Euryale, aka Theodosia and Connie

Famously served by the Red Ball Express, the black trucker brigade that kept the supplies moving.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Oh yeah. That's what want from book social media

Two thoughts for current ICE & DHS agents
1. "I was just following orders," will not protect you
2. Neither will the people giving you the orders

Move on! Life is short.

Clouds over Summerville on my way home .

Obamacare Enrollment by State: Most Enrollees Live in Republican Areas (Gift Article) Millions of Americans depend on Obamacare. Here's where they live.

Most Americans Who Rely on Obamacare Live in Republican Areas
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Important to keep remembering and repeating that Kimmel didn't mock Charlie Kirk or celebrate his death in the monologue. He mocked the president's lack of feeling and criticized the regime.

RAPEpublicans: Grifters Oligarchs Pedophiles

Sep 15, 1963. Learn about the peaceful protests, the racist bombing of a key Black church, & the murder of four girls. Read the article & watch the video interview. Combat racism, violence, & the attempted takeover of America & the Free World. Protect fragile democracy! bsky.app/profile/hcri...

Some free speech is more free than others...

I would like to take this opportunity to remember Melissa Hortman, a serving Democratic politician assasinated by a right-winger.

Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.

If your heritage can be easily destroyed by changing a logo, it deserves to be destroyed.

The Founding Fathers always knew a king-like tyrant would one day try to rule as personal dictator and use the powers of the presidency to live above the law. But they never foresaw an entire branch of government abdicating oath in favor of partisan complicity and grift, and they certainly never foresaw algorithmic media producing a citizenry so manipulated by obvious deceit.

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
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~Alice Walker

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

a thought i have reading @clintsmithiii.bsky.social’s wonderful piece is that one reason the administration wants to erase any mention of the worst of our past is because it is intent on recapitulating those atrocities www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Used jockey shorts.

Mussolini made the trains run on time...

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

From WKRP, when the rowdy punk rock band explains that their last manager quit by jumping out of the limousine at 40 mph:

"That's our story, and we're sticking to it."

Caring about Palestine is not some niche political issue it’s like the absolute bare minimum of being a human being

Parking is tight in Harvard Square.

Show Us Your Face The federal government should prohibit the wearing of masks by ICE agents and require them to properly identify themselves.

“Descending on a person in public, laying hands on them, and taking them to a distant prison is a naked expression of state power. For it to be tolerated in a democracy, it cannot be done by shadowy, masked agents,” Brandon del Pozo argues:

Also, they're working good jobs, paying taxes, being anything like a burden on society.

This is going to be the modern equivalent of the Fugitive Slave Act.

Mamdani is just a modern version of Fiorello La Guardia, with a different accent.

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952