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- Vietnam '67: ‘A' Co, 1st Bn, 9th Rg (aka “The Walking Dead”), 3rd Mar Div, FMF Pacific https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Buffalo_(1967) - ACHS 1966 #75 - Wash, DC
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Fellow book lovers! There is a better way to buy our books than Amazon. Instead of putting $ in Bezos' pocket, every purchase on @bookshop-org.bsky.social financially supports independent bookstores. You can even select the bookstore you'd like to support.

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Celebrating Black History Month, more appropriately called American History.

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Our insurance company just wrote to us that the life saving medication our 9-year-old daughter needs to live is rejected because they decided—CONTRARY TO HER DOCTOR—that it is "Not Medically Necessary." Her meds costs ~$200K/year. Insurance industry raked in $88 BILLION in profits last year. 1/2

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Our KIAs from a single week in 1968: www.stripes.com/veterans/202...

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It's #NationalBirdDay in the USA so here's a painting of one of my favorite native birds: Abbott Handerson Thayer (USA, 1849–1921) Roseate Spoonbills, c.1905-9 (study for Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom) oil on paperboard, 58.2x66.6cm SAAM: americanart.si.edu/artwork/rose... #BirdsInArt

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Definitely, of the Greatest Generation”: www.stripes.com/veterans/202...

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The PRC-25 radio (with tape antenna and squawk box) I carried day & night for 8 months. The brown box contains a spare battery. They lasted 3-4 days, then were hacked up & buried. Not eco friendly. www.stripes.com/history/2022...

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Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

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NEW: At his Thursday Senate confirmation hearing, Robert Kennedy Jr. defended the discredited claim that vaccines are linked to autism, citing a recent study from a new medical journal. We looked into the study and the journal. Strap in. This is wild. www.importantcontext.news/p/about-that...

submitted 21 days ago • 40 comments

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

submitted 19 days ago • 745 comments

Where we are right now, we have never been. Where we are going, no sane citizen of this country ever wanted to go. This is a profoundly dangerous and destructive moment for which we are unprepared. The worst fears and predictions about what Trump 2.0 would be like are coming true and being exceeded.

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