I'm pleased to launch a major new update of the Andersonville Irish Project database. It contains details on over 1060 Irish Americans who died. New datapoints include place of enlistment, capture, occupation, together with Irish origins. Access it here: irishamericancivilwar.com/2026/03/01/m...
Had to look it up - Mark Twain was so wise. www.americanyawp.com/reader/19-am...
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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US Rep. Brendan Boyle interviewed by RTÉ on the case of an Irish citizen interned in an ICE concentration camp for several months, a story first broken by @klillington.bsky.social
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Wouldn’t do it to save grandma, will do it to deport her. We see where your priorities lie.
Ha! The alt text is really something
The US is shipping people across the Atlantic in chains through our country.
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”
#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
Bad Bunny for Vanity Fair in 2023:
“What I do, I do from my heart...I believe that every human being has the duty to have empathy for others, to help others, to respect them, to always try to contribute something to society, to bring a positive change.”
www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/0...
This was so joyful. Fantastic show!
Tomorrow in Boston: A phone-bank to support extending TPS for Haitians.
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
@motherjones.com had this one last week before it was top of the page @nytimes.com Those of us working on projects for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration have anticipated such a giant whitewash laden with grift. Everyone should read real history right now and support real historians.
never gave up their culture. Kilkenny People and Connaught Telegraph weekly along with 3 NY dailies, hurling and “the Irish program” on the radio, Irish food they’d eaten all their lives along w/ new delights, almost all immigrant friends. None of this made them less-worthy as new Americans.
All part of the American tapestry! I don’t even understand the argument that today’s immigrants aren’t assimilating! When did they ever have to give up their own culture to embrace America’s as well? As a child of immigrants, the two didn’t compete. My parents loved their new American home, and…
I know it and I don’t need to go that far- my next town over is Pearl River, NY. Many immigrants: big GAA club nearby, aisles of Irish foods in the grocery store, trad music in the pubs, Irish coffee shop with brown bread and fry-ups. And why wouldn’t it be like that?
It’s frustrating that these people think they revere their family’s histories but don’t even bother to learn anything about what actually happened.
People really don’t know their history on this. A friend told me how different her Irish ancestors were from today’s immigrants as “they loved America and assimilated as soon as they got here” - ignoring both how America didn’t love them and how much those immigrants changed America.
Constituent here - thanks for the reminder!
Oh yeah, his constituents are pretty fiery about him.
infamous failed jesus fresco resotoration from spain
the two years of transformation:
Thank you. That was an interesting distillation of what sounds like a long and terrible conversation.
I think that’s the point as
- since when do we expect the French to show any righteousness in such matters? Our depravity has eclipsed theirs.
The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit.
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
Organ rejection is one of the worst ways to die naturally (for some values of "natural"). Look it up at your own risk, or take my word for it, accept that they're torturing a man to death, & act accordingly.
"Sure, ICE is bad, but we need to deport illegal immigrants"
No you don't.
If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
