History Notes
April 22, 1945: Adolf Hitler admits to those in his underground bunker after learning no German defense was offered to the Russian assault at Eberswalde, that the war is lost and that suicide is his only recourse.
April 22, 1970: The first Earth Day is held.
The latest from @weissmann.substack.com and Mary McCord.
Yesterday I discussed why and how the Battle of Lexington (April 19, 1775) was a community event.
Much like the attacks on We the People now.
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“For my friends everything; for my enemies the law.”
DOJ has become an instrument of authoritarianism. No more laments for what it was; or talk of “abuses”; or wishful thinking about how they can’t get away with it. They can, if not confronted across the board.
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challenging the unofficial but widespread practice of banning gay customers from bars.
April 21, 1966: In an early act of the gay liberation movement, a bar crawl begins at Julius’ Bar in New York’s West Village, in
what becomes called the “Sip-In,” Dick Leitsch, Craig Rodwell, and John Timmons publicly identify themselves as gay and demand to be served,
History Notes
April 21, 1954: A Senate subcommittee begins a two-day hearing on whether comic books cause juvenile delinquency. To avoid regulation, the industry establishes the Comics Code Authority, whose seal of approval appears on comic covers until 2011.

Hey Donnie, I have a degree in art ( and gen. art) history/museum studies
Apparently, FDA drug approval now consists of Joe Rogan texting Trump and Trump replying, “Sounds great.” Political science textbooks have not yet been updated to include this exciting new model of governance (also known as dictatorship.)
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This is interesting though odd. Looked at the job ads sent to me. They included ones looking for lawyers and an open position for a psychiatrist. Seriously, folks. Read the resume.
History Notes
April 20, 1999: Two teenage gunman murder thirteen in a mass shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.
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Page proof screenshot from MIT Press "A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World: Responding to the Global Climate Emergency"
Friends, @alixhui.bsky.social and I and 70+ historians have been working on this gigantic project for three years and it finally feels like it's going to be real.
Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros:
Paramount+
CBS
CNN
Showtime
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Warner Bros
TNT
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This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped.
State AGs must step in and block it.
Will do. Thanks.
Add me to the “Yes, please” contingent.
Paul’s spot on.
Woke up this morning feeling a bit odd, so I added the transcripts to all the Nuremberg trials, volumes 1-22, to my collection. Seemed the least destructive thing to do.
Don’t know what I did for Instagram to tweak my algorithm or if they did it on their own, but I love that I’m getting more older music videos. You know, like Ella Fitzgerald. Oh and tho not music related, but Cary Grant popped up twice. One of the best actors ever.
This was shit we were fighting twenty years ago. More than that, actually.
Do you know if it’s streaming anywhere or will be?
On the “strategic incompetence” of the DJT regime.
Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, causing the collapse of the north face of the nine-story building, instantly killing more than 100 people and trapping dozens more.
History Notes
April 19, 1775: The American Revolution begins with the Battle of Lexington.
April 19, 1945: The Warsaw Ghetto uprising begins.
April 19, 1995: A truck bomb explodes outside the Alfred P.
