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Merry Christmas from the Murrows!
(Judging from the address, this would be Janet and Ed Murrow’s first Christmas in London, 1937. Notice how the artwork shows radio, phone lines, and airplanes tying Europe together, less than two years before WWII tore it apart.) 🗃️
(Judging from the address, this would be Janet and Ed Murrow’s first Christmas in London, 1937. Notice how the artwork shows radio, phone lines, and airplanes tying Europe together, less than two years before WWII tore it apart.) 🗃️
A WWII holiday card from Janet and Ed Murrow in London…
December 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Merry Christmas from the Murrows!
(Judging from the address, this would be Janet and Ed Murrow’s first Christmas in London, 1937. Notice how the artwork shows radio, phone lines, and airplanes tying Europe together, less than two years before WWII tore it apart.) 🗃️
(Judging from the address, this would be Janet and Ed Murrow’s first Christmas in London, 1937. Notice how the artwork shows radio, phone lines, and airplanes tying Europe together, less than two years before WWII tore it apart.) 🗃️
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What kind of heartless ghouls would cut healthcare insurance for destitute Americans by $930 billion
AND starve them
AND take vital services from their children
So they can make a bunch of billionaires richer
That’s exactly what Trump and the MAGA Republicans want to do in their Big Ugly Bill
AND starve them
AND take vital services from their children
So they can make a bunch of billionaires richer
That’s exactly what Trump and the MAGA Republicans want to do in their Big Ugly Bill
June 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
What kind of heartless ghouls would cut healthcare insurance for destitute Americans by $930 billion
AND starve them
AND take vital services from their children
So they can make a bunch of billionaires richer
That’s exactly what Trump and the MAGA Republicans want to do in their Big Ugly Bill
AND starve them
AND take vital services from their children
So they can make a bunch of billionaires richer
That’s exactly what Trump and the MAGA Republicans want to do in their Big Ugly Bill
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Wow. I cannot imagine a documentary that would be of greater interest to me. The timing is... insanely right.
Premiere is 6/27/2025 at 9pm ET www.pbs.org/wnet/america... via Maddow
Premiere is 6/27/2025 at 9pm ET www.pbs.org/wnet/america... via Maddow
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny - About the documentary | American Masters | PBS
Discover Hannah Arendt, who transformed her time as a political prisoner during World War II into daring insights about totalitarianism.
www.pbs.org
June 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Wow. I cannot imagine a documentary that would be of greater interest to me. The timing is... insanely right.
Premiere is 6/27/2025 at 9pm ET www.pbs.org/wnet/america... via Maddow
Premiere is 6/27/2025 at 9pm ET www.pbs.org/wnet/america... via Maddow
“It was always a too little noted hallmark of fascist propaganda that it was not satisfied with lying but deliberately proposed to transform its lies into reality”
Hannah Arendt, 1945
Hannah Arendt, 1945
March 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“It was always a too little noted hallmark of fascist propaganda that it was not satisfied with lying but deliberately proposed to transform its lies into reality”
Hannah Arendt, 1945
Hannah Arendt, 1945
A sign of the times at Washington D.C.’s Union Station.
March 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
A sign of the times at Washington D.C.’s Union Station.
As DOGE cuts staff at the National Archives, you can rest assured the Commander in Chief is front and center at the NARA gift shop. “Please refrain from playing with the bobblehead display.”
March 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
As DOGE cuts staff at the National Archives, you can rest assured the Commander in Chief is front and center at the NARA gift shop. “Please refrain from playing with the bobblehead display.”
I've not done much in the way of posting, yet I suspect that as much as 98% of my 279 followers are soliciting my attention for their OnlyFans or similar sites. Sorry folks, it's not the way I plan to dispose of my limited disposable income. Curious, I don't recall this happening on Twitter or X.
January 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I've not done much in the way of posting, yet I suspect that as much as 98% of my 279 followers are soliciting my attention for their OnlyFans or similar sites. Sorry folks, it's not the way I plan to dispose of my limited disposable income. Curious, I don't recall this happening on Twitter or X.
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Welcome to our post-human town. Don't get run over by a driverless car. Billboard South of Market.
December 24, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Welcome to our post-human town. Don't get run over by a driverless car. Billboard South of Market.
It seems Hitler isn’t the only dictator Trump has been borrowing language from. Before MAGA there was MIGA, ‘Make Italy Great Again’ during Mussolini’s tenure. Il Duce also had his version of DOGE which was more PR than reality. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC Radio 4 - More or Less: Behind the Stats, Did Mussolini make the trains run on time?
Fact checking the fascist regime.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 21, 2024 at 2:25 PM
It seems Hitler isn’t the only dictator Trump has been borrowing language from. Before MAGA there was MIGA, ‘Make Italy Great Again’ during Mussolini’s tenure. Il Duce also had his version of DOGE which was more PR than reality. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
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RT = endorsement
There is no bigger fiction in American life than the idea that “government just needs to run like a business.”
Tell me again about how "successful businessmen" are better at running the government
December 19, 2024 at 10:26 PM
RT = endorsement
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Drone footage coming out of New Jersey is becoming increasingly dubious. 😳
December 16, 2024 at 3:40 AM
Drone footage coming out of New Jersey is becoming increasingly dubious. 😳
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The job of media commentators is to respond thoughtfully to how people feel, not to tell them how to feel. Which is why the editorials deploring the reaction to the healthcare CEO slaying are such failures of curiosity and understanding, such triumphs of obliviousness and elite panic.
The brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshed, @adriennelaf.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/ZRcsrreK
December 13, 2024 at 5:01 AM
The job of media commentators is to respond thoughtfully to how people feel, not to tell them how to feel. Which is why the editorials deploring the reaction to the healthcare CEO slaying are such failures of curiosity and understanding, such triumphs of obliviousness and elite panic.
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History repeats.
In late February 1921, 2 weeks before taking office as POTUS, Warren Harding writes a letter to the richest man in America, William Randolph Hearst, thanking him for helping him win the presidency with favorable coverage in major newspapers he owned & begging for his advice.
In late February 1921, 2 weeks before taking office as POTUS, Warren Harding writes a letter to the richest man in America, William Randolph Hearst, thanking him for helping him win the presidency with favorable coverage in major newspapers he owned & begging for his advice.
November 30, 2024 at 1:15 AM
History repeats.
In late February 1921, 2 weeks before taking office as POTUS, Warren Harding writes a letter to the richest man in America, William Randolph Hearst, thanking him for helping him win the presidency with favorable coverage in major newspapers he owned & begging for his advice.
In late February 1921, 2 weeks before taking office as POTUS, Warren Harding writes a letter to the richest man in America, William Randolph Hearst, thanking him for helping him win the presidency with favorable coverage in major newspapers he owned & begging for his advice.
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From the William Gropper show at the Phillips Collection -- from back when they were comfortable calling a fascist a fascist.
![[Gropper cartoon from the 40s in which Charles Lindbergh, William Randolph Hearst, Theodore Bilbo, Ezra Pound and others sing "We're Just Crazy About Fascism."]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aq6ucuguuc67yqwu4x4eipro/bafkreidbvxmokg2x3ruelkmpri4dx4zfgxsgecj6nmbym3vbifuugbq7sy@jpeg)
December 1, 2024 at 2:36 AM
From the William Gropper show at the Phillips Collection -- from back when they were comfortable calling a fascist a fascist.
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Australia’s oldest dictionary of Australian English has chosen “enshittification” – a slang term referring to the deterioration of products and services online – as the word of 2024.
Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary names ‘enshittification’ word of the year
Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary says term captures widespread sense that things are getting worse.
www.aljazeera.com
November 26, 2024 at 8:22 AM
Australia’s oldest dictionary of Australian English has chosen “enshittification” – a slang term referring to the deterioration of products and services online – as the word of 2024.
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I suspect all of Trump’s recent cabinet announcements are being made in consultation with The Onion.
November 20, 2024 at 3:13 PM
I suspect all of Trump’s recent cabinet announcements are being made in consultation with The Onion.