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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.

Best game of Boutte's career

Really frustrating to watch this running performance today. I thought it was Stevenson at first but they jumped nearly every run play today. Telegraphing badly

Saints gotta be seeing a tell on run plays. This is bad.

I feel like pulling my hair out. That is a CLEAR AS DAY fumble. These officials are NUTS

Hollins non call was WAY more a penalty than the Diggs one. 5 straight plays with a penalty and the 3rd and 27 heave not called. Just unacceptable officiating.

That's a fucking hold

Worst officiated game I can remember oh my

That is not a push off. Incredible throw.

Another highlight reel throw from Maye

Diggs screen in the red zone on a 3rd and manageable is silly business

Need Henderson to get more reps. They're telegraphing badly today on run plays. Hate that call too -- take a shot at the end zone

Least the review got it but this is really crazy to watch the refs this bad. They're taking forever on every call as well.

Vrabel should be livid. This is not adequate.

These refs are not NFL adequate today

Early in his career this is the best Maye pocket awareness game I've ever seen. Footwork elite today so far. Throws another TD after one ripped away by shady NFL refs. Flag was thrown after the play was over. Way to respond.

Might be the worst call I've seen in the last five years

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

The Department of Education reportedly fired nearly everyone in the office that focuses on the nation’s children with disabilities in a wave of new layoffs

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MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

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Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold made the comments to state lawmakers Sept. 30, and they drew notice on social media this week.

I just watched the video of the Portland Cop threatening to arrest an ICE agent if they drive their truck through a crowd. Now I see this where the General of the Oregon National Guard says if they get called up they will protect the protesters. People are fed up.
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I think at night all the Skarsgards line up and get inside Stellan like Russian dolls

Crazy game. They never should have pulled Skubal before 100 with him throwing the way he was.

The baby that played Oscar in Ghostbusters II was acting down.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Man arrested, faces federal charge in connection with Palisades Fire: DOJ The fire caused widespread destruction in Los Angeles County and killed a dozen people earlier this year.

The suspect accused of igniting the fire that destroyed LA's Pacific Palisades neighborhood allegedly used a ChatGPT prompt to show "a burning forest and a crowd fleeing from it," months prior, officials say

13/14 for 186 in the second half 😂

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable."
President John F Kennedy

*whispers* Drake Maye did a lot of Josh Allen shit tonight