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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Trump -Icky Tacky
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
My headline for America's 250th birthday this month: George Washington. First in War, First in Peace, and First in Chugging. at the Bunch of Grapes tavern. www.dailypress.com/2026/04/01/t...
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The Virginia Gazette – 250 years ago
A look at what was in The Virginia Gazette 250 years ago.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Remembering today my dear friend and Wall Street Journal colleague Danny Pearl murdered 24 years ago in Pakistan
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Remembering today my dear friend and Wall Street Journal colleague Danny Pearl.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Attention CBS: Instead of reporting what experts said I am reporting what revolutionaries said in 1776 In today's Virginia Gazette www.dailypress.com/2026/01/03/t...
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The Virginia Gazettes – 250 years ago
A look at what was in The Virginia Gazette 250 years ago. First in a monthly series.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Attention CBS: Instead of reporting what experts said I am reporting what revolutionaries said in 1776 In today's Virginia Gazette www.dailypress.com/2026/01/03/t...
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The Virginia Gazettes – 250 years ago
A look at what was in The Virginia Gazette 250 years ago. First in a monthly series.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The White House has just announced that the CBS Network has been renamed the Trump-CBS Network
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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Commentary: Protecting freedom of the press
Even if you are a critic of the press, you should be concerned that the president is seeking to suppress your right to receive a free flow of information.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
President Trump is attacking freedom of the press like John Adams. www.facebook.com/ron.shafer.3...
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Virginia Gazette Opinion Commentary: Protecting freedom of the press Whether you are a fan of Donald Trump or not, Americans need to stand strong against the president’s threats against freedom of.....
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
On the advice of Laura Loomer, Trump fires the Dow Jones Industrial Average for being way down.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Today Sen. Reed Smoot is celebrating the day in 1930 when his tariff with Willis Hawley passed and led to the Great Depression.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
In a move to remove divisive ideology at the National Zoo, Trump has just ordered that the Asian elephant be renamed the American elephant.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
In a move to remove divisive ideology at the National Zoo, Trump has just ordered that the Asian elephant be renamed the American elephant.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Trump decrees an end to divisive ideology at the National Zoo. The black pacu is removed, the Asian Elephant is renamed the American Elephant and the Emperor Newt is now called the Just Newt because “Gingrich isn’t a bigger royalty than me.”
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We know Elon Musk lied about dead people getting Social Security payments. How many more of his savings claims are lies? It would be best for all if Elon instead used his money for dance lessons.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Pete the TV guy now playing the role of defense secretary claims the attack chat texted to a journalist wasn't about "war plans." He knows this because he didn't see "war plans" on his teleprompter.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I am 115 years old and one of those dead people over 100 Elon Musk claims is getting Social Security money from a "Ponzi scheme." Don't tell Musk, but I'm not 115. I'm one of 73 million people who worked to receive payments. Mine is less than he makes in two seconds. But I'd like to keep it.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Pentagon orders all soldiers to have Secretary Pete Hegseth hair style. Each unit will receive greasy kid stuff hair oil.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Tonight's Conclave: The Brutalist, "He's Still Here" Donaldo Perez demands Wicked have all White Males who speak only English, a policy of No Penny Boys and The Substance that makes Demi Moore's skin crawl. He accuses Anora's Mikey Madison of failing to negotiate with Russian attackers.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Tonight's Conclave: The Brutalist, "He's Still Here" Donaldo Perez demands Wicked have all White Males who speak only English, a policy of No Penny Boys and The Substance that makes Demi Moore's skin crawl. He accuses Anora's Mikey Madison of failing to negotiate with Russian attackers.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
In the name of peace, Vance and Rubio offer to give Zelensky a free lesson on cowardly fawning over Trump, including drooling.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
In the name of peace, Vance and Rubio offer to give Zelensky a free lesson on cowardly fawning over Trump, including drooling.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Tearing down the houses wapo.st/4bjcD2k
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Before Trump, this president ‘paralyzed’ Washington with cuts
Andrew Jackson set the standard for the most tumultuous presidential term ever — at least until now.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Elon Musk is proof that even the world’s richest man can’t buy a sense of humor above junior high level. Call him the Pee Wee Herman of DOGE— with apologies to Pee Wee Herman.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Today is George Washington's birthday. You can read how his half-naked statue went viral in my book that also includes a story on how a Napoleon ancestor started the FBI. And more! www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHZS522R
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
A screenshot of an email notifying Spotsylvania parents that funding for a program for youth with disabilities has been canceled
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
THIS JUST IN. PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID HE WILL BAR ANY NEWS AGENCY THAT REFUSES TO REFER TO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN AS "THE GULF OF MAR-A-LAGO." TRUMP SAID HE CAN SEE THE OCEAN FROM HIS FLORIDA ESTATE, SO CHANGING THE NAME IS THE AMERICAN THING TO DO. OR ELSE!
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Trump awards himself the Mark Twain Prize for American humor after asking, “Who the hell is Mark Twain?”
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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Sorry to my neighbors who just heard me yell FUCK OFF to myself in my apartment
"Trump Says He Will Dismiss Kennedy Center Board Members and Install Himself As Chair"
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Today on Fox: For more on why people should get jobs based only on merit, let’s go to Steve Doocy’s son covering the White House. Take it away Peter.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Remembering today my friend Danny Pearl
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
After Trump pardons violent January 6 attackers and an international drug dealer, American ancestors of Jack the Ripper have their fingers crossed.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Mary and I “O-H-“ cheering Ohio state’s national championship!
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The first president in the Capitol Rotunda was kicked out into the cold because he was wearing a toga. The first story from my book A Half-Naked George Washington. And Other True Tales From History wapo.st/3DZuUoV
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The first statue removed from the Capitol: George Washington in a toga
Some statues depicting enslavers are being removed from the Capitol. But the first one ever evicted was a half-naked depiction of George Washington in a toga.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Read all about the first president to be kicked out of the Capitol rotunda in 1843 and put outside in the cold. And it wasn’t even an Inauguration day. One reader review; “I really enjoyed reading this book from beginning to end. I laughed, I got teary eyed, shocked and wowed.” a.co/d/enUcDKe
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Shamelessly reporting my book links history to today's events: Presidents attack TV comedians, fight prosecution, pay hush-money, golf more than any other, keep documents and get Supreme Court help. A fort is named after Braxton Bragg. A Napoleon ancestor creates the FBI. a.co/d/enUcDKe
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A Half-Naked Geoge Washington: And Other True Tales From History
A Half-Naked Geoge Washington: And Other True Tales From History [Shafer, Ronald] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A Half-Naked Geoge Washington: And Other True Tales From History
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Trump defense nominee Pete Hegseth wants to bring back Fort Bragg. My story showed what kind of a guy Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg was. It is one of 35 chapters in my book A Half-Naked George Washington a.co/d/enUcDKe wapo.st/427CXdn
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Who was Fort Bragg named after? The South’s worst, most hated general.
Mike Pence and Ron DeSantis say they would restore the Fort Bragg name if elected. Its namesake was a “merciless tyrant” who helped lose the Civil War.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
My granddaughter Kaylie Rivers, Rock Ridge High School, Ashburn, Va. Wow! www.facebook.com/share/1BmJey...
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Ohio State for the championship. Let’s see a Go Bucks!
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Another reader rave review on Amazon for my book A Half-Naked George Washington. More reviews welcomed. I really enjoyed reading this book from beginning to end. I laughed, I got teary eyed, shocked and wowed. There was so much I didn't know. I couldn't put the book down a.co/d/enUcDKe
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A Half-Naked Geoge Washington: And Other True Tales From History
A Half-Naked Geoge Washington: And Other True Tales From History [Shafer, Ronald] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A Half-Naked Geoge Washington: And Other True Tales From History
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Four years ago my historical article on certifying presidential elections had to be updated during the day during the Trump-inspired attack on the Capitol and his own Vice President. www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021...
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A blizzard, a disputed electoral vote count and the 1887 law tying Pence’s hands
The Electoral Count Act of 1887 bars Mike Pence or any other vice president from arbitrarily deciding to reject state votes during the congressional certification of presidential elections. This is wh...
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Drinking to Jimmy Carter. Not really, but I do have this can of Billy Beer promoted by brother Billy Carter.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
My Washington Post story on Jimmy Carter and other presidents wapo.st/41Xq4Cu
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Carter won a Nobel, but other ex-presidents have done wilder things
George Washington made whiskey. Teddy Roosevelt nearly died in the Amazon. William Taft joined the Supreme Court. A few ran for the White House again.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
My former colleague on the Ohio State student newspaper, folk singer Phil Ochs, didn’t make it into the new movie about his old pal Bob Dylan. But one of his songs did, “There But For Fortune” sung by Joan Baez.
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Last minute gift. 3 dozen of my Washington Post history articles in my book A Half-Naked George Washington. Spread the word A Half-Naked Geoge Washington: And Other True Tales From History a.co/d/5Iudhfg
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Get a last minute gift — George Washington in a toga, the notorious namesake for Fort Bragg, the Supreme Court Justice who chose a president, Marilyn Monroe, the Wright Brothers wronged, Watergate humor and more! a.co/d/bgLIA8u
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Contrary to this photo, I have written a book. And you can get it here. a.co/d/0bibav0
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Before the shocking statue of George Washington nobody had seen his bare chest, maybe not even Martha. A descendant of Napoleon started the FBI. The namesake for Fort Bragg was so hated one of the general’s soldiers tried to kill him. All in A Half-Naked George Washington- a.co/d/euEyiaz
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Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The Trump appointees guide: - I did that the one time I wasn’t drunk out of my mind. - I assaulted the woman when she was drinking at a bar so I didn’t know she was 14. - I support the right to shoot large animals and leave them in public places. - My mother likes me in revised statements.
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