Janet Watson

Propaganda during WWI and WWII in fact

He thinks Obama was a boy band?

I’ve said it before I’ll say it again

I’ve been genuinely astounded at how quickly & effectively RFK Jr & his allies—Drs Prasad, Bhattacharya, Makary, Høeg, Oz, & Kulldorff—have been able to dismantle the US vaccination system, including vaccine R&D

I thought guardrails might slow them, but nope

Europe needs ‘emergency mindset’ to survive, warns Danish PM [FREE TO READ] Mette Frederiksen tells FT that Greenland crisis has shown the ‘old world will not come back’

“A Europe that is not able and willing to protect itself is going to die," Danish PM Mette Frederiksen tells @roulak.bsky.social and I in an interview at MSC, warning of "new world disorder"

“The old world will not come back... We need a sense of emergency in Europe"

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NATO shake-up sees US ousted from 2 warfighting-level commands - Breaking Defense The US will hand over charge of Joint Force Command Norfolk to the United Kingdom and relinquish leadership of Joint Force Command Naples to Italy.

In a stunning shift today, NATO stripped the US of all of its operational-level Joint Force Commands.

For the first time since NATO’s founding, all of these commands will be led by Europeans.

NATO no longer feels the United States can be trusted.

breakingdefense.com/2026/02/nato...

I spent a lot more time w/my mom’s side of my family, where my sister & I were the only cousins w/a different name. It felt very much my father’s name.
Still, I didn’t decide until after I married.
In the end, I chose the same name as my future kids.
But absolutely everyone should be able to choose!

The choice was between my father’s name and my husband’s name, so it was patriarchy either way.

I would like to thank the people of the Internet for allowing me to see things from their homes and gardens (even if often heavily redacted and cropped🙃) so that I, as a disabled woman, can see really cool stuff. Your cat? Show me. Your new couch? Totally. The hike? Yes, plz. I REVEL in it.

Never forget what Bill Barr did.

A catapult on the moon?
He’s been reading Robert Heinlein’s “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” again

“Math class is tough” (1992)

It was orgo in the late 1980s at Penn. Not that I took it, but it was in the vernacular on campus because of all the premeds.

That reminds me of the Le Guin short story Sur, about a group of SA women who get to the South Pole before Amundsen but tell no one and intentionally leave no trace.

Four hours without touching a button makes them think I’m not actually there apparently

Mine just did too :(

This 👇

Watergate, but if someone was killed.

This is a remarkable thread.
Just glance through it, reading the headlines - how much do you actually know?

good morning to sociologists from this historian.

So I have just read the chapter on British bombing of Germany in 1943 in @alanallport.bsky.social new book and it is one of the best pieces of historical writing I have ever read. Research, fine judgement and sensibility combined with style. History is fundamentally writing and this is a model.

"Bad luck"!!!

The ghost of Walter Cronkite is crying again

Incredible excerpt

Go to, sir, you were beaten in Italy

This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,

It also explicitly denied the franchise to men who had been conscientious objectors during the war.

can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice

Epstein affair: former Norwegian prime minister Thorbjørn Jagland under investigation for corruption The Norwegian police have announced the opening of an investigation into Thorbjørn Jagland, who led the Labour government from 1996 to 1997, on suspicion of 'aggravated corruption' in connection with his past ties to the American sex offender.

Epstein affair: former Norwegian prime minister Thorbjørn Jagland under investigation for corruption

Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”