Prime Minister Donald Tusk said an operation is underway related to "multiple violations" of NATO member Poland's airspace, shutting four airports early Wednesday morning.

I just want to be able to find clothing that’s not polyester again.

Reminder that things are in fact worse quality for more money, that no, Elder Gen Z/millennials/gen x, you're not imagining it, nor should you accept it as "the way things are." Shirts I've had 30 fucking yrs are still wearable, but a shirt I've had 2 months & worn MAYBE twice is already unraveling

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

AP Livestream - CDC coming out in force to support our ousted leaders.

Not sure what I did to my algorithm or whatever but my feed is filled with so many immature dumbasses today I wish I had the time and the crayons to set them straight. But I don’t.

ICE detains husband of Democratic congressional candidate—who is also a disabled U.S. Army veteran. He is wheelchair bound—after suffering severe injury during training for deployment in Iraq. Agents arrested him at his naturalization hearing—he is already a green card holder.

So much drama can be avoided if you adopt two sibling kittens at the same time.

Hey, did you know that the NLRB has operated in violation of the Constitution for 90 years? It's right there in this original Constitution we found in 2025.

Finally, a united nation.

I am urging Marylanders to prepare for potential flash flooding and severe storms this afternoon. The greatest risk for impacts are along the I-95 corridor and upper Eastern Shore, but all counties, except Garrett and Allegany counties, are currently under a flood watch.

"If you don't do things perfectly there's no point in you having done them at all; in fact, it's worse than having done nothing" is one of those things that kill any and all progress, and it's wild to see it proliferate online.

I need more people in my orbit to be obsessed with The Gilded Age

The Declaration of Independence asserts some rights are inalienable. That is, they cannot justly be transferred, revoked or taken away arbitrarily by any governmental authority. You have rights by virtue of being a human being. Anyone who says otherwise is Un-American.

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

90 years ago, America made a promise: that we could retire with dignity and wouldn't be left behind. That promise is Social Security. Now, it's under attack. Join us and @socialsecurityworks.org as we hold events across the country to protect what’s OURS. 📝 RSVP: ProtectOurChecks.com

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

#booksky #reading #historicalnovels #summerreading I'm reading America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray & Laurie Kamoie- great read! Reminds me just how far we have come to create a "more perfect union"... and how is our turn to save it! #WomensRights #CivilRights @stephaniedray.bsky.social

My recompense for working all weekend is that I'm going to do it in pajamas. Also, I had a dream last night that we had to hire an electrician, and John Adams scolded me, saying electricity was an unnecessary expense, that he'd lived without it all his life, and that I need to be more frugal.

Is it too much to ask shoe manufacturers to show us their creations on an actual human foot? Don't ask me to imagine!

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS are a series of influential essays by 3 of my favorite Founding Fathers. People forget there were also ANTI-FEDERALIST PAPERS by other founding fathers. Just as important to understanding America. So don't come at me if you haven't read both.

Too few of us have appreciated the unique epoch in which we lived since the end of WWII.

Public Service Announcement: You can machine wash your Kizik Irvines. You shouldn’t but you can. Mine have survived two washes on gentle cycle. Air dry only.

Dear Readers Who Email Me: When people in colonial America protected themselves against smallpox by way of variolation, they called it inoculation. They didn't know the word variolation, so I don't use it in my books. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Whenever people pretend that human beings have fundamentally changed as a species, I remember that one of the oldest discovered writings is a Mesopotamian Yelp Review, bitching about bad customer service and poor quality copper ingots.

OPINION: Vladimir Putin is spending millions of dollars, bombarding European voters with manipulative social media and disinformation campaigns on a mass scale. It’s a new type of warfare on democracy that eliminates the need to roll tanks into capitals.

youtube.com/watch?v=fuRQ... Not exactly historically accurate, but good show nonetheless.

I am fostering some sickly baby kittens this week. The littlest, Bertie, is so malnourished that at seven weeks he weighs barely a pound. He also wheezes and whimpers in misery. But I am nursing him back to health and so grateful for his love and trust.

Reading ‘Becoming Madam Secretary’ by @stephaniedray.bsky.social Cannot for the life of me get over how much it reads like our current state of affairs. I keep exclaiming to random people and sending screen shots of passages just to say, ‘why can’t we learn from the past instead of reliving it??’

July 4th isn't about hot dogs. It's about the Declaration of Independence. Go ahead and read it. It's a whole mood.

It's unbelievable I never heard of Frances Perkins until now when I picked up the historical fiction book Becoming Madame Secretary by @stephaniedray.bsky.social She was first woman cabinet member and created Social Security. Amazing woman! I need to know more so I am off to the library today.

If you haven’t read the Declaration of Independence yet, you should. It will inform how you feel about the next week.

Seriously...Imagine Biden tweeting this and the reaction afterwards.

Today on the podcast, we’re talking about a man who spent time in the American Revolution and the French Revolution. No, not Lafayette. It’s Gouverneur Morris! Our guest @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social spills all the tea on this early American sex scandal. episodes.fm/aHR0cHM6Ly9m...

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

The political assassination in Minnesota should horrify and appall all of us. The Contrarian team sends our deepest condolences for the deaths of Representative Melisa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and sends our prayers for the Hoffmans' fast recovery.

“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.” ― Winston Churchill, 1936

Today has been a year y’all. But I’m counting my blessings.

Do government officials in California have something to say about this? Is "trampling and beating" a supine prisoner part of the handbook?

Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.

Privatization of infrastructure, military assets, or justice is a profound danger to national security. A thing every functional democracy used to know.

Due process for: □ All □ None There are only two choices.

Timeline cleanse: emergency cute.

I snort laughed.

My agency sister @stephaniedray.bsky.social's Becoming Madam Secretary on sale today for $1.99! Just bought it & look forward to reading it! Based on the life of Frances Perkins, the woman behind the New Deal and first female cabinet secretary in U.S. history. #BookSky Bookshop.org: rpb.li/9se0z

My friend @stephaniedray.bsky.social's Becoming Madam Secretary is on sale for just $1.99 for a limited time! Historical fiction about Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in a U.S. presidential cabinet. Read something inspiring this weekend rpb.li/9se0z

I used IRS Direct File and it was waaaay better than Turbo Tax and free. If your taxes are pretty simple, I’d recommend it.

File your taxes using IRS Direct File, a free, secure, accurate and accessible product from the IRS. It is available in 25 states and allows you to import your tax information, like your W-2, directly from the IRS. Visit DirectFile.irs.gov to check eligibility and learn more.

FYI

The news is full of awful things Union organizers were desperate to make people see, believe & act on 114 years ago. Please take a moment to remember the 146 victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire who died on this day in 1911. Our work on the subject: boroughsofthedead.com/industrial-m...