CIRCLE WITH A DOT

On #ThisDayInHistory in 2025, a horrifically #neonazi #ExecutiveOrder targeted the #Smithsonian with a defence of literal "#ScientificRacism". It critiques exhibits simply for noting the proven fact that #race is a human invention, a #SocialConstruct.https://zurl.co/VChKR

The #UniversityOfCalifornia, my alma mater, was founded on #ThisDayInHistory in 1868 when the governor signed a bill that passed assets of two prior institutions into a new public university. #UCBerkeley, its first campus, opened in 1873. The UC system is the top-rated in the US.

#ÓscarRomero, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1980, gave a sermon in which he called on the common soldiers of the Salvadoran state to refuse immoral orders and stop killing. Tens of thousands were killed by the state in the #SalvadoranCivilWar; Romero joined the dead the very next day.

@LiamOMaraIV and even as bad as it is - the fascists are still obsessed with abolishing it.

26-year-old Black paramedic #BreonnaTaylor was killed by #police who broke into her home #ThisDayInHistory in 2020. They blind-fired 20 times, hit her with five, offered no aid as she bled out, then filed a fake report listing no injuries.It can't be reformed; #AbolishThePolice.

The #BattleOfĐiệnBiênPhủ began #ThisDayInHistory in 1954. The #FrenchUnion dug into a fortified position to break #ViệtMinh supply lines but the #Vietnamese surrounded them with artillery concealed in tunnels. After a two-month siege, the French empire was broken in Indochina.