https://www.justsecurity.org/106593/national-emergency-southern-border-order/ What Just Happened: Unpacking Exec Order on National Emergency at the Southern Border. If he deploys troops on US soil is not constitutional in this case and sending troops into Mexico would the act of a sociopathic dumbass. #News #Mexico #trump #history

Settlements in the area go back to ancient tribes of what the Roman's called Curonians.

Read more https://lttr.ai/AcSRp

Italian composer, musicologist, and author Pietro Della Valle, born OTD in 1586, traveled throughout Asia during the Renaissance period, to the Holy Land, the Middle East, Northern Africa, and beyond https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/syria/palmyra.html?s=mb #travel #history

Italian Jesuit priest, mathematician, and physicist Francesco Maria Grimaldi, born OTD in 1618, built and used instruments to measure lunar mountains as well as the height of clouds https://toilet-guru.com/blog/36.html?s=mb #astronomy #history

Three years ago today
Punk rock queen Pamela Rooke aka Jordan died far too early on April 3, 2022 at the age of 66 as a result of a variant of biliary cancer.

Rest in Punk Queen

Chris Moorehouse

43 years ago today
The Misfits "Walk Among Us" Tour, Freezer Theatre Detroit, Michigan, April 3, 1982, supported by Necros, Negative Approach and The Meatmen

Happy Birthday to Mike Ness, American guitarist, vocalist, and chief songwriter for the punk rock band Social Distortion, born on this day in 1962, Lynn, Massachusetts

Photo by Alison Braun

A GLORIOUS MEDITATION ON BLUE, and on the blues, and on the centrality of the color, the mood, and the music to all of African and diaspora life, but particularly to Black life in the US. Elegant, eloquent, erudite, yet profoundly direct. SOLID A

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/black-in-blues-imani-perry/1145525940?ean=9780062977397

@bookstodon

https://www.usluck.com/489508/crazy-how-some-in-western-europe-thought-that-eastern-europe-were-lucky/ Crazy how some in western Europe thought that eastern europe were lucky #History #HistoryMemes #Memes

COG. The money, or whatsoever the sweeteners drop to draw in a bubble.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

Author Jason Stanley on 'Erasing History': How Fascicts Rewrite The Past To Control The Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sVwjZ9H72M

Bravery isn't lacking fear.

If you're not afraid when facing something awful, then you are just stupid, or ignorant/uncaring to how much is at stake.

Bravery is fear coursing through you, making you cry, or shake, with every muscle telling you to hide, or run, and choosing to stand to do the right thing.

We're all feeling that right now if we know #history a bit.

Or can just read graphs.

Stay brave. Speak out. Be seen.

It's the only way we see an okay future.

Round piece of floral tatting

A round piece of floral tatting made of white mercerised cotton. Some brown coloured staining is visible.

Cotton thread

https://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/s/hw/EMU.EMUIRN/68761

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#Art #History #Museum #ArtHistory #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random #Australia

Plato:

They do it because they know they can get away with it,
because they know, if they don’t change it too much, they can change it all they want.
And we let them do it because we think they never actually would.

#trump #us #usa #oligarchs #rome #history

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertcharboneau/p/misfortune-blinds-us-like-the-driven?r=1g75i7&utm_medium=ios

Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, born OTD in 748, ruled as Holy Roman Emperor from 800 to his death in 814 https://toilet-guru.com/blog/50.html?s=mb #travel #HolyRomanEmpire #history

Events for the 3rd of April from Wikipedia:

• 1933: First flight over Mount Everest, the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest
• Birth (1912) of Dorothy Eden, New Zealand-English author (d. 1982) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Eden
• Holiday: Christian feast of Luigi Scrosoppi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Scrosoppi
#history #events #historical #today @histodons

If you are confused about what the tariffs mean & how they'll be used, this is worth reading.

"Answering your questions about President Trump’s reciprocal tariffs"

#Crisis #Tariffs #USA #EU #News #Democrats #MAGA #Fascism #Security #Canada #Economy #GDP #Oligarchy #Inflation #USA #House #Elections #Polls #Reading #History #Constitution

https://apnews.com/article/trump-reciprocal-tariffs-trade-025d996838e64d7f1b33eb288e34d892

Just because...

"The Best English Book on Civil Disobedience"

Remember you have rights. You STILL have the right to protest injustice.

#Crisis #Tariffs #USA #EU #News #Democrats #MAGA #Fascism #Security #Canada #Economy #GDP #Oligarchy #Inflation #USA #House #Elections #Polls #Reading #History #Constitution

https://eirenicon.org/the-best-english-book-on-civil-disobedience/

Benjamin Franklin Museum and Court in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

This overlooked courtyard and museum celebrate Benjamin Franklin's life and achievements.#postal #history #museums #benjaminfranklin #section-Atlas
Benjamin Franklin Museum and Court

This wonderful staircase was designed by the architect Ede Magyar for the Reök Palace in Szeged, Hungary (1906-1907), but it was actually created by the metal-worker and artist-craftsman Pál Fekete, who was responsible for the spectacular forging of the entire building
[ Credit : artnouveauclub ]
By #StainedGlassArtCreations
#Architecture #Design #Style #Nature #Art #Artist #Photo #Photographer #Urbanism #City #Village #Staircases #History #Histoire #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces