Janice Blake

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.

[Janice Blake @JanzaBlake]

This can't be true!

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

The United States of Israel: House passes Sec. 224 to integrate U.S. and Israeli militaries

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Ohio Republicans secretly awarded Google, Meta, and Amazon $600 million in tax breaks to build data centers.

The tax breaks were written to last 40 years and cannot be undone.

[Janice Blake @JanzaBlake]

Thus, Donald Trump makes America "Great" !

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Scotland fan has US visa revoked an hour before flying to World Cup https://t.co/j8sydKdMqB

[Janice Blake @JanzaBlake]

@atrupar Do they just make these "facts" up?

[Janice Blake @JanzaBlake]

@JamesTate121 😖😠

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Jewish extremists attacked and spat on Father Firas Abedrabbo, parish priest of the Latin Church in the village of Ein 'Arik, near Ramallah in the West Bank, as he walked near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem.

Father Abedrabbo filed a complaint with Israeli police. No arrest has been made.

[Janice Blake @JanzaBlake]

@TheSaviour Makes sense. Because they started the current war with the United States and Israel.

Oh, they didn't?

What is the rationale?

[Janice Blake @JanzaBlake]

Is THIS how Trump makes America "Great"?

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BREAKING: Top journalist Miguel Delaney drops a massive bombshell on LBC.

He confirms the Trump administration is actively violating international World Cup contracts by completely refusing to guarantee basic freedom of movement for participating nations.

[Janice Blake @JanzaBlake]

https://t.co/21NYxpOL0B - Father shot twin boys, then himself in Canoga Park, police say

It's the guns.

Again.

[Janice Blake @JanzaBlake]

https://t.co/L1N23pL7gm - A battle over billboards roils Inglewood

Billboards are a blight--digital or not--wherever they are, whatever the message.

[Janice Blake @JanzaBlake]

https://t.co/I4sM5EnGWP - A win for housing in Venice

Nobody wants people living on the streets.

Unfortunately, nobody also wants housing for the homeless nearby.

Such facilities need funding for supervision and services that will enable them to be good neighbors.

[Janice Blake @JanzaBlake]

[I]t matters to every American.

Hegseth is injecting his own prejudices into who is trusted to lead the military When the leadership... is shaped by politics rather than excellence, the damage goes far beyond unfairness.

The military is weaker;the country is less safe.

[Janice Blake @JanzaBlake]

https://t.co/kRkXMxMi19 - Hegseth's meddling with promotions endangers the U.S.

[Hegseth] is canceling results of merit-based promotion boards [telling] the force professional judgment can be overruled by ideological preference, the promotion system bent to political ends.

[Janice Blake @JanzaBlake]

https://t.co/OdOCqi1cm5 - Recall issued for Target baby wipes

Back in the day, we used baby-sized cotton washcloths, warm water and a little mild soap.

In fact, we also used cloth diapers.

Toddlers were toilet trained younger b/c they could actually feel that they were wet.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Israeli forces killed nine people in Tyre in the past 24 hours after it issued forced displacement orders on the city and continued deadly attacks across southern Lebanon.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Following the Israeli settler terrorists' attack on the Christian village of Taybeh — in which fields were set on fire — the Israeli army has now raided the village and is firing stun grenades.

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

In June of 1944, German POWs are moved by the 2nd Ranger Battalion as they are relieved by the 29th Infantry Division only days after they scaled the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc. 🪖

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

A rare photograph taken on D-Day +4.

It is worth remembering that, four days after the initial landings, Allied troops were still coming ashore on the Normandy beaches and fighting their way inland to liberate Nazi-occupied France.

[Janice Blake @JanzaBlake]

https://t.co/2NjEUuhyx6 - Report faults ICE migrant site

And Congress just voted 70 billion more for I.C.E.

[Janice Blake @JanzaBlake]

"In February, Trump demanded that Canada turn over at least half the ownership of the bridge to the U.S. federal government and agree to other unspecified demands in one of his many salvos over cross-border trade issues."

Gotta love Mark Carney!

[Janice Blake @JanzaBlake]

https://t.co/v3DT3X3Xrg - Bridge across Detroit River will open, Carney says

A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Gordie Howe International Bridge, jointly owned by Canada and the state of Michigan, is [for]Friday; bridge itself is expected to open to traffic later this month.