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.

But we cant have healthcare. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Quote from book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT

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Who is this Mandani chap I’ve been hearing so much about?

Today is Indigenous Peoples Day – a time to honor the 11 sovereign Tribal Nations and robust urban Native communities that continue to enrich our state’s cultural landscape, economy, and heritage.
 
It was a beautiful morning to celebrate on the shore of Bde Maka Ska.

Don't make me tap the Robert Pattinson quote, Leto.

Scottish National putting all western newspapers to shame!

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

In which John Oliver methodically unpacks how thin it is to claim you’re all about “the truth” when you’re only running essays don’t get properly fact-checked — and don’t hold up to even basic reporting scrutiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Will Moms for (not) Liberty start banning stair?

The ‘banned books’ staircase at the Newport Public Library.

Today in 2011, Remedial Chaos Theory aired! Written by Chris McKenna and directed by Jeff Melman, and clearly you don't understand anything about defeating trolls.

#OriginalAiring

Read this if you own a home.

Buried inside the Big Beautiful Bill is a time bomb...one that detonates the balance of power. You weren’t supposed to read this clause. That’s why I did.

A single section hidden deep in the bill quietly neuters the courts. It’s that serious.🔥👇

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I'm glad the hostages have been returned and many Palestinians have been freed as well. Its a big deal.

But Palestinians are still occupied and this extremist Israeli government has said they're going to take Gaza and everything from the river to the sea.

Just a matter of time this explodes.

But he loves coal . . .

Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump

"On Tuesday dozens of miners and their families will be...protesting the Trump administration outside the Labor Department building, arguing it has failed to protect them from black lung disease, an incurable illness caused by inhaling coal and silica dust." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/c...

REPORTER: Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your healthcare plan?

MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.

(So, no plan)

You know this is intended for the 40-50 year old crowd with this reference:

“Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, Dodge”

😂

wild hand jerking during Trump's handshake photo op with Orban

Episode 1686 - Barack Obama — WTF with Marc Maron Podcast For the final episode of WTF, Marc travels to Washington, DC for another conversation with the most significant guest in the show’s history. Former President Barack Obama welcomes Marc into his o...

Texas Senate candidate James Talarico gets a plug from Obama here on Marc Maron's final show, albeit as "Tirico" www.wtfpod.com/podcast/epis...

Olivia Reingold is the person who wrote that ridiculous article at CBS that even misspells Mamdani's name in the headline.

You may remember her from her other work....

Trump: "What we're doing now, it could've happened a long time ago, but it was strangled and set back almost irretrievably by the administrations of Barack Obama and then Joe Biden. There was a hatred toward Israel."

welcome to the new era of CBS News, where brave truth-telling takes precedence over spelling Zohran Mamdani’s name correctly

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.Oct 10, 2025

2/ Also: It's MAMDANI.

On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump.

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social

Republicans who voted for RFK Jr. baffled by his autism-circumcision claims Many in the GOP continue to give muted criticism of the anti-vaccine conspiracy advocate who leads Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services

ICYMI: Republicans who voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr to be HHS Secretary expressed befuddlement at his claims about autism and circumcision.

"You're giving me new news now with your second question, so I have not seen that yet," Lisa Murkowski told me.
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UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.

You can also thank Trump for thousands of international packages being thrown away at UPS. (Yes. You read that right) www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

Yessss he's back.

“Are you comfortable working in a fast-paced environment?”

Yesterday, on the same day that the Vice President of the United States stated that Comey "obviously lied under oath" on MTP, the loaner AUSAs prosecuting him cited this video to justify a juvenile protective order.

Cover of first edition of the book

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was published OTD in 1979.

Douglas Adams: “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

#litsci 🐡 #BookSky