Happy Birthday #GirlScouts 🎂!

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On this date
- Last time a British monarch vetoed legislation
- 1st Woman commissioned as a doctor by the US Army
- Chile inaugurated it's first female president.
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Today we celebrate Harriet Tubman.

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It's Barbie's Birthday

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It's International Women's Day!

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On this date in Women's History
- A man made an 🍑 of himself
- Birth of Janet Collins & Wanda Sykes
- US Navy issues first orders assigning women to combat vessels
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On this date
- Thefirst press briefing by a First Lady
- Billie Holiday and Bonnie Raitt inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

The FDA webpage had a stark warning: Some purported autism “cures” or treatments, including chlorine dioxide and raw camel milk, are dangerous and make misleading claims.

Now, under RFK Jr.’s leadership, that advisory is gone.

Spain’s MEP Irene Montero speaking to reporters

Irene Montero: No woman has ever been freed by American bombs or illegal aggression — Not in Syria. Not in Iraq. Not in Afghanistan. It will not happen in Iran either

When they want to sell their oil wars, their wars for profit, their imperial wars — they hide behind women’s rights to justify them

The thing about me being a GenAI skeptic is that I am a third gen early adopter. My machine worker grandpa thought computers were the future and had an Apple IIE. I had two Geocities sites. Was on Facebook when it was still Harvard only. You know how hard you have to try to make me hate new tech???

On today's date in 1974, first performance in over 3,000 years of "Hymn to Nikkal" by Anne Kilmer. Nikkal was a goddess of the orchard and fertility.

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On this date
- Ratification of the Constitution
- Inauguration of 26 Preaidents
- South secedes
- 1st Woman in Congress
- 1st Woman in US Cabinet

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Today in #WomensHistoryMonth
- #AnneSullivan begins teaching #HelenKeller
- #WomensSuffrage Parade through Washington, DC
- First Time Ever I Saw Your Face wins big

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Today in Women's History
- Fay Wray gets kidnapped by a colossal ape
- Claudette Colvin refused ro give up her bus seat
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29 Feb & 01 Mar
- Salem Witch Trials
- Hattie McDaniel wins an Oscar
- US Invades Afghanistan. Afghan girls go to school
- Trump betrays Afghanistan, girls banned from school
- Iranian girls protest
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On this day
- Early slave revolt
- Juanita Hill &Charles "Bubba" Smith born
- Natalie Cole & Michael Jackson set records at thr Grammys
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Congress denies John Willis Menard, 1st Black man elected to Congress, his seat as Rep of Louisiana 2nd District, New Orleans.
Marian Anderson is born in Philadelphia, PA.
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On this day in US History, 25 February -
- Dr. Carter G. Woodson makes history
- Birth of a pioneer of Rock & Roll Fats Domino
- and the unaliving of Trayvon Martin

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On this date in 1870, Hiram R. Revels is sworn in as the first Black member of the US Congress as a Senator from Mississippi, a seat once held by Jefferson Davis.
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Today in US history, Daniel A Payne was born in Charleston, SC

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Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the State of the Union:

Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the #SOTU:

On this day in History
- The Alamo decimated
- Birth of WEB DuBois
- 1st Black USMC Gensral

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On this day in history - Shirley Temple & Bill Robinson became the first interracial dance couple in film history.

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On this day in US History - 21 February
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Thinking about Them! again. A perfect marriage of Atomic Horror meets the fear of the Specter of Communism.

The allegory works well as it is subtle (more subtle than Invasion of the Body Snatchers) and is based on a fun creature feature script.
Classic Americana, even if I am an Ant in disguise.

Trump calls Supreme Court justices who ruled against tariffs 'disloyal' - The Hill

They don’t owe a President loyalty

that’s right

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

On this date in 1956, the city of Montgomery arrested 89 members of the Montgomery Improvement Association on the charge of boycotting without "Just Cause" (which was unconstitutional).
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Many ups and many downs
History rolls on
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