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A praxinoscope is a wheel with a plot. He/him. On the left side of the adjacency. Mostly just weebposting on here. Gundam said punch fascists

On this day, 13 May 1985, Philadelphia police & the anti-Black police state attacked the home of Black liberation and environmentalist group MOVE with automatic weapons, then dropped a bomb on it, killing five adults and six children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black neighbourhood, and making 250 people homeless.

Almost 500 police officers fired over 10,000 rounds of ammunition into the house, which was filled with women and children, while other officers blew holes in the walls with explosives. The police commissioner then ordered the house to be bombed, which they did using an improvised device made from C4 given to them by the FBI.

Only two people survived the blast and ensuing fire: Ramona Africa, and Michael Ward, aged 13. While no officials were prosecuted, Ramona Africa was subsequently jailed for seven years on riot and conspiracy charges. The incident occurred during the tenure of Philadelphia's first Black mayor, a Democrat named Wilson Goode.

The children killed were named Katricia Dotson (Tree), Netta, Delitia, Phil, and Tomasa Africa and the adults were Rhonda, Teresa, Frank, CP, Conrad, and John Africa.

In April 2021, it was revealed that non-Black anthropologists at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania had the bones of one of the children, unbeknownst to the families.

everybody take a moment to appreciate Sham. he managed to smash multiple teeth out of his jaw in the Kentucky Derby starting gate and still finished only two and a half lengths behind Secretariat

for those who don't know horse racing, this is like if the starting pistol shot one of the runners in the face and he still only lost to Usain Bolt by like two strides

I wish there was a rule that whatever injury befalls the horse is also inflicted on the owner

*gets mad* I hope your favorite media gets an american movie adaptation!

*later, calms down* I'm so sorry. You don't deserve that. No one deserves that

I'll be in the bay area from the 5th to the 9th if anyone wants to meet up

some of the soldiers you kidnap recruit for msf say the funniest things in their little dialogue boxes but my favourites are the guys who try to shoot their shot with big boss. “you look prettier every time i see you” excuse me who is this king

same.

here’s a few examples and some of my faves

This is a grim piece about an Alaskan republican bureaucratic culture war ghoul, who was secretly recorded being more explicitly racist than usual. She's a high-ranking functionary, she won't face consequences. But this glimpse into secret anti-indigenous language is not quite what I expected. The recordings are extensive, but the quote that really got me how she characterizes what Native protesters are saying:

You know... It's all about 'we stole their land,' which is bullshit.

She says 'we stole their land' in a sarcastic voice, like it's a ridiculous concept, but you can tell from the recording she's really mad and feels strongly about this.

That's pretty wild! To me, this line makes it sounds like just regular white supremacy isn't sufficient to motivate her; she also needs the extra belief that 'Alaska has always belonged to Europeans since the dawn of time. Colonization never happened because it was already ours.' I don't know how you could come to hold that belief, or justify it, although at a guess I'd say that White Jesus is involved.

I wonder how widely shared this belief is, because if a lot of people think this way, it would make a useful wedge issue. The more people talk about this idea, the more it would have to be discussed in the open, and right wing establishments don't want it out in the open because it sounds really fucking stupid. The mainstream centrists they need are pretty anti-indigenous, in the way that movie westerns etc. have taught them, but I think they mostly still know that Alaska being majority white today might have involved some land being stolen at some point.

“The history of the [Byzantine] Empire is a monotonous story of the intrigues of priests, eunuchs, and women, of poisonings, of conspiracies, of uniform ingratitude, of perpetual fratricides.”

— W H E Leckly, making the Byzantine Empire out to be the least monotonous thing possible (via johnmosesbrowningvevo)

I don't understand what 'ingratitude' is doing on this list!