Peter Gleick on Nostr: Apropos Trump trying to rename DOD to the Dept of War, in 1982, Reagan's Secretary of ...
Apropos Trump trying to rename DOD to the Dept of War, in 1982, Reagan's Secretary of the Interior James Watt changed the department's logo from a left-facing bison to a right-facing bison.
That didn't last long either.
These are petty, childish, trivial people.
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