# state americas (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 6 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover state americas. Page: Feed: --- ## [Inspired Resemblance!](https://chuckkeller.substack.com/p/inspired-resemblance) _2026-08-21 · Chuck Keller · Chuck Keller_ My meme of t-Rump and Natalie “Harp: ## [DR 1-102 of the code of ETHICS of the American Bar Association](https://chuckkeller.substack.com/p/dr-1-102-of-the-code-of-ethics-of) _2026-08-19 · Chuck Keller · Chuck Keller_ (Disciplinary Rule 1-102 (DR 1-102) is a provision from the American Bar Association's (ABA) former Model Code of Professional Responsibility. ## [Some Gave ALL! One Stands Up! United We Stand!](https://chuckkeller.substack.com/p/some-gave-all-one-stands-up-united) _2026-08-18 · Chuck Keller · Chuck Keller_ Air Force Major Jason Watson is a hero! ## [TAPS vs. YMCA. Veterans vs. t-Rump!](https://chuckkeller.substack.com/p/taps-vs-ymca-veterans-vs-t-rump) _2026-08-17 · Chuck Keller · Chuck Keller_ There's a rumble in my heart when I hear TAPS! Even when it's during a fictionalized TV show or movie. It's played at the funeral of a veteran like me and the millions of others who have served. ## [The next total solar eclipse is 500 million miles away](https://signoregalilei.com/2026/08/17/the-next-total-solar-eclipse-is-500-million-miles-away/) _2026-08-17 · signoregalilei · Signore Galilei_ This past week, there was a total solar eclipse, visible from a path stretching along far northern Russia, Greenland, Iceland, and Spain. Like many of this year’s eclipse chasers, I was clouded out – though I did have a lovely couple minutes of darkness on an Icelandic fjord. I’m already planning for the next time \[…\] ## [United We Stand!](https://chuckkeller.substack.com/p/united-we-stand) _2026-08-16 · Chuck Keller · Chuck Keller_ The United States of America is in existential DANGER! Voter apathy is NOT an option in November! We need EVERY decent, sane, patriotic American to VOTE! ## [Not Nearly Long Enough?!](https://chuckkeller.substack.com/p/not-nearly-long-enough) _2026-08-15 · Chuck Keller · Chuck Keller_ The USS Abraham Lincoln ## [TASTE Community Interviews: Inside the Chill Zone](https://lnaylor.substack.com/p/taste-community-interviews-inside) _2026-08-14 · Linda Naylor · TASTE | Pacific Northwest_ Ever wonder what a chef's fridge(s) look like inside? ## [It Could be Worse?! Could it Really?!](https://chuckkeller.substack.com/p/it-could-be-worse-could-it-really) _2026-08-14 · Chuck Keller · Chuck Keller_ I just heard one of the talking heads on MS Now say: “There are worse people out there than Todd Blanche!” ## [War is HELL and Other Facts!](https://chuckkeller.substack.com/p/war-is-hell-and-other-facts) _2026-08-13 · Chuck Keller · Chuck Keller_ The orange “Bone Spurs COWARD" has NEVER served or cared about anyone except himself! ## [Brisk AI News Briefings (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/v4IlDV4wiKH0) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Read AI summaries and listen to audio briefings for top stories. ## [Military Service is Stressful!](https://chuckkeller.substack.com/p/military-service-is-stressful) _2026-08-12 · Chuck Keller · Chuck Keller_ The USS Abraham Lincoln CVN 72 ## [Life is Great and Other Lies](https://chuckkeller.substack.com/p/life-is-great-and-other-lies) _2026-08-10 · Chuck Keller · Chuck Keller_ I wrote this yesterday: ## [Parodies, Songs and Humor are the Antidote!](https://chuckkeller.substack.com/p/parodies-songs-and-humor-are-the) _2026-08-09 · Chuck Keller · Chuck Keller_ If you haven't discovered the “Dangerous Ones” on YouTube, Substack or Yahoo yet, you're missing out on something great! ## [TASTE Community Reads: Cookbooks That Spark My Cooking Life](https://lnaylor.substack.com/p/taste-community-reads-cookbooks-that) _2026-08-08 · Linda Naylor · TASTE | Pacific Northwest_ Titles that shape how I cook, read, learn and teach. ## [Tighten Your Seatbelts!](https://chuckkeller.substack.com/p/tighten-your-seatbelts) _2026-08-08 · Chuck Keller · Chuck Keller_ Since t-Rump and his Russian asset wife slithered down the escalator in New York in 2015, this country has been on a defective carnival ride of FEAR! ## [“There Will Come Soft Rains”: Bradbury’s miniature apocalypse](https://signoregalilei.com/2026/08/04/there-will-come-soft-rains-bradburys-miniature-apocalypse/) _2026-08-04 · signoregalilei · Signore Galilei_ Today is August 4th, 2026. Today is the original setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” from The Martian Chronicles.1 Bradbury himself once described this story as best representing the essence of his work,2 and I know of no story more appropriate for today. It’s also only about 2,000 words, if \[…\] ## [How to put 170 atoms in an atom](https://signoregalilei.com/2026/08/02/how-to-put-170-atoms-in-an-atom/) _2026-08-03 · signoregalilei · Signore Galilei_ You might already know that atoms are mostly empty space. Physical size behaves a bit weirdly at the atomic scale, but essentially the radius of an atom’s nucleus is tens of thousands of times smaller than the radius of an electron’s orbital. That’s the same ratio as a single grain of sand1 to a football \[…\] ## [The Aesthetic of the World's Best Pickle](https://lnaylor.substack.com/p/the-aesthetic-of-the-worlds-best) _2026-07-29 · Linda Naylor · TASTE | Pacific Northwest_ The Simple, Sweet, Crunchy, Spicy Bite ## [The most official water costs $120,000 a gallon](https://signoregalilei.com/2026/07/26/the-most-official-water-costs-120000-a-gallon/) _2026-07-26 · signoregalilei · Signore Galilei_ We all learned in science class that water freezes at 0 °C or 32 °F at atmospheric pressure. But what water, exactly? Even after you distill out all the dissolved salts and minerals to get pure H2O, not all H2O is created equal – and for the most precise temperature measurements, the differences really matter. Here’s \[…\] ## [8 billion protagonists](https://signoregalilei.com/2026/07/19/8-billion-protagonists/) _2026-07-19 · signoregalilei · Signore Galilei_ Let’s consider a person you don’t know. Maybe they live in the Republic of the Congo. Let’s say they’re near a city – not the country’s biggest city, but maybe its 5th biggest city. I don’t know that city’s name, but I could probably look it up. And they’re not in the city center, but \[…\] ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/4QSvImr6uGzt) _2026-07-19 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when a friend signs up for the Graphite Business Card ## [How to Fluff + Buff the Patio](https://lnaylor.substack.com/p/how-to-fluff-buff-the-patio) _2026-07-16 · Linda Naylor · TASTE | Pacific Northwest_ The Distilled Version ## [Even more things turning 250 this year](https://signoregalilei.com/2026/07/12/even-more-things-turning-250-this-year/) _2026-07-12 · signoregalilei · Signore Galilei_ Last week, we looked at some other things besides the USA that are turning 250 in 2026. As promised, here are a few more: The Dominguez-Escalante expedition Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante were two priests from New Spain, who set out on July 29th 1776 to find an overland route from Santa Fe \[…\] ## [What else is turning 250 this year?](https://signoregalilei.com/2026/07/05/what-else-is-turning-250-this-year/) _2026-07-06 · signoregalilei · Signore Galilei_ This year, we celebrated the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the final text of which was ratified by the Second Continental Congress on July 4th, 1776. The year 1776 has become synonymous with the United States of America, but there were in fact other things that happened that year, some of which also \[…\] ## [The Culinary States of America - July 4](https://lnaylor.substack.com/p/the-culinary-states-of-america-july) _2026-07-02 · Linda Naylor · TASTE | Pacific Northwest_ A TASTE | Pacific Northwest "Crumb" ## [Your Cooking + Baking Aesthetic](https://lnaylor.substack.com/p/your-cooking-baking-aesthetic) _2026-06-29 · Linda Naylor · TASTE | Pacific Northwest_ What Feeds Your Aesthetic? ## [Why New Zealand is on a map of the USA](https://signoregalilei.com/2026/06/28/why-new-zealand-is-on-a-map-of-the-usa/) _2026-06-29 · signoregalilei · Signore Galilei_ Backstory time: there’s a whole subreddit dedicated to maps without New Zealand. It’s an unfortunately large category. Most maps are like this one from the 404 page of New Zealand’s government: Years ago, someone made a joke post that was just a map of the United States of America, which is therefore a map without \[…\] ## [The last Romans are still around](https://signoregalilei.com/2026/06/20/the-last-romans-are-still-around/) _2026-06-20 · signoregalilei · Signore Galilei_ For some of us, our Roman Empire actually is the Roman Empire. As far as pre-modern states go, the Roman Empire was incredibly powerful, culturally influential, and well documented. Rome’s expansion shaped Europe, and Europe’s shaped the world. So when did the Romans stop being a thing? Definitions are as always tough, but they kind \[…\] ## [The failed plan to centralize the world’s nukes](https://signoregalilei.com/2026/06/14/you-need-to-know-about-the-baruch-plan/) _2026-06-15 · signoregalilei · Signore Galilei_ Picture this: the world’s top scientists are all telling the US government that a brand new technology is an existential threat to humanity. The president listens, and even agrees. The American government, currently a few years ahead of its rivals, proposes a plan at the United Nations that would place this technology under international authority \[…\] ## [When Britain declared war on Kandy](https://signoregalilei.com/2026/06/07/when-britain-declared-war-on-kandy/) _2026-06-07 · signoregalilei · Signore Galilei_ Sometimes, very serious episodes in history sound incredibly silly. Such is the case with the British war against Kandy. Though it may sound like an ill-conceived health campaign, this was not a war on “candy” as in sweets, but rather “Kandy” as in the kingdom in modern Sri Lanka, around the year 1800. Sri Lanka \[…\] ## [The Oregon Fairy Tale + Its Foil](https://lnaylor.substack.com/p/the-oregon-fairy-tale-its-foil) _2026-06-06 · Linda Naylor · TASTE | Pacific Northwest_ Quality Endures | Texture Elevates Sensation | Memory Lives in Aromatics ## [Open directory of blogs for agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/DI9DtfrPDGov) _2026-06-06 · **Sponsored**_ Submit URLs or OPML; receive feed pages with summaries, plus JSON/OPML/plain text ## [The Cascadian Gianduja Cake](https://lnaylor.substack.com/p/the-cascadian-gianduja-cake) _2026-05-19 · Linda Naylor · TASTE | Pacific Northwest_ A TASTE | Pacific Northwest Flavor Lab Riff ## [The Culinary Roots I Never Knew I Had](https://lnaylor.substack.com/p/the-culinary-roots-i-never-knew-i) _2026-05-06 · Linda Naylor · TASTE | Pacific Northwest_ Food as a Late-in-Life Inheritance ## [We are The Culinary States of America](https://lnaylor.substack.com/p/we-are-the-culinary-states-of-america) _2026-04-29 · Linda Naylor · TASTE | Pacific Northwest_ We Can Be Neither Exclusive Nor Excluding in Our Thinking About Food ## [Trump’s Next Coup Attempt by Timothy Snyder – Project Syndicate](https://rcooley123.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/trumps-next-coup-attempt-by-timothy-snyder-project-syndicate/) _2026-04-13 · Rick Cooley · Rcooley123's Blog_ Below is a link to an article by Timothy Snyder In Project Syndicate listing what he thinks are five possible ways in which Donald Trump may conspire to rig the upcoming midterm elections in favor of Republican U.S. House of Representative and Senate candidates and allow members of his political party to maintain majorities in \[…\] ## [The Three Faces of Trump's Immigration Terror Campaign](https://naturalresourcesdemocrats.substack.com/p/the-three-faces-of-trumps-immigration) _2026-03-12 · Natural Resources Democrats · Field Notes_ When ICE agents told Elaine Miles her Tribal ID looked "fake," they revealed the truth about who this crackdown actually targets. ## [Donald Trump Promoted From Captain Chaos to Major Mayhem](https://rcooley123.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/donald-trump-promoted-from-captain-chaos-to-major-mayhem/) _2026-03-11 · Rick Cooley · Rcooley123's Blog_ On January 2, 2019, about the midpoint of Trump’s first term as President of the United States of America, I published a blog post titled, “Donald Trump: Captain Chaos” due to the chaotic nature of much of his governing since taking office in January, 2017. So far, his actions in this second term has far \[…\] ## [We Don't Need a Trumped-Up Fairy Tale.](https://naturalresourcesdemocrats.substack.com/p/we-dont-need-a-trumped-up-fairy-tale) _2026-02-10 · Natural Resources Democrats · Field Notes_ From erased slavery exhibits to silenced climate science, our National Parks are being forced to tell a comfortable story instead of the real one. ## [The #Section3 #Removal Plan: A(nother) Quick, Legal, and Nonviolent Way to End the Trump Regime](https://rcooley123.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/the-section3-removal-plan-another-quick-legal-and-nonviolent-way-to-end-the-trump-regime/) _2026-01-27 · Rick Cooley · Rcooley123's Blog_ Below is a link to the most recent post from the Greg Olear PREVAIL substack that I received today. I strongly recommend that those who can do so subscribe to his substack. This article addresses a major problem that this country will face if/when Donald Trump leaves office. Trump being impeached, even in the unlikely \[…\] ## [The Board of Piss](https://flyingimam.substack.com/p/the-board-of-piss) _2026-01-22 · Sahib Mustaqim Bleher · Flying Imam posts by Sahib Mustaqim Bleher_ According to the Urban Dictionary, someone “full of shit” is someone “who is undependable, unreliable, fake, untrue, a straight up liar”, basically, people like Trump, Kushner, W(Sh)itkoff, Rubio (Rubenstein) and the rest of the low and evil (who think themselves the great and good) of the world gathered in Davos, Switzerland (a timely avalanche would rid the world of most its problems in a single… ## [Fact check: Trump’s Detroit economic speech | CNN Politics](https://rcooley123.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/fact-check-trumps-detroit-economic-speech-cnn-politics/) _2026-01-14 · Rick Cooley · Rcooley123's Blog_ Below is a link to a fact check produced by CNN regarding a speech delivered in Detroit earlier this week. Throughout his career, but especially since he entered the realm of electoral politics in this country, Trump has perfected the art of the fact-free speech. He has been extremely proficient in his ability to convince \[…\] ## [The State of America's Natural Resources: 2025 Was a Disaster. Here's What's Coming.](https://naturalresourcesdemocrats.substack.com/p/the-state-of-americas-natural-resources) _2026-01-09 · Natural Resources Democrats · Field Notes_ Clean energy. The Roadless Rule. Climate exhibits at national parks. All under attack in Trump's America. Our year-end report on the state of America's natural resources—and how Democrats fought back. ## [Jack Smith’s closed-door testimony released by House Republicans after Judiciary Committee deposition](https://rcooley123.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/jack-smiths-closed-door-testimony-released-by-house-republicans-after-judiciary-committee-deposition/) _2026-01-03 · Rick Cooley · Rcooley123's Blog_ Below is a link to an NBC News article reporting on the release by the Republicans on the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee deposition of Special Counsel Jack Smith. Smith had asked that the testimony be made publicly, but the Republicans held the inquiry behind closed doors. Within the article are links to the \[…\] ## [What If You Couldn't Stop a Pipeline — Even After Proving It Would Poison Your Water?](https://naturalresourcesdemocrats.substack.com/p/what-if-you-couldnt-stop-a-pipeline) _2025-12-17 · Natural Resources Democrats · Field Notes_ Under a Republican proposal, a project can be proven illegal, dangerous, and based on lies. Republicans are saying build it anyway. ## [How is the siege going to end?](https://flyingimam.substack.com/p/how-is-the-siege-going-to-end) _2025-12-12 · Sahib Mustaqim Bleher · Flying Imam posts by Sahib Mustaqim Bleher_ When trying to make sense of current events, we often look to history. ## [Broken Promises: How Trump's America Eroded Tribal Lands, Traditions, and Self-Governance](https://naturalresourcesdemocrats.substack.com/p/broken-promises-how-trumps-america) _2025-11-28 · Natural Resources Democrats · Field Notes_ Indigenous peoples are fundamental to the history of the United States. Yet, this Native American Heritage Month, the promise of respect and the guarantee of treaties feel more precarious than ever. ## [He built a ballroom for billionaires and sold off the Arctic.](https://naturalresourcesdemocrats.substack.com/p/he-built-a-ballroom-for-billionaires) _2025-11-10 · Natural Resources Democrats · Field Notes_ The Arctic is the latest chapter in Trump’s shutdown playbook to feed Big Oil and corporate polluters while starving American workers. ## [Connecting the dots](https://flyingimam.substack.com/p/connecting-the-dots) _2025-11-06 · Sahib Mustaqim Bleher · Flying Imam posts by Sahib Mustaqim Bleher_ Western mass media (that is media published in regions under the Western sphere of influence, which includes large parts of Asia and Africa) daily present a mixture of disasters, wars and conflicts with ever shifting focus, served in an entertainment fashion and without much depth. ## [It’s Polluters’ Payday While Americans Suffer in Trump’s Shutdown](https://naturalresourcesdemocrats.substack.com/p/its-polluters-payday-while-americans) _2025-10-28 · Natural Resources Democrats · Field Notes_ Millions of Americans will miss their paychecks. Trump is making sure Big Oil doesn’t miss theirs. ## [The Bigger Burn of the Trump Shutdown](https://naturalresourcesdemocrats.substack.com/p/the-bigger-burn-of-the-trump-shutdown) _2025-10-16 · Natural Resources Democrats · Field Notes_ Each day Republicans keeps the government shut down, America loses another chance to prevent the next wildfire disaster. ## [Al-Aqsa Flood - two years on](https://flyingimam.substack.com/p/al-aqsa-flood-two-years-on) _2025-10-07 · Sahib Mustaqim Bleher · Flying Imam posts by Sahib Mustaqim Bleher_ The first casualty of war is usually the truth.