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".

 

Truth Teller #20 Margaret Chase Smith

Truth Teller # 20 Margaret Chase Smith. A Senator from Maine, she was the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress. As a Republican Senator she was the first to challenge McCarthyism, giving a 15 minute speech to the Senate titled “ A Declaration of Conscience“ delivered as McCarthy looked on. Smith endorsed every American's right to criticize, to protest, and to hold unpopular beliefs.

Truth Teller #19 Lord Bertrand Russell

 Mathematician and Philosopher Bertrand Russell was jailed for his opposition to the First World War. Although willing to be jailed for what he believed, he was not dogmatic. He famously remarked “I would never die for my beliefs, I might be wrong.”

Truth Teller #18, Bruce Springsteen

Springsteen delivered these These remarks  in Manchester, England at the beginning of his 2025 European Tour 

Truth Teller #17 G.K. Chesterton

 Chesterton was an English philosopher, apologist for Christianity, author of the Father Brown mystery novels and literary and art critic. He showed an early talent for visual art, but did not finish art school. That was a good move, as he was to develop into a writer of such stature he was cited as an influence by Argentinian great Jorge Luis Borges. As author of as many as 80 books, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1935.

Truth Teller #16 Shirley Chisholm

 Truth Teller #16 Shirley Chisholm was the first African American woman elected to the U. S. House of Representatives. In Congress, where she served 7 terms, she was an advocate for children, minorities and women. She became the first African American and first woman to seek the presidential nomination of one of the two major U.S. Parties when she ran against George McGovern in 1972. During that campaign she refused to be intimidated by several assassination attempts, but lost to McGovern at the convention. After retiring from Congress she helped found the National Political Congress of Black Women and taught at Mount Holyoke College.

Truth Teller #15 Bayard Rustin

 Truth Teller #15, Bayard Rustin. A close advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,Rustin was instrumental in organizing The 1963 March on Washington. Active during the civil rights era and after, he was forced to lower his profile after being outed as a gay man. However, once outed, Rustin was completely open about his sexuality. Although forced to take a less visible role due to his sexual orientation, he continued to work for the rights of minorities, workers and gays.

Truth Teller #14 Primo Levi

 Truth Teller # 14, Primo Levi ~ 174517 was the number tattooed on Primo Levi’s forearm as part of the Nazi effort to break him, and millions of others down to subhuman. Through luck, chemistry and sheer will he survived Auschwitz, and returned to his home in Turin, Italy. A chemist by training and a writer by necessity, he wrote of life in the camps with remarkable restraint, letting the horrors of the mass murder carried out by the Nazis speak for themselves, and trusting the reader to hear.