#Harney City

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Klondike Saloon in Harney Oregon

The proprietor of the Klondike Saloon in Harney City was J. C. Buckland. Born in Canada his father became a Naturalized Citizen when he was a teenager. He was granted a liquor license in April of 1889. He was also involved in horse racing, farming and once took a string of horses to Alberta Canada where he made a decent return on his efforts. He passed away on April 2, 1907. I believe he may be the older gentleman in both photos.

East Oregon Herald., April 04, 1889

The Times-Herald., August 03, 1907

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The Mothershuckers Oyster Cart

Open-air oyster carts used to be an integral part of New York City’s street food scene. Today, they are all but extinct. Benjamin “Moody” Harney created the Mothershuckers Oyster Cart in 2019 to change all of that.

Oyster Carts of New York City

Did you know that oysters were one of New York City's original street foods? Just imagine: standing at a street corner in Lower Manhattan on a crisp fall day slurping a dozen fresh, raw oysters from an oyster cart. Peddling oysters alongside hot buns and peanuts was a normal thing in New York City back in the late 1700s and 1800s. Today, it's a rarity. There is only one pushcart set up in all of Brooklyn: Benjamin "Moody" Harney's Mothershuckers Oyster Cart outside of Eugene & Co. on the corner of Tompkins Avenue and Jefferson Avenue. Inspired by the story of Thomas Downing, a.k.a. the Oyster King of New York, Moody started his business in the fall of 2019. Read the full article here.

You can now find The Real Mothershuckers at Pier 57, 25 11th Ave., New York, NY. Monday — Sunday, 11:00AM-8:00PM

Source: In a Half Shell, The Real Mothershuckers

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When you tag things “#abolition”, what are you referring to? Abolishing what?

Prisons, generally. Though not just physical walls of formal prisons, but also captivity, carcerality, and carceral thinking. Including migration prevention; detention; fences and hard national borders; indentured servitude; inability to move due to, and labor coerced through, debt; de facto imprisonment and isolation of the disabled and medically pathologized; privatization and enclosure of land; sacrifice zones at the periphery; the urge to punish; categories of “criminality"; etc.

In favor of other, better lives and futures.

Specifically, I am grateful to have learned from the work of these people:

Ruth Wilson Gilmore on “abolition geography”.

Katherine McKittrick on "imaginative geographies"; emotional engagement with place; legacy of imperialism/slavery in conceptions of physical space and in devaluation of other-than-human lifeforms; escaping enclosure; plantation “afterlives” and how plantation logics continue to thrive in contemporary structures/institutions like debt colonies, workplace environments, prisons, etc.; a range of rebellions through collaborative acts, refusal of the dominant order, and subversion through joy and autonomy.

Macarena Gomez-Barris on landscapes as “sacrifice zones”; people condemned to live in resource extraction colonies deemed as acceptable losses; place-making and ecological consciousness; and how “the enclosure, the plantation, the ship, and the prison” are analogous spaces of captivity.

Liat Ben-Moshe on disability; informal institutionalization and incarceration of disabled people through physical limitation, social ostracization, denial of aid, and institutional disavowal; and "letting go of hegemonic knowledge of crime”.

Achille Mbembe on co-existence and care; "necropolitics" and bare life/death; historical evolution of chattel slavery into contemporary institutions through control over food, space, and definitions of life/land; the “explicit kinship between plantation slavery, colonial predation, and contemporary resource extraction” and modern institutions.

Robin Maynard on "generative refusal"; solidarity; shared experiences among homeless, incarcerated, disabled, Indigenous, Black communities; to "build community with" those who you are told to disregard in order "to re-imagine" worlds; envisioning, imagining, and then manifesting those alternative futures which are "already" here and alive.

Leniqueca Welcome on Caribbean world-making; "the apocalyptic temporality" of environmental disasters and the colonial denial of possible "revolutionary futures"; limits of reformism; "infrastructures of liberation at the end of the world."; "abolition is a practice oriented toward the full realization of decolonization, postnationalism, decarceration, and environmental sustainability."

Stefano Harney and Fred Moten on “the undercommons”; fugitivity; dis-order in academia and institutions; and sharing of knowledge.

AM Kanngieser on "deep listening"; “refusal as pedagogy”; and “attunement and attentiveness” in the face of “incomprehensible” and immense “loss of people and ecologies to capitalist brutalities”.

Lisa Lowe on "the intimacies of four continents" and how British politicians and planters feared that official legal abolition of chattel slavery would endanger Caribbean plantation profits, so they devised ways to import South Asian and East Asian laborers.

Ariella Aisha Azoulay on “rehearsals with others’.

Phil Neel on p0lice departments purposely targeting the poor as a way to raise municipal funds; the "suburbanization of poverty" especially in the Great Lakes region; the rise of lucrative "logistics empires" (warehousing, online order delivery, tech industries) at the edges of major urban agglomerations in "progressive" cities like Seattle dependent on "archipelagos" of poverty; and the relationship between job loss, homelessness, gentrification, and these logistics cities.

Alison Mountz on migrant detention; "carceral archipelagoes"; and the “death of asylum”.

Pedro Neves Marques on “one planet with many worlds inside it”; “parallel futures” of Indigenous, Black, disenfranchised communities/cosmologies; and how imperial/nationalist institutions try to foreclose or prevent other possible futures by purposely obscuring or destroying histories, cosmologies, etc.

Peter Redfield on how metropolitan residents try to hide slavery and torture/punishment on the periphery of Empire; early twentieth-century French penal colony in tropical Guiana/Guyana; the torture of the prison relies on the metropolitan imagination's invocation of exotic hinterlands and racist civilization/savagery mythologies.

Iain Chambers on racism of borders; obscured and/or forgotten lives of migrants; and disrupting modernity.

Elizabeth Povinelli on "geontopower"; imperial control over "life and death"; how imperial/nationalist formalization of private landownership and commodities relies on rigid definitions of dynamic ecosystems.

Kodwo Eshun on African cosmologies and futures; “the colonial present”; and imperialist/nationalist use of “preemptive” and “predictive” power to control the official storytelling/narrative of history and to destroy alternatives.

Tim Edensor on urban "ghosts" and “industrial ruins”; searching for the “gaps” and “silences” in the official narratives of nations/institutions, to pay attention to the histories, voices, lives obscured in formal accounts.

Megan Ybarra on place-making; "site fights"; solidarity and defiance of migrant detention; and geography of abolition/incarceration.

Sophie Sapp Moore on resistance, marronage, and "forms of counterplantation life"; "plantation worlds" which continue to live in contemporary industrial resource extraction and dispossession.

Deborah Cowen on “infrastructures of empire and resistance”; imperial/nationalist control of place/space; spaces of criminality and "making a life at the edge" of the law; “fugitive infrastructures”.

Elizabeth DeLoughrey on indentured labor; the role of plants, food, and botany in enslaved and fugitive communities; the nineteenth-century British Empire's labor in the South Pacific and Caribbean; the twentieth-century United States mistreatment of the South Pacific; and the role of tropical islands as "laboratories" and isolated open-air prisons for Britain and the US.

Dixa Ramirez D’Oleo on “remaining open to the gifts of the nonhuman” ecosystems; hinterlands and peripheries of empires; attentiveness to hidden landscapes/histories; defying surveillance; and building a world of mutually-flourishing companions.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on reciprocity; Indigenous pedagogy; abolitionism in Canada; camaraderie; solidarity; and “life-affirming” environmental relationships.

Anand Yang on "forgotten histories of Indian convicts in colonial Southeast Asia" and how the British Empire deported South Asian political prisoners to the region to simultaneously separate activists from their communities while forcing them into labor.

Sylvia Wynter on the “plot”; resisting the plantation; "plantation archipelagos"; and the “revolutionary demand for happiness”.

Avery Gordon on haunting; spectrality; the “death sentence” of being deemed “social waste” and being considered someone “without future”; "refusing" to participate; "escaping hell" and “living apart” by striking, squatting, resisting; cultivating "the many-headed hydra of the revolutionary Black Atlantic"; alternative, utopian, subjugated worldviews; despite attempts to destroy these futures, manifesting these better worlds, imagining them as "already here, alive, present."

Jasbir Puar on disability; debilitation; how the control of fences, borders, movement, and time management constitute conditions of de facto imprisonment; institutional control of illness/health as a weapon to "debilitate" people; how debt and chronic illness doom us to a “slow death”.

Kanwal Hameed and Katie Natanel on "liberation pedagogy"; sharing of knowledge and subversion of colonial legacy in universities; "anticolonial feminisms"; and “spaces of solidarity, revolt, retreat, and release”.

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continued from here

in the days since arriving to the city, natasha had adapted to her new situation, as she always did, and weaved a new web of lies. the woman she was currently pretending to be and the woman underneath the guise could not be more different. save for the common thread of drinking alcohol and smoking one too many cigarettes. old habits die hard.

with her suit jacket long forgotten on the back of the chair, the sleeves of her blouse rolled up and the first few buttons undone, she looked like a woman off work. she fits into her surroundings. but the same could not be said for the man across the bar, even if she had seen him the past few days. he looked disheveled in the way someone going through a rough patch does: like he wanted to forget. but this time around he ends up staring at her and after meeting him with an unwavering look of her own she finds herself taking her half finished wine and moving towards him.

"i've seen you here before. and i’ve seen them, too," @ashbalfour replies to her brazen greeting. but it is she who is intrigued by his reply. she's seen the man in question days prior but had thought nothing of him at the time. he was another regular patron, simple as that. however, upon further study by way of waving down the bartender, she notices the man's ill-fitting suit and the way he doesn't take an actual sip from his drink. it could be a coincidence. he could be waiting for someone. or attempting to gather up the courage to talk to her. but there's something about him that causes the hair on her arms to stand up. surely, they hadn't found her? not here in the city that never sleeps. taking a sip of her wine, natasha focuses her attention on the man before her, pushing away the unnerving thoughts as they would do her no good.

"do you always go about drunkenly looking out for women in bars?" she asks. this time it is amusement that laces her tone. a smile curls across her lips, even as her mind races to formulate a plan to get out because the last thing she wants to do is wait around and see if this stranger's assumptions are correct. natasha thinks back to the week old events that had transpired in oregon, of the unusual weather in chicago and detroit that reminds her of the unseen chaos still taking place. she mentally runs through the last few days in the city and of where she'd gone. nothing stood out but then again, she almost felt safe here—— insulated from everything that had happened and was happening. there was no way that man had any connection to the ranch in harney county she'd left behind. even if he did, in a city of eight million people, there was no way they'd found her so quickly. they didn't have the resources or connections for such a task. unless ... but the thought is pushed almost as quickly as it pops up. she isn't going to entertain what ifs. not here, not now.

"or is this your way of hitting on me? i thought englishmen were more charming than americans." natasha adds. a brow arching as if to say well, am i right?

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Footnotes 1 - 100

[1] Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Berkeley: Crossing Press, 1984), 4.

[2] Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith (Seattle: Rebel Press, 2001), 26.

[3] Michel Foucault, “Preface,” in Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983), xi–xiv.

[4] The concept of the “public secret” originated with situationism, and we borrow it from the Institute of Precarious Consciousness, in their suggestion that anxiety is a public secret of contemporary capitalism. See Institute for Precarious Consciousness, “Anxiety, Affective Struggle, and Precarity Consciousness-Raising,” Interface 6/2 (2014), 271–300.

[5] Alfredo M. Bonanno, Armed Joy (London: Elephant Editions, 1998), https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-armed-joy.

[6] See, for instance: John Holloway, Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today, 2nd Revised Edition (London: Pluto Press, 2005), 19–42; The Invisible Committee, To Our Friends 216–219.

[7] The concept of sad militancy comes to us from Michel Foucault and Colectivo Situaciones. See Foucault, “Preface”; Colectivo Situaciones, “Something More on Research Militancy: Footnotes on Procedures and (In)Decisions,” in Constituent Imagination, ed. Erika Biddle and Stevphen Shukaitis (Oakland: AK Press, 2007), 73–93.

[8] Brian Massumi, “Translator’s Foreword: Pleasures of Philosophy,” in A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987), ix–xv.

[9] Zainab Amadahy, “Protest Culture: How’s It Working for Us?,” Rabble.ca, July 20, 2010, http://rabble.ca/news/2010/07/protest-culture-how%E2%80%99s-it-working-us.

[10] This phrase is often attributed to Frederic Jameson who wrote “Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.” See Frederic Jameson, “Future City,” New Left Review 21 (2003), 77.

[11] Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983), 38.

[12] Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider (Trumansburg: Crossing Press, 1984), 53.

[13] “The Wild Beyond: With and for the Undercommons,” in The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study, by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney (Wivenhoe: Minor Compositions, 2013), 10. http://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/undercommons-web.pdf.

[14] Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues II, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), 61.

[15] Dean Spade, “On Normal Life,” interview by Natalie Oswin, Society and Space (January 2014), http://societyandspace.org/2014/01/15/on-6/.

[16] “Joy—Definition of Joy in English,” Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/joy.

[17] Rebecca Solnit, “We Could Be Heroes,” EMMA Talks, Vancouver, February 17, 2016. http://emmatalks.org/session/rebecca-solnit/.

[18] Sara Ahmed, The Promise of Happiness (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010), 192.

[19] Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, “Indict the System: Indigenous & Black Connected Resistance,” LeanneSimpson.ca, http://leannesimpson.ca/indict-the-system-indigenous-black-connected-resistance/ (accessed November 28, 2014).

[20] Our interpretation of Spinoza’s concept of joy comes from many sources, but one of the most helpful is Mary Zournazi’s interview with the affect theorist Brian Massumi, in which he distinguishes joy from happiness. See Mary Zournazi, “Navigating Movements: A Conversation with Brian Massumi,” in Hope: New Philosophies for Change, by Mary Zournazi (New York: Routledge, 2002), 241–242.

[21] Gustavo Esteva, interview by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery, email, April 26, 2014.

[22] Silvia Federici, interview by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery, telephone, January 18, 2016.

[23] Lorde, Sister Outsider, 57.

[24] adrienne maree brown, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman, email, November 11, 2015.

[25] This reading of Deleuze is indebted to conversations with Kim Smith and the reading she has developed of Susan Ruddick. See Susan Ruddick, “The Politics of Affect: Spinoza in the Work of Negri and Deleuze,” Theory, Culture & Society 27/4 (2010), 21–45.

[26] Bædan, “The Anti-Social Turn,” Bædan 1: Journal of Queer Nihilism (August 2012), 186.

[27] This notion of wisdom is drawn from Claire Carlisle’s helpful explanation of Spinozan wisdom as something akin to “emotional intelligence.” See Claire Carlisle, “Spinoza, Part 7: On the Ethics of the Self,” The Guardian, March 21, 2011, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2011/mar/21/spinoza-ethics-of-the-self.

[28] Marina Sitrin, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman, email, February 4, 2016.

[29] “Militant,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Militant&oldid=754366474 (accessed December 12, 2016).

[30] Melanie Matining, interview by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery, in person, May 6, 2014.

[31] Jackie Wang, “Against Innocence: Race, Gender and the Politics of Safety,” LIES Journal 1 (2012), 13.

[32] Idem, 10.

[33] Glen Coulthard, interview by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery, in person, March 16, 2016.

[34] Ibid.

[35] Kiera L. Ladner and Leanne Simpson, eds., This Is an Honour Song: Twenty Years since the Blockades (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring, 2010), 1.

[36] Deborah B. Gould, Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight against AIDS (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 178.

[37] Sebastián Touza, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman, email, February 2, 2016.

[38] Sebastián Touza, “Antipedagogies for Liberation Politics, Consensual Democracy and Post-Intellectual Interventions” (PhD dissertation, Simon Fraser University, 2008), 136–7. https://www.academia.edu/544417/Antipedagogies_for_liberation_politics_consensual_democracy_and_post-intellectual_interventions.

[39] For a fuller discussion of these dynamics, see Marina Sitrin, Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina (London: Zed Books, 2012).

[40] Margaret Killjoy, interview by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery, email, March 8, 2014.

[41] Anonymous, “Robot Seals as Counter-Insurgency: Friendship and Power from Aristotle to Tiqqun,” Human Strike, https://humanstrike.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/robot-seals-as-counter-insurgency-friendship-and-power-from-aristotle-to-tiqqun/ (accessed August 27, 2013).

[42] brown, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman.

[43] The turn of phrase “making kin” comes to us from the feminist philosopher Donna Haraway. See Donna Haraway, “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin,” Environmental Humanities 6/1 (2015), 161.

[44] Idem, 163.

[45] “Freedom—Definition of Freedom in English,” Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/freedom.

[46] Douglas Harper, “Free (Adj.),” Online Etymology Dictionary, http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=free (accessed November 30, 2016).

[47] Ibid.

[48] Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries, eds., Word Histories and Mysteries: From Abracadabra to Zeus (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004), 103.

[49] Invisible Committee, To Our Friends, trans. Robert Hurley (South Pasadena: Semiotext(e), 2015), 127.

[50] Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (Oxford: Oxford Paperbacks, 2008), Chapter XIII, Of the Natural Condition of Mankind.

[51] This short account of the Age of Reason is drawn primarily from Silvia Federici. See Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (New York: Autonomedia, 2004), 133–62.

[52] Some books we have found helpful include Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010); Gilles Deleuze, Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza, trans. Martin Joughin (New York: Zone Books, 1992); Moira Gatens, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2009); Antonio Negri, The Savage Anomaly: The Power of Spinoza’s Metaphysics and Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991); Tiqqun, Introduction to Civil War, trans. Alexander R. Galloway and Jason E. Smith (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2010).

[53] Our reading of Spinoza is drawn primarily from Deleuze and those he has influenced. For helpful introductions to this lineage, see Gilles Deleuze, “Lecture on Spinoza’s Concept of Affect” (Lecture, Cours Vincennes, Paris, 1978), https://www.gold.ac.uk/media/deleuze_spinoza_affect.pdf; Michael Hardt, “The Power to Be Affected,” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 28/3 (September 1, 2015), 215–22; Brian Massumi, Politics of Affect (Cambridge: Polity, 2015).

[54] “Ethics—Definition of Ethics in English,” Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ethics.

[55] Deleuze, “Lecture on Spinoza’s Concept of Affect.”

[56] This anecdote is based on conversations and exchanges with Kim Smith.

[57] Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2009), 32.

[58] Haraway, “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene.”

[59] Ivan Illich to Madhu Suri Prakash, “Friendship,” n.d.

[60] This is drawn from Anonymous, “Robot Seals as Counter-Insurgency.”

[61] Coulthard, Interview with Glen Coulthard.

[62] See for instance Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour (London: Zed Books, 2014); Andrea Smith, “Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Colour Organizing,” in The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology, INCITE! Women of Colour Against Violence, eds., (Oakland: South End Press, 2006), 66–73; Andrea Smith, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2010); Federici, Caliban and the Witch.

[63] Silvia Federici, “Preoccupying: Silvia Federici,” interview by Occupied Times, October 25, 2014, http://theoccupiedtimes.org/?p=13482.

[64] Dean Spade, “For Lovers and Fighters,” in We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists, ed. Melody Berger (Emeryville: Seal Press, 2006), 28–39, http://www.makezine.enoughenough.org/newpoly2.html.

[65] bell hooks, Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (New York: Routledge, 2006), 249.

[66] Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, “I Am Not a Nation-State,” Indigenous Nationhood Movement, November 6, 2013, http://nationsrising.org/i-am-not-a-nation-state/.

[67] Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman, email, November 2, 2015.

[68] Raúl Zibechi, Territories in Resistance: A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements, trans. Ramor Ryan (Oakland: AK Press, 2012), 39.

[69] Idem, 41.

[70] Silvia Federici, “Permanent Reproductive Crisis: An Interview with Silvia Federici,” interview by Marina Vishmidt, July 3, 2013, http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/permanent-reproductive-crisis-interview-silvia-federici.

[71] Mia Mingus, “On Collaboration: Starting With Each Other,” Leaving Evidence, August 3, 2012, https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/on-collaboration-starting-with-each-other/.

[72] Gustav Landauer, Revolution and Other Writings: A Political Reader, ed. Gabriel Kuhn (Oakland: PM Press, 2010), 214.

[73] Idem, 90.

[74] Idem, 101.

[75] Idem, 91.

[76] scott crow, Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective, 2nd ed. (Oakland: PM Press, 2014), 199.

[77] Richard J. F. Day, Gramsci Is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2005), 127.

[78] Richard J. F. Day, “From Hegemony to Affinity,” Cultural Studies 18/5 (2004), 716–48.

[79] Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Ya Basta!: Ten Years of the Zapatista Uprising, ed. Ziga Vodovnik, (Oakland: AK Press, 2004), 77.

[80] Gloria Anzaldúa, “(Un)natural Bridges, (Un)safe Spaces,” in This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation, Gloria Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating, eds. (New York: Routledge, 2002), 3.

[81] Zainab Amadahy, “Community, ‘Relationship Framework’ and Implications for Activism,” Rabble.ca, July 13, 2010, http://rabble.ca/news/2010/07/community-%E2%80%98relationship-framework%E2%80%99-and-implications-activism.

[82] Coulthard, Interview by.

[83] Glen Sean Coulthard, Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2014), 31.

[84] Coulthard, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman.

[85] Leanne Simpson, Dancing On Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Press, 2011), 32.

[86] Luam Kidane and Jarrett Martineau, “Building Connections across Decolonization Struggles,” ROAR, October 29, 2013, https://roarmag.org/essays/african-indigenous-struggle-decolonization/.

[87] Harsha Walia, “Decolonizing Together: Moving beyond a Politics of Solidarity toward a Practice of Decolonization,” Briarpatch, January 1, 2012, https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/decolonizing-together.

[88] Coulthard, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman.

[89] Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, trans. Thomas Wayne (New York: Algora Publishing, 2003), 42.

[90] Coulthard, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman.

[91] Mingus, “On Collaboration.”

[92] Simpson, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman.

[93] Ursula LeGuin, “Ursula K Le Guin’s Speech at National Book Awards: ‘Books Aren’t Just Commodities,’” The Guardian, November 20, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/20/ursula-k-le-guin-national-book-awards-speech.

[94] scott crow, Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective, 2nd ed. (Oakland: PM Press, 2014), 173.

[95] adrienne maree brown, “That Would Be Enough,” adriennemareebrown.net, September 6, 2016, http://adriennemareebrown.net/2016/09/06/that-would-be-enough/.

[96] VOID Network, “VOID Network on the December 2008 Insurrection in Greece,” B.A.S.T.A.R.D. Conference, University of California, Berkeley, March 14, 2010, https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/03/18/18641710.php.

[97] Many works within this current remain untranslated into English; however, there are a few English sources. In particular, we learned a lot from Sebastian Touza’s PhD dissertation and our interview with him. See Colectivo Situaciones, 19&20: Notes for a New Social Protagonism, trans. Nate Holdren and Sebastian Touza (New York: Minor Compositions, 2012); Deleuze, “Lecture on Spinoza’s Concept of Affect”; Marta Malo de Molina, “Common Notions, Part 1: Workers-Inquiry, Co-Research, Consciousness-Raising,” European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, April 2004, http://eipcp.net/transversal/0406/malo/en; Marta Malo de Molina:, “Common Notions, Part 2: Institutional Analysis, Participatory Action-Research, Militant Research,” European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, April 2004, http://eipcp.net/transversal/0707/malo/en; Touza, “Antipedagogies for Liberation Politics, Consensual Democracy and Post-Intellectual Interventions”; Touza, Interview with Sebastián Touza.

[98] Touza, “Antipedagogies for Liberation Politics, Consensual Democracy and Post-Intellectual Interventions,” 210.

[99] Nora Samaran, “On Gaslighting,” Dating Tips for the Feminist Man, June 28, 2016, https://norasamaran.com/2016/06/28/on-gaslighting/.

[100] Matt Hern, “The Promise of Deschooling,” Social Anarchism 25 (1998), http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display_printable/130.

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24 People Perished In A Train Derailment Caused By Unknown Saboteurs

The City of San Francisco luxury train was running 30 minutes behind schedule the night of August 12, 1939. To make up for lost time, engineer Ed Hecox pushed the state-of-the-art streamliner to 90 miles per hour while traveling through the Nevada desert. Hecox knew the area well - he had been transporting travelers from Chicago to Oakland and back since he was a stagecoach driver in the 1880s.

The train was at top speed as it approached bridge #4 over the Humboldt River Gorge. Just before the train crossed the overpass, Hecox noticed a tumbleweed on the tracks. The conductor immediately slammed on the brakes, but it was too late. As the momentum from the engines propelled the derailed front cars forward over the bridge, five other cars decoupled and plunged into the riverbed below.

Twenty-four people perished from the impact, and severely injured passengers had to crawl over dismembered body parts in the dark night to seek help. One of the passengers was a doctor, who helped triage and stabilize as many victims as possible. Hecox ran for help, but the next town was miles away. When he finally reached Harney, he alerted authorities and gathered volunteers. The injured lit portions of the train on fire to provide visibility as they awaited Hecox's return. All 170 passengers suffered injuries, and the first rescue train didn't arrive until the following day.

Upon investigation, authorities found that someone had tampered with a 30-foot section of tracks near the bridge. Its spikes had been pulled out, and the track was bent inward. Additionally, the tumbleweed had been tied to the damaged railing to camouflage the saboteurs' work.

Investigators never caught the perpetrators, and the motive behind the sabotage remains a mystery. Officials estimated the job would've taken more than 90 pounds of tools and several hours to complete - an impossible feat for one person. But instead of focusing on suspects with ties to the railroad or its passengers, investigators focused on transient men in the area made homeless from the Great Depression. After numerous interviews, they found that none of the local homeless men could've been responsible for the incident. Volunteers and looters looking for souvenirs the night of the crash had destroyed any clues that may have led to catching any plausible suspects. When the US entered WWII a few years later, officials abandoned the investigation.

[maturemenoftvandfilms]

Michael Harney Born: March 27, 1956, The Bronx, New York City, NY Physique: Husky/Average Build Height: 5’10" (1.78 m)

Michael John Harney is an American actor of film, television, and theater. He is best known for starring on the SAG Award-winning Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black as Corrections Officer Sam Healy. His credits in film include Erin Brockovich, Turbulence, The Warden, Sonic Impact, Shade and Captivity. He has played recurring roles on many hit shows over the years and has over 60 guest star credits including turns on Law And Order, NYPD Blue, Cold Case, The Practice, ER, Crossing Jordon, Weeds and Deadwood among others.

Very handsome with that gruff voice and accent, you just know this man knew how to talk dirty in bed. I didn’t notice him until he appeared in Orange is the New Black. So far I know absolutely nothing of his personal life. So he’s most likely straight, but that just means I can image my own personal life for him. Something like, he’s into chubs and flies in to see me on the weekends to have wild, hot sex. Yeah.. that sounds good.

RECOMMDATIONS: Deadwood (TV Series) - S3/E5 ’A Two-Headed Beast’ (2006) - shirtless

[stumblingoverchaos]

For #UACFillAugustWithArt. Map a Memory. Collage, acrylic paint, punched out photos (from a completely different project a few years ago).

In 1991, I worked for the US Forest Service in the Black Hills National Forest, based out of Hill City, South Dakota. Some of my favorite things were hiking to and from Harney Peak in the Black Elk Wilderness Area, and driving the Needles Highway and Iron Mountain Road.

[forthegothicheroine]

@allthestoriescantbelies wip meme!

Henchwoman RPG: A Maid RPG Hack

One painting: Untitled by Margaret Brundage

Two teas

Harney & Sons Raspberry Mojito

Tabletop Teas Rogue

Three beauty products

Urban Decay Moondust Glitter Liquid Eyeliner

Portland Black Lipstick Company Smug Pumpkin

Besame '67 Silver Nail Polish

Four fragrances

Besame 1960

Maison Margiela Replica Jazz Club

TokyoMilk Bulletproof

Ex Nihilo Viper Green

Five songs

"I Wanna Be Evil" by Eartha Kitt

"I Fought the Law" by the Clash

"Cherry Bomb" by the Runaways

"The Devil's Swing" by Bridge City Sinners

"9 to 5" by Dolly Parton

[realest8saint]

Discover Spielbound: Omaha's Ultimate Winter Family Fun Spot

Winter is just around the corner, and if you're a parent like me, you're probably wondering how to keep your kids entertained during those cold, snowy days. Well, worry no more! In this weekly blog series, I'll be sharing unique and affordable winter experiences right here in Omaha that are perfect for families. Whether you're new to the city or a long-time resident, I hope to help you discover some fantastic places to create lasting memories with your loved ones. Today, let's dive into a place that my family absolutely LOVES... my first featured spot: Spielbound! Their mission statement, purpose and goals are directly from their website.

Spielbound: Where Fun and Games Meet

Mission statement:

We believe games inspire, motivate, and help us grow. In this positive space, we seek to provide all people the challenge, art, and fun unique to the world of board games.

Purpose:

Spielbound educates, engages, and creates community through board games.

Goals:

collect and maintain a comprehensive collection of board games from around the world;

provide a comfortable space for the community to come together and play board games;

encourage creativity through designing board games;

promote and reward positive gamesmanship;

spread joy and critical thinking through increased game playing by all.

Location: 3229 Harney Street, Omaha, NE

Overview: Spielbound is not your average hangout spot; it's the largest board game café in the entire United States! With games for sale, and a whopping collection of approximately 3000 playable games, this place offers endless hours of fun and entertainment for kids and adults alike. Plus, it's a family-friendly environment where everyone can enjoy quality time together.

More Than Just a Game Café

Spielbound goes beyond just being a board game café. It's also a nonprofit corporation with a heart for spreading the joy of gaming. They accept donated games in good condition, and you can even sign up to volunteer monthly to help catalog and repair these games. It's a wonderful way to give back to the community while sharing your love for board games.

Opening Hours and Contact Info

Spielbound is open to the public during these hours:

Sunday to Thursday: 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM

Friday and Saturday: 9:00 AM to 1:00 AM

Website: www.spielbound.com Phone: (402) 763-8444

Food and Drinks

While you and your family enjoy your gaming sessions, you can also indulge in some delicious treats. Spielbound offers a variety of options, including coffee drinks, craft beer, wine, and an excellent menu featuring really good pizza and other snacks. It's the perfect place to refuel and recharge during your gaming adventures.

The Spielbound Challenge

Don't forget to ask about the Spielbound challenge! It's a fun way to test your gaming skills and possibly win some exciting prizes. Challenge accepted, right?

In Conclusion:

If you're looking for a winter destination that promises fun, quality time with your family, and a wide selection of board games, Spielbound should be your next stop. Whether you're a board game enthusiast or just looking for a unique way to beat the winter blues, Spielbound has something for everyone. So, bundle up and head over to 3229 Harney Street to create unforgettable winter memories with your loved ones. My family and I hope to see you there!

[mumanddadgoglobal]

York and London

York and London

After our three nights in Frankfurt, we jetted off to London City Airport, caught a local train to Kingscross Station then trained it up to York, which is about halfway up the British Isle.

York central is a tourist town, but unlike many European cities, the tourists are almost exclusively provincial British people.  Instead of loudly twanging American voices incredulously stating obvious things (“Jeez harney, its raining and they have a church”), you had farmer and chav type British accents, discussing sensible things (“Looks like a proper old fashioned boozer” or “Whooz Munchester playing this weekend”).

The tourists were mainly day trippers coming into to town by the train, or perhaps coach as well.  Rather than being equipped with walking poles, daypacks, and North Face action wear, the majority instead opted for drab darker block colours, brown scuffed lace up shoes, old parkers for the men, quilted jackets for the ladies, stained slacks for the old geezers, sensible woollen skirts circa 1956 for the old ducks.

There were of course exceptions to this dress code, with some young autistic women coming in their Minerva McGonagall costumes, middle age women in bulging slapper wear with sagging knee high boots, and then 60 year olds in their aging rocker wear, with purple died hair for the ladies, matching purple dress, purple coat, purple bag and purple dog (or at least dog lead).

The Blue Bell - York's smallest pub

After wandering the streets for 20 minutes, I was exhausted and selected a bar (pictured) so that mum and I could refuel.  We were lucky to strike up a conversation with a pair sitting next to us, a mother and son who were actually locals.  She was about our age, sensible, sensibly dressed, and he was too, though sporting a bit of a rebel come Gandolf hair and beard.  He did however have a number of interesting things to say about matters like: the Greek root of Idiot, the causes for underestimation of global warming models, and an excellent German podcast series on science.

After taking on two pints of the local ale, I wandered off to the toilet, returned and reported two observations: the male toilets were bigger than the bar room we were sitting in and this was our first meaningful conversation with local people in five weeks.  This highlighted the real downside to travelling where you can’t speak the language – and the beer halls are too vast to get near the locals.

Dean Court, not Fawlty Towers

There were also exceptions to the day trippers whom we encountered at our hotel (pictured).  These tended to be geriatrics who came to stay at York, so that they could slouch in the worn lounges and order drinks from the waiters throughout the day.  While the hotel looked stately from the outside and the waiters were Indian, the hotel and customers did not conjure up the glory days of the Raj.  Instead of pukka calls for drinks from an aging Major who had served in the Crimea, it was “give ous a nuther lager luv”.

I saw one old walking-stick tourist, slumped in his faded Sinwar lounge, suddenly hurl his stick round-armed at an incoming tray of drinks – probably having mistaken it for a drone.  He too missed his mark, enabling the waiter to complete his mission by delivering the payload to the old geezer, which was enough to finish him off.

What could this be?

This seemed like a pretty surreal scene, but it was even weirder when we first arrived.  After some weeks of using efficient deutsche Aufzüge (German elevators), we were culture shocked by the fact that our hotel utilised something altogether different (pictured).  We were on the third floor and had our bags, so thought a lift would be the best first approach – but were mistaken.  We got in, pressed 3 then ><, and watched as the doors dribbled sullenly shut.  After seven minutes wondering if the lift would take us anywhere, the doors opened and it was level three.  Looking at my phone, I realised that a whole day had passed and that the lift was in fact the very lift that had inspired Albert Einstein.

Gedankenexperiment, German for “thought experiment”, was a technique Einstein used for discovering important things.  Of course, this particular experiment would be difficult to conjure up mentally in an Aufzüg, so Einstein must have travelled to our hotel in York, to better immerse himself in thought.  Einstein argued that inside a windowless elevator, a person cannot tell whether the elevator is at rest in a gravitational field or is instead being hauled up with constant acceleration. He then conjectured that the laws of physics themselves must be identical in both situations. Converted into mathematical equations, this idea became the basis for general relativity.  I ran some subsequent tests during our stay, by using the stairs, while mum used the time machine.  Mum is now four months younger, while I aged three days.

The East India Club

I conducted a Gedankenexperiment myself the day we returned to London.  After training it back to Kingscross Station, we cabbed it to our new diggs, The East India Club (pictured), in time for Sunday lunch.  This required togging up in one’s suit and frocking up (in mum’s case), so that we would satisfy the club dress code and not feel out of place with the dapper chaps and charming ladies and families who were tucking into claret and Sunday roast in the elegant dining room of the ground floor.

Sitting there in this finely appointed room, with the autumn sun steaming in through the large windows, while ruminating on my roast beef and metabolising my third fine Bordeaux, I wondered why working class provincial people always look pudgy and somewhat ugly, while posh inner city typers generally produce an impression of grace and beauty.  Time for a thought experiment.

Looking around the room, I proceeded to redress the well dressed with York wear.  The young blond-haired woman in the fine beige suit, was reclothed in a sleeveless pink top, tight black jeans, replete with thongs and extra peroxide to bring her hair to the sheen of Yorkshire platinum.  The old gent in the corner lost his spiffing three piece suit with pocket square and was redressed with a crumped parker, faded cotton pants and a gravy stained shirt.  His wife lost here expensive pearl necklace and twin set, and was re-costumed in tartan and tights.  This process did not take long to make me realise that these beautiful people could be made to be just as unattractive as their northern country cousins.  It was really just clothes (and expensive jewellery) that made the difference – and an education and good taste.

Another epiphany that flowed from this thought experiment is the fact that as a species, most of us like to fit in.  We tend to dress in a manner that ensures we don’t stand out too much from our crowd – just as mum and I were more than happy to dress up for lunch, so that we would not feel out of place and feel more like we belonged.

Last night while sipping a wine in the foyer of the Prince of Wales Theatre, before seeing the Book of Mormon, I watched the standing crowd dressed in going to a play wear and watched as a little person (dwarf) weaved his lonely way through the towering crowd, and could not help that this fellow would have to cope each day with a feeling of not fitting in.  The next morning I watched a homeless man doing a bad job of tidying up his overnight newspaper and cardboard insulation and wondered where he fitted in.

While travelling in strange lands for six weeks – and trying not to die from overeating, excessive alcohol consumption, or cigar induced lung disease – is perhaps not as challenging as being one metre tall or homeless, it is still six weeks of not really fitting in.  Time to come home.

Lunchtime in sqrilll park

[burnsoregonphotoblog]

Harney ORE.. 4th of July, 1890

Only one structure remains in the Harney City area. A structure called the Haines Barn.

[jpthazombiee]

THE PARADE: In the heart of Camilla, the air was thick with the sounds of a marching band, trumpets blaring, drums pounding. The parade started on Harney Street and went throughout town. The parade was in full swing, weaving through the narrow streets, having going by the Court House and ironically ending up in an abandoned space at the old IGA Snipes. The place hadn’t been open for years. Something definitely was off but everyone seemed happy.

Everyone clapped along with the music dancing to the beat, surfing and dwindling as the floats continued piling all into this one space. But their movements were kind of stiff, jerky, like puppets on strings or something. And their eyes… were a bit hollow, yellowish and if you looked closely glazed as if they were staring at something just beyond reality. It definitely started getting creepy out. Strangely some was only in town to get a box of good old fashion fried chicken from Camilla’s famous chicken shack. Well that didn’t happen.

Avery Connor, a local resident, pushed her way through the crowd, sensing that something was terribly wrong with this picture. “Why are they here and not there (she was referring to across the street)”she noticed a slight change in position but Thank goodness she was on to something. She had seen plenty of MLK parades in the city, but nothing like this. The people no, the creatures around her—were not the usual revelers. Their skin was darker than normal and cracked, their clothes tattered, and their mouths curled in permanent grins.

Zombies!!!!

Section 2: Once she realized what was going on she immediately started dialing for some sort of help. Oddly her service wasn’t acting in her favor. She screamed “WTF I Just PAID THESE PPL”.

Looking Back to what seemed to be zombies. They weren’t like the ones from the movies. These zombies weren’t moaning for flesh or stumbling around. They were all in a happy place nonchalantly sticking to cadence. Cheerfully playing their instruments and dancing, smiling, and waving. “Am I in a daze?” Avery asked herself, as her heart raced and as she ducked for a side alley stumbling over railroad tracks. Her purse slung across her back. She had heard rumors going around about a fake priest in the city who had been bribing most of the citizens for money claiming a haunting is approaching if they didn’t pay for redemption of course no one believed it could be true. I guess Until now Avery wondered. Was this the haunting? A parade of chanting creepy zombies ? But why aren’t they eating people she stated wondering to herself? “I thought zombies ate flesh and blood these must be the zombie cousins” Avery thought as she gaged closer. She soon saw something that gave her the chills. It was this purple figure walking along the street as if it didn’t see any commotion from the residue of the parade itself. Avery tried getting a closer look at this thing but by the time she realized it, felt herself awakening up out of a mid day nap. “Whew it was just a dream” she gasped. A quick stream of relief rushed through her body. You could tell she was excited to wake up. “What was that thing though” she started remembering the purple figure that she had seen moments ago in a what seemed to be so realistic dream. She wondered did it save her from those negative illusions like did it wake her up and was it some kind of heroic entity? What would she call this thing if she ever seen it again? Just a purple zombie?

[fatehbaz]

Hannah and Chris: [...] For Ruth Wilson Gilmore, for example, “Life in rehearsal” is one way to describe abolition. To her, this means “building life-affirming institutions” whilst refusing to reproduce rules or remain with regret. Instead of signifying absence, it is both a present and about presence. Ariella Aïsha Azoulay makes the case for “rehearsals with others”, to question sovereignty and its operative mechanisms. For her, this entails imagining camaraderie and alliances and reversing the temporality of opposing sovereign violence “to imagine its demise not as a promise to come but as that which others have already experienced and made possible”. Moten and Harney use the term “rehearsal” to explain their idea of “study” as an always unfinished and improvisatory collaboration: “And since we’re rehearsing, you might as well pick up an instrument too.” [...]

Robyn: Every day I wake up and rehearse the person I would like to be. [...] To use the words of the late, great, C.L.R. James, “every cook can govern.” Organizing, whether formal or informal, whether geared toward a short term goal or a massive, transformative shift: this is what happens when people consciously decide to come together and “shape change,” to think with Octavia Butler. And to move through the world with the intention of making it a better place for living creatures to inhabit. [...] And most importantly, it’s an invitation to join in. And it is a reminder that liberation is not a destination but an ongoing process, a praxis. Every day, groups of parents, librarians, nurses, temp workers, ordinary people, tired of the horrors of the present, come together to decide what kind of world they want to inhabit. [...]

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Robyn: [...] [T]here were 21 hunger strikes in Canadian jails, prisons and detention centers between March 2020 and March 2021 [...]. "[W]ithin this architecture of oppression, we are a vibrant community [...] who eat together, [...] play together, and protect each other from a system that has exploited us.” [...]

[Robyn:] I’m thinking here of Claude McKay’s words from “If We Must Die”: “Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!” Now of course fighting back looks like many things [...]. But it’s also much more: for so many people, whether abandoned by the state in a [public health crisis] [...] or abandoned by society in a carceral site, fighting back, by virtue of necessity as well as of ethics, is building, always building. This is the freedom work, and the love work, and the care work, of rehearsal. [...]

Robyn: [...] [I]t’s crucial, I think, that we remember that regimes of private property - and, crucially, the carceral state that entrenches them - are continually being contested, have never been written in stone, and are far from inevitable or permanent fixtures of planetary and earthly life. […] Elected officials chose, and choose every day, to spend millions of public dollars on criminalizing homelessness rather than address its root causes: the unaffordability of a city caused by the unchecked powers of developers and the mass abandonment of Black, Indigenous, disabled peoples, and people living with mental health issues. [...] But new visions for living are forwarded every day [...]. Mutual aid [...] support projects [...] in Toronto and Hamilton, [...] [in] Edmonton [and] [...] in Halifax are supporting [homeless people] [...] against city evictions, ensuring food, water, and medical services where their city has failed to do so. [...] Here I’d like to bring in the words of [G.I.] [...], describing [...] the longer-term [homeless] support organizing that came out of it: That is one of the most revolutionary things: to build community with people who our government and our society tells us not to: Black, Brown and houseless people standing side by side, to re-imagine what the world could look like.

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All text above by: Robyn Maynard, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Hannah Voegele, and Christopher Griffin. “Every Day We Must Get Up and Relearn the World: An Interview with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.” Interfere: Journal for Critical Thought and Radical Politics. 19 November 2021. At: doi dot org slash 10.17613/9w3e-n182 [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 9.3 (before 1930)

36 BC – In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompey, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate. 301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus. 590 – Consecration of Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great). 673 – King Wamba of the Visigoths puts down a revolt by Hilderic, governor of Nîmes (France) and rival for the throne. 863 – Major Byzantine victory at the Battle of Lalakaon against an Arab raid. 1189 – Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard "the Lionheart") is crowned at Westminster. 1260 – The Mamluks defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire. 1335 – At the congress of Visegrád Charles I of Hungary mediates a reconciliation between two neighboring monarchs, John of Bohemia and Casimir III of Poland. 1411 – The Treaty of Selymbria is concluded between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. 1650 – Victory over the royalists in the Battle of Dunbar opens the way to Edinburgh for the New Model Army in the Third English Civil War. 1651 – The Battle of Worcester is the last significant action in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. 1658 – The death of Oliver Cromwell; Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England. 1666 – The Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London. 1777 – American Revolutionary War: During the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, the Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time. 1783 – American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain. 1798 – The week long battle of St. George's Caye begins between Spain and Britain off the coast of Belize. 1812 – Twenty-four settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre in Indiana. 1838 – Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery. 1843 – King Otto of Greece is forced to grant a constitution following an uprising in Athens. 1855 – American Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under United States General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan massacre by attacking a Sioux village and killing 100 men, women and children. 1861 – American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance. 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23. 1875 – The first official game of polo is played in Argentina after being introduced by British ranchers. 1878 – Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames. 1879 – Siege of the British Residency in Kabul: British envoy Sir Louis Cavagnari and 72 men of the Guides are massacred by Afghan troops while defending the British Residency in Kabul. Their heroism and loyalty became famous and revered throughout the British Empire. 1895 – John Brallier becomes the first openly paid professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12–0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association. 1911 – A fire that started on Fraser's Million Dollar Pier destroys six to eight square blocks of Ocean Park, California. 1914 – William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule. 1914 – French composer Albéric Magnard is killed defending his estate against invading German soldiers. 1914 – World War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy. 1916 – World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.

[weather-usa]

Dry lightning outbreak could ignite wildfires in the Northwest amid critical fire conditions

NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center forecasts a potential dry lightning outbreak on Sunday in the Critical Fire Weather area, which includes northeast California, northwest Nevada, and south-central Oregon. These regions are experiencing extreme heat this summer.

Weather Forecast For 08062 - Mullica Hill, NJ:

Rounds of thunderstorms moving across the Northwest may trigger a dry lightning outbreak in parts of Oregon, California, and Nevada, potentially sparking fires in these regions that have recently faced record-breaking temperatures and dry conditions.

Isolated thunderstorms are expected on Sunday, starting in the morning along Coastal Oregon before advancing further into the Northwest.

Climate and Average Weather Year Round in 45242-Cincinnati-OH:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/200627705/Weather-Forecast-For-45242-Cincinnati-OH

NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center forecasts a potential dry lightning outbreak on Sunday in the Critical Fire Weather area, which includes northeast California, northwest Nevada, and south-central Oregon. This area encompasses cities such as Bend, Redmond, and Winnemucca, Oregon.

"Any lightning strikes, combined with hot and dry conditions, could ignite new fires," warned the National Weather Service in Pendleton, Oregon.

On Sunday, there is a lower threat of isolated dry thunderstorms from Washington to the northeastern corner of Nevada.

The FOX Forecast Center is monitoring lightning intensity, which is expected to increase on Sunday afternoon across Oregon, Northern California, and Nevada.

Thunderstorms may persist from Sunday into the overnight hours, with an isolated risk of lightning continuing into Monday across the Northwest.

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This region is facing extreme heat this summer, with Excessive Heat Warnings in effect for much of the Pacific Northwest through Monday. Temperatures are forecast to reach up to 110 degrees in parts of Oregon and Washington. With wind gusts of up to 45 mph and relative humidity around 10%, these conditions could enable fires to spread rapidly.

Firefighters across the West are grappling with fires amid extreme heat this summer.

The Falls Fire, which began on July 10 and is burning northwest of Burns, Oregon, has already consumed over 120,000 acres and led to evacuations in Grant and Harney counties. More than 20 large wildfires are currently burning across Oregon.

According to the National Interagency Fire Center, 63 large wildfires have burned over 1 million acres across the U.S. this year.

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