Colby Townsend

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sixteeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Part three will cover slave narratives, part four Barbary captivity narratives, and part five a few miscellaneous sub genres like pirate and war captivity. Here’s a link to the library’s Instagram post about the series: www.instagram.com/p/DVbtwMhFBc...

I have been working on a five-part series of blog posts for the Lilly Library at Indiana University Bloomington on their holdings related to captivity narratives. This first part, just published on their blog, is the first of two on Indian captivity narratives—published or in manuscript—from the

Three books stacked on top of one another with a sepia toned image of a man giving a shot to a young child sitting on his mother’s lap with a family standing around the mother and child

Book post is the best kind of post.

Just as chlorine gas was made a war crime after WWI, so too should autonomous bombing.

Hegseth can't appear before a Nuremberg trial fast enough.

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YouTube video by sc0217 Tony Abbott's bizzarre 28 second silence following "Shit Happens" comment

Hegseth is this guy: youtu.be/9wT9XS_TvzQ?...

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

Murdering civilians overseas is not a distraction, it's not about money or airtime or domestic policy or the crimes of individuals. It's war crimes. It matters enough of its own to say stop without refocusing on anything else.

MORE OF THIS, LESS OF ANYTHING LESS THAN THIS

IF ALL YOU WANT IS A DIRECTION FOR WHERE THE BOMBING OF IRAN IS GOING TO GO, THAT'S SUPPORT, AND IF YOU'RE SUPPORTING TRUMP'S PSEUDO WARS, FUCK OFF INTO THE VOID FOREVER.

“war of choice” is a too kind way, in this case, of saying “war of aggression” — and aggression is itself a war crime that generally results in many others.

We have a word for this in media history. It's called propaganda.

Someone was abducted in St Anthony this morning at 6 AM near 29th Ave & Silver Lake Road. And then at 8 AM we saw at least 5 agents out of their vehicles at 26th & Jackson near Walgreens before they dispersed into the neighborhood.

This isn’t over. We still need people keeping watch & staying safe.

Bribery is in the impeachment clause!!! This is all on the GOP, every single bit of it!

The fact that there’s a secret network of doulas going around Minneapolis to help with home births for parents afraid of ICE should be front-page news.

These children, born in secrecy, are American citizens.

Trump DOJ’s own goals could stymie its efforts to undermine midterms “The quantity of litigation isn't all that frightening when the quality is crap. And the quality is crap," Prof. Levitt said.

NEW: Among other steps that President Donald Trump will take to undermine a fair election this fall, he’ll likely use the U.S. Department of Justice to bring a flood of litigation aiming to challenge Democratic wins and shape the rules in the GOP’s favor. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/tru...

I guess the “beef, it’s what’s for dinner” party is now the “eat something else, I don’t care about you” party.

“Cut ICE’s budget to restore federal health care funding” is an extremely popular message www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

I need to go back and try to actually finish all three games. Never have.

The Christian nationalist right sees Judaism only as an evolutionary precursor to Christianity. “Primitive” Christianity that isn’t perfect yet. As a result, they treat Jews as fossils from the ancient past, not people who still exist. Not fellow Americans. #Jewish

Susan Rice is right. Now Netflix must choose. The institutions and individuals who betrayed democratic principles will bear that mark of shame well into the future.

NEW: Veteran foreign policy expert Susan Rice does not issue warnings lightly.

Yet last week she said “it’s not going to end well” for corporations bending the knee to Trump.

Now, Netflix faces a decision that will determine which side of history it wants to be on, Marc Elias writes.

a man is laying on a tire on a seesaw while a woman stands behind him holding a microphone . ALT: a man is laying on a tire on a seesaw while a woman stands behind him holding a microphone .

Some platforming is better than others.

as far as i can tell “bio hacking” is just a goofy term for giving yourself some combination of an eating disorder and a drug addiction

Being a malignant narcissist should be an automatic disqualification for the job.

Trump says Republicans will ‘never lose a race’ if Congress restricts voting “We'll never lose a race. For 50 years, we won't lose a race.”

Trump claimed that if Republicans pass the SAVE America Act, they will never lose an election “for 50 years.”

The legislation is at the forefront of the GOP's election subversion scheme.

And if it becomes law, it could disenfranchise millions of voters in the 2026 midterms.

That would be cool!

House passes bill banning ‘leftist indoctrination’ and LGBTQ+ teaching in public schools • New Hampshire Bulletin New Hampshire House Republicans are moving forward with a new attempt to regulate teaching on race, history, and LGTBQ+ issues in public schools. On Thursday, the chamber passed a bill that would ban ...

NH state house passes "CHARLIE Act," which bans teaching, I kid you not, "critical consciousness" & "prohibited world-views," such as that queer people exist, or that slavery involved race, or, implicitly, that the Nazis murdered Jews based on identity. newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/19/h...

Future generations are gonna be like "how did they look at pictures like this and not immediately know what was about to happen"

And my generation will tell various lies about what things were like right now but the truth, of course, is that on some level we did all know

Are any of my early Americanist friends going to be at the C19 conference in Cincinnati next month that want to split hotel costs? I got a room with two beds at the conference hotel and would love to share in saving some money.

Wondering if any republicans in Congress who flipped out when Clinton and Lynch ran into each other, or wouldn’t shut up about Jack Smith “conspiring” with Biden, would have anything to say about this shit.

YouTube video by MeidasTouch Trump PANICS over EPSTEIN FILES HACK?!!

The dumbest part is that Trump is probably wanting to attack them because they might have hacked the databases that stored the Epstein files, besides also hacking Truth Social and some of his emails. youtu.be/53YwdKK6LPM?...