Matt Pennig

Washington crossing the deleware painting.

Me and the boys when the king kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

Anyway, venmo me if you wanna help stock our local food shelf’s inventory. Crisis levels. Our neighbors are struggling. We have raised $30+K in six annual drives and it flies off the shelves. Top requested item, 1 in 3 adults and 1 in 4 teens experience period poverty every mo. Halloween deadline.

8yo, as I try to objectively answer his questions about the period drive: “Wait. I can’t believe you have to pay for pads and tampons. Every month?? It’s, like, a major NEED. And then you can’t even use help (Ed. note: He means SNAP) if you don’t have enough money? They should change that.”

JUST PAY YOUR F*CKING TAXES

Beeves just out there knowing what they worth. Good for them.

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.

It’s the little things

What are you trying to say? That the

Wall
Street
Journal

is not an authority on what’s cool?

Me replying to a deleted post wherein I suggest Ian is not boring as shit but indeed they are pragmatic as fuck

I’m not going to let you steal my reply-guy thunder like that 😂

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

The real tragedy of the Nevermind baby is that even if he’d managed to grab that dollar it’s very unlikely he’d have been able to purchase anything with it

What an experience

I wasn’t scrolling but I saw you! Hi!

Rene Magritte’s The Treachery of Images with the caption Ceci n'est pas it, chief.

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

reg.salesforce.com/flow/plus/df...

oh hey, @zahnster.bsky.social will be giving a talk there!

Bennett Foddy is a national treasure (derogatory)

Feelin’ that normalcy bias something fierce today.

This is of course because Dems in the US are the _actual_ conservative party.

Dems in the US truly believe that Democracy starts and ends with winning the most votes; that this means winning _at large_. This belief has nothing to do with whether the best ideas or platforms win, and more importantly, neither does this belief obligate them to deliver results toward any end.

From a weird descent on one escalator to the failed ascent of another. The bookends of the Trumpism in the United States of America

Yay! Double candy!

A half a ton of pads and tampons at Neighbors Inc for a drive

It’s that tiiiiiiiiiiime again! Women of West St. Paul is launching a flash mobilization of our annual pad drive. Period poverty is pervasive and a need in food shelves nationwide. Neighbors, Inc. needs US. In fact, they came and asked if we could help, because we get it done.

Glitch Theme (Waiting Muzak) Music by Daniel Simmons and Xavier Vochelle

How to listen to it outside of Slack Huddles: on.soundcloud.com/MeipWOBfCf2Q...

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

As the world continues to be a terrible place, I need you all to know that my friend's dinosaur-obsessed one-year-old saw dinosaurs with feathers at the Natural History Museum and now calls them "fluffy rar-rars".

FLUFFY RAR-RARS.

How do you govern when one side just lies about the most consequential things all the time and we have a press that will never ever call them out as lies because it seems partisan? How?

having a cat is like "sorry, I can't do anything right now. I've got a little guy on me."