#Founding father

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Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky by Benjamin West

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Israeli Ambassador to the UK: "Just imagine how things would have looked… this huge missile, think about it falling in the middle of a city like Jerusalem.. look how populated it is. Just think about it hitting neighbourhoods & people & children" Just imagine.

Shaun (shaunvids on bsky) (@/shaun_vids)

worth pointing out that there is no hypocrisy in this person’s position, she just doesn’t view palestinian people as human. she has to imagine missiles hitting people and children because she means what she considers real people, real children

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Something that this genocide has really made clear is that most westerners only think the Holocaust was bad because those victims in particular were innocent, not out of some opposition to large scale violence or collective punishment.

Pinko Jack (@/PinkoJack92)

Its the same mentality as american founding fathers waxing poetic about liberty and freedom, all while owning slaves. It’s not hypocrisy. Black slaves were just not "real" people to them. They were no different than other living forms of property (cows, goats, horses etc.)

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here’s one of my favorite articles on queer founding fathers and mothers from ADVOCATE. It’s amazing and you should read it

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On February 5th 1723 John Witherspoon, clergyman, writer, President of Princeton University, signatory to American Declaration of Independence was born.

Witherspoon was educated at Edinburgh University and was ordained as a minister in 1745. One of his ancestors was John Knox who had been a major force in the Reformation of the church in the middle of the 16th century. Witherspoon’s first charge was as minister of the Auld Kirk in Beith in Ayrshire where he preached for twelve years. He was regarded as a brilliant orator and was “head hunted” by a number of churches in Scotland (and abroad) before moving to Paisley.

While he was at Paisley, Witherspoon met 21-year-old Benjamin Rush who was born in America of Scottish parents, and attended the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University), Rush had then enrolled at the University of Edinburgh’s medical school. Armed with letters from Benjamin Franklin, Rush convinced the 42 year old Witherspoon to leave Scotland and become president of the College of New Jersey in 1768 and a delegate to the 2nd Continental Congress.

Witherspoon was soon supporting the independence fight in America because he believed that his native land had “gone soft on religion”. Of course, the Presbyterian church’s principles of egalitarianism and the natural antipathy of the Scots to the English rulers were factors too.

Witherspoon became what in today’s politics would be regarded as a senator. And in the first draft of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, he demanded the deletion of a phrase that complained that the king of Britain had sent to America “not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries.”

However, when some of the representatives from the thirteen American colonies gathered to decide whether to break completely with Britain, some of the delegates realised the difficulty of taking on the might of the British Empire. It was Witherspoon who urged them to sign the Declaration of Independence, saying “There is a tide in the affairs of men, a nick of time. We perceive it now before us. To hesitate is to consent to our own slavery.”

It is worth noting also that of the 56 men who signed the document, 21 had some Scottish ancestry. Witherspoon was the only clergyman to sign this historic document, which has been compared to the Declaration of Arbroath which proclaimed Scottish freedom for the first time.

Witherspoon also became a member of the congress which conducted the war and later helped to draft the peace agreement which brought the war to an end. After leaving Congress in 1782, Witherspoon was involved in the rebuilding of Princeton College (destroyed during the war). He was its President from 1768 until his death in 1794. More than any other university, Princeton in those days had students from all over the United States, not just from its home state and so Witherspoon’s influence on the country was that much more significant.

As with most white landed gentry of the era Witherspoon was involved in the slave trade. Beginning in 1779, he acquired two enslaved laborers for his country estate. About eight years later, both mysteriously disappeared. New research suggests that at least one may have been freed and settled on his own land. Their demise, sale or escape are other, less cheery, possibilities. Another two enslaved individuals were listed among Witherspoon’s possessions in an inventory dated November 1794, alongside six cows, 10 horses, 12 pigs and 24 sheep. He also  recruited the sons of wealthy Southern planters to finance Princeton through donations and tuition.

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Alexander Hamilton, c. 1792 by John Trumbull

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The Sam Adams Centennial

You wanna me to steal-a this picsh? A viaduct, hah? Why a duck, why-a no chicken? The above caption is more of a Columbus routine, but I couldn’t help it, the pointing finger and the limp, rolled up documents remind me of Chico Marx in The Cocoanuts (1929) and that’s about as close to the usual themes of this blog as I’m going to get. Today is the 300th birthday of Samuel Adams (1722-1803) —…

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John Adams: A Founding Father's Legacy

In the pantheon of America’s Founding Fathers, John Adams stands as a stalwart defender of independence, a visionary in governance, and a pivotal figure in shaping the early republic. Born on October 30, 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts (now Quincy), Adams would emerge as a key architect of American independence and a pivotal leader in the nation’s formative years. Early Life and…

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watched the new ultraman movie a couple of days ago

it's very good and so beautiful! go watch it if you have the chance! :)