What's Past is Prologue

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Book of the Day: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Click here to learn more about today’s book!

Book of the Day: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

Click here to learn more about today’s book!

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The dawning of the MAGA era arms race . . . Things are about to get messy.

Sunrise on #Alcatraz

YouTube video by John Lennon - Topic Remember (Remastered 2010)

Remember
Remember, the Fifth of November

We may need a new word to describe these MAGA thugs. What’s more fragile than a snowflake?

Slavery, the Constitution, and a Lasting Legacy - Montpelier Slavery, the Constitution, and a Lasting Legacy We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defenc...

SLAVERY caused a fatal rift from the start of the nation. Madison wrote: "[It's] well understood that the real difference of interests lies not between the large and small but between the northern and southern states. The institution of slavery and its consequences form the line of discrimination."

Happy Halloween!

3rd Central Coast Conference
SELDOM HEARD HISTORY
of the CIVIL WAR ERA
Stanton Center, Monterey, CA
May 1-3, 2026

A weekend of presentations exploring fresh perspectives on the American Civil War.

EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNT
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"I always understood that we went to War on account of the thing we quarreled with the North about. I never heard of any other cause of quarrel than slavery."

— John S. Mosby, "The Gray Ghost"
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Revenge, Wild West style —
Made a quick stop at the Tucson railroad depot, at the approximate location where Wyatt Earp, accompanied by Doc Holliday, shot and killed Frank Stillwell on March 20, 1882. It was thought that Stillwell was involved in the murder of Morgan Earp two days earlier.

Plains Indian Shield
Andy #Warhol, 1986
screenprint, based on an item he photographed at New York City’s National Museum of the American Indian.

What really happened at the gunfight at the O.K. Corral? Movies and T.V. portray Wyatt Earp and his brothers as law-abiding heroes—but the real story of the most famous shoot out in U.S. history is more complicated than that.

OTD 144 years ago . . .

The grotesque metaphor of Trump tearing apart the figurative seat of American democracy The horrifyingly haphazard manner in which he had the East Wing demolished, with no respect shown to history or the historic structure, is the poisonous icing on a rotting cake.

The grotesque metaphor of Trump tearing apart the figurative seat of American democracy ... marvelous piece open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Working on some campaign posters for the next election.

Trump's desecration of the White House is unforgivable. The EPSTEIN BALLROOM should come down the day after the next inauguration. Like everything else related to this administration, it will be a stain on the soul of America.

I will vote for the Dem in 2028 who vows to put the WH back the way it was. Literally.

#Saguaros can be anywhere from 50 to 100 years old before they grow their first “arms.” That’s all I have to say about that.

In Cochise’s Stronghold
—Dragoon Mountains

Gila National Forest

Thursday at the Very Large Array

Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation Tribal Cemetery, Ba Dah Mod Jo Cemetery, Fort McDowell, Maricopa County, Arizona

University of California sets world record with five Nobel Prizes in one week The UC system made history this week, as its faculty and alumni won five Nobel Prizes across medicine, physics and chemistry — the most ever awarded to a single institution in one year.

Congrats to University of California professors & alumni for being awarded 5 Nobel Prizes!

California’s scientists are leading the world in crucial breakthroughs.

www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Johnnie Diacon (Mvskoke)
There Goes the Neighborhood #1, 1993
Oil on stretched canvas
@johnniediaconart.bsky.social

“People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

Photo: Kurt #Vonnegut, Jr., 11 Nov 1922 - 11 Apr 2007, by Yousuf Karsh, 1990. National Portrait Gallery.

preparing for another road trip through Apacheria

— Pueblo Revolt (1680-1692 C.E.) —
The Pueblos banded together on Aug 10, 1680 to expel the Spanish from the Southwest. The revolt, led by Po’pay from Ohkay Owengeh (San Juan Pueblo), temporarily drove European invaders from the country (NPS). Photo: Pecos National Historical Park

Capt. Cankles will be cussing on the morrow, when this news breaks

Honestly, I didn't expect this announcement, but it's well-deserved. I'm sure the president will agree. #NobelPeacePrize #JimmyKimmel