Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs Land of Hope and Dreams, House of a Thousand Guitars and My City of Ruins.

Someone learned a lesson

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

Today’s featured Wisconsin photographer is Randall Scott Vollmer who captured this moody scene in Waupun. 📸 #Photography

A much-needed moment of calm 🐺

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.

“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

This reminder, over and over again.

So their war on Social Security will go like everything else. They'll cancel some people, get caught, say "my bad," wait for court challenge, lose in court, say they've fixed it, not fix it, lather rinse repeat.

Perhaps we should sit more often with Frederick Douglass:

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."  1/

This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.

She told you.

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

fuck it all, here's a bird

photo by me

Gustave Doré, The Fall of Lucifer, from John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’

Langston Hughes

Look I'm not an elected official or anything but it seems weird to be trying to stop a coup with only the procedures and rule of law norms the coup willfully ignores