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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 2003, 23-year-old American peace activist <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RachelCorrie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RachelCorrie</span></a> was protesting the demolition of homes in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rafah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rafah</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GazaStrip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaStrip</span></a>, when she was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer. Senseless home destruction has long been a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> tactic in Palestine.</p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1988, the Iraqi state and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChemicalAli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChemicalAli</span></a> used <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MustardGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MustardGas</span></a> to kill 5,000 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kurds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kurds</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Halabja" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Halabja</span></a> as a part of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlAnfal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlAnfal</span></a> campaign of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KurdishGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KurdishGenocide</span></a>. Over 100,000 were killed and 80% of the settlements in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IraqiKurdistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IraqiKurdistan</span></a> were destroyed by the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Baathist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Baathist</span></a> régime.</p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1952, US-backed dictator Fulgencio <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Batista" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Batista</span></a> took power in a coup in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cuba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cuba</span></a>. He suspended a democratic constitution and murdered at least 20,000 Cubans suspected of socialist activity. His <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceState</span></a> was never denounced by the US; instead, it gave him aid.</p>
bethany robison<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/thisdayinhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thisdayinhistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/eji" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eji</span></a><br><a href="https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/mar/7" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">calendar.eji.org/racial-injust</span><span class="invisible">ice/mar/7</span></a></p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1902, author <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JohnSteinbeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnSteinbeck</span></a> was born in Salinas, CA. His work shines a light on the American obsessions with greed, militarism, and oppression. He understood our choice is between socialism and barbarism, and that the propaganda of the rich is killing us.</p>
bethany robison<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/thisdayinhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thisdayinhistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/eji" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eji</span></a><br><a href="https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/feb/26" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">calendar.eji.org/racial-injust</span><span class="invisible">ice/feb/26</span></a></p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>Having lectured on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dutch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dutch</span></a> colonialism recently, here is another history post. <br>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1643, settlers from the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Netherlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Netherlands</span></a> slaughtered ~120 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indigenous</span></a> Lenape people in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PavoniaMassacre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PavoniaMassacre</span></a>. This hardened resistance in surrounding nations to what became <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NYC</span></a>.</p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1943, legendary <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Beatles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Beatles</span></a> lead guitarist <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeorgeHarrison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeHarrison</span></a> was born. Initially overshadowed by his bandmates, George later proved an exceptional songwriter, and his melodic style and fondness for 12-string &amp; slide were key components in the Beatles' success.</p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 2012, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Yemen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yemen</span></a>'s long-serving dictator (1978-2012) stepped down. His attempts to use the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Houthis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Houthis</span></a> to regain influence broke down and he was killed in 2017. He is a polarizing figure who made Yemen an impoverished base for terrorism and outsourced US torture.</p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>(1/2) On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1994, American-Israeli <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BaruchGoldstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BaruchGoldstein</span></a> murdered 29 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Palestinians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinians</span></a> and wounded 125 others in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IbrahimiMosque" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IbrahimiMosque</span></a> massacre in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hebron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hebron</span></a>/#AlKhalil. A physician and Kahanist, Goldstein had refused to treat Arab wounded and supported outright genocide. ...</p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1677, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dutch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dutch</span></a> philosopher <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BaruchSpinoza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BaruchSpinoza</span></a> died. A pioneer in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HigherCriticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherCriticism</span></a> for scripture, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Spinoza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spinoza</span></a>'s work in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ontology</span></a> inspired <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Enlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enlightenment</span></a> deists &amp; scientists, as well as later perspectivists like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nietzsche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nietzsche</span></a>.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MidnightMeditations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MidnightMeditations</span></a></p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1848, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CommunistManifesto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommunistManifesto</span></a> was published. Written to inspire participants in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/1848Revolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1848Revolutions</span></a>, it is a 40-page polemical pamphlet, not a work of theory. Yet it is somehow the only socialist work most rightwing chuds like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JordanPeterson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JordanPeterson</span></a> know about.</p>
Andrew Leahey<p>Trump’s defiance of a funding order, his push for control over agencies, IRS layoffs botched by a glitch, and delays in the Corporate Transparency Act.</p><p>And <a href="https://esq.social/tags/thisdayinhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thisdayinhistory</span></a> John Mitchell sentenced. </p><p><a href="https://www.minimumcomp.com/p/legal-news-for-fri-221-trump-defies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">minimumcomp.com/p/legal-news-f</span><span class="invisible">or-fri-221-trump-defies</span></a></p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1965, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElHajjMalikEkShabazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElHajjMalikEkShabazz</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MalcolmX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MalcolmX</span></a>, was assassinated in NYC. Predictably, the wrong people were prosecuted and officials refused to admit evidence on pressure from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JEdgarHoover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JEdgarHoover</span></a>. Community self defence is not aggression; don't let them fool you.</p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1895 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FrederickDouglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FrederickDouglass</span></a> died. In a time of rising <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> and irrational <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigotry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigotry</span></a>, we need people willing to light the fires of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>revolution</span></a> once again. Don't sit this out; history is watching us all. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MidnightMeditations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MidnightMeditations</span></a></p>
bethany robison<p>This day in history <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/thisdayinhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thisdayinhistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/eji" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eji</span></a><br><a href="https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/feb/13" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">calendar.eji.org/racial-injust</span><span class="invisible">ice/feb/13</span></a></p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1946, the Revised Standard Version of the NT was published (the full RSV in 1952, NRSV in 1989, NRSVue in 2021). If you prefer to read the Bible as a scholar, not dogmatically, and are interested in what original authors tried to say, it's a gold standard.</p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On #<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1990, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NelsonMandela" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NelsonMandela</span></a> was released by the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/apartheid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>apartheid</span></a> state of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a>. He served 27 years as a political prisoner, often in isolation. In the negotiations and vote that followed, formal segregation was dismantled, but whites still own 3/4 of the land.</p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1887 the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DawesAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DawesAct</span></a> was signed into law. This subdivided <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> reservations into individual plots, forcing capitalism onto <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a>, and allowed much of it to be sold by the government to white settlers. 100 million acres were lost. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandBack</span></a></p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1976, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> used false affidavits to capture &amp; imprison <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIM</span></a> activist <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LeonardPeletier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeonardPeletier</span></a>. One supposed witness tried to testify that the FBI threatened her to give false evidence but was prevented by the judge. Never forget the US has political prisoners.</p>
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