The U.S. Postal Service is home to thousands of historic works of art in post offices nationwide. Hundreds have been lost, sold or destroyed.

Jiri Kluc has recorded about 700 testimonies from Holocaust survivors and World War II veterans.

He says he feels an urgent need to interview as many Holocaust survivors as possible before they’re gone. https://wapo.st/4r9WPWq

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it."
- Fred Korematsu

Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement. n.pr/4bhqaK7

When Charlie Hicks, 78, a regular at the Shrimp Basket, stopped showing up, the chef went looking for him.

He ended up saving his life. https://wapo.st/4qbkSUp

This is college in the United States. Video from inside a Brown University building shows the moment that police found a group of students who were sheltering after the shooting on campus. This isn't freedom.

A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. https://cnn.it/4ndDYbl

As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]

There is currently an NWS flash flood warning in effect for all five boroughs of NYC.

But no City agency has posted it on this platform.

Please help spread the word.

“If you live in a basement apartment or low-lying area, be ready to move to higher ground.”

Farm workers are harvesting strawberries on CAs Central Coast. They share harvesting this fruit is hard on their backs as they have to be bent over moving fast all day long. #WeFeedYou

Just a year ago, the U.S. was better at predicting storms’ tracks than it had ever been. But now, @zoeschlanger.bsky.social reports, the country is rapidly losing state-of-the-art forecasting, just in time for hurricane season’s busiest months:

Girls who play rugby in Utah have a new hero, their coaches say: Ilona Maher, the star of the U.S. women's rugby sevens team, who shows the girls that any body type can be beautiful.

Someone please save Thrifty ice cream

Thrifty Ice Cream faces uncertain future as Rite Aid closes 500 stores

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1/ 80 years ago yesterday, US forces liberated #Dachau concentration camp. My maternal grandfather #DavidMaxEichhorn, a Jewish Chaplain, was there. I will spend next week documenting from contemporaneous reports what he saw & did.

#NeverForget #NeverAgain

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The Trump administration has quietly doubled down on its decision to stop sending emergency food to children starving in Bangladesh, Somalia, and other countries. Without urgent intervention, these children might die within months, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports.

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Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them.

There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed