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“We do not bend the knee. We do not surrender. We fight, until we win or die.” - Lynn Stahl, #AltGov

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
– William Penn
Did you ever see the video of the Pogues performing Fairytale at Shane’s funeral?
December 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The anti-Christmas song!!
December 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I read somewhere that it’s been the #1 Christmas song in the UK for years!

youtu.be/j9jbdgZidu8
The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York (Official Video)
YouTube video by ThePoguesOfficial
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 12:41 AM
“You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you”
December 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Cops used the experience as a training day, and were given the cutout as a souvenir.
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
1992 - Police in Lilly, Pa., are called to a video store after a passerby reported a gunman inside.

Six state troopers pulled up to the video store, and came face-to-face with a life sized cardboard cutout of a gun-toting Denzel Washington that was promoting his movie “Ricochet.”
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
1992 - Pearl Stewart became the first black woman editor of the Oakland Tribune, which had a circulation of over 100,000.
December 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM
1987 – Carrie Saxon Perry began her term as the mayor of Hartford, Conn.
December 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Sayers famously dedicated the George S. Halas Award for courage to Piccolo in a moving speech at the 1970 NFL Awards banquet.

Click here to see the movie version of Sayers’ speech. Fair warning, get ready to cry.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfI_...
Speech from "Brian's Song"
YouTube video by mrhatXXL
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Sayers and Piccolo were the first interracial roommates in the NFL, and became close friends - their bond deepened when Piccolo was diagnosed with cancer.
December 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
1971 - The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning TV movie "Brian's Song," about the friendship of Chicago Bears football teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers (based on Sayers' autobiography), premiered on ABC, starring James Caan and Billy Dee Williams.
December 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The boycott continued until shortly after December 13, 1956, when the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed bus segregation in the city.
December 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
King emerged as the leader of the bus boycott and received numerous death threats from opponents of integration.

At one point, his home was bombed, but he and his family escaped bodily harm.
December 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Learning of Parks’ arrest, the NAACP and other activists immediately called for a bus boycott to be held by Black citizens on Monday, Dec. 5. Word was spread by fliers, and activists formed the Montgomery Improvement Association to organize the protest.
December 2, 2025 at 12:23 AM
1955 - Rosa Parks refused to change seats on a Montgomery (Ala.) public bus, igniting a 382 day bus boycott, and launched the civil rights movement in America.

Parks was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring Black passengers to relinquish seats to white passengers when the bus was full.
December 2, 2025 at 12:22 AM
1873 - Mifflin Wister Gibb was elected city judge in Little Rock, Ark.

1877 - Jonathan Jasper Wright, the first Black state supreme court justice, resigned on this day from the state supreme court in South Carolina after the overthrow of the Reconstruction government.
December 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Kirsty MacColl was brilliant as always
December 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I love that song

🎶🎶🎶🎶
“You're a bum
You're a punk
You're an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God it's our last”
December 1, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Sorry about that!
December 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Typo!! 1965
December 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
1981 - The NAACP’s Spingarn Medal was awarded to Coleman A. Young in recognition of his “singular accomplishments as mayor of the City of Detroit.”
November 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
1966 – The Caribbean nation of Barbados gained its independence from the United Kingdom.
November 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
According to state archives, the whipping post was last used in 1952. The state abolished the whipping post, and in 1972 the last one was removed.

I only saw a partial list of indentured servants, for only one county. Not sure if the list is incomplete but the last one listed was 1889.
November 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM