It's a profound shock to realise that your entire world-view has been hijacked by a confidence man; and that your selfish urges might result in the destruction of the republic and its constitution. Caesar was stabbed 23 times, by 23 Senators; Caligula, 30 - by his bodyguards.
A great initiative by the Province of Manitoba and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation: manitobalg.ca/residential-...
last night NYC councilman yusef salaam—one of the exonerated five—was actually in the spin room post-debate and confronted trump! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
here is my jeremiad against the raw milk movement, based on the history of pasteurization: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Louis Pasteur didn’t set out to make milk safer. A scientific jack-of-all trades, born in 1822 in eastern France, Pasteur pioneered fields from...
According to Ari Ne'eman, the wonderful @stevesilberman.bsky.social has passed. Baruch Dayan HaEmet. What a loss. What a huge loss. What a mensch we had in that one.
Worth noting that Washington's Haudenosaunee name translates as "Burner of Villages" - and inherited from his father and grandfather; old hands at genocide.
George Washington went rebel when the Royal Proclamation of 1763 prevented him from taking Indigenous land in the Ohio Valley - a move which had made him rich in the Mohawk Valley during the French and Indian Wars. He was defending his license to plunder.
Think slavery doesn't matter today? Wrong. Current Congress members whose families owned 16+ enslaved people now have 4 million $ more than members who did not own slaves. Slave owning = 2024 money and influence 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Background Whether and how much past slavery affects contemporary social and economic conditions in the United States is an area of active debate. Newly available data on which members of the United S...
