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Remember: after WWII, a government doesn’t announce that they’ve become fascist. They announce that anti-fascists are enemies of the state.

Have you heard the story of the Hell Cats?
In WWI, “Hell Cats” was a name for the first women who joined the U.S. Marine Corps.
They were trailblazers who served with determination and broke barriers before they even had the right to vote.
Now, I’m part of a group of Democratic women veterans who are running to flip red seats blue and win back the House together.
We’re calling ourselves “The Hell Cats” and Politico says we
“could be the answer to Democrats’ tr…

Become a Founding Donor to Mendoza for Congress today!
I just became a founding donor to JoAnna Mendoza for Congress! Will you join me in sending a single mother and a working class veteran to Congress?

been shipping a lot without coding lately. going to start documenting some of these projects here.
today: mac apple music to discord rich presence bridge, plus the universal landing page it links to. friends on apple music, spotify, tidal, or kkbox get a one-tap deep link to whatever i'm playing, with a youtube music search fallback for completeness.
example:

Always
Daniel Caesar · NEVER ENOUGH (Bonus Version)

"The flu killed 15,849 U.S. soldiers in France and another 30,000 in stateside camps. That’s 45,849 killed by the flu versus 26,277 killed at Meuse-Argonne — documenting that the flu was by far our most deadly battle.
More civilians (over 50 million) died from the flu than from both World Wars and the Holocaust combined. Another 500 million civilians were incapacitated by the flu."

Ever wonder why wearing masks is so common in #Japan every spring? A post-WWII reforestation policy to plant just two types of fast-growing trees has triggered a mass-allergy crisis. My latest for @bbc looks at the roots of this 70-year-old blunder and the massive challenge of fixing it.

Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame
A decision made 70 years ago to reforest vast swathes of Japan with just two kinds of tree has come back to haunt the country.

This week (if we're not mired in WWIII) I have to take a long-haul plane trip. I didn't choose it, I don't want to do it, and I'm not looking forward to it. Hmmph.

I was just watching an old QI collection of segments about death. #til The Ouija Board™️ was patented as a parlor game, unrelated to the occult, in 1891. An American spiritualist started using it as a divining tool during WWI. There are apparently people doing actual research with them who are pissed about the occult connection. It’s a tool to help you figure out stuff, analogous to casting the I Ching…

Pete Hegseth is not a coherent thinker.
This was demonstrated yet again on the D-Day anniversary event in France,
where the defense secretary gave a speech that was
supposed to be anti-Nazi but ended up employing a metaphor that made the Nazis sound like the victims in WWII.
Hegseth claims he wants military promotions based on merit,
but has systematically blocked promotions of people are more qualified than he’ll ever be,
for no other seeming reason than…

Pete Hegseth's Mormon diss explodes a MAGA myth - Salon.com
Christian nationalism isn't just immoral — it's incoherent

Students presented their work in my Canadian history grad seminar today: 2 papers on hockey (obviously) - QC and ON pro women's hockey in WWI and 1900-20s men's hockey in BC (refrigerated rinks); a venerable QC cookbook (La cuisine raisonnée); women in the RCAF and (un)sanctioned leisure in the 1950s; the RC Harris Water Treatment Plant (the best building in Toronto?); police repression post-October Crisis; currency in BC mining towns; and Heritage Minutes (burnt toast!). 3 hours of …

The White House is seeking a record-shattering Pentagon budget of
$1.5 trillion for the next fiscal year,
the largest year-over-year increase in a presidential military spending request since World War II.
The United States already has the world’s largest military budget at roughly $1 trillion,
more than the combined budgets of the next nine highest-spending countries.
The budget proposal also includes deep cuts to social programs.
The Trump administrati…

“A Moral Obscenity”: White House Demands $1.5 Trillion Pentagon Budget, Largest Increase Since WWII
The White House is seeking a record-shattering Pentagon budget of $1.5 trillion for the next fiscal year, the largest year-over-year increase in a presidential military spending request since World War II. The United States already has the world’s largest military budget at roughly $1 trillion, more than the combined budgets of the next nine highest-spending countries. The Trump administration’s budget request includes funding for F-35 stealth fighter jets, new warships and President Trump�…