Also, putting tariffs on a US military base...
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List of countries and territories that are being hit with US tariffs. Highlighted is a tariff on the Heard and McDonald Island chains which don’t have any humans there.

Loooooool

I had to look this up to make sure it was real.

There is a 10% reciprocal tax on Heard and McDonald Islands.

These are islands that form part of the Australian territory.

Heard Island in fact has Australia’s active volcano and tallest mountain.

Both islands …. are uninhabited lmao.

Wikipedia image of Major General (Ret.) Charles C. Rogers

Defense.gov google return: Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers

Defense.gov 404 - Page Not Found

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.

Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

A whole table of food and a bunch of my son’s friends who politely take off their shoes at the back door. Makes my mamma heart happy 💙

…all while clutching her pearls.

Me, to practically everyone at work, at the end of the day: “Nat, the Indian boy, was judged to be free!!”
Them: “Who?”
Me: “The court case I was following (transcribing) from 1777”
#historythings #museumwork #publichistory

Perfect word for him...

Nice!!! And I appreciate that you put a good gravy on this instead of some sad shrimp with goopy cheese (like a damn chain restaurant would do)

aaaand now it all makes sense

If you are a specialist in proper grill marks you’re the Char Czar..

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.

The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.

It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

Perhaps you’ve never had to tell your child why you think they have cancer. Like the story’s subject, I have, and it is an unanswerable question just like she said. Also, it cost nothing for you to scroll the hell on.

DEI is when a woman or non-white person who is qualified for a job receives that job. The meritocracy is when a 19 year old gets to run the United States government because he posted the dankest memes

This is a good time to remind people that there is no evidence that history educators are indoctrinating students. They are doing their job. 🗃️ www.historians.org/teaching-lea...

Guys like joe rogan are funny because they still think smoking weed that they buy legally from places that look like an apple store makes them hunter s thompson

Nothing quite like quoting a felonious President as your touchstone 🤦‍♀️ Now I’m probably going to have to look up the quote and the context, because CB Vance probably screwed it up. Also, gtfoh with attacking hard working professors.

You didn’t follow me, but I would be beyond thrilled if you followed me here! I mostly share food and public history stuff.

And people with bad penmanship were kind of far more common than people with perfect “Round Hand” or “Copperplate.” But get a long enough letter and the ability to zoom in on certain parts, you can suss out the words. Wording is a whole other thing that varies by time period…

I would like to point out, to all the comments saying that reading cursive is easy…penmanship in different time periods was, well, different. I can read 18th c penmanship (mostly) like a pro because I took lessons in cutting quills, analyzing paper, and forming the letters with quill and ink.

two men are sitting next to each other in a garden . ALT: two men are sitting next to each other in a garden .

So the Americans have been on Rednote for less than 48 hours and the friendly Chinese creators are already teaching them Mandarin and also that communism is actually a good thing.

All because the US government told them that Chinese apps were “dangerous” so everyone got it out of spite.

If hits different when you’re a blacksmith 🤷‍♀️

He’s probably going to order one of these for every major American city…🤪🤦‍♀️

The reporter “do you live in this area?” 😂

This was such a pivotal case—both for Black Americans and Indigenous Americans (Mildred Loving was Black and Rappahanock)
Also, eff Walter Plecker

We will either get 1 inch of snow or 100 inches, in the next couple of days.

No one knows 🤷‍♀️😂
#accordingtolocalfacebookpeeps

The most random/frightening thing I saw at the antique mall, today.
Ho, ho, hell no 😬🤪

Time to step it up, 2025

That was beautifully written—thank you for sharing this.
My condolences to you and your family 💙