Janice Blake
@janiceblake.bsky.social
Reader. Writer. "The Battalion Artist" traces Nat Bellantoni's World War II odyssey in the Pacific. Next up, my Uncle Joe's #WWII experiences in the Atlantic. From service on the legendary USS Wichita to Lighter Than Air sailor, Lakehurst NJ blimp base.
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More beautiful orchids from NW Sicily in April 2019 (those days before we'd ever heard of Covid). Ophrys bombyliflora, Ophrys tenthredinifera, Ophrys x fernandii, Orchis papilionacea. @europeanorchids.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
More beautiful orchids from NW Sicily in April 2019 (those days before we'd ever heard of Covid). Ophrys bombyliflora, Ophrys tenthredinifera, Ophrys x fernandii, Orchis papilionacea. @europeanorchids.bsky.social
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AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
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time can be a great healer
not that Diego Rivera wasn’t a great painter as well, but how the tables have turned since “Wife of the Master Mural Painter Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art”
www.openculture.com/2025/01/a-19...
not that Diego Rivera wasn’t a great painter as well, but how the tables have turned since “Wife of the Master Mural Painter Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art”
www.openculture.com/2025/01/a-19...
November 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
time can be a great healer
not that Diego Rivera wasn’t a great painter as well, but how the tables have turned since “Wife of the Master Mural Painter Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art”
www.openculture.com/2025/01/a-19...
not that Diego Rivera wasn’t a great painter as well, but how the tables have turned since “Wife of the Master Mural Painter Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art”
www.openculture.com/2025/01/a-19...
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As vehicles get heavier, taller, and deadlier, more pedestrians are being killed than ever before.
You can type in the name of your town or city, and this interactive @washingtonpost.com feature will show you where clusters of pedestrian deaths are.
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You can type in the name of your town or city, and this interactive @washingtonpost.com feature will show you where clusters of pedestrian deaths are.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
As vehicles get heavier, taller, and deadlier, more pedestrians are being killed than ever before.
You can type in the name of your town or city, and this interactive @washingtonpost.com feature will show you where clusters of pedestrian deaths are.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
You can type in the name of your town or city, and this interactive @washingtonpost.com feature will show you where clusters of pedestrian deaths are.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Top Ten Magazine Covers wwiimemorialfriends.org/blog/top-ten... Thank you Alex Kershaw and Friends of the World War II Memorial for taking us back...via these magazine covers...to a time when American's hardworking, strength, idealism, and willingness to sacrifice truly saved the world.
Top Ten Magazine Covers
Magazines flourished and offered iconic images and reporting during WWII.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Top Ten Magazine Covers wwiimemorialfriends.org/blog/top-ten... Thank you Alex Kershaw and Friends of the World War II Memorial for taking us back...via these magazine covers...to a time when American's hardworking, strength, idealism, and willingness to sacrifice truly saved the world.
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These posters started popping up ahead of next week’s We Ain’t Buying It boycott.
From Nov 27 - Dec 1, folks are stepping back from corporate chains like Target, Home Depot, and Amazon. People are done being squeezed, so they are using the leverage of their wallets 💥
From Nov 27 - Dec 1, folks are stepping back from corporate chains like Target, Home Depot, and Amazon. People are done being squeezed, so they are using the leverage of their wallets 💥
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
These posters started popping up ahead of next week’s We Ain’t Buying It boycott.
From Nov 27 - Dec 1, folks are stepping back from corporate chains like Target, Home Depot, and Amazon. People are done being squeezed, so they are using the leverage of their wallets 💥
From Nov 27 - Dec 1, folks are stepping back from corporate chains like Target, Home Depot, and Amazon. People are done being squeezed, so they are using the leverage of their wallets 💥
www.wwiimemorialfriends.org/blog/top-ten...
Thank you Alex Kershaw and Friends of the World War II Memorial for taking us back...via these magazine covers...to a time when American's hardworking, strength, idealism, and willingness to sacrifice truly saved the world.
Thank you Alex Kershaw and Friends of the World War II Memorial for taking us back...via these magazine covers...to a time when American's hardworking, strength, idealism, and willingness to sacrifice truly saved the world.
Top Ten Magazine Covers
Magazines flourished and offered iconic images and reporting during WWII.
www.wwiimemorialfriends.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
www.wwiimemorialfriends.org/blog/top-ten...
Thank you Alex Kershaw and Friends of the World War II Memorial for taking us back...via these magazine covers...to a time when American's hardworking, strength, idealism, and willingness to sacrifice truly saved the world.
Thank you Alex Kershaw and Friends of the World War II Memorial for taking us back...via these magazine covers...to a time when American's hardworking, strength, idealism, and willingness to sacrifice truly saved the world.
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A House panel is holding a hearing on a proposed ban on Congressional stock trading.
This ban is long overdue. Why should members of Congress be able to use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you?
This ban is long overdue. Why should members of Congress be able to use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you?
November 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A House panel is holding a hearing on a proposed ban on Congressional stock trading.
This ban is long overdue. Why should members of Congress be able to use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you?
This ban is long overdue. Why should members of Congress be able to use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you?
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OTD in 1863 President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. The other speaker at the ceremony, Edward Everett, told the president, "I wish that I could flatter myself that I had come as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes."
November 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
OTD in 1863 President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. The other speaker at the ceremony, Edward Everett, told the president, "I wish that I could flatter myself that I had come as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes."
‘This World of Tomorrow’ Review: Tom Hanks Is Back in Town www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/t...
"And the show...has a staunch sense of who the bad guys were... (Nazis, xenophobes), who was wrongly shut out in the land of opportunity (Black Americans) and who was to be given help (new arrivals)."
"And the show...has a staunch sense of who the bad guys were... (Nazis, xenophobes), who was wrongly shut out in the land of opportunity (Black Americans) and who was to be given help (new arrivals)."
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November 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
‘This World of Tomorrow’ Review: Tom Hanks Is Back in Town www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/t...
"And the show...has a staunch sense of who the bad guys were... (Nazis, xenophobes), who was wrongly shut out in the land of opportunity (Black Americans) and who was to be given help (new arrivals)."
"And the show...has a staunch sense of who the bad guys were... (Nazis, xenophobes), who was wrongly shut out in the land of opportunity (Black Americans) and who was to be given help (new arrivals)."
It's not until you start reading that you realize "Black History" IS American History. You can't understand the way things are unless you know how things were.
November 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
It's not until you start reading that you realize "Black History" IS American History. You can't understand the way things are unless you know how things were.
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On this day in 1942, the Book of the Month Club announced that it had chosen "Guadalcanal Diary" by war correspondent Richard Tregaskis as its dual selection for February 1943, along with Norman Angell's "Let the People Know."
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November 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
On this day in 1942, the Book of the Month Club announced that it had chosen "Guadalcanal Diary" by war correspondent Richard Tregaskis as its dual selection for February 1943, along with Norman Angell's "Let the People Know."
rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2022/09/rich...
rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2022/09/rich...
Trump Administration Announces Steps to Dismantle Education Department www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
“Secretary McMahon is creating a bureaucratic Rube Goldberg machine that will waste millions of taxpayer dollars by outsourcing vital programs to other agencies.”
“Secretary McMahon is creating a bureaucratic Rube Goldberg machine that will waste millions of taxpayer dollars by outsourcing vital programs to other agencies.”
Trump Administration Announces Steps to Dismantle Education Department
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November 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Trump Administration Announces Steps to Dismantle Education Department www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
“Secretary McMahon is creating a bureaucratic Rube Goldberg machine that will waste millions of taxpayer dollars by outsourcing vital programs to other agencies.”
“Secretary McMahon is creating a bureaucratic Rube Goldberg machine that will waste millions of taxpayer dollars by outsourcing vital programs to other agencies.”
Israeli Airstrike on Refugee Camp in Lebanon Kills at Least 13, Ministry Says www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/w...
With Gaza laid waste, Israel turns it attention to Lebanon.
With Gaza laid waste, Israel turns it attention to Lebanon.
Israeli Airstrike on Refugee Camp in Lebanon Kills at Least 13, Ministry Says
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November 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Israeli Airstrike on Refugee Camp in Lebanon Kills at Least 13, Ministry Says www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/w...
With Gaza laid waste, Israel turns it attention to Lebanon.
With Gaza laid waste, Israel turns it attention to Lebanon.
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How do they justify calling Mamdani a "jihadist" and an "terrorist" but be ok with Mohammed bin Salman sitting in the White House getting treated like a God?
November 19, 2025 at 10:20 AM
How do they justify calling Mamdani a "jihadist" and an "terrorist" but be ok with Mohammed bin Salman sitting in the White House getting treated like a God?
Trump Said to Authorize C.I.A. Plans for Covert Action in Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
BAD IDEA! Countless numbers of the "illegal aliens" Trump calls "the worst of the worst" came here were fleeing the chaos/terror caused in their countries by previous C.I.A. operations.
BAD IDEA! Countless numbers of the "illegal aliens" Trump calls "the worst of the worst" came here were fleeing the chaos/terror caused in their countries by previous C.I.A. operations.
Trump Said to Authorize C.I.A. Plans for Covert Action in Venezuela
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November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Trump Said to Authorize C.I.A. Plans for Covert Action in Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
BAD IDEA! Countless numbers of the "illegal aliens" Trump calls "the worst of the worst" came here were fleeing the chaos/terror caused in their countries by previous C.I.A. operations.
BAD IDEA! Countless numbers of the "illegal aliens" Trump calls "the worst of the worst" came here were fleeing the chaos/terror caused in their countries by previous C.I.A. operations.
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A Mama bear and her four cubs ✨🐻✨🐻✨🐻✨🐻✨🐻✨
📹 Gregory B. Balvin/gregbalvin
📹 Gregory B. Balvin/gregbalvin
November 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
A Mama bear and her four cubs ✨🐻✨🐻✨🐻✨🐻✨🐻✨
📹 Gregory B. Balvin/gregbalvin
📹 Gregory B. Balvin/gregbalvin
www.wwiimemorialfriends.org/blog/top-ten... you Alex Kershaw and Friends of the World War II Memorial for taking us back...via these magazines...to time when American's hardworking, strength, idealism, and willingness to sacrifice truly saved the world.
www.wwiimemorialfriends.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
www.wwiimemorialfriends.org/blog/top-ten... you Alex Kershaw and Friends of the World War II Memorial for taking us back...via these magazines...to time when American's hardworking, strength, idealism, and willingness to sacrifice truly saved the world.
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A Native American leader who enlisted in the Union Army has been posthumously admitted to the New York bar after 176 years www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/u... #ushistory #nativeamerican
A Native American leader who enlisted in the Union Army has been posthumously admitted to the New York bar after 176 years | CNN
Ely S. Parker, a Tonawanda Seneca from western New York, never took no for an answer.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
A Native American leader who enlisted in the Union Army has been posthumously admitted to the New York bar after 176 years www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/u... #ushistory #nativeamerican
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Coming April 7, 2026 from the @unmpress.bsky.social: Paperback version of my biography about noted Vietnam War correspondent Malcolm W. Browne.
November 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Coming April 7, 2026 from the @unmpress.bsky.social: Paperback version of my biography about noted Vietnam War correspondent Malcolm W. Browne.
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www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/n...
Seriously? The man has absolutely no moral compass. '
And let's not forget: the Trump organization has just completed plans on a huge R.E. project in Saudi Arabia.
Conflict of interest?
Blatant corruption?
Seriously? The man has absolutely no moral compass. '
And let's not forget: the Trump organization has just completed plans on a huge R.E. project in Saudi Arabia.
Conflict of interest?
Blatant corruption?
Trump dismisses criticism of Saudi crown prince over 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, says ‘things happen’ - The Boston Globe
The president said the crown prince “knew nothing about it” and said of Khashoggi that “a lot of people didn’t like that gentleman.”
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November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/n...
Seriously? The man has absolutely no moral compass. '
And let's not forget: the Trump organization has just completed plans on a huge R.E. project in Saudi Arabia.
Conflict of interest?
Blatant corruption?
Seriously? The man has absolutely no moral compass. '
And let's not forget: the Trump organization has just completed plans on a huge R.E. project in Saudi Arabia.
Conflict of interest?
Blatant corruption?