#Robert Sargent

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Two nonprofits have sued a white nationalist hate group in North Dakota, alleging that it committed racial intimidation by defacing businesses and public property around the city of Fargo with the group’s logo and other graffiti.

The lawsuit filed against Patriot Front in federal court on Friday alleges that the group, two of the group’s leaders and 10 others violated the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which the complaint says “was designed to prevent precisely the kind of conspiratorial racist activity that Defendants perpetrated in this case.”

The lawsuit, filed by the North Dakota Human Rights Coalition, the Immigrant Development Center and the center’s executive director, says Patriot Front also posted “anti-immigrant propaganda” days after a man of Syrian descent fatally shot a Fargo police officer and wounded two others in July. The suit seeks a jury trial and damages of an amount to be determined at trial, as well as attorneys’ fees and other relief.

No attorney is listed on the case docket for Patriot Front or the other defendants. Attorney Jason Lee Van Dyke, who has represented members of Patriot Front in other cases, did not respond to a message left with his office. Attorney Robert Sargent, who recently represented group members at a criminal trial in Idaho, said he knew nothing of the lawsuits against Patriot Front.

Patriot Front “is probably one of the most active white nationalist hate groups in the U.S.,” said Rachel Carroll Rivas of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors such groups but did not participate in the lawsuit.

The group emphasizes “public actions” such as posting racist flyers, holding demonstrations and engaging in public displays “meant to make people fearful,” said Carroll Rivas, deputy director for research and analysis with the center’s Intelligence Project.

The lawsuit filed Friday alleges that Patriot Front members vandalized businesses and public property in the summer and fall of 2022. It specifically cites Patriot Front logos and designs spray-painted on the International Market Plaza, an indoor market area for immigrant business owners, and defaced murals, including one depicting Black women wearing hijabs.

As a result of the vandalism, the complaint says, shopkeepers have lost customers, reduced their hours and fear for their safety.

Patriot Front’s actions “were intended to cause fear and deprive others — especially immigrants of color — of their rights, and, unfortunately, Patriot Front achieved that result,” the complaint states.

Vandalism also occurred near a Liberian-owned restaurant, in a pedestrian tunnel, and at a coffee shop and arts collective owned by LGBTQ people and people of color, according to the complaint.

Recent vandalism took place after the July 14 fatal shooting in Fargo carried out by 37-year-old Mohamad Barakat, a Syrian national who came to the U.S. in 2012 on an asylum request and became a U.S. citizen in 2019. North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley said last month that Barakat’s motive remains unknown, but he appeared to be targeting police officers in what authorities have said was likely part of a larger, planned attack.

Other lawsuits in recent years have cited the Ku Klux Klan Act, including cases brought against former President Donald Trump and others in connection with the siege of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

A Black teacher and musician cited the law last month in his federal lawsuit alleging that Patriot Front members surrounded and assaulted him in a coordinated and racially motived attack last year in Boston.

The Reconstruction-era law seeks to protect the civil rights of marginalized groups of people. The statute has been cited in employment-law cases and in contract-dispute cases between corporations, and also in lawsuits alleging violence and terroristic fear since the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, said Ayesha Bell Hardaway, professor of law at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Law and director of the school’s Social Justice Law Center.

“It’s important, I think, for us to be mindful of the fact that violence ... and terrorism related to white supremacy isn’t a relic of the past,” she told The Associated Press.

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Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, Part 1 of a double feature! William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy guest star in "The Project Strigas Affair," episode 9 of the first season of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (original air date November 24, 1964). There were too many good shots and too many connections to fit comfortably in one post.

Shatner plays a chemical engineer being used by U.N.C.L.E. to thwart the political ambitions of a hawkish ambassador from an unnamed Eastern bloc nation, by selling him disinformation about a powerful new chemical weapon Shatner's supposed to have developed. Nimoy plays the ambassador's equally ambitious, and far less gullible, aide.

The boys were only in a couple of shots together, and they were all blurry and/or long.

Other Trek connections: This episode was directed by Joseph Sargent, who directed the Star Trek episode "The Corbomite Maneuver."

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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

Art by Tony Stella

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are you ever just living your life normally but then stop & think about how fucking heartbreaking it is that the when robert parrish was at st agnes in bllb adam was just quietly standing there thinking i do not want to get hit.

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Robert F. Kennedy's Funeral, June 8, 1968.

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Yvonne Craig-Robert Vaughn "Un espía de más" (One spy too many) 1966, de Joseph Sargent.

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so, i went to the national maritime museum in greenwich a few weeks ago. however, the polar worlds exhibit mostly just had stuff i already knew about 19th century british polar exploration?

however, i DID find this memorial in the nearby chapel of st peter and st paul! and the interesting thing about it is that it shows the ranks of the real crew, INCLUDING post-departure promotions! i did some digging, and these were the promotions i could find, some of which were announced in the london gazette, some which had no online record:

31 December 1845 (source) James Fitzjames: Commander -> Captain

15 August 1846 (source) Robert Orme Sargent: Mate -> Lieutenant

10 November 1846 (Announced in the Gazette) Graham Gore: Lieutenant -> Commander Edward Little: Lieutenant -> Commander Charles Frederick Des Voeux: Mate -> Lieutenant

24 May 1847 (source) Edward Couch: Mate -> Lieutenant

29 October 1852 (Announced in the Gazette) John Franklin: Captain -> Rear Admiral

to think....the wet cat of a man we saw sulking in crozier's room was a commander, the same rank as fitzjames when terror and erebus left, and didn't even know it

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THIS is Blue anda Adam when The Raven King ends

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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

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The Kennedy family leaves the White House for the lying in state ceremony of President Kennedy

November 24, 1963

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Touring the 1880s -

Top left:  ca. 1880 Girl Reading by Tony Robert-Fleury (location ?). From tumblr.com/andrayblue 722X900 @72 177kj.

Top right:  1882 Madame Paul Escudier (Louise Lefevre) by John Singer Sargent (location ?). From tumblr.com/beautifulcentury; exposure +25%, shadows 25% 2048X2935 @72 1.3Mj.

Second row:  ca. 1883 Madame Gautreau (Madame X) by John Singer Sargent (Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University - Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA). From Wikimedia 735X1024 @72 314kj.

Third row left:  1885 Detail from The Language of Flowers by George Dunlop Leslie (location ?). From tumblr.com/lenkaastrelenkaa 884X924 @72 291kj.

Third row right:  1885 Mrs Edward Burckhardt and her Daughter Louise by John Singer Sargent (private collection). From Wikimedia 700X1000 @72 237kj.

Fourth row left:  1886 Sommarnöje/Summer pleasure by Anders Zorn (location ?). From tumblr.com/blog/view/lenkaastrelenkaa 1280X1820 @72 1.1Mj.

Fourth row right:  1888 Morning walk by John Singer Sargent (location ?). From etsy.com/sg-en/listing/766936513/john-singer-sargent-morning-walk-1888 1588X2021 @72 2.1Mj.

Fifth row:  1889 The Sonata by Irving Ramsay Wiles (Fine Arts Museums uf San Francisco, specific location ?). From tumblr.com/catherinedefrance 525X886 @72 200kj.

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Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, Part 2 of a double feature. William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy guest star in "The Project Strigas Affair," episode 9 of the first season of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (original air date November 24, 1964). There were too many good shots and too many connections to fit comfortably in one post.

Shatner plays a chemical engineer being used by U.N.C.L.E. to thwart the political ambitions of a hawkish ambassador from an unnamed Eastern bloc nation, by selling him disinformation about a powerful new chemical weapon Shatner's supposed to have developed. Nimoy plays the ambassador's equally ambitious, and far less gullible, aide.

Other Trek connections:

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. creator Sam Rolfe, who produced this and many other episodes, wrote the Next Generation episode "The Vengeance Factor."

Jerry Goldsmith, who wrote the Man from U.N.C.L.E. theme song, also wrote the theme to The Next Generation and contributed music to several Star Trek movies.

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master studies, done on heavypaint (berna) & webbypaint (john alfred)

bernadita by robert henri & john alfred parsons millet by john singer sargent

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ice sea // & so on to infinity