Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 2003, 23-year-old American peace activist <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RachelCorrie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RachelCorrie</span></a> was protesting the demolition of homes in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rafah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rafah</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GazaStrip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaStrip</span></a>, when she was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer. Senseless home destruction has long been a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> tactic in Palestine.</p>
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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1952, US-backed dictator Fulgencio <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Batista" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Batista</span></a> took power in a coup in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cuba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cuba</span></a>. He suspended a democratic constitution and murdered at least 20,000 Cubans suspected of socialist activity. His <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceState</span></a> was never denounced by the US; instead, it gave him aid.</p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>Having lectured on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dutch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dutch</span></a> colonialism recently, here is another history post. <br>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1643, settlers from the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Netherlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Netherlands</span></a> slaughtered ~120 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indigenous</span></a> Lenape people in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PavoniaMassacre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PavoniaMassacre</span></a>. This hardened resistance in surrounding nations to what became <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NYC</span></a>.</p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1943, legendary <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Beatles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Beatles</span></a> lead guitarist <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeorgeHarrison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeHarrison</span></a> was born. Initially overshadowed by his bandmates, George later proved an exceptional songwriter, and his melodic style and fondness for 12-string & slide were key components in the Beatles' success.</p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>(1/2) On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1994, American-Israeli <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BaruchGoldstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BaruchGoldstein</span></a> murdered 29 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Palestinians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinians</span></a> and wounded 125 others in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IbrahimiMosque" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IbrahimiMosque</span></a> massacre in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hebron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hebron</span></a>/#AlKhalil. A physician and Kahanist, Goldstein had refused to treat Arab wounded and supported outright genocide. ...</p>
Andrew Leahey<p>Trump’s defiance of a funding order, his push for control over agencies, IRS layoffs botched by a glitch, and delays in the Corporate Transparency Act.</p><p>And <a href="https://esq.social/tags/thisdayinhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thisdayinhistory</span></a> John Mitchell sentenced. </p><p><a href="https://www.minimumcomp.com/p/legal-news-for-fri-221-trump-defies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">minimumcomp.com/p/legal-news-f</span><span class="invisible">or-fri-221-trump-defies</span></a></p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On #<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1990, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NelsonMandela" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NelsonMandela</span></a> was released by the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/apartheid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>apartheid</span></a> state of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a>. He served 27 years as a political prisoner, often in isolation. In the negotiations and vote that followed, formal segregation was dismantled, but whites still own 3/4 of the land.</p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1887 the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DawesAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DawesAct</span></a> was signed into law. This subdivided <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> reservations into individual plots, forcing capitalism onto <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a>, and allowed much of it to be sold by the government to white settlers. 100 million acres were lost. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandBack</span></a></p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1863, the US Army did the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BearRiverMassacre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BearRiverMassacre</span></a> in what is now Idaho. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Shoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shoshone</span></a> "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Indians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indians</span></a>" who had resisted white <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/settlers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>settlers</span></a> were deemed a threat, so between 250 and 500 people -- men, women, children -- were shot dead; 70 lodges and their food were torched.</p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>(1/2) On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1917 the so-called <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BathRiots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BathRiots</span></a> began when 17-year-old Mexican maid <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CarmelitaTorres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarmelitaTorres</span></a> convinced dozens of other day labourers at the US border not to submit to degrading <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racist</span></a> treatment like forced gasoline baths & delousing with pesticide <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ZyklonB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZyklonB</span></a>...</p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1945, combo <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ConcentrationCamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConcentrationCamp</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeathCamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeathCamp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AuschwitzBirkenau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuschwitzBirkenau</span></a> was liberated by the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RedArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedArmy</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Antisemitic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antisemitic</span></a> hate towards <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> remains a problem in the world and is made worse by the actions of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FarRight</span></a> cabinet, with its violent <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascist</span></a> ideals.</p>
Resistance Radio<p>"BREAKING (1933): Emergency decree signed! Article 48 invoked. Rights suspended: Free speech ❌ Privacy ❌ Assembly ❌ Press freedom ❌ Hitler: 'This is a sign from God. No mercy now. Anyone who stands in our way will be cut down.' <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a>" 3/5</p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>Let's talk about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascist</span></a> salute, which some ignoramuses have called a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RomanSalute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RomanSalute</span></a>. There is no Roman salute. Musk's gesture was invented by radical nationalists.<br>Also, on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> a coup toppled <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Caligula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caligula</span></a> and instaled <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Claudius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Claudius</span></a>. :-)</p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/UGn1vtyA_xM?si=dC2TNJBbAbdN85NM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/shorts/UGn1vtyA_xM</span><span class="invisible">?si=dC2TNJBbAbdN85NM</span></a></p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1946 began the largest <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a> in US history -- 750,000 workers in 1200 steel plants. If you want to know how the so-called middle class was created in America, this is it -- worker militancy. The strikers got what they wanted and the US was better for it.</p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1934, a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazi</span></a> law declared German <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalists</span></a> to be "Führers" who could expect "employees and labourers" to owe them "faithfulness" and loyalty. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascists</span></a> sucker people by railing against exploiters of workers but serve hierarchy & defend <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>exploitation</span></a>.</p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1987, linguistics student <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ParkJongChul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParkJongChul</span></a> was waterboarded to death during a brutal interrogation aimed at a confession of activism against <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SouthKorea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthKorea</span></a>'s junta. The democratic struggle took him as a symbol, finally toppling the régime. Remember this, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Yoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yoon</span></a>.</p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1904, a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Herero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Herero</span></a> uprising in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Namibia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Namibia</span></a> against German colonialism began. They killed 123 settlers and Germany responded with the first <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> of the 20th c. -- <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ConcentrationCamps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConcentrationCamps</span></a>, medical experiments, slave labour, and the death of 80% of the population.</p>
Clay T<p>It’s <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Jan6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jan6</span></a> in the US …</p><p>For those who remember the event a little differently than Republican propagandists – like Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia who outrageously today wrote on X that “on <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 2021, thousands of peaceful grandmothers gathered in Washington, D.C., to take a self-guided, albeit unauthorized, tour of the U.S. Capitol building” – <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/J6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>J6</span></a> was a violent <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/insurrection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insurrection</span></a> in service of a <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a></p><p>Here are four <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poems</span></a> from the Culture Matters What Rough Beast anthology on <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> and Trumpism (including a <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> of mine on the <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CapitolAttack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CapitolAttack</span></a> ) to commemorate the event and remember those that have been negatively affected by this <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/DomesticTerrorAttack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DomesticTerrorAttack</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.culturematters.org.uk/four-poems-from-what-rough-beast/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">culturematters.org.uk/four-poe</span><span class="invisible">ms-from-what-rough-beast/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/RIPBrianSicknick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIPBrianSicknick</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/RIPAmericanDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIPAmericanDemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 2021, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> crowd, at direction of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> and his allies, engaged in a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/terrorist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terrorist</span></a> attack and attempted <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a> in the US. Do not forget that this is who they are and what the movement wants. They, like the Las Vegas terrorist, want <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascist</span></a> dictatorship.</p>
Ned Hamson<p>January 6th — Never Forget | Filosofa’s Word</p><p>I am appalled by the attempt to re-write the history of that day by some, such as Republican Representative in Congress, Mike Collins, who claims that … “On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 2021, thousands of peaceful grandmothers gathered in Washington, D.C., to take a self-guided, albeit unauthorized, tour of the U.S. Capitol building. Earlier that day, President Trump held a rally, where supporters walked to the Capitol to peacefully…</p><p><a href="http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2025/01/06/january-6th-never-forget-filosofas-word/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthene</span><span class="invisible">ws.com/2025/01/06/january-6th-never-forget-filosofas-word/</span></a></p>
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