#public monuments

[grokkensgrumblings]

Johnny Somali (Rashid Ramsey) just my opinion.

So, I might be being a boomer here, but honestly... When a guy peed on the Alamo back in 2013-2014 the dude got 18 months and was also fined $4,000 to repair any damage to the Alamo, which was built in the 1750s by Spanish colonists. That was a plea deal and while what he did was truly objectionable, it wasn't as bad as what Rashid did to the Comfort Women statues, (yeah, he targeted more than one.) He's committed more "crimes" (in quotes due to me not know Korean Law) and all deserve punishment. I'm hoping he gets the big book of Korean law chunked at his head by the judges. What I know of Korean law is the first season of Attorney Woo so.. yeah.

But no nation takes the defacing of their monuments lightly, especially by foreigners. Nor should they, and the American government, and the "sigh" incoming assholes need to let this moron hang out to dry.

[seashorepics]

Day 27: The George Robert Stephenson Fountain: A Tribute to Engineering Excellence on The Green, Cowes

Introduction The George Robert Stephenson Fountain, located on The Green in Cowes, Isle of Wight, stands as a lasting tribute to one of Britain’s most significant engineering families. Erected in honor of George Robert Stephenson, a pioneer of railway engineering, the fountain is a blend of Victorian design, engineering history, and local pride. Positioned near the Cowes waterfront, it serves as…

[archiveofaffinities]

Luis Barragán, Faro del Comercio, Monterrey, Mexico, 1980-1982

[miamaimania]

Revisiting Claes Oldenburg's Monumental Sculptures: A Pop Art Legacy

[daily-public-domain]

Day 277: Lonely squid, 900 meters deep

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[missedmilemarkers]

[germanpostwarmodern]

Richard Serra, Terminal (Pieces for Documenta VI), 1977, weathering steel, Bochum, Kurt-Schumacher-Platz 13. Photo from c. 1981 by Robert Häusser.

[ratisangy]

I won't stop sharing this. I simply can't. The American people need to know.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/open-for-business-the-trump-revolution-on-public-lands

[lunarlivs]

i’ve said it once and i’ll say it again: texting fics are my number one bitch. silly little texting fics with minimal plot and way too many groupchats? university au’s? modern references and out of pocket shit? that’s my main girl right there. i’m going to war for her.

[benkaden]

Ansichtskarte

MERSEBURG Lenin-Monument am Gotthardteich

Köthen: Heldge-Verlag KG 437 Köthen (P 1/72 IV-14-45 06 08 11 120)

Foto: [Erich] Kühn

1972

[maslows-pyramid-scheme]

The male pro-Palestinian crowd here are using abused and murdered women as a battering ram against the Jewish and pro-Israeli crowd, asking things like "why is antisemitism being treated as a national crisis when more women have been murdered than Jewish people in this country?" and "can you imagine if women's hurt feelings got as much time and attention as Jews' hurt feelings to in this country?" (actual quotes). And it's like. Could you not find a single other comparator?

[rabbitcruiser]

The War of 1812 Monument was dedicated on 6 November 2014, the 200th anniversary of the war’s final battle in Canada, the Battle of Malcolm’s Mills.

[archiveofaffinities]

Mount Rushmore, Detail of the face of President Lincoln, South Dakota, USA

[dougielombax]

A few days late.

BUT!

Mickey Mouse has been DEAD (by which I mean his original incarnation (Steamboat Willie) entered the public domain) for ONE WHOLE SLUTTY YEAR!!!!

Getting fucked up with Mr Gatsby! Absolutely wasted!

In my mind….

[daily-public-domain]

Day 275: Large Stalked Sponge

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[spiritofthemountainnaturephoto]

I'm sick to my stomach thinking over the fact we as the American people could lose our public lands, national parks and monuments. We would lose so many beautiful natural areas, wildlife and history. We could lose places to hike, hunt and fish.

He was putting things in motion before and he will do it again.

"The Trump administration is responsible for the largest reduction in protected public lands in history, a study finds.

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon coined the term “deconstruction of the administrative state,” to describe efforts to take power away from the federal government and allow business a freer hand in development. Nowhere is that policy being carried out more systematically than in the Trump administration’s actions on public lands, where the businesses seeking that freer hand are primarily the oil and gas extraction, logging, and mining industries.

Republicans in Western states hoped would be a new effort to take over control of federal lands, and introduced a bill to sell some 3.3 million public land acres out of federal hands."

https://e360.yale.edu/features/open-for-business-the-trump-revolution-on-public-lands

Please share so that more people can be aware for what is to come. We need to keep an eye on the Trump administration so that we don't lose our American right to hike, hunt and fish on OUR public lands!