#Usa history

[thedialoguedilemma]

BREAKING— New Jersey Senator Cory Booker has officially broken the Senate record for longest floor speech ever in United States history.

The last record was set in 1957 when Strom Thurmond spoke against the Civil Rights Act.

Senator Booker held the Senate floor in protest of the Trump administration laying off millions of federal workers, tarnishing USAID, planned Republican targets to end Social Security and Medicare, and allowing Elon Musk to illegally access federal government departments.

[olowan-waphiya]

“The Herd on the Move”—William Jacob Hays.

This painting simultaneously breaks my heart and fills me with awe and hope. When people speak about how prevalent the bison were across Turtle Island I’m not sure if it fully HITS just how many were slaughtered, how much this land relied on them for proper ecological balance….

if we want our land to thrive, if we want the next seven generations to survive then we must help the bison (and the indigenous peoples who love/rely on them) to expand and grow until they are once again found all across the land.

[wealmostaneckbeard]

The politics in Lancer the mech pilot TTRPG seems center left to me. A good way to explain what's going on in that game's universe is with this overly long metaphor:

Imagine an alternate history where Nixon somehow beat JFK Jr to the white house, and once in office he lets Kissinger go nuts setting fascists up on an accelerated schedule. That's what Union's Second Committee was like. Then Tricky Dick procedes to nuke Vietnam a couple times. That's the Hercynia Crisis and that FTL Piston weapon launch. JFK and company ride the shock and horror of approaching nuclear war into office on the promise of de-escalation and enforcing civil rights, and they deliver. That's the coup that formed Union's Third Committee. Kissinger, Nixon, and the entire pentagon/raytheon corp take over NASA in Cape Canaveral, Florida where they form a tolerated corporatocracy in exile. That's basically Harrison Armory on the planet Ras Shamra. Now a United liberal-leftist front of America is actively trying to tear down dictatorships around the world that Kissinger set up (he got assassinated at some point in this time line) and replace them with socialist democracies. That is Union's Justice/Human-Rights Department and a few other government branches. So far they've had some success although people are pointing out that it's a bit hypocritical that the liberators are using weapons from corporate conservative states where civil rights are discretely curtailed. That's what's driving political discourse in 5016u in Union's legislative body, the Central Committee and it's myriad political parties.

So yeah Lancer's political intergalactic landscape is a bit like modern day? Except also cthulhu is giving out reality-breaking tech to militant civil rights advocates and random civilians? That's what HORUS basically is, btw.

Now that I've written this out, it would make for a good american alt-history with mechs campaign in Lancer...

[1mnott0ne]

Same energy

[kimtiny]

A collection of Lincoln related drawings

[troythecatfish]

[icanfixthempolls]

[natsuki-bakery]

John Kennedy Layouts

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[emmanuor]

Are We The Baddies?

[marsingtonn]

Decorated my new pocket constitution earlier bcuz I wanted to and I also got sticker paper 2day

[thedialoguedilemma]

Happy Black History Month.

Our blog will be acknowledging and celebrating the achievements and progress that the black community has contributed to American history. Period.

[tornrose24]

I feel like, at the rate things are going, we will see a repeat of the Boston Tea Party across the world.

For those who forgot or don’t know about this part of American history, the British decided to heavily tax the colonies to make money after spending so much from a previous war, and one of those items that was taxed was British tea. So the colonists took three routes-boycott tea, make their own tea, or the third option which was sneak aboard ships and dump tea into the harbor. This of course angered the British.

I know most countries have already boycotted American goods or bought their own. But it won’t be long until we see another Boston Tea Party, and I know one of those goods will be something FAR more expensive than tea. (Something that isn’t seeing a lot of sales in Europe right now.) And if you-know-who wants to go to war over it? Yeah I don’t think that’s going to end well.

And the funny thing is that if this does happen, you can’t ban this part of history being taught in USA schools because a lot of the American Revolution is too big of a deal to be cut out and that includes how the Colonies ‘stuck it to the man’ before they became independent.

[theteaaddict]

[1mnott0ne]

Constitutional convention 

[troythecatfish]

Human zoos in the West were a feature of colonialism. They fed a fascination for exotic lands and a grotesque pseudo-science that focussed on the physiology of so-called 'savages.

Africans were exhibited in primitive settings for the enjoyment of spectators at trade fairs and travelling shows, helping legitimise the domination of 'lesser' beings by supposedly 'superior' Western civilisations.

One famous 'exhibit' was Saartjie Baartman, who was also known as Sarah Bartmann. She was a South African woman who attracted crowds due to a genetic condition (steatopygia), resulting in a highly protruded posterior. She was shipped to London in 1810 and spent most of her life on display. In 2002, her remains were repatriated and buried in South Africa. Another infamous exhibition was unveiled at the 1958 World Expo in Brussels, Belgium. It featured Congolese people in their mocked-up 'village' at the venue.

Awareness of the foul, dehumanising practice is slowly being raised. A Paris exhibition in 2011 called

"Inventing the Savage" showed how human zoos laid the foundations for racism against Africans. It was the brainchild of the former French footballer, Liliane Thuram, whose Caribbean family suffered under slavery. Though human zoos do not exist anymore, the effects of colonisation and exploitation of coloured people persist to this day. That's why we'll keep posting about them.

[historyforfuture]

⭕️ The continuation of the Zionist enemy's massacres in Gaza is a savage Nazism and the US administration is complicit in the genocide against our people..

The deliberate bombing by the occupation forces of displaced people in the UNRWA-run Al-Razi school in the Nuseirat refugee camp, the Al-Mawasi area western Khan Younis, which was declared as a safe zone, and the bombing of a gathering of people in the Sheikh Zayed area in northern Gaza, along with the ongoing brutal bombardment across the Gaza Strip, resulting in the martyrdom of dozens, represent a savage Nazism that disgraces humanity, whereas the fascist occupation continues its crime of genocide after feeling impunity from international accountability throughout its brutal aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip.

 

In the face of this level of criminality and savagery, the US administration led by President Biden bears full responsibility for this systematic killing of our people, due to its ongoing political and military support for the occupation and its Nazi army, and for obstructing international justice in pursuing Zionist war criminals.

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