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nevver:

Imperial Glory

smithsonianmag:

An Aerial View of D-Day

A panoramic view of the Omaha beachhead after it was secured, sometime around mid-June 1944, at low tide.

Photo: U.S. Coast Guard Collection in the U.S. National Archives

Holy hell.

horcrvx:

The Trayvon Martin story remains in national headlines this week, but little media attention has been paid to a similarly troubling case: that of Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., a 68-year-old Marine vet killed in his home last November by police officers in White Plains, NY.

The officers were responding to a false alarm accidentally triggered by Chamberlain’s medical alert pendant while he slept. Instead of helping the man, who had a heart condition, they broke down his front door, tasered him, reportedly called him the “n-word” and mocked him, then shot him dead.

Audio throughout the incident was recorded by his medical alert device.

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Disgusted but not even remotely surprised.

I don’t even know what to say right now. 

I am aghast.

I am enraged.

New Estimate Raises Civil War Death Toll

By GUY GUGLIOTTA Published: April 2, 2012

For 110 years, the numbers stood as gospel: 618,222 men died in the Civil War, 360,222 from the North and 258,000 from the South — by far the greatest toll of any war in American history.

By combing through newly digitized census data from the 19th century, J. David Hacker, a demographic historian from Binghamton University in New York, has recalculated the death toll and increased it by more than 20 percent — to 750,000.

…

“[W]ars have profound economic, demographic and social costs,” he went on. “We’re seeing at least 37,000 more widows here, and 90,000 more orphans. That’s a profound social impact, and it’s our duty to get it right.”

i12bent:

Tonight’s OF spotlight falls on this controversial figure who had a distinct impact on US political culture in the ’60s and ’70s:

Huey P. Newton (Feb. 17, 1942 - 1989, homicide) - co-founder (1966) and leader of the Black Panther Party, and one of the important African-American activists in the struggle for civil rights and the ability for Blacks to practice self-defense.

Despite many attempts by authorities and racially biased police to discredit Newton as a common criminal and a murderer, he consistently proved himself as an intellectual and an organizer and a writer…

“The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.” — H.P.N.

Photo: Huey P. Newton handling Highway 61 Revisited - Stephen Shames, 1970

We read People v. Newton as an example of unconsciousness as excuse for criminal liability in my Criminal Law class earlier this semester. Professor Bridges asked the class of ~70 students if anyone knew who Huey Newton was. I have to imagine other people knew who the man was but I was the only one who raised their hand.

socialismartnature:

(Photo) “Why do they hate us?”

100% Doesn’t like being bombed.