Barb Pollak

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic.

When the fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

Wow, Sean McDonough. Way to be a total putz.

Description of Executive Order 9066, order individuals of Japanese Ancestry in designated "military areas" be forcibly removed from their homes and placed in incarceration camps.

Today, in shameful, yet timely U.S. History:

so tesla board meetings are basically raves with no music no dancing and the most boring people on earth

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I wrote 1500 words today on a new manuscript. In these times, that feels like a victory against the darkness.

Plus, it felt REALLY good.

Dumb suggestion, but has anyone thought about calling 911 and reporting Elon Musk for B&E?

I mean...come ON.

We all knew this would happen—YOU knew it would happen—SO WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SOMETHING THEN?

This is on you and on every major media outlet who refused to call his behavior EXACTLY what it was.

Correct. And when he accused Biden and Harris and the Democrats of seeking to destroy the country, he was engaging in pure psychological projection.

Incredibly proud of every member of the government refusing access to Musk. It’s very important to remember and circulate widely that departments of government are created by congress, not presidential whims. Musk is breaking the law. These people are defending the government from criminal acts.

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Today in U.S. History (cont)

2009: "RuPaul's Drag Race" hosted by RuPaul premieres on Logo TV

2021: US President Joe Biden signs executive orders to reunite immigrant families, setting up a new taskforce to address around 1000 remaining separated families

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Today in U.S. History (cont):

1954: President Eisenhower announces detonation of world's 1st hydrogen bomb (tested in 1952)

1973: "The Midnight Special" late night rock music show debuts on NBC; performers include Ike & Tina Turner, Curtis Mayfield, Don Mclean, the Byrds, & George Carlin

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Today in U.S. History (cont):

1942: LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans

1954: "The Nutcracker" ballet choreographed by George Balanchine with Maria Tallchief as the Sugar Plum Fairy opens in New York, establishes its popularity in the US

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Today in U.S. History (cont):

1923: US signs friendship treaty with Central American countries

1935: Leonarde Keeler first uses his polygraph machine on criminals, who are later convicted of assault based on its findings in Portage, Wisconsin

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Today in U.S. History:

1848: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican–American War. Mexico loses 55 percent of its territory to the US, including California, Nevada and Utah in exchange for $15 million.

1887: First Groundhog Day observed at Gobbler's Knob, Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania

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The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

Unfortunately, I believe it. People have become so indoctrinated into following rigid adherence to their own principles, that any sort of moderate or centrist compromise is akin to submission for them. (LOOKING AT YOU ON THE EXTREME LEFT.)

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Today in U.S. History (cont:)

1965: Martin Luther King Jr. and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma, Alabama

1978: Harriet Tubman is 1st African American woman to be honored on a US postage stamp 3/3

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Today in U.S. History (cont):

1871: Jefferson Long of Georgia is first African American to make an official speech in US House of Representatives (opposing leniency to former Confederates)

1914: Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed 2/3

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Welcome to today's installment of Today in U.S. History:

1810: 1st insurance company managed by African Americans, The African Insurance Company opens in Philadelphia

1861: Texas secedes from the Union (which precipitates the American Civil War) 1/3

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

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Today in U.S. History (cont):

2024 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and social media companies Discord, TikTok, X and Snap reprimanded before a US congressional hearing for not doing enough to protect children online 3/3

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Today in U.S. History (cont):

2017 Donald Tr*mp fires Attorney General Sally Yates after she instructs Justice Department officials not to defend Tr*mp's travel ban 2/3

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Today in U.S. History:

1863 1st black Civil War regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, mustered into US Army

1865 Congress passes, by a vote of 121-24, the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, abolishing slavery in the United States 1/3

I know the world's on fire and Elon's trying to get into the Treasury (DUDE, REALLY?) but I've got to share the subject line of this R I received for a short story simply because it was so mind-boggling:

"Great work but..."

(Punctuation accurate.)

The rest of the email was similarly...something.

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Making America Great Again!

It’s absolutely appalling, yet not at all surprising, sadly.

These assholes, I swear.

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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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