Bruce Little
Founder of Grandparents for Our Revolution. Interests include progressive politics, the Streamline Moderne Era, vintage citrus crate labels from California, landscape photography, retro pop, and local history.
- Trump's announcement is a dramatic shift in U.S. policy towards Syria less than six months after the collapse of the Assad regime. One likely to make Israel unhappy. The sanctions crippled the Syrian economy and brought the country to the verge of bankruptcy.
- Converting a luxury jet gifted by Qatar could cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and it could take up two years to install the necessary security equipment, communications and defensive capabilities It would also pose significant espionage and surveillance problems.
- After the 2020 election in Georgia, GOP state senator Brandon Beach joined other MAGA loyalists in calling for a special session to investigate results & pressuring Mike Pence to delay certification. Now he’s been named the next head of the U.S. Treasury. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/cKbZ3x
- It’s frustrating because we have the solution -- vaccines. As of 5/8 there are 1,001 confirmed measles cases across 30 US states. 709 are in TX. We are probably confirming ~1 in 3 cases meaning the true number is closer to 3000 at minimum.
- The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
- The move would symbolically split Greenland from Denmark. Several US officials expressed wariness about the move because of Trump’s repeated insistence that the US “needs” Greenland and his refusal to rule out military action to obtain it.
