Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.
have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.
and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.
black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.
if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.
This is Juneteenth.
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why does this have 32k notes? itâs just a picture of a knife in a ranch bottle, is there some unspoken joke that 32 thousand people share? what is going on here, i dont get it. itâs just a fucking picture of a knife in a ranch bottle. is there some spiritual connection people have to this picture? is there some ominous and mystical reasoning that this has 32 thousand notes? do people reblog this because it makes them look like some indie blogger? or is there just something funny to this? someone please explain
as a jew i love having opinions on jesus. itâs like. no i donât think he was messiah However Yes i am a fan of this dude. fucker said âitâs easier for a camel to go thru the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to go to heavenâ and proved his point by going absolutely ballistic flipping tables and chasing merchants with a whip in broad daylight in a synagogue. basically my thoughts on jesus are: 10/10 would go to brunch with.
You know i just reblogged this but im reblogging again to say i keep looking at baby jesus with the lighter and cackling madly because i love this so much
âI visited the pumpkin patch yesterday and decided to bring home a pumpkin that in shape appeared to be a penguin. Friends and family were mystified until I started painting him.â
The disgraced former president said the next chief executive should take control of the National Guard from state governors and deploy troop
Silence = Complicity
Highlights in article are mine.
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"Donald Trump just said he wants to build concentration camps in America and assume direct control over the National Guard in a way that sounds a lot like the Nazi SS force.
I can attest that those items were not on bingo cards at last weekâs Aspen Security Conference, a four-day gathering of the nationâs top security-policy professionals and practitioners. But at the summerâs most important gathering of far-rightists, Trump on Tuesday attacked âweak mayors and powerful governorsâ who have resisted using National Guard troops and harsh, sometimes unconstitutional tactics to quell violence in American cities. In a rambling speech reminiscent of his 2017 inaugural address in its dark depiction of American city life, Trump described the country as âa cesspool of crimeâ and argued that a president should usurp governors and order their state-run military forces into American cities to enforce order, if not law.Â
"The federal government can and should send the National Guard to restore order and secure the peace without having to wait for the approval of some governor that thinks it's politically incorrect to call them in,â Trump said at the America First Policy Institute summit in Washington, D.C. âWhen governors refuse to protect their people, we need to bring in whatâs necessary anyway. We need to go beyond the governor.âÂ
The audience wildly applauded this rejection of statesâ rights, long a conservative tenet, and of the U.S. Constitution.Â
Trump also said authorities should round up Americaâs homeless populationâroughly half a million peopleâand incarcerate them in camps built on cheap land far from major U.S. cities. This, he argued, would hide an American embarrassment from visiting foreign leaders and motivate the homeless to stop being homeless.
Most Defense One readers probably donât watch Trumpâs speeches regularly anymore because most Americans donât. He draws a fraction of the crowds he once did at his rallies, the political candidates he endorses are frequently losing, and the editorial boards of the nationâs most important conservative newspapersâRupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal and New York Postâhave turned against him. But military and national-security leaders should still be paying attention to the once and possibly future president, particularly to learn how the right wing puts national security and military issues to political use.Â
High atop the current list of right-wing talking points is crime in Americaâs cities, particularly ones governed by Democrats. Conservatives link the issue to everything from illegal immigration and border security to stricter gun control, law-enforcement spending cuts, and the refusal to employ National Guard troops. Some blame city crime on Democrats who want to help Ukraine fight Russia on the far edge of Europe instead of admitting trouble in their districts at home.Â
Since at least the 2016 presidential election, conservatives have pointed to crime rates in Chicago as evidence that Democratic and minority leaders there are purposefully soft on crime and are wrong in their refusals to deploy the National Guard or using controversial policing methods like stop-and-frisk. Republicans also say that in other cities where Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 turned riotousâsometimes through instigation by white supremacistsâmore Democratic governors should have sent in their Guard troops, as Trump did, controversially in Washington, D.C.
So, on Tuesday, in a speech meant for the ears of Republican primary voters, Trump said the next American president should send the National Guard to Chicago. That would require, at minimum, invoking the Insurrection Act, which is supposed to be reserved for natural disaster or civil violence âto such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of maintaining public order.â But it also would ignore the Illinois governor, the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, and the advice of top National Guard generals who strongly resist federalization. (Weâve been through this debate before.)Â
And thatâs how extreme partisan politics could change the U.S. military forever, if Americans want.Â
âThis cannot go on anymore,â Trump said. âEvery other approach has been considerably tried, and they tried the weak approach, theyâve been trying it for years... Itâs not working. Itâs time to go a different direction. And only one option remains. The next president needs to send the National Guard to the most dangerous neighborhoods in Chicago until safety can be restored.â
The troops would be mobilized not just against criminals and disturbers of the peace, but against homeless and mentally unstable people, he said.Â
âWe have to take back our streets and public spaces from the homeless, the drug addicted, and the dangerously deranged. Whatâs happened to our cities?â he said. âWeâre living in such a different country for one primary reason: there is no longer respect for the law and there certainly is no order. Our country is now a cesspool of crime.â Â
And who is to blame? Not the pandemic, which closed many homeless shelters and housing, or a nationwide housing shortage stoked by income inequality and local zoning policies. No; âWe have blood, death, and suffering on a scale once unthinkable because of the Democrat [sic] Partyâs effort to destroy and dismantle law enforcement all throughout America. It has to stop, and it has to stop now.â
Then Trump said he would create a crime-free society.Â
âWe believe that every citizen of every background should be able to walk anywhere in this nation at any hour of the day without even the thought of being victimized by violent crime,â he said. To build this utopia, Americaâs leaders must âbe tough and be nasty and be mean, if we have to.â
The crowdâs applause swelled. Â
Trump reiterated a debunked claim that he broke up encampments in Washington when he was in the White House; he lamented seeing them as he returned this week. He called them an embarrassment, especially when foreign leaders visit. âIt leaves such a bad impression. They go home and say, âWhat kind of country has the United States turned into?ââ
His response: make the homeless disappear.
âPerhaps some people will not like hearing this, but the only way youâre going to remove the hundreds of thousands of people, and maybe throughout our nation millions of people,...is open up large parcels of inexpensive land in the outer reaches of the cities, bring in medical professionalsâŠbuild permanent bathrooms and other facilities, make âem good, make âem hard, but build them fast, and build thousands and thousands of high-quality tents, which can be done in one day. One day. You have to move people out.âÂ
People cheered.
âSome people say, âWell, thatâs horrible,â but no, whatâs horrible is whatâs happening now,â he said.Â
Trump said it would help drive âthe ambition of these peopleâ to not be homeless. âI want to save our cities.âÂ
He may want to, but at a cost that military and security professionals should consider and talk more about. Each passing day, Trump seems less likely to win the Republican primary, much less the presidency, without the support of Murdochâs newspapers or GOP donors. But Trumpismâs authoritarian views of federal power, use of troops, and law enforcement most certainly will live on, whether in the Republicansâ expected retaking of the House of Representatives in Novemberâs midterm elections, or in the 2024 primary for the presidency.
Itâs not just control of the House thatâs on the ballot; itâs control of the U.S. military."
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If you vote for this guy or any other Republican, you are a piece of shit human being and bad things should happen to you. This is some 1930s Nazi Germany shit. They want to fucking erase people. I don't know how anyone can possibly be apathetic to this. If you don't vote out of apathy, you are also a piece of shit human being and bad things should happen to you. Not voting is the same as supporting Nazis. You'd be a fucking Nazi. There is no nice way to say this, and I am tired of sparing people's feelings about this. We are on the precipice of becoming NAZI GERMANY and if you are apathetic, go fuck yourself.
⊠this is true, but also now I am writing the movie in my head.Â
Itâs about two once-legendary heroes who are dragged out of retirement by a new and terrible threat. Nobody shows up to drag them, they just keep waiting for someone else to deal with it and then they find out a bunch of âchosen heroesâ (IE kids) have died and theyâre all â⊠well, fuck,â and dig out their hidden weapons and drag their asses out to do the job, complaining the whole time.Â
Then they run into each other and anyone around is all â⊠oh no they were Enemies now they will fight each other instead of the greater threatâ and instead they just grunt a hello and go straight into bitching about how TOTALLY UNFAIR it is that they have to do this at their advanced age, do you realize I still have a dud hip after that one time, oh yeah, let me tell you what that other asshole did to my *spine*, and theyâre just standing there complaining like two tired dads whoâve been called out at three in the morning to do something they donât want to do at all..
Then they go off, rescue the latest batch of heroes, eliminate the threat, then hand over their magic/super/whatever weapons to the kids and are all âDONâT MAKE US DO THIS AGAINâ and go home. Final scene is them both sitting on a porch, drinking a beer and *still* complaining. But now they have each other.
Aliens, dragons, Trump, it doesnât matter what the threat or indeed the genre is, it would still be great.Â
