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"Rosie the Riveter" was made famous by a 1942 song. But it was the cover of The Saturday Evening Post May 29, 1943, by Norman Rockwell that first put a face on the name.

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She is an American citizen, the daughter of a U.S. Navy service member from Illinois, who was stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War. This is fascism, plain and simple.

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Another Nazi unscheduled disassembly.

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On this day in 1940 11,874 Allied personnel were evacuated from Dunkirk harbor and 5,930 from the nearby beaches. By June 4 338,226 men would be rescued as part of Operation Dynamo, many by civilian small ships.

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On this day in 1942, two Czech freedom fighters assassinated Reinhard Heydrich, a top Gestapo member and architect of the Nazi "Final Solution". Heydrich was wounded in the attack but died of infection days later. www.bbc.com/news/world-e...

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On this day in 1941, the battleship Bismarck was sunk by the Royal Navy. The day before, Swordfish torpedo planes hit her rudder and the Bismarck was unable to steer. British warships drew close & hit the vessel over 400 times before it sunk. Out of a crew of over 2,200 men, only 114 survived.

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On this day in 1941, the pursuit of the German battleship Bismarck continued. Spotted 700 miles west of Land's End, England, carrier-based Swordfish torpedo bombers were launched. Several torpedoes hit, one of which jammed her rudder at 12 degrees to port.

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Narrator: he didn’t

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American Military Cemetery, Netuno, Italy. A few miles from the Anzio Beachhead.

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On this day in 1941, British battleship HMS Hood was in pursuit of the battleship Bismarck, attempting to break out into the Atlantic and wreak havoc with Allied shipping, looking to slip out through the Denmark Strait between Iceland and Greenland. www.royal-naval-association.co.uk/loss-of-hms-...

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What is a nation supposed to do when its leader is publicly committing impeachable offenses on a daily basis and the impeachment process is utterly broken due to slightly more than half of the nation's Congress being members of a cult dedicated to destroying rule of law

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🥹 🎥 @leahjuliett.bsky.social

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Four months from today is pub day for A BITTER WIND, the 20th novel in the Billy Boyle series. To mark this milestone & to acknowledge my career as a librarian, I asked fellow librarians to provide blurbs.

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Strong hardcover sales drove an increase in trade books in March, the AAP reports. lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/05/hard...

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These Medicaid cuts will be extremely bad and they’re just to offset tax cuts for very wealthy people www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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A treasonous administration willing to do more harm to the United States' ability to defend itself and its allies than any enemy in the last century.

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On this day in 1943, the RAF launched Operation Chastise, an audacious bombing raid to destroy three dams in the Ruhr valley, the industrial heartland of Germany. www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-...

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Pres, Gagliardi, of the 🇺🇸 Federation of Musicians: “We will not remain silent as 2 of our members Bruce Springsteen & Taylor Swift r singled out & personally attacked by the POTUS. S&S r not just brilliant musicians, they r role models & inspirations 2 millions of ppl in the US & across the🌍” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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GOP plans to increase the tax rate by 74% by 2031 for people earning $15,000 yearly.

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There will be no Presidential library. Only the 747.

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Racist insult to avoid the use of any title and address the Librarian of Congress by her first name - while firing her.

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This isn’t a good idea even if the plane was being donated to the U.S. government. But Trump GETS TO KEEP THE PLANE??? It’s simply a cash payment to Trump in exchange for favors. Just wildly illegal.

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DUI hire Hesgeth has got to go.

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Things are getting much scarier much faster than I think people realize

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Right on, brother!

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Federal scientists will stop updating the NOAA list of billion-dollar weather disasters. The list, which had grown rapidly in recent years, reflected both worsening extreme weather and expanding development nationwide.

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Yes! Freedom of speech for the win.

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Not only are they ignoring climate change—they’re trying to cover up the cost. Shutting down NOAA’s disaster tracking so we can’t see the BILLIONS it’s costing us? This ain’t solving the crisis—it’s hiding it.

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