“As we continue to fact check the report, we unwaveringly attest that it does not fairly or accurately characterize the full body of work at the Smithsonian.”
The Photograph: Taken during a Union Army medical examination in Louisiana, the famous image was called “The Scourged Back” and published in Harper’s Weekly.
The Escape: He fled a Louisiana plantation, used onions to throw off bloodhounds, crossed dangerous swamps, and later joined the Union Army.
The Impact: The graphic photo served as undeniable proof of the cruelty of slavery and helped boost the abolitionist movement during the Civil War.
A cunt tree of room temperature dangerous kkk rebirthers of a nation / cesspool.
Will Smith is on the hit list . . .
Trump directed federal officials on Friday to install signs outside the Smithsonian’s flagship National Museum of American History to reflect his administration’s criticism of how the institution portrays the United States.
Trump’s executive order cited a White House Domestic Policy Council report accusing the museum of “thinly veiled anti-Americanism” and “extreme political activism.” He said he directed officials to install temporary signs on sidewalks maintained by the National Park Service to correct “inaccurate information presented in the Museum.”
Trump’s move follows a report released July 4 by his Domestic Policy Council saying leaders of the Smithsonian and its National Museum of American History don’t tell history “in a way that is inspiring, unifying, and worthy of our great republic.”
The president lacks authority to quickly fire the Smithsonian leadership or to order changes to exhibits, so his executive order targets the sidewalks out front, which are maintained by the National Park Service. His executive order calls for signs telling visitors about the White House report and directing them to resources for what he calls “accurate information regarding America’s history.” It also calls for a temporary exhibit that corrects information he deems inaccurate.
Smithsonian officials declined to comment on Trump’s order.
Anthea M. Hartig, director of the American history museum, pushed back on the White House report during congressional hearings this week.
“As we continue to fact-check the report, we unwaveringly attest that it does not fairly or accurately characterize the full body of work at the museum,” she told lawmakers. “There is always room for improvement. But I also know the beauty and the inspiration and the expertise that lies in our collections, our exhibits, and our programming.”
The Smithsonian operates outside the executive branch and museum directors report to Secretary Lonnie Bunch, who is subject to oversight from a Board of Regents.
Trump’s escalating effort to force changes at the Smithsonian marks the Republican president’s latest move to transform cultural pillars of society, such as universities and art, that he considers out of step with conservative sensibilities. Trump had himself installed as chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts with the aim of overhauling programming, and his handpicked board voted to add his name to the building, only to have a federal judge later order the signs to be removed.
Trump has also imposed changes on historical sites beyond Washington, including in Philadelphia, where the administration won a court ruling last week allowing it to reinstall interpretive panels that critics say whitewash the history of slavery at the site of President George Washington’s home. Advocates, academics and officials have been concerned for months that the version that complies with Trump’s order could give a history that plays down the pain in the nation’s past in favor of a more triumphant view.
Trump in March 2025 revealed his intention to force changes at the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order that targeted funding for programs that advanced “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”
Rebirth of a Nation?
There is a dangerous method to Trump’s racist madness
But there is also a more complex rhetoric of nationalism in play, one that is authoritarian, neo-fascist, but also potentially inclusive, of a segment of the white population that does not identify with Confederate symbols, neo-Nazi symbols, and Q-Anon paranoia, but does identify with “American Greatness;” and even including some people of color who support him (“I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks,” he has said repeatedly, oblivious to the racism of this very formulation).
In the face of the extraordinary spread of BLM protests, Trump tweeted that he has “done more for Black Americans, in fact, than any President in U.S. history, with the possible exception of another Republican President, the late, great, Abraham Lincoln … and it’s not even close.” In a follow-up interview the next day with Fox News, he equivocated slightly on Lincoln, saying: “let’s take a pass on Abraham Lincoln because he did good, although, it’s always questionable, you know, in other words, the end result.” All of this was predictably denounced by commentators, politicians, and activists rightly outraged by Trump’s “questionable” comment, and by the undeniably racist character of Trump’s entire public persona. The notion that he has done more for Black people than anyone but Lincoln is a most atrocious form of gaslighting by a malignant leader who has turned gaslighting into an evil art.
But while the “Never Trump” partisans of the Lincoln Project are unquestionably correct about the distance separating Trump from Lincoln, it is nonetheless true that Trump does sometimes appeal to a certain version of Lincoln, as defender of “the nation” and as strong leader capable of defeating his enemies and of superintending “the blacks” who apparently need a Strong White Father.
It is this combination of racism and nationalism that is so dangerous. And Trump’s version of it has striking parallels with what is perhaps the single most important racist cultural production in the twentieth century American history: D.W. Griffith’s “Birth of the Nation.”
The film was a groundbreaking development, the first full-length feature film widely distributed in U.S. history, and a box office blockbuster. It was a widely-viewed and hugely influential cultural representation, and it reflected, and reinforced, what became the conventional historical narrative during the Progressive era, which was an era of both racism and nation-building.
Based on a racist novel called The Clansman, the film’s narrative is straightforward, compelling, and propagandistically effective (as film critic Richard Brody observed in a 2013 retrospective, “The Worst Thing About ‘Birth of a Nation’ is How Good It Is”). In brief: the Civil War was an unfortunate War between the States that greatly disrupted American history, pitting brother against brother and “chum” against “chum.” Lincoln understood this, and wished for nothing more than to effect a quick and complete reconciliation between North and South (“with malice toward none, with charity for all”). But poor Lincoln, “friend of the South,” was killed, and the federal government came under the control of Radical Republicans who hated the Southern Way of Life, were power-hungry and arrogant, and who, egged on by nefarious “mulattoes,” used Reconstruction as a way to empower and to use ignorant, gullible, and licentious “Negroes,” who proceeded to attack civilization, form gangs, commit crimes, especially the rape of virtuous white women, and to turn the South upside down. Fortunately, these evil white carpetbaggers and the Negro tools they had empowered were resisted by the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who helped to bring Reconstruction to an end. The white people of the North and South could thus be reunited in holy matrimony and fertile union; the Negroes could be intimidated from voting and put back “in their place” where, presumably, they could themselves be more productive, better patronized, and thus happier. A new nationalism—indeed a white Christian nationalism– was born.
The communicative power of this narrative was brilliantly analyzed by Michael Rogin in an important 1985 essay entitled “’The Sword Became a Flashing Vision’: D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation.” As Rogin points out, Griffith himself explained that he titled his film “Birth of a Nation”: “because it . . . the Civil War was fought fifty years ago. But the real nation has only existed in the last fifteen or twenty years . . . The birth of a nation began . . . with the Ku Klux Klan, and we have shown that.”
White Man Cometh….. Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him.
The white slavers chaser, running us all down.
Key Takeaways
Flock Safety CEO claimed cameras only capture static images, contradicting his own prior statements.
Flock’s deleted blogs and Condor service confirm live video streaming was built into existing hardware.
Five law enforcement agencies secretly piloted live ALPR video before Flock quietly discontinued the feature.
When LAPD allowed its Flock Safety contract to expire, CEO Garrett Langley went on ABC7 with a reassuring message. “A car drives by, we take a picture,” he said. “It’s a static picture of a car, and then we read the license plate.” Simple. Harmless. Except roughly a year earlier, Langley told Forbes something quite different: in a 911 scenario, Flock would “just open up the five nearest cameras in real time and say, here’s what’s happening right now.” That’s not a static picture. That’s live video.
[White House app transmits 77% of network requests to third-party companies
GPS coordinates tracked every 4.5 minutes during active app usage
JavaScript code stripped cookie consent banners and bypassed GDPR protections]
The slave patrols . . .
Five agencies quietly tested live video on Flock ALPR devices before the feature was discontinued for law enforcement with no public explanation.
Five law enforcement agencies ran a “limited pilot” for live video on ALPR devices, a Flock spokesperson confirmed after 404 Media pressed for answers. The feature was quietly tested and then discontinued for law enforcement in March. No public announcement accompanied the rollback — the kind of quiet Google-killing-a-product move that tends to resurface later in a different form.
The ACLU has documented a broader pattern. Flock previously told city officials it didn’t create “heat maps” of vehicle movements, then later admitted it does, according to ACLU reporting. The organization has characterized Flock’s expansion as a troubling move into traditional video surveillance and audio analytics. Meanwhile, city FAQs in Bartlesville, Woodburn, and Cheyenne still tell residents Flock cameras “do not record video” — language that traces directly back to Flock’s own talking points.
Your neighborhood almost certainly has these cameras. The underlying hardware capability is unchanged, and a software update already turned live video on for at least five agencies. What keeps it off now is a company policy — from a company whose public statements have repeatedly needed revision.
Sure, Jews are LOSING….. NOT.
Greece has approved the purchase of a multi-layer air defense system worth up to €3.5 billion ($4 billion) from Israel, several types of drones and Embraer’s C-390 military transport aircraft, its defense minister said on Thursday.
The country’s security council, KYSEA, gave its initial approval earlier this year and approved the procurement contracts on Thursday, Nikos Dendias told journalists.
Jews are in on it………. It is no accident that Secretary of State Marco Rubio was among the first to embrace a hemispheric variation on the most famous slogan in American politics: “Make the Americas Great Again.”
What reads at first as wordplay in fact carries considerable weight, because it names something that has rarely been harder to deny. The agendas of the U.S. and much of Latin America are advancing, increasingly and perhaps inevitably, in the same direction, closing gaps that have often widened in the past.
The vastness of stupidity . . . Poll: Republicans’ gas price problem is even worse than it seems
Three in five Americans believe gas prices in their area have risen by more than they actually have, according to a POLITICO analysis.
Of the 46 percent of Americans who said gas prices will have an impact on their vote, just under 40 percent said they are considering voting for a different party than they normally would, including 49 percent of MAGA Republicans and 57 percent of non-MAGA Republicans.
“Three quarters of the country is confronting higher gas prices and feeling it,” said longtime Democratic strategist Jesse Ferguson. “That leaves them … very vulnerable to the economic pain and very vulnerable to the economic argument the Democrats are going to make.”
Dirtiest cuntry in the world dong what? Elections where?
Slavers . . .
You fucking White WHores of the USA . . . Why Venezuela can’t access $4 billion in gold that could help with earthquake recovery
[A Roman gold bar from the 4th century is handled by curator John Keyworth in front of replica modern bars at the Bank of England museum on May 12, 2006.]
White slavers NRA . . . .
Slaver Cunt-Tree:
Trump has once again inspired anger and confusion in US allies and trading partners as he imposed a wave of tariffs on more than 80 countries, replacing an expiring global duty introduced earlier this year.
The new measures effectively replace blanket 10% tariffs that Trump imposed in February. The US supreme court ruled many of those were illegal. The new levies come in at between 10% and 12.5% on countries including the UK, Mexico, Canada, Australia, India, China and the 27 countries that make up the EU.
They are imposed under section 301 of the US Trade Act of 1974, and the Trump administration has said the new measures are due to the dozens of countries failing to enforce bans on goods produced by forced labour.
The imposition of the new tariffs led to Asian stock markets taking a hammering overnight.
“If you compare our labour laws to the ones of the United States, I mean, we have paid vacations, we have very good labour conditions for our employees, so it’s not really grounded.”
Fifteen years ago today, during one of our country’s worst economic crises, Americans saw the last federal minimum wage increase. Since then, we’ve experienced costs skyrocket across the board, far outpacing the minimum wage – yet there’s been no meaningful action from Republicans or this Administration to make life more affordable. The American people deserve policies that lower costs and make their lives better, and that starts with the money they take home. I will continue fighting for these long overdue, commonsense economic reforms so our neighbors can not just get by, but get ahead.
Brian S. Wilson: *Photo: Here I am pictured with President Comandante Daniel Ortega as he was campaigning for re-election in the 1990s. The U.S. sabotaged the electoral process and for 16 years Nicaraguans suffered under neo-liberalism.”
Paul Haeder, Author 