America says "never forget" — but a growing share of Americans don't remember. Why it matters: More Americans are coming of age with no firsthand memory of 9/11 , creating emotional distance from the trauma and more room for dark humor and reinterpretation. The big picture: For Americans under 27, 9/11 arrived through textbooks, movies, social media and family stories rather than lived experience. - That distance can make humor easier, amplified by algorithms that reward provocative content and a generational instinct to push back against mandatory reverence. By the numbers: About 83% of adults born before 2001 remember where they were or what they were doing when they heard about the attacks. - But roughly 10% of U.S. adults were…
A Depression-era mural depicting colonial Massachusetts has reignited online time-travel conspiracy theories after viewers claimed an Indigenous man in the painting appears to hold a modern smartphone, though a historian identified the object as a European trade mirror years ago. The painting, Mr Pynchon and the Settling of Springfield, was completed in 1937 by Italian-born […] The post A 1937 painting went viral over a "smartphone" in the frame — historians say it's a mirror appeared first on American Almanac .
A Depression-era mural depicting colonial Massachusetts has reignited online time-travel conspiracy theories after viewers claimed an Indigenous man in the painting appears to hold a modern smartphone, though a historian identified the object as a European trade mirror years ago. The painting, Mr Pynchon and the Settling of Springfield, was completed in 1937 by Italian-born artist Umberto Romano, who grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. It is one of six New Deal-era murals depicting the city's history. The scene shows English colonist William Pynchon, Springfield's founder, trading with members of the Pocumtuc tribe in western Massachusetts during the 1630s. In the foreground, a Native man holds a small, flat, rectangular object and…Open
President Trump is leaning into online trolling, off-color attacks and picking fights over geographical names as his approval rating sinks just weeks out from November’s midterm elections. Over the weekend, Trump raised eyebrows when he floated changing the name of New Mexico to “New America” weeks after he swapped the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” amid the ongoing trade war with Canada. Trump also posted an image of the U.S. flag covering all of North America, the Caribbean, Greenland and Iceland. The move resulted in Iceland summoning the U.S. ambassador. Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6077459-new-mexico-name-controversy/ #NewMexico #Trump #WhiteHouse #RNC #TrumpAdministration #GOP
President Trump posted a slew of images on Truth Social about renaming New Mexico, owning the moon, George Washington visiting him, and more. Host of MS NOW's "The Weeknight" Michael Steele joins Peter Alexander to discuss Trump focusing on these memes rather than issues that Americans are really concerned about.
President Trump posted a slew of images on Truth Social about renaming New Mexico, owning the moon, George Washington visiting him, and more. Host of MS NOW's "The Weeknight" Michael Steele joins Peter Alexander to discuss Trump focusing on these memes rather than issues that Americans are really concerned about.
President Donald Trump has posted numerous memes on social media over the long weekend appearing to propose renaming the state of New Mexico to "New America."
