@jabell27.bsky.social
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Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, has died at 104.
Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104
Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret for decades, even from her family.
www.nytimes.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, has died at 104.
Always good when the trash takes itself out. I just worry that their reliefs will be COMPETENT bad guys.
Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy are reportedly leaving their posts
Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy to leave posts in White House
President Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz and deputy Alex Wong are leaving the White House, multiple sources tell CBS News.
www.cbsnews.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Always good when the trash takes itself out. I just worry that their reliefs will be COMPETENT bad guys.
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“Everyone who serves matters.”
Cassie is a veteran and Air Force base engineer. She volunteered to help remove barriers for military women – until a “diversity” ban shut down the team.
They weren’t pushing politics. They just want to make a difference. Her story 👇🏼
Cassie is a veteran and Air Force base engineer. She volunteered to help remove barriers for military women – until a “diversity” ban shut down the team.
They weren’t pushing politics. They just want to make a difference. Her story 👇🏼
April 30, 2025 at 9:29 PM
“Everyone who serves matters.”
Cassie is a veteran and Air Force base engineer. She volunteered to help remove barriers for military women – until a “diversity” ban shut down the team.
They weren’t pushing politics. They just want to make a difference. Her story 👇🏼
Cassie is a veteran and Air Force base engineer. She volunteered to help remove barriers for military women – until a “diversity” ban shut down the team.
They weren’t pushing politics. They just want to make a difference. Her story 👇🏼
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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
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WSJ: The S&P 500 just ended the day with its biggest loss in the first 100 days of a new presidential term since Nixon's in 1973.
April 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
WSJ: The S&P 500 just ended the day with its biggest loss in the first 100 days of a new presidential term since Nixon's in 1973.
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Oh, this did my little P-3C/ASWOC heart so much good! I want it to be a movie.
This here is one of the great U-boat hunters of the Second World War.
Grab a comfy seat and a glass of something pleasing. We're going on a journey...
Grab a comfy seat and a glass of something pleasing. We're going on a journey...
April 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Oh, this did my little P-3C/ASWOC heart so much good! I want it to be a movie.
Movies you've watched more than six times using gifs
a man in a hat is talking to a woman with the words seriously written on the bottom
ALT: a man in a hat is talking to a woman with the words seriously written on the bottom
media.tenor.com
April 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Movies you've watched more than six times using gifs
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Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
April 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
Okay. What moron in IT approved THAT? I want their security clearance too.
“a work-around that enabled him to use Signal in a classified space, where his cellphone and other personal electronics are not permitted, and communicate with ease with anyone — other government officials or his family” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth had Signal messaging app installed on an office computer
The move was intended to circumvent a lack of cellphone service in much of the Pentagon and enable easier communication between Hegseth and other Trump officials, said people familiar with the matter.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Okay. What moron in IT approved THAT? I want their security clearance too.
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Would men need to provide a marriage certificate to vote? No? Just women? Got it.
Legal experts say states could help married women who have changed their last names by accepting documents like a legal decree or a marriage certificate, but it might not fix the issue for all.
Will the SAVE Act make it harder for married women to vote? We ask legal experts
Legal experts say states could help married women who have changed their last names by accepting documents like a legal decree or a marriage certificate, but it might not fix the issue for all.
www.npr.org
April 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Would men need to provide a marriage certificate to vote? No? Just women? Got it.
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The Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see
www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.
www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.
Archived Resources | The Society for Military History
www.smh-hq.org
April 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see
www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.
www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.
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Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
April 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
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Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.
April 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.
Well, 💩. This is not good.
The Washington Post can confirm that Gen. Tim Haugh, the director of NSA and chief of U.S. Cyber Command, was ousted tonight along with his deputy, Wendy Noble.
That's a big damn deal. CYBERCOM is one of the 11, four-star unified combatant commands.
That's a big damn deal. CYBERCOM is one of the 11, four-star unified combatant commands.
April 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Well, 💩. This is not good.
A pretty little visitor is doing pest control on the pantry shelves in our garage today! Welcome, friend, and we thank you kindly. Please help yourself to any fat, juicy mice you can catch.
April 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
A pretty little visitor is doing pest control on the pantry shelves in our garage today! Welcome, friend, and we thank you kindly. Please help yourself to any fat, juicy mice you can catch.
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More Senator Booker. Less Senator Schumer. Thank you, @booker.senate.gov!
April 1, 2025 at 12:27 AM
More Senator Booker. Less Senator Schumer. Thank you, @booker.senate.gov!
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“Because, according to Secretary Hegseth, those future military officers are children and must be treated as such. These children wearing uniforms, leading other members of the military, will no longer be allowed to read books that might challenge their minds.”
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Infantilizing the Military
Hegseth is now purging military libraries
open.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“Because, according to Secretary Hegseth, those future military officers are children and must be treated as such. These children wearing uniforms, leading other members of the military, will no longer be allowed to read books that might challenge their minds.”
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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“Denial of the right to read whatever they want to is one of the most bitterly resented of all of the Soviet’s tyrannies.”
- John Steinbeck in a letter to Arthur Larson, the Director of the United States Information Agency on January 12, 1957
- John Steinbeck in a letter to Arthur Larson, the Director of the United States Information Agency on January 12, 1957
Hegseth's office ordered the U.S. Naval Academy to review all 590,000 books in its library for content at odds with an executive order banning “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools, even though it is a college. MLK, Einstein books already identified for removal www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions
The defense secretary’s office has ordered that some books be removed from circulation in its library, and the academy has ended the use of affirmative action in admissions.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
“Denial of the right to read whatever they want to is one of the most bitterly resented of all of the Soviet’s tyrannies.”
- John Steinbeck in a letter to Arthur Larson, the Director of the United States Information Agency on January 12, 1957
- John Steinbeck in a letter to Arthur Larson, the Director of the United States Information Agency on January 12, 1957
View in traffic on the Beltway (Washington, DC) yesterday. Was behind this little fellow for about 30 minutes and she/he brought me SO much joy!
March 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
View in traffic on the Beltway (Washington, DC) yesterday. Was behind this little fellow for about 30 minutes and she/he brought me SO much joy!