Brother Ephraim McDowell
@art-of-encampment.bsky.social
in·hab·it·ant of the transfrontiers=Atlantic+Pacific highlands & islands
• Musicianer; banjo+fiddle+button box+steel =
UpCountry Trance Dancehall
• DJ, radio, culture writer/poet, artist, archaeologist for hire, public historian, craft cider maker
• Musicianer; banjo+fiddle+button box+steel =
UpCountry Trance Dancehall
• DJ, radio, culture writer/poet, artist, archaeologist for hire, public historian, craft cider maker
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Other people are still at "is it a constitutional crisis yet?" and I'm at "the crisis was several exits ago, the car has crashed, we're now just seeing how many cars end up in the pileup and how high the casualty count is" or "the house is actively burning down, the question is what's left after."
March 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Other people are still at "is it a constitutional crisis yet?" and I'm at "the crisis was several exits ago, the car has crashed, we're now just seeing how many cars end up in the pileup and how high the casualty count is" or "the house is actively burning down, the question is what's left after."
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"By my count we are occupying Greenland, Canada, Panama Canal, and now..Gaza?"
'Am I having a stroke?' Trump stuns Internet with suggestion US 'own' Gaza Strip
President Donald Trump's suggestion that the U.S. could take over the Gaza Strip — and move Palestinians out of Gaza — left the internet stunned Tuesday evening. Trump made the eyebrow-raising comment...
www.rawstory.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
"By my count we are occupying Greenland, Canada, Panama Canal, and now..Gaza?"
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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TikTok took it down, so let’s share the shit out of this reading list. #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgainIsNow #BookSky
#StateMediaCensorship
#StateMediaCensorship
January 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
TikTok took it down, so let’s share the shit out of this reading list. #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgainIsNow #BookSky
#StateMediaCensorship
#StateMediaCensorship
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2025 in a nutshell…
January 15, 2025 at 5:03 AM
2025 in a nutshell…
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Some like it hot: saunas around the world – in pictures
Some like it hot: saunas around the world – in pictures
Saunas have been springing up across the UK over the past couple of years, from city centres to seafronts. The latest is Wyld Sauna, a floating sauna at Princes Dock in Liverpool Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2024 at 5:05 AM
Some like it hot: saunas around the world – in pictures
The charge that the left is attempting to wipe away history is a strange one. In reality, it would be nearly impossible to find a left-leaning historian who doesn’t want Americans to talk more about the Civil War, slavery, and Reconstruction...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/2017/01...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/2017/01...
Peculiarities of the Yankee Confederate
When small town New Englanders embrace Dixie kitsch…
www.currentaffairs.org
November 28, 2024 at 1:00 PM
The charge that the left is attempting to wipe away history is a strange one. In reality, it would be nearly impossible to find a left-leaning historian who doesn’t want Americans to talk more about the Civil War, slavery, and Reconstruction...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/2017/01...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/2017/01...
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Humiliated by a Nazi officer as a teenager, Madeleine Riffaud joined the French Resistance. By the time she was 20, she had killed a German soldier, survived torture and captured a supply train. She died on Nov. 6 at her home in Paris. She was 100.
Madeleine Riffaud, ‘the Girl Who Saved Paris,’ Dies at 100
Humiliated by a Nazi officer as a teenager, she joined the French Resistance. By the time she was 20, she had killed a German soldier, survived torture and captured a supply train.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:47 AM
Humiliated by a Nazi officer as a teenager, Madeleine Riffaud joined the French Resistance. By the time she was 20, she had killed a German soldier, survived torture and captured a supply train. She died on Nov. 6 at her home in Paris. She was 100.
www.thenerdreich.com/trumps-weird...
Trump's weird 'Freedom Cities' and the Network State cult
Why do Trump, Thiel and Andreessen want to build new cities?
Trump's weird 'Freedom Cities' and the Network State cult
Why do Trump, Thiel and Andreessen want to build new cities?
Trump's weird 'Freedom Cities' and the Network State cult
Why do Trump, Thiel and Andreessen want to build new cities?
www.thenerdreich.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:25 AM
www.thenerdreich.com/trumps-weird...
Trump's weird 'Freedom Cities' and the Network State cult
Why do Trump, Thiel and Andreessen want to build new cities?
Trump's weird 'Freedom Cities' and the Network State cult
Why do Trump, Thiel and Andreessen want to build new cities?
Christian nationalists have set their sights on a remote Middle Tennessee county, hoping to attract hundreds, even thousands, of like-minded people from across the country as part of efforts, in the words of one activist, to “radicalize Main Street.”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=byvk...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=byvk...
Christian nationalists set sights on tiny Jackson County, Tennessee
YouTube video by NewsChannel 5
m.youtube.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:23 AM
Christian nationalists have set their sights on a remote Middle Tennessee county, hoping to attract hundreds, even thousands, of like-minded people from across the country as part of efforts, in the words of one activist, to “radicalize Main Street.”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=byvk...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=byvk...
November 22, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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great piece from @daralind.bsky.social that can be taken as advice for any number of issues. don’t do their work for them.
Opinion | Don’t Do Trump’s Work for Him on Mass Deportations
How big will the Trump administration will go, and how quickly?
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:11 PM
great piece from @daralind.bsky.social that can be taken as advice for any number of issues. don’t do their work for them.
For a time, 20-some years ago, I studied one-string Griot fiddle (riti) at a music school in Dakar, Senegal.
There are more notes in a one-string fiddle than in the Western notion of "music".
There are more notes in a one-string fiddle than in the Western notion of "music".
November 17, 2024 at 4:45 PM
For a time, 20-some years ago, I studied one-string Griot fiddle (riti) at a music school in Dakar, Senegal.
There are more notes in a one-string fiddle than in the Western notion of "music".
There are more notes in a one-string fiddle than in the Western notion of "music".
My homies across the Blue Ridge Mountains
November 15, 2024 at 4:18 AM
My homies across the Blue Ridge Mountains
