My 96 year old mother in law, who's intellectually very active, watches NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas on her iPad each morning here in Paris, and frequently comments on appalling events. Or did. "I used to talk to the screen," she said the other day. "Now I am speechless."

Trump despises "losers," so what's this passion for The Lost Cause?

Great piece by Barrett Holmes Pitner from 2016 - Trump’s Ascendance Is Creepily Like the End of Reconstruction (His GOP BTW is not "the Party of Lincoln", it's the party of Rutherford B. Hayes who betrayed blacks to benefit business.) thedailybeast.com/2016-meet-1877… via The Daily Beast

Those Green-Streaked Men in the Parks are Strangers - pages from the 1975 Washington Post Guide to Washington D.C. christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2020/06/those-… Drew Babb

Paris, France - Some statues should be toppled. Some should be put back up. When Nazis occupied Paris they tore this one down. It’s of Gen. Alexandre Dumas. His mother was a slave. He became a top officer in the French army under Napoleon, and yes, his son was the great novelist.

Watch “On France 24 - Symbiosis: Putin wants to discredit US 2020 elections, if Trump loses, he will, too.” by csdickey on #Vimeo vimeo.com/433072596

The Confederacy in your face. Georgia put the segregationist "battle flag" on its state flag in 1956. That came off in 2001. But the actual first flag of the Confederate States of America (top) is the model for the *current* Georgia state flag (bottom). This, too, should go.

This was a fascinating story to report, so full of revelations and ambiguities - Nazis Took Down the Statue of The Great Black General of the French Revolution thedailybeast.com/the-nazis-took… via The Daily Beast

Not the usual statue story: Should China’s Communist Party Erase Queen Victoria? Beijing sees the monarch as a symbol of colonial occupation. But in an irony of history, many in Hong Kong see symbols of Britain as signs of, dare they say it, independence. thedailybeast.com/should-chinas-…