In their haste to make the martyrdom of Charlie Kirk an excuse for authoritarian consolidation, the administration and other players in the Republican media game are flooding the zone with shit. I feel like there are too many stories, not fully formed into narratives, out...
Author: Cheryl Rofer
Image by Peter H from Pixabay I’ve been saying it for a while on social media. Project 2025 has within it the seeds of its own destruction. The theme throughout is “Fire all.
This orchid is one of the three plants I brought with me in the move. I’ve had it for years, and it blooms reliably, but this is the first time.
There has always been a strain of violence in American politics and life. Since 9/11, that has been amplified. The right in particular has been quick to speak of violence and violent ends, most recently the President sharing a video of a violent end to...
Solvay Conference, 1927. This is not intended to suggest that any of the people in this photo engaged in inappropriate sexual behaviors, just that science has long been male-dominated. Marie.
The New Hall of Representatives, with the Members in Session, Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives. Another budget crisis looms at the end of the month. These crises are.
A political cartoon from 1856. The Free Soilers opposed the extension of slavery into the new states. The Free Soiler is being held down by Democratic leaders, including President Franklin Pierce. Two of them stand on the Democratic platform, which calls for an expansion of...
This orchid is one of the three plants I brought with me in the move. I've had it for years, and it blooms reliably, but this is the first time.
A Mark 11 SEAL delivery vehicle conducting routine training; photo altered by the U.S. Navy for security purposes. (Photo by Chief Mass Communications Specialist Christopher Perez). Source In 2019, a.
Guided missile destroyer Sampson, one of the US Navy ships deployed to the Caribbean. Donald Trump has made known his desire to kill drug traffickers. Now he claims to have killed eleven of them by having the US Navy blow up a boat in the...
he House Joint Resolution Proposing the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, June 16, 1866; Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress, 1789-1999; General Records of the United States Government; Record Group.
What I am looking for in social media and blogging is good discussion. The dynamics of interaction are different for the two media. I’m discussing social media, in particular Bluesky,.