Mark Therien
@marktherien.bsky.social
Retired Navy photojournalist, working graveyard shift on the dock at USPS Seattle. Kamala supporter from Day 1.
“No more apologies for a bleeding heart when the opposite is no heart at all. Danger of losing our humanity must be met with more humanity. Otherwise we stand meekly behind Eris, hold Nemesis’s cloak, and genuflect at the feet of Thanatos.”
– Toni Morrison
– Toni Morrison
February 11, 2026 at 6:18 PM
“No more apologies for a bleeding heart when the opposite is no heart at all. Danger of losing our humanity must be met with more humanity. Otherwise we stand meekly behind Eris, hold Nemesis’s cloak, and genuflect at the feet of Thanatos.”
– Toni Morrison
– Toni Morrison
– Herblock, May 1974
Good question.
Good question.
February 4, 2026 at 6:31 PM
– Herblock, May 1974
Good question.
Good question.
"I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within."
– Douglas MacArthur, born this day in 1880
– Douglas MacArthur, born this day in 1880
January 26, 2026 at 9:38 PM
"I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within."
– Douglas MacArthur, born this day in 1880
– Douglas MacArthur, born this day in 1880
"When We All Have Pocket Telephones"
– by William K. Haselden, Daily Mirror, England, January 23, 1923
– by William K. Haselden, Daily Mirror, England, January 23, 1923
January 23, 2026 at 8:51 PM
"When We All Have Pocket Telephones"
– by William K. Haselden, Daily Mirror, England, January 23, 1923
– by William K. Haselden, Daily Mirror, England, January 23, 1923
I know you all are probably sick of hearing this today... but Be Your 2026 a Happy Round of Months.
January 1, 2026 at 6:05 PM
I know you all are probably sick of hearing this today... but Be Your 2026 a Happy Round of Months.
Be always at War with your vices,
at peace with your neighbors,
and let each New Year find you
a better person.
– Benjamin Franklin
at peace with your neighbors,
and let each New Year find you
a better person.
– Benjamin Franklin
December 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Be always at War with your vices,
at peace with your neighbors,
and let each New Year find you
a better person.
– Benjamin Franklin
at peace with your neighbors,
and let each New Year find you
a better person.
– Benjamin Franklin
Lovely sentiment on this 100-year-old postcard.
December 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Lovely sentiment on this 100-year-old postcard.
That's right, Clarence. 🔔
December 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
That's right, Clarence. 🔔
A favorite British Christmas story. 😁🇬🇧
December 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
A favorite British Christmas story. 😁🇬🇧
“America's own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for our citizens. For unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world.”
– From FDR’s State of the Union speech to Congress, 1944
– From FDR’s State of the Union speech to Congress, 1944
December 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
“America's own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for our citizens. For unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world.”
– From FDR’s State of the Union speech to Congress, 1944
– From FDR’s State of the Union speech to Congress, 1944
"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."
– Robert Kennedy, born 100 years ago today.
– Robert Kennedy, born 100 years ago today.
November 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."
– Robert Kennedy, born 100 years ago today.
– Robert Kennedy, born 100 years ago today.
"Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.”
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton, born on this day in 1815.
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton, born on this day in 1815.
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.”
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton, born on this day in 1815.
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton, born on this day in 1815.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 23, 1908
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 23, 1908
From my giant 1927 Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language – "Trumpery"
October 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
From my giant 1927 Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language – "Trumpery"
This picture is from 70 years ago today.
Emmett Till's killers were acquitted after a jury deliberated for a little more than an hour.
Seventy years. TODAY.
Emmett Till's killers were acquitted after a jury deliberated for a little more than an hour.
Seventy years. TODAY.
September 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This picture is from 70 years ago today.
Emmett Till's killers were acquitted after a jury deliberated for a little more than an hour.
Seventy years. TODAY.
Emmett Till's killers were acquitted after a jury deliberated for a little more than an hour.
Seventy years. TODAY.
– from "Integration is a Bitch" (1969), a book of illustrations by Tom Floyd
August 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
– from "Integration is a Bitch" (1969), a book of illustrations by Tom Floyd
From “A Land Without People for a People Without Land: A Colouring Book About Palestine” by Nuno Coelho and Adam Kershaw, 2012
August 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
From “A Land Without People for a People Without Land: A Colouring Book About Palestine” by Nuno Coelho and Adam Kershaw, 2012
– Judge magazine, August 1895
August 2, 2025 at 3:11 AM
– Judge magazine, August 1895
– Daily News, New York, July 20, 1923
July 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
– Daily News, New York, July 20, 1923
Walt Whitman's handwritten lines from his poem, To the States:
“Once fully enslaved, no nation,
race, city, of this earth,
ever afterward resumes
its liberty.”
“Once fully enslaved, no nation,
race, city, of this earth,
ever afterward resumes
its liberty.”
July 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Walt Whitman's handwritten lines from his poem, To the States:
“Once fully enslaved, no nation,
race, city, of this earth,
ever afterward resumes
its liberty.”
“Once fully enslaved, no nation,
race, city, of this earth,
ever afterward resumes
its liberty.”
Pamphlet published by the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Antisemitism, Melbourne, Australia, 1944
July 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Pamphlet published by the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Antisemitism, Melbourne, Australia, 1944
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
– William Faulkner
– William Faulkner
July 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
– William Faulkner
– William Faulkner
– Philomena Cunk (a.k.a. Diane Morgan)
July 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
– Philomena Cunk (a.k.a. Diane Morgan)
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts.”
– Bertrand Russell
– Bertrand Russell
June 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts.”
– Bertrand Russell
– Bertrand Russell
“On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des idées.”
– Victor Hugo
Illustration by Arthur Ferrier, 1928
– Victor Hugo
Illustration by Arthur Ferrier, 1928
June 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
“On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des idées.”
– Victor Hugo
Illustration by Arthur Ferrier, 1928
– Victor Hugo
Illustration by Arthur Ferrier, 1928