On this date in 1915, Walter Washington was born. He was our first Home Rule mayor, one of the very first Black mayors nationwide. Prior to that, as DC’s appointed mayor, after MLK's assassination, he refused federal orders to have police "shoot rioters."
On a visit to Joe Bussard’s legendary basement earlier this year I made this short video of him playing what he considered one of the greatest recordings of all time, Blind Willie Johnson’s “Dark was the night, Cold was the ground.” RIP Joe
IMPACT SUCCESS! Watch from #DARTMIssion’s DRACO Camera, as the vending machine-sized spacecraft successfully collides with asteroid Dimorphos, which is the size of a football stadium and poses no threat to Earth.
As for the four images...here are our targets. Three of these are going to be absolutely stunningly beautiful visually, the other one is going to be the kind of picture that nestles into your mind and creates a weight that will never leave you.
NEW: Big day for the Webb telescope, finally ready for its close-ups. Of very deep space. Earliest galaxies etc. Biden to host the big reveal at WH https://t.co/GiTPtNSfAf
"Violence does not spring from a vacuum. It's born out of other men's violence. It gets nurtured and it grows in a soil of prejudice and of hate and of bigotry."
~Rod Serling
The fact that so much time, energy and resources have been wasted in this country simply because a poorly-formed white man with some money can’t accept that he lost something is just so pathetic.