Celeste Headlee
@celesteheadlee
Writer, speaker, journalism prof Morgan State. She/her. Black, Jewish. Living on Piscataway land. Pre-order my book! Press: ashley@triple7pr.com
The minimum safe altitude for any aircraft over a populated area is 1,000 feet (3-4 city blocks) above the highest obstacle. "It is FAA policy to investigate citizen complaints of low-flying aircraft...the FAA has legal enforcement responsibilities."
How does Uwe Boll keep getting funding to make his horrible, ridiculous films?
The Headlee Principle: Your happiness increases in inverse proportion to the amount of fucks you give. Cartoon from Vaughn Tomlinson
Looked up "Black history" on Etsy and this was one of the top ten results.
Here's a good overview of the chemical pollution that the Trump administration is about to dump all over DC and into the Potomac (courtesy of @andybrunning.bsky.social)
Monroe moved into the new building 209 years ago after the Brits burned the original. The eagle looks a lot like the Nazi Imperial Eagle. Some iterations of the Confederate flag had 11 stars to represent the 11 traitorous states. Also, this is ugly AF.
The only necessary qualification to play Helen is beauty. And girl has got that covered....
The government hates us, the president threatens us, Wall Street is taking our jobs... but at least our neighbors call us evil.
"Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is wealth, with its corrupting, demoralizing influences. Let us never have a Government at Washington owing its retention to the power of the millionaires rather than to the will of millions." -- Joseph Pulitzer
Statues of dictators throughout time: Chavez, Kai-shek, Lenin, Trump...
Sagan: "At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.”
Sagan: "Far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus, and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don’t like that statement, but few can argue with it.”
Sagan: "If the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us."
Sagan: "Sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."
I re-read Carl Sagan every couple of years. I hope that, someday, it will stop being so relevant.
Bonus in the book: lots of great detail about the young life of William Grant Still, my grandfather, the Dean of Black American composers. Like the time when he started a fire in his bedroom.