The U.K.'s general election is today. In celebration, the Big Issue takes a look at the British tradition of novelty candidates, from William "Bill" Boaks, a campaigner for road safety, to @CountBinface, who won 3,741 more votes than a far-right competitor in the London mayoral election and was described as "another reason to love London" by the contest's winner, Labour's Sadiq Khan.
🇩🇴🇺🇸As a First-Generation Adult Child of Immigrants, I consider it my civic duty to spread awareness for Project ‘2025’.
📣‘Project 2025’ represents more than an ideological insurrection; it’s an assault on our multiracial, diverse democracy. It also poses a danger to our national security and international order. To learn more about their plans, look up “Project 2025”.
The details of the lower panels of the Ara Pacis are spectacular. The scrolling patterns of the acanthus foliage first catch the eye, but animals are hidden within and the panels are framed by more floral scrollwork and an intricate meander pattern. Beautiful!
TRUNK. A nose. How fares your old trunk? does your nose still stand fast? an allusion to the proboscis or trunk of an elephant. To shove a trunk: to introduce one's self unasked into any place or company. Trunk-maker like; more noise than work.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
#OnThisDay, 2 Jul 1928, the UK's Representation of the People Act comes into effect, finally giving women equal voting rights to men. It increases the number of women eligible to vote to 15 million.
Former #Nixon White House counsel #JohnDean said Monday that had the court’s ruling been in force in the early 1970s, #history could have turned out very differently.
“As I looked at it, I realized Richard Nixon would have had a pass” because the #evidence against him was based on #OfficialActs the #SupremeCourt has deemed #immune from prosecution.