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Persisters

Petula Dvorak

Humans who push, persevere, pivot and persist...despite all the sh*t.

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Trump had no chance against the haunted Reflecting Pool

Canva Green glow over ghost photo that ran in The Spokesman-Review in 1923

The place was haunted from the start.

“Mysterious phantom lights have been seen hovering over the great reflecting pool of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington,” the...

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This Election Day, I'm missing Faith

Faith Dane played a bugle-playing stripper in the musical and movie, Gypsy. And she persisted in running for Mayor.

On election day, it’s hard to look at a D.C. ballot without Faith.

Yes, Faith – with a capital F.

I’m talking about the...

15 days ago
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Trump's fragile men fired these badasses

Fired by Trump and Hegseth. Clockwise from left bottom: Lt. Gen. Telita Crosland; Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield; Lt. Gen. Jennifer Short; Vice Admiral Yvette Davids; Col. Susannah Meyers; Adm. Linda Lee Fagan; Rear Admiral Nancy Lecore. C...

16 days ago
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'My name is Bill, and I'm a Persister'

Dr. Bob and Bill W., the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous

Dr. Bob had slipped. He had been putting together stretches of sobriety, but a convention trip to Atlantic City undid him and he returned home to Akron – where he was scheduled to p...

21 days ago
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'A Republican said that?'

“I hope to God I’m right,” Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower confessed to his driver on June 5, 1944, the night before the epic D-Day invasion.

Eisenhower was raised by humble Mennonites, pacifists, who struggled with the economic hardships that d...

25 days ago
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  • Petula Dvorak

    Last of the local columnists for The Washington Post (before they got rid of us), daughter of Czech immigrants, history curious, new empty nester, ADHD CEO of a house of Y chromosomes, married to a fellow Chaos Muppet, too profane for MSM

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