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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Let them take out Los Angeles! Let them take out San Diego!" and the reaction is … applause?

Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

If you remember this photograph — or have access to Look magazine back issues — I would be grateful for any help. Memories, leads, or archive suggestions are welcome.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

To me, the photograph was as impactful as the well-known image of Phan Thị Kim Phúc fleeing a napalm attack (Nick Ut, 1972). I’ve learned that the RFK photo was not widely republished and does not appear in most digital archives.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Kennedy appeared to be listening intently to the child’s mother. I believe that Jim Lucas was the photographer. I began searching for this image while reflecting on the interruption of SNAP funding.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The photo showed Senator Robert F. Kennedy in a small cabin in the Mississippi Delta, sitting quietly near a young Black child lying on a bed. The child’s stomach was swollen from severe malnutrition (kwashiorkor).

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I'm looking for a photograph from Robert F. Kennedy’s 1967 visit to Mississippi. I recall seeing it in Look magazine in 1967 — likely the May 23 or June 6 issue.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Trumpy Government at work. No Kings here either, MoFos! White House and Government Agencies Join Bluesky, Then Attack Democrats www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

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White House and Government Agencies Join Bluesky, Then Attack Democrats

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Here’s a Democrat who’s not afraid to run in the redrawn Congressional District 35 (Bexar, Guadalupe, Karnes, and Wilson Counties): Marine combat veteran and recent senior presidential advisor on Americorps, John Lira! Find out more at LiraforCongress.com

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Their plan is to starve people to the point that they'll sign contracts of indenture. Everyone who is against MAGA must set aside their differences and support Democrats up and down the ballot.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Babe Schwartz invited me to lunch at the Austin Club. Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson stopped by to greet Babe and remarked that in the 1920s the KKK was just a social club people joined because everyone else did. Out of respect for Babe and whatever he might need from Patterson, I stayed silent.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Habeas corpus went down the memory hole this week.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Elon makes Henry Ford look like a paragon of virtue.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Check out the Smithsonian new memory hole exhibit, but don’t step too close.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Who would have thought that a guy convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records would do such a thing!

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

If the aciphex has no effect, we’ll have to put you through the analogic device and get to the bottom of your digestive issues

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

That’s a wicked pissah of a view, as they say in Boston.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

This lays out the GOP opening move to destroy the Voting Rights Act starting in Texas this summer. Four Congressional seats targeted: Garcia’s, Green’s, Veasey’s, and the late Sylvester Turner’s.

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Houston Congressman Al Green threatens lawsuit, impeachment over Texas redistricting plan – Houston Public Media

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I was driving into our driveway, stopped, zoomed in as close as I could, then rolled slowly forward.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

The Kerr County Commissioners did an engineering study for a warning system (automatic gauges & sirens) in 2016 but never moved forward. County Judge Rob Kelly, in office since 2019, said the voters don't want to pay for such a system. Comal County, downstream, got theirs in 2015. No local will.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Disqualified for counterintelligence—but qualified for sad karaoke.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Thanks for chasing down Chinese spies. You deserved better.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

If he were purged for being friends with Laura Loomer, I could understand.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Those pesky criminals are good at evading the law, so ICE goes after the low-hanging fruit. An ICE agent explained this to me during the first Obama Administration.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

New Yorkers eat riddles wrapped in mysteries inside enigmas for breakfast and say, "What's it to ya?! Mind yer own goddam business!" (Not dissing you, King Michael. I've been biting my tongue elsewhere until I saw you hitting the nail squarely on the head.)

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Did I miss a preceding post? I grew up following New York mayoral elections — "It's the second toughest job in America," said John Lindsay, a "limousine liberal," who lost the Republican primary to a candidate backed by William F. Buckley but was re-elected mayor on the Liberal Party ticket anyway.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Simple answers are rarely good answers, and being willing to listen and consider an issue from many angles before denoucing someone who reached a different conclusion is also something that the left needs to right. Thanks again for your clarity and leadership in such a critical conversation.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

For me, it's a real-world concern because I work with numerous candidates who have outstanding progressive records but are sometimes attacked, subject to threatening behavior, or opposed for re-election for not adhering precisely to the activists' preferred line.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

She talks about how some on the left alienate potential allies over disagreements on a single issue—and the importance of offering each other grace in the service of broader, shared goals. It’s a different lens, but I think her perspective complements the values behind your argument.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Your call for the left to reclaim economic justice while standing firm on multicultural values brought to mind MLK's "Poor People's Campaign" in 1968, which I followed over the radio from my sick bed in New Jersey. Rep. Sarah McBride's prescription for the left also resonates with me.

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Opinion | Sarah McBride on Why the Left Lost on Trans Rights

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), a trans woman, offered some thoughtful words about those of us on the left giving one another grace to disagree. I hope you'll read it. As I said, without backing from his board, Ryan had no options. His book, "Five Miles Away, A World Apart," is about equity in education.

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Opinion | Sarah McBride on Why the Left Lost on Trans Rights

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Not feasible given that the current board is made up entirely of Glenn Youngkin appointees, none of whom had President Ryan's back.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

VMI is Sparta. UVA is Argos, once proud, but in defeat, attempting to survive by appeasing rising powers, headed toward irrelevancy.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Trump ally Governor Glenn Youngkin appointed every current member of the UVA board. No one had Ryan's back. He's a scholar who has made significant contributions to equity in education. Might he have played this differently early on? Perhaps. President Ryan deserves grace and empathy, not curses.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Republican Governor and Trump accolyte Glen Youngkin appointed every member of the current UVA board.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Trump is operating a protection racket. He's GOTUS, Godfather of the United States.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Sparta? If UVA was Sparta, they'd kick the DOJ's ass. Closer to Argos—once proud, then pitiful. Beaten early, eager to appease stronger powers, and ultimately irrelevant in the face of rising tyranny. Or perhaps with the Youngkin-appointed board, it's Thebes siding with Persia.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

It's almost as if the Trump Administration has a blacklist or something. (sarcasm intended)

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