An exquisite poem that finds Pathos and Carpe Diem shaking hands like old friends.
A.E. Housman 🖎
Pete Hegseth just held a prayer service in which he appealed for God's help in killing our "enemies" with maximal violence and brutality. Hegseth's bloodlust and sadism are drawing sustenance from his particular brand of far-right Christianity. 1/
(new piece from me)
newrepublic.com/article/2083...
New 1926 General Strike map online!
Using early 20th century Ordnance Survey maps, the online resource shows strike events (through archive sources) in their contemporary landscape.
Explore the map, digitised sources and more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
I've grown interested by the web of business, personal, social, political, religious and philanthropic connections between the local enslavers. Including working together to found or restore churches
Can you confirm this @kathrynfleming.bsky.social ?
I guess with Hodge at the cathedral and your cats at home there are no empty boxes
African chattel enslavement was so pervasive. The estate the ERI owned was leased by 1 of the Croydon enslavers, James Ivers Trecothick, whose uncle had left money to the Bridewell hospital. I've found other local enslavers involved in hospitals, including St Thomas's.
youtu.be/zQ62jsqP0SM?...
Does God want America to kill as many of our enemies as we can—in as violent a fashion as possible? We have a defense secretary who apparently thinks so.
"How sharper than a serpent's tooth is it to have a thankless child" comes to mind listening to the Bridge Farm Archers #TheArchers
It started with one woman signing our letter
Then another
And another
And before we knew it
there were 95,000 of us
Now we want the power of cis women
to catapult us to 100,000 and beyond
Because this is how it grows
If every woman shares it with just three others,
that’s another 285,000 signatures