Terrance

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

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I’ve been meaning to do a Mariners fit thread forever, and Josh Naylor finally forced my hand. Strolling into Rogers Center in a bubble gum pink, Chanel-inspired textured blazer? And ROCKING it? Swagger levels off the charts.

A breakdown of UAB's Trent Dilfer Debacle (Dilfsaster?) This is the story of a program which had a lot to be proud of, but decided its own remarkable revival was less interesting than ESPN's 248th-most likable personality.

Goddamn, this @rodger.bsky.social article kicks so much ass

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

"Too Young to Die" As the seemingly endless NYC mayoral campaign enters its final weeks, the howls of the Democratic establishment in the city are only getting louder. They've really convinced themselves that the elect...

Finally realized what the freakout over Mamdani becoming mayor reminded me of, and it's the freakout over the first black mayors in southern cities.

New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS:

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How genocide happened

That's because @sallyjenx.bsky.social is a Nazi sympathizer.

The cognitive dissonance is a prerequisite of fascism.

Here you go, @sallyjenx.bsky.social www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk

Every post there contains the full context (plus videos!) of the evil shit he said. You ghoul.

That’s the fastest someone ever blocked me. A microsecond after I posted it.

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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A Justice Department memo found that a key witness in the Trump-ordered prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey will actually undermine the entire case.
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Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

How terrifying is the protest in Portland? So much that it was the site of a wedding last night. 💜 congratulations to the happy couple! They had a heck of a dance party!
www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Right-wing influencers shape nation and Trump’s understanding of Portland protests Social media personalities, conservative media outlets and the Trump administration itself are blending online content to serve the administration’s policies.

Right-wing media influencers are now being welcomed into the federal government to promote its messages. This kind of media access shows a deepening alliance between the Trump administration and an online world willing to misrepresent facts if it means furthering political goals.

Beautiful

So now the Administration are saying that the mass firing of CDC scientists, including many responsible for preventing outbreaks, was an “error” and many will be brought back.

Whether by intention or incompetence, dismantling public health will kill people.

Tens of millions of people have died from Covid.

Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure.

Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.

But Schumer, Jeffries, et. al. feed at the same billionaire trough....so expect a capitulation.

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Again, we're not discounting 400 years of American racism...the first 200+ driven by our attitudes inherited from European imperialism. But believing that the Nazi's were driven by America's horrible Rx of its black population, is not really truthful.

Never thought I'd be 100% with "soft religious fanaticism" but...thank you, Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling, thank you.

Growing up "upstate", I've long admired NYC...they've finally earned that life-long faith through their NEXT MAYOR (a truly honorable person).

It’s pronounced cyclist.

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...don't think the Nazi's needed our inherent racism to spur them. Imperialism (and the enslaving of indigenous people/people of color) had been prevalent in their culture for centuries, no?

This is a Nazi defense of Germany. Germanys role in the Holocaust is literally descended from Martin Luther and Hitler is the culmination of over 500 years of German Anti Semitic Thought

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_...

Insane thought

every AI commercial: you know how you're too stupid to do anything? no? give it time. our economy is counting on it

it's rare to find a take as stupid as "the US civil war wasn't about slavery" so congrats.

maybe ask yourself who you're helping by insisting that no one in the US has ever opposed fascism

Kindly STFU.