Truth Teller #33

Truth Teller #33 Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank. The Trump Dept. of Justice announced it was investigating the head of the Federal Reserve for lying to Congress about the over-budget ongoing renovation of Federal Reserve buildings. Unlike other prominent political figures, heads of tech companies, senior partners in prestigious law firms and university presidents, Powell did not surrender in advance to the flimsy allegations, instead he calmly denied them and called the investigation what it is, an attempt by the Whitehouse to retaliate against the Fed for refusing to lower interest rates.

 

 

Trutg Teller #32 Liz Cheney

Truth teller #32 Liz Cheney, once a rising star of the Republican Party was kicked out of the Wyoming GOP for her refusal to go along with the party’s attempt to whitewash the riot in Washington DC on January 6, 2021, and her role in the House Select Committee on the January 6 attack.

 

 

Truth Teller #31 Mark L. Wolf

 

Truth Teller #30, America's Poet, Walt Whitman

 

Truth Teller # 29 Argentine Poet, Storyteller Jorge Luis Borges

Argentinian poet and master of the short story Jorge Luis Borges. Called by some the most important writer in Spanish since Cervantes, Borges lived through Argentina‘s Dirty War when the country was ruled by a murderous military junta. 

Truth Teller #28, Winston Curchill

Truth Teller #28 Winston Churchill. Churchill led the United Kingdom through the bleakest days of WWII, when Britain was a holdout in a Europe that was falling to Fascism.

 

 

Truth Teller # 27, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker

 

Truth Teller #26 Thurgood Marshall

 

 Truth-Teller #26 Thurgood Marshall successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v.The Board of Education. The court found segregated public schools unconstitutional. Marshall went on to be the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court.

 

                                                            

Writer Rebecca Solnit, Truth Teller #25

 

Vaclav Havel, Truth teller #24

Poet, playwright, prisoner, president. A brief biography of Czech hero Vàclav Havel.

 

Truth Teller #23: Heather Cox Richsrdson

Truth Teller #23 Heather Cox Richardson, an American historian and self-described Lincoln-era Republican works as a professor of history at Boston College, where she teaches courses on the American Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, the American West, and the Plains Indians.

  

Truth teller #22 Eleanor Roosevelt

Truth Teller #22 Eleanor Roosevelt. The longest-serving First Lady, Roosevelt was a prolific author of six books and countless articles. At the White House for a time spanning The Great Depression and WWII, she was an advocate for racial justice, an opponent of McCarthyism and advisor to her husband Franklin, bringing new gravitas to the role of First Lady.

  

Truth Teller #21, Woody Guthrie

If Guthrie were writing "Pretty Boy Floyd" today he might have substituted "Big fat sharpie" for  "Fountain Pen".