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#OTD (Aug 28) in 1863, Joseph #Macheca of #NewOrleans is tried and convicted in a military occupation court in connection with a scheme to sell meats stolen from the U.S. Army. Other conspirators are imprisoned, but Macheca is fined $50.
#OTD (Aug 28) in 1863, J.P. #Macheca of #NewOrleans was convicted of selling meats stolen from the Union Army. Codefendants were imprisoned. Macheca was fined $50. After the #CivilWar, Macheca organized right-wing paramilitary groups and involved himself in the local #Mafia.
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2017/08/macheca-and-civil-war-black-market.html
Boston Morning Journal, Aug. 27 1864:
Report of Confederate maltreatment of Black Union troops of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiments captured during the now-famous ("Glory") attack on Fort Wagner the preceding summer
New Post: Literally The Least They Can Do: Some Hard Words About “Soft Secession”
https://this.needsfixin.net/2025/08/27/literally-the-least-they-can-do-some-hard-words-about-soft-secession/
#Law #Politics #CivilWar #coup
@jzmurdock More like: There was a reason the "Tehran Conference" mandated the goal of Conditionless Surrender of the Axis Powers.
- The #USA failed to do the same re: #CSA in it's #CivilWar and that will be the root cause for a 2nd one.
The deployment of 2,200+ armed #NationalGuard troops patrolling #DC neighborhoods represents the most significant# militarization of the #American capital since the #CivilWar. Even #Russia doesn't deploy #military forces for daily civilian interaction - they reserve it for# protests. #Trump has #normalized permanent military occupation of civilian spaces, w #Chicago #NewYork reportedly next. This breaks the fundamental #democratic principle of separating #military from #domestic #lawenforcement.
Free Fiction Monday: The Last Surviving Gondola Widow
In an alternate post-Civil War Chicago, the citizens still remember the day the Gondolas sent by the South died and the city burned—again. Lou, a Pinkerton detective, uses magic to hunt down the Gondola pilots, now called Gondola widows. She…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/08/25/free-fiction-monday-the-last-surviving-gondola-widow/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #alternativehistory #CivilWar
@indieauthors
I saw the late Michael Landon in my dream this morning. That was so random!
He said that in 4-5 years he'll at last "allow" for a "Heaven on Earth" reboot of his TV show "Highway to Heaven".
I was quick to tell him that the TV industry is nearly bankrupt, and he said "it's ok, that's after the US would have split", meaning that the Union will be no longer in a few years. I found this dream quite interesting.
Trump’s attacks on the ‘Blacksonian’ have a history in a century-old myth | The Guardian
The National Museum of African American History and Culture on 31 March 2025 in Washington DC. Photograph: Kayla Bartkowski / Getty ImagesTrump’s attacks on the ‘Blacksonian’ have a history in a century-old myth
By Saida Grundy
The United Daughters of the Confederacy set out to make slavery respectable again by promoting ‘the lost cause’
Sat 23 Aug 2025 07.00 EDT
It should surprise no one that former cast members from reality shows that ran for more than 15 seasons are running out of new material.
Days ago, Donald Trump, former star of NBC’s The Apprentice and current US president, posted a lengthy Truth Social rant in which he (again) threatened the country’s leading cultural institutions to adhere to his political ideology. The target was one he has had in his crosshairs before – the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) – which Trump called “OUT OF CONTROL” in his post. “Everything discussed [in NMAAHC exhibits] is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was,” Trump unloaded. “WOKE IS BROKE,” he continued through his customary use of all caps and misplaced capitalization of common nouns. “We have the HOTTEST Country in the World, and we want people to talk about it, including in our Museums.”
The tirade left many wondering what exactly Trump saw as the upsides of slavery, but also where they had previously heard this recycled talking point. The comment seemed to echo comments made just days prior by his fellow reality show bully Jillian Michaels, a former trainer on NBC’s The Biggest Loser, the weight-loss competition show that launched alongside The Apprentice in 2004. Michaels had been making her rounds in media and public appearances, rebranding from verbally abusive fat shamer to Maga influencer.
On CNN’s NewsNight, the host Abby Phillips moderated a roundtable discussion on Trump’s months-long overreach into cultural institutions such as the Kennedy Center and the NMAAHC. Michaels hijacked the conversation into a lament about slavery’s prominence in the massively popular museum’s displays on US history. “[Trump] is not whitewashing slavery, he’s not,” Michaels said. “You cannot tie slavery to just one race, which is what every single exhibit [at NMAAHC] does.” Turning towards the representative Ritchie Torres, who was seated beside her, Michaels unloaded popular far-right talking points. “Do you realize that only less than 2% of white Americans owned slaves?” she continued. “Do you realize slavery is thousands of years old? Do you know who was the first race who tried to end slavery?”
Torres’s interjections that slavery was a system of white supremacy, not a set of individual white acts, went unaddressed by the TV star. (From 20% to 50% of the white population in southern US states owned enslaved people, and all white people nationwide benefited from slavery’s racial order. Michael’s false claims prompted Phillips to later post a public correction.)
The tirade was an escalation of Trump’s previous open declarations to “restore truth and sanity to American history”, an effort to overhaul exhibits and installations across federally operated museums and galleries and politicize their content, with the NMAAHC locked squarely in the administration’s sights for what it called “corrosive ideology”. Previous edicts about the museum, lovingly nicknamed “The Blacksonian” by many of its patrons, had not specifically identified slavery as the White House’s gripe. But Trump’s Truth Social post more directly reflected a return to a century-old tactic to minimize chattel slavery as “not that bad”.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump’s attacks on the ‘Blacksonian’ have a history in a century-old myth | Saida Grundy | The Guardian
#2025 #America #AmericanMuseums #Blacksonian #Books #CivilWar #DonaldTrump #Education #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #OldMyths #Opinion #Politics #Reading #Resistance #Science #Slavery #SmithsonianInstitution #TheGuardian #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedDaughtersOfTheConfederacy #UnitedStates
I researched every Democratic attempt to stop fascism in history. the success rate after fascists were elected was 0%.
Once they win elections, it’s already too late.
"Here’s what I found: Once fascists win power democratically, they have never been removed democratically. Not once. Ever."
Chris Armitage on Medium.
Gyaros Island of Exile
New offshore pier to access the new museum walkthrough and the new offshore research hub - project “infrastructural”: https://benhuser.com/2025/05/25/gyaros-island-of-exile/
Gyaros Island of Exile
New offshore pier to access the new museum walkthrough (on the left). New offshore research hub above the pier - project “infrastructural”: https://benhuser.com/2025/05/25/gyaros-island-of-exile/
CRIME IS #GOP #REPUBLICAN FOR BLACK, LATINO & NATIVE PEOPLE
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/national-guard-mobilizing-19-states-immigration-crime-crackdown
#MAGA governors conspiring to criminalize #BIPOC ahead of 2026 midterms:
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Indiana
Iowa
Louisiana
Nebraska
Nevada
N̶e̶w̶ M̶e̶x̶i̶c̶o̶¹
Ohio
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Wyoming
REMINDER: prison is slavery. criminalized people are treated like slaves in many states; including denying their right to vote.
Gyaros Island of Exile
New offshore pier to access the new museum walkthrough and the offshore research hub - project “infrastructural”: https://benhuser.com/2025/05/25/gyaros-island-of-exile/
#Trump #History #CivilWar #Republicans #Democrats #Smithsonian #alt
Heather Cox Richardson 8/20/25
TRUMP AND THE CONFEDERACY
Today in Labor History August 21, 1920: Ongoing violence by coal operators and their paid goons in the southern coalfields of West Virginia led to a three-hour gun battle between striking miners and guards that left six dead. 500 Federal troops were sent in not only to quell the fighting, but to ensure that scabs were able to get to and from the mines. A General Strike was threatened if the troops did not cease their strikebreaking activities. This was just 3 months after the Matewan Massacre, in which the miners drove out the seemingly invincible Baldwin-Felts private police force, with the help of their ally, Sheriff Sid Hatfield. 1 year later, Sheriff Hatfield was gunned down on the steps of the courthouse by surviving members of the Baldwin-Felts Agency. News spread and miners began arming themselves, leading to the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War and the largest labor uprising in U.S. history. Over 100 people were killed in the 5-day battle, including 3 army soldiers and up to 20 Baldwin-Felts detectives. Nearly 1,000 people were arrested. 1 million rounds were fired. And the government dropped bombs from aircraft on the miners, only the second time in history that the government bombed its own citizens (the first being the pogrom against African American residents of Tulsa, during the so-called Tulsa Riots).
The Battle of Blair Mountain is depicted in Storming Heaven (Denise Giardina, 1987), Blair Mountain (Jonathan Lynn, 2006), and Carla Rising (Topper Sherwood, 2015). And the Matewan Massacre is brilliantly portrayed in John Sayles’s film, “Matewan.”
Read my history of the Battle of Blair Mountain here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/14/the-battle-of-blair-mountain/
#workingclass #LaborHistory #mining #strike #union #westvirginia #matewan #BattleOfBlairMountain #uprising #civilwar #GeneralStrike #tulsa #massacre #racism #books #fiction #film #writer #author #novel @bookstadon
Gyaros Island of Exile
New offshore pier for thenew museum walkthrough (on the left) and the new offshore research hub, project “infrastructural”: https://benhuser.com/2025/05/25/gyaros-island-of-exile/
Was part of the deal to end the US Civil War a clandestine agreement to allow rich men secret societies for gangsters, wherein they could rape and abuse with impunity?
Where are the unredacted Epstein files, politician-rapists?
Wait. There are Democratic leaders leaning on the Capitol steps. I think they will banish evil through their use of many words and incantations.
The Trump National Guard is reportedly issuing guns to its members so that the Republican extremists in NG ranks might enjoy the sensual pleasure of murdering Americans over the lies of rich con artists eager to get back to the joy of raping entrapped Black women on plantations.
Or at Epstein's secret society of exclusive parties for rich, old gangsters with power raping entrapped children and teens. They are still raping. But with Epstein gone from the party scene, where, now? Where now? Who is the new Epstein? Is it still the old Epstein, but government lied to us about his untimely demise?
Lord Limbaugh would be proud.
Today in Labor History August 19, 1920: A peasant insurrection began in Tambov, USSR, over the confiscation of their grain. Led by Alexander Antonov, a former official of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, the Green Army uprising evolved into a guerrilla war against the Red Army, Cheka Units and the Soviet authorities. The Bolsheviks finally suppressed the revolt in June, 1921. 240,000 died in the rebellion and over 50,000 were imprisoned. They also used chemical weapons on the peasants. Dissident writer, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, wrote about it in a short story in his book, “Apricot Jam and other Stories,” (2010).
#workingclass #LaborHistory #peasant #uprising #rebellion #revolt #russia #CivilWar #soviet #ussr #communism #tambov #fiction #writer #books #author @bookstadon