"Donald #Trump’s campaign ran ads in the state of Georgia showing a beautiful landscape from... the country of Georgia. "The digital ad, captured in reports by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Telegraph, calls on voters in the Peach State to register to vote. “REGISTER TO VOTE FOR TRUMP,” reads the message overlayed on an image... "That image on Shutterstock, captioned: 'Cloudy morning view of the mountain hill in Upper Svanetia, Georgia, Europe.'”
"Melania Trump was paid [$237,000] by the Log Cabin Republicans for the April fundraiser. But it’s a mystery who actually cut the check: Charles Moran, president of the Log Cabin Republicans...the group did not put up the money ...and the disclosure form did not give any more information about the source of the payment....in the White House, she was always so concerned about people making money off of her because she felt it was money she should be earning.”
"Sunday a soldier of Company A died and was buried. Everything went on as if nothing had happened, for death is so common that little sentiment is wasted. It is not like a death at home." Elisha Hunt Rhodes, 2nd Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry
"Historian Timothy Messer-Kruse believes that people on both sides of this debate [about the founders’ intentions for the future of #slavery often miss the point. In this week’s HNN feature, he argues that pinpointing the truth about 18th-century perspectives on abolition requires taking a closer look at the self-interested anxieties that white elites brought to the issue." HNN feature [free access with a request to sign up for the newsletter] https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/in-the-white-interest
#Project2025 regarding Reproductive Rights will ...withdraw Medicaid funds for states that require abortion insurance or that discriminate in violation of the Weldon Amendment. This would punish states that try to protect women's access to abortion care. [472]
"I presume this army might advance on Manassas and ...drive them out and gratify some dissatisfied people at home and in Congress. I set the loss of life high...the rebel fortifications are no better than ours, but I have every reason to believe that they are much superior, owing to the fact that we do not anticipate an attack and they do." Capt. Wm. Medill 8th Illinois Cavalry [The estimated casualties are 21,800 killed, missing, and wounded for both sides]
"it was the setting, outside the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office in Howell, Michigan, that infused his [#Trump's] rambling with an even darker undertone than normal. "I don’t remember when I first learned about Howell’s association with the Ku Klux Klan."
"In the current state of the culture wars, the #MAGA right and its enablers have hair-trigger offense reactions. And some of them are openly debasing themselves as their fragility leads them to viciously lash out at their liberal tormentors."
"in 1940, Nazi leaders ordered the construction of above-ground air raid shelters throughout the Third Reich. Built using forced labor, these hulking anti-aircraft structures—called flak towers—had concrete walls up to 11 feet thick... "Some of these towers were partially or fully demolished after the war...The Flakturm IV bunker in the St. Pauli district is still standing after 80 years—and now, it’s being repurposed as a community gathering space." Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/germany-turns-former-nazi-bunker-into-a-leisure-complex-180984935/
"A narrator for the #Trump campaign ad, ..., declared that Harris had 'failed' Americans due to Biden administration policies on the southern #border. The ad then heads to a slideshow of images showing people making border crossings. "But at least three of the pictures, ...were snapped at the U.S.-Mexico border back in 2018 when Trump was in office, the Post noted."