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Bachelor’s degree in history, Master’s degree in Museum Studies, Phi Theta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi. My focus is on World War I and the Office of Strategic Services movements in Italy during World War II.
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This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

the zombie apocalypse needs to start right now

Inspectors General fighting back. Thank goodness.

If you’re not part of the resistance, you’re part of the problem. And stay out of the way of the people that actually care about this country and the human beings in it.

Read. Read books. Reading books is resistance. Buy. Buy books. Buying books is resistance. Share. Share books. Sharing books is resistance. Celebrate Celebrate books. Celebrating books is resistance.

Whelp. We’re all gonna die.

Can’t wait t’git my hands on nem cheap eggs!

Scum have raided the Drents Museum and stolen archaeological masterpieces. They used explosives to get in. Probably stolen to order. Keep an eye out for them. May the Helmet of Coțofenești curse the thieves. drentsmuseum.nl/en/news/clos... nltimes.nl/2025/01/25/a...

Right out of the gate they are detaining U.S. citizens and saying their “papers”are fake. It was always a lie.

Breaking: A Reagan-appointed judge just blocked Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional.”

The Department of Justice has just DELETED its four-year-old webpage on the US Capitol riot investigations.

Trump has ordered the National Institutes of Health to cancel their review panels on cancer research. “The impact of [Trump’s] collective executive orders appears devastating,” one senior NIH employee says.

TikTok thanks Donald Trump and will restore its services. “We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties providing TikTok to over 170 million Americans and allowing over 7 million small businesses to thrive.”

So my TikTok is back up?? Anyone else experiencing this? What is going on?

In case any of you did not know, this is how it’s going www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/L...

So TikTok is gone as well as Lemon8. I scrolled tiktok until it wouldn’t scroll anymore. I felt like my world froze which I admit feels dramatic to say.

The end of an era

So I’ve had a crazy few weeks since I talked about doing a podcast. Life got in the way of me creating the podcast temporarily. But good news is I will start developing a topic and researching it to create the first episode.

Syrian government appears to have fallen in stunning end to 50-year rule of Assad family apnews.com/article/syri...

I’ve ordered a mic and will start developing a game-plan for creating this podcast

So I’ve got a Bachelors degree in history and now a masters degree in museum studies. I’m debating on starting a history podcast but I’m also unsure if it’s worth it given how many history podcasts there are. Thoughts? #history #podcast