Cindy Gueli
@historybyte.bsky.social
Historian. Writer. Professor. Author of Lipstick Brigade: The Untold True Story of Washington's World War II Government Girls.
The monumental Cohen Building on the chopping block
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The monumental Cohen Building on the chopping block
It's been called "The Sistine Chapel of the New Deal"
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December 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The monumental Cohen Building on the chopping block
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“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
Interactive AIDS Quilt
The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...
www.aidsmemorial.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
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“Is it frivolous to worry about art when the world is on fire? The Franklin D. Roosevelt administration didn’t think so. In the midst of the Great Depression, the worst economic calamity in the country’s history, FDR’s New Deal invested in culture as essential to a more “abundant life” for…citizens”
Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder
Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted...
www.alternet.org
November 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
“Is it frivolous to worry about art when the world is on fire? The Franklin D. Roosevelt administration didn’t think so. In the midst of the Great Depression, the worst economic calamity in the country’s history, FDR’s New Deal invested in culture as essential to a more “abundant life” for…citizens”
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Rabbiatu is a nurse who worked during COVID, had been in the U.S. 30 years. A judge ordered that she could not be sent back to Sierra Leone for her safety, for fear of torture (!). So our evil regime sent her to Ghana (in shackles), and Ghana dragged her back to Sierra Leone.
🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Rabbiatu is a nurse who worked during COVID, had been in the U.S. 30 years. A judge ordered that she could not be sent back to Sierra Leone for her safety, for fear of torture (!). So our evil regime sent her to Ghana (in shackles), and Ghana dragged her back to Sierra Leone.
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It looks like the Trump administration has continued to turn to the Nixon administration for inspiration and guidance. 🗃️⬇️
www.enemieslist.info/list1.php
www.enemieslist.info/list1.php
November 30, 2025 at 6:08 AM
It looks like the Trump administration has continued to turn to the Nixon administration for inspiration and guidance. 🗃️⬇️
www.enemieslist.info/list1.php
www.enemieslist.info/list1.php
"Second Baptist Church was one of the oldest African American Baptist churches in Washington...It was started 14 years before the slaves in the District of Columbia were freed." wordinblack.com/2025/11/seco...
Second Baptist Church Marks 177 Years as a Historic Pillar of Faith in D.C.
Known for being a historical site and stop on the Underground Railroad, Second Baptist Church recently celebrated its 177th anniversary.
wordinblack.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Second Baptist Church was one of the oldest African American Baptist churches in Washington...It was started 14 years before the slaves in the District of Columbia were freed." wordinblack.com/2025/11/seco...
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We here at Indivisible Westside LA write a weekly call script for our reps, including Schiff here. You can sign up for our mailing list on our website!
If you’d like to take Sen Schiff’s (genuinely) excellent advice for resisting this fascist takeover, I recommend adding a weekly reminder in your calendar to call your reps’ offices about a legislative issue. It takes 2 min per call and the offices consider it representative of 1k-10k voters.
When it comes to standing up to attacks on our people and our democracy, my advice is this:
Don't try to do everything. Find one thing you can do to mitigate the harms. If everyone does that, we'll get through this.
Don't try to do everything. Find one thing you can do to mitigate the harms. If everyone does that, we'll get through this.
November 30, 2025 at 3:34 AM
We here at Indivisible Westside LA write a weekly call script for our reps, including Schiff here. You can sign up for our mailing list on our website!
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documenting what federal agents are doing is proving to be a critical part of the resistance. it's also frequently used in court as key evidence in against DHS lies. keep those camera's up!
Happening now near Canal Street, federal agents had been staging inside a fed owned parking garage, now being confronted by a group of protesters. masked agents are looking on from above.
November 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
documenting what federal agents are doing is proving to be a critical part of the resistance. it's also frequently used in court as key evidence in against DHS lies. keep those camera's up!
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Passed by a procession for the guardsman who died on 4th street SW.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Passed by a procession for the guardsman who died on 4th street SW.
AIA members believe James McCrery, Trump’s White House ballroom architect, may have violated the AIA’s Code of Ethics & Professional Conduct
www.archpaper.com/2025/11/aia-...
www.archpaper.com/2025/11/aia-...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
AIA members believe James McCrery, Trump’s White House ballroom architect, may have violated the AIA’s Code of Ethics & Professional Conduct
www.archpaper.com/2025/11/aia-...
www.archpaper.com/2025/11/aia-...
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Is this the country we want to be
One that takes an ill 79 year old man and detains him in Alligator Alcatraz
Where he is abused while awaiting deportation to a country he's never known-leaving his wife and children crushed
So again-is this who we want to be
Because now it's who we are
One that takes an ill 79 year old man and detains him in Alligator Alcatraz
Where he is abused while awaiting deportation to a country he's never known-leaving his wife and children crushed
So again-is this who we want to be
Because now it's who we are
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Is this the country we want to be
One that takes an ill 79 year old man and detains him in Alligator Alcatraz
Where he is abused while awaiting deportation to a country he's never known-leaving his wife and children crushed
So again-is this who we want to be
Because now it's who we are
One that takes an ill 79 year old man and detains him in Alligator Alcatraz
Where he is abused while awaiting deportation to a country he's never known-leaving his wife and children crushed
So again-is this who we want to be
Because now it's who we are
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(You're more likely to have heard of the head of the Maryland Senate these days because he's the Dem blocking a new gerrymander in Maryland.)
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
(You're more likely to have heard of the head of the Maryland Senate these days because he's the Dem blocking a new gerrymander in Maryland.)
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NYT: A wise and deeply moving letter to the editor from a retired history teacher Liz Zucker.
“Ignorance is not bliss. It’s just ignorance.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
“Ignorance is not bliss. It’s just ignorance.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
NYT: A wise and deeply moving letter to the editor from a retired history teacher Liz Zucker.
“Ignorance is not bliss. It’s just ignorance.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
“Ignorance is not bliss. It’s just ignorance.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
Ask A D.C. Native: What’s a D.C. memory that defines your childhood? 51st.news/dc-history-g...
Ask A D.C. Native: What’s a D.C. memory that defines your childhood?
For our columnist, two festivals along Georgia Avenue captured the feeling of being raised by this city.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Ask A D.C. Native: What’s a D.C. memory that defines your childhood? 51st.news/dc-history-g...
Long-lost 1926 comedy found in Paramount’s vault gets new life at S.F. Silent Film Festival www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
Long-lost 1926 comedy found in Paramount’s vault gets new life at S.F. Silent Film Festival
Film restorers Robert Harris and James Mockoski revive “The New Klondike,” a forgotten 1926 Paramount gem scheduled to premiere at this year’s San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Long-lost 1926 comedy found in Paramount’s vault gets new life at S.F. Silent Film Festival www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
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Here's more details on the proposed D.C. ballot initiative that would freeze rents across the city for two years. The proposer is Ward 8 ANC @salimadofo.bsky.social, and the organization behind it includes @aeidinger.bsky.social, who has been involved in lots of initiatives over the last 10 years.
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Here's more details on the proposed D.C. ballot initiative that would freeze rents across the city for two years. The proposer is Ward 8 ANC @salimadofo.bsky.social, and the organization behind it includes @aeidinger.bsky.social, who has been involved in lots of initiatives over the last 10 years.
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Donald Trump claims to be "Pro-Life." Indeed, he was the first sitting president to attend the annual March for Life.
But this didn't stop him from conspiring with Elon Musk to kill 600,000 (so far) people, 2/3 of them children. You see, when Elon says we need more children he means *white* ones.
But this didn't stop him from conspiring with Elon Musk to kill 600,000 (so far) people, 2/3 of them children. You see, when Elon says we need more children he means *white* ones.
November 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Donald Trump claims to be "Pro-Life." Indeed, he was the first sitting president to attend the annual March for Life.
But this didn't stop him from conspiring with Elon Musk to kill 600,000 (so far) people, 2/3 of them children. You see, when Elon says we need more children he means *white* ones.
But this didn't stop him from conspiring with Elon Musk to kill 600,000 (so far) people, 2/3 of them children. You see, when Elon says we need more children he means *white* ones.
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📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.
➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.
➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
November 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.
➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.
➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
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NEW: 12 Mississippi polling places have moved and 4 have been closed ahead of the Nov. 4 legislative special elections, an MFP investigation finds.
Counties also have incorrect addresses in the state system for 11 polling places, risking sending some voters to the wrong location.
Counties also have incorrect addresses in the state system for 11 polling places, risking sending some voters to the wrong location.
12 Polling Places Move Before Mississippi Special Elections, 4 Close
County election officials in Mississippi have moved 12 polling places and closed four since 2024, an MFP investigation finds.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
NEW: 12 Mississippi polling places have moved and 4 have been closed ahead of the Nov. 4 legislative special elections, an MFP investigation finds.
Counties also have incorrect addresses in the state system for 11 polling places, risking sending some voters to the wrong location.
Counties also have incorrect addresses in the state system for 11 polling places, risking sending some voters to the wrong location.
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US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say
Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.
www.latimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
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Interesting tidbit: Despite the D.C. Council rejecting @mayorbowser.dc.gov's attempt to repeal the city's sanctuary city law (which limits local cooperation on federal immigration enforcement) over the summer, she pitched the idea to lawmakers again last month.
October 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Interesting tidbit: Despite the D.C. Council rejecting @mayorbowser.dc.gov's attempt to repeal the city's sanctuary city law (which limits local cooperation on federal immigration enforcement) over the summer, she pitched the idea to lawmakers again last month.
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These shots were fired by a Homeland Security officer at an unarmed Black man in DC.
Officers saw tinted windows, lack of front license plate, and said he was trying to flee.
Judge dismissed all charges.
“Miraculously, every shot missed," says his lawyer.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Officers saw tinted windows, lack of front license plate, and said he was trying to flee.
Judge dismissed all charges.
“Miraculously, every shot missed," says his lawyer.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
October 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
These shots were fired by a Homeland Security officer at an unarmed Black man in DC.
Officers saw tinted windows, lack of front license plate, and said he was trying to flee.
Judge dismissed all charges.
“Miraculously, every shot missed," says his lawyer.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Officers saw tinted windows, lack of front license plate, and said he was trying to flee.
Judge dismissed all charges.
“Miraculously, every shot missed," says his lawyer.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Trump is sending Department of Justice federal election observers to California and New Jersey next month, targeting two Democratic states holding off-year elections. Make no mistake, this is voting suppression dry run for Midterms next year when it really counts. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump officials to send election observers to California and New Jersey
Justice department targets two Democratic states holding off-year elections after requests from state Republicans
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Trump is sending Department of Justice federal election observers to California and New Jersey next month, targeting two Democratic states holding off-year elections. Make no mistake, this is voting suppression dry run for Midterms next year when it really counts. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Justice Department Announces Plans to Monitor Polling Sites in New Jersey and California talkingpointsmemo.com/news/justice...
Justice Department Announces Plans to Monitor Polling Sites in New Jersey and California
In response to requests from state Republican parties, the Department of Justice...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Justice Department Announces Plans to Monitor Polling Sites in New Jersey and California talkingpointsmemo.com/news/justice...