Happy First Day of Meteorology Winter …. Winter Solstice:Dec 21


See the source imageThe official first day of winter is the winter solstice, which falls on December 21 st each year. However, in meteorology, we consider the first day of winter to be the first day of December. The meteorological winter in the Northern Hemisphere runs from the first of December until the last day of February.

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cute-calendar.com

earthnetworks.com

almanac.com

1866 ~ Native Warriors ambush 81 US Soldiers in Fetterman Massacre


Determined to challenge the growing American military presence in their territory, Native Americans in northern Wyoming lure Lieutenant Colonel William Fetterman and his soldiers into a deadly ambush on December 21, 1866. With 81 fatalities, the Fetterman Massacre was the army’s worst defeat in the West until the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Tensions in the region started rising in 1863, when John Bozeman blazed the Bozeman Trail, a new route for emigrants traveling to the Montana gold fields.

The Bozeman’s trail was of questionable legality since it passed directly through hunting grounds that the government had promised to the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapahoe in the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851.

Thus, when Colorado militiamen massacred more than two hundred peaceful Cheyenne during the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864, the Native Americans began to take revenge by attacking whites all across the Plains, including the emigrants traveling the Bozeman Trail.

The U.S. government responded by building a series of protective forts along the trail; the largest and most important of these was Fort Phil Kearney, erected in 1866 in north-central Wyoming.

Source: history.com for the complete article

Sinema just stabbed us in the back


After missing vote after vote after vote, Senator Kyrsten Sinema finally showed up to work … to deliver one final blow to workers’ rights.1

Arizona’s Phoenix New Times put it this way: “Sinema delivers a last ‘f**k you’ to Democrats on her way out the door.”2

Sinema voted with every single Republican—and Joe Manchin—to tank President Joe Biden’s nominee for chair of the National Labor Relations Board.3

If Biden’s nominee had been confirmed, Democrats would have controlled the NLRB for years to come, upholding workers’ rights and protecting against Project 2025’s right-wing attacks on unions.4

But Sinema killed the opportunity. Now, Donald Trump will have control over the most powerful government body that oversees worker safety and the right to unionize.

MoveOn.org

1. “Sinema Finally Shows Up to Work to Deal One Last Blow to Labor Rights,” The New Republic, December 11, 2024
https://act.moveon.org/go/200919?t=4&akid=418314%2E43811699%2EBaRqhH

2. “Sinema delivers a last ‘f**k you’ to Democrats on her way out the door,” Phoenix New Times, December 12, 2024
https://act.moveon.org/go/200924?t=6&akid=418314%2E43811699%2EBaRqhH

3. “Sinema Finally Shows Up to Work to Deal One Last Blow to Labor Rights,” The New Republic, December 11, 2024
https://act.moveon.org/go/200919?t=8&akid=418314%2E43811699%2EBaRqhH

4. Ibid.

5. “Sinema received nearly $1 million from Wall Street while killing tax hike on investors,” PBS News, August 13, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/200920?t=10&akid=418314%2E43811699%2EBaRqhH

6. “Kyrsten Sinema and the Thumbs-Down That Enraged the Left,” The New York Times, October 18, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/200921?t=12&akid=418314%2E43811699%2EBaRqhH

7. “Democrats have had enough of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s obstruction,” Vox, January 23, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/200922?t=14&akid=418314%2E43811699%2EBaRqhH

8. “Sinema opposes Biden’s call for filibuster exception to pass abortion rights,” ABC News, July 1, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/170244?t=16&akid=418314%2E43811699%2EBaRqhH