NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

Good lord, I’m *really* trying not to see any news today, but the bits that are breaking through are already absolutely horrific 🤦🏻‍♀️

History repeats. In late February 1921, 2 weeks before taking office as POTUS, Warren Harding writes a letter to the richest man in America, William Randolph Hearst, thanking him for helping him win the presidency with favorable coverage in major newspapers he owned & begging for his advice.

History lesson!!!

Reminder

Now who did this 😁

So true.

Word of the day is ‘pavonise’ (19th century): to strut about like a peacock, all puffed up with conceit.

Snowball fight from 1897 in Lyon, France

If only the times covered US politicians as frankly as they do Frenchmen

Well, I’ve had this account for awhile but haven’t used it much. But now that Facebook is going the way of Twitter, I should make an effort to engage here more, if not completely. Just need to sort out how to contain my stories and rants to 300 characters again 😅

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion nationwide.

I'm betting Jenna Ellis' latte has never once been made correctly.

My god, I forgot what it felt like to be on a social media surrounded by intelligent, insightful, and interesting people who can spell and who know stuff. Is this heaven?