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Salthejust

@salthejust.bsky.social
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retired Info professional; would be historian, botanist, anthropologist, private eye, explorer, crocheter of hats, collector of dogs (currently owner of none). I don’t reply to personal messages from people I don’t know IRL and will block.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Perhaps, but it is also worth noting that every major American assassination attempt is, at its core, a whiny, jealous POS with a gun. Much like all school shooters. 🗃️ For example: John Wilkes Booth > Whiny and jealous of his more famous brother, also a total piece of shit. 🧵/
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/08/2025
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CDC spiraled into chaos this week. Here’s where things stand.
CDC is in crisis amid an ouster, resignations, defiance, and outraged lawmakers.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 29/08/2025
"I have the right to do anything I want to do. I’m the president of the United States," he declared. trib.al/WazrDdk
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Trump Just Said Exactly What a Dictator Would Say
The president had a despotic message for Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/08/2025
Trump is in the Epstein files.
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Jocelyn @historygirl.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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A blue button that says in white text, he's pretty but can he type?
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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
This is a terrible idea. The US absolutely must not invade Mexico on the pretense of fighting drugs. This would be yet another failed, counter-productive "Punitive Expedition" that would be 100x worse than Pershing's in 1916. #History 🗃️
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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Every new day in Florida is more embarrassing than the last. 🗃️
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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
For some reason I am reminded that during the Civil War, the Confederate government allowed southern banks to include counterfeit graybacks (Confederate Treasury notes) among their assets. 🗃️
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HIAS @hias.org · 23/06/2025
Disturbing news 🚨 the US Supreme Court just ruled the Trump admin. can resume deporting people to countries that they're not from without due process or the chance to challenge their removal in court. This includes some of the world's most dangerous prisons in El Salvador, South Sudan, and Libya.
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Supreme Court allows Trump to remove migrants to South Sudan and other turmoil-filled countries | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court on Monday granted President Donald Trump’s emergency request to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their homeland, including places like South Sudan, with minimal noti...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
They were supposed to be deporting “gang members” and “criminals.” So far, they have kidnapped people working their day jobs and folks lawfully showing up for their immigration court appearances… It was always a lie.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope. She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive. But the FDA recently denied its approval. Now, her health hangs in the balance. Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Thanks, yes, so good to see, @civilwarmemory.bsky.social: "...visitors to NPS sites are not vindictive. They are not looking to rat out their fellow Americans, who have devoted their careers to doing the important work of protecting and interpreting our most important historical sites."🗃️
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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
After years of saying we need to "preserve our history," the Trump regime is asking visitors to report "any depictions of U.S. history that 'inappropriately disparage Americans past or living." This is censorship in action and it will only become more overt over time. 🗃 #skystorians
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Signs to police 'negative' history went up at Manzanar. Historians are nervous.
"It sends a pretty clear message that your story is not welcome here."
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Dr. Natalie Mendoza @drmendozan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Please share far & wide - an incredibly important 🗃️🧵:
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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This is, indeed, v. cool and well worth the read 🗃️
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#OnThisDay, 15 Jun 1921, Bessie Coleman gained her pilot's license, becoming the first licensed civilian African-American pilot in the world. Read more about her in our NEW blogpost! carvehername.org.uk/... #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory 🗃️
A young black woman standing on the wheel of an early propeller plane. She's wearing a flying uniform of trousers, boots, a long leather coat and a leather helmet.
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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Why do non-scholars read history, beyond entertainment? What's the point? 🗃️
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Politico @politico.com · 16/06/2025
Trump administration slapped with ‘impoundment’ violation for freezing library, museum funding.
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Trump administration slapped with ‘impoundment’ violation for freezing library, museum funding
The Government Accountability Office’s conclusion follows a similar finding last month for a different pot of cash.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 14/06/2025
UPDATED: At this morning's press conference it was reported that there was an exchange of fire between the assailant and police before he escaped from Melissa Hortman's home.
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Minnesota lawmakers shot in their homes by cop impersonator: report
(EDITOR'S NOTE) : This story will be updated as more details are released.According to a report from KSTP, two Minnesota lawmakers were ambushed in their homes overnight by an assailant dressed as a p...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/06/2025
Pete Hegseth Vomits Out Of Tank Hatch
Pete Hegseth Vomits Out Of Tank Hatch
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
To the extent to which one can worry, one should. This is not so different from the AUMF for Vietnam with the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964 ... once permitted, there it goes, potentially, in terms of escalation. And it is historic. 🗃️
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David Rotenstein, Curator, Shrouded in Secrecy Archives @davidrotenstein.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Current status of the nomination of Donny's Place to be Pittsburgh's first LGBTQ+ historic landmark. The 120-day clock for the Pittsburgh City Council to hold a hearing runs out next month. There's been no action on the bill since 4/30. 🗃️
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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Latest coverage of ‪@medimurdermaps.bsky.social‬: Noblewoman may have ordered brazen murder of priest outside St Paul’s in 1337 Historian mapping medieval murders has evidence John Ford’s stabbing was revenge hit by impenitent ex-lover www.theguardian.com/education/20... #History 🗃️
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Noblewoman may have ordered brazen murder of priest outside St Paul’s in 1337
Historian mapping medieval murders has evidence notorious stabbing was revenge hit by impenitent ex-lover
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Jonathan S. Jones @jonathansjones.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Trump’s disgusting military parade is bumping Vietnam vets from the National Mall, forcing them to hold a long running memorial in Virginia with a replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall. And he’s making them foot the bill. And this from a draft evader. I can’t even. 🗃️ wtop.com/dc/2025/06/v...
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Vietnam veterans group wants help to cover extra costs of moving their memorial events - WTOP News
Why is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund moving a pair of annual events from the National Mall in D.C. across the Potomac River to Alexandria, Virginia, this year?
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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
‘Tudor high drama’: English Heritage looks for descendants of abbey rebels Organisation to mark 500 years since uprising against Cardinal Wolsey’s closure of Bayham Abbey www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... #History 🗃️
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‘Tudor high drama’: English Heritage looks for descendants of abbey rebels
Organisation to mark 500 years since uprising against Cardinal Wolsey’s closure of Bayham Abbey
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
#OnThisDay, 4 Jun 1913, British suffragette Emily Davison steps in front of the King's horse at the Epson Derby: she dies four days later. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen 🗃️
Emily and the king's horse on the ground, her straw hat flying away from the collision.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
#OnThisDay, 4 Jun 1919, the US Senate approved the 19th amendment, in theory granting all women the right to vote. It was ratified in August 1920. #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory 🗃️
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 03/06/2025
In another timeline, Curtis Yarvin might have remained an obscure and ineffectual internet crank. Instead, he has become one of America’s most influential illiberal thinkers, an engineer of the intellectual source code for the second Trump Administration.
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Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 03/06/2025
Education secretary Linda McMahon was roundly mocked on social media after flubbing "basic math" while testifying Tuesday morning before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the department's fiscal 2026 budget request.
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Trump's education sec'y mocked after 'basic math' flub during House grilling
Education secretary Linda McMahon was roundly mocked on social media after flubbing "basic math" while testifying Tuesday morning before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the department’s fiscal 2026 budget request. According to The Hill, "The request by the Trump administration...includes ...
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Indybay @indybay.org · 01/06/2025
Rally For National Single Payer In SF-Medicaid Cuts Will Kill People For Capitalist Profit
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Rally For National Single Payer In SF-Medicaid Cuts Will Kill People For Capitalist Profit
As part of a national day of action for single payer, a rally was held at the Harry Bridges plaza followed by a march to Blackrock hedge fund which owns 8% of United Healthcare
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/06/2025
June 1 is the first day of hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean, the official start of a six-month period that can bring some of the most destructive and costly natural disasters to American shores. Here’s what to know to be prepared.
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Hurricane Season Is Starting. Here’s Everything to Know.
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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Can we not? Also if anyone wants a refresher on the Chinese Exclusion Act, it’s lecture 3 (along with Japanese internment) in Forgotten America on the Great Courses & Audible. 🗃️ bit.ly/GunterGC
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The Great Courses
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Amy J. Rutenberg @amyjay401.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I already ran into a problem with purged transcripts for something I’m writing. The historians need the transcripts too - of course, if one wants to purge history, then this is how to do it. 🗃️
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Reading in a diss chapter about Nazis patrolling Berlin in trucks on November 1938 with lists of Jews and raiding known Jewish gathering places and it's almost as if it reminds me of something happening here but I just can't put my finger on it 🗃️
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Trump told West Point cadets at their graduation that he wouldn't be able to shake their hands, a tradition among US presidents, because he had urgent matters to deal with on China and Russia. This was him "dealing" with China and Russia moments later. He went golfing.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
ALERT: Trump pardons former Culpeper County, Va sheriff Scott Jenkins Jenkins was scandal-plagued for years and was convicted by rural Virginia jury of taking bribes in exchange for deputizing people w/ badges & credentials Bribe payors were not trained or vetted & didn’t render legit services
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 26/05/2025
This is completely false and not From Liz or me.
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Congressman Glenn Ivey (MD-04) @ivey.house.gov · 26/05/2025
Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/05/2025
. @CNN.com looks like shit right now, and deservedly so, for shamelessly hawking Jake Tapper’s book. This is perfect: “Forgetting about the fact that how fucking weird it is that the news is selling you a book about news they should’ve told you was news a year ago—for free.” ~ Jon Stewart.
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Spreadsheet enjoyer 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @bluser12.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Legalizing sports betting might be one of the worst things we’ve done in the past decade
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Call me Rick. @potusbumblephuq.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I want that list.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
The orange felon’s vendetta against Harvard in just one photo.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Meanwhile the food was bad too
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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
#booksky
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Olympian levels of lying here from our devoutly Christian Speaker.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
“.. the most brazen use of government office in American history, perhaps eclipsing even Teapot Dome, Watergate .. “.. ‘I’ve been watching and writing about corruption for 50 years, and my head is still spinning’ ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...
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