Released on this day in 1977. #StarWars

“Based on the wide gulf between our spending obligations and our expected tax revenues, debt investors also know that the government will have to issue trillions of dollars in debt in the coming years.”

5/25/1925-John T. Scopes was indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. Scopes, a football coach and substitute high school biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, agreed to be arrested and put on trial for teaching evolution. #JohnTScopes #ScopesMonkeyTrial 1/

5/25/1774-A group of enslaved Africans in Massachusetts Bay colony petitioned the British royal governor for freedom as their natural right: 1/2

#ThisModernWorld #TomTomorrow

“Trump started the February 28 war for reasons of personality, not strategy.”

“Not only is Trump incoherently staggering to defeat, he now risks signing on to an agreement that could be far worse than anything Obama negotiated with Iran a decade ago.” Trump’s War Is Staggering to an Incoherent Defeat

May 24, 1964 - Senator Barry Goldwater (R-Arizona), running for the Republican Party nomination for president, gave an interview in which he said he would consider the use of low-yield atomic bombs in North Vietnam.

Born this day in 1941, Robert Allen Zimmerman. We all know him as Bob Dylan. Raconteur, roustabout, shapeshifter, provocateur, appropriator, and Nobel Laureate. Happy Birthday Bob! #BobDylan #NobelLaureat

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May 24, 1971 - At Fort Bragg, North Carolina, an anti-war newspaper advertisement, signed by 29 U.S. soldiers supporting the Concerned Officers Movement, resulted in controversy. #ConcernedOfficersMovement 1/4

"Sail Away" by Randy Newman released this day in 1972. "We'll save Australia Don't wanna hurt no kangaroo" #RandyNewman #SailAway #VintageVinyl

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Released this May in 1972, The Rolling Stones' "Exile On Main Street". My favorite Stones album. (Well, my favorite from the Mick Taylor era.) #TheRollingStones #ExileOnMainStreet 1/3

“The DHS propaganda machine went to work. Headlines around the country declared that Sosa-Celis and two other men had ambushed and beat two ICE officers nearly to death, giving them no choice but to use lethal force to defend themselves. It was all a lie.” open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

"The numbers are terrible, people. We’re hitting a record low on consumer sentiment which fits in with the general picture." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

It is reported that Sun Ra arrived on Earth on this date in 1914. #SunRa

"But a strong international response is a crucial partner to a domestic one. When Ebola has sparked outbreaks in the past—including the recent, record-breaking one that began in 2014 and reached 28,000 cases—USAID and the CDC, in coordination with the WHO"

I’m on a 9 day streak! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ www.afi.com/get-the-pict... #GetThePicture

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The 19th Amendment, Women's Right To Vote, was passed by the US House of Representatives on May 21, 1919. #19thAmendment

May 21, 1930 - Sarojini Naidu, a renowned Indian poet, was arrested as a leader of the nonviolent “raid” on the Dharasana Salt Works, a salt production facility. She had assumed leadership of the effort to break the salt monopoly after the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi. #SarojiniNaidu 1/5

"Sailin' Shoes" by Little Feat released in May 1972. #LittleFeat #SailinShoes #VintageVinyl

Marvin Gaye "What's Going On" released 1971. #MarvinGaye #WhatsGoingOn

May 20, 1916 - Emma Goldman spoke to garment workers in Union Square about the benefits of birth control. #EmmaGoldman #ReproductiveFreedom #TrustWomen

"Be Yourself Tonight" by Eurythmics released in May 1985. #TheEurythmics #BeYourselfTonight #VintageVinyl

May 20, 1961 - A mob of 300 white segregationists, with the tacit assent of the local police, attacked a busload of both black and white “Freedom Riders” in Montgomery, Alabama’s bus depot. #FreedomRiders 1/3

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"Avalon" by Roxy Music released in May 1982. #RoxyMusic #Avalon #VintageVinyl

"Live at Leeds" by The Who released in May 1970. #TheWho #LiveAtLeeds #VintageVinyl

May 19, 1925.

May 19, 1997 - Two international human rights workers, Mario Calderón and Elsa Alvarado, as well as her father, were shot dead in Bogotá, Colombia, by a paramilitary gang. #MarioCalderón #ElsaAlvarado 1/3

5/18/1896 Plessy v. Ferguson, was a landmark decision of the SCOTUS in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. #PlessyvFerguson #SeperateButEqual 1/3

#ThisModernWorld #TomTomorrow

May 17, 2004 - Marcia Kadish, 56, and Tanya McCloskey, 52, of Malden, Massachusetts, were married at Cambridge City Hall in Massachusetts, becoming the first legally married same-sex partners in the United States. #KadishMcCloskey #MarriageEquality 1/2

"Ram" by Paul and Linda McCartney released this day in 1971. #PaulMcCartney #Ram #LindaMcCartney #VintageVinyl

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May 17, 1954 - In a major civil rights victory, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education, ruling "separate but equal" public education to be unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment, which guarantees equal treatment under the law. #BrownvBoard 1/2

May 17, 1973 - In Washington, D.C., the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, headed by Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, began televised hearings on the escalating Watergate affair. #Watergate #SamErvin #Nixon 1/3

On this day in 1966 “Pet Sounds” by The Beach Boys, produced by Brian Wilson, was released. Wilson: “I didn’t want to copy the Beatles, but I wanted to be as good as them, and have the Phil Spector Wall of Sound, too” #TheBeachBoys #PetSounds #BrianWilson

May 16, 1918 - The U.S. Congress passed the Sedition Act, legislation designed to protect America’s participation in World War I. #SeditionAct 1/

"Bruised Orange" by John Prine released this day in 1978. #JohnPrine #BruisedOrange #VintageVinyl

"Reunions" by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit released this day in 2020. #JasonIsbell #Reunions #400Unit

5/13/1932-"We Want Beer" marches were held in cities all over America, with 15,000 unionized workers demonstrating in Detroit. Prohibition (18th amendment to the U.S. Constitution barring “the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors”) was repealed the following year. #BeerMarch

Twang! It's Friday! "Red Headed Stranger" by Willie Nelson released in May 1975. #WillieNelson #RedHeadedStranger #VintageVinyl #TwangItsFriday

The Jackson State killings occurred on May 15, 1970, in Jackson, Mississippi. Around midnight on May 14, city and state police confronted a group of students and opened fire on them, killing two students and injuring twelve. #PhillipLafayette #JamesEarlGreen #JacksonStateKillings 1/5

"Americans are burned-out, frustrated, and hunting for scapegoats."

#MikeLuckovich 5/15/2026