President Barack Obama broke precedent and slammed his successor President Donald Trump on Wednesday night during his DNC speech at the Museum of American Revolution. Obama, who led the greatest political scandal in US history and spied on the Trump campaign and Trump Transition Team, gave one of the most divisive speeches in US history. . @BarackObama’s Administration led a surveillance program against @realDonaldTrump’s campaign that […]
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Pulling Down Statues: A Tradition Dating Back To US Independence By Andrew Lawler, National Geographic. July 10, 2020 Pulling Down Statues: A Tradition Dating Back To US Independence2020-07-102020-07-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/william_walcutt_statue_george_iii-e1594407892394.png200px200px Above photo: ”Pulling Down the Statue of George III”, William Walcutt (1819-1882), painting in oils. Wikimedia. Enthusiasm for the American Revolution led colonists to burn, disfigure, and deface any symbol of Britain and its hated king. Fireworks, bands, […]
On Saturday, May 30, Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken became the first astronauts to launch to orbit from the United States in almost nine years. Demo-2 was the first crewed launch for SpaceX, and the culmination of a decade of hard work in NASA’s Commercial Crew program. 20 years ago, Hurley and Behnken were just Bugs. That was the nickname given to the NASA Astronaut class […]