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"Friends of Dorothy" US government in the 50s: Who is this "Dorothy"? We must find this woman and interrogate her until she tells who all the homosexuals are! www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/20...

The U.S. Navy and Their Hilariously Inept Search for Dorothy and Her Friends

While the Ancient Greeks had their celebrated Sacred Band of Thebes, a legendarily successful fighting force made up of all male lovers, in more modern times the various branches of the United States ...

People who can route 600 messages a day to the right teams are the unsung heroes of disaster response

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The morning #HurricaneHelene hit Asheville members of our co-op sat in the dark, listening to the howling wind and crack of trees falling. When we emerged to take stock a cardboard sign on our door read “Community meeting here, Saturday at 2. Let’s talk about how we can take care of each other.” 1/?

If Libertarians ever take back their brand from MAGA, libertarians should take take back their brand from Libertarians.

Nobody honestly still believes Israel kills all these women, children, journalists, medical staff and humanitarian aid workers by accident. You either know they do it on purpose and you say so, or you know they do it on purpose but never admit it, to protect a political agenda.

Driving is unambiguously the absolute worst way to travel, especially with little children, and I hate the boomers and silent generation for making our lives like this

Literally everyone should watch this and share it- it’s so well done

Investigating war crimes in Gaza I Al Jazeera Investigations

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

It was generous for this author to break this down and to be transparent because the publishing industry is NOT transparent and people trying to publish books are in the dark about everything. monicacatherine.com/2024/05/16/q...

Q: Can an author make a living from royalties?

~ free public post ~ The general population is slowly getting the message that things are really hard for traditionally published authors right now, in ways it was not hard twenty or even five year…

Just before Christmas, staff in the State Dept's arms transfers bureau walked into their DC office and found something unusual waiting for them: cases of wine with personalized letters on each bottle. The gifts were courtesy of the Israeli embassy.

Inside the State Department’s Weapons Pipeline to Israel

Leaked cables and emails show how the agency’s top officers dismissed internal evidence of Israelis misusing American-made bombs and worked around the clock to rush more out while the Gaza death toll ...