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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 4h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 1h

I'm happy about the cease fire. It took levels of corruption a normal government could not possibly undertake. I'm just skeptical that this is sourced in anything real.

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BlackBiJewess @blackbijewess.bsky.social · 2h

No one is perfect
No one is perfect enough for the leftists

From this attitude
You can see how we got here

Implying that Dems fucked up & Dems better suck leftists nut *just* right-

Or they'll fuck the country over again

They REALLY don't get it

Concerned Chicagoan @c25kg.bsky.social · 3h

We better put up a damn excellent candidate next time 🤬

BlackBiJewess @blackbijewess.bsky.social · 3h

MASK OFF MOMENT

Trump 3rd term
After midterms
They will be seeking to destroy the 22 amendment

If you voted for anyone except Kamala Harris?

You own this

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 2h

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2h

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 1h

In fairness, Jones warned everyone about the frogs.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23h

Will I be able to follow the plot of World War 4 if I haven’t seen 3 yet?

Alex Jones
@RealAlexJones
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WORLD WAR 4 HAS BEGUN!
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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 5h

I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 3h

We managed 250 years with no kings, and yet, we had both a government and paychecks.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4h

One of Trump’s few consistent positions is pro-corruption.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 5h

Trump calls on the Israeli President to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu:

"Cigars and champagne - who the hell cares about it?"

Netanyahu is currently on trial for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, including allegedly accepting 700,000 shekels (approx. $210,000) worth of luxury goods in bribes.

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not an art thief @famousartthief.bsky.social · 22h

all these shows about firefighters and cops battling meteors or whatever and the best cop show ever made was about a dude with a glass eye in a trench coat pretending to be stupid

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 11h

John Oliver taking Bari Weiss and The Free Press to town was appreciated. She’s such a hollow fraud: her success just reflects how hollow and fraudulent the current ruling class is

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🐸👻🎃 @jamesdena.bsky.social · 12h

Taylor singing about Travis on Wood.

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 12h

I shall hereafter detail to you all the specialities and concentrations of potency everywhere lurking in this expansive monster

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 14h

I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15h

I do not want to see a Supreme Court justice’s face on cable news, period

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 15h

okay one time talking about heaven is just a random thought word vomited into the world. This is what? the third or fourth time?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21h

Me: [some farrago of vapid twatwafflery]

Everyone: [rolls eyes, snorts, shakes head]

Me: IS THIS AN INTELLECTUAL DONUT SHOP BECAUSE I SMELL THE THOUGHT POLICE

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 21h

caring what words mean is liberal bias

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 22h

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

Screenshot of text:

Not now but soon enough, there will be major stories about The Free Press being the creation of three female founders who constructed a hugely successful digital business out of whole cloth.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 22h

Or more simply: they're using violence as a tantrum, in the instinctive belief that if they tantrum hard enough they'll get what they want.

This is a recipe for horror, of course, but also for their own overthrow.

shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · 22h

The right has no compunctions about using violence but they also feel no need to construct a mechanical theory of how their violence will produce political change. Their killings are more like ritual magic than anything else. The highest goal is just to produce a satisfying spectacle.

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Greedo @greedo.bsky.social · 22h

lauren
@NotABigJerk

I’m not falling for that hot take that’s clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at I refuse to participate in that kind of perversion

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 22h

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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not an art thief @famousartthief.bsky.social · 22h

yes i’ve seen the stupid post by the writer defending the writer for defending the free press owner and my only thought is that it’s a club and you ain’t in it. everything else is just noise.

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🐸👻🎃 @jamesdena.bsky.social · 21h

Happy Birthday, Sharky! 🎉

a stuffed shark wearing a party hat with a slice of cake on a plate

ALT: a stuffed shark wearing a party hat with a slice of cake on a plate

media.tenor.com

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22h

Bari’s “journalism” is pure donor porn. Not surprising that she caught the eye of a billionaire nepo kid.

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 22h

The conflict here is that the justices aren’t using the emergency docket as a temporary tool, they’re making “precedent” and expecting lower court judges to apply it without explanation. This is why we’re seeing so much frustration from lower court judges.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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