David Rountree

@afterword.substack.com

Retired guy in Alabama who detests the felonious president and his hanger-on henchmen. Also raging at afterword.substack.com. #RESIST! #SlavaUkraini! 🚫MAGA🚫DM🚫porn🚫crypto

In this appallingly stupid time we are living in, with America's current aversion to facts and science, it is fascinating how the Ancient Greeks calculated the circumference of the Earth so accurately. May we return to a time when curiosity overcame ignorance and science overcame superstition.

Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ancient Greeks proved Earth was round using sticks and shadows. Eratosthenes calculated its circumference to within 2% accuracy over 2,000 years ago. No satellites needed.

On Tuesday, a New Jersey town pulled $91M out of Citizens Bank over its business with ICE prison contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic. Yesterday, Citizens announced it was ending its relationships with GEO and CoreCivic. Money managers should DIVEST from $GEO $CXW www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...

This N.J. town just pulled $91M from Citizens Bank over ICE

Two N.J. municipalities have now pulled more than $330 million combined, according to the De-ICE Citizens Bank coalition.

nj.com

Summer Solstice captured from Stonehenge yesterday. At first light, the sun climbed up behind the Heel Stone and threaded itself straight through the center of Stonehenge exactly where the builders aimed it nearly 5,000 years ago. Ethereal Earth on FB

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The bigots whose unsigned order restores Jim Crow: Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. Associate Justice Clarence Thomas Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch Associate Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett