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Today, June 6th, marks the anniversary of D-Day — one of the noblest causes in human history. I wrote about how today, as a fascist movement attempts to seize control of America, we owe that generation a debt to defend not just our future, but our past. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/d-day-and-...

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MMM3C Richard John Bartels participated in the D-Day landings. He served aboard LST 523, which was on its fourth round trip between England and the beaches of Normandy when it struck a German mine on June 19, 1944. Model of 523 is centerpiece of D-Day display at USN Seabee Museum, Port Hueneme, CA

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June 6, 1944 – Commencement of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, with the execution of Operation Neptune—commonly referred to as D-Day—the largest seaborne invasion in history.

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Remembering D-Day…👇 Honor. Those. Who. Served. 🇺🇸✨

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Your daily dose of Great Spangled Fritillary beauty on wild Thistle. #Photography99 📷🌱 #Butterflies 🦋 #InsectThursday

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Yes. This is our living room! This is what happens when a seven-year-old asks "Can I make a Fort?" and grandparents say, "Sure!" Please note: The fort features a front door, a back door, and a window.

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This article is so well done. But also, this gem from @vermontgmg.bsky.social 👏

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WATCH: Terry Vo speaks out against the ICE raids terrorizing Nashville immigrants

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And Housing for All is an impressively comprehensive examination of homelessness in America by Maria Foscarinis, who has worked in homelessness advocacy for decades.

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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

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My lace cap hydrangeas are blooming!

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Meteorologist w 34 yrs experience: Quality of forecasts is being degraded. We may not know how strong a hurricane is before it reaches the coastline. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE CALL WHITE HOUSE COMMENT LINE: 800-456-1111 "Stop the gutting of science." Cuts to NOAA are having impact across the nation.

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Meteorologist w 34 yrs experience: Quality of forecasts is being degraded. We may not know how strong a hurricane is before it reaches the coastline. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE CALL WHITE HOUSE COMMENT LINE: 800-456-1111 "Stop the gutting of science." Cuts to NOAA are having impact across the nation.

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June 2, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Appalling to read what the "Big Beautiful Bill" really does. Equally appalling: those who get their information exclusively fr FOXnews remain largely oblivious. They seem to believe all news from any other source is "Fake." God help us all!

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🚨Israel killed three beautiful children today in Jabalia Rahaf, Rema, and Suhaib by bombing their home in northern Gaza Strip.😪😪😪😪🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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A photograph of a Japanese American girl at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in Wyoming. The photograph was taken by Yoshio Okumoto on June 2, 1944. 🗃 #skystorians #OTD

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June is Gypsy, Roma & Traveller History month Our collections attest to the persecution of the Roma before and during the Second World War. The Nazis murdered as many as 500,000 Roma people. This is referred to as the Roma Genocide, the Porrajmos, or the Samudaripen #GRTHM2025

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May 30, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Max Stier, who heads the Partnership for Public Service, suggests DOGE cuts could cost U.S. taxpayers $135 billion b/c agencies will need to train and hire replacements for the workers DOGE fired. Stier called DOGE’s actions “arson of a public asset.”

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Nat would be so happy to know his art and his story will be the focus of this event to take place on the Stanford campus this Thursday. Wish I could be there! So proud to have been asked to write "The Battalion Artist" www.hoover.org/library.../h...

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M.I.T. Class President Barred From Graduation Ceremony After Pro-Palestinian Speech www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/u... I am mystified as to why speaking out against Netanyahu's policies is anti-Semitic. It's like claiming that speaking out against Trump's policies is anti-American.

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I've just finished reading "The Leopard" by Giuseppe DiLampedusa...a fabulous saga set in Sicily during the years of Italian Unification. Stopped to savor this passage describing Don Calogero--the odious schemer oblivious to everything and everyone around him when focused on getting what he wants.

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Here in the United States we have a President who doesn't believe Climate Science. The consequence of electing this willfully ignorant many are horrifying...on so many levels.

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This is exactly what the Israelis are doing , it's systematic extermination.. we need to push our governments into stopping them now... it's so awful and the cruelty beyond our imaginations

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From this morning's Los Angeles Times:

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‪Today in 1794 the British navy defeated the French at the 'Glorious First of June.' Mary Anne Taylor was a powder monkey aboard HMS Brunswick. She was injured in the thigh and ankle. Her sex was not discovered for another two years. She had an extraordinary military career….

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Every day, I read about what's going on in Gaza. And feel heartbroken. And helpless. Don't we all? janiceblake.com/we-are-all-p...

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The world is crazy, but today the sun is shining and there are dogs. I take what happiness I can get. And as always, if you can't rescue a dog, please donate some time or money to improve their lives. #art #oilpainting #dogs #rescuedogs #ArtYear

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Silence the war planes forever. Let us all hear the birds instead 🤍🕊 @nikitagill.bsky.social ✨️

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June 1, 1945 Escorting 521 B-29 bombers, 27 P-51 Mustangs (of 148) were lost in a thunderstorm en route to attacking Osaka.

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A crime against humanity. It seems to be a daily occurrence in Gaza.

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apnews.com/article/harv... FACT FOCUS: Trump’s claims about remedial math at Harvard don’t add up We have a President who invents fantasies to suit his purposes.

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No one should be deported to a country that's not the one they came from. If they deserve to be imprisoned, then put them in prison here. Otherwise, find a way for them to stay here legally. This is what Congress has failed to do for as long as I can remember.

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May 31, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... "Americans have the right to criticize, to hold unpopular beliefs, to protest, and to think for themselves."

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“But it’s not the price of eggs keeping infectious-disease doctors up at night. It’s the possibility that a strain mutates, jumps species, & ends up in humans, who then start transmitting it 2 each other.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o... "To deny the reality of dying children not only insults the memory of children starving to death in Sudan and Yemen and Afghanistan; it also insults the intelligence of Americans."

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