🌖 Citizen K 🌓
@kstroopwafel.bsky.social
▫️liberal▫️history buff▫️skeptic▫️☘️ 🏳️🌈
“Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
-“Ozymandias,” Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
-“The Life of Reason,” George Santayana
“Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
-“Ozymandias,” Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
-“The Life of Reason,” George Santayana
🟠 DC’s newest “attraction:” menacing Trump banner hanging from the US Department of Agriculture HQ—alongside a Lincoln banner. Shades of Kim Jong Eun.
[📷: Eric Garcia/The Independent]
[📷: Eric Garcia/The Independent]
May 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
🟠 DC’s newest “attraction:” menacing Trump banner hanging from the US Department of Agriculture HQ—alongside a Lincoln banner. Shades of Kim Jong Eun.
[📷: Eric Garcia/The Independent]
[📷: Eric Garcia/The Independent]
🔵 Lately I’ve been capturing images of what life in DC is like before democracy meets its demise.
I want to remember.
I want to remember.
May 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
🔵 Lately I’ve been capturing images of what life in DC is like before democracy meets its demise.
I want to remember.
I want to remember.
On the lighter side, here’s an item from a recent police blotter for Federal Way, WA.
May 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
On the lighter side, here’s an item from a recent police blotter for Federal Way, WA.
At least your dog doesn’t *argue* about facts.
May 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
At least your dog doesn’t *argue* about facts.
Military and police and paramilitary
May 12, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Military and police and paramilitary
🟠 I believe that Pirro is best known for drinking box wine on air.
Nothing against box wine.
Nothing against box wine.
May 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
🟠 I believe that Pirro is best known for drinking box wine on air.
Nothing against box wine.
Nothing against box wine.
⚪️🔵 Living in DC is wonderful—if you look up and ignore what’s happening on the ground.
May 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
⚪️🔵 Living in DC is wonderful—if you look up and ignore what’s happening on the ground.
The flag in Trump’s post has the 50-star design rather than the 48 stars of the war era.
May 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The flag in Trump’s post has the 50-star design rather than the 48 stars of the war era.
This flag pictured in Trump’s post has the 50-star format rather than the 48 stars of 1945. 50 stars didn’t appear until 1959.
May 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This flag pictured in Trump’s post has the 50-star format rather than the 48 stars of 1945. 50 stars didn’t appear until 1959.
Charlie Chaplin in “The Great Dictator,” 1940
May 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Charlie Chaplin in “The Great Dictator,” 1940
☀️ Here’s a little sunshine from DC. (Randy Clarke IG)
May 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
☀️ Here’s a little sunshine from DC. (Randy Clarke IG)
This is on Google Maps
May 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This is on Google Maps
Now on Google Maps
May 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Now on Google Maps
Now on Google Maps
May 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Now on Google Maps
🔴 Trump said he wants the name of the Persian Gulf to change to the Arabian Gulf. Just in time for his junket to Saudi Arabia next week to make deals to enrich his family.
Now, on Google Maps:
Now, on Google Maps:
May 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
🔴 Trump said he wants the name of the Persian Gulf to change to the Arabian Gulf. Just in time for his junket to Saudi Arabia next week to make deals to enrich his family.
Now, on Google Maps:
Now, on Google Maps:
🔴⚪️🔴 Mr. Carney Goes to Washington
Welcome!
Welcome!
May 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
🔴⚪️🔴 Mr. Carney Goes to Washington
Welcome!
Welcome!
❌ A view of one face of hell, an incentive to keep on with the struggle.
And now Babbitt’s family is getting a settlement from the government. Outrageous. Lawless.
And now Babbitt’s family is getting a settlement from the government. Outrageous. Lawless.
May 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
❌ A view of one face of hell, an incentive to keep on with the struggle.
And now Babbitt’s family is getting a settlement from the government. Outrageous. Lawless.
And now Babbitt’s family is getting a settlement from the government. Outrageous. Lawless.