Americanalia

words, politics and American ephemera

[ethanredd]

[historicaltimes]

A Japanese American unfurled this banner the day after the Pearl Harbor attack.

via reddit

[wilwheaton]

(via Who would have guessed, guys? 🤔 : PoliticalHumor)

[theonion]

WASHINGTON—Alarmed at the prospect of unconstitutional overreach by the Trump administration, millions of fearful Americans have already begun stockpiling facts before the federal government comes to take them away, sources confirmed Friday. “I know my rights as an American, so you’d better believe I’m getting my hands on as many facts as possible and keeping them somewhere safe where this First Amendment–hating president of ours can’t snatch them all up,” said Pittsburgh resident David Edelman, 38, adding that he was worried that President Trump planned to not only suspend production of facts, but also seize existing ones, leaving Americans and their families completely defenseless. “The minute I saw Trump, I knew he was someone who didn’t grow up around facts or the kind of folks who use facts. Well, the founding fathers cherished my right to possess facts, and they’d be rolling in their graves if they knew the Feds were going to bust in and try to steal our facts in the middle of the night.” A spokesperson for the Trump administration dismissed such fears, saying that the president merely wanted to keep facts away from certain dangerous people.

[americanalia]

How long can Republicans rule in spite of the giant cities that loathe them? At what point do the coasts where most of America's economies and most of America's people are located just get sick of their shit? Does "rural" America think they survive in spite of the New York, LA, Chicago, San Francisco, Miami, etc?  This is an honest question. 

[formyummah]

We were all Paris. We were all Belgium. When will we all be Aleppo?

[mapsontheweb]

Departure from the average temperature on Nov 17, 2016.

[mapsontheweb]

The World with landlocked regions removed.

[americanalia]

But why

[mapsontheweb]

U.S. Collective Defense Arrangements.

[hodgman]

Dr Bronner’s is worldwide woke soap! Right on! Dilute! Dilute! OK!

[mapsontheweb]

Types of second-level administrative divisions in the United States.

[floorcharts]

Who: Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon)

When: March 2016

What: GMOs

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[yepperoni]

[fullpraxisnow]

September 9, 2016 was the start of the largest prison strike in U.S. history. Over 72,000 incarcerated workers in 22 states refused to provide their labor to profit the prison industrial complex.  California forces 5,588 incarcerated workers to labor in exchange for little or no compensation. Another 4,000 earn $2 a day fighting Californian wildfires with inadequate training and equipment.The prison system in California reaped $207 million in revenue and $58 million in profit from forced labor in 2014-15. Each incarcerated worker in California generates $41,549 annually in revenue for the prison system, or $10,238 in profit.  The financial losses to the California prison system were as much as $636,068 in revenue, or $156,736 in profit, for every day of the prison strike.

Prison Strike Having Major Financial Impact On California | Popular Resistance (via khanos)

[wilwheaton]

[steelydamned]

Finest Kelly D political commentary tbh

[floorcharts]

Who: Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York)

When: February 2016

What: Surpreme Court Justice Nomination

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