Jonathan Vaughn

Lamplighter, Dreamweaver, Storyteller. PhD, Depth Psychology, Jungian/Archetypal Studies. Settler scholar studying psyche + place. Ⓥ✍🏻🖖😷🗳 He/him.

[Jonathan Vaughn @lamplighterjv]

@brainpicker Thank you for this stunning piece. I’m glad to have caught it @nytimes. I’m wondering if there’s somewhere where the papers you reference are cited. @nytimes is normally so good about linking to other pieces, but there’s sadly none of it in this piece. Curious Jungian here…

[Jonathan Vaughn @lamplighterjv]

Leaving indefinitely, maybe forever. But certainly as long as M owns this site and continues to degrade it with his hate and stupidity. Find me on Threads @[email protected]

[Olivia Beavers @Olivia_Beavers]

NEWS: The SANTOS Ethics report is out.

The investigation "determined there was substantial evidence that Representative Santos violated federal criminal laws, some of which are the subject of the pending charges filed against him in court."

[Jonathan Vaughn @lamplighterjv]

Yep. What Joyce said 👇

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Kevin McCarthy pushes into a colleague who voted against keeping him as speaker. Now this from a GOP Senator. Don't tell me Trump isn't normalizing violence in our civil discourse. This is how it starts.

[Jonathan Vaughn @lamplighterjv]

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The story of Pelorus Jack, the dolphin that escorted ships through a dangerous stretch of water in New Zealand for 24 years.

He was so famous that if a crew did not see him when they approached the pass, they would often wait for him.

Pelorus Jack, named after the Pelorus Sound in the South Island, first captured the attention of sailors in the late 1880s. The dolphin exhibited an uncanny habit of escorting ships through the perilous French Pass, a notoriously challenging and narrow strait between D'Urville Island and the mainland. This behavior was both mysterious and welcomed by seafarers navigating the tumultuous waters of the region.

Pelorus Jack was first seen around 1888 when he appeared in front of the schooner Brindle when the ship approached French Pass, a channel located between D'Urville Island and the South Island. When the members of the crew saw the dolphin bobbing up and down in front of the ship, they wanted to kill him, but the captain's wife talked them out of it. To their amazement, the dolphin then proceeded to guide the ship through the narrow channel.

And for years thereafter, he safely guided almost every ship that came by. With rocks and strong currents, the area was dangerous to ships, but no shipwrecks occurred when Jack was present.

In 1904, someone aboard the SS Penguin tried to shoot Pelorus Jack with a rifle. Despite the attempt on his life, Pelorus Jack continued to help ships. According to folklore, however, he no longer helped the Penguin, which shipwrecked in Cook Strait in 1909.

After this event, the New Zealand government decided to protect the friendly dolphin. An ordinance was passed prohibiting the harming, harassing, or killing of Pelorus Jack. This decree reflected the widespread appreciation for the dolphin's role as a maritime guardian and symbolized the intersection of human and cetacean interests.

Pelorus disappeared in 1912 and it's remembered as the heroic friend of sailors and the first individual sea creature ro be protected by law in any country.

[Jonathan Vaughn @lamplighterjv]

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[Ashley Gable @Ashley_Gable]

Hey, LA fam — hope y’all saw this… Stay off the 10!

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

This is not merely a coincidence.

It is deliberate.

We must not sit idly by as fascism rears its ugly head in America.

Share this image far and wide so everyone you know understands the stakes of the 2024 election.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Inuit in northern Greenland used iron blades for centuries without knowledge of metallurgy.

They made them by breaking pieces off of a huge iron meteorite and shaping them with heavy stones. They built their settlements close to the meteorite for generations.

The Cape York meteorite, also known as the Innaanganeq meteorite, is one of the largest known iron meteorites, classified as a medium octahedrite in chemical group IIIAB. In addition to many small fragments, at least eight large fragments with a total mass of 58 tonnes have been recovered, the largest weighing 31 tonnes.

Estimates have put the date of the fall as 10,000 years ago.

The iron masses were known to Inuit as Saviksoah (Great Iron) weighing 31 metric tons; the Woman, weighing 3 metric tons; and the Dog, weighing 400 kilograms (880 lb).

For centuries, Inuit living near the meteorites used them as a source of metal for tools and harpoons, working the metal using cold forging—that is, by hammering the metal with stones.

[Ellen L. Weintraub (@ellenlweintraub.bsky.social) @EllenLWeintraub]

A complaint was filed at the @FEC alleging former Pres. Trump violated the law. The nonpartisan staff recommended that the Commission investigate allegations of excessive contributions.
You'll never guess what happened next . . . .
https://t.co/N1c85UFf1y

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Please spare us the Republican Party’s fake outrage about the national debt. The Bush and Trump tax cuts together have cost an estimated $10 trillion since they were enacted. Hello?

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

Tyranny 101: When a dictator wannabe tells you how he’ll govern if you give him the chance, take him at his word.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

3-Judge panel orders new voting maps for Louisiana, the most recent state where a GOP-controlled legislature has been found to have violated the Voting Rights Act when it drew new maps based on 2020 census data.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Dear Christian,

God does not need your protection or defense.

The poor, the vulnerable, the marginalized, the hurt, and the oppressed do.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Judges should authorize cameras in the courtroom for every proceeding Trump is involved in. It is the only way to check the barrage of lies he tells.

[Samuel Ramani @SamRamani2]

BREAKING: The U.S. says frozen Russian assets will not be returned until Russia pays for Ukraine's reconstruction

[Alex Vindman 🇺🇸 @AVindman]

Take a moment & listen to this. It’s infuriating that the first time these military officers’ names are spoken in Congress—after decades of honorable service & sacrifice—is when this fucking imbecile @TTuberville @SenTuberville is objecting to their promotion! Absurd!!

[The Recount @therecount]

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) begins to individually request the confirmation of each of the 364 military promotions being blocked by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL).

Tuberville after each request: “I object.”

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

As an American, this is truly embarrassing for me to watch. I hope the voters of Alabama are embarrassed as well. This one-man circus must stop. The world is too dangerous for it to continue.

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

After James Comer subpoenaed President Biden for loaning money to his brother, it was revealed COMER loaned his own brother $200,000.

Today Rep. Jared Moscowitz subpoenaed James Comer.

Fantastic. Just don’t forget about the $2 billion Jared got from the Saudis!

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

Don’t say you weren’t warned. Like many aspiring dictators, Trump makes no secret of his authoritarian agenda. But many people either don’t believe him or don’t care.