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‘Red Hood’ Writer Criticizes DC’s Firing Standards: “You Can Still Get Neil Gaiman’s Work Through Them”
(boundingintocomics.com)
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House passes spending bill as Democrats protest healthcare cuts: ‘We don’t work for Trump’
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Title text:
People looking for the gaps in our understanding where the meaning of consciousness or free will might hide often turn to quantum uncertainty or infinite cosmologies, as if we don't have breathtakingly complex emergent phenomena right there in our freezers.
Transcript:
Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com
Source: https://xkcd.com/3144/
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EU official: Cost of living crisis threatens 'trust in democracy' | dpa international
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I just heard that Congress passed a bill making October 14th a day of remembrance for a true hero, who sacrificed their life for the good of humanity. A sad, tragic death far before their time.
That said, it is kind of weird that Congress spend its time on a, let's face it, minor media figure, what with all of the pressing issues of the day facing our nation, but that's what they did. So, let's do as Congress intended, and honor Charly Burke on October 14th.
Maybe with a big stack of pancakes.
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Today’s Protest at John Brown Museum, Harper’s Ferry National Historic Site, WV, 9/19/25
(lemmy.world)
(Gonna be a long one with the descriptions, no regularly scheduled hike post today)
Protest at the museum earlier today over the removal of ‘controversial material,’ relating to Brown and the abolitionists. Erasure of history. Will have a true write up on Harpers Ferry later.
Protest on the opposite side of the street from the John Brown Fort/Museum at Harpers Ferry. Many signs, including a 'What would John Brown Do?' one.
Looking out the window of John Brown's fort to the protestors outside.
Looking out from the location of the John Brown Memorial statue towards the protestors on the left and the museum/fort on the right.
The main entrance to the museum, which was 'closed for safety', although you could still see the interior from the adjoining room. Likely controversial because it makes John Brown look like an absolute BA in all of the images of him throughout the room.
Perspectives
I go joyfully in behalf of millions that ‘have no rights’ that this great and glorious, this Christian Republic ‘is bound to respect.’ -John Brown, November 1859
All Virginia… Should stand forth as one man and say to fanaticism… whenever you advance a hostile foot upon our soil, we will welcome you with bloody hands and hospitable graves. -James L. Kemper, Delegate to the Virginia General Assembly, 1859
It was [John Brown’s] peculiar doctrine that a man has a perfect right to interfere by force with the slaveholder, in order to rescue the slave. I agree with him.. -Henry David Thoreau, Octoer 30, 1859
If John Brown did not end the war that ended slavery, he did at least begin the war that ended slavery. -Frederick Douglas, May 30, 1881
Most of the museum is open, with the main entrance room chained, and a room with a closed sign. Misreading the sign I thought I was actually supposed to be on that side of the door, so I went in to make sure I was doing the right thing. Here are the displays from that room (full texts listed).
‘Allies for Freedom, The Aftermath’ (Going down the left, then middle, then right; ignoring bottom left letter as I can’t read it)
Immediately after the raid, Dangerfield Newby, Lewis Leary, and five other raiders were buried in an unmarked grave along the Shenandoah River. Forty Years Later, under cover of darkness, a small group of sympathizers exhumed the bodies for reburial beside John Brown in North Elba, New York.
Shields Green and John Copeland faced trial at the Charles Town courthouse in November 1859. Both were found guilty of murder and inciting slaves to rebel. The court dismissed the charge of treason on the grounds that black men, denied citizenship by the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision, were incapable of treason.
Unlike John Brown, Shields Green and John Copeland had little to say publicly while imprisoned in Charles Town, Virginia. However, Copeland wrote eloquent letters to his family and friends concerning the raid and his fate.
Middle plaque is from John Brown’s memorial, lists the method of his demise at the age of 59, along with the names of his fellow raiders and what happened to them. Bottom quote reads: ‘… I John Brown am now quite certain that the Crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with blood. I had as I now think: vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed; it might be done..’….It can be said….It all started here.
On December 16, 1859, Shields Green and John Copeland sat on their own coffins as they rode to the gallows. Just before Green was readied for execution and his arms were tied, he extended a hand toward his comrade as if in a final goodbye. The trap door opened and the former slave died five minutes later. Copeland, however, struggled for twelve minutes as his body writhed in vioent contortions.
Less than an hour after Shields Green and John Copeland were buried, Winchester Medical College students dug up the two corpses for dissection and study. Copeland’s family enlisted a member of the Ohio Senate to bargain for the release of their son’s body, but failed. Union troops burned the Winchester Medical College to the ground three years later.
Osborne Anderson, the only black raider to survive, returned to Canada and penned ‘A ship from Harpers Ferry’ in (illegible).. John Brown dug the (illegible again, apologies). Anderson survived a stint in the Unon Army in 1864 but died of consumption in Washington DC eight years later. Any hope of finding his unmarked grave ended when the Harmony Cemetery was removed.
The inscription reads in part, ‘These colored citizens of Oberlin.. gave their lives for the slave.’ As a tribute to their former neighbors, the people of Oberlin, Ohio erected a monument to Lewis Leary, John Copeland and Shields Green.
On August 30, 1899, a special ceremony honored the reburial of Dangerfield Newton, Lewis Leary and eight other raiders in John Brown’s home in North Elba, New York. Lewis Leary’s Widow sent the following message, ‘I rejoice that (they) are not forgotten. I remember them with pride and their brave struggle for the liberty of an oppressed race.’
Allies for Freedom, The Prelude/The Raid
Apologies, much of this text is illegible to me, I’ll see if I can get more done at some point. The middle text reads:
The 21 men we know today as John Brown’s raiders all shared a hatred of slavery and a conviction to act. Five of these men were black. Three were born free at a time when one drop of African blood separated them from citizenship. Their freedom was incomplete. Two were born as slaves at a time when four million were held in bondage. They returned to face the institution they had left behind. Having known some measure of freedom, did these five men have nothing to gain, and everything to lose? What compelled them to risk their lives against tremendous odds? Discover the contributions of these five allies to the struggle for freedom.
The most infuriating thing by far was that the entire building for African-American History was closed (and locked) to the public. All shades drawn as well. Just blatant racism.
The exterior of the Afircan- American History building at Harper's Ferry, with its doors locked and all shades drawn. Apologies for no better pictures, was too busy dropping F-bombs that they would close the entire building.
Link to the listed NPS ‘Our Stories’ webpage for Harpers Ferry, which (currently) has some of the information contained within. https://www.nps.gov/hafe/learn/historyculture/stories.htm
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