dogwalkingwithdougpart2
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
It's getting dark. The next storm will arrive soon, along with the solar eclipse, while I walk Lulu.
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The recent American eclipse sequence gives tomorrows’ event more context. On August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse crossed the continental United States from Oregon to South Carolina. It occurred in Leo, the sign traditionally associated with kingship, sovereignty, public authority, charisma and leadership. Astrologers paid particular attention to it because of the old mundane-astrology principle that an eclipse bears most strongly on the countries beneath its path. The eclipse arrived only months into Donald Trump’s presidency, a period of intense political polarization and institutional stress. (Daniel Pinchbeck)
Today a total solar eclipse is happening unseen at 12:47 Central Standard Time and folks are already waxing nostalgic about the life and legacy of genocide Joe as the genocide grinds on without him.
The worst people on the planet are elevated by the capitalist empire to the highest echelons of power across every field, and they make life worse for everyone, and then they die comfortably of old age, surrounded by loved ones.
That is the real source of our problems. Not immigrants. Not “woke”. Not elections going to the wrong political party. The source of our problems is that we are ruled by murderous psychopaths and do not use the power of our numbers to forcibly cast them from their thrones. That we let tyrants get away with genocide.
Caitlin Johnstone
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Aunt Jemima was erased in 2021. Nancy Green, the original, was killed by a car and buried in a pauper's grave in Oak Woods graveyard in 1923. In 2023 she got a headstone. She was enslaved and then a servant to the enslaver family for years before she became the face of the pancake brand. Look at this photograph: they actually chained her to the table!







