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#ChiefJoseph surrendered to the US Army #OnThisDay in 1877, ending the Nez Perce War; the US is now repeating this tragic history of indigenous genocide by supporting #ApartheidIsrael's ongoing violent ethnic cleansing of the occupied West Bank & ongoing #GazaGenocide www.history.com/this-day-in-...

#DebraMessing is such a rabid #Zionist that she's ditching Zionist Gov. #KathyHocul & endorsing right-wing Republican #BruceBlakeman who calls #DonaldTrump the greatest president of our lifetime & has banned #transyouth participation in school sports in Nassau County; disgrazia~!

Shawnee chief #Tecumseh was defeated & killed by the US Army #OnThisDay in 1813; the US is now repeating that tragic history by supporting #ApartheidIsrael's ongoing violent ethnic cleansing of the illegally occupied West Bank & ongoing #GazaGenocide 🍉 www.history.com/this-day-in-...

Stuart & I had the vegetarian lasagna at La Lanterna di Vittorio in Manhattan's Greenwich Village on Sunday (10.4.26)

#OnThisDay in 1989, the #DalaiLama received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to #FreeTibet from the PRC's brutal dictatorship & the ethnic cleansing of Tibet; he deserved a Nobel, unlike #HenryKissinger or #BarackObama~! www.history.com/this-day-in-...

"Germany's guilt regarding the Holocaust" has been "abused to justify the support of the genocidal war against Gaza," says Alexander Gorski: #Germany should be supporting #BDS to #FreePalestine from #ApartheidIsrael & end the #GazaGenocide~! www.democracynow.org/2026/10/1/ge...

Gomez lounging on the computer table with a photo of Gomie as a tiny kitten from a Facebook ‘memory’ that I'd posted on my Facebook page: Gomie going post-modern three years ago today (10.5.23) #AdoptDontShop #chatons #gattini #gatitos #Kätzchen #kattunger #새끼고양이 www.nycacc.org

Gomez lounging on the computer table with a photo of Gomie as a tiny kitten from a Facebook ‘memory’ that I had posted on my Facebook page: Gomie going post-modern three years ago today (10.5.23) #AdoptDontShop #chatons #gattini #gatitos #Kätzchen #kattunger #새끼고양이 www.nycacc.org

Pauline Park @paulinepark.bsky.social · 23h ago

I awoke from a dream three years ago today in which I talked about Giuseppe Verdi's Busseto & Giacomo Puccini's Torre del Lago — which means 'tower of the lake' in Italian (10.5.23); here's a clip from a Met production of Puccini's last & greatest #opera #Turandot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-rC...

#ArleneSaunders was born in Cleveland #OnThisDay; before her death from #COVID19 (4.17.20), she had a successful career in opera that included her role as Agathe in the 1968 film of Carl Maria von Weber's "Der Freischütz": www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtWF... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlene_... See less

#KeirStarmer didn't have the guts to tackle #Brexit even though a majority in Britain now believe it was a mistake; will #AndyBurnham tackle the issue & reverse the UK's exit from the #EuropeanUnion...? (Observer, 10.4.26)

#EmmanuelMacron's right-wing neoliberal government has no credible response to the schools crisis as #France's schools continue to be underfunded & understaffed; then again, the fascist Rassemblement National has no credible answer, either (Le Parisien, 10.5.26)

#FlavioBolsonaro edged out #LulaDaSilva in the first round of voting in #Brazil's presidential election (Folha de Sao Paulo, 10.5.26); will the son of the fascist president #JairBolsonaro win the presidency & restore fascist rule in South America's largest country...? I certainly hope not~!

#FlavioBolsonaro edged out #LulaDaSilva in the first round of voting in #Brazil's presidential election (O Estado de Sao Paulo, 10.5.26); will the son of the fascist president #JairBolsonaro win the presidency & restore fascist rule in South America's largest country...? I certainly hope not~!

"Fjällmarken uppköpt av techmiljardär" (mountain land purchased by tech billionaire), Stockholm's Dagens Nyheter is reporting (10.5.26): the right-wing billionaire #AlexKarp is a danger to #Sweden's wilderness as well as to the security of every person on this planet; #BoycottAI~!

Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart (1641) #DenisDiderot (1713), Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d’Éon de Beaumont, Chevalier d’Éon (1728), Chester A. Arthur (1829), Louis Lumière (1864), Václav Havel (1936), Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) & Maya Lin (1959) were born #OnThisDay...

Rutherford B. Hayes was born #OnThisDay in 1822; the Democrat Samuel Tilden won the popular vote in 1876 but as part of the Compromise of 1877, Hayes became president in exchange for the end of #Reconstruction resulting I a reassertion of white supremacy in the South en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherf...

"The Last Emperor" premiered in Tokyo #OnThisDay in 1987; here's the scene from Bernardo Bertolucci's #film in which the dowager empress Cixi names Pu Yi emperor & a documentary about the life of Pu Yi: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBrM... www.youtube.com/watch?v=liUd... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Las...