The New YorkerAn Elegy for the Kennedy Center
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/an-elegy-for-the-kennedy-center
Alaska Headline LivingTrump's Ledger: Swag Sells While Farms Fail
West Wing merch rooms and $10K hats amid spiking suicides and closures. Is this the Art of the Dealbreaker? Unpack the parallels inside. https://tinyurl.com/2r5k89tx
#TrumpsLedger #WhiteHouseSwag #RuralPain #TwoTerms #Politcs #Bankruptcy #Trump #TajMahal #TrumpTower #Tariffs #Farmers 🔥📈
West Wing merch rooms and $10K hats amid spiking suicides and closures. Is this the Art of the Dealbreaker? Unpack the parallels inside. https://tinyurl.com/2r5k89tx
#TrumpsLedger #WhiteHouseSwag #RuralPain #TwoTerms #Politcs #Bankruptcy #Trump #TajMahal #TrumpTower #Tariffs #Farmers 🔥📈
James B Toy 🧸Let me see if I have this right. The Secretary of Defense changed his title to Secretary of War, then he and Trump started a war that the self-defined Secretary of War says is not a war.
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The Hollywood ReporterJon Stewart Rages Over Iran War: “This Is Trump’s Whole Presidency”
#TV #TVNews #Donaldtrump #JonStewart #Politcs #TheDailyShow
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jon-stewart-iran-war-trump-reaction-1236520088/
Peter Relph ᴀᴜThey want small weak government & big militarised police
What does that tell you about them?
#politcs
TenkomanOnly 13% were correct with „Orange“
The pink triangle was used for gays,
the purple triangle was used for clericals,
the blue was used for Germans who tried to flee the nazi regime,
all these triangle could be expanded with e.g. a yellow triangle as a backdrop if the regime prisioner was also a Jew.
Without using a search engine or check a history book, which of these colours did the Nazis NOT use to mark their "enemies" in camps?
Pink
Purple
Blue
Orange
Poll ended at .
The New Oil
Life on the Wicked Stage: Act 3When Irony Turns Historic Symbols On Their Head
Symbols, logos, insignias always have meaning. Certainly they do for their creators. For others they hold and take on meaning over time. Those that endure rarely take on a new and different significance. Often they just blend into the background unless they represent something that becomes contentious. We’ve all seen that happen in our lifetimes. But on occasion the fickle finger of irony points in a new direction.
I was born in Virginia, though I don’t live there now. The Commonwealth of Virginia’s symbol and motto Sic Semper Tyrannis (thus always to tyrants) took on a historically ironic meaning today with the swearing in of the Commonwealth’s first female governor, Abigail Spanberger. She’s taking office in what can only be called tempestuous times brought on us all by a tyrant. And it sounds like she’s up for the fight.
The seal and motto were first adopted in 1861 at the start of the American Civil War as Virginia seceded from the Union. For those, like myself, who think we’re currently living through the long delayed continuation of that conflict that’s been simmering since the fighting concluded, the twists and turns of history featuring the same female figure of virtue standing astride a fallen king symbolizing the defeat of tyranny for a state now led by a female governor is irony just too delicious to ignore.
I note that one of Governor Spanberger’s first acts was to veto the Executive Order that enabled Virginia’s participation in the program that allowed local law enforcement to act as ICE agents.
Here’s hoping there’s more of that to come from the new governor.
You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above.
#abigailSpanberger #GovernorAbigailSpanberger #History #news #politcs #Politics #Virginia
