#Free State executions

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1923 – The Free State suspends executions until 18 February, offering an amnesty to anyone who surrendered before that day.

‘During the Irish Civil War the National Army executed more Irishmen than the British had during the War of Independence.’ In the aftermath of the sudden death of Arthur Griffith and the killing of Michael Collins, in August 1922, William T Cosgrave became chairman of the provisional government. Cosgrave and his colleagues remained wedded to a ruthless military and political strategy that…

[evil-ghost]

Shoutout to this one ghost in particular.

No thoughts, only…

S T A T U E

[rainbowaudi]

Me: aughh I really have to do my homework...

My mind: PALIA PALIA PALIA PALIA PALIA PALIA PLAY PALIA

[mikhailoism]

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[ohello0]

They’re posting memorial pictures of the israeli hostages the IOF killed and why did they chose a pic of one of the guys that has a poster of a naked woman posing in front of a confederate flag in the background???

It’s so funny, read fucked, that confederate imagery makes its way all around the world wherever white supremacy nestles in. Cause how you gon claim you’re indigenous to the Middle East but have the flag of a losing army from a different country up??

[hassanac33]

[the-most-humble-blog]

<div style="white-space:pre-wrap"> <meta threat-type="benevolent dictatorship"> <script>ARCHIVE_TAG="MONARCH_SIGNAL_001::BENEFACTOR_WITH_A_BACKLIST" EFFECT: nervous laughter, timeline paranoia, digital dissent ossification </script>

🛐 KING OF THE WORLD: A LOVE LETTER TO THE BENEVOLENT TYRANT WHO TOTALLY DOESN’T EXIST 🕳️

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“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” —Some guy. Possibly high. Definitely right.

Let’s play pretend.

Let’s say—hypothetically, allegedly, satirically— there is a literal King of the World.

Not a metaphor. Not a senator. Not a CEO of something called “NeuraGene Harmonix Solutions.”

I mean a real one.

A cardigan-wearing, camera-smiling, golden-retriever-petting overlord who controls entire nations by whispering into presidents and smiling on live TV.

You’ve never heard his name. That’s the point.

🛎️ THE SETUP: “HE JUST WANTS PEACE”

He’s soft-spoken. He says “God bless.” He wears wool. He trembles slightly when he signs legislation with poisoned ink.

He’s benign.

Until you vote the wrong way. Ask the wrong question. Leak the wrong document.

Then:

Your files disappear

Your phone emits microwave-level heat

Your best friend dies in a motorcycle crash (he didn’t own a motorcycle)

Your Wikipedia gets “corrected”

Your tax history gets flagged

Your social circle ices you overnight

Meanwhile?

The King’s press team posts a video of him hugging a Labrador.

📂 STRANGE COINCIDENCES (THAT ONLY TARGET THE LOUD)

🔹 Journalists who expose war crimes? Exiled. Suicided. Or “discredited.”

🔹 Whistleblowers? Hit by trains. Develop degenerative nerve diseases. Fall down three flights of bullets.

🔹 Rogue billionaires? Implode underwater on sub tours… delayed reporting ensures the script’s already written.

🔹 Elected officials who say “too much”? Cardiac arrest at 5am. No witnesses. No autopsy. Declared “sad.”

🪞 THE DEVIL YOU CAN’T PROVE EXISTS

He doesn’t trend. He doesn’t tweet. He doesn’t hold office. He doesn’t run.

He decides.

Through foundations. Private equity. Legacy bloodlines. And well-dressed men whispering “friendly suggestions” to presidents like kindergarteners being handed nukes.

🐍 THE KIND KING WITH THE KNIFE BEHIND THE THRONE

You don’t hear his voice. But you hear the silence that follows anyone who speaks his name.

“I love you, citizen. You are free to disagree. But if you do, I’ll reach into your soul through your asshole and remind the rest of them to shut the f*ck up.”

Not bullets. Narrative decay. Not torture. PR-managed ruin.

You won’t be shot. You’ll be erased. You won’t be imprisoned. You’ll be declared “unwell.”

In the empire of silence, defamation is more efficient than death.

🧠 PLOT TWIST: YOU ALREADY KNEW

The delay in truth

The sudden disappearances

The way democracy started sounding like a subscription plan

You see conspiracies and think “that’s a stretch.” But your gut says:

“That’s a little too real to be fake.”

📉 PEOPLE WHO TALK TOO MUCH… STOP TALKING

Podcasts vanish

Books pulled

Assets frozen

“Crazy ex” appears

YouTube copyright strikes from non-existent labels

Plane engines stall

The King? Still smiling in a sweater watering lilies on a lawn that no one knows how to access.

🪦 FAFO: A QUICK LIST OF ‘UNFORTUNATE INCIDENTS’

📡 Cybersecurity whistleblower? Found hanging from a doorknob. With a shoelace. From his sock. No note. Declared “peaceful.”

🗳️ Politician exposed global election scheme? Collapsed during interview. “Arrhythmia.” 32 years old.

📷 CIA tech analyst tried to leak a black vault? Vanished. Declared dead. Country redacted.

💰 Hedge fund manager warned about the Fed? Private jet lost signal. Recovered: never. Wife remarried suspiciously fast.

🎭 THE POWER OF KINDNESS AS A WEAPON

He never barks. He whispers.

“You can leave this alone. Keep your family safe. Or keep talking— and I’ll test how many vertebrae snap before regret kicks in. In Minecraft. Of course.”

👁️ BUT WAIT—THIS IS JUST SATIRE, RIGHT?

Yes. YES. Of course.

Totally fictional. Definitely not a veiled commentary about anything that might be real. We love democracy™.

Go touch grass. Pay your taxes. Smile for the drone.

🏁 FINAL WORD:

If there were a King of the World— you wouldn’t hear him roar. You’d only notice when someone else went quiet.

So laugh. Share. Screenshot. Because this is definitely satire.

And definitely not a coded warning written in cadence sharp enough to slice your mind open sideways while slipping past censors in a business casual disguise.

🔁 Reblog if you know the real king doesn’t wear a crown—he wears silence 👁️ Save this before it disappears for “safety reasons” 💬 Comment if you’ve ever seen the structure blink behind the smile 📩 DM if you’ve ever laughed your way through fear 📂 Follow now. The next part can’t go public.

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[creatingblackcharacters]

Well!

So first, let's clear a common misconception: no, President Abraham Lincoln did not love Black people nor see them as human equals. At best he was centrist about it (though, even his implication that 'exceptional' Black men ought to vote got him assassinated).

"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do, it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union...I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free."

The "freeing of slaves" after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 was meant to kneecap the economic and military powers of the seceded South. Lettuce stop making a white savior figure out of Lincoln, or thinking that my people's shackles were unchained via anything other than desperate war strategy and extreme violence. Think on that, for a moment.

That being said!

But not everyone in Confederate territory would immediately be free. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863, it could not be implemented in places still under Confederate control. As a result, in the westernmost Confederate state of Texas, enslaved people would not be free until much later. Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as "Juneteenth," by the newly freed people in Texas.

Consider going through the Smithsonian website to learn about Juneteenth! Recognize why it's an actual day of freedom, versus July 4th and the independence of a select few.

[belongstolove]

Trump and Musk are trying to take away the power from the Judicial Branch of government and give it to the Executive Branch of Government (the president).

This is exactly what Netanyahu was doing in Israel when he was arrested and charged with corruption among other things. Satanyahu was due in court yesterday but early yesterday morning he went back to killing children and their families in Gaza so he doesn't have to go back to court because there's a war (Genocide) on. How convenient.

[youthchronical]

Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America’s Parent

President Trump signed an executive order on Friday seeking to dismantle seven additional federal agencies, including the one that oversees Voice of America and other government-funded media outlets around the world. Mr. Trump directed the heads of the agencies, largely obscure entities that address issues like labor mediation and homelessness prevention, to eliminate all functions that are not…

[in4newz]

New Development In The Helicopter Crash

Source

[ohello0]

Just wondering if anybody knows where to find this information: last month around the time of the hostage exchange there was news that israel was planning to execute a large number of Palestinians held captive in prison.

Did they do it? Are there any updates on that or the safety of the newly released Palestinians? I know at least one person was rearrested but I haven’t heard much about the Palestinians still in prison in a minute

[cryptvokeeper]

Oh I just saw the news piece on this. Worth noting also that this is their SECOND TRY EXECUTING THIS MAN, because they tried to kill him using lethal injection AND IT FAILED.

and you may think “wow that’s lucky” but no! Lethal injections have a very high rate of failure, one of the highest among methods of execution! And they can be incredibly painful and lead to unnecessary suffering for the rest of the inmates life, however long that life may be.

during the news piece they actually talked to Kenneth Smith and it was super fucked. He said he was scared, not of dying, but because he didn’t trust the state not to fuck it up and basically torture him.

today the first person in the united states will be executed using a gas mask containing 100% nitrogen gas, meaning he will suffer and die of sudden hypoxia. although the state of alabama claims to predict that the nitrogen gas will "cause unconsciousness within seconds, and cause death within minutes,” medical experts have pointed out that there are risks that a person subjected to this form of execution could suffer from seizures, choking on their own vomit, and prolonged suffering, and claim that “alabama has refused to be forthcoming with the fine details of execution by forced nitrogen gas inhalation” affecting the defendant’s ability to “adequately make a legal defence.”

the UN has warned that this plan could constitute torture. the American Veterinary Association has advised again the use of nitrogen hypoxia for euthanasia of almost all mammals. experts also warn that safety issues for those in the vicinity of the execution could block prisoners right to have a spiritual advisor in the execution chamber as established by the supreme court in 2022, as well as the right to healthcare as established by the supreme court in 1976 should they not die immediately.

Kenneth Smith, who will be the the guinea pig for this inhumane punishment, could not be sentenced with the death penalty if his case was tried today as this sentence was imposed by a judge overruling the decision of a jury, which is no longer permitted.

the use of nitrogen hypoxia to kill prisoners has been approved in alabama, mississippi, and oklahoma, and is a risk in arizona, oklahoma, and nebraska.

you can sign this petition to several of these states’ governors and legislators here. if you’re a jewish community leader wanting to join the jewish community statement opposing the gas chamber you can sign here. you can also reach out directly to your reps, especially alabama governor Kay Ivey, who has the authority to stop this execution (although time is running very short) and other executions of this type in the future.

if you’re in “canada” like me, the canadian company walter surface companies, owned by a canadian private equity firm called onex corp is complicit in this execution as one of its subsidiaries is producing the gas masks that will be used in these executions. you can sign a petition here and do anything else you can to put pressure on these groups.

i’m horrified that any country still uses the death penalty. i’m horrified at the precedent that this particular execution sets. nobody should be okay with this.

[belleandre-belle]

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1922 – Four Anti-Treaty IRA men from Dublin, who were captured with weapons in Co Wicklow, are shot by firing squad.

In the first use of the powers enacted under the Public Safety Act, five Anti-Treaty IRA fighters who had been captured with arms in Co Wicklow were shot by firing squad in Dublin. On 19 November, three more Anti-Treaty IRA men were executed, also in Dublin. On 24 November, Robert Erskine Childers, an acclaimed author and secretary to the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations that had created the Irish…

[ms-demeanor]

Were you helping refugees at the border last week by donating to mutual aid groups or doing translation and outreach?

Were you calling for ceasefire and doing what you could to aid Palestinians last week? (Esims for gaza here)

Were you talking to your unhoused neighbors with respect and advocating for them and protesting encampment clearances last week? (There's no link just treat people like people and share cash if you can)

Last week were you participating in community meal shares and free stores?

Were you supporting bail funds and protesting the carceral state and trying to stop executions and humanizing incarcerated people last week? (How to write a letter to an incarcerated person)

Were you working to increase access to abortion medications and birth control and abortions in general last week?

Did you share information about DIY HRT and spend time paying attention to the books your school board was banning and make your lgbtqia friends welcome and included last week?

Were you aware of the groundwork being laid for a 2028 general strike and the ways that you could support one (contributing to strike funds, joining and supporting unions, attempting to unionize your workplace) last week?

Were you helping the people around you, were you caring for your friends, were you making information free, were you picking up trash, were you sharing a meal, were you tracking fascists, were you challenging the wrongs done by your government in the ways available to you last week?

Good. Keep doing that.

A better world is possible. Keep working toward it.