Peter Manseau

Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:11 UTC

The July 4, 1942 edition of the "Pinedale Logger," the newspaper written by inmates of the concentration camp in my hometown of Fresno, CA, describes a "Gala Fourth Festival" & features a masthead motto from Thomas Paine: "Tyranny, Like Hell, Is Not Easily Conquered."

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:50 UTC

Every year I study this image and hope one day our country will make sense.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 22:24 UTC

"Rolling calamity" is a phrase I often recall from an election year long ago. Such innocent times.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 02:22 UTC

At least we still have fireflies.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 17:26 UTC

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 04, 2024 at 22:45 UTC

He’s the best. His video on the closing of one of Billerica’s two Boston Road Market Baskets is a classic.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 21, 2024 at 12:27 UTC

What brings you there? My people are from Lowell (québécois mill workers) and I grew up in the town next door.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 08, 2024 at 23:11 UTC

Gift link for non subscribers: www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/o...

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 15, 2024 at 17:30 UTC

Alt text for post above:  SAN FRANCISCO—The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on Negro unrest that has swept urban ghettos this summer: “Riots are caused by nice, timid white people who refuse to recognize racial injustice.” (Newspaper clipping from August 11, 1967)

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 15, 2024 at 17:03 UTC

MLK quote you're unlikely to hear today.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 06, 2024 at 20:10 UTC

I’m all about whimsy in 2024.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 06, 2024 at 19:53 UTC

My New Year's Resolution is no more doom.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 05, 2024 at 17:44 UTC

It was obvious it would happen but I’m still glad to have put in print two years ago that the meaning of January 6 would become a battlefield. In a nation where whitewash flows like an endless sea, what the future will say about the past is infuriatingly unknowable.
www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/o...

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 29, 2023 at 04:24 UTC

I've seen it two dozen times and still notice new things. Tonight it was the implication that it was George himself who had suggested putting the pool under the gym floor. How had I missed that before?

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 29, 2023 at 04:16 UTC

Oh yes, didn't mean to suggest otherwise -- only that their Catholicism as a marker of their recent immigration was part of what made folks like the Martinis outsiders and George did not hold that against them.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 12, 2023 at 02:42 UTC

Yeah I think we’re on a ten year trajectory here. Worse before better.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 12, 2023 at 01:24 UTC

Partially disagree. They welcome certain kinds of fracture, but they believe the United States of America belongs to them. They want it all because they believe they have the right to it all.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 12, 2023 at 01:23 UTC

I disagree. They want it all because they believe they have the right to it all. They welcome certain kinds of fracture, but they believe the United States of America belongs to them.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 08, 2023 at 23:07 UTC

That is incredible.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 08, 2023 at 21:25 UTC

Real missed opportunity: Should’ve called the book. “Jesus is Awesome”.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 08, 2023 at 17:27 UTC

Thanks, Matt!

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 07, 2023 at 01:39 UTC

That's why they call it the sign of the crosshairs.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 06, 2023 at 14:07 UTC

Yes love it!

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 05, 2023 at 19:46 UTC

Glad they’re on the case.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 05, 2023 at 19:41 UTC

But now who will fight for the unborn military?

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 04, 2023 at 19:56 UTC

Funny thing is offline I am a ray of sunshine.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 03, 2023 at 20:06 UTC

Ohhh… Perchta is new to me!

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 03, 2023 at 03:23 UTC

Most enjoyable painfully and depressingly accurate movie I've seen in a long time.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 23, 2023 at 20:05 UTC

I knew an image like this must exist and so went looking for it. Did not expect the kids to be riding in a giant turkey.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 23, 2023 at 20:01 UTC

Japanese American children dressed as Pilgrims and Indians Thanksgiving Harvest Festival Parade Gila River War Relocation Center, 1942

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 23, 2023 at 19:42 UTC

Oof.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 23, 2023 at 18:52 UTC

Woke Mike Brady: "The Indians were friendly at first. They didn't start fighting until their land was taken away." "You mean the Pilgrims took away all the Indians land?" "That's right. Well, at first they didn't take much of it."

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 23, 2023 at 18:44 UTC

A deeply weird holiday in the US when you dig into it (and one of my favorites).

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 23, 2023 at 17:53 UTC

You all were radicalized by the Brady Bunch Thanksgiving episode and you don't even know it.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 22, 2023 at 17:39 UTC

"All Visiting Klansmen and Klanswomen welcome." (The Austin American, 1925)

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 22, 2023 at 17:31 UTC

Learned today of the KKK's Thanksgiving history -- it was revived in its 20th century form with a Stone Mountain cross burning on the eve of the holiday in 1915 -- and then fell down a rabbit hole of its related seasonal activities. "Yours in Christianity" is a sign-off that should live in infamy.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 03, 2023 at 19:15 UTC

The United States of Amnesiaca

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 03, 2023 at 19:13 UTC

Thanks, Sarah. For reasons, I have been searching back through images of the day and yeesh I had forgotten all the madness.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 27, 2023 at 01:06 UTC

For the record, the president is not in line. Line of succession begins with the VP.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 26, 2023 at 22:14 UTC

Solid point!

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