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04/23/2026

WOWZER!!!!!!

04/23/2026

Good summary, Mehdi!

Journalist Mehdi Hasan has drawn a pointed comparison between Barack Obama's 2015 nuclear deal and the current Iran arrangement, arguing the earlier agreement was significantly more favorable to American interests. Hasan noted that the 2015 deal did not hand Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz, did not allow Tehran to retain 60 percent enriched uranium, and cost only $1.7 billion. The current deal, he argued, will generate tens of billions for Iran through Hormuz tolls alone, a contrast he directed squarely at the GOP and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

04/09/2026

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05/21/2024

"The cowboy myth was always a political image, designed to undermine the idea of a government that worked for ordinary Americans. It was powerful after the Civil War but faded into the past in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s as Americans realized that their lives depended on government regulation and a basic social safety net. The American cowboy burst back into prominence with the advent of the Marlboro Man in 1954, the year of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, and the idea of an individual white man who worked hard, wanted nothing from the government but to be left alone, was a s*x symbol, and protected his women became a central myth in the rise of politicians determined to overturn the liberal consensus.

"Now it seems the myth has come full circle, with the party led by a man whose wife rejects him and whose lovers ridicule him, who makes up stories about dangerous 'others,' cheats on his taxes, solicits bribes, and tries to sell out his followers for cash—the very caricature the mythological cowboy was invented"

I write a lot about how the Biden-Harris administration is working to restore the principles of the period between 1933 and 1981, when members of both political parties widely shared the belief that the government should regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, promote infrastructure, a...

10/09/2023

Native Tribes of North America Mapped
The ancestors of living Native Americans arrived in North America about 15 thousand years ago. As a result, a wide diversity of communities, societies, and cultures finally developed on the continent over the millennia.
The population figure for Indigenous peoples in the Americas before the 1492 voyage of Christopher Columbus was 70 million or more.
About 562 tribes inhabited the contiguous U.S. territory. Ten largest North American Indian tribes: Arikara, Cherokee, Iroquois, Pawnee, Sioux, Apache, Eskimo, Comanche, Choctaw, Cree, Ojibwa, Mohawk, Cheyenne, Navajo, Seminole, Hope, Shoshone, Mohican, Shawnee, Mi’kmaq, Paiute, Wampanoag, Ho-Chunk, Chumash, Haida.
Below is the tribal map of Pre-European North America.
The old map below gives a Native American perspective by placing the tribes in full flower ~ the “Glory Days.” It is pre-contact from across the eastern sea or, at least, before that contact seriously affected change. Stretching over 400 years, the time of contact was quite different from tribe to tribe. For instance, the “Glory Days” of the Maya and Aztec came to an end very long before the interior tribes of other areas, with some still resisting almost until the 20th Century.
At one time, numbering in the millions, the native peoples spoke close to 4,000 languages.
The Americas’ European conquest, which began in 1492, ended in a sharp drop in the Native American population through epidemics, hostilities, ethnic cleansing, and slavery.
When the United States was founded, established Native American tribes were viewed as semi-independent nations, as they commonly lived in communities separate from white immigrants

10/09/2023

UNESCO World Heritage Site

The magnificent mirrorwork of GolestanPalace Museum, Tehran, Iran. More than 400 years of history in one place.

Photo By: Sadegh Miri
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10/09/2023

❤Sitting Bull was the first man to become chief of the entire Lakota Sioux nation.
Sitting Bull was born around 1831 into the Hunkpapa people, a Lakota Sioux tribe that roamed the Great Plains in what is now the Dakotas. He was initially called “Jumping Badger” by his family, but earned the boyhood nickname “Slow” for his quiet and deliberate demeanor. The future chief killed his first buffalo when he was just 10 years old. At 14, he joined a Hunkpapa raiding party and distinguished himself by knocking a Crow warrior from his horse with a tomahawk. In celebration of the boy’s bravery, his father relinquished his own name and transferred it to his son. From then on, Slow became known as Tatanka-Iyotanka, or “Sitting Bull.”
Sitting Bull was renowned for his skill in close quarters fighting and collected several red feathers representing wounds sustained in battle. As word of his exploits spread, his fellow warriors took to yelling, “Sitting Bull, I am he!” to intimidate their enemies during combat. The most stunning display of his courage came in 1872, when the Sioux clashed with the U.S. Army during a campaign to block construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad. As a symbol of his contempt for the soldiers, the middle-aged chief strolled out into the open and took a seat in front of their lines. Inviting several others to join him, he proceeded to have a long, leisurely smoke from his to***co pipe, all the while ignoring the hail of bullets whizzing by his head. Upon finishing his pipe, Siting Bull carefully cleaned it and then walked off, still seemingly oblivious to the gunfire around him. His nephew White Bull would later call the act of defiance “the bravest deed possible.”

10/07/2023

NASA. !!! The amazing space adventures of our spectacular astronauts in orbit!

10/06/2023

Rights of passage. A time when a young boy is becoming a man he will shoot a buffalo and provide meat for his family and tiospaye.
It begins when he is a baby to 10 yrs old, he is shown from his women relatives how to be a compassionate and have humility. The women teach him these values he will carry into manhood. He is taught to care for self and others. How to kabla the meat and make and dry foods. Hard work.
The men will take him from there and teach him his responsibilities and duties. He will provide safety and sustainability for self and others. He is taught to use the tools and weapons of the warriors. He will be mentored and looked after by his older male relatives until he starts a family.
He will recieve Wahokunkiya to ensure he stays on the right path.
Lena ciscila epa wacin.
We are still here, our ways are still here, take heart.
Photo- Charles American Horse. 1901

10/06/2023

Red-crested Cardinal.

📸: Raphael Kurz

10/06/2023

Story about dog