San Francisco 🇺🇸 image: Fail-Safe, 1964 Larry Hagman & Henry Fonda https://jackhutton.com/
A delightful first for me: stumbled into someone local, in-person, who I had only previously met on Bluesky 🦋
And it occurs to me that 2.5 years after ditching Twitter, 1.5 years after ditching Instagram, and 2 months after ditching Facebook ...
I now see quite a few locals on open social, whether Bluesky/ATproto or Mastodon/ActivityPub! It's really encouraging. More, please – let's away from walled gardens and surveillance capitalism.
Since it opened in 2005, Immigrant Point has served as the site of an annual naturalization ceremony for new immigrants through a partnership with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service. The overlook is on the cliffs above the Pacific Ocean and has stunning views of the ocean and the Headlands.
Wilson’s quote is chiseled on the capstone of the overlook wall. The carving was done by a local stone mason based in the East Bay.
Presidio’s Immigrant Point Overlook, Washington Boulevard in the Presidio. “We opened the gates to all the world and said: ‘Let all men who want to be free come to us and they will be welcome.'” –Woodrow Wilson Address at Independence Hall: "The Meaning of Liberty, July 04, 1914.
#sanfrancisco #presidio #goldengate #immigration #immigrants #welcome #welcomethestranger #freedom #nps #sfparks #nationalpark #woodrowwilson #stonemason #california #usa #landofimmigrants
The Presidio —overlooking the golden gate — #sanfrancisco
[Meduza]: Russian foreign minister pens foreword to book challenging Lithuanian statehood, May 2, 2025
well, this ain’t good: “Russian foreign minister pens foreword to book challenging Lithuanian statehood”
@jackhutton
…and anti-anxiety meds!
Just to get on here to say: Fuck every single Trump voter for doing this —all this bullshit.
[Liberal Currents]: The New York Times Launders Another Fascist
Misogyny, racism, and antisemitism all were glossed over in Ross Douthat's softball interview of Jonathan Keeperman. By Chance Phillips, May 2, 2025
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-york-times-launders-another-fascist/
Thank god for coffee.
[NYTimes]: ‘Freedom From Fear’: F.D.R.’s Granddaughter Contrasts Two Presidents. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
[NYTimes Opinion]: The New Deal Is a Stinging Rebuke to Trump and Trumpism. By Jamelle Bouie, April 30, 2025
Corruption on a level we couldn’t conceive -- [NYTimes-Gifted]: At a Dubai Conference, Trump’s Conflicts Take Center Stage
#corruption #witkoff #trump #crypto #worldliberty #token2049
Tell me again about Hunter Biden.. wtf ..Trump is a globalist mob family.
"We continue to circle around the events of 1933 because the rise of the Nazis exposed so many conflicting motivations about political and social behavior. And we are astonished to see people like ourselves in the galleries of the Third Reich.
[..]
The past also lives on because what was supposed to be behind us suddenly appears up ahead on the right.”
––Peter Fritzsche
Excerpt From
Hitler's First Hundred Days
Excerpt From
Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
"Like Napoleon, in the “hundred days” Hitler and the brownshirts moved unexpectedly and with great force: “Basta! Everything is going to be different.” They did not build on state, local, and civic institutions; they inserted the rule of the party, radically transforming the way citizens related to government and authority and how they experienced the balance and accountability of power.”
“Like the first hundred days of Roosevelt’s presidency, the first hundred of Hitler’s chancellorship witnessed a flurry of legislation, but in Germany this constituted repeated acts of usurpation that, accompanied by intimidating rather than intimate radio broadcasts, reached far into the private sphere of German citizens.
Excerpt From
Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
#hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterFritzsche #Books #history #FDR #leadership
'But Roosevelt’s real authority was in fact psychological. He restored confidence in the capacity of American institutions and in the improvement of business conditions. For all the legislative innovation of the first hundred days, he did not dismantle government, or destroy political enemies, or attack a corrupt “system.” The administration propped up rather than tore down, providing a “new deal” rather than a “national revolution.”'
Excerpt From
Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
