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splitrailfence.bsky.social
Ora Tor
@splitrailfence.bsky.social
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Civil War historian. Wide Awake Progressive. Retired from social studies, financial analysis, and small business. Traveled over 50k US miles for my research. Nature knows best and intends no ill will.
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splitrailfence.bsky.social
Try again.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
No, she has not said that. I reside in the state and disagree with the OP. Mills sat in the same room with Trump and told him to his face she'd see him court. I don't buy that she'd cave and reopen, and her post on here yesterday literally says for Democrats to fight.
Janet Mills post on B S yesterday urging Democrats to fight because access to healthcare is a right.
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
One of my great pumpkins waited all night for the full moon.

Northern New England November
#ForestFriday
#November
#Autumn
#sky
#moon
#shadows
#clouds
#photography
#myphotos
Orange pumpkin lit from within so the traditional carved face beacons a smile. The full moon above agrees and comes out from behind the clouds on a darklight night post Hallows' Eve.
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
And the rainbow hangs on for all of us, whether we happen to catch it or not.

Just south of Bozeman.
#MT
#montana
#photography
#rainbow
#travel
#clouds
#sky
#hope
#love
#myphotography
Rainbow reaching through the dense gray clouds. Mountains are behind all of it, trust me.
November 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
Tower of power in Bighorn County.

#MT
#montana
#america
#landscape
#travel
#agriculture
#photography
#myphotography
#roads
#RockyMountains
MT site of a multi-location flouring mill company. Blue sky and puffy clouds on a sunny day. Giant metal flouring mill structure emerges from a brick structure. Yellow, orange, green, and black used in the advertising art consistent with American heartland landscapes.
November 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
Dam!
Sure am off kilter.
Yellowtail Dam
Bighorn Canyon
around the way from John Bozeman's trail

#MT
#montana
#photos
#photography
#landscape
#travel
#myphotos
#EastCoastKin
The Yellowtail Dam, where the Bighorn Canyon starts to look like a scrubbed little Grand Canyon--mesmerizing green water, pastel geological striations on steep canyon walls, and a narrow rushing river good for rafting and kayaking.
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
Me being a historian in the presence of some of my kin has made them view our exchanges as a competition, or I am not allowed to talk about my craft with them--these are my choices with certain members of family, and they, to the last one, vote Trump since '16 and conservative always.
Political cartoon in B+W of airplane passengers with low self esteem frustrated by the pilot's expertise so the passengers vote "yes" to a peer flying the plane despite being inexperienced.
November 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
Small biz is reportedly responsible for 80% of US jobs.
Here's a small biz outlook update:
"September 2025: Small Business Optimism Declines in September"

www.nfib.com/news/monthly...
The NFIB Research Foundation has collected Small Business Economic Trends data with quarterly surveys since the 4th quarter of 1973 and monthly surveys since 1986. Survey respondents are drawn from NFIB’s membership. The report is released on the second Tuesday of each month. This survey was conducted in September 2025. September 2025: Small Business Optimism Declines in September The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index declined 2.0 points in September to 98.8. This was the first decline in three months, though it remains above the survey’s 52-year average of 98. The Uncertainty Index rose 7 points from August to 100, the fourth-highest reading in over 51 years. Optimism among small business owners decreased in September. While most owners evaluate their own business as currently healthy, they are having to manage rising inflationary pressures, slower sales expectations, and ongoing labor market challenges. Although uncertainty is high, small business owners remain resilient as they seek to better understand how policy changes will impact their operations.
November 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
You're omniscient? And you know Platner so well as to know his head and heart for the last many decades?
"I don't know how Maine having Aryan groups has anything to do with it."I bet you don't. In a state of ~1 mill people, the racists can be seen. A lot up by Platner, but he hasn't a clue 😂🤣
He came because he thought he could. Others here like him. Up north. SPLC Hate Map showing white hate groups in ME. They are all up near the Airline Rt. 9--this is Platner's corridor. But yea, he doesn't know his own area AT ALL. If he's gonna be senator, doesn't he need to know who ME citizens are? So he's either clueless about his state, or he knows exactly what that tattoo is. Either way = sucks
November 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
This is the tattoo he got and lived with for decades. He was educated at private prep in CT, meaning he had a history class. I wonder if he ever watched Indiana Jones movies? He's a soldier in Europe, but yea, know clue about NSDP symbols. ME has huge Aryan & Volkisch groups, but he hasn't a clue?
From my awful book of WWII propaganda--here is Platner's tattoo--notice the eyes are not round, because it is specifically a death head. This is NSDP propaganda used against our soldiers at D-DAY! This is a specific symbol and was very well known all over the world.
November 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
IDK if I buy Andy O'Brien isn't biased when I see a post like this ⤵️
November 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
And: "how does Platner claim that he had no idea what a Totenkopf was or that his tattoo was one until a week ago when this Reddit conversation he was part of 6 years ago was all about a soldier with a Totenkopf where people discuss the difference between an SS Totenkopf vs. a Punisher skull etc." ?
chat involving Platner discussing totenk; he has used the P-Hustle handle in other posts
November 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
Léon Spilliaert
Vertigo
1908
Indian ink wash, brush, and colored pencil on paper
637 x 476mm
"... female figure sitting on spiral stairs by the sea dominates the composition. The exaggerated perspective of the stairs abstracted into simple geometric shapes implies a sense of hypnotic danger." from BU Sequitur
October 31, 2025 at 1:16 AM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
It's been coming on with Tapper for some time. In 2023, he had rustic-glitzy fun in ID as the state turned ruby Red.
Tapper with Jen Aniston and Court Cox and other posh guests back in 2023. Long wooden dinner table set with elegant service and surrounded by well-heeled Uppers.
October 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
Marches alone are not going to solve this.
Don't get mad at me, I'm just the messenger from the old days of Civil Rights agitation.
Here's Barry McGuire--maybe when he says it in his song Eve of Destruction, people will not get so upset at the truth: marches alone can't bring integration.
Lyrics to Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction from the 1960s.
October 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
My post is not to comment one way or the other on Sanders. My post is for fact checking.
Platner, endorsed by Sanders, has blamed some sex assault on victims being drunk, thus, people are putting the two together and taking issue with them.

2015 NPR on Sanders ⤵️
www.npr.org/sections/its...
NBC News account of Platner's comments re: sex assualt; he has not denied that he made the comments.
October 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
He is her ⤵️
"Catherine the Great Builds a New Russia" Catherine was responsible for the Westernisation and modernisation of Russia and during her reign extended its borders by appropriating over 200,000 square miles of territory, adding Crimea and much of Poland. By the end of her reign, 29 provinces had been reorganised; more than 100 new towns had been built while old ones were expanded and renovated; trade had flourished; Russia had successfully flexed her military muscles; and Catherine’s court had become a magnet for the finest minds in Europe. Her admiring contemporaries dubbed her “the Great.” She brought fancy French Rococo to Rus. Catherine's palace rockin' Rococo in the East.
October 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
Please think of the nonhumans today and always. Thank you.
Image of nonhumans preparing to cross a road. An oncoming car may or may not see them. Hope the raccoon makes it across.
October 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
Breakfast of champs.
Lots of this in high school.
Various flavors of Takis snacks and a bit of info about them.
October 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
Our beloved Dr. King 🕯️
Text of vandalism report, damage to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Atlanta. Report is dated 11 Oct 25.
October 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
Great. Operation PB SUCCESS-types at the helm. I taught PB S when it was first on the GW NSA in the 90s. Your post struck me that I'd see the Black name in there the NSA CIA docs, and there it is: The Guatemala 1954 Documents, doc 5
Edited by Doyle and Kornbluh
NSA Electronic Briefing Book No. 4
Image of text from NSA CIA document on PB Success in Guatemala 1950s to protect the UFC from nationalization. These documents were released for public viewing in the 90s.
October 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
Same kinds of folks then as now.
Free to beat.
Almost always acquitted.
I've known them up close and all of my life.
But my fam was proud to host exchange students when hotels, motels, and Holiday Inns would not.
I remember those days like they're, well, like they're right now.
#justice
#resist
Mean old white men in Lost Cause Alabama Land who got away with it. I'm proud to run my mouth bad about them in their posthumous.
October 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
Hope the Rev. assaulted by ICE is okay. Reminds of when Rev. James Reeb was murdered by conservatives--the same people who wanted slavery and blew up membership numbers in the 1920s Klan resurgence and thought maybe the NSDAP was a great idea and adored the Bull Connors of America.
Murderers of Rev. James Reeb were acquitted--set free, like MAGA often are. These are the mug shots. Front page of Casper, WY newspaper announcing that Reeb did not survive the savage beating by white conservative pro-slaver Klan Americans. Reeb had come down during Freedom Marches and Freedom Rides, and for Selma's action.
October 8, 2025 at 10:04 AM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
Story on the right is from local ABC 7.
Tricia McLaughlin is Department of Homeland Security
From Wikipedia: "... Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs .. serves as the principal communications advisor to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem."
passage from Chi Sun Times re: Martinez, who was shot by ICE. Passage from an ABC 7 article re: Ruiz, the man assaulted by ICE who had accompanied Martinez.
October 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
Edward Hopper's Automat from 1927 reminds us that we've been trending toward antisocial for decades.
Hopper's scene of alone woman in a restaurant with no human staff, and no other customers as far as we can see in the neverending. Lonely. Does she mind?
October 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM