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The Northern Slavery Myth Slavery was not confined to the American South. In colonial Boston, newspapers openly advertised enslaved Africans for sale. New England's merchants, households, and workshops participated directly. The archival record complicates the familiar North–South story.

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"Shove that ballroom up your fat ass!" Trump tonight is campaigning in Mississippi... because Republicans are worried about losing Mississippi.

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Pickens and Wills became the Navy’s first Black women officers in 1944. Their qualifications preceded the Navy’s permission. Black organizing helped force the opening. Honor their achievement; remember who maintained the barrier and who fought it. #BlackHistory #WomensHistory

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“We made it, friend.” That’s what Harriet Ida Pickens said to Frances Wills on graduation day in 1944. Together, they became the first Black women commissioned as officers in the U.S. Navy. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

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Both false and racist

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RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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relicrecord.comCharleston Slave Badges - RelicRecordCharleston Slave Badges, otherwise known as a “slave tags,” tell us that a slave was skilled and trusted enough to be rented-out for short-term work.

"Their work shaped the city, yet their names were forgotten—omitted, or never known. The badge system remained in force until slavery ended in 1865." -Eddie Smith

Eddie Smith@eddsmitty.bsky.social

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 In 19th-century Charleston, SC, urban slavery gave rise to a unique and chilling tool of control: Charleston Slave Badges. Who knew? 🤔 Pull up a seat🪑, my friends. #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory relicrecord.com/blog/charles...

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Charleston remains the ONLY North American city to run a uniform, stamped-metal badge system for urban slave labor. These copper badges reveal a larger truth: Charleston licensed, numbered, monitored, and taxed Black labor. Again I ask: Who knew?🤔 I didn't. #KeepItWoke #DedicatedToTam✡️🕊

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Many of Charleston's roads, buildings, docks, and infrastructure were built or maintained by enslaved artisans and laborers. Their work shaped the city, yet their names were forgotten—omitted, or never known. The badge system remained in force until slavery ended in 1865. (cont)

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badge—or wearing an outdated/forged one—the physical price was paid by the enslaved person. They were arrested on the spot, taken to the infamous Charleston Workhouse (below), and subjected to public whippings and imprisonment until fines were paid by the enslaver or slaves themselves. (cont)

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the thing is they say this cause it "works" there are enough people that will believe that BS... AND if enough bots saying they believe the ones that WANT to believe will fall for it. sadly even though a LOT of the russian bots are gone but there are data centers here to hold MORE bots...

1/2 The Nazis weren't socialists who drifted right. Their movement was ultranationalist, racist, antisemitic and violently anti-Marxist. They destroyed independent unions and persecuted socialists and communists. Musk's argument substitutes a party label for its documented history.

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2/2 Calling Musk stupid leaves the institutional question untouched. Gil Durán's *The Nerd Reich* examines how tech wealth, control of information platforms and political influence intersect. When Nazi history is distorted by someone with that reach, the consequences extend beyond one false claim. 🦁

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I often got in arguments with my teachers in NC because in MA it's taught it was about abolishing slavery. This is without mentioning their own part in perpetuating the horrid system. They really try to white wash what really was happening in New England.

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Thank you for this history lesson. I grew up in MA and NC. How both states teach history is infuriating. In MA slavery is mostly taught as a Southern issue while oil paintings depicting black "house workers" hung in the school library. In NC, the civil war is taught as a fight for states rights.

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HUGE, GOOD NEWS: In total reversal from Friday’s stonewalling, perjury-flirting “status report,” ICE now says it has secured a one-way travel document so Ahmed Soliman can return to the US via a commercial flight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Colonial advertisements documented people as merchandise: their ages, skills, origins, and supposed usefulness. They rarely preserved their own words. Historical investigation must recover African identities, knowledge, resistance, and lives beyond enslavers' commercial descriptions.

The historical record does not support a slavery-free colonial North. New England's economy, households, and institutions participated in enslavement. African people also challenged that system and helped shape the region's culture. Both histories belong in the American story. 🦁

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1696, the Seaflower brought 47 captive Africans to Rhode Island. Fourteen reportedly remained there; 33 were sent overland toward Boston. New England's slave trade operated on land as well as at sea. Source: Samuel Cranston's 1708 report, reproduced in later histories.

constitutioncenter.orgPetition to the Massachusetts Legislature (1777)National Constitution Center Historic Documents Library record for Petition to the Massachusetts Legislature (1777)

Enslaved Africans did not simply submit to colonial authority. In 1777, Prince Hall and other Black petitioners challenged slavery in Massachusetts, invoking the principles of liberty proclaimed by the American Revolution. Black people were organizing for their own freedom.

The children weren't simply three entries in a trade ledger. Their transport connected Caribbean slavery to colonial New England. The advertisement names no buyer and tells us nothing certain about their birthplaces, African communities, or later lives. www.britishempire.co.uk/images3/west...

Boston's slave market was not confined to an elite auction house. The National Park Service documents sales through businesses and ships, with enslaved people also held by artisans and other working households. Slaveholding was embedded in the city's ordinary economy.

On July 19, 1739, the Boston News-Letter advertised two enslaved Black girls and a boy brought from Montserrat. Their English and household skills were selling points. Their names were not recorded. The advertisement is reproduced in Donnan, vol. 3, p. 50.

The people who enforced an old order may be gone. The order itself can survive them.

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The sky was never empty, history was never silent, and the signal that changed everything was the sound of a people remembering themselves.

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The inheritance is not merely the machine. It is the capacity to recognize oneself as part of a living, enduring, and interconnected history.

The people who enforced an old order may be gone. The order itself can survive them.

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“Let air flow now in a place that had always been still.”

sarahkendzior.substack.comCosa NostradamusDon’t call me Cassandra! Your questions answered on the midterms, misogyny, and more.

Sarah Kendzior's *Cosa Nostradamus* reminds me why I've followed her work for so long. Reading her prose evokes memories of experiencing watercolors. Scholarship, grief, indignation, and irreverent humor flow together without losing their individual character. And “Midol Metal”? 😂 Brilliant..

Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social

"I am not Cassandra. I accept only one nickname: Cosa Nostradamus, because I see organized crime." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/cosa-nostr...

What particularly resonated was Sarah's insistence that ordinary people don't deserve suffering because their governments are corrupt Equally important is her rejection of the Cassandra mythology. Her work reflects disciplined research, not prophecy Expertise deserves recognition, not mystification

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Where I depart from Sarah is AI. The technology itself isn't inherently destructive. Human beings and institutions determine how it's developed, deployed, and exploited. Who controls the infrastructure, who profits, who bears the costs, and who is accountable? That's where my scrutiny begins. 🦁

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sarahkendzior.substack.comCosa NostradamusDon’t call me Cassandra! Your questions answered on the midterms, misogyny, and more.

"I am not Cassandra. I accept only one nickname: Cosa Nostradamus, because I see organized crime." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/cosa-nostr...

classics.mit.eduThe Internet Classics Archive | Politics by AristotlePolitics by Aristotle, part of the Internet Classics Archive

Grolaw, your scattered replies are starting to resemble password spraying! 😂 But the thread connecting The Family, divine authority, legal definitions and Aristotle is power: who gets to define liberty, and for whom? Paine's America proclaimed freedom while enslaving Africans. That's my point. 🦁

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#AbsolutePower He who has the power to define: rules. Paraphrasing Aristotle. classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/po...

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British Columbia’s election results are preliminary, but voter turnout is alarming. Just 48.06% counted so far, compared with 58.45% in 2024. Mail-in ballots are outstanding. Final count: Nov. 6–10. Official results: Nov. 18. Lord, help us. 🇨🇦 #BCElection2026 #BCPoli #SheShed

Same racist playbook, different Black target! Trump peddled birtherism against Obama. He's recycling an unsubstantiated marriage allegation against Ilhan Omar. Smear their identity, question their legitimacy, demand they disprove the lie. White supremacy doesn't need evidence. It needs repetition. 🦂

contrabandcamp.comWorried About AI Stealing Your Job? This Civil Rights Era Plan May Be the SolutionSixty years ago, the Freedom Budget proposed a plan to protect Americans from labor automation, and it’s a blueprint we sorely need in the age of AI.

If automation makes society wealthier while eliminating the income people need to survive, whose freedom has technological progress actually expanded?

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too bad

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