treason is as treason does. . .

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · yesterday

Stolen valor from Mr. Bone Spurs. An insult to every man and woman who has worn the uniform.

The article doesn't mention it, but another good reason to call it the Slaveholders' Rebellion is that it causes dumbass neo-Confederate types to rant & rave & pull their hair out.

What's Past is Prologue@wpip.bsky.social · yesterday

"The danger of rhetorical abstraction lies not only in its distortion of the past but also in its pre-emptive justification for future assaults on democratic life." #SlaveHoldersRebellion #civilwar

"The danger of rhetorical abstraction lies not only in its distortion of the past but also in its pre-emptive justification for future assaults on democratic life." #SlaveHoldersRebellion #civilwar

Opinion | It Wasn’t a Civil War. It Was the Slaveholders’ Rebellion. (Gift Article)

To face our history, we must be honest about it.

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In 1989 California named this garage "the birthplace of Silicon Valley" and made it a California Historical Landmark. www.hpmuseum.org/garage/garag...

Kennedy's Coconut 83 years ago PT-109 was rammed by the Japanese destroyer "Amagiri." Survivors swam to an island & JFK carved a message into a coconut to send for help: "NAURO ISL…COMMANDER…NATIVE KNOWS POS'IT…HE CAN PILOT…11 ALIVE…NEED SMALL BOAT…KENNEDY" —Presidential Library tinyurl.com/bdfnbaxv

This 28-minute program offers the Nez Perce perspective of Chief Joseph and the War of 1877, exploring the origins of and misconceptions about the conflict. Several of Joseph's descendants, and other Nez Perces, discuss the war and its lasting consequences. 4/7/2021 — PBS #NezPerceWar

The Second Century | Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War

This program offers the New Perce perspective of leader Chief Joseph and the War of 1877.

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Charle's Dew's scholarship on the Secession Commissioners—the envoys sent from the first wave of seceded states to convince the other slave states to join the Confederacy— is an essential text for any student interested in the principal causes of secession and war. #Booksky 💙📚 1/2

Hawthorne wrote of #Melville, “He can neither believe, nor be comfortable in his unbelief; and he is too honest and courageous not to try to do one or the other." (Quoted in Why Read Moby Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick, 2011) ffrf.org/publications...

Buffalo Medicine Keeper by T.C. Cannon (1946-1978) ca. 1974, acrylic on canvas Cannon (Kiowa-Caddo) played a pivotal role in helping change the direction of traditional Indian painting, integrating modern artistic influences, incl Art Deco-style patterns. Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, WY

A Flight from Destiny by Bill Schenck (b. 1947) 1994. Oil on Canvas Buffalo Bill Center of the West

Sacred Journey of the Nez Perce 56:58 min. Pub: 1997/02/10 "In 1877, the Nez Perce war erupted . . . In an effort to flee, the Nez Perce—800 men, women and children, along with their 2,000 horses—undertook a heroic, 1,600 mile journey over what is now Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana"

He’s fine.

Walt Whitman by Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins 1891 (printed 1979) National Portrait Gallery #BookSky 💙📚

least-popular book at this year's Scholastic Book Fair

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. - Meditations

"Like its elusive hero, "The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta" (1854) is difficult to pin down. It has the distinction of being the first novel published in California, the first novel published by a Native American, and the first American novel to feature a Mexican protagonist." #BookSky 💙📚

The Legend of Joaquín Murieta: A History of Racialized Violence by Hsuan L. Hsu

July 9, 2018 –   Like its elusive hero, The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta (1854) is difficult to pin down. It has the distinction of being the first novel

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Tsupu, The Last Woman From Petaluma — "Not the Sonoma County] city we know today, but the ancient Coast Miwok village of the same name. #CoastMiwok #Petaluma

Tsupu, The Last Woman From Petaluma - Celebrate California

Her Indian name, or at least one of her Indian names, the only one any of us know, is Tsupu. She is my great-great-grandfather’s mother, or…

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Dems should go for broke, so we can start repairing the damage. This is an emergency. #Michelle2028

END OF THE LINE for Morgan's Great Indiana & Ohio Raid. "Here on July 26, 1863 occurred the northernmost engagement of Confederate forces during the Civil War. In this immediate area, troops under Major General John H. Morgan, C.S.A., and General James Shackelford, U.S.A., met in full engagement."

Morgan’s Raid Historical Marker

Here on July 26, 1863 occurred the northernmost engagement of Confederate forces during the Civil War. (A historical marker located near Salineville in Carroll County, Ohio.)

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Ray Bethers, #Pueblo, about 1932. Wood engraving on paper; 9 18 × 10 5/8 in. Denver Art Museum: Gift of Barbara J. Thompson in Memory of C.A. Seward, 2024.17. © Estate Ray Bethers www.denverartmuseum.org/en

"I want time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me my chiefs: I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever." —attributed to Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce.

What's Past is Prologue@wpip.bsky.social · 2w ago

—adventures in American history— THE FLIGHT of the NEZ PERCE, 1877 * bus tour along Nez Perce Nat'l Hist Trail * full-day in Yellowstone NP * PLUS tour Battle of the Little Bighorn * Buffalo Bill Ctr of the West * lodging, entrance fees, incl Dates: Aug 22–Sept 1, 2026 INFO at tinyurl.com/ye9xpzfc

—adventures in American history— THE FLIGHT of the NEZ PERCE, 1877 * bus tour along Nez Perce Nat'l Hist Trail * full-day in Yellowstone NP * PLUS tour Battle of the Little Bighorn * Buffalo Bill Ctr of the West * lodging, entrance fees, incl Dates: Aug 22–Sept 1, 2026 INFO at tinyurl.com/ye9xpzfc

That time Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak took a dip in the icy cold waters of San Francisco Bay. A masterful, atmospheric scene by the master himself, Alfred #Hitchcock #GoldenGate #FortPoint #Vertigo

Vertigo (3/11) Movie CLIP - Saving Madeleine (1958) HD

YouTube video by Movieclips

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I stumbled to my feet / I rode past destruction in the ditches / With the stitches still mending beneath a heart-shaped tattoo / Renegade priests and treacherous young witches / Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you

Patti Smith - Changing of the Guards

YouTube video by Janus Witchrider

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The Battle of Atlanta—OTD in 1864 ---- "You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out" —William Tecumseh Sherman ---- ABT map tinyurl.com/2fd9zfe7

Atlanta | July 22, 1864

The American Battlefield Trust's map of the July 22, 1864 , battle of Atlanta, a fierce battle that saw the only death of a Union army commander during the entire war - James B. McPherson.

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July 22 is the birthday of Edward Hopper (1882), who reportedly once said, "All I ever wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house" (The Writer's Almanac). HIGH NOON, 1949 Oil on canvas 27 ½ x 39 ½ inches Dayton Art Institute tinyurl.com/ym4k9sc4 #EdwardHopper

165 years ago: First Bull Run —in the first major battle of the Great Slaveholders Rebellion, the Confederate Army of the Potomac routed United States troops under Gen. Irvin McDowell in a battle the Southerners called Manassas. Second Bull Run (2nd Manassas) was fought in the same area a year later

Battles of Manassas: The Civil War in Four Minutes

YouTube video by American Battlefield Trust

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JOHN PAUL JONES, the Scotsman who became a Revolutionary War hero and the “Father of the American Navy,” died in obscurity OTD in Paris, in 1792. He was buried in an unmarked grave, and his remains were lost to history for over a century [portrait by Charles Wilson Peale, 1781]. #JohnPaulJones

Phang: "The incestuous relationships that exist in the MAGA moron-sphere is remarkable. I can say Tate brothers, and I don't need six degrees of separation to even get to Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, Don Jr., or Barron Trump. I mean, I could spit and hit all of them and then some."

The bus was painted "as if somebody had given Hieronymous Bosch fifty buckets of Day-Glo paint and a 1939 International Harvester school bus and told him to go to it. On the floor by the bus is a 15-foot banner reading ACID TEST GRADUATION" —Tom Wolfe, "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." #Further