Fran Davis
@frandavis7.bsky.social
Business Owner | Family History Buff | Notion and YNAB Lover | Proud New Jerseyan
The whitewashing of history
Pentagon has been ordering the removal of web site references to General Colin Powell and the Tuskegee Airmen and one of the flag-raisers at Iwo Jima as part of a crackdown on DEI. Have you no shame Pete Hegseth?(hat tip to Task and Purpose, WaPo for reporting) youtube.com/shorts/0HJpe...
Pentagon removes web references to Colin Powell and others as part of DEI purge. Have you no shame?
YouTube video by Jim Acosta
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March 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The whitewashing of history
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Something to think about
March 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Something to think about
Nope. Not at my store.
Trump: "The price of eggs is down 35 percent in the last week and a half. We're doing a good job."
March 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Nope. Not at my store.
Step 1 of the journey to write a book about my father: Load all documents I have into my custom-built Notion system. For a period of about 3 yrs - starting when my dad was serving in the Korean War - my parents wrote letters to each other almost every day. I have lots process!
#genealogy #notionapp
#genealogy #notionapp
March 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Step 1 of the journey to write a book about my father: Load all documents I have into my custom-built Notion system. For a period of about 3 yrs - starting when my dad was serving in the Korean War - my parents wrote letters to each other almost every day. I have lots process!
#genealogy #notionapp
#genealogy #notionapp
Just added @notion.com AI to my workspace and am thrilled with its ability to create ancestor narratives based on all the data I have added #familyhistory
March 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Just added @notion.com AI to my workspace and am thrilled with its ability to create ancestor narratives based on all the data I have added #familyhistory
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President Donald Trump’s plan to cut the size of the federal government reached into Pennsylvania over the weekend with employees being dismissed at several national parks.
Trump’s federal firings reach Independence Mall and other Pennsylvania national historic sites
Workers also were dismissed at Gettysburg National Military Park and Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton.
inquirer.com
February 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
President Donald Trump’s plan to cut the size of the federal government reached into Pennsylvania over the weekend with employees being dismissed at several national parks.
Thank you @andykimnj.bsky.social!
Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out.
This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.
This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.
February 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Thank you @andykimnj.bsky.social!
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NEWS
Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz says he’s putting a blanket hold on all of President Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is back up and running.
Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz says he’s putting a blanket hold on all of President Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is back up and running.
Exclusive | Democratic Senator Says He Will Block Trump Nominees Until USAID Is Back
The move would require Senate Majority Leader John Thune to use precious floor time to advance the president’s nominees through the confirmation process.
bit.ly
February 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
NEWS
Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz says he’s putting a blanket hold on all of President Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is back up and running.
Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz says he’s putting a blanket hold on all of President Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is back up and running.
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Never forget.
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Never forget.
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Don't give up - do something. A great list for civic minded Americans, from @protectdemocracy.org
open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
How *you* can protect democracy
29 concrete actions you can take right now to protect our system of government
open.substack.com
January 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Don't give up - do something. A great list for civic minded Americans, from @protectdemocracy.org
open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
With my cup of Chai in hand I am excited to crack open my new #familyhistory book that examines what drives family historians and whether they have distinct personality traits. #genealogy
January 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
With my cup of Chai in hand I am excited to crack open my new #familyhistory book that examines what drives family historians and whether they have distinct personality traits. #genealogy
“The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.” - Jimmy Carter 1924-2024
December 30, 2024 at 12:34 AM
“The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.” - Jimmy Carter 1924-2024
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
December 20, 2024 at 12:11 PM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
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Don't look away
I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.”
The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.
The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.
December 20, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Don't look away
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Retain faith in our democracy
December 19, 2024 at 6:03 AM
Retain faith in our democracy
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As we confront a second Trump presidency, here’s a path forward: 🧵
December 19, 2024 at 6:27 PM
As we confront a second Trump presidency, here’s a path forward: 🧵
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Choose empathy. Read.
December 6, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Choose empathy. Read.
Overall, Mexico makes up about 70% of U.S. vegetable imports and 50% percent of U.S. fresh fruit imports. This is going to hurt.
So Donald Trump wants to deport millions of immigrants - and KILL the H-2A visa for temporary farm workers
Then he wants to place a 25% tariff tax on all Mexican goods - when we import over $17 BILLION of food a year from Mexico
Your grocery bill is going to TRIPLE under Trump
Then he wants to place a 25% tariff tax on all Mexican goods - when we import over $17 BILLION of food a year from Mexico
Your grocery bill is going to TRIPLE under Trump
December 5, 2024 at 1:10 AM
Overall, Mexico makes up about 70% of U.S. vegetable imports and 50% percent of U.S. fresh fruit imports. This is going to hurt.
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“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.
They run them bc people react to them the most.
If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.
It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
They run them bc people react to them the most.
If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.
It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
December 2, 2024 at 6:19 PM
“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.
They run them bc people react to them the most.
If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.
It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
They run them bc people react to them the most.
If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.
It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
“…the crucial element in South Korea was the reaction of citizens themselves…It was more the general sense throughout the country that this is not possible here, that we are not this kind of society, that we will have a republic and not a dictatorship. Do Americans have those reflexes?
What can Americans learn from Yoon Suk Yeol's less-than-a-day dictatorship?
snyder.substack.com/p/dictators-...
snyder.substack.com/p/dictators-...
Dictators for a Day
South Korea and America
snyder.substack.com
December 4, 2024 at 8:29 PM
“…the crucial element in South Korea was the reaction of citizens themselves…It was more the general sense throughout the country that this is not possible here, that we are not this kind of society, that we will have a republic and not a dictatorship. Do Americans have those reflexes?