#Ted Pearson

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Ralph Byrd, Ted Pearson and Kenneth Harlan in Dick Tracy's G-Men

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barbara gordon in birds of prey (1999) covers pt. 2

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first sketches

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Average day at a public high school

Original image 👇

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Blogger Vintage men posts for Oct 3. Including models Bob Heppe, Ken Martin, Larry Pearson, Paul Andrews, Ted Wills, Tony Lerwyn and others

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an old video i made

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I made an edit of our guapito

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hannah waddingham's rebecca welton and gina torres' jessica pearson would make such a good power couple

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Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes (Joe Berlinger, 2019).

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a collection of gansey coded characters <3 !

stede bonnet — our flag means death / chidi anagonye — the good place / neil perry — dead poets society / milo thatch — atlantis: the lost empire / leslie knope — parks and rec / ted lasso — ted lasso / alan zaveri — russian doll / reynie muldoon — the mysterious benedict society / meg march — little women / orpheus — hadestown / arthur — arthur / randal pearson — this is us / christopher robin — winnie the pooh / amy santiago — brooklyn 99 / pablo — the backyardigans

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Debunking the claims about Nur Masalha

@autistic-ben-tennyson

@jewishvitya

Hi, I saw a post made by a zionist which states:

"Nur Masalha is a poor quality source, and not worth invoking on the issue of "what was the spectrum of early Zionist thought, how did they envision living with Arabs?"

As evidence they linked two sources which I want to take a crack at debunking. The OP made some claims about Nur Masalha, including that he "relies on many unsupported or blatantly false assertions all aimed to whitewash Jewish history and deny an indigenous Jewish identity" including:

Jews learned monotheism from the Koran

Ashkenazim are all European converts (Khazar theory)

Herod was not Jewish and he ruled from Aelia Capitolina a century before the Romans named it such, with "Jerusalem" never having been a significant part of Jewish culture anyway (no, really)

"Palestine" was the indigenous name of the land, according to entirely imperialist sources: Greeks, Assyrians, Romans, etc.

The Arab conquest of the land was "glorious," "spectacular," etc.

Chaim Weizmann called Arabs the n-word"

Right now I havent read through any of his books to check for the veracity of these claims, but I can explain why the articles the OP linked aren't reliable sources.

The first one is "The Distortion of Palestine" by Tel Aviv of Books. The author claims that Palestinians "clearly have their origin in 7th century Arabia" which is completely bull. Oh boy, where to begin?

The idea that "jewish people have been in Palestine before muslims and arabs" is prevalent among zionists who want to deny the Palestinian connection to the land and their claim to indigeneity, but its far from accurate.

The argument is simple to follow: Palestinians today are mostly Arabs. The Arabs came to the Levant with the Muslim conquest of the region. Therefore, Arabs -and as an extension Palestinians- have only been in Palestine and the Levant since the seventh century AD.

However, researchers have known that Palestinians share a significant amount of their DNA from ancient Canaanite populations that lived in the region which is now Palestine:

"A 2021 study by the New York Genome Center found that the predominant component of the DNA of modern Palestinians matches that of Bronze Age Palestinian Canaanites who lived around 2500–1700 BCE."

Nathaniel Pearson: The splendid tapestry: How DNA reveals truths, ancient & lasting | TED Talk

Before the islamic conquests the population in Palestine was mostly Christian, having converted from Judaism, and afterwards the people slowly converted to islam, and it took a couple of centuries before the majority became muslim.

Also, dismissing Palestinians as "just arabs" has additional problematic implications: this is not just denying the existence of Palestinians as a distinct people, but the logical conclusion of this stance is that the entirety of the arab population across MENA are one homogenous, interchangeable mass who aren't really native to their homelands, which is probably the most ignorant and bigoted garbage I can't believe "liberals" really believe in.

The author also has this to say about Mexicans:

"But this is like writing that the Mexicans are the indigenous people of Mexico" using the author's logic, the entire Spanish-speaking populations across latin america are really from Spain and have no ties to indigenous culture, which is far from true. I'm not particularly knowledgeable about how indigeneity works in Mexico, but that hardly seems accurate.

A lot of the statements are made in bad faith and contradict themselves.

It is laying on a bunch of unspoken premises and beliefs that are of course natural and unquestionable from the Zionist perspective- such as the idea that Jews and only Jews are allowed to claim nativeness to the region

Rather than the point that the Kingdom of Judea (and the Kingdom of Israel) were just some of many different groups living in that part of the world and the issue isn’t whether or not Jews have historic origins in the region (they do) but rather that those origins gives them the right to carve out a Jewish ethnostate in the region involving the exclusion of a non-Jewish presence.

Basically what I’m saying is, is that the article is sitting on the false premise (being argued in what I consider to be bad faith) that only one specific group gets to claim “indigenousness” and that the proof of Palestinian existence doesn’t matter because the writer feels there is more proof that Hebrews were there “first.” Frankly, my reading of the historical record pretty comfortably suggests to me that there were multiple groups there because that’s simply how history of time and place works.

This is what I have to say right now, I might write about the second article later, but so far this is what I have.

[truthdogg]

This article is from 2018, but it’s extremely relevant today, because of how influential David Barton has been over the past five years since it was written. The change in tone from the right has shifted in that time as more and more of Barton’s followers have taken office and implemented his ideas.

One of the key elements of his phony mythology, for starters, is that the founders were divinely inspired evangelicals, and that they cannot be criticized whatsoever. From the article:

“It's also telling that so much of this revisionist American history is about blending Christianity with a very specific form of American (usually white) nationalism. Figures like Barton blend the idea that America is a "Christian country" with the idea that the only critiques of the Founding Fathers - that, say, they owned slaves or contributed to racial inequality - come from "politically correct" historians seeking to discredit America's great history for political ends.

“The founders double as hero-saints to Barton. Central to the idea that America was founded as a Christian nation is the idea that America was founded unproblematically; that only a return to this mythologized past will somehow solve perceived problems of structural inequality. "Real" America, in other words, is above criticism.”

This is the entire basis of DeSantis and others’ “anti-woke” and “anti-CRT” philosophy.

Further, watch out for any elected official claiming the US Constitution is divinely inspired. Whenever you hear it, you’re hearing a Barton-following Dominionist who should not hold political office.

And here the article explains just why so many Republicans are no longer hiding their complete & utter disdain for democracy itself:

“…Barton is among those who believe the ultimate goal for American government should be a Christian theocratic state, which is necessary to properly usher in the apocalyptic End Times. Dominionism takes many forms, …(n)evertheless, its fundamental principle is the same: Christians must work toward a theocratic state in which Christians are in control. Or, as current congressional candidate (and fellow Barton enthusiast) Rick Saccone said in an interview last year with Pastors Network of America, God wants Christians “who will rule with the fear of God in them, to rule over us.” ”

If you don’t recall, Saccone fortunately lost that election as well as the one after. (Thank you, Pennsylvania!) But others like him continue to win. Ron DeSantis and Ted Cruz are notable Dominionists, and even Donald Trump has publicly embraced these ideas. This worldview they share isn’t undermining their support; it’s why they have any. Republicans’ strongest supporters are with them because of these views, while so-called moderates like Mitt Romney, Adam Kinziger & others continue to lose party support. This is exactly why influential pastors like Robert Jeffress and David Jeremiah are such avid Trump campaigners, because they believe in Christian authoritarianism and believe that Trump can (and will) make it happen.

We need to be very clear about this. Today’s Republicans are mostly Barton-inspired fanatics at all levels, especially locally. This is why after Tennessee Republicans ejected Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, they were caught on tape claiming that they were personally at the forefront of a “war” for control of the nation.

Base Republicans believe this nonsense. That’s why the very next thing the Tennessee legislature did after that recording was made was vote to allow unlicensed concealed carry, because they want their soldiers armed if and when they are voted out of office. If you look at the collateral damage of their war—our now-daily mass murders—it’s easy to see what impact their belief is having. The fear and distrust these killings create serve their goals as well, as those are critical ingredients for any authoritarian regime.

If we don’t start paying attention to this poisonous religious & racist rhetoric, we will not be able to stop not only our daily violence, but the coming violence as well. January 6th is going to look like the tourist visit Republicans claim it was. This is urgent. The change in right-wing rhetoric from this 2018 article to today’s full-throated endorsement and implementation of its ideas should make that very clear.

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So I watched the Revenge of the Nerds series yesterday

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Deadwood's Revenant

Step Into the Shadows of Deadwood

Deadwood—a town steeped in legend—holds its breath as Travis Pearson, reenactor of the infamous Wild Bill Hickok, finds himself ensnared in a historical riddle that blurs the lines between performance and reality, life and death. In the dim light of Saloon No. 10, amidst the applause for a well-recreated death, Travis feels a chilling resonance with his character that cannot be shaken. The echoes of the past, it seems, are not content to remain silent.

As unexplained deaths begin to shadow Deadwood once more, whispers of a resurgent curse sweep through the haunted streets. Travis, caught in the heart of the mystery, is forced to confront the possibility that he might be playing a role far beyond the saloon's stage. The pressure mounts when the discovery of an ancient diary links modern tragedies to historical vendettas, suggesting that the violence of the past is leeching into the present.

With each passing day, as the body count rises, Travis's dreams are invaded by the ghosts of Deadwood's storied inhabitants, blurring the lines between sleep and wakefulness, between history and horror. His friends, Ted and Charlie, stand by him, determined to help Travis unravel the mystery before the history he loves so dearly consumes him whole. But the closer they get to the truth, the more Travis begins to realize that the key to breaking the curse might require a sacrifice too personal to bear.

In a town where every shadow whispers of betrayal and every gust of wind carries the scent of long-buried secrets, Travis must navigate the treacherous waters of legacy and legend. Will he emerge into the light, or will he become another echo in the haunting of Saloon No. 10? Step into the shadows of Deadwood, where the past is alive, and history's dead refuse to rest.

The line between the past and present has never been so perilously thin. As Travis stands on the precipice of a discovery that could either liberate or destroy, Deadwood holds its breath, waiting to see whether salvation or damnation waits in the wings. Join Travis as he delves deep into the heart of a curse, where the stakes are life and death, and history itself hangs in the balance. and your favorite

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who are some of your favorite tv characters

Octavia Blake (The 100), Peyton Sawyer (One Tree Hill), Kevin Pearson (This Is Us), Amelia Shepherd (Grey's Anatomy), Jamie Tartt (Ted Lasso), Santana Lopez (Glee), Stefan Salvatore and Klaus Mikaelson (The Vampire Diaries), Hayley Marshall (The Originals), Lois Lane (Smallville, Superman & Lois), Charlotte King (Private Practice), Inej Ghafa (Shadow and Bone), Kate Sharma, Eloise Bridgerton, Benedict Bridgerton (Bridgerton), Maddie and Buck Buckley (9-1-1)

I could go on and on and on.