Moon-Watcher

@bobsmyusername.bsky.social

• skygazer • kindness enthusiast • 📍Shawnee | Delaware ancestral land

When RFK was running for president in 1968, he was speaking to IU med students & was asked where he was gonna get the money to pay for his universal healthcare plan and, growing irritated, he pointed into that privileged crowd and said, “From you!…and you!…and you!” RFK, jr. is a national tragedy.

On April 26, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy delivered a famously candid campaign speech and participated in a sharp question-and-answer session at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis during his run for the 1968 Democratic presidential primary

It doesn’t matter that Trump lied about the reflecting pool being vandalized because the lie served its purpose in the moment and the added bonus is that a certain percentage of his base will continue to repeat the debunked lie anyway

So some 300 family members of 911 victims are circulating a petition to keep Mamdani out of the 911 Memorial—but if I were a victim of 911, I’ve got at least 25 white Christian cousins and a bunch of uncles who would do the same thing. Racist relatives a quarter-century later don’t get to decide.