Marcus

Lee County NC Board of Education, Fort Bragg Army brat. Duke, Violist, Episcopalian, on the Gary S Becker Right, GOP.

On this X, Art, History, Money and Music.

[Marcus @mrcmsn]

About 13 yo, in the early morning I woke up listening to the radio set to WUNC. Jessie Jackson wanted Black firefighters to take a different easier test to be promoted. I sat up in bed listened and figured out that I am #BlackNotDemocrat

[Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape]

The Beijing summit ended with one brutal reality:

Taiwan is more vulnerable now than before the summit began -- and more than in decades

America’s power is declining since the Iran war — and world leaders are adjusting fast
-- Iran humiliated Trump’s envoys
-- Merz openly spoke of U.S. weakness
-- Now Xi pressing harder on Taiwan

US alliances are fragmenting and rivals are taking full advantage

[Jazz Is Dead @jazzisdeadco]

Nina Simone performing "Take Me To The Water" live at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1969.

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

There is better testimony for the existence of Jesus than there is for the emperor of Rome.

[Marcus @mrcmsn]

@losthunderlads @tomgriffo60 @jchmcl09 @RBrookhiser The late Al "I am in control here" Haig would've seconded that.

[Marcus @mrcmsn]

@chrisshipitv These are conversations for Sir Keir Starmer. The administration’s approach to the UK and Europe continues to be as gauche and uncouth as it is conceited at every turn.

[Marcus @mrcmsn]

@ProfessorPape 2/2 ​The administration is circling back to regime change, not the scattered theocracy, the IRGC.

[Marcus @mrcmsn]

@ProfessorPape Trump appears to have switched tactics, subjecting Iran to the equivalent of a medieval siege. Iran is cut off from vital trade. As political and economic conditions deteriorate within the "city walls," the U.S. military/naval encampment in the region continues to grow. 1/2

[NASA History Office @NASAhistory]

Annie Easley, born OTD in 1933, began her career at the NACA (NASA's predecessor) in 1955 as a “human computer.” When machines began to replace human computers for performing complex calculations, Easley adapted, becoming an expert computer programmer.

Easley's 34-year career at NASA furthered research on alternative power and technology on the Centaur rocket.

[Marcus @mrcmsn]

@EmzTandT @FoxNews @trish_putnam Trump risks damaging, if not demolishing, the Trans-Atlantic alliance—which is of far more consequence to US national security and what the Europeans have called the "Great Peace" following WWII. Prince Harry didn’t say one word that wouldn't have been spoken by Ronald Reagan.

[Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape]

In the last 24 hours:
--Iran seized ships in Hormuz
--The U.S. seized Iranian tankers

This isn’t chaos—it’s the first rung of escalation I predicted before the ceasefire ended.

We are now in the demonstration phase

This is how escalation begins—and why it doesn’t stop here:

[Marcus @mrcmsn]

Yehudi Menuhin

[NASA @NASA]

It's our home.

This Earth Day, see our planet as our Artemis II astronauts saw it with these new images from the mission.

[Marcus @mrcmsn]

Navy Secretary John Phelan is DEPARTING the Trump administration, effective immediately, per the Pentagon

Undersecretary HUNG CAO has now stepped into the role as Acting Secretary of the Navy

[Marcus @mrcmsn]

@Leiful163616 @TheRabbitHole Try thinking with an actual knowledge of history again.

[Marcus @mrcmsn]

@givdul123 @TheRabbitHole No, you do your reading. This post makes a false comparison between the Barbary pirate slaves and the chattel slavery of Africans. No Europeans in the Barbary slave trade were subjected to perpetual, chattel slavery as happened in the transatlantic slave trade.

[Marcus @mrcmsn]

“Air” from Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 performed by François Leleux with the SWR Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Markus Poschner.

[Marcus @mrcmsn]

Welsh soprano Anne Wilkins is an award-winning classical musician from Neath, South Wales. Born blind due to retinopathy of prematurity, she spent years with South Wales Police before becoming a singer.