A Marine holds the door as Gianna Floyd, the daughter of George Floyd, walks into the White House. pic.twitter.com/tbsavLTzcx
— Evan Vucci (@evanvucci) May 25, 2021
- Two kinds of tough on display. Tommy Christopher gathers reactions to what will become iconic photos of a United States Marine holding a door for George Floyd’s little girl Gianna Floyd as the family visits with President Joe Biden. This week was the first anniversary of Mr. Floyd’s murder.
- PZ Myers doesn’t exactly call it cancel culture, but there it is. Texas has outlawed racism in education.
Well… not racism exactly, just any mention of racism.
Move along, history students. Nothing to see here.
- In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson retells the story I confess to never having heard before of the courageous, dangerous, step Frederick Douglass took in 1838 to get from slavery to freedom. She includes the risk another took to help him.
- The rest is worth a look, but do scroll to the middle as Scotties Toy Box posts the story of former slave Mary Fields, better known as the legendary Stagecoach Mary.
- In MadMikesAmerica, Glenn Geist watches with sadness the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder and suggests another murder is happening: around the globe, democracies, including our own, can’t breathe.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger figures out just who wants a complete investigation of January 6.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony contrasts Republican disinterest in Trump insurrectionists with the anger and conservative focus on Hillary emails.
- Glancing through videos from just before the Trump riot, Seth Abramson notices something odd that should have only been true about White House golf carts.
- In the Borowitz Report, Republicans are claiming that the Jan 6 rioters were middle schoolers on a field trip.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz examines bipartisanship and finds a hidden flaw.
- Joe Manchin seems not to have given up on bipartisanship, or on his defense of the filibuster. Green Eagle has a one-sentence suggestion for the ever outreaching Senator, a suggestion that, mercifully, does not involve an anatomical improbability.
- Want to know how the founders fit the filibuster into the legislative process? Hackwhackers has a couple of paragraphs that explain the whole thing.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson considers the current condition of the Republican party, thinks about and rejects a third party, then suggests what today’s responsible conservatives should do.
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