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What will happen to all the precarious and vulnerable migrant workers who work across the Gulf states? Many passport-less and at the mercy of their employers

I keep thinking Tr*mp could destroy this world and he still wouldn't feel sufficiently powerful

Palestinian children experience unspeakable abuse in these prisons. This is a very important project. Please give if you can.

This is really upsetting

Germany's longstanding strategy of artwashing is predictably sputtering out. They appear surprised that intl artists won't toe the line on genocide like Germans do. Soon the AfD will be in power, cultural funding will dry up & there will be no fig leaf to hide behind.

I can't get over how perfectly this image encapsulates our current colonial museum moment. Tony Molelia wears a cotton smock so the cloak doesn't touch his skin. It's instead held in place by a museum curator. Descendants can get only so close to their heritage in a place controlled by preservation.

France hands stolen colonial-era 'talking drum' back to Côte d'Ivoire France has handed over the Djidji Ayokwe or "talking drum" back to Côte d'Ivoire after it was looted by colonial troops in 1916. Used by the Ebrie tribe to transmit messages, the drum is one of hundre...

France hands stolen colonial-era 'talking drum' back to Côte d'Ivoire. The Djidji Ayokwe was looted by colonial troops in 1916. Used by the Ebrie people to transmit messages, it’s among hundreds of objects France is to repatriate to Africa.

Sirili Hamisi Molelia Mushi and his son Tony in winter clothes in front of the entrance to the Archaeological Centre Berlin, snow on the ground.

Descendants of Mangi Molelia of Kibosho visited Germany for the 1st time to pay respect to their (great) grandfather & 2 relatives, whose remains were identified in Berlin @kulturspk.bsky.social via DNA analysis. Molelia had been hanged on the order of colonial officers in 1900. 🧵 about their visit.

first they came for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and I said nothing, but i did laugh quite a lot

What the Royal Family’s Links to Slavery Mean in the Age of Epstein Just as the former Prince Andrew will always be royal, so will the trafficking of African people.

Why the Royal Family’s links to slavery matter in the wake of Jeffrey Epstein. www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

So if you agree to receiving German cultural funding, you are structurally complicit in both genocide denial and the rehabilitation of Germany's image as they embrace fascism once again. This is the price of doing state sanctioned cultural work in Germany.

Nowadays, Germany (the second largest supplier of arms to Israel after the US) holds panels, book fairs, exhibtions on topics like decolonization around the clock. The catch is, to participate, you cannot speak on Germany's ongoing support for genocide and colonisation.

For context, I think it may still be true that Germany spends more on cultural funding than the rest of the EU combined. Why? They don't love art, but rather out of necessity, it was a policy decision to help their public image - to make ppl think of something other than Nazism.

The Germans have been calling anyone opposed to the genocide of Palestinians anti-semitic (especially Jews!) for the past 2.5 years. It's obscene and deeply unserious. I don't know why anyone would agree to take their blood money.

Lived a very long life wow, may his memory be a blessing

Nice patina on those pups!

In a recent interview, I was asked about the British Museum as a site of public history. I replied that I'm not sure that that's what the BM is engaged in. The British Museum is about power, and power frequently seeks to obscure history.

British Museum removes 'Palestine' from ancient Middle East displays

England truly is the beating heart of colonial criminality. first they steal your country, its artifacts, and your heritage. and then, when it's to the benefit of their colonies, or their colonial allies, they deny that you ever existed.

Brazen thief steals priceless Egyptian artefacts in night raid The historical items include a mummy mask and ancient jewellery.

7news.com.au/news/pricele... An unfortunate museum theft last night. @museumofloot.bsky.social

The German cultural sphere is unserious; soaked through with blood money.

Cambridge University returns legal ownership of 116 Benin artefacts to Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments The University of Cambridge today announces it has transferred legal ownership of 116 Benin artefacts in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) collections to Nigeria’s National Commission f...

Cambridge University returns legal ownership of 116 Benin artefacts to Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments

www.cam.ac.uk/stories/beni...

Use of Irish airport for ICE deportation flights of Palestinians ‘deeply disturbing’ Irish politicians condemn use of Shannon airport by private jet en route to Israel, owned by Trump donor Gil Dezer

Ireland is being used to deport Palestinians to the state killing Palestinians www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

a photograph of text printed from the booklet of the lp, Tidewater Blues: " 4. "Motorcycle Swing"-Henry Harris, guitar. Recorded in Newport News, Virginia, on March 8, 1979, by Kip Lornell, 1:33. This instrumental was learned at about the same time as "Albemarle County Rag," heard on the other side of this record. It is one of several blues-like dance tunes Mr. Harris heard while at- tending country dances in Albemarle County dur- ing the 1920's. "Motorcyle Swing" is an unadorned eight bar tune and its primary function was to provide music for dances such as "Ballin' The Jack," "The Sally Long" or the "Black Bot- tom." The song's title is associated with Mr. Harris' passion for motorcycles which goes back to 1925. Henry moved from Warren, Virginia, to Rich- mond, Virginia, in 1936 and embarked on a career of motorcycle racing, repair and sales. He worked for the Tidewater Motorcycle Company in Rich- mond until they transferred him to Newport News where he has remained since 1940. In the bigger cities it has been easier for Henry to keep up with another of his interests, cowboy movies. He still enjoys both cowboy movies and motorcycles and one of his most valued possessions is a color photograph of himself in full cowboy regalia atop a motorcycle. Few of his neighbors, in fact, are aware of his legal name because to most people he is simply, 'Cowboy.'"

A picture of Henry Harris, A Black man from East Virginia, in his home playing an acoustic guitar on the edge of a couch. Though the recordist Kip Lornell describes him warmly, Mr. Harris seems caught off guard by the photograph.

from "Tidewater Blues" BRI 006

People are in motion, everywhere.

an excerpt from the liner notes of a Mainer's Mountaineers lp: There was a man standing at the railroad track that went by the Cafe and he was leaned up against a tele- phone pole and was playing a fiddle. He had been drinking some and was pretty drunk, played the number "The Drunk- ard's Hiccoughs." I never will forget it! When he got done playing he started across the tracks and Number Nine hit him and killed him. I got his fiddle and kept it. We never did find out who he was. I decided to go home, took the fiddle with me and I still have it! So that's where I learned to play the tune "Drunkard's Hiccoughs."

excerpt of liner notes from an lp of Library of Congress' banjo collection: Thee was a barber in Hyden, whose shop at one time was on the corner across from Keen's Variety Store. He was nick- named by the local children "warthog." Hoskins accidently shot himself to death thru the chin, although some thought it suicide, in approximately 1966.

Liner notes remain among the highest forms of literature.

Shrine of a local deity, northern China, c.1905, by Missionary Arthur H Smith

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