HeyJaredA. Townsend Peterson
Town is a scientist... professor and museum curator. He is also intrigued with geography and history, and how the present is closely connected to the past.
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Trump’s Defiant “America First” Address (opens the original)
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Of course, I have subscribed to the White House’s email announcements, and I periodically get triumphant and celebratory emails directly from Donald or Natalie, or someone. Today’s message was particularly interesting though: “On the World Stage: President Trump Delivers a Defiant America First Address to the United Nations.” And reading down a bit in the message, you find this:In a commanding address to the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, the President told the world body p
Military Base Washington, D.C. (opens the original)
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Early yesterday morning, Trump was spewing crap onto TruthSocial, as usual. And an interesting tidbit showed up amongst the usual stuff, about the real nature of the supposed Triumphal Arch. It presents an interesting parallel to what happened in the case of Trump’s ballroom. So here is some background, and then I will give you his post…Trump originally announced his plans for a ballroom so that he could—supposedly—entertain large numbers of other rich and important people without having to leav
Trump’s Mail-in Voting Plan Loses Big and Trump Lashes Out (opens the original)
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Trump has the idea that mail-in voting is bad, or at least bad for him and his cronies. So he has tried hard to push through major changes to the voting system, in which the U.S. Postal Service would police which mailed-in ballots do and do not get counted. To the eyes of almost everyone who has looked at the proposed protocols—including whistleblowers inside the Postal Service—it’s just a bad idea. Most likely, Trump’s proposal was built around instilling chaos into the November mid-term vote,
Trump’s Next Big Plan for Washington, D.C. (opens the original)
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The U.S. finds itself in the midst of a “hot” war with Iran and an economic war with Canada, the American people are feeling the very high cost of living, and costs of healthcare and medical insurance have risen markedly. But Donald Trump is busy with other things. In particular, he seems to be completely preoccupied with fixes and upgrades to Washington, D.C. It is genuinely difficult to imagine what it is that motivates this intense focus on prettying up the Capitol, but Trump just gave us a v
A New Map of the United States (opens the original)
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[ATP Note: This was the one that started the whole Trump Diaries series. Trump has been going bonkers with renaming stuff recently… Lake Ontario, and now he is on New Mexico, who knows what is next. So this essay is my proposal along those lines.]President-elect Trump has been making statements about his plans or wishes to rename geographic features. First came his idea to return “Denali” to its earlier “Mount McKinley,” notwithstanding the fact that the Koyukon (a Native American group) had ref
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