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COP_PILOT_HorizonCOP_PILOT_Horizon
2026-02-12

Are you prepared for the upcoming COP-PILOT Horizon Open Call? Our joint webinar with and @O_CEI_Horizon has just ended.

👇In case you missed it, check the pictures below to get a snapshot and key information. The full record will be available soon, and it will be publicly shared.

Thank you, O-CEI and CEISphere, for the support and valuable learning shared.

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Gay CurmudgeonHermitsDaily
2026-01-05
SkyPilot – Your Bluesky Growth Engineskypilot.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-12-21

Don't outsource your core competency. If you're a tech startup, don't outsource development. If you're a content brand, don't outsource content creation. #strategy #corebusiness #startup #founding #leadership #focus

The USA Potatousa@murica.website
2025-12-10

Visionary Left-Wing Congressman Tried to Block the Creation of the CIA

Beloved by his constituents, Vito Marcantonio spoke out against bankrupt U.S. foreign policies during the Cold War and championed Puerto Rican rights [This article is part of a special CovertAction Magazine series to honor left-wing figures in American...

murica.website/2025/12/visiona

The Ten Best History Books of 2025 – Smithsonian Magazine

Smithsonian magazine’s picks for the best history books of 2025 include We the PeopleThe Stolen Crown and Medicine River. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz

The Ten Best History Books of 2025

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect overlooked histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today

By Meilan Solly – Senior Associate Digital Editor, History November 25, 2025

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Smithsonian magazine’s picks for the best history books of 2025 include We the PeopleThe Stolen Crown and Medicine River. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz

Next July, the United States will mark the 250th anniversary of its founding, a milestone set to be celebrated across the country. American history will serve as the centerpiece of many of these events, with the semiquincentennial offering a chance to reflect on the nation’s triumphs and failures alike. But the question of which stories will be told—and how they’ll be framed—remains a point of contention.

This debate over how to tell American history is unfolding at a “moment that people have described as existential, certainly a moment of division,” documentarian Ken Burns told Smithsonian magazine earlier this month, in a wide-ranging interview about his new American Revolution series on PBS. “Maybe there could be some understanding that during this revolutionary period, we were more divided than we are now. And maybe by going back and reinvesting some time in this origin story, we’ll be able to put the ‘us’ back in the U.S.”

Against this backdrop, the ten history books we’ve chosen to highlight this year serve a dual purpose. Some reflect on the fraught nature of the current moment, detailing how the nation’s past—including the American Revolution and the creation of the U.S. Constitution—informs its present and future. Others offer a respite from today’s reality, transporting readers to places like Tudor England and ancient Egypt. From a biography of Amelia Earhart to the story of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, these are ten of Smithsonian magazine’s favorite history books of 2025.

We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore’s 700-page history of the U.S. Constitution revolves around a central conceit: that this founding charter, written by a group of white men in Philadelphia 238 years ago, was never meant to be a static document. As Lepore, a historian at Harvard University and staff writer at the New Yorker, writes in We the People, “Through experiment and experience, Americans came to agree that if such a strange, fragile thing as a written constitution were to endure, it would, as time passed … need to be both revised and repaired, improved and updated.”

This argument runs counter to originalism, a theory that promotes interpretation of the Constitution as it was understood at the time it was written. In Lepore’s view, originalists “rely on an artificially bounded historical record that disadvantages the descendants of people” who had no say in the creation of the Constitution, including women, the enslaved and Native Americans. Legal scholars rely on the published writings of powerful men to debate the Constitution, she argues. But historians must consider the opinions of those who didn’t serve as delegates to the Constitutional Convention and had no way of publishing their opinions in 1787. “For the historian,” Lepore writes, “unpublished documents written by less powerful people do not ‘count for nothing,’” as former Solicitor General Robert Bork argued in 1990. “In fact,” she says, “they count for rather a lot.”

We the People builds on the Amendments Project, an initiative Lepore spearheaded that tracks more than 11,000 amendments proposed in Congress between 1789 and 2022. The vast majority of these efforts never came to fruition, with just 27 amendments ratified by the states since 1791. But that doesn’t mean the failed proposals are insignificant: As Lepore tells the Guardian, “It’s so hard to amend the Constitution. If you look at efforts to do it, you just see this really big, colorful canvas of contestation, which is narratively rich and politically important.” Written in lyrical prose, Lepore’s new book unpacks this history, presenting a timely argument about the need for the Constitution to keep evolving to meet society’s needs.

Editor’s Note: The featured image at the top is by WP AI.

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2025-11-11

Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley’s cause of death officially revealed as head trauma

The fall in September forced Frehley to cancel multiple concerts. A September 26 post on the guitarist’s official…
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Wittgenstein's Monsterwittgensteinmonster
2025-09-03

🇸🇲 Sept 3, 301 – Saint Marinus founded San Marino.
Not a kingdom. A republic.
Not a conquest. A refuge.
He gave his life not for glory, but for his friends.

"Greater love hath no man than this..."

2025-08-10

Hobson’s Pledge founder pushes for ratepayer decision-making role at New Plymouth District Council

Moratti claimed to have not been an “active member” of Hobson’s Pledge for 10 years, but in 2021,…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #access #activist #at #board #council #decisionmaking #district #for #founder #founding #given #group #hobsons #member #new #NewZealand #NZ #pledge #plymouth #pushes #ratepayer #role #wants
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Nine Internet Solutions AGninecloudnavigators
2025-07-01

Happy birthday, dear Nine – let's get this party started! 🥳 We're celebrating: Nine Internet Solutions AG was founded 23 years ago. ✅ Thomas Hug, our CEO, looks back fondly on those days. He may have been younger and fitter back then, but he was just as motivated as he is today. In the pictures you can see our boss as a youngster and an insight into the state of our hardware in the data center from 2022. Many thanks in advance for your gifts. 🎁

WIST Quotations Has Moved!wist@my-place.social
2025-05-14

A quotation from John Adams

The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the inspiration of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the sense.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of The United States of America, Vol. 1, Preface (1787)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #government #johnadams #America #Constitution #enlightenment #founding #inspiration #reason #secularism

2025-04-10

Mache Deine Idee zum #Startup mit Hilfe unser Mentor:innen 🤠 Melde Dich jetzt bei Start A Startup auf edu.opencampus.sh an und löse Probleme in unser Gesellschaft! Lerne Geschäftsmodelle, Marketing, Steuern + teste deine Idee mit Deiner Zielgruppe. Am Ende präsentierst Du dein Projekt auf dem @waterkant_festival 🤩 🌊✨

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Junge Frauen und Männer sitzen in einem Coworkingspace und lernen zu gründen
Kidney Patients Barrie :verified:KidneyPatientsBarrie@mstdn.ca
2025-03-15

Kidney Patients Association Announces Upcoming Founding Meeting dub.sh/vGQyZZB #Founding #Meeting #MediaRelease #PressRelease #Barrie #Alliston #Innisfil #onpoli @barrie @onpoli

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Harpij Pharpij
2025-03-02
Pithead StudioPitheadStudio
2024-12-02

Startup Troubles ⚒️🦉🦇 Problems of starting a business

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Bèr Kessels 🐝 🚐 🏄 🌱berkes@mastodon.nl
2024-11-28

Having worked with lots of founders of tech startups, and having worked as such founder myself: the biggest mistake, by far, is that people underestimate the grind.

#Founding a #startup is only fun, innovative, creative for a few weeks. After that, it's months, or years of boring work.

If you cannot suppress the "I have a cool idea!", the startup will fail.
If you love trying new cool stuff, the startup will fail. Laser focus is the opposite of creative, innovative, cutting-edge.

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