Dean Krimmel #AbolishICE
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Public history | Museums | Baltimore Balto City Historical Society Board Member #Ravens #Orioles #Terps #LFC #YNWA The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe — FZ ABOLISH ICE / DEFUND DHS
Democrats should be unafraid in saying that Roberts on the Court is comparable to Mike Johnson in the House and John Thune in the Senate. They're all in thrall to Trump.
Mark Histed@markhisted.org · yesterdayeveryone needs to care about how the Roberts Court is actively, but quietly, helping Trump enact his agenda. We are in a separation of powers fight, a fight for constitutional meaning, and a fight with the conservative politicians on the corrupt Court.
🎵 Yes we all know, you’ll never be Obamaaaaa 🎵 #OhDonnyBoy
21 August 1935 | A Czech Jewish girl, Aviva Becková, was born. On 23 January 1943 she was deported from #Theresienstadt ghetto to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
Zero new NSF grants in sociology, anthropology, political science and economics. The agenda of this US govt is to stop documenting the society in which we live while they are destroying it. We will find other ways to track and explain our times and fight to restore our research funding.
Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 2d agoFinally, this has gone a bit under the radar, so I want to highlight it: The social, behavioral and economic sciences directorate (SBE) has simply ceased to deliver grants to many of its subareas. Any topic not specifically OK'd by the Trump administration is receiving zero new awards.
Albernaz had a golden opportunity to rile up the home crowd AND back up his players — did you see the dugout erupt?! — after the BS foul ball call on Alonzo’s home run. Hard to fathom as someone who grew up watching Earl Weaver. #Orioles
19 August 1924 | An Austrian Jew, Heinrich Bettelheim, was born in Vienna. In February 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.
This fella brought to the internet the page in the sports section that was always so fun to pore over each morning from April to October in all its black-and-white glory. Great stuff for baseball fans boxscore.email/mlb
MLB Box Scores — Tuesday, August 18, 2026 | boxscore
Daily MLB box scores, standings, and stat leaders for Tuesday, August 18, 2026.
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Psst, WTMD, your new tagline, NPR’s Radio Station, doesn’t have the same ring (esp nowadays) as Radio for Music People. Or total music discovery, for that matter. You’ve still got my ears, but could use a lot less nostalgia radio for people who watch PBS fund drive oldies shows.
17 August 1936 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Jozef Goudsmith (left), was born in Kampen. He was deported to #Auschwitz in November 1942 with his mother Klara and brother Louis. Most probably they were all murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
17 August 1925 | Jewish boy of Polish origin, Maurice Poznanski, was born in Etterbeek. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 4 August 1942. He did not survive.
Dear god, Brian Roberts. Take a breath, man. And stop foaming over Gunnar already. <hits mute> #Orioles
The erasures continue unabated. 19thnews.org/2026/08/nati... 🗃️ 🏳️🌈
National park signs on women and LGBTQ+ history are disappearing. Librarians are preserving the record
The revisions have scrubbed or softened accounts of violence, slavery, activism and lived experiences, raising questions about whose stories the government considers worth telling.
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15 August 1932 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Nicoletta Noort, was born in The Hague. In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
“Treasury isn’t merely shutting down an anti-corruption database — It’s deleting the data so future investigators can’t use it… Trump promised Americans a new golden age, it turns out to be a golden age for diarrhea & white-collar crime.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-gif...
Not even days in office and already violating the useless Hatch Act.
This fine man is simply a champion of the meritocracy, see www.varsity.co.uk/news/30360
Asher Elbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · last wk.Well, well, well. Look who's over here, too
Brian Driscoll (Former Acting FBI Director) was fired from his job for resisting Trump and his retribution campaign. He answered all of these questions correctly as well! #Pinks
15 August 1935 | A French Jewish girl, Marie Krajzelman, was born in Paris. In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- ▶ See the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://bit.ly/4ql4LTV
She just celebrated her 6th birthday in Dilley Detention Center. Originally from Venezuela, they lived in Florida’s 26th congressional district. Homan claims they're locking up the worst of the worst.
91 years ago, President FDR signed the Social Security Act, establishing safeguards for people with disabilities, retirees, and others. I'm committed to pushing for bipartisan solutions like the PROMISE Act to ensure Congress protects benefits for generations to come.
Oh, Eric. Big ups to the jangling keys.
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · last wk.One you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you
Historians @juliarosekraut.bsky.social Sam Lebovic & Ellen Schrecker on the ugly and discredited foundations of the Trump admin’s ideological deportation policies. Really good brief. www.brennancenter.org/media/16098/...
Someday the people responsible for these Kafkaesque deportations must be brought to justice.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2w agoAn excellent report on what the Trump administration is doing here: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/m...
We need to prosecute white collar crime in the US with utter ruthlessness and zeal. One of the reasons we’re here (pick the “here” hellscape you prefer) is because we not only socially but legally accepted elite impunity.
Justin Schuh@justinschuh.com · 2w agoJust gonna bang the drum again about Trump's money laundering history. There's a pretty clear pattern here going back 30+ years involving repeated fines, closed accounts, etc. It may actually be their longest running grift.
But for the glaring typo in the fist sentence, I endorse this Baltimore history lesson. oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss...
Professor Mitchell Versus
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12 August 1941 | A French Jewish girl, Annie Nakache, was born in Constantine (Algeria). She lived in Toulouse. A daughter of a swimmer Alfred Nakache. In January 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her parents. She was murdered in a gas chamber with her mother Paule.
Is there a list of how many people crew, reporters, etc. he was comfortable with using as human decoys? I’m sure the White House Correspondents will have a particularly cunning pocket square to protest.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w agoReal life. @washingtonpost.com @deadder.bsky.social
We’ve got the worm-eaten-brain crew making decisions about our children's health. And then they wonder why measles, whooping cough, and mumps are making a comeback. How about we listen to the folks who actually went to medical school.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2w agoBREAKING: President Trump to sign an executive order calling for spacing out childhood shots, among other changes to vaccine recommendations.
