Janice Blake
@JanzaBlake
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Reader. Writer. "The Battalion Artist" traces Nat Bellantoni's WWII odyssey in the Pacific. Next: "Lighter Than Air" tells of my Uncle Joe in the Atlantic.
Manhattan Beach, CA
Joined September 2011
I wonder what the Torah has to say about this...
Israeli settler fanatics gathered this morning at the road leading to Karm Abu Salem crossing to prevent the entry of desperately needed humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
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October 16, 2025 https://t.co/3dNqVY7sTa "Democrats are saying it’s illegal because it IS illegal."
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Former Trump aide John Bolton indicted over handling of classified material https://t.co/0hU8UqO0j3 “Dissent/disagreement are foundational to America’s constitutional system--vitally important to our freedom. I look forward to the fight to ...expose his abuse of power.”
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Bolton has been indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents. He’s the third longtime target of President Donald Trump to be federally charged in a month.
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Frank Woodruff Buckles, last surviving American veteran of World War I, lies in state in the chapel beneath Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. 🇺🇸🫡
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BREAKING: Palestinian child Mohammed Bahjat Al-Hallaq, 11 years old, was shot and killed by the Israeli army in the village of Al-Rihiya, south of Hebron in the West Bank. He was playing soccer at school when Israeli forces opened fire on the playground. Another day under
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WHAT is going on? Is THIS what a cease fire looks like? It's difficult to believe that the Israelis want peace. It looks like what they really want is to expand their borders.
No, this isn’t a sunrise. It’s Israel massively bombing South Lebanon right now.
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Feb 1943. Henry Marad sent a postcard home. He had been away just short while. I'm guessing he was homesick. No texting back then. No email. And long-distance telephone calls were expensive and the wait to use the phone could be hours long.
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Victorian/Edwardian encaustic floor tiles. Once manufactured in our factories. An unbeatable and lasting statement inside or out.
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Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People https://t.co/Co5JM01dut MAGA: Make America Go Full-on Racist Again.
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The proposals would transform a program aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in the world into one that gives preference to mostly white people who say they are being persecuted.
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October 15, 2025 https://t.co/4tBGKPmVIQ T "striking down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act [means] Republicans could win virtually uncontested control of the South and so could control the House of Representatives even if they lost the popular vote by a significant margin."
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Men assume Pride & Prejudice is a Hallmark romance when the plot is driven by the Bennet sisters’ fear of starvation because they will be homeless when their father dies. It’s a book about money, about people, and those who dismiss it as saccharine fluff are cheating themselves.
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A new photo of Northern Gaza shows entire neighborhoods flattened to the ground. People have returned--not to homes, but to the ruins.
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OTD in 1881, the most significant happening in English literature occurred. The birth of that good egg, Pelham Grenville ('Plum' to his friends) Wodehouse. Knighted in 1975, the novels of this Dulwich-educated master of comic storytelling are compulsory & addictive reading.
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Pick up a random newspaper from 1920 and you’ll think you’re reading Cicero. The vocabulary, rhythm, and depth were worlds above what passes for “educated” speech today. We’ve become a civilization that can code, but can’t write a sentence worth remembering.
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Shame. Shame on Israel for allowing these settlers to terrorize the residents of the West Bank. You've already displaced them from homes that were in the land granted to you in 1948. What more do you want?
It's midnight now in Palestine. Israeli settler terrorists are attacking Huwara in the West Bank, pelting houses with stones and terrorizing civilians.
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Israeli army raids the family of a released Palestinian 📍Yatta, West Bank
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hat ever possessed me to buy this book? I thought it would be inspiring! It turned out to be depressing. Just think, if you live to be 100 and go on 10 trips a year...a guess it's possible. If you don't run out of money...and energy...and vacation time first.
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U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says https://t.co/Usv7JinItz This, from the guy who thinks he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?
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In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.
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Today in 1066, William the Duke of Normandy crushes England's King Harold II a few miles inland from the coastal village of Hastings (at the present-day town of Battle, East Sussex). Although fewer than 20,000 take part in the clash, its outcome echoes down through the ages.
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