Patriotism

Everyone who's seen "A Charlie Brown Christmas" or read the Peanuts strip in depth knows how important religion was to Schulz. But he did *not* care for current trends of equating Christianity with Americanism, which has only gotten worse. Here's an interview snippet. pic.twitter.com/xUmpcaQqLc

— Luke Epplin (@LukeEpplin) July 4, 2019

The rest of this excellent thread.

Photo Choice

Unidentified, non-credited photo meant to illustrate "consciousness"...

Surely the FBI was wide-awake with consciousness—of the Bureau's political agenda—when agents so creatively gathered the impressive tower of files on Tom Hayden.

There's no mistaking the image. Though the event flyer improperly published it without credit (to LA Times), the photo of Hayden with files he obtained through FOIA was familiar to me from Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power. (Wrote about the book here.)

A 20-something event staffer googled "man + papers" to come up with the illustration? It's reminiscent of the wrong or missing context photos posted on fake history twitter accounts.

No Hotel

As promised — Yo-Yo Ma’s visit to both sides of the border:

“A country is not a hotel. And it’s not full,” he said. “In culture, we build bridges, not walls.”https://t.co/MqHPTSTF0e @ExpressNews

— Silvia Foster-Frau (@SilviaElenaFF) April 14, 2019

No Einstein

With airline disaster news followed by this performance...

gotta do it pic.twitter.com/Q2AuVlISfS

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) March 12, 2019

... it may be that Southpaw's search of the archives hit ultimate There's always a tweet...

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 21, 2013