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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

The senseless murder of Alex Pretti is finally showing everyday folks that the Trump regime is beyond any redemption. And in an anti-religious age, it's sparked a quest for a new American morality It's beyond politics now. This is about good vs. evil My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/minn...

Fascism. Period.

What experts in WW2 thought air transport planes would look like in the future. I want to fly on this bad boy … the same as last year, when I first shared it. (Ad for Wright Aircraft Engines, Western Flying magazine, July 1942.) — #avgeeks

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Anti-ICE protest today at the Bridge of Lions, St. Augustine, FL. I got in the face of a teen waving a Trump flag. “Do you know who my father is?” No, but I know *what* he is.

A cocky little #football player (QB?) on this playoff weekend. From my project a few years ago to capture brilliant details from larger #sports #cartoons. (Santa Fe New Mexican, 14 October 1913. Artist unknown.) — #illustration

An old school newspaper actually doing its job in 2026. Bravo.

They didn't wreck this many cars in the Blues Brothers movie

From a friend in Minneapolis, just now:

USCG MH-65 helicopter this afternoon, Butler Beach FL — “avgeeks

“Martha Candler, granddaughter of Asa Candler, [Coca-Cola] millionaire, isn't worrying about how to keep busy since graduating from Ward-Belmont College of Nashville. For she received not only a diploma but a cabin monoplane from her grandfather as a graduating present.” (NEA, July 1930) — #avgeeks

Artist: Jane R. Willson, San Francisco, 2014.

War Bond illustration from the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation, 1942. — #avgeeks

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I think I went to boot camp with these guys.

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Roger Sterling's response to MLK's assassination on MAD MEN sorta sums up the entire series, and acts as a grim reminder of where we still are in America

Nose art for the US Navy Neptune patrol plane “Truculent Turtle,” created by a Disney artist in 1946. Learn all about the P2V’s nonstop flight from Western Australia to Ohio USA in my book The Turtle and the Dreamboat, from Potomac Books. (US National Archives photo) — #avgeeks

Best tv intro ever.

Love this chart of New York City airports circa 1937, from radio station WNYC. So helpful while writing the biography of aviator Frank Hawks. (Artist: A. G. Lorimer) — #avgeeks

The U.S. Navy loaned Frank Hawks (USNR) this F4B-4 fighter. He flew it around America for the Will Rogers Memorial Fund following the cowboy-humorist's death in 1935. "Anacostia" on the fuselage was the naval air station where it was based. (Photo: Des Moines Register, November 9, 1935) — #avgeeks

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Johnny DiNapoli. #NewYorkerCartoons

A favorite #WW1 #baseball picture. That's Color Sergeant Hank Gowdy, Boston #Braves catcher and first active big league player to enlist during the war (right), Sergeant Ralph Redmond of Xenia, Ohio, (left) and an unknown doughboy (center), "somewhere in #France." (Xenia Gazette, July 15, 1918)

My new book, Battlefields: The Chicago White Sox and the Great War, is due next month from Bloomsbury Academic. I like to use contemporary newspaper photos. Here's a good one of Charles Comiskey from 1917, (Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman)

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I've produced a small volume of WWI poetry by American sportswriter Grantland Rice ("Outlined against a blue, gray October sky ..."). Rice left his newspaper job in 1917 to serve as an artillery officer in France. I’ve titled the pdf “Where the Crosses Reign.” DM me if you’d like a free copy.

Big Loosh: The Unruly Life of Umpire Ron Luciano has been out since last summer. This wonderful photo captures his personality. My thanks to @univnebpress.bsky.social and the reviewers, podcasters and radio folks who’ve helped share his story. (Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin photo)

Came across this great image of Ron Luciano yesterday, from 1979, his last season as an American League umpire. What do you think he was saying? And to whom? Read about Ronnie in my current book, Big Loosh, from @univnebpress.bsky.social. (Kansas City Times photo)

Magic Beach Motel, Vilano Beach Fl. Under renovation for quite some time. Love the rabbits hopping out of the hat. Who wouldn’t want to stay here?

My book Big Loosh: The Unruly Life of Umpire Ron Luciano, is still available from @univnebpress.bsky.social and elsewhere. Ronnie would've loved this little cartoon from artist O’Dell Dean, Dayton Daily News, 1918.

Detail from a cartoon panel illustrating an article about Selma Wellbaum, who played first base for the Texter Lady Tourists early last century. (Artist: O’Dell Dean, @daytondailynews.com, July 29, 1917)

River in wintertime.

It's #football season, so here's a tiny sketch of a fullback from a century ago. It's a detail from a much larger cartoon panel by #Ohio newspaper #artist O’Dell Dean (@daytondailynews.com, December 1, 1918.)

Keep up the fight in 2026! (Artist: Victor Clyde Forsythe, figure from a cartoon panel, New York Evening World, 22 October 1917)

Incredible. The roaring ovation at the end.

I wonder if they enforced this order last night.

Happy New Year, history pals — hit it out of the park in 2026!

Nice aviation photo I discovered yesterday — fliers Roscoe Turner (left) chatting with Frank Hawks (right). Turner is in an army uniform, while Hawks wears a navy flight jacket. (Chicago Tribune, September 2, 1933) — #avgeeks

Illustration for Stove League Chatter column, with items on local industrial teams. "Ralph Beers has signed to do the hurling for the Riggs Optical Co. team this season." (Omaha Bee, March 13, 1921. Artist: Parker)

New book coming in February from Bloomsbury Academic! Use one of your holiday gifts card to preorder today.

Dairy Freeze sign, Mr. Sterling, Ohio, #OTD 2015. Winter sky in the Midwest!

One of the last photos of aviator Frank Hawks, 1938. I keep it on my desk while writing his biography. #avgeeks

Christmas-present mystery for #WWI #historians. Photo of army #baseball team labeled "Taken at #Soisson, 1917." There couldn't have been many Yanks there then. The men appear to wear winter uniforms. Not sure what the goggles signify—tankers? engineers? Any info/suggestions appreciated!

“Christmas day baseball game 13th AAF vs 46th Signal Company. Umpire – Cpl. Will; Catcher – Pfc. Reuter; Batter – Cpl. Thuerer. War Theatre #23 – South Pacific.” — (US National Archives photo)

Matty “over there,” Boston Post, 12/25/1918 — “A. E. F., France, “Like all the rest I am still over here marking time till the day comes when we shall start for home. Regards to all the bleacherites and season’s greetings. Glad the old game is coming back strong next spring. “CHRISTY MATHEWSON.”

Season’s greetings from MLB player Otis Lambeth “over there” in 1918. He served in a field artillery unit with Grover Cleveland “Ol’ Pete” Alexander of the Cubs and several other big league players. Read his message in alt text.

Holiday wishes from Lt. Joe Jenkins “over there” (see alt text). Jenks is a major figure in my book Battlefields: The Chicago White Sox and the Great War, coming in February from Bloomsbury Academic.