‘Untethered Astronaut’ Bruce McCandless in the ‘Most Terrifying Space Photograph’ An image that demonstrates the vastness of space has for years been making the rounds in various forms.
Is a Once-Segregated Library Now Named After Black Astronaut Ronald McNair? On July 20 2019, the Facebook page “Being Liberal” shared a screenshot of a tweet published two days earlier by @IFLScience concerning segregation and Challenger astronaut Ronald McNair: In 1959 a librarian called the police on 9-r-old Ronald McNair after he refused to leave a segregated library without letting him check out his books. He […]
Did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Say Her Girl Scout Troop Recreated the Challenger Launch? On March 10 2019, right-wing YouTube personality and conspiracy theorist Mark Dice shared the following meme to Twitter and Facebook about a purported quote by U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: First, Dice tweeted the image above with no context, in which a photograph of Ocasio-Cortez was the following text: WHEN I WAS IN GIRL SCOUTS, WE REENACTED THE […]
