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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 11h

"The Fierce Military Record of Vice Presidential Candidate LeMay" Maru magazine, January 1969

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🕸️🕷️ 🥀 Nani🥀🕷️🕸️ @sinmachine.is.severed.fyi · 1d

D’Angelo’s dead.

Titty Tuesday is canceled; gender wars are canceled; everything canceled today!!!

Wrap it up!!! For today we mourn.

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 1d

this one hurts. what a fuckin legend. the first conversation i ever had with my now wife was started when Voodoo came on at a house party. gone too soon.

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 1d

I am about to go for the longest walk. Heartbreaking. balleralert.com/profiles/blo...

D’Angelo Dead At 51 After Battle With Pancreatic Cancer

Neo-soul legend D’Angelo has died after a private battle with pancreatic cancer. Read Baller Alert’s exclusive report celebrating his life, music, and impact.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d

This is not just funny, it's smart. We need more of this mockery that shows these thugs that we see their despicable fascism and give them the respect that they deserve.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 2d

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 2d

Aerial footage documenting the extent of destruction caused by Israeli bombardment and demolitions in the Al-Katiba neighborhood northern Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, after the withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces.

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 2d

fascinating infographic comparing the five major fire raids on Tokyo in 1945

pretty staggering leap in terms of the tons of incendiaries expended in those late May raids!

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 4d

Public universities serving the public!

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 4d

yes. lol

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 4d

that...happens?

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 4d

Will take a look -- thank you!

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 4d

It's a fascinating read on a lot of levels. Rich to see him explicitly reference the Air Defense Law, while the LDP continues to turn its back on air raid survivors campaigning for token recognition from their government for policies that anchored them in place during firestorms.

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 4d

Ishiba's address on the eightieth anniversary of the end of the war is really worth reading:

japan.kantei.go.jp/content/0001...

japan.kantei.go.jp

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 4d

Currently writing about "open-air" performances of Kabuki and vaudeville in the ruins of firebombed cities, and I'm seeing multiple comparisons to London's West End during the war.

Any recommendations on what to read to get a feel for how entertainment endured in WWII London under falling bombs?

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4d

Network news could put this guy on the air during like Lester Holt or the Sunday shows but they don't because they know stories like this would help stop the administration and then the big bet they made on fascism would be for nothing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 5d

the text to the right of Tibbets: "You don't get it!"

text under the falling bomb: "atomic bomb drop show"

text below: name of illustrator

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 5d

They’re now publicly threatening a military crackdown of the No Kings protest.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 5d

A cartoonists take on Tibbets in the Asahi newspaper three days after the reenactment

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 5d

Today in 1976, Gen. Paul Tibbets (USAF, ret.) re-enacted the bombing of Hiroshima he led on August 6, 1945, at an air show sponsored by the private Confederate Air Force in Harlingen, Texas. As Tibbets flew a B-29 overhead, conventional explosives were detonated on the ground to simulate the bomb.

Screenshot from an archival color film showing a B-29 bomber in flight at the airshow in Harlingen, Texas.

Screenshot from an archival color film showing the simulated explosion of an atomic bomb at the airshow.

Screenshot from an archival color film showing a mushroom cloud rising from the ground following the simulated explosion of an atomic bomb at the airshow.

A black and white, undated (circa October 11, 1976) Associated Press wirephoto of the simulated atomic explosion at the air show:

"Mushroom Cloud

A mushroom-shaped cloud rises above Rebel Field at Harlingen, Tex., home of the Confederate Air Force, during a re-enactment of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II. The re-enactment of the first A-bomb use in war came over the weekend during an air show."

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 5d

I've got an essay forthcoming on this very incident, drawing extensively on Japanese language coverage of the row. I'll be sure to share with you when it's out!