Phil

Phil

@historien.bsky.social

Historian by education and techie by choice. Serial craft enthusiast with more unfinished projects than Leonardo DaVinci. I love my home among the hills and anything else you can ask.

116 Followers 94 Following 45 Posts Joined Dec 2024
8 months ago

If you’re looking to voice your concerns to your Congressional leaders, I’d recommend 5calls. It gives you the direct phone number (bypass the switchboard), a basic script, and all the talking points. I use it and it makes the process so much easier to succinctly voice concerns.

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Emperor Donnie Depends. Since he wanted to be a Sith yesterday, I thought I’d give him an accurate depiction. Don’t you just love AI?

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1 year ago
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I’m not saying push them into the sea. I’m just saying the Boston Cyber Rave sounds kind of cool.

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Bernie Sanders: "I'm gonna vote no. I think the American people are sick and tired of Elon Musk, the richest guy in the world, running around, slashing Social Security, veterans programs. That Republicans are moving for massive tax breaks and cutting Medicaid ... you gotta draw a line."

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Free Mahmoud Khalil and protect students exercising their First Amendment rights! Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the rig...

Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the right for students to organize and protest. sign.moveon.org/petitions/fr...

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1 year ago

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.

What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

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Let this sink in.

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United States v. Fred C. Trump, Donald Trump, and Trump Management, Inc. 1:73-01529 (E.D.N.Y.) | Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse index,follow

Just leaving this here.

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1 year ago

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

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A picture of a tweet from Auschwitz Memorial saying:
"Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. 

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time."

Important words from the Auschwitz Memorial - courtesy of "the other place".
@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

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1 year ago

It’s freezing here tonight. Please keep us in your prayers. I think all my friends and family are safe and dry, but I know some aren’t so lucky.

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A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority. - Booker T. Washington, American educator, author, and orator.

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Doesn’t treason carry the death penalty? Trump and Musk probably should have thought that through more. As a historian, I can’t imagine that’ll end well for them.

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Mitch McConnell using a wheelchair after falling down stairs at the Capitol A spokesman for McConnell said the 82-year-old senator is "fine" and using a wheelchair “purely as a precautionary measure."

Can we get age limits on Congress now? These dinosaurs are a threat to the nation and themselves at this point.

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More of this please. Absolutely brilliant. No backing down, no going backwards. @repjasmine.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov

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1 year ago

🔨🔨🔨

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Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

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The image features the star cluster NGC 602, which comprises a giant ring of dust clouds, colored in green, yellow, blue and orange. The green hues and feathery edges create the appearance of a crown of evergreen branches. Hints of red, representing X-rays, provide shading, highlighting the inner layers.
The image is illuminated by dots and blobs of colored light, in shades of blue, gold, white, orange and red, representing the stars within the cluster. Some lights shine with diffraction spikes, others emit a diffuse glow. Many of the bright dots have spiral arms, indicating that they are, in fact, distant galaxies.

🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #JWST🧵
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This tantalizing vibrant color image (released in Dec. 2024) of the young star cluster NGC 602 uses Chandra X-ray data (in red) and JWST data (in various infrared colors).

Reference➡️ chandra.cfa.harvard.edu/photo/2024/n...

The combined use of X-rays and infrared

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Of course it’s a coup Miss the obvious, lose your republic

This is a coup similar to the Nazi takeover of Germany. After a failed violent insurrection the Nazis resolved to pretend to be a legitimate political party with the intentions of dismantling democracy piece by piece at a rapid pace. Blitzkrieg Politik.

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Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.

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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement, best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
She would have 112 today.

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Trump says Palestinians should permanently leave Gaza as he meets with Netanyahu – live — Guardian US Hamas official says Trump comments ‘a recipe for creating chaos’; Trump earlier signed executive order to withdraw US from UN human rights council

Trump should leave the US, he’s an embarrassment.

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Treasury Dept. gives Elon Musk's team access to federal payment system: Sources If Elon Musk or his DOGE team were to attempt to block federal payments, it would likely face legal challenges given the money is approved by Congress.

I’ve heard from quite a few people that are concerned by this. To be clear, the “waste” he is talking about is spending people’s hard earned money on deserving legal citizens and not on his illegal immigrant bum. This is moving fast towards kleptocracy.

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If I hear someone say they’ve “done their own research.”, all I hear is “I’m the poster child for the Dunning-Kruger Effect.”

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Elon Musk said Donald Trump agreed USAID needs to be ‘shut down’ | CNN Politics Elon Musk said President Donald Trump agreed the US Agency for International Development needs to be “shut down,” following days of speculation over the future of the agency after its funding was froz...

They’re already criminals but now they want to add crimes against humanity to their long list. All so they can pocket more of our tax dollars in companies that Musk stole and is now running into the ground.

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The Tuskegee Airmen was a group of primarily African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II. The group was awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The they received praise for their excellent combat record protecting American bombers from enemy fighters.

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She also made a great point about dismissing what he said he’d do. He did it the first time with the Muslim ban, what made people think he wouldn’t do it again? He’s a crook and a degenerate, the only lies he tells are ones to protect himself.

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