Dennis Iwan

Writer, Director & Painter

[Dennis Iwan @DennisIwan_com]

Some children died the other day.

We fed machines and then we prayed.

Puked up and down in morbid faith.

You should have seen the ratings that day.

@marilynmanson

One assassination under God

#Manson #META #Wien
#Vienna #summer #2k26

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Charles Schultz and the original Snoopy, 1950s

[National MS Society @mssociety]

"MS is more than what you see.

🧠 It affects the brain and spinal cord
🧠 It disrupts how nerves communicate
🧠 Symptoms can be invisible—but very real
🧠 Early treatment can change long-term outcomes

If you’re suffering from MS; you’re not alone 🫶🏼" — Dr. Mina

[Library of Congress @librarycongress]

Getting out of town during these dog days of summer? Don’t forget to take a book along.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Perhaps we as a society could take a moment to consider the President of the United States was forced by a Court yesterday to pay $6 million in damages to a woman he raped and the media coverage has been close to zero.

[Liberal Lisa in Oklahoma @lisa_liberal]

Remember when Bill Clinton getting a blow job in the Oval Office was all the rage.
Now the president is a rapist of women and children and no one bats an eye.

That’s where we are now….

[tribal chief ☝🏻🩸 @luireigns]

When you love wrestling and your intrusive thoughts win 😂🤣

[Dennis Iwan @DennisIwan_com]

Good God almighty, we was goin' down slow.

Yeah, if we knew just where we had to go.

Cryin', just a flyin' down a put out road.

With precious and grace in my flathead @Ford.

@ZZTop
#TresHombres

[Erling Haaland @Erling]

Howdy!🤠

[Dennis Iwan @DennisIwan_com]

Thank you for the big one, @ZZTop.

#VAZ

[Aesthetics 🌪️ @AestheticViewsX]

Darkest Vibe 🖤

[Dennis Iwan @DennisIwan_com]

Never draw the bow to miss.

#Authors
#WritingCommunity
#5amWritersClub

[The past time woman @Thepasttimew]

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
​— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883).

[Dennis Iwan @DennisIwan_com]

Figurin' out what an own contribution will look like from their perspective.

#GAN
#4th #America250
#Freedom250
#Penn1681
#Precious #Grace
#literature #contemporaryart
@stetsonusa @CalvinKlein
@LEVIS @TheOfficialCCR @John_Fogerty
@ZZTop @NinaSimoneMusic #JohnnyCash #MilesDavis
@WWE @WWEgames
#IntercontinentalChampion
#faith #topdown
#justice
@Republicans
@TheDemocrats
#JimCrowlaws
@nytimes
@washingtonpost
#smokefleet #MAGA
@GMA @FoxNews @CNN
@USATODAY @RollingStone
#Internationalunderstanding
@PhiladelphiaGov
@GermanSocietyPA
@GermanyinUSA
@usbotschaft
#rbtl

[Dennis Iwan @DennisIwan_com]

Room for tourists, 1945

Edward Hopper
(1882-1967)

[Not Today Eric @NotTodayEric]

Ok hear me out.

[Dennis Iwan @DennisIwan_com]

The first time the hat has been right 'bout everything.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

The most influential immigrant group in American history is the one nobody argues about, because almost nobody remembers it was them.

Start at the beginning. The Continental Army was a half-trained mess until Baron von Steuben, a Prussian officer, showed up at Valley Forge and drilled it into a real fighting force. The freedom of the press you take for granted traces back to John Peter Zenger, a German immigrant printer whose 1735 trial established that you can't be jailed for printing the truth. German-Americans were shaping this country before there was a country.

Then look around your own life. Your Christmas tree is German. The hot dog (Frankfurt), the hamburger (Hamburg), the pretzel, the delicatessen, all German. Kindergarten is German, the word and the idea, brought over and opened by Margarethe Schurz. Blue jeans came from Levi Strauss of Bavaria. Heinz ketchup, Steinway pianos, Oscar Mayer, and the big four beers, Budweiser, Pabst, Miller and Schlitz, were every one founded by German immigrants.

The Brooklyn Bridge was engineered by John Roebling, born in Prussia. The Santa Claus you picture every December, plus the Republican elephant, were drawn by Thomas Nast, a German immigrant. Pfizer was founded by Charles Pfizer, who arrived from Germany in 1848. Boeing was built by the son of a German immigrant. John Jacob Astor showed up from Germany with next to nothing and became America's first multimillionaire. Charles Steinmetz, a disabled immigrant nearly turned away at the border, went on to make modern electrical power possible.

And it kept going. Wernher von Braun designed the rocket that put America on the moon. Einstein was German. Carl Schurz, a refugee, became a Union general and the first German-born US Senator. Eisenhower commanded D-Day and won the White House under a name once spelled Eisenhauer. Babe Ruth was a German-American kid from Baltimore.

Here is the kicker. German is the single largest ancestry group in the entire United States, around 44 million people, bigger than Irish, English or Italian. The biggest thread in the whole American fabric, and somehow the quietest.

They never asked for parades. They just trained the army, freed the press, engineered the bridges, founded the companies, built the rockets and lit up the Christmas mornings, then blended in so completely you forgot they were ever the "other." That might be the most American story there is.

[US-Botschaft Berlin @usbotschaft]

Der Gründervater Benjamin Franklin erkannte die bedeutende Rolle, die deutsche Einwanderer im kolonialen Amerika spielten – insbesondere in Pennsylvania, das eine der größten deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaften der Kolonien beherbergte.

Franklin druckte einige der ersten deutschsprachigen Veröffentlichungen in Amerika, darunter Zeitungen und amtliche Dokumente.

Seine Bemühungen spiegelten die tiefen und langjährigen Verbindungen zwischen deutschen Einwanderern und der Entwicklung der Vereinigten Staaten wider – Beziehungen, die die amerikanische Gesellschaft bis heute prägen.

#Freedom250

[HeritageBulwark @hbulwark1]

On this day in 1682, William Penn founded Philadelphia in the Pennsylvania Colony.

In 1681, King Charles II granted William Penn a large charter for the Province of Pennsylvania to settle a debt owed to Penn’s father. The following year Penn sailed to America aboard the ship Welcome. He arrived in the area in late October 1682 landing first at New Castle on October 27 and proceeding up the Delaware River where he established and laid out the city of Philadelphia between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers.

Penn, a prominent English Quaker designed Philadelphia as a planned city with a grid layout, wide streets named after trees and numbers, and named it from the Greek for “City of Brotherly Love.” It served as the capital of his “Holy Experiment”. A colony emphasizing religious freedom, republican principles, fair trials by jury, and liberty of conscience.

The city grew rapidly as a hub for settlers seeking opportunity in the new colony. Philadelphia would obviously later play a central role in American independence and early national history.