@thomaspaineakagary
Art, History, Science, ethical vegetarian. "Erecting the wall of separation between church & state is absolutely essential in a free society."-T Jefferson humans have released more CO2 into the atmosphere since 1990 than in all prior history
only US states that were part of the confederacy have 30% or so & above of their population who are adherents or supporters of Christian Nationalism. Recently the SBC voted to not allow women pastors, btw.
Chis Wright is a despicable propagandist for fossli fuel so he would celebrate causing more environmental desruction.
stock trades while president: Bill Clinton- 0 ; W. Bush – 0; Barack Obama- 0; Joe Biden-13 ; Trump1st Term-517; Donald Trump 2nd Term Over 24,000 WSJ says doanld is "cashing in" on the presidency.
worth noting that the $5.8 million does NOT include a separate, larger $83.3 million jury verdict for continued defamation in 2024, which Trump is currently continuing to appeal.
Gordon Parks' American Gothic. Portrait of government cleaning woman Ella Watson. (1942) 'Often included in TIME magazine’s list of the "100 Most Influential Photographs Ever Taken", the image is an iconic piece of protest and civil rights art.' wiki
a beautiful painting of "basically solid and good people" as Grant Wood said of his subjects. Below, how he felt about Europe falling to the Nazi blitzkrieg is powerfully expressed in his 1940 Approaching Storm:
NM state initial probe of Epstein ranch was shut down in 2019 at the explicit request of trump appointees at the DOJ
the cash to Iran was not U.S. taxpayer money. The $1.7 billion shipment consisted entirely of Iranian assets that had been frozen by the United States for decades. Trump has caused bloodshed, and blown billions of US tax dollars to achieve what exactly?
Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel, Invisible Man, opened with a scene showing a young Black man who is forced to participate in a blindfolded boxing match against other young Black men for the entertainment of a group of white town leaders, a 'battle royale'.
Trump might still top all that off by creating a Minister of Enlightenment and Propaganda ala Joseph Goebbels.
it began his 1st term when His DOE czar Rick Perry embraced coal baron Robert Murray who came asking for federal money, & less regulation. Rick Perry's Coal Bailout Scheme Was Murray Energy's Idea. (they fired the DOE photographer who took this photo)
My great grandmother wasn't quite as keen on the day's catch, but during the great depression it was welcomed
“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail
that "weird kind of smugness" firing at the redcoat authoritarians
The world sieg heiling Elon Musk dreams of making real.