Adam Francis Plummer’s chronicle is believed to be the country’s sole known example of a multigenerational journal begun by an enslaved person. It’s now on view at the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum
👉🏼 This is invaluable ! 💙

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In 1841, Adam Francis Plummer decided to keep a diary. Born into enslavement in 1819, he labored primarily at Riversdale House, a plantation owned by the Calvert family in Prince George’s County, Maryland.
Adam Francis Plummer’s chronicle is believed to be the country’s sole known example of a multigenerational journal begun by an enslaved person. It’s now on view at the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum
👉🏼 This is invaluable ! 💙
Wow! Zelenskyy is saying simple common sense stuff, but the cult wouldn’t understand it!! 😬
I think so. . . It doesn’t seem dystopian!
It’s a fair deal!! 🤷🏻♂️
Grateful to be part of this SP. thank you 🙏 very much @georgewachsmuth.bsky.social !💙🎉
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” — George Orwell, “1984”
-Thích Nhất Hạnh
Indian authorities deployed a sweeping security crackdown across New Delhi and detained thousands of protesters Saturday as India’s youth “Cockroach” movement sought to intensify a nationwide campaign against a contentious voter list revision.
The latest attack on the international airport in Saudi Arabia’s capital of Riyadh killed 12 people and injured over 300 others, civil aviation authorities said early Sunday, with some in critical condition.
🔷 The Iran war has unleashed something dangerous !
“It is by distortedly exalting some men, that others are distortedly debased, till the whole is out of nature.” — Thomas Paine
“There are such things in the world as human rights. They rest upon no conventional foundation, but are eternal, universal and indestructible.” — Frederick Douglass
Many people were saying that trade wars and tariffs would do that…🤷🏻♂️
HOPE: Turn hope into action!
The extradition requests came after Moscow issued warrants for the nine in response to the ICC’s 2023 arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine. The Moscow City Court last year sentenced the nine in absentia to prison terms.
South African human rights lawyer Navi Pillay has won the Nobel Peace Prize. She didn’t stop “8 wars”. . . BUT Pillay once served as the UN’s top human rights official, defended anti-apartheid activists, presided over the UN tribunal for Rwanda, served as a judge on the International Criminal Court
"It's a disease called cowardice that's making us see such fearful delusions. We're the ones holding ourselves back, no one else is. Everyone is too afraid of temporary names and temporary identities." — Yukio Mishima
Public dissatisfaction with the state of the nation👇
Cult members are dumb (which they learned ends with a “b” from their dear leader!). They will consume any outrageous, bald-faced lies… They will believe anything really!