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An illustration from the H. Strickland Constable's Ireland from One or Two Neglected Points of View shows an alleged similarity between "Irish Iberian" and "Negro" features in contrast to the higher "Anglo-Teutonic." The accompanying caption reads "The Iberians are believed to have been originally an African race, who thousands of years ago spread themselves through Spain over Western Europe. Their remains are found in the barrows, or burying places, in sundry parts of these countries. The skulls are of low prognathous type. They came to Ireland and mixed with the natives of the South and West, who themselves are supposed to have been of low type and descendants of savages of the Stone Age, who, in consequence of isolation from the rest of the world, had never been out-competed in the healthy struggle of life, and thus made way, according to the laws of nature, for superior races."

The goalposts can always be moved. They'll tighten up standards of what counts as acceptable, white. They've got science to back them up! Get out the calipers!

Charles Taylor in Puck Magazine, 26 June 1889. Caption: "The mortar of assimilation — and the one element that won't mix". Some immigrants just won't assimilate!

My family left Ireland in the 1600s and settled in New Jersey. After the revolution they resettled in Nova Scotia. Why would Irish Catholics leave the Republic to return to the rule of the English King? Because the Republic was rabidly anti-Catholic. They didn't count as part of "white culture".

Killing the Goose That Laid the Golden Egg, by Thomas Nast, 11 November 1871. Harper’s Weekly.

Thomas Nast “The Ignorant Vote — Honors are Easy” (Cartoon), Harper’s Weekly, v. 20. N. 1041. New York: 9 December 1876. Thomas Nast, really didn't think much of the Irish. But they were often depicted as simian and hanging around African Americans too much. Irish Americans learned to avoid that last thing.

Here's how one set of white Americans used to portray another set of white Americans back in the good old homogenous days that Carl longs for:

cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?

Anti-ICE walkouts by students show no signs of slowing down.

Check out this piece from @crimethinc.com about how these walkouts were part of the mass May Day strikes in 2006 against racist, anti-immigrant legislation. crimethinc.com/2025/02/05/t...

You guys are not alone in noticing this:

"Success hides problems."

— Ed Catmull, founder of Pixar Inc. "Keep Your Crises Small". address at Stanford Graduate School of Business 2007-01-31.

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All true conservatives must turn over their women to Nick Fuentes, immediately. Pam Bondi will go first …

Local and State Police Can Investigate Federal Agents, But Rarely Do It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable w...

“Unfortunately, because Congress is not taking any steps to rein ICE officers in, there really is no option other than states protecting their constituents’ rights," said Joanna Schwartz, a law professor at UCLA.

A friend of mine gave me useful advice: Whenever a cop says something to you, before you process it, in your head you should prepend the phrase "I would like you to believe" to it.

So, "The protestors smashed the window" becomes, "I would like you to believe the protestors smashed the window."

Team France understands that the important thing is that the perpetrator got a slap on the wrist because the all that matters is the medals, baby!!!

It's also offensively classist to assume that people in blue-collar jobs are more likely to support their immigrant neighbors and co-workers being kidnapped and shipped off to internment camps in countries they have never been to. I'm going to need to see a citation for that one.

Remind me who the rioters are again?

Electeds, police chiefs, etc need to stop taking DHS at their word.

They lie!!

He has a point, though. Where did all these Saxons come from? Back to Saxony with you!

Elon, have you considered suicide? I mean, of course you have, because you're at least semi-conscious that there's a world outside your own head. But have you considered that you've fucked up your life so irreparably that your only way out is suicide? It's the only way to stop being you.

Rep Gluesenkamp Perez: "Once again, blue collar Democrats are being treated as the enemy".

Don't know what you studied at Reed, @gluesenkampperez.house.gov — it clearly wasn't sociology or economics. The CEO of Ford is not blue-collar because he owns factories. The workers inside the factories are.

Billionaires can pay for their own toys. No public subsidies for pro sports franchises until everyone in Oregon has a housing. Where are your priorities?

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Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick claimed he cut contact with Jeffrey Epstein in 2005. He lied.

Maintaining contact with someone involved in such horrific abuses—and lying about it—is a moral failure, and another reason Lutnick is unfit to serve.

He should resign.

Metropolitan Learning Center Will No Longer Offer Its High School Program Joanna Hou

Parents say the decision, which PPS attributes to low enrollment, came with no community engagement. And students are pushing back.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: One of the biggest reasons the right wing couldn't make Charlie Kirk stick as their Reichstag fire is that none of them, including his own widow, actually and sincerely gave a fuck he died

5 questions for Meredith Whittaker

But guys, we need to seriously consider the the Internet of Things … I mean the metaverse … I mean full self-driving ... I mean crypto currency … I mean NFTs … I mean AI …

"the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype."

— Meredith Whittaker. Signal CEO. 2023-12-01.

PBOT staffer brought to tears after questioning from city councilors With councilors no longer in charge of bureaus, there's no longer a buffer between politicians and bureau staff.

At Monday's Finance Committee meeting, Councilor Eric Zimmerman seized an opportunity to criticize PBOT and an unsuspecting staffer was collateral damage

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This was hard to watch.

Just FYI I'm not naming or showing the city staffer. I give a detailed recap, but you can find the video linked in the story if you want to see it.

We have created an impunity machine, and invited and incentivized terrible people to join it. Abolish the whole damn thing.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

Oregon family detained by federal agents appear as special guests in state capitol • Oregon Capital Chronicle The family’s detention drew statewide attention because they were detained while seeking urgent care for Diana’s prolonged nosebleed

Diana Crespo, 7, and her parents spent weeks in a Texas detention facility, locked up 2,000 miles from home after federal officers detained them on their way to seek medical care. Today, they were guests of honor at the Oregon House.

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Life has been hard for Gluesenkamp Perez lately.

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No, no, we love the badgers.

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress

They actually tried to indict sitting members of congress for telling the military not to obey illegal orders. They failed because even the grand jury thought this was ridiculous.

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