Very Very Temporary

Former President Joe Biden visited Minnesota State Senator Mark Hoffman and his wife Yvette, both of whom had been shot multiple times by Melissa Hortman’s killer, and had survived, as well as their daughter in a Minnesota hospital where Mark Hoffman was still recovering from his gunshot wounds. (Yvette had been released a week earlier.) 27 June 2025.

Margaret Bourke-White, Building the dam across the Dnipro River in what was then the Soviet Union and is now Ukraine, 1932. At the time it was the largest hydroelectric project in the world, although Hoover Dam eclipsed its capacity just a few years later. The dam stood until the Russians bombed it during the current war, flooding the farmlands Dow steam, cutting off water to large parts of the country, and seriously weakening the country’s electrical grid.

Margaret Bourke-White, working as an official war correspondent with the US Army Air Forces, precursor to the US Air Force, outfitted in the first war correspondent uniform designed for women.

Margaret Bourke-White, At the Time of the Louisville Flood, Red Cross Relief Station, Louisville, Kentucky, 1937

The former White House and rose garden, now known (after naming rights have been sold) as the Paramount-UFC Freedom 250 Soundstage and Storage House, after the president pocketed millions from the sale of its naming rights. For July 4, he’s seeking bidders for the naming rights for the Washington Monument, where he says he wants to host a globally streamed female mud-wrestling event, and to host the New York Knicks for a huge feast of hamberders.