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Gus Frederick is a native Oregonian. He is by training a multimedia artist. Through his self-publishing organization "Liberal University Press," he continues to create visual books featuring different aspects of Oregon history.

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Amazing news! No Kings - Silverton was just selected by Silver Falls Film Festival via FilmFreeway.com!

15.08.2025 14:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Yesterday I posted this one to Facebook and they took it down with a posted virtual "hand slap!" Said it "Violates Community Standards..." :-)

22.01.2025 18:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Liberal University Press Liberal University Press is the official imprint of the Liberal University of Oregon, founded in Silverton, Oregon in the 1890s. This moniker seemed a fitting handle to attach to not just stories abou...

press.liberaluniversity.org/dotm00.php

04.01.2025 00:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Arbitration in a Strike" by Homer Davenport, 1899. From Davenport's second collection titled "The Dollar or the Man? The Question of To-Day" 1900. I sent you a copy of my annotate edition. Did you ever receive it?

04.01.2025 00:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Y-2-K? B-F-D!!"

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Trump's personal brand of "LAWFARE..."

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More examples of MAGA "Lawfare..."

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Guess who won that honor in 1938?

12.12.2024 23:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A "Retrofitted" meme from Alex:

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"Buzz Windrip" is a literary analog from a 1935 novel...

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"Buzz Windrip" is a literary analog from 1935:

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FWIW, "Buzz Windrip" is a literary analog from 1935...

10.12.2024 23:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Oregon cartoonist Homer Davenport (1867-1912) did this great cartoon in 1897 that pretty much explains the concept from the Guilded Age:

The Dingley Tariff Act of 1897, introduced by U.S. Representative Nelson Dingley, Jr., of Maine, (shown here as a shopkeeper raising the prices of his goods).

10.12.2024 23:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Universal Mental Liberty:

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Tolkien did say that there are "Fell Beasts" loose in the world...

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Apparently, that is not true. They didn't step over his body, as they were already in the meeting, and cancelled it upon hearing of the shooting...

06.12.2024 23:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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History through cartoons: From Homer Davenport's second book "The Dollar or the Man? The Question of Today," first published in 1900. This piece is titled "Arbitration in a Strike."
press.liberaluniversity.org/dotm00.php

06.12.2024 00:36 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Yup...

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Looks like Gustave Dore's work...

03.12.2024 23:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

During WWII they use to say: "When GERMANY gets HUNGARY, it fries TURKEY in GREECE."

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