For the record, Army studies going all the way back to the 1950s(!) showed that LGB personnel neither undermined unit cohesion nor posed a security risk, not that lawmakers listened. Emotions are a powerful drug, especially, apparently, for male decision makers. taskandpurpose.com/news/ranger-...

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This whole thing is pregnant with meaning (and yes, I said what I said). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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This semester I experimented with making my students print out their readings.I thought I’d get slammed in evals.In an anonymous survey, 24 of 25 students praised the policy. Reasons ranged from fewer headaches to easier to annotate to harder to forget to read to better retention.Long live paper. 🗃️🗺️

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Diane Carlson Evans, a former Army nurse, spent years championing military women. She died of a rare cancer linked to Agent Orange, the toxic herbicide.

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It was about Eisenhower and Dien Bien Phu. I am looking for discussions of the need seek congressional authorization if the US intervened. Finding traces of that -- though so far it's hard to tease out whether that informed DDE's military restraint, or whether it was a way to explain it to France.

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