@jellesimons.bsky.social

Dutch journalist and historian. Based in NY. Emotional Support European for my American wife 🇪🇺🇺🇸 Posts in Dutch & English. Also: Rotterdammer 🇳🇱

1,692 Followers 3,075 Following 349 Posts Joined Nov 2024
11 months ago
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Ok, who made this?

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11 months ago
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Ok, who made this…

#trump #musk

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11 months ago

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.

Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

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11 months ago

Welcome, Ulaș

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11 months ago
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I had heard legend of large cents in the mid 1800s being turned into washers when the price of washers rose above 1 cent, but have never seen any actual evidence until I found this one. Has clearly been used as a washer, and you can just make out the "UNI" in UNITED STATES.

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11 months ago
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Nothing to see here. Move along now.

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11 months ago
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It's a two post day today because it's a dual holiday! At least in the Boston area. How many people know about Evacuation Day? In 1901, it was declared a holiday in Boston on the 125th anniversary of the British being driven out of Boston during the Revolution. This token was found on a Maine farm

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I'm all set up here at Goranson Farm for Maine Maple Sunday. They're just starting to boil the Maple, it's smelling pretty great here! Come by and check it put. Here until 4pm at 250 River Rd Dresden Maine

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🇨🇿 President Petr Pavel is visiting Ukraine, after meeting with officials in Odesa to talk about further support for the region. He arrived in Kyiv this morning to meet with President Zelensky and Prime Minister Shmyhal.

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1 year ago

Opportunities for Ukraine during a 30 day ceasefire should it take place:
- rotate some forces off the line for much needed rest
- dig in and improve defensive line
- fix to the extent possible destroyed critical infrastructure
- build more drones
- double down on new recruit training 🧵

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1 year ago

One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?

They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.

That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.

The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff

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1 year ago
CLAIM YOUR POWER STOP THE COUP MARCH ON WASHINGTON
03.14.25 NOON
3.14
NOW DC
CAPITOL PROTEST AGAINST OUR UNCONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT NATIONALMALL Betweeb 4th &  6TH

Calling for immediate action against the destruction of our democracy on March 14th with #NOWDC #StopTheCoup #ClaimYourPower #USProtests #MarchOnWashingtonDC

Capitol protest against our unconstitutional government.

Please share and/or donate NowMarch.org

@jessicadenson07.bsky.social

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1 year ago
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JOIN US!

MARCH ON WASHINGTON 3.14.25

nowmarch.org

PLEASE REPOST!

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1 year ago

Veterans March

Friday March 14th

Noon

Washington DC & Every State Capitol

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CLAIM YOUR POWER. STOP THE COUP.

NATIONAL MARCH 
WASHINGTON, D.C.

3.14
NOW
DC

03.14.25
NOON

NATIONAL MALL
BETWEEN 4TH & 6TH

INFO & SIGN-UP 
NOWMARCH.ORG

To folks with a big platform:
PLEASE help INFORM people of all REAL ACTION they can take as part of the RESISTANCE/FIGHT against the dystopic trumPutian regime.

The upcoming
Washington DC protest,
on March 14th,
needs to be MASSIVE!

Veterans will be attending,
as should EVERYONE who can get there.

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1 year ago
A large crowd gathers at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., promoting a national march on March 14, 2025, with flags displayed.

Call to action: National March on Washington, DC starting at noon at the national mall on March 14.

"Claim your power. Stop the coup."

#3E #USprotest #MAR14

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1 year ago

On Saturday March 15, Americans should march on Washington to demand that the takeover of the federal government by unelected billionaires should end immediately. 20 days from today the American People have a chance to collectively inform our government that we the people are the ones in power.

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1 year ago
A spiral galaxy seen face-on. Broken spiral arms made of blue patches of stars and thin strands of dark dust swirl around the galaxy’s centre, forming a broad, circular disc. An extended circular halo surrounds the disc. The centre is a brightly-glowing, stubby bar-shaped area in a pale yellow colour. A bright star in our own galaxy, with long cross-shaped diffraction spikes, is visible atop the distant galaxy.

📷 This NASA/ESA #Hubble Space Telescope image shows spiral galaxy NGC 4900 and a prominent star. They appear to be close to each other, but the star is in our own galaxy, a mere 7109 light-years away, and the galaxy is about 45 million light-years away 🔭

esahubble.org/images/potw2...

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1 year ago
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New Yorkers on keeping their streets clean.

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1 year ago
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Painful typo. Pun intended.

#trump

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1 year ago
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Let’s Create “Town Hall Night in America” It’s time for Democrats to institutionalize our oldest form of democracy

"town hall night in america" -- every congressional district, once a month, all on the same night:

oldgoats.substack.com/p/lets-creat...

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1 year ago
CANNON BALL
SEA-TO-SHINING SEA
MEMORIAL TROPHY DASH
PARTICIPANT 1979

my dad was in the Cannonball Run (the real race the movie was based on) and got this trophy

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1 year ago

Hear hear

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1 year ago
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Not one...😉😅

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1 year ago
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It took 2 months, but people are waking up and smelling the coffee - which, as an import commodity, could be tariffed 25% when the Clown in Chief feels like it.

That said, although his approval rating isn’t plummeting as fast as Tesla’s stock price, things are moving in the right direction.

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1 year ago
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No lies here.

#trump

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1 year ago
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48 years ago
Iggy Pop, Nancy Spungen, Cyrinda Foxe and David Bowie at the Ocean Club, NYC. March 1977.

Photo by Bob Gruen

#punk #punkrock #rocklegend #newyorkcity #history #punkrockhistory

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1 year ago
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Seen in Canada…

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1 year ago
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Meanwhile in Germany...

#musk #trump

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