Salthejust
@salthejust.bsky.social
retired Info professional; would be historian, botanist, anthropologist, private eye, explorer, crocheter of hats, collector of dogs (currently owner of none). I don’t reply to personal messages from people I don’t know IRL and will block.
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Perhaps, but it is also worth noting that every major American assassination attempt is, at its core, a whiny, jealous POS with a gun. Much like all school shooters.
🗃️ For example:
John Wilkes Booth > Whiny and jealous of his more famous brother, also a total piece of shit.
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🗃️ For example:
John Wilkes Booth > Whiny and jealous of his more famous brother, also a total piece of shit.
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better to group this type of assassination (like the attempt on trump last year) with school shootings than with “political violence” as such, at least the way most people define would define such a thing
September 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Perhaps, but it is also worth noting that every major American assassination attempt is, at its core, a whiny, jealous POS with a gun. Much like all school shooters.
🗃️ For example:
John Wilkes Booth > Whiny and jealous of his more famous brother, also a total piece of shit.
🧵/
🗃️ For example:
John Wilkes Booth > Whiny and jealous of his more famous brother, also a total piece of shit.
🧵/
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"I have the right to do anything I want to do. I’m the president of the United States," he declared.
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Trump Just Said Exactly What a Dictator Would Say
The president had a despotic message for Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
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August 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
"I have the right to do anything I want to do. I’m the president of the United States," he declared.
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Trump is in the Epstein files.
Q: The DOJ is sending some of the Epstein files over to the House Oversight Committee. Are you in support of them releasing them?
TRUMP: Innocent people shouldn't be hurt. You have a lot of people that could be mentioned in those files that don't deserve to be bc he knew everybody in Palm Beach
TRUMP: Innocent people shouldn't be hurt. You have a lot of people that could be mentioned in those files that don't deserve to be bc he knew everybody in Palm Beach
August 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Trump is in the Epstein files.
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This is a terrible idea. The US absolutely must not invade Mexico on the pretense of fighting drugs. This would be yet another failed, counter-productive "Punitive Expedition" that would be 100x worse than Pershing's in 1916. #History 🗃️
“If the U.S. does this without Mexico’s consent, it will set the relationship back a hundred years,” said Todd Robinson, who served as the assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement affairs at the State Department. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/w...
Mexico’s President Says U.S. Forces Are Unwelcome in Her Country
www.nytimes.com
August 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This is a terrible idea. The US absolutely must not invade Mexico on the pretense of fighting drugs. This would be yet another failed, counter-productive "Punitive Expedition" that would be 100x worse than Pershing's in 1916. #History 🗃️
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Every new day in Florida is more embarrassing than the last. 🗃️
DeSantis Announces Launch of New Accreditor
Florida governor announced the state is launching its own accrediting body. Other states involved in the effort are Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4k8PL8s
Florida governor announced the state is launching its own accrediting body. Other states involved in the effort are Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4k8PL8s
DeSantis Announces Launch of New Accreditor
Florida governor announced the state is launching its own accrediting body. Other states involved in the effort are Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
bit.ly
June 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Every new day in Florida is more embarrassing than the last. 🗃️
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For some reason I am reminded that during the Civil War, the Confederate government allowed southern banks to include counterfeit graybacks (Confederate Treasury notes) among their assets. 🗃️
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte: “[I]n keeping with President Trump’s vision to make the United States the crypto capital of the world, today I ordered the Great Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to prepare their businesses to count cryptocurrency as an asset for a mortgage”.
June 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
For some reason I am reminded that during the Civil War, the Confederate government allowed southern banks to include counterfeit graybacks (Confederate Treasury notes) among their assets. 🗃️
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Disturbing news 🚨 the US Supreme Court just ruled the Trump admin. can resume deporting people to countries that they're not from without due process or the chance to challenge their removal in court.
This includes some of the world's most dangerous prisons in El Salvador, South Sudan, and Libya.
This includes some of the world's most dangerous prisons in El Salvador, South Sudan, and Libya.
Supreme Court allows Trump to remove migrants to South Sudan and other turmoil-filled countries | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court on Monday granted President Donald Trump’s emergency request to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their homeland, including places like South Sudan, with minimal noti...
www.cnn.com
June 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Disturbing news 🚨 the US Supreme Court just ruled the Trump admin. can resume deporting people to countries that they're not from without due process or the chance to challenge their removal in court.
This includes some of the world's most dangerous prisons in El Salvador, South Sudan, and Libya.
This includes some of the world's most dangerous prisons in El Salvador, South Sudan, and Libya.
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They were supposed to be deporting “gang members” and “criminals.”
So far, they have kidnapped people working their day jobs and folks lawfully showing up for their immigration court appearances…
It was always a lie.
So far, they have kidnapped people working their day jobs and folks lawfully showing up for their immigration court appearances…
It was always a lie.
June 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
They were supposed to be deporting “gang members” and “criminals.”
So far, they have kidnapped people working their day jobs and folks lawfully showing up for their immigration court appearances…
It was always a lie.
So far, they have kidnapped people working their day jobs and folks lawfully showing up for their immigration court appearances…
It was always a lie.
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I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope.
She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive.
But the FDA recently denied its approval.
Now, her health hangs in the balance.
Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵
She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive.
But the FDA recently denied its approval.
Now, her health hangs in the balance.
Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵
June 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope.
She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive.
But the FDA recently denied its approval.
Now, her health hangs in the balance.
Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵
She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive.
But the FDA recently denied its approval.
Now, her health hangs in the balance.
Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵
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Thanks, yes, so good to see, @civilwarmemory.bsky.social: "...visitors to NPS sites are not vindictive. They are not looking to rat out their fellow Americans, who have devoted their careers to doing the important work of protecting and interpreting our most important historical sites."🗃️
Trump's Executive Order, 'Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,' at NPS Sites is a Failure. #NationalParks 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Trump's Executive Order, 'Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,' at NPS Sites is a Failure.
There were no long lines of people at Gettysburg National Military Park’s visitor center waiting to leave negative feedback through the new QR code stations that the Interior Department recently order...
open.substack.com
June 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Thanks, yes, so good to see, @civilwarmemory.bsky.social: "...visitors to NPS sites are not vindictive. They are not looking to rat out their fellow Americans, who have devoted their careers to doing the important work of protecting and interpreting our most important historical sites."🗃️
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After years of saying we need to "preserve our history," the Trump regime is asking visitors to report "any depictions of U.S. history that 'inappropriately disparage Americans past or living." This is censorship in action and it will only become more overt over time.
🗃 #skystorians
🗃 #skystorians
Signs to police 'negative' history went up at Manzanar. Historians are nervous.
"It sends a pretty clear message that your story is not welcome here."
www.sfgate.com
June 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
After years of saying we need to "preserve our history," the Trump regime is asking visitors to report "any depictions of U.S. history that 'inappropriately disparage Americans past or living." This is censorship in action and it will only become more overt over time.
🗃 #skystorians
🗃 #skystorians
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"If you’ve ever wanted to read an academic journal article, though, you may have noticed that it costs money to download it—anywhere between $5 and $90. The article’s author isn’t getting that money."
How Much Money Do Historians Make From Their Writing?
In general, academic writing doesn’t earn you anything, and most of the time, it costs you.
contingentmagazine.org
June 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Please share far & wide - an incredibly important 🗃️🧵:
If you’re recreating at parks this weekend and through out the summer, you’ll likely run into one of these signs. They are part of out the Park Service is complying with EO 14253, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”
June 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Please share far & wide - an incredibly important 🗃️🧵:
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This is, indeed, v. cool and well worth the read 🗃️
Brighten your day. Historian rediscovers a pre-Incan method of water storage, gets money to restore the existing structures, and the town he grew up in now has access to water 10 hours a day, up from 1/2 hour per day. The details are v. cool.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
A map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon: the man who brought water back to a drought-ridden town
When historian Galo Ramón uncovered a long-forgotten pre-Incan water system in Ecuador, he set about restoring it, and helped transform the landscape and livelihoods
www.theguardian.com
June 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This is, indeed, v. cool and well worth the read 🗃️
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#OnThisDay, 15 Jun 1921, Bessie Coleman gained her pilot's license, becoming the first licensed civilian African-American pilot in the world.
Read more about her in our NEW blogpost! carvehername.org.uk/...
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory 🗃️
Read more about her in our NEW blogpost! carvehername.org.uk/...
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory 🗃️
June 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
#OnThisDay, 15 Jun 1921, Bessie Coleman gained her pilot's license, becoming the first licensed civilian African-American pilot in the world.
Read more about her in our NEW blogpost! carvehername.org.uk/...
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory 🗃️
Read more about her in our NEW blogpost! carvehername.org.uk/...
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory 🗃️
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Why do non-scholars read history, beyond entertainment? What's the point? 🗃️
A fascinating piece about researching and writing history.
#nonfiction #history
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
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#nonfiction #history
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
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A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.
www.nytimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Why do non-scholars read history, beyond entertainment? What's the point? 🗃️
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Trump administration slapped with ‘impoundment’ violation for freezing library, museum funding.
Trump administration slapped with ‘impoundment’ violation for freezing library, museum funding
The Government Accountability Office’s conclusion follows a similar finding last month for a different pot of cash.
www.politico.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Trump administration slapped with ‘impoundment’ violation for freezing library, museum funding.
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UPDATED: At this morning's press conference it was reported that there was an exchange of fire between the assailant and police before he escaped from Melissa Hortman's home.
Minnesota lawmakers shot in their homes by cop impersonator: report
(EDITOR'S NOTE) : This story will be updated as more details are released.According to a report from KSTP, two Minnesota lawmakers were ambushed in their homes overnight by an assailant dressed as a p...
www.rawstory.com
June 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
UPDATED: At this morning's press conference it was reported that there was an exchange of fire between the assailant and police before he escaped from Melissa Hortman's home.
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Pete Hegseth Vomits Out Of Tank Hatch
June 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Pete Hegseth Vomits Out Of Tank Hatch
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To the extent to which one can worry, one should.
This is not so different from the AUMF for Vietnam with the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964 ... once permitted, there it goes, potentially, in terms of escalation. And it is historic. 🗃️
This is not so different from the AUMF for Vietnam with the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964 ... once permitted, there it goes, potentially, in terms of escalation. And it is historic. 🗃️
The presidential memorandum never mentions Los Angeles or California. It’s a blank check for mobilizing National Guard and active duty troops to deploy anywhere to protect federal personnel or functions wherever protests “are occurring or are likely to occur.”
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
www.whitehouse.gov
June 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
To the extent to which one can worry, one should.
This is not so different from the AUMF for Vietnam with the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964 ... once permitted, there it goes, potentially, in terms of escalation. And it is historic. 🗃️
This is not so different from the AUMF for Vietnam with the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964 ... once permitted, there it goes, potentially, in terms of escalation. And it is historic. 🗃️
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Current status of the nomination of Donny's Place to be Pittsburgh's first LGBTQ+ historic landmark. The 120-day clock for the Pittsburgh City Council to hold a hearing runs out next month. There's been no action on the bill since 4/30. 🗃️
June 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Current status of the nomination of Donny's Place to be Pittsburgh's first LGBTQ+ historic landmark. The 120-day clock for the Pittsburgh City Council to hold a hearing runs out next month. There's been no action on the bill since 4/30. 🗃️
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Latest coverage of @medimurdermaps.bsky.social:
Noblewoman may have ordered brazen murder of priest outside St Paul’s in 1337
Historian mapping medieval murders has evidence John Ford’s stabbing was revenge hit by impenitent ex-lover
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
#History 🗃️
Noblewoman may have ordered brazen murder of priest outside St Paul’s in 1337
Historian mapping medieval murders has evidence John Ford’s stabbing was revenge hit by impenitent ex-lover
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
#History 🗃️
Noblewoman may have ordered brazen murder of priest outside St Paul’s in 1337
Historian mapping medieval murders has evidence notorious stabbing was revenge hit by impenitent ex-lover
www.theguardian.com
June 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Latest coverage of @medimurdermaps.bsky.social:
Noblewoman may have ordered brazen murder of priest outside St Paul’s in 1337
Historian mapping medieval murders has evidence John Ford’s stabbing was revenge hit by impenitent ex-lover
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
#History 🗃️
Noblewoman may have ordered brazen murder of priest outside St Paul’s in 1337
Historian mapping medieval murders has evidence John Ford’s stabbing was revenge hit by impenitent ex-lover
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
#History 🗃️