“The lapse of time does not change guilt to innocence; it does not change murder into innocent pastime, nor treason into patriotism! Civilization can find no apology for such guilt and depravity.” – Col. I. Winslow Ayer Below are excerpts from the DOJ filing from Jack Smith, laying out the […]
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The damage is immeasurable: election saboteur has ass handed to them by Judge
This judge’s sentencing of election-denier election-saboteur Tina Peters is brilliant and shockingly humane – the way he compares this privileged defendant to the usual people who sit in the defendant’s chair – that the judge sees that there’s a difference – feels tremendously empowering and sadly surprising. If you know […]
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Red Famine by Anne Applebaum: The Ukrainian Holodomor and Journalists Competing For Dictators
Red Famine: Stalin’s War On Ukraine, by Anne Applebaum, details the Holodomor, a famine imposed by USSR/Stalin on Ukraine that killed millions of people in the early 1930s. Applebaum explains that the “term [is] derived from the Ukrainian words for hunger – holod – and extermination – mor.” Citing experts, […]
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Marooned On Newtown Creek
The young man in this article about a hermit living on Newtown Creek, was living like a maroon. During slavery, many enslaved people would escape captivity – sometimes for a few days, sometimes for years, sometimes forever. The accounts of enslaved people relate many times that a person escaped, dug […]
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Barren Island, New York City
In 1691, Governor Ingoldesby’s “Humble Address” to the King described New York as “situate upon a barren island.” And that, “The middle of the Island [is] altogether barren… All the rest of the Province, West Chester, Staten Island and Martin’s Vineyard excepted, consist of barren mountain hills not improveable by […]
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Vassar Students, Gum, and 19th Century Misogyny in Humor Columns
The article “Where Stenches Abound” mentions the curious creation of chewing-gum – and also the very strange mention that it is specifically sent to Vassar College. Quote: ‘The basis of the fertilizers here manufactured is what is called Charleston rock, a deposit found in the beds of the Ashley and […]
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How US Railroads From China Ended Up In Greenpoint
One stray sentence from an article about a Lumberyard fire struck me strangely: “The bark Tiber was the last to leave. She had just brought from China the rails of the road which the Chinese Government ordered torn up some time ago.” I wondered, what rails? Why didn’t China want […]
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America’s Saint Paul: Bartolome de Las Casas
Why Does Most Of The Work Of The Most Important European Primary Source From 1492 Remain Untranslated Into English?
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The Old Plantations and Their Owners of Brazoria County, Texas by Abner J. Strobel
When still inside TDCJ hell, a friend asked me to see what I could find about the connection to plantations and the prison units he was imprisoned in: Ramsey Unit. Excerpts of my letter responding: There’s really not a major work on Ramsey Plantation / Prison. I consulted two resources […]
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Military Waste – Ooops On Purpose
In 1676 there were rebellions all over the American colonies, Bacon’s Rebellion being the most famous. After rebellions were suppressed, commissioners were sent in to find out what had happened. In the collected grievances from the people of Charles City County, VA, overtaxation was a major complaint, with military waste […]