To all of you who say “I’ll just grow my own food when they deport all the immigrants”:
1) who do you think sorts the seeds and tubers you plant?
2) who do you think pots the seedlings you buy at Lowe’s?
“Do you believe? Do you accept the festival, the city, the joy? No? Then let me describe one more thing...”
-Ursula K. LeGuin, The ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
@shannonrwatts This is Margo Martin, Trump’s press person. I suspect she keeps her hair however Melania keeps it. Just in case they need her for a photo op.
Something to ponder as you head out to vote today, for free. In the Library's Rosa Parks Papers collection, there's a receipt for the poll tax she had to pay to vote in Alabama in 1956. Poll taxes, a Jim Crow-era voter suppression tool, were not abolished federally until 1964.
During the Renaissance, people in Venice would vote by dropping little balls into an urn.
The Italian word for “little ball” is ‘ballotta.’
Now any kind of secret voting, by ball, piece of paper, or voting machine, is called a ‘ballot.’
52 years ago this month, Sesame Street debuted the iconic "I Can Remember. "
You ready?
"A loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter.”
"A loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter.”
Navarro: Let's be serious. Donald Trump and his minions call Kamala a communist. I know communism. I fled communism from Nicaragua when I was 8 years old. I don't take it lightly. And let me tell you what communist dictators do. And it's never just for one day. They attack the free press. They call them the enemy of the people like Ortega does in Nicaragua. They put their unqualified relatives in cushy government jobs so they can get rich off their positions like the Castros do in Cuba and they refuse to accept legitimate elections when they lose and call for violence to stay in power like Maduro is doing right now in Venezuela. Now you tell me something. Do any of those things sound familiar? Is there anybody running for president who reminds you of that?
I love historical documentaries. I’m currently watching one about the 1939 pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden. Oh wait, it’s a live Trump rally! My bad.