You know the fireworks. But did you know July 4 once involved cannon blasts, pyramid bonfires, and didn’t become a paid holiday until FDR?
Historian Douglas Brinkley explains how America’s biggest celebration came to be — and why it’s “the ultimate Americana moment.”
Popular artist from NYC Devon Rodriguez, does phenomenal drawings of random people on subway trains & out in public
Instagram: @devonrodriguezart
#drawing #artist #artwork #creativity #portraits #art
Sen. Alex Padilla is forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference in Los Angeles www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
My painting LONE JUNIPER
Panel 1 Gustopher is excitedly looking at his phone. He's filled with joy over a new discovery. Gustopher: I found a new song that I love Panel 2 August is sitting under a pile of two cats. The void grows stronger. August: Are you going to add it to a playlist and listen to it occasionally? Gustopher: No. Panel 3 August: Are you going to listen to it on repeat until you're sick of it. Gustopher: Yes Panel 4 August Thinking: He's just like me. Gustopher: How do I connect to the sound system?
New Song - Gator Days
Please have a listen.👇
Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.
“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
That’s because there weren’t any.
Excited to announce that I have de-extincted the Dire Doodle.
imagine being this pathetic, servile and eager to gulp up the slop
No. You’ve been watching stock market fraud.
Trump's Taxes are the largest tax increase in history!
Nice try.
my offer to america: we bring woke back
If this is winning, I am definitely tired of it.
Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?
Bravo to @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social for his bravery and journalistic integrity.
Yesterday, Gabbard testified: “There was no classified material that was shared in that Signal chat.”
So the Director of National Intelligence lied to the US Senate.
Democratic House Rep. Jared Moskowitz using Pete Hegseth's emojis in his letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson to form a select committee to investigate the Signal group chat texts is hilarious.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
And that’s on that 😌
Struggling to keep my internet on so i can work and the wife can look for work, in a world where meta just steals my work apparently!!!!!
Thou shalt not let anti-science imbeciles destroy the Department of Education so everyone can be as stupid as they are.
After all these years, the fact that this point still has to be repeated and underscored is mind-boggling. But it's also, given the power of the fossil fuel industry and its enablers, not surprising.
Yellow and brown bee on a bright yellow flower with 8 large petals
Keep on keeping on
#flowers #bees
#naturephotography
