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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 7h

if you just change the countries and proper names around, this 80+ year old article sounds very contemporary www.theguardian.com/world/1942/s...

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How the Jews in France were rounded up

Terror still growing

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Brit Williams, Ph.D. @drbritwilliams.bsky.social · 9h

This is so funny

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 9h

I see a LOT of people demanding a "do-over."

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 9h

Druski is unhinged 😭 ********************************* [his caption:] Kid Stars growup & be so Unpredictable 😂

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The Soggy Boggy Witch 🪻🌱🧹 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸♿🏳️‍⚧️ @antidramallama.bsky.social · 10h

I need you to understand this is living history, that racism is at the root of everything that this country is founded upon; not a need for religious freedom; a need to belong to the mother country by taking and "owning" land. I need you to understand nothing changes here until this does.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 10h

if this were 20 years ago, I could still agree. But I think we've reached that tipping point where it'll take a while for that disgust to set in

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 10h

there will. Because Hegseth wants us to see it

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 10h

If they let this happen, Americans will demand more public executions

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 10h

10. If anything, all it's done is desensitize us all to the horrors of genocidal violence. We watch Palestinians die like we're watching sports. So how fitting is it that America wants to showcase the execution of a Palestinian to the country as a whole. I mean....he "deserves it right?" end/

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 10h

9. But it's always been there. The thirst for blood. We've merely had to wait for the last generation who remembers the horrors of intimate violence on a massive scale. They're gone. And America wants blood again. Watching the genocide of Gaza in 4K hasn't quelled that dark desire

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 10h

8. In the belief of perpetual progress, we like to believe that America has gotten past it's barbaric past of chattel slavery, race massacres, lynchings, death penalties....but that couldn't be further from the truth. America exported it violence abroad, and concealed its violence here

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 10h

7. The reason this is significant is because Abel Meeropol, the man who wrote Strange Fruit after the lynchings in Indiana, ended up adopting the sons of the Rosenbergs after their executions. Michael and Robert Meeropol (the sons) are still alive btw.

A screenshot from.The Atlantic which displays a family, including Michael and Robert Rosenberg, sstanding in front of the Wbite House.

the caption reads:

THE ROSENBERG BOYS
When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed by the US government, they left behind two sons, ages 6 and 10. All these years later, Robby and Michael are still trying to make sense of what happened.
By Amy Weiss-Meyer

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 10h

6. Believe it or not, the story becomes even more strange after this. A little over a dozen years later, after WWII, two American citizens were executed by the federal government for espionage. The only two ever executed for such charges in American history. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

A black and white photo of Ethel (left) and Julius (right) Rosenberg. Two civilians executed by the American ggovernment in 1953 for charges of spying for the Soviet Union

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 11h

5. After crafting the song, he found a young singer named Billie Holiday whom he wanted to sing the dangerous song. It would become her defining song. And the song that ultimately got her killed. "Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root..."

book:

Strange Fruit. Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and Early Cry For Civil Rights by David Margolick

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 11h

4. The photo, taken by Lawrence Beitler, became one of the most recognized scenes of a public lynching. Several years later, a teacher and songwriter named Abel Meeropol, came across the horrendous photo and he wrote a poem entitled "Bitter Fruit." He later set the poem to music....

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 11h

3. This occured in Marion, Indiana. The mob, which easily numbered in the several thousand, severely beat the three boys, and lynched Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. Somehow 16yr old Cameron was able to escape with his life. They brutalized their bodies and took "souvenirs."

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 11h

2. August 7, 1930. Three teenagers; Thomas Shipp 18, Abram Smith 19, and James Cameron 16, were three Black boys accused of murder, robbery, and SA. But before even getting a trial, a large white mob broke into the jail they were held to lynch them. But this wasn't the South

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 11h

You know what....let's talk about this "infamous" photo, before the spirit of typing leaves me. I think it's relevant considering the news from the Pentagon we just got This is the scene of what's considered the "last public lynching." And it's legacy is quite long. 🧵

book:

Our Town. A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America by Cynthia Carr

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 11h

it's all intentional. It reminds me of Facebook comments under news posts of people proclaiming: "BRING BACK PUBLIC EXECUTIONS!" they want their bloodlust satiated. But it cant be. They'll only want more

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12h

Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose six trials in the same Mississippi murder case became a national symbol of racial bias in jury selection, leading the Supreme Court to reverse his capital conviction in 2019, died at home this week in Winona, Miss. He was 56. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/o...

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 12h

btw, I believe there's no coincidence that he's Palestinian. I know what he did. But....

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 12h

Dear Clarence Thomas, THIS....is what you could correctly classify as a "high-tech lynching."

An old post-card of a lynching scene. With crowds enjoying it like a festival.

The feet of the victims have been scratched out intentionally

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 13h

January 6 never happened, and we wont stop until we flip the script

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 20h

The Reverend Jesse Jackson would've turned 85 today

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In case you're wondering... of course, #they are against this.... it was in that Project #they shared with everyone...

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 22h

Because of its long standing discrimination against Black families, Wells Fargo pledged $60billion to create 250,000 Black homeowners. The Trump administration found its "blackface warrior" to combat against this in the name of a man named Scott Turner, who is launching a federal investigation

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

An ancestors are messy, but human 🫶🏾

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.” - Imamu Amiri Baraka -

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Missouri had underfunded Lincoln University by $361,569,760 between fiscal years 1987 and 2020, calculated from the federal government’s own Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System,” the lawsuit states. thegrio.com/2026/10/07/l...

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Lincoln University students, alums sue Missouri for nearly $550M, alleging state illegally underfunded the HBCU

Plaintiffs for Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri are suing the state for $539M, alleging the HBCU was illegally underfunded.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He was born 92 years ago today. He's the architect of the Black Arts Movement, poet, scholar, radical, playwright, essayist, and survivor of the 1967 Newark Rebellion. Born Leroi Jones, he changed his name to Amiri Baraka after Malcolm was assassinated. He's also the father of Ras Baraka

books:

left - The Autobiography of Leroi Jones by Amiri Baraka

right - The Amiri Baraka Reader. Edited by William J. Harris

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Even the kids are actively looking for low tech. They're tired of their purely digital existence

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anybody remember this moment right before the 2024 election? Along with Kevin Roberts, Russ Vought was the most significant contributor to Project 2025.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

fighting the desire to buy the newest Galaxy smart watch because it's currently on sale. I just want something new and im tired of waiting for my Switch 2

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I like to think of him like George Schuyler. At one time, things were a lot different

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Here's what they think about you." - Ice Cube

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"But do you condemn Hamas?" "Tell them to release the hostages."

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"....and I'll adore you. Ill treat you like milk, I'll do nothing but spoil you."

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yea. this is the overwhelming consensus I've been hearing

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I tend to agree. Not only was it for profit, but it was to try and reinforce a culture of Black pathology while also engaging in outrage marketing

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