Helenaluna
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“The story of Christmas in England, in the year of the Blitz, 1940.”
A propaganda classic, set 85 years ago tonight… 🗃️
youtu.be/aGK5EsGzKIg?...
A propaganda classic, set 85 years ago tonight… 🗃️
youtu.be/aGK5EsGzKIg?...
Christmas Under Fire (1941) | BFI National Archive
YouTube video by BFI
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December 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
“The story of Christmas in England, in the year of the Blitz, 1940.”
A propaganda classic, set 85 years ago tonight… 🗃️
youtu.be/aGK5EsGzKIg?...
A propaganda classic, set 85 years ago tonight… 🗃️
youtu.be/aGK5EsGzKIg?...
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Edward R. Murrow wishes his audience a Christmas without fear, at the end of the sixth episode of SEE IT NOW (which aired on this date in 1951). 🗃️
A Christmas message from Edward R. Murrow that seems timelier every year:
"...we hope to remind ourselves, and you, that the first thing the angel said to the shepherd was, 'Fear not.'"
(From SEE IT NOW, CBS-TV, Dec. 23, 1951, archive.org/details/SeeI...) 🗃️
"...we hope to remind ourselves, and you, that the first thing the angel said to the shepherd was, 'Fear not.'"
(From SEE IT NOW, CBS-TV, Dec. 23, 1951, archive.org/details/SeeI...) 🗃️
December 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Edward R. Murrow wishes his audience a Christmas without fear, at the end of the sixth episode of SEE IT NOW (which aired on this date in 1951). 🗃️
Check out her incredible utopian novel “herland”
🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935) was an American humanist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform.
December 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Check out her incredible utopian novel “herland”
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As the year ends, let me thank public school teachers who, under difficult circumstances, are doing their best to educate our kids.
If this country is to flourish, we need the best education system in the world. Let’s fight for a nation where teachers are well-paid & respected.
If this country is to flourish, we need the best education system in the world. Let’s fight for a nation where teachers are well-paid & respected.
December 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
As the year ends, let me thank public school teachers who, under difficult circumstances, are doing their best to educate our kids.
If this country is to flourish, we need the best education system in the world. Let’s fight for a nation where teachers are well-paid & respected.
If this country is to flourish, we need the best education system in the world. Let’s fight for a nation where teachers are well-paid & respected.
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A Weekly Gathering for Those Who Fled the Nazis Ends After 82 Years
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December 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Years ago, I gave a friend a tour of the Linda Hall Library's stacks. Afterwards, he asked why we kept all those old journals, tech standards, etc. Couldn't we just digitize everything?
My reply: Not only was that completely impractical, but there was intrinsic value in preserving original docs! 🗃️📜
My reply: Not only was that completely impractical, but there was intrinsic value in preserving original docs! 🗃️📜
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Years ago, I gave a friend a tour of the Linda Hall Library's stacks. Afterwards, he asked why we kept all those old journals, tech standards, etc. Couldn't we just digitize everything?
My reply: Not only was that completely impractical, but there was intrinsic value in preserving original docs! 🗃️📜
My reply: Not only was that completely impractical, but there was intrinsic value in preserving original docs! 🗃️📜
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🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Rose Pastor Stokes was an American socialist activist, writer, birth control advocate, and feminist. She was a figure of public notoriety after her 1905 marriage to millionaire J. G. Phelps Stokes, a member of elite New York society, who supported the settlements in New York.
December 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Rose Pastor Stokes was an American socialist activist, writer, birth control advocate, and feminist. She was a figure of public notoriety after her 1905 marriage to millionaire J. G. Phelps Stokes, a member of elite New York society, who supported the settlements in New York.
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Sue Bender, Who Wrote About Living With the Amish, Dies at 91
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December 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Opinion | Stephen King: Why I Hugged Rob Reiner After Watching ‘Stand by Me’
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December 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Cover-Up remembers when journalism was able to do something www.avclub.com/cover-up-rev...
Cover-Up remembers when journalism was able to do something
Cover-Up, the documentary about Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, is a vital reminder and a thrilling watch.
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December 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Cover-Up remembers when journalism was able to do something www.avclub.com/cover-up-rev...
Jeffries Undercuts Congressional Stock Trading Ban prospect.org/2025/12/19/j...
Jeffries Undercuts Congressional Stock Trading Ban - The American Prospect
A bipartisan solution was gaining momentum, but the House Democratic leader just issued his own bill that will prevent consensus.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Jeffries Undercuts Congressional Stock Trading Ban prospect.org/2025/12/19/j...
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He never disclosed that he’d visited Epstein in that column and did a lot of hand waving to insist that he and his fellow elites had nothing, nothing at all to do with him.
December 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
He never disclosed that he’d visited Epstein in that column and did a lot of hand waving to insist that he and his fellow elites had nothing, nothing at all to do with him.
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Funny (not funny) thing is that Trump first gained power because the GWB administration made a war out of thin air. Criticizing the Iraq war was largely how he separated himself from the other 2016 GOP presidential candidates.
If only he was able to remember this.
If only he was able to remember this.
I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
December 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Funny (not funny) thing is that Trump first gained power because the GWB administration made a war out of thin air. Criticizing the Iraq war was largely how he separated himself from the other 2016 GOP presidential candidates.
If only he was able to remember this.
If only he was able to remember this.
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I don't think Trump even mentions drugs here, which is supposedly one of the reasons for American aggression toward Venezuela
Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."
December 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I don't think Trump even mentions drugs here, which is supposedly one of the reasons for American aggression toward Venezuela
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If there is any non-nefarious justification for refusing to admit something is AI generated, I haven't heard it.
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
If there is any non-nefarious justification for refusing to admit something is AI generated, I haven't heard it.
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Aged like a bowl of milk on a Death Valley trailer roof 🤷
December 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Aged like a bowl of milk on a Death Valley trailer roof 🤷
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The dismantling of NCAR should be the trending story on Bluesky, not the fucking Oscars leaving ABC for YouTube.
Trump moves to shut down Boulder climate research lab NCAR, drawing rebukes from Colorado officials
Federal lawmakers called the planned NCAR closure “deeply dangerous” and “blatantly retaliatory.” Gov. Jared Polis said: “If true, public safety is at risk and science…
www.denverpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The dismantling of NCAR should be the trending story on Bluesky, not the fucking Oscars leaving ABC for YouTube.
How Rob Reiner transformed early ed in California edsource.org?page_id=747162
How Rob Reiner transformed early ed in California
The director's "I Am Your Child" initiative led to the passage of Proposition 10, which created a cigarette tax to fund education and support for families with children 0-5 across California, and has ...
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December 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
How Rob Reiner transformed early ed in California edsource.org?page_id=747162
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If you think about the vital government service of putting out fires, and you eventually come up with "wow, steady supply of tax revenue, we can jack up prices on these suckers endlessly," congratulations you've got a job on Wall Street for life
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
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Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments
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December 16, 2025 at 6:55 AM
If you think about the vital government service of putting out fires, and you eventually come up with "wow, steady supply of tax revenue, we can jack up prices on these suckers endlessly," congratulations you've got a job on Wall Street for life
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...