Raoul Meyer

@mistermeyer.bsky.social

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Writing about civics and government; making things; dad & husband. Working with my brother on a documentary about American teachers. Yes, I did write all those Crashcourse history videos for John Green.

Image of Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble at a meeting of the Loyal Order of the Water Buffaloes.
Image of Mark Jackson pointing and dribbling while playing for the New York Knicks
Photo of inscription on the IRS building in Washington DC, a quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes “Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society.”
Photo of Phil Hartman (RIP) playing the character Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer and arguing in front of a judge.
portrait of Ivan IV by Viktor Vasnetsov from 1897. Note the red boots he wears, a nod to the red boots worn by Caesars (Czars) in emulation of Alexander the Great, who was emulating the Persian King of Kings.
photo portrait of the Notorious B.I.G aka Biggie Smalls wearing a plastic crown.
Image of a proposed $20 bill with Harriet Tubman instead of Andrew Jackson
Photo from some time earlier in this century of the Hyatt Grand Central, series of boring glass towers that replaced the Beaux Arts Commodore Hotel just east of Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
Image of Kash Patel chugging a bottle of beer while celebrating with the U.S. Men's Olympic Hockey team in Italy while he is supposed to be working to protect Americans from kidnappers and bank robbers or something.
photo of the triumphal arch at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn (where I'm 100% sure Donald Trump has never been)
Photo still from the film Waterworld, of the villain, Deacon, standing on the deck of his ship, a resurrected Exxon Valdez, arms outstretched as if beseeching the gods for assistance.
Photo of Daniel Day Lewis portraying oilman Daniel Plainview in the film "There Will Be Blood." He appears to be contemplating drinking someone else's milkshake.
red poster with white lettering and border that reads, "We do this not because it is easy but because we thought it would be easy"
Image is of a toy called “Wooly Willy” which was a drawing of a man’s face encased in a plastic sheath with metal filings at the bottom of the sheath. There is also a magnetic wand included with the toy which would enable users to “draw” on the face with the metal filings. This was, supposedly, fun.
Picture of two inter office mail envelopes. Before email, if you wanted to send around a memo to people in your department, you would put it in an envelope like this and then pass it around to everyone in your department who needed to see it.
Photo of the Church Committee Report
Aerial photo of the golden colored geodesic dome in Oklahoma City.
photo of a sliced loaf of stollen, a German bread filled with dried fruit that is primarily served at Christmas.
book cover of Dan Davies book, Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of the World.
Picture is the cover of “The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy by Ray D. Madoff
Photo of the book cover of "Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project," a book by Robert P. Moses and Charles E Cobb Jr. The photo on the book cover is Bob Moses holding up a three dimensional form made of toothpicks and gumdrops in front of his face
mugshot photos of Emma Goldman
Image of a police dog held by a white police officer pulling a young black boy by his sweater from Birmingham Alabama, 1963
Image of Michelangelo's sculptures from the Medici chapel in Florence.
Image of a plush toy couch with a throw pillow that features a rather unimpressed face.
Photo of gilded statue of William T. Sherman on horseback being led by a winged female figure (maybe victory, maybe America?) This statue stands across from the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Donald Trump used to own the Plaza, and famously appeared in its lobby for his cameo in Home Alone 2. When he sold the hotel in 1995, he received $83 million less than what he paid for it, another stellar example of the art of the deal.
Official photo of Thomas Fugate, the 22-year old DHS advisor who looks suspiciously (and yet unsurprisingly) like the character Bluto from the film Animal House.
photo of the upper stories of the Ariel West apartment building at Broadway and 100th street in New York City.
photo of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro playing golf in Havana after taking the city.
Promotional photo of actor Paul Ruebens as character Pee-wee Herman, flying through the air on his red and white bicycle from the film "Pee-wee's Big Adventure."
Photo of America Hero performer Devine in a form-fitting red dress pointing a revolver towards the camera.
This is an image of Thomas Nast's cartoon "The Brains" depicting a rotund man with his hands in his pockets. The man has a large jewel on his shirt and a bag of money for a head.
Image from the cartoon Peanuts of Lucy pulling away a football so that Charlie Brown will not kick it. Charlie Brown goes flying and screams, "AAUGH."
photo of Admiral Akbar "It's a Trap" meme.
Ariel image of the Alfred Murrah Federal Building after it was attacked by white, American, domestic terrorists in 1995.
screen shot from an article at PewResearch that says "Racially and ethnically, the federal workforce largely mirrors the overall civilian workforce, with two notable exceptions: A bigger share of federal workers are Black (18.6% vs. 12.8%) and a smaller share are Hispanic or Latino (10.5% vs. 19.5%).