASE

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The White House publication showing the tariff schedule. BIOT is listed with a 10% tariff.

A photo from above of the US military base on Diego Garcia. A runway is the most visible landmark.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · Apr 2

Loooooool

I had to look this up to make sure it was real.

There is a 10% reciprocal tax on Heard and McDonald Islands.

These are islands that form part of the Australian territory.

Heard Island in fact has Australia’s active volcano and tallest mountain.

Both islands …. are uninhabited lmao.

List of countries and territories that are being hit with US tariffs. Highlighted is a tariff on the Heard and McDonald Island chains which don’t have any humans there.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Mar 16

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.

Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

Wikipedia image of Major General (Ret.) Charles C. Rogers

Defense.gov google return: Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · Feb 15

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

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Misti Furr @mimva.bsky.social · Feb 10

A whole table of food and a bunch of my son’s friends who politely take off their shoes at the back door. Makes my mamma heart happy 💙

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Misti Furr @mimva.bsky.social · Feb 8

…all while clutching her pearls.

Misti Furr @mimva.bsky.social · Feb 8

Me, to practically everyone at work, at the end of the day: “Nat, the Indian boy, was judged to be free!!”
Them: “Who?”
Me: “The court case I was following (transcribing) from 1777”
#historythings #museumwork #publichistory

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eugene @eugene290390.bsky.social · Feb 7

Perfect word for him...

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Misti Furr @mimva.bsky.social · Feb 7

Nice!!! And I appreciate that you put a good gravy on this instead of some sad shrimp with goopy cheese (like a damn chain restaurant would do)

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Feb 4

aaaand now it all makes sense

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Misti Furr @mimva.bsky.social · Feb 4

If you are a specialist in proper grill marks you’re the Char Czar..

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · Feb 3

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.

The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.

It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

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Misti Furr @mimva.bsky.social · Feb 3

Perhaps you’ve never had to tell your child why you think they have cancer. Like the story’s subject, I have, and it is an unanswerable question just like she said. Also, it cost nothing for you to scroll the hell on.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · Feb 3

DEI is when a woman or non-white person who is qualified for a job receives that job. The meritocracy is when a 19 year old gets to run the United States government because he posted the dankest memes

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · Feb 1

Yes totally cool that a 19-year-old who called his deleted LinkedIn "Big Balls," where he lists his experience working as a camp counselor can access the entire US federal payment system without anyone looking into his background, for instance, his Russian national close relatives or anything else

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · Jan 30

This is a good time to remind people that there is no evidence that history educators are indoctrinating students. They are doing their job. 🗃️ www.historians.org/teaching-lea...

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · Jan 26

Guys like joe rogan are funny because they still think smoking weed that they buy legally from places that look like an apple store makes them hunter s thompson

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Misti Furr @mimva.bsky.social · Jan 26

Nothing quite like quoting a felonious President as your touchstone 🤦‍♀️ Now I’m probably going to have to look up the quote and the context, because CB Vance probably screwed it up. Also, gtfoh with attacking hard working professors.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jan 26

Imagine citing Richard Nixon’s paranoid enemies list rhetoric — the paranoia that sparked a national crisis and sowed his own self destruction — as an example of “wisdom”

Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne University @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social · Jan 25

JD Vance: The professors are the enemy
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Professors who give time and vital energy with respect and passion for knowledge, learning and sharing, let us say that the enemy is ignorance and greed, which are at the root of the loss of our humanity, and lead us back to the barbarism of the strongest.

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Misti Furr @mimva.bsky.social · Jan 19

You didn’t follow me, but I would be beyond thrilled if you followed me here! I mostly share food and public history stuff.

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Misti Furr @mimva.bsky.social · Jan 16

And people with bad penmanship were kind of far more common than people with perfect “Round Hand” or “Copperplate.” But get a long enough letter and the ability to zoom in on certain parts, you can suss out the words. Wording is a whole other thing that varies by time period…

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Misti Furr @mimva.bsky.social · Jan 16

I would like to point out, to all the comments saying that reading cursive is easy…penmanship in different time periods was, well, different. I can read 18th c penmanship (mostly) like a pro because I took lessons in cutting quills, analyzing paper, and forming the letters with quill and ink.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jan 16

The National Archives is looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: Reading cursive.

Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National Archives is looking for.

The National Archives is looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: Reading cursive.

www.usatoday.com

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Jordan The Grey @jordanthegreywitch.bsky.social · Jan 14

So the Americans have been on Rednote for less than 48 hours and the friendly Chinese creators are already teaching them Mandarin and also that communism is actually a good thing.

All because the US government told them that Chinese apps were “dangerous” so everyone got it out of spite.

two men are sitting next to each other in a garden .

ALT: two men are sitting next to each other in a garden .

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Misti Furr @mimva.bsky.social · Jan 8

If hits different when you’re a blacksmith 🤷‍♀️

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Misti Furr @mimva.bsky.social · Jan 8

He’s probably going to order one of these for every major American city…🤪🤦‍♀️

Misti Furr @mimva.bsky.social · Jan 8

The reporter “do you live in this area?” 😂

Vintage Virgo @vintagevirgo.bsky.social · Jan 7

Watching live news coverage of the Pacific Palisades fire and Steve Guttenburg appears out of the smoke to provide a PSA.

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