I love Ashland. It's where I spent my first quarter century of life and home of Southern Oregon University.🙏

George had eight congressional ancestors. He was directly descended from George Cabot, a Massachusetts senator in the 1790s. George graduated from Harvard in 1950 with a bachelor’s degree in American history and literature. He officially became a Democrat in the early 2000s.

The first face seen on the televisor is that of a ventriloquist’s dummy called Stooky Bill, its face painted white for better contrast. The first human to “go live”—on a viewfinder 3 yards from the camera—is Oliver Hutchinson, the businessman who has backed Laird’s endeavor. 3/8

Tomorrow, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Science and Security Board will reveal the 2026 Doomsday Clock time. The announcement will be livestreamed at this link and on the Bulletin's YouTube channel: buff.ly/BGu0Zse

Thoreau was one of Mom's favorites. She would write down his quotes and post them on our refrigerator. We also had playing cards and placemats with the faces of famous poets and thinkers.

He looks like Martin Bormann.

Propaganda is a crucial tool for the pigs, especially Squealer, to manipulate the other animals through slogans, fear, lies, and control of information, ultimately betraying the revolution establishing a tyrannical hierarchy where "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others".

Today’s Russian newspapers on the old world order unraveling: “Will Greenland become Nato’s cemetery? The transatlantic partnership has begun to crack & crumble.” Another paper: “The architecture of the world order is collapsing before our very eyes.” #ReadingRussia

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

OTD 1898, the armored cruiser USS MAINE enters the harbor in Habana, Cuba. I wrote this a few years back to provide some perspective on its fateful mission. islandjohnny65.blogspot.com/2022/02/reme...

“A gigantic icebreaker is sailing full steam ahead, shredding the old world order. And the name of that ship? The Donald Trump.” My dispatch from Moscow for BBC Radio’s From Our Own Correspondent.

Don’t let this White House lie to you. Believe what you see. Alex Pretti was trying to help a woman off the ground. Then immigration agents tackled, shot, and killed him. It’s time for them to get the hell out of MN.

Vigil held in downtown Reno for #AlexPretti, who was killed by #ICE today. Photos: @marctiar

Jan. 24, 1926: Somalian insurgents attack Italian-led troops at the Crispi lighthouse near Mogadishu, where the Fascist regime recently sent a force ashore. In a fierce three-day battle the Somalis retreat, leaving 22 dead. Italian Capt. Alessandro Gatti is killed leading a charge.

Much like the White House’s National Security Strategy that preceded it, the defense blueprint reinforces Trump’s “America First” philosophy, which favors nonintervention overseas, questions decades of strategic relationships and prioritizes U.S. interests.

On this day in 1941, “America First”-er Charles Lindbergh testified before Congress and suggested that the United States should negotiate a neutrality treaty with Hitler’s Nazi Germany. That…did not age well. Photo: Lindbergh speaking at an “America First” rally in Iowa. Getty Images.

Jan 23, 1941 #WWII The news that British forces had broken through the Tobruk defense was given to the Italian public today. Three Australian divisions, reinforced by a motorized formation of so called dissident Frenchmen, were identified as taking part in the attack. www.nytimes.com/1941/01/23/a...

Jan 23, 1941 NYT John William Vincent dead. Made a spectacular trip of hundreds of miles with Sir Ernest Shackleton in an open boat from Elephant Island to South Georgia Island after the loss of the ship Endurance, which was crushed among ice flows. www.nytimes.com/1941/01/23/a...

Happy #FieldworkFriday and happy #BlueFriday! We brought the 12s Flag up to station EDM on the side of Mt St Helens this week! It was a blue bird day up there with just enough wind to get the flag moving which made for perfect working conditions. Go Hawks!

Temperature can mean the difference between four inches of rain and four feet of snow. That’s something the Tahoe region, and much of the west, has experienced this winter, evidenced by above normal precipitation, yet being plagued with what hydrologists call a “snow drought.”

@sonofsandor.bsky.social Good morning. Mihara is clear weather‪.‬ Today, “In Japan, the Japan Teachers' Union begins a campaign to ‘Stop sending our students to battlefields again’ in opposition to Japan's rearmament following the Korean War (1951).” #What_day_is_it? ‪http://www.nnh.to/01/24.html‬

Jan 22, 1951 The US has asked the Soviets to stop showing, and to return two American motion pictures. The films, “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town” and “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” are being presented to Russian audiences in “mutilated and distorted” versions. #TCMparty www.nytimes.com/1951/01/23/a...

2006 #WWII Moscow said it had repaid a final chunk of $22.5bn (£11.8bn) and $1.3 bn in servicing costs. The payments were made to 17 creditor countries, known as the Paris Club, over the past week. It has repaid a total of $40bn over the past year. www.theguardian.com/business/200...

The Nevada Legislature ratified the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, which would give citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” including freed Black slaves. on Jan 22, 1867. The 28th of 37 states ratified it in Jul 1868. bit.ly/3sQMktW

Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! Premieres tonight on HBO

There are just five WWII-era airship hangars still standing in the US. The only one open to the public is located in Oregon. The hangar took nine months to build and was completed in 1943. The hangar’s roof, made almost entirely of Oregon Douglas Firs, spans 12 acres. Hopefully it can be saved.🙏

Newsom shows off knee pads for CEOs 'selling out' to the Trump administration

Jan 21, 1951 NYT The tariff is a historical issue between Democrats and Republicans and there will be no exception in the Administration's desire for an extension of the reciprocal Trade Treaty Law. Truman, under the treaty program, can reduce tariffs up to 75%. www.nytimes.com/1951/01/22/a...

The Communist party theoretician declared, in alluding to the fighting following Western intervention in Russia after the Revolution, that the Soviet people would never forget that Russian blood was on American hands. He charged that the US "wanted not only Siberia" but also the natural resources.

Jan 21, 1951 NYT Leaders of the Soviet Union, including Stalin, tonight heard one of the bitterest, most scathing attacks upon United States “imperialism” that have been made from the leading, forum of the Communist party within the recollection of most listeners. www.nytimes.com/1951/01/22/a...

The main image in question, seen at the top of this post, shows an F-15EX, part of RAMBO flight, blasting out of PDX in full afterburner and executing a hard pull-up for a fast climb. These are usually lively affairs marking the end of a pilot’s military flying career. www.twz.com/air/this-is-...

ACCORDING TO SAM Mark Twain has a thought about: LIES “The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a man only tells them with all his might.” - San Francisco Alta California, 16 June 1867 #quote #MarkTwain

Jan 2, 1941 #WWII NYT Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production, today announced that United States bombers are being flown across the Atlantic "in a steady stream.". www.nytimes.com/1941/01/03/a...

“Trump's decided to sink the EU,” declares one Russian paper today. Lots about Greenland in the Russian press. But also domestic economic problems: “Prices ready to soar”, Moscow cafes closing & “Russia’s car industry completely dependent on China’s.” #ReadingRussia

Citing two unnamed senior government officials, the paper said the Canadian response model centers on insurgency‑style tactics, like those used in Afghanistan by fighters who resisted Soviet and later US forces. thedefensepost.com/2026/01/21/c...

Jan 20, 1951 NYT Engineers are studying the possibilities of atomic power are aware of the radiation hazards that must be faced by workers in a plant that depends on an atomic "reactor". If no significant radioactivity is detected the waste runs into an ordinary sewer www.nytimes.com/1951/01/21/a...

Jan 20, 1941 #WWII NYT Tragic events have now forced an ancient and mysterious land into the international puzzle we call the war. Bangkok announces that the flag of Thailand flies again over a district in Cambodia. For many years the Thai were at war with the Khmers. www.nytimes.com/1941/01/21/a...

The mill traces its origins to the 1880s when Henry Pittock needed a facility to produce newsprint for his newspaper, The Oregonian. Pittock selected the location for its access to the Columbia River. During WWII, it temporarily switched to manufacturing ship parts to support the Vancouver boatyard.

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Jan 19, 1951 NYT President Truman told that, when the time came, new and he emphasized legal moves would be made to establish a permanent Federal commission to combat discrimination in employment because of race, religion, color, national origin or ancestry. www.nytimes.com/1951/01/19/a...

Jan 19, 1941 #WWII NYT THE first man ever to be three times President of the United States will ride down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue tomorrow for his third inauguration on the steps of the Capitol. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." www.nytimes.com/1941/01/19/a...

Jan 19, 1941 #WWII NYT There is a deep seated belief here that Reichsfuehrer Hitler and Premier Mussolini are preparing a mighty blow somewhere soon. This was heightened by the reported meeting of the Axis partners today. They cannot afford to play a waiting game. www.nytimes.com/1941/01/20/a...

Taking over Greenland is not a joke. Trump is sending messages to foreign leaders and making threats that will destroy the most important alliance we have. Are Republicans in Congress and Marco Rubio really ready to throw NATO away because they’re too afraid to stand up to Trump?

Today’s Russian papers on Trump/Greenland: “Europe’s at a total loss. It’s a pleasure to watch.” Government paper: “Europe doesn’t need the American greatness Trump is promoting…the Old World's keen to keep Greenland for itself, even at the risk of Nato’s collapse.” #ReadingRussia

Jan 17, 1941 #WWII NYT Colonel William J. Donovan, President Roosevelt's special representative, who came to the British Middle East command here after a visit to London, departed today without, any public statement as to the purpose of his trip. www.nytimes.com/1941/01/17/a...

Jan 17, 1941 #WWII An all Negro pursuit squadron is to be organized by the Army. It will consist of about 33 officer pilots and a ground crew of about 400 men, all colored. The squadron will have 27 planes. They will be sent to a special field at Tuskegee, AL. www.nytimes.com/1941/01/17/a...

Jan. 17, 1926: Benito Mussolini says anti-Fascist members will no longer be permitted to attend Parliament sessions unless they renounce their “absurd” and “die-hard” opposition to his rule. A day earlier members of his party had assaulted the opponents and chased them out.

Here is the entire speech, which is as relevant today as it was when Eisenhower delivered it 65 years ago:

Serling submitted an idea for a radio show in which the ghosts of a young boy and girl killed in WWII would look through train windows and comment on day-to-day human life as it moved around the country. This idea was changed significantly but produced from Oct 1950 to Feb 1951 as Adventure Express.