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Jack Doyle

@PopHistoryDig

Writer, publisher https://t.co/jM2CXDrfQc; former enviro analyst/lobbyist 20 yrs D.C. Books on auto, oil, chem, ag-biz. More at web ‘About’ pg.

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Jack Doyle
Jack Doyle@PopHistoryDig·
PopHistoryDig.com is a magazine-styled website with historical & topical stories on business, politics & popular culture – from JFK to Joni Mitchell; Lady Gaga to Mickey Mantle; Rachel Carson to ExxonMobil – & more w/ music, visually-rich story-telling & solid sources.
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@SmithsonianMag For those who may want additional history on "the DeLorean," and the rise & fall of its creator, John DeLorean – the GM wunderkind & defector who embarked on the venture – the story below may be of interest: “The DeLorean Saga: Car Guy, 1960s-1980s” pophistorydig.com/topics/the-del…
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Smithsonian Magazine
Smithsonian Magazine@SmithsonianMag·
The DeLorean has become an easily recognizable symbol of 1980s futurism thanks to its use in the "Back to the Future" movies. Its creator, John Z. DeLorean, died #OTD in 2005. bit.ly/4sHX7op
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Because a decent chunk of Real Estate in this country relies on cheap gas. Its only accessible via car, and because of its low density its built far away from real job centers. This means that the value of these properties would tank if the price of gas/energy rises to the point where commuting from these places costs more than the saved value of moving out here to own these homes
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Idk why gas prices are so culturally salient in america. You could drive an hour a day and it probably comes to less than $3k/year. Is it because they put the price on billboards along the road?

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@FightForAUnion Agree 100%... Story link below explores importance of U.S. Post Office using, in part, “Saturday Evening Post” cover art to underscore role USPS has played historically, and could still play, if creatively reformed ... “The U.S. Post Office, 1950s-2011” pophistorydig.com/topics/u-s-pos…
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@Neo_Jane8 Thanks for the clip... For those who may want additional Ed Murrow history, story link below explores his “Person-to-Person” TV show, his views on “news-vs-entertainment,” rise of celebrity TV & more. “Person to Person: Ed Murrow, 1953-1961” pophistorydig.com/topics/person-…
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Neo Jane@Neo_Jane8·
CBS Radio singlehandedly changed American journalism. By the late-1930s, CBS News Radio had more than a hundred affiliates throughout the country with bureaus in every major American city. Here's Edward R Murrow takedown of Sen. McCarthy..
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J.P. Cooney
J.P. Cooney@cooneycongress·
I prosecuted the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, and then Donald Trump himself. One week after he took office again, he fired me. Now I’m running for Congress to defend our democracy and restore the rule of law.
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@BeschlossDC Life magazine, in its day, offered important historical markers; thank you. ...For those who may want additional history, link below offers 18 stories w/ civil rights-related content. “Civil Rights Stories, 1930s-2010s” pophistorydig.com/topics/civil-r…
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Michael Beschloss
Michael Beschloss@BeschlossDC·
Impending violence against voting rights marchers in Selma, on cover of Life Magazine dated today 1965:
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@lancecheek ...See the Everly Bros. at No. 8... For additional history & song samples, story link below may be of interest – includes their biographies, video clips, songs, book & album links “The Everly Sound: Don & Phil, 1950s-2000s” pophistorydig.com/topics/everly-…
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Lance Cheek@lancecheek·
US singles chart this week in 1962
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@aaron_lubeck Photos of Detroit... More highway history at link below - San Francisco, Boston, NY, Wash., DC; freeways through minority communities, parkland takings, “road gang” politics & more, plus related book links “Highway Wars, 1950s-1970s” pophistorydig.com/topics/highway…
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Aaron Lubeck@aaron_lubeck·
We are doing it wrong. before < 1962 > after
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Rep. Ted Lieu
Rep. Ted Lieu@RepTedLieu·
Not opposed to voter ID laws, just stupid voter ID laws. The SAVE Act is insane.
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@MikeLevin For additional history on the environmental and community safety performance of the oil & petrochemical sectors, the “topics page” link below may be of interest, offering 20+ story choices “Oil/Petrochem History: Selected Stories, 1950s-2020s” pophistorydig.com/topics/oil-pet…
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Mike Levin
Mike Levin@MikeLevin·
This is infuriating. Trump is exploiting an unauthorized war in Iran to resurrect one of California’s worst environmental nightmares. The last time oil flowed through these pipelines, a corroded pipe burst and spilled more than 100,000 gallons of crude oil, killing hundreds of birds and marine mammals and closing beaches for months. That was 2015. The profits flow to Texas and Wall Street, not to California consumers. The safety record does not hold up, and the environmental risk is simply not worth it. In the years to come, I look forward to having the opportunity to ban California offshore drilling once and for all. Our coastline and our communities deserve better than this. latimes.com/california/sto…
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NRDC 🌎🏡
NRDC 🌎🏡@NRDC·
The Trump administration is illegally giving some of the nation’s most polluting industries a free pass to spew toxic pollution. We’re challenging these unlawful actions in court to protect communities and uphold democracy.
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Vintage Maps
Vintage Maps@vintagemapstore·
The Growth of Walmart
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Farm Action
Farm Action@FarmActionUS·
“Four grocers control 85% of the grocery market.” “Four meatpackers control 85% of meatpacking.” “Two seed companies control 90% of the seed genetics in farming.” “Three big [companies] control 85% of the inputs.” “We’ve allowed the consolidation of just about every industry to the detriment of the consumer.” Regenerative farmer Zach Lahn is calling for strong and swift antitrust action to break up Big Ag monopolies. “Community values, according to our ancestors and according to our Founders, were more important than shareholder value.” “Thomas Jefferson actually said in the early 1800s, right after they founded the country… I hope we kill in its infancy the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations who are already challenging us to a battle of wills.” “And in the 80s, we really took our eye off the ball.” “Now, we’re facing the repercussions of that.” @ZachLahn @leah_wilson
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
BREAKING: Everyone is watching the Strait of Hormuz for oil and fertilizer. Almost nobody has noticed that it is also shutting down MRI machines, semiconductor fabs, and the global aerospace supply chain. Helium. The second lightest element in the universe. No substitute exists for it. You cannot synthesize it. You cannot replace it. And roughly one-third of the world’s supply just went offline. Qatar produces 30 to 33 percent of global helium as a byproduct of LNG processing at Ras Laffan, home to the largest helium production facilities on Earth. When the Hormuz blockade triggered LNG force majeure declarations and attacks hit Qatari infrastructure, the helium stopped flowing with it. Prices have doubled in spot markets. And helium has a property that makes this crisis structurally different from oil, fertilizer, or any other commodity caught behind the strait. It evaporates. Continuously. Even in sealed containers, helium boils off. The global supply chain operates on roughly 45 days of buffer before existing inventory simply ceases to exist. You cannot stockpile helium the way you stockpile crude oil in salt caverns or grain in silos. If the supply stops for six weeks, the buffer is gone. Not depleted. Gone. Returned to the atmosphere where it is too diffuse to economically recapture. This is why the industries that depend on helium are facing a crisis that no financial instrument can solve. Semiconductor manufacturing requires ultra-pure helium for wafer cooling in lithography and for leak detection in sub-5-nanometre chip fabrication. TSMC, Samsung, and Intel cannot produce advanced processors without it. Every AI chip, every smartphone processor, every data centre GPU in the current generation traces its manufacturing lineage through a helium-cooled process. If fabs run dry, the production lines stop. Not slow. Stop. MRI machines require liquid helium to cool superconducting magnets to near absolute zero. Hospitals cannot substitute another gas. When helium supply tightens, MRI availability falls. During previous shortages, hospitals rationed scans. A sustained one-third supply cut puts diagnostic imaging capacity at risk across every healthcare system that depends on magnetic resonance. Aerospace depends on helium for purging rocket fuel systems, pressurising tanks, and testing for leaks in systems where failure means explosion. NASA, SpaceX, ULA, and every launch provider in the Western world runs on helium. Fibre optic cable manufacturing requires helium atmospheres. Quantum computing research requires helium-3 isotopes for cryogenic cooling. The US is the world’s largest helium producer and has some buffer capacity. Algeria and Russia produce meaningful volumes. Overland rerouting from Qatar through Oman and Saudi Arabia is theoretically possible but logistically slow and capacity-limited. None of these alternatives can replace one-third of global supply within the 45-day evaporation window that defines the crisis timeline. The same 21-mile strait that is starving the food system is now threatening the technological infrastructure of modern civilization. The fertilizer trapped behind Hormuz determines whether four billion people eat. The helium trapped behind Hormuz determines whether the chips powering the AI revolution get manufactured, whether cancer patients receive diagnostic scans, and whether rockets carrying communications satellites reach orbit. One chokepoint. Two invisible supply chains. Both irreplaceable. Both operating on biological or physical deadlines that no ceasefire retroactively extends. The world built petroleum reserves. It never built fertilizer reserves. It never built helium reserves either. The pattern keeps repeating. The lesson keeps being ignored. Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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Jack Doyle@PopHistoryDig·
Errata notice - It was actually a 14-city U.S. tour by the Beatles in 1966... My bad...
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“Burn the Beatles” - 1966 U.S. controversy erupts w/ John Lennon remarks that Beatles were “more popular than Jesus.” Despite bad press, radio bans & Beatle bonfires, a 10-city U.S. tour followed. Details at link “Burn The Beatles! Bigger Than Jesus?” pophistorydig.com/topics/burn-th…
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@Jimfrombaseball For those who may want additional Ruth history, story below covers 2 “Babe Ruth Days,” including this one, plus recap of his legacy w/photos & book links. “Babe Ruth Days, 1947 & 1948” pophistorydig.com/topics/babe-ru…
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Zeteo
Zeteo@zeteo_news·
“Donald Trump has gone further than any president before him in enforcing a cult of personality.” Zeteo's @prem_thakker reports from “Donald Trump’s Pyongyang”, aka Washington DC, as Trump turns the city into a monument to himself, echoing Kim Jong Un.
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The Tennessee Holler
The Tennessee Holler@TheTNHoller·
WATCH: “The answer has to be a more progressive tax system. Give people the necessities of life for free — childcare, healthcare… the rich keep getting richer…” Lloyd Blankfein, Senior Chair of Goldman Sachs, out here sounding like @AOC & Bernie 👀 🎯 (From @BlueATLGeorgia)
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Pre-production plastic pellets known as "nurdles," made in the trillions by Big Oil & others, have become part of the microplastics onslaught, w/spills on land, in rivers, lakes & oceans, menacing & killing wildlife, picking up toxic chems & more. See link pophistorydig.com/topics/nurdle-…
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