Images for nos 2 Ignatius Sancho and 8 John Blanke- they were featured in the British Library exhibition Beyond the Bassline earlier this year

I do slightly look sideways at how assassination attempts have been normalised…

FYI bsky.app/profile/atru...

ARatrupar.bsky.socialOct 15, 2024 12:08am

Wow -- this was weird. Trump wrapped up his "town hall" in Oaks, Pennsylvania, after just a few questions, and right after he said he would take a few more questions. More music then played while Trump stood around on stage. Deeply bizarre scenes.

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads

Wow -- this was weird. Trump wrapped up his "town hall" in Oaks, Pennsylvania, after just a few questions, and right after he said he would take a few more questions. More music then played while Trum...

‘Azuraseans, unite! You have nothing to lose but….’ Oops 😬

Sure. Tho it was maybe 65 years ago it ended, lasted quite a while. (People dealing with Trump might have been better off studying the Roman Emperors - sorta learn from history or be condemned to repeat it, y’know?)

I get that, but it rather goes against the ‘America is always on the right side of history, land of both the free and of free speech - bad things happen in other places’ mythology

I presume McCarthyism has been wiped from collective memory/discourse?

If it’s any help, I think the ☄️ is around for a bit, yesterday was just the first chance to see from the uk - sorry about the talk

Yup. As opposed to 👇🏻 bsky.app/profile/volk...

But also - you really believe Trump is above gaming the polls??? (Where’ve you been?) bsky.app/profile/chad...