Janice Blake
@janiceblake.bsky.social
Reader. Writer. "The Battalion Artist" traces Nat Bellantoni's World War II odyssey in the Pacific. Next up, my Uncle Joe's #WWII experiences in the Atlantic. From service on the legendary USS Wichita to Lighter Than Air sailor, Lakehurst NJ blimp base.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/s...
“There’s a growing realization that natural darkness is as essential to the environment as clean air, clean water and green space...”
“There’s a growing realization that natural darkness is as essential to the environment as clean air, clean water and green space...”
Fighting for ‘The Right to Night’ Under Starry, Rural Skies
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November 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/s...
“There’s a growing realization that natural darkness is as essential to the environment as clean air, clean water and green space...”
“There’s a growing realization that natural darkness is as essential to the environment as clean air, clean water and green space...”
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"I grew up watching my father put a little money in a charity box every single day. ...[D]aily giving was part of what made him the man he was."
"I grew up watching my father put a little money in a charity box every single day. ...[D]aily giving was part of what made him the man he was."
The awkward Thanksgiving of O. Henry’s ‘two gentlemen’ - The Boston Globe
In a classic short story, two flawed men show how generosity — even when executed badly — can enlarge the soul.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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"I grew up watching my father put a little money in a charity box every single day. ...[D]aily giving was part of what made him the man he was."
"I grew up watching my father put a little money in a charity box every single day. ...[D]aily giving was part of what made him the man he was."
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"I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship."
Major Taylor, born on this day in 1878
Major Taylor, born on this day in 1878
November 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
"I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship."
Major Taylor, born on this day in 1878
Major Taylor, born on this day in 1878
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November 26, 1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.
November 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
November 26, 1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.
November 25, 2025
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"The day after Thanksgiving is the start of the holiday shopping season, and ...reformers are focusing on consumers’ power to push back on the policies of the Trump administration, launching a campaign they call “We Ain’t Buying It.”
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"The day after Thanksgiving is the start of the holiday shopping season, and ...reformers are focusing on consumers’ power to push back on the policies of the Trump administration, launching a campaign they call “We Ain’t Buying It.”
November 25, 2025
Last week, a poll conducted for Global EV Alliance, made up of electric vehicle driver associations around the world, found that 52% of Americans would avoid buying a Tesla for political reasons.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
November 25, 2025
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"The day after Thanksgiving is the start of the holiday shopping season, and ...reformers are focusing on consumers’ power to push back on the policies of the Trump administration, launching a campaign they call “We Ain’t Buying It.”
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
"The day after Thanksgiving is the start of the holiday shopping season, and ...reformers are focusing on consumers’ power to push back on the policies of the Trump administration, launching a campaign they call “We Ain’t Buying It.”
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"Wonder why the media doesn't talk about taxing billionaires"
via Michael Taylor
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExixtence
#TaxTheRich
via Michael Taylor
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExixtence
#TaxTheRich
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"Wonder why the media doesn't talk about taxing billionaires"
via Michael Taylor
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExixtence
#TaxTheRich
via Michael Taylor
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExixtence
#TaxTheRich
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"ha ha bitches, I got a new scooter" is a Top 20 line of the 21st century
I love him. “The first time I caught up to [ICE], I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"ha ha bitches, I got a new scooter" is a Top 20 line of the 21st century
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If you’d just serve the people instead of the donor class, you wouldn’t need the donor class. A million $20 donors beats one $10M donor every time.
Schumer & Gillibrand facing mutiny from Dems over their outdated “corporate-friendly” playbook, refusal to back Zohran, etc.
Long overdue. @schumer.senate.gov
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Long overdue. @schumer.senate.gov
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November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
If you’d just serve the people instead of the donor class, you wouldn’t need the donor class. A million $20 donors beats one $10M donor every time.
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Away with the dotard, to the jail with him!
November 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Away with the dotard, to the jail with him!
Memory Eternal, Viola Ford Fletcher...
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
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November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Memory Eternal, Viola Ford Fletcher...
Oh, Canada!
So far ahead of the United States it's not even funny...
So far ahead of the United States it's not even funny...
Something very cool just happened to #Montreal.
Last week I got to ride on the REM line, now fully open from Brossard to Deux-Montagnes.
Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (100 km/h plus). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems)
And really fun to ride...
🧵
Last week I got to ride on the REM line, now fully open from Brossard to Deux-Montagnes.
Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (100 km/h plus). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems)
And really fun to ride...
🧵
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Oh, Canada!
So far ahead of the United States it's not even funny...
So far ahead of the United States it's not even funny...
Do you subscribe to Garret M. Graff's Doomsday Scenario? Here's an excerpt (hope it's okay that I took this screen shot. If not, pls lmk.)
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Do you subscribe to Garret M. Graff's Doomsday Scenario? Here's an excerpt (hope it's okay that I took this screen shot. If not, pls lmk.)
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Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.
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Image from Henry Everett's 1956 map "The Voyage of the Pequod from the Book Moby Dick by Herman Melville."
tinyurl.com/mvefb4ws
Ismael, buoyed by a coffin-canoe, "floating on a soft and dirgelike [map]." (Epilogue - Moby Dick or The Whale)
The #map, floating, soft, and #dirgelike...
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Ismael, buoyed by a coffin-canoe, "floating on a soft and dirgelike [map]." (Epilogue - Moby Dick or The Whale)
The #map, floating, soft, and #dirgelike...
![[map portion] is from Henry Everett's 1956 map "The Voyage of the Pequod from the Book Moby Dick by Herman Melville.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q66r3vy7xepmx62ti4vt7uzb/bafkreic7xpe2m6haq3cebjqg6y7nrtax4ov33q4xy624tn2lw6fgzkx3xa@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Cartoon by David Horsey.
November 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Cartoon by David Horsey.
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"maybe the real prize is the friends we made along the way. The international readers, the incredible connections, the miracle of literature as it traverses the borders of language itself — a miracle I have the privilege of partaking in every time I sit down to translate."💙
A year later, I still think I wrote the single best take on Han Kang’s Nobel win. I especially loved taking this essay away from the New York Times and the Atlantic and giving it to @wasafirimag.bsky.social
We Have Arrived: Anton Hur on Han Kang’s Nobel Win
In this moving and revealing essay…
www.wasafiri.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"maybe the real prize is the friends we made along the way. The international readers, the incredible connections, the miracle of literature as it traverses the borders of language itself — a miracle I have the privilege of partaking in every time I sit down to translate."💙
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This is my kind of good trouble.
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This is my kind of good trouble.
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November 21, 2025
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Looks like Trump's so-called "Peace Plan" is, in fact, Putin's plan--a reward for invading Ukraine and murdering thousands.
A total betrayal.
A sellout.
An embarrassment.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Looks like Trump's so-called "Peace Plan" is, in fact, Putin's plan--a reward for invading Ukraine and murdering thousands.
A total betrayal.
A sellout.
An embarrassment.
November 21, 2025
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people today.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
November 21, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Looks like Trump's so-called "Peace Plan" is, in fact, Putin's plan--a reward for invading Ukraine and murdering thousands.
A total betrayal.
A sellout.
An embarrassment.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Looks like Trump's so-called "Peace Plan" is, in fact, Putin's plan--a reward for invading Ukraine and murdering thousands.
A total betrayal.
A sellout.
An embarrassment.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Good grief! PLEASE click on the link to Professor O'Donnell's short--and entertaining--expose of the (pardon my expression) idiocy of legislation that requires public schools to teach falsehoods that echo Charlie Kirk's skewed/inaccurate view of American history.
Good grief!
Good grief!
Ohio officials vote to teach Christi@n n@tion@list fake history in public schools
#ushistory #americanhistory #founders #socialstudies #constitution www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UYM7QV/
#ushistory #americanhistory #founders #socialstudies #constitution www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UYM7QV/
Ohio officials vote to teach Christi@n n@tion@list fake history in public schools #ushistory #founders #socialstudies #constitution #HistoryTikTok
TikTok video by Edward T. O’Donnell
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November 23, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Good grief! PLEASE click on the link to Professor O'Donnell's short--and entertaining--expose of the (pardon my expression) idiocy of legislation that requires public schools to teach falsehoods that echo Charlie Kirk's skewed/inaccurate view of American history.
Good grief!
Good grief!
The so-called "ceasefire" is not a "ceasefire" but a license for Israel to continue slaughtering Palestinians with impunity.
Airstrikes don’t “test” a ceasefire. They break a ceasefire. Language isn’t that hard, media. Neither is professionalism and bravery.
BREAKING: At least 24 people are dead and 54 wounded after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began in October, officials say.
November 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The so-called "ceasefire" is not a "ceasefire" but a license for Israel to continue slaughtering Palestinians with impunity.
November 21, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Looks like Trump's so-called "Peace Plan" is, in fact, Putin's plan--a reward for invading Ukraine and murdering thousands.
A total betrayal.
A sellout.
An embarrassment.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Looks like Trump's so-called "Peace Plan" is, in fact, Putin's plan--a reward for invading Ukraine and murdering thousands.
A total betrayal.
A sellout.
An embarrassment.
November 21, 2025
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people today.
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
November 21, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Looks like Trump's so-called "Peace Plan" is, in fact, Putin's plan--a reward for invading Ukraine and murdering thousands.
A total betrayal.
A sellout.
An embarrassment.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Looks like Trump's so-called "Peace Plan" is, in fact, Putin's plan--a reward for invading Ukraine and murdering thousands.
A total betrayal.
A sellout.
An embarrassment.
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What happened to war correspondent Richard Tregaskis following his severe wounding in Italy on this day in 1943? He was taken to the 38th Evacuation Field Hospital. Major William Pitts had already performed two brain operations before he started on Tregaskis at about two o’clock in the morning.
November 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
What happened to war correspondent Richard Tregaskis following his severe wounding in Italy on this day in 1943? He was taken to the 38th Evacuation Field Hospital. Major William Pitts had already performed two brain operations before he started on Tregaskis at about two o’clock in the morning.