Ted Smyth

An interesting piece on (among other things) the wide range of Irish and Irish-American attitudes to US African-American slavery in the 19th century.

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IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations on U.S. immigration, emigration, or ethnic history.

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“As bad as anybody else”: The Innocents, Political Violence, and the Creole-Italian Alliance in Reconstruction New Orleans Abstract. Coordinated, violent political attacks increased throughout the months leading up to the 1868 presidential election in New Orleans and the surrounding area. Among the various Democratic orga...

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"'As bad as anybody else': The Innocents, Political Violence, and the Creole-Italian Alliance in Reconstruction New Orleans" by Christopher Joseph Cook

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YouTube video by Glucksman Ireland House NYU Launch of Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move

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We Don't Want Your Tricks Or Your Treats Chump,We Want You To RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

VERY IMPORTANT Sunday Message from Meidas Founder By Ben Meiselas

Get ready for No Kings Day!
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Opinion | The N.F.L. Gets It. Why Don’t Democrats?

Democrats need to empower messengers that the establishment is scared of, people who don’t delight megadonors...stake their claims on a set of strong beliefs, and see if Americans will follow. They need to stop being lawyerly and timid. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

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C’mon judge. Pull an all nighter. This isn’t hard.
“The State of Illinois sued Trump, but in a court hearing this afternoon, a federal judge declined to issue an immediate order blocking the deployment. The judge said she needed time to review the case. She set another hearing for Thursday.

Well said!
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As Gov. Pritzker says in his opening statement, ICE and CPB are attempting to provoke a reaction by their actions in Chicago. And as he says -- more or less -- at the time stamp below, he won't order state police to physically confront them, b/c he can't.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

Be there if you're able.

#EPSTEINFILES

Yes!

Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing
military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The
means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at
home.”

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The nerve of this draft dodging felon to lecture true heroes, the same idiot who surrendered to the Taliban at camp david. Roll Call Factba.se - Speech: Donald Trump Addresses Military Leadership in Quantico, Virginia - September 30, 2025 rollcall.com/factbase/tru...

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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Trump has removed President Biden’s portrait at the White House and replaced it with a portrait of an autopen.

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Trump is a petty, jealous, childish, and hateful person.

I’m sharing a portrait of President Biden as a sign of respect and support.

The National Archives illegally released Rep. Mikie Sherrill's unredacted military personnel file, including her Social Security number, home address. The congresswoman is currently running as the Democratic candidate for Governor in New Jersey.

"A shutdown falls on the president's lack of leadership. I mean problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top. A shutdown means the president is weak." Donald J. Trump

Day #250 of the ClusterTrump

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Surely the Nobel Committee can award Trump the Nobel Lying Prize ?

Former FBI director James Comey indicted amid Trump push to prosecute foes Former FBI director James B. Comey was indicted Thursday on allegations he lied to Congress, two people familiar with the matter said.

More criminal action from Trump

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Trump’s War on Laughter Will Bite Him in the Ass He hasn't thought this through.

Amen
“And since it bears repeating, let me say what I said earlier this week: as the quislings in corporate media continue to bend their knee to our senile wannabe dictator, I have never been more grateful that I work for you .
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Fabulous book!

Meanwhile in Pennsylvania 82: The most important number in American politics

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⁦‪@RanaForoohar‬⁩ politely shows Trump weakening USA in relation to China and Russia, incl in strategic Northern Sea Route “one of the biggest sources of natural gas and oil and rare earth minerals necessary for both defence and the green transition.

If Pepsi Wants to Win, It Has to Play Coke’s Game Coke shed bottling and poured money into marketing. Unless Pepsi slims down, the gap between the two will continue to widen.

Heard on the Street: Coke shed bottling and poured money into marketing. Unless Pepsi slims down, the gap between the two will continue to widen.