Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, when Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, who led the 7th Cavalry, lost his entire command to Lakota warriors after falling on them unexpectedly in their own territory.
The Battle of the Little Bighorn wasn’t the beginning of the story.
It was the consequence of repeatedly breaking treaties, ignoring the law when it became inconvenient, and then calling the people defending their own land “hostile.”
Hello Kelli... As a Rule-Of-Thumb, Chinese, and Egyptian Dynasties lasted between 200 to 300 years... Unless this American Experiment is Reinvigorated, Time Is Ticking...
Time is ticking, Apache, and Putin is getting humiliated.
He's going to start throwing nukes. He hates the west. Cannot imagine in all his arrogance that Zelensky and his fellow Ukrainians can, as they are now doing, beat the forces that corrupt Putin and his fellow corrupt oligarchs have themselves self-decimated -- scarcely three decades after having looted (with U.S. investing aid) Mother Rus's vast resources for their own corruption.
I dread having to see the "civilized" world descend into its own vast looting and self-decimation following the interruptions the first nukes will let ensue.
Russians may take things into their own hands. They have done it before. This Czar is flailing. Their economic minister just created a film flam of a funding scheme to keep the nation afloat. Russia is on financial dialysis.
Russians are hurting, shortages and high prices. Their young men are being fed into a wood chipper.
Energy infrastructure is being wrecked by Ukrainian drones.
Putin's war is a failure by any measure.
I could be wrong. It happens all the time. But I think Putin and Trump have some things in common: Arrogance, bad judgement and vulnerability. I think it's a crap shoot as to which one goes down first.
And resonate with our capacities for compassion and for sociopathic greed. And yes, it seems that "normal" can be both a source of comfort and trust, and anesthetizing facade for many horrors.
It seems that the ugly side of human nature is a constant, ans at at times, is overwhelming. And always there are those who mean no harm and are just pursuing a decent life.
The movie Little Big Man was released in 1970 and has been aired repeatedly throughout the years. I saw it the summer between my Freshman and Sophomore years of high school. The massacre scene in the movie changed my life. Thanks to the movie, I became aware of the myriad atrocities committed by the US Army and the various administrations from the late 1600's through, well, today.
It is the largest genocide of against any group of indigenous people in the known history of the world. Heather could recount events like Little Big Horn everyday and not cover them all in a year. I recommend reading her book - Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre.
We can never make up for the atrocities committed against the Native Americans.
We can't make that up, GJ, because of parallel atrocities normalized.
Trail of Tears. Sand Creek. Forced internment of Japanese Americans. Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Selma. My Lai. Abu Ghraib. Minab.
The rapes of 1200 girls and young women by the rich and powerful mutually invested with Donald and Jeffrey just continue the lawlessness -- and merge with many other international branches of criminality.
Schools in U.S. and abroad, more guided by humanities and essaying, or just testing?
Add the enslavement of Black people to the list. It went on so long that it's hard to pin a particular place or event to it. Selma happened long after it (supposedly) ended, and Tulsa happened more than 50 years before that.
CONTRAST THIS... While Trump has spent $400 million of our taxpayer dollars on a ballroom... Canada on July 21, 2025 signed a $300 million dollar grant to launch one the the largest indigenous-led conservation projects in the world - NWT ( Northwest Territories) Our Land for the Future... The initiative, led by indigenous peoples, will advance large-scale, long-term conservation, stewardship, and economic development throughout the Northwest territories... It will generate hundreds of good, culturally meaningful jobs, sustaining indigenous ways of life for generations to come and drive climate action and resilience.
We need to take back our Democracy for the good of the planet... And we need to take inspiration for our fight from Hungary, Ukraine, and what the inspiring people of Canada are doing to protect all people and ways of life. Please email the PCFederalRegister@usps.gov. - subject line "Ballot Mail" re/ their Proposed Ruling. We only have till 5 pm on July 2 to comment. The AAPD website has all kinds of short temp!ates to use or give ideas to write a short paragraph... action is extremely important...
Per NBC News headline, "Judge blocks Trump’s executive order on mail voting." ....... CAVEAT: I have not examined any response to the Court's order or docket status.
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June 25, 2026, 7:55 AM PDT / Updated June 25, 2026, 8:35 AM PDT
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A federal judge on Thursday blocked the implementation of key parts of President Donald Trump’s executive order on mail voting, declaring the plans to intervene in state-run elections unconstitutional.
“The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.”
– John Adams, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law.
I just skimmed the 1980 lakota scotus case tonight; that case alone pretty much lays out your point. I didn’t have enough knowledge to really take it in, so will work on my poor historical knowledge and go back to reread it.
Yes. I am sorry I did not mean to imply that it was limited. I just meant to note that the case in question goes through some of the history of how the govt avoided treaty obligations as a matter of practice.
Under the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, the United States pledged that the Great Sioux Reservation, including the Black Hills, would be "set apart for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation" of the Sioux Nation (Sioux), and that no treaty for the cession of any part of the reservation would be valid as against the Sioux unless executed and signed by at least three-fourths of the adult male Sioux population. The treaty also reserved the Sioux' right to hunt in certain unceded territories. Subsequently, in 1876, an "agreement" presented to the Sioux by a special Commission but signed by only 10% of the adult male Sioux population, provided that the Sioux would relinquish their rights to the Black Hills and to hunt in the unceded territories, in exchange for subsistence rations for as long as they would be needed. In 1877, Congress passed an Act (1877 Act) implementing this "agreement" and thus, in effect, abrogated the Fort Laramie Treaty. Throughout the ensuing years, the Sioux regarded the 1877 Act as a breach of that treaty, but Congress did not enact any mechanism by which they could litigate their claims against the United States until 1920, when a special jurisdictional Act was passed. Pursuant to this Act, the Sioux brought suit in the Court of Claims, alleging that the Government had taken the Black Hills without just compensation, in violation of the Fifth Amendment. In 1942, this claim was dismissed by the Court of Claims, which held that it was not authorized by the 1920 Act to question whether the compensation afforded the Sioux in the 1877 Act was an adequate price for the Black Hills, and that the Sioux' claim was a moral one not protected by the Just Compensation Clause. Thereafter, upon enactment of the Indian Claims Commission Act in 1946, the Sioux resubmitted their claim to the Indian Claims Commission, which held that the 1877 Act effected a taking for which the Sioux were entitled to just compensation, and that the 1942 Court of Claims decision did not bar the taking claim under res judicata. On appeal, the Court of Claims, affirming the Commission's holding that a want of fair and honorable dealings on the Government's part was evidenced, ultimately held that the Sioux were entitled to an award of at least $17.5 million, without interest, as damages under the Indian Claims Commission Act,
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for the lands surrendered and for gold taken by trespassing prospectors prior to passage of the 1877 Act. But the court further held that the merits of the Sioux' taking claim had been reached in its 1942 decision, and that therefore such claim was barred by res judicata. The court noted that only if the acquisition of the Black Hills amounted to an unconstitutional taking would the Sioux be entitled to interest. Thereafter, in 1978,Congress passed an Act (1978 Act) providing for de novo review by the Court of Claims of the merits of the Indian Claims Commission's holding that the 1877 Act effected a taking of the Black Hills, without regard to res judicata, and authorizing the Court of Claims to take new evidence in the case. Pursuant to this Act, the Court of Claims affirmed the Commission's holding. In so affirming, the court, in order to decide whether the 1877 Act had effected a taking or whether it had been a noncompensable act of congressional guardianship over tribal property, applied the test of whether Congress had made a good faith effort to give the Sioux the full value of their land. Under this test, the court characterized the 1877 Act as a taking in exercise of Congress' power of eminent domain over Indian property. Accordingly, the court held that the Sioux were entitled to an award of interest on the principal sum of $17.1 million (the fair market value of the Black Hills as of 1877), dating from 1877.
That is the history of that case, the link to the case is above.
Actually, Julius, you are just a lost soul. From my first post to my last, I have said one thing. I am here for one thing and one thing only. The last thing I need, are your stupid, empty accusations, retorts, your insults, and your incredible capacity of ignorance… and actually what I do normally is, I respond to Heather‘s ridiculousness on a daily basis, where she tells you some of the truth, some of the time. But I’ve not seen a post yet, but she tells you the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth not once
What I said was I say it again all I need is to make you aware of facts that you have no idea exist. And Voilà. Thousands and thousands of people are being made aware and have been very appreciative.
You know Julius, you guys are gonna have to get your nomenclature, correct?
There are 30 40,50 people that probably post 10 1520 times a day are this site. And
THEY ARE NEVER REFERRED TO AS TROLLS. OOOOPS The only time you call them a troll is where they don’t agree with you and the reason they don’t agree with you is because they percent facts you don’t like. So I’m sorry I didn’t mean to bring up fact that you were not aware of in total and complete ignorance of life has it exist today?
We call people trolls when they disagree with the facts of history and current events. Like agreeing that Renee Nicole Good was trying to run over Jonathan Ross. Like agreeing that Alex Pretti was planning a violent attack on ICE / CBP. Like agreeing that FDT has been a great president. -- People who hold and express those views are trolls. That seems to place you squarely in their camp.
Oh! And, like agreeing that indigenous people were "hostile" when they were not. Like covering up the atrocities committed by U.S. troops. -- Same as we're doing today by covering up the illegality of bombing suspected drug boats, kidnapping foreign leaders (regardless of how despicable they might be), starting wars for no reason at all. Covering up the Epstein files to protect politicians and businessmen.
Why is it when people have no answer? All they do, is insult and accuse without any substance. They just make dumb statements and walk away. Wait a minute I think that was redundant. lol by the way, which part was horseshit, please be specific LMAO
Gee, Rick. You are so well-informed, you should start your own Substack. That way you won't have to deal with all these people making dumb statements without any substance, redundant as that may be.
What "border" are you referring to?!? The one that was arbitrarily constructed out of whole cloth because Southern white people who wanted to expand American slavery into the northern part of recently independent Mexico, i.e., Tejas, decided that they could simply make up a bullshit rationale for war that one of our greatest Presidents bitterly opposed on the floor of the House?!? Is that the "border" you refer to?!?
And by the way, by what stretch of your delusional and ignorant exhortations do you see the slightest scintilla of a comparison between the multitudinous broken promises successive American governments made to the Indigenous Peoples whose land they stole and lives they destroyed, with the non-existent Biden promise of border security?!?
Please go back to the dark, dank hole you crawled out of, and leave the rest of us alone, as I have requested numerous times previously.
By the way, those were called Democrats back then…. including the inventors of the KKK. Oooops. It’s a little late at night for history lesson but there it is. Thank you for getting me involved. By the way, you’re gonna be a lot better off trying to live in reality a.k.a. today. Where the only palace racism exists is in racist heads.
One of my college buddies actually wrote a book you might want to read its titled TGIT. And I’m not sure if you can actually look it up like that but it’s an existing book. And TGIT stands for. thank God it’s today. Have a nice evening daniel.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT? You must be living in another country or perhaps another planet. The border has been a $1 trillion problem already. Problem has gone to the Supreme Court six times. I guess that’s not important. That’s not a problem.
The fact that there’s been hundreds of American citizen women RAPED AND MURDERED BY ILLEGALS IS NOT A PROBLEM EITHER? Do you know how many raped and murdered women by illegal would there have been if they were not allowed to cross the border? Hmmmmmmmmm. Fucking ZERO….. but other than that, it’s nice of you to stick up for women, even those that are being trafficked.
I’m actually sitting here stunned, thinking that there’s people that actually think that your statement is true HFS.
And sometimes the battlefield is in the courts. I recommend Rebecca Nagle's great 2024 book BY THE FIRE WE CARRY: The Generations-Long Fight for Native Land. It focuses on the legal fight for Native land in Eastern Oklahoma but works in plenty of the wider history in the process.
We should have listened to the Lakota tribes of South Dakota earlier on because they were not allowing Kristi Noem on their reservations. And they still don’t and they never will.
I might be mistaken, but I don't recall a single Senator of either party asking Moonbat Eyes why she wasn't allowed on Lakota land during her confirmation hearings. You'd think somebody would have focused on that.
Mullin is Cherokee. I didn’t know who he was before his nomination, but I remember seeing that right before and being confused about how this would go. I am curious about how the tribe has chosen to handle mullin’s new position.
Heather, expert historian on our Indian wars, and exterminations, gets one lovely side result here.
Accountability. The Sioux and their allies held Custer and his braggadocio accountable.
Earlier today Heather appeared on Katie Couric’s podcast, both there, too, centered on accountability.
Except for Jefferson Davis, who after the Civil War did do prison time, Heather pointed out how no Confederates were held accountable for their efforts to destroy the United States for a whites-only supremacy country instead. We know, too, that following the crash of the housing market in 2008, and the near-crash of the banking system then, no large bankers went to prison.
Nearly the same after the crash of 1929. I found online a piece by Jason M. Breslaw, which discussed the Pecora Commission, whose work from 1932 on “led to indictments,” but, again, then, “most escaped prosecution.”
So Heather and Katie went round and round on how criminal Donald just lets his criminality rule all, with Heather tying that up by looking at his enabling Republicans in Congress. Said she, “They vowed that they were going to enforce the Constitution, and they’re simply doing whatever he tells them to.”
That's the way it has been for much of American history, where genuine savages ever rule for the unaccountable rich and powerful -- still rule protecting them all covered up in the Trump-Epstein file.
And let's not forget Nixon. If Ford hadn't pardoned him, he would have gone to trial and perhaps done hard time. Then we might have been spared our current shame and disgrace.
I can only surmise that Ford, like most Americans, think a POTUS is above reproach…but COME ON! Donald Trump incited a murderous MOB to try and take over the Capitol.
We ALL saw it…expecting - now seems so näive - Trump and all his goons to rot in jail for TREASON.
Jean, there were some in Merrill’s DOJ who resisted prosecuting a (former) PRESIDENT; they thought that went too far. Others were afraid and some were holdovers from his first admin. That was one—but not the only—factor in the li g delay.
Unlikely. Much of our current shame and disgrace is deserved. We had 2 opportunities to make it better or different and we bungled both of them and made it catastrophically worse. Now we're experiencing what indigenous peoples did.
And let's not forget the ChristoNazis' favorite brand of plausibly deniable genocide -- extermination by austerity, medical misogyny and anti-vax hysteria.
The greatest country in the world you’re sitting here on a computer, talking about whisper, living the same life of the Indians did? No, you’re totally lost in the past
“The greatest country in the world?” The U.S. is reviled by virtually every country around the world, except perhaps Russia and Saudi Arabia. I’m a citizen of the U.S. and Canada and Canadians certainly don’t think the U.S. is the greatest.
Whatever may have been Nixon's fate under law, it was imperative that his betrayals were met with legal justice and equal protection, and that did not happen. Ford may have meant well, but he undermined rule of law, and opened a crack in the concept of universal accountability that has much widened in the present.
That’s a good thing. I’m glad you brought it up Joel, because if Biden hadn’t pardoned himself, he probably be hanging by his toes upside down on the White House lawn, naked, and not even know why he was there.
And in the Regan years of the 1980’s the debacle of the thrifts failing that we taxpayers had to bail out. Those guys should never have been allowed to touch money again but no consequences for them.
If you mean the S&L crisis, that was at least keenly investigated and many wrongdoers convicted. The subprime crisis was much greater and more damaging, yet dodgy bankers got a pass. Too big to fail, too big to hold accountable means they were just plain too big, and we had dealt with monopolists before; yet this time around, our government helped them get bigger.
Strange isn't it, how money so frequently eludes accountability, or when caught "red handed" winds up with token sentences. $COTUS fiercely defended a life sentence for a man who stole some videos for his kids, but some seem too rich (and/or connected) to jail. I have read about important businessmen selling to and aiding the Nazis in WW II, but somehow getting away with it. It's the same double standard all the fuss was about in 1776, but we couldn't quite bear to part with it, and today it's more than just metaphor that we struggle with a monarchy.
Hey, you missed all the big news today. A lot of people were apologizing for Obama building his library on stolen land boy they you really let him off the hook, huh?
Not to mention, they fixed the reflecting pool I guess that’s why you didn’t cover it
Yeah, and how is that impact in your life today phil. ? No, I’m gonna start suggesting a book that my friend will really appreciate I start suggesting to most of you here. He’s a very philosophical guy, and very smart. You would like it because he owns a number of flower fields where he had a raging successfully flower business. And he wrote a book called. TGIT. thank God it’s today. Imagine what you guys would learn from trying to live in today, rather than to live in ancient prehistoric history
Does anyone else see Pete Kegsbreath's face flash before them when the topic of General Armstrong Custer's arrogance and cruelty arises? Did Custer also bounce up and down on his Florsheims in front of a TV camera when trying to co-splay GI Joe, I wonder?
I think GAC was more of a buckskin moccasin or a leather booted cavalry man than a Florsheim fop as Kegsbreath is. In fact, Custer was a real soldier, earning commendations for his bravery in the Civil War, commendations that Hegseth could only earn on the heavy carbon copy paper pumped out by the late Trump University.
I learned tonight, on another substack, that he did something similar, maintaining his blond hair long specifically for effect. Apparently there were some similarities.
You know, I tried to be nice to you and I haven’t come up with a mean acronym for your name or a pseudonym or a moniker that I can hang on you. But you are beginning to attempt me. Lol.
Lt. Colonel George Custer was so arrogant and condescending to the indigenous tribes that he refused to shake hands with Kiowa Chiefs Satanta and Lone Wolf when they tried to negotiate with him, having them arrested instead and the rest of the tribe confined to Fort Cobb. Custer even led an attack on the surviving members of northern Cheyennes, while his military band played music. In only a few minutes, hundreds of Native Americans were dead, only a few of them warriors. Among the dead was their Chief Black Kettle who had just tried to negotiate a truce and food for his starving people.
These are just a couple of examples of his cruelty and arrogance years before his last stand at Little Big Horn. Custer was a genocidal maniac that got a taste of his own medicine, but it was a short lived victory for the Plains tribes...
The Nazi Republicans: The Rise of Racist Christian Nationalism
Nazi Republicans know what their marching orders are: follow Cheeto’s voter suppression and interference. They are counting on the midterms will be rigged. Every Nazi Republican racist policy that comes from SCOTUS, Cheeto and his WH goons, or those in the legislature is driven by white Christian Nationalism, animated by Project 2025. The Nazi Republican plan seeks to disenfranchise 66% of the electorate.
WE the People demand more of the Democratic party and the Democratic Socialist movement within the party recognize the danger facing the country while the Democratic establishment continue to want business as usual, hoping this too will pass, hoping that they get a nice pat on the head from Nazi Republicans.
These “cowardly lions” as O’Donnell describes them are not to be believed when they say they regret that they voted for something that turns to shit….like Cassidy’s confirmation vote for RFK Jr. Let’s not forget that Cheeto was impeached twice and Senate Republicans prevented conviction because it would sure look bad for the party if two Republican presidents had been forced to leave office. And even if some Republicans did the right thing on the J6 impeachment it wasn’t enough to get the appropriate conviction but for Nixon in that day even Republicans had the moral conviction that there were enough votes for conviction.
Despite their failings the Nazi Republicans have managed until now to obfuscate the true KKK leanings they have for our fellow AfroAmerican citizens as evidenced by the SCOTUS ruling that finally gutted the last remnants of the VRA(Voting Rights Act). Of course the Federalist supported nominations came from a Nazi Repubican institution and with the help of McConnell sealed the partisan SCOTUS now serving.
And for now the Nazi Republicans who have so far rubberstamped Cheeto’s brazen nepotistic corruption are feeling uneasy. Tax breaks for the ultrawealthy donor class while gutting the American social safety net, abandoning American aid to foreign countries but ok with genocide, and firing necessary civil servants in the name of fiscal conservatism can seem alright, federal corruption is a step gone too far. But they’re ok with wining elections by cheating and digitally manipulating the results.
So the Nazi Republicans have shown the American people who they really are. A group of lawless, bought off, immoral, racist, misogynistic culture warriors who have propaganidized themselves to public office. WE the People have seen enough. The electorate should not give them the public office of dogcatcher for at least 20 years.
Cute. Maybe true. But does he really wear a diaper and smell????????????? And Hitler had one ball or some stuff wrong with his genitals... Makes sense.
Yes! All the Canadian veterans knew the song “Hitler Only Has One Ball”, and when they ended up in the local Veteran’s Hospital, used to request it of our band, every Tuesday at their pub, and they sang along
Most of them are gone now, but they would be appalled at what America now calls a ‘President’, and insulted on behalf of their counterparts on the beaches of Normandy…who preserved US Freedom…for THAT!
DJT is not the longer term point. The hard work is to ask if in fact the US presidency is monarchical, this despite all your No Kings ballyhoo, and what minimal but nevertheless sufficient changes are necessary. Try the hard work. Ian
Anyone with power can abuse it, as we see so often. The US Constitution is magnificent. We do have a balance of powers... No changes necessary. Remember how they thought about FDR!!! And term limits apply. I taught Con Law at Columbia so I did the hard work Ian. :)
We colonizers have been viciously brutal since day one. The native population may appear to have been "beaten," but I believe Mother Nature keeps score... and that's why we have a concept called "karma". In my bones, I feel a reckoning is coming. (see: the lack of water in many parts of our country... and how many stupid people think it's more important to use it for AI data centers than for people for example) And the native population maybe be all that's left. Just thinking out loud.
Today SCOTUS, "calling balls and strikes", as Justice Roberts likes to say, decided to "Strike Out" immigrants to the US, more than 50 years after Congress passed humane asylum immigration legislation. They did this knowing full well that our Immigration Czar, Steven Miller, is a full on neo-Nazi, white nationalist, itching to throw as many non-white immigrants out of the US as he can. And probably African Americans too, who's forefathers have been in America for many, many more generations than Miller.
Of course, the "joke" is actually on Steven Miller. The people SCOUTS is empowering, will happily toss Miller into an Auschwitz style oven. He maybe a fascist, but he's also Jewish, so there is no way he qualifies as a true American.
How could we possibly have gotten to this point in America? We are so much better than this.
When I was a child in the South in the 1950s, it WAS worse than this. Civil rights battles had been going on since Reconstruction, but they bore fruit in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. We CAN find our way out of this debacle - personally, I believe the first thing we have to do is require that political ads provide evidence to substantiate their claims to a board of ethics - we HAVE to do something about the propaganda. But we also have to get an amendment providing terms for justices. The goals require participation. So WE can find our way out of this, but only if WE are all involved.
I was a child (involuntarily) in the South during the 1950s, and while it was bad, it has never in the history of our planet been as bad as it is now: not only are we facing a new Hitler and a new Nazi Regime, this time it has irreversible technological omnipotence, literally infinite wealth and perpetual control of the doomsday button. How could it possibly ever be worse than what it is already becoming?
I used Knickerbocker restaurant for meetings and Cohn had a table in the back--- he was always eyeing me, sorta drooling... such a fucker. Bad man. But one of Trump's key advisors!!!
Did you just use the word Auschwitz oven? Well it’s too late to respond, but I’m going to keep this alert for myself so that I respond to you tomorrow. Don’t ever use that word again don’t ever use that phrase again because there’s nothing today that even resembles those words. And to say that to another human being, well I’m not gonna let you get away with it. How’s that?
Well technically there are no ovens but people are getting extinguished as we speak. Including the followers of Islam in China that the Arab followers of Islam could care less about because I guess they are not from the middle east. Also in the Sudan Black Africans who practice Christianity are being extinguished by the Islamic peoples in the North. Nobody seems to care much about either of these atrocities but they are happening right now.
I think you’re missing the biggest point Atlanta. The single most group of persons created individuals on this planet, since the beginning of recorded history, have been the JEWS.
Well, there may not be any ovens today, but any reference to the Nazis has no business being in the lethargy today. Where it should be verboten so to speak. And the only reason I say that Elena is because people use it out of ignorance because they don’t know the whole story or they don’t care, but usually it’s because they don’t know.
I could stop them from saying that by saying look every time you use the word Nazi here’s what we’re gonna do we’re gonna pretend you’re Jewish we’re gonna send a Nazi to you and we’re gonna pardon him in advance for anything he does to you that sound fair to you that OK ? Good
What’s the matter you don’t like the Supreme Court anymore? You sure did like it when they came out with the abortion really did didn’t you? But now Trump actually made it a democratic event rather than controlled by nine elites in Washington that you currently hate. Isn’t that amazing why don’t you thank Trump for doing that because he did.
Do you find it odd that we discuss Miller this way on this site? I am not countering your analysis in any way, I just find it odd when he comes up in this way on this site, given the connections. I see it daily and I am starting to realize I may be the only person it kind of weirds out [for lack of a better way to put it].
Wait for today's Supreme Court to rule that birthright citizenship doesn't include those still living on ancestral lands on top of oil, gold, natural gas, cobalt, uranium and rare earth metal deposits that mysteriously keep ending up in the Republican Party's bank accounts.
I seriously can’t; I really need them to do us this one solid and just tell trump no in one sentence on this one. I am going to need to invest in pepcid if this keeps up.
And it never stopped. The poorest people in this country TODAY are the ones who were here first. We and the US government have always treated them like the enemy and it still continues. In a technologically superior 21st century, only 80% of indigenous people have access to electricity. We, as a nation should be ashamed and do something about it.
Though I had a good public school education and then earned a bachelor’s and two masters degrees, I knew almost nothing about America’s indigenous peoples. Now that I’m retired, I’ve had the time to take classes and read about how Americans “conquered” the Indians who were here first. That history should have been part of my early education. When we’ve gotten our country’s leadership restored, I hope that American history is provided in more truth and detail to all our children. Knowing about the past makes more sense of the present.
I think that in red states nowadays, kids are taught that the “pure” white man was first in America, and those nasty savage Indians came later to take their jobs…
In 7th grade, one of our teachers had us keep a journal for the year, “pretending” we were on the trail of tears. That has really stuck with me for the almost 4 decades since. We have to teach history; I fully believe the failure to do so is why we are in this situation today.
A book from the 1970’s rocked my world when I was in my 20’s. It is “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown. We are so fortunate to have Heather introduce history into today’s political landscape. There is much that has been forgotten and she brings the goods every time.
Notable Apache chiefs include Geronimo, Cochise, Victorio, Mangas Coloradas, Juh, Nana, and Lozen, among others.
The Apache people, native to the southwestern United States, were organized into various bands, each with its own leaders. Some of the most prominent Apache chiefs and leaders include:
Geronimo (Goyathlay) – A Chiricahua Apache medicine man and warrior, Geronimo became famous for his resistance against Mexican and U.S. forces in the late 19th century. He led raids across Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico, eventually surrendering in 1886 and later living on reservations in Florida and Oklahoma
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Cochise – A Chiricahua Apache chief known for defending Apache lands in southeastern Arizona. Cochise resisted American expansion and formed alliances with other Apache leaders, maintaining autonomy for his people until his death
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Victorio – Chief of the Chiricahua Apache, Victorio led his band in numerous raids and evaded U.S. forces for over a decade. He was killed in 1880 in Mexico after being surrounded by troops
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Mangas Coloradas – A Mimbreno Apache chief and father-in-law to Cochise, Mangas Coloradas was a key figure in Apache resistance against settlers and military forces in Arizona and New Mexico
Lozen – Sister of Victorio, Lozen was a warrior and prophet who participated in battles and was known for her spiritual abilities and strategic insight
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Other notable chiefs include Santos, Nahche, Nakaidoklini, Bonito, and Eskiminzin, who played important roles in negotiations, warfare, and maintaining Apache culture across different bands
These leaders are remembered for their bravery, strategic leadership, and resistance to colonization, and they remain central figures in Apache history and cultural heritage.
“Back on May 1, my friend Katie Phang joined us for Five Questions. Four days earlier, she had sued Todd Blanche over DOJ’s failure to fully release the Epstein Files in compliance with the Transparency Act. At the time, I called it “a novel theory, but one that’s very elegant.” And tonight, I can add successful. Late this afternoon, the Judge entered an injunction in her favor.
Katie explained her lawsuit like this in Five Questions: “This lawsuit is about making lawyers actually obey the law. Since December 19, 2025 [the date Congress set for full release of the files], the Trump DOJ has violated the Epstein Files Transparency Act and, in doing so, it has prevented me from being able to do my job as an independent journalist.”
*See link for full story on Substack. And we are grateful to United States District Judge Emmet G Sullivan.
DOJ has until July 2 to comply with the order. Tick Tock.
We’re in this together, Joyce”
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‘Finally: A Judge Orders the Government to Release the Rest of the Epstein Files in a Lawsuit Filed by Katie Phang’
The Battle of Little Bighorn should be remembered as one of the greatest military screw-up in our history. I can think of no other failed military operation that resulted in 100% casualties.
In histories I’ve read, Custer had big political ambitions he no doubt believed would be boosted by glorious military victories against “hostile” western natives. In his arrogance he vastly underestimated the strength and spirit of his Lakota adversaries. He shouldn’t be remembered as some kind of hero.
And a big part of the reason he is remembered as such is because of the PR campaign that his widow did. There’s a big statue of Custer on horseback in Monroe, Michigan.
Very likely Ms. Custer had ambitions similar to her husband’s that were dashed that day at the Little Bighorn. She was going to get what she could from his memory.
Sadly, at least since the dawn of the Holocene, prolonged episodes of brutal conquest have been recurrent themes in our history, and on every continent. One can only hope that Carney is wrong, and that the current mess is but a temporary departure from the new path we have been trying to set for humanity since the end of the second world war. Maybe with the help of leadership from the Canadians and Europeans we can get past this sort of horrific behavior.
We, as a nation, have a history of failing those viewed as "other" and the current admin continues that sad tradition on a grand scale sadly. When Americans, all immigrantts, accept, we do a great job. When we don't, we are ugly, brutal racists.
The Battle of the Little Bighorn wasn’t the beginning of the story.
It was the consequence of repeatedly breaking treaties, ignoring the law when it became inconvenient, and then calling the people defending their own land “hostile.”
That pattern should sound familiar.
Darkest chapter in American History and boy do we have some dark history.
Many dark chapters exist, but yes, among the worst.
Don't forget the Trail of Tears. Equally horrific.
We are a democratic Republic, not an empire. Letters From An American is a light on our history, not a darkness.
I’m not sure we’re not growing our very own new darkest of chapters.
I worry about that too. History doesn’t repeat itself exactly, but it often rhymes in the patterns we choose to normalize.
Hello Kelli... As a Rule-Of-Thumb, Chinese, and Egyptian Dynasties lasted between 200 to 300 years... Unless this American Experiment is Reinvigorated, Time Is Ticking...
I don't know if there is a standard expiration date, but yes, a lot has been unraveling. I expect dramatic change one way or another.
Hello J L ... After the Constitutional Convention, when asked what Form of Government we had, Ben Franklin replied, 'A Republic If We Can Keep It"....
Time is ticking, Apache, and Putin is getting humiliated.
He's going to start throwing nukes. He hates the west. Cannot imagine in all his arrogance that Zelensky and his fellow Ukrainians can, as they are now doing, beat the forces that corrupt Putin and his fellow corrupt oligarchs have themselves self-decimated -- scarcely three decades after having looted (with U.S. investing aid) Mother Rus's vast resources for their own corruption.
I dread having to see the "civilized" world descend into its own vast looting and self-decimation following the interruptions the first nukes will let ensue.
There is another possibility, Phil.
Russians may take things into their own hands. They have done it before. This Czar is flailing. Their economic minister just created a film flam of a funding scheme to keep the nation afloat. Russia is on financial dialysis.
Russians are hurting, shortages and high prices. Their young men are being fed into a wood chipper.
Energy infrastructure is being wrecked by Ukrainian drones.
Putin's war is a failure by any measure.
I could be wrong. It happens all the time. But I think Putin and Trump have some things in common: Arrogance, bad judgement and vulnerability. I think it's a crap shoot as to which one goes down first.
And resonate with our capacities for compassion and for sociopathic greed. And yes, it seems that "normal" can be both a source of comfort and trust, and anesthetizing facade for many horrors.
It seems that the ugly side of human nature is a constant, ans at at times, is overwhelming. And always there are those who mean no harm and are just pursuing a decent life.
In which context these lines, from a 900-year-old ballad, seem especially relevant:
"O see ye not yon narrow road
So thick beset with thorns and briers?
That is the path of righteousness,
Though after it but few enquires.
"And see ye not that braid, braid road
That lies across that lily leven?
That is the path of wickedness,
Though some call it the road to Heaven."
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DwE1u45a5U&list=RD_DwE1u45a5U&start_radio=1)
The movie Little Big Man was released in 1970 and has been aired repeatedly throughout the years. I saw it the summer between my Freshman and Sophomore years of high school. The massacre scene in the movie changed my life. Thanks to the movie, I became aware of the myriad atrocities committed by the US Army and the various administrations from the late 1600's through, well, today.
It is the largest genocide of against any group of indigenous people in the known history of the world. Heather could recount events like Little Big Horn everyday and not cover them all in a year. I recommend reading her book - Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre.
We can never make up for the atrocities committed against the Native Americans.
We can't make that up, GJ, because of parallel atrocities normalized.
Trail of Tears. Sand Creek. Forced internment of Japanese Americans. Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Selma. My Lai. Abu Ghraib. Minab.
The rapes of 1200 girls and young women by the rich and powerful mutually invested with Donald and Jeffrey just continue the lawlessness -- and merge with many other international branches of criminality.
Schools in U.S. and abroad, more guided by humanities and essaying, or just testing?
Add the enslavement of Black people to the list. It went on so long that it's hard to pin a particular place or event to it. Selma happened long after it (supposedly) ended, and Tulsa happened more than 50 years before that.
CONTRAST THIS... While Trump has spent $400 million of our taxpayer dollars on a ballroom... Canada on July 21, 2025 signed a $300 million dollar grant to launch one the the largest indigenous-led conservation projects in the world - NWT ( Northwest Territories) Our Land for the Future... The initiative, led by indigenous peoples, will advance large-scale, long-term conservation, stewardship, and economic development throughout the Northwest territories... It will generate hundreds of good, culturally meaningful jobs, sustaining indigenous ways of life for generations to come and drive climate action and resilience.
We need to take back our Democracy for the good of the planet... And we need to take inspiration for our fight from Hungary, Ukraine, and what the inspiring people of Canada are doing to protect all people and ways of life. Please email the PCFederalRegister@usps.gov. - subject line "Ballot Mail" re/ their Proposed Ruling. We only have till 5 pm on July 2 to comment. The AAPD website has all kinds of short temp!ates to use or give ideas to write a short paragraph... action is extremely important...
Per NBC News headline, "Judge blocks Trump’s executive order on mail voting." ....... CAVEAT: I have not examined any response to the Court's order or docket status.
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June 25, 2026, 7:55 AM PDT / Updated June 25, 2026, 8:35 AM PDT
By Jane C. Timm
A federal judge on Thursday blocked the implementation of key parts of President Donald Trump’s executive order on mail voting, declaring the plans to intervene in state-run elections unconstitutional.
IMO: No brainer.
Presumably the lawsuits against Steiner wii be well prepared and already filed.
Thank you.
Once, this was history. Now, it is radical leftist antifa woke propaganda…
“The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.”
– John Adams, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law.
Every broken promise has a history before it has a battlefield.
Hello HV... It has been said, that the USG has Broken Every Treaty made with the American Indigenous....
I just skimmed the 1980 lakota scotus case tonight; that case alone pretty much lays out your point. I didn’t have enough knowledge to really take it in, so will work on my poor historical knowledge and go back to reread it.
Hello Emma... It is not just the Lakota Nation, but virtually all Indigenous Namtion...
Yes. I am sorry I did not mean to imply that it was limited. I just meant to note that the case in question goes through some of the history of how the govt avoided treaty obligations as a matter of practice.
Emma, I can certainly Google it, could you share the link to the 1980 case?
United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians, 448 U.S. 371 (1980) - link below should work hopefully
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/448/371/
Syllabus:
Under the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, the United States pledged that the Great Sioux Reservation, including the Black Hills, would be "set apart for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation" of the Sioux Nation (Sioux), and that no treaty for the cession of any part of the reservation would be valid as against the Sioux unless executed and signed by at least three-fourths of the adult male Sioux population. The treaty also reserved the Sioux' right to hunt in certain unceded territories. Subsequently, in 1876, an "agreement" presented to the Sioux by a special Commission but signed by only 10% of the adult male Sioux population, provided that the Sioux would relinquish their rights to the Black Hills and to hunt in the unceded territories, in exchange for subsistence rations for as long as they would be needed. In 1877, Congress passed an Act (1877 Act) implementing this "agreement" and thus, in effect, abrogated the Fort Laramie Treaty. Throughout the ensuing years, the Sioux regarded the 1877 Act as a breach of that treaty, but Congress did not enact any mechanism by which they could litigate their claims against the United States until 1920, when a special jurisdictional Act was passed. Pursuant to this Act, the Sioux brought suit in the Court of Claims, alleging that the Government had taken the Black Hills without just compensation, in violation of the Fifth Amendment. In 1942, this claim was dismissed by the Court of Claims, which held that it was not authorized by the 1920 Act to question whether the compensation afforded the Sioux in the 1877 Act was an adequate price for the Black Hills, and that the Sioux' claim was a moral one not protected by the Just Compensation Clause. Thereafter, upon enactment of the Indian Claims Commission Act in 1946, the Sioux resubmitted their claim to the Indian Claims Commission, which held that the 1877 Act effected a taking for which the Sioux were entitled to just compensation, and that the 1942 Court of Claims decision did not bar the taking claim under res judicata. On appeal, the Court of Claims, affirming the Commission's holding that a want of fair and honorable dealings on the Government's part was evidenced, ultimately held that the Sioux were entitled to an award of at least $17.5 million, without interest, as damages under the Indian Claims Commission Act,
Page 448 U. S. 372
for the lands surrendered and for gold taken by trespassing prospectors prior to passage of the 1877 Act. But the court further held that the merits of the Sioux' taking claim had been reached in its 1942 decision, and that therefore such claim was barred by res judicata. The court noted that only if the acquisition of the Black Hills amounted to an unconstitutional taking would the Sioux be entitled to interest. Thereafter, in 1978,Congress passed an Act (1978 Act) providing for de novo review by the Court of Claims of the merits of the Indian Claims Commission's holding that the 1877 Act effected a taking of the Black Hills, without regard to res judicata, and authorizing the Court of Claims to take new evidence in the case. Pursuant to this Act, the Court of Claims affirmed the Commission's holding. In so affirming, the court, in order to decide whether the 1877 Act had effected a taking or whether it had been a noncompensable act of congressional guardianship over tribal property, applied the test of whether Congress had made a good faith effort to give the Sioux the full value of their land. Under this test, the court characterized the 1877 Act as a taking in exercise of Congress' power of eminent domain over Indian property. Accordingly, the court held that the Sioux were entitled to an award of interest on the principal sum of $17.1 million (the fair market value of the Black Hills as of 1877), dating from 1877.
That is the history of that case, the link to the case is above.
Eminent domain and fair market value - in good faith, yet? That's rich!
Well, Biden’s broken promise is gonna last another decade. The border is secure. The border is secure. The border is secure.
Rick, that is so much horseshit.
I see Rick, our favorite troll is back. His hobby is getting people to respond to whatever he writes. He needs responses. Maybe it's an ego thing.
Actually, Julius, you are just a lost soul. From my first post to my last, I have said one thing. I am here for one thing and one thing only. The last thing I need, are your stupid, empty accusations, retorts, your insults, and your incredible capacity of ignorance… and actually what I do normally is, I respond to Heather‘s ridiculousness on a daily basis, where she tells you some of the truth, some of the time. But I’ve not seen a post yet, but she tells you the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth not once
What I said was I say it again all I need is to make you aware of facts that you have no idea exist. And Voilà. Thousands and thousands of people are being made aware and have been very appreciative.
You know Julius, you guys are gonna have to get your nomenclature, correct?
There are 30 40,50 people that probably post 10 1520 times a day are this site. And
THEY ARE NEVER REFERRED TO AS TROLLS. OOOOPS The only time you call them a troll is where they don’t agree with you and the reason they don’t agree with you is because they percent facts you don’t like. So I’m sorry I didn’t mean to bring up fact that you were not aware of in total and complete ignorance of life has it exist today?
We call people trolls when they disagree with the facts of history and current events. Like agreeing that Renee Nicole Good was trying to run over Jonathan Ross. Like agreeing that Alex Pretti was planning a violent attack on ICE / CBP. Like agreeing that FDT has been a great president. -- People who hold and express those views are trolls. That seems to place you squarely in their camp.
Oh! And, like agreeing that indigenous people were "hostile" when they were not. Like covering up the atrocities committed by U.S. troops. -- Same as we're doing today by covering up the illegality of bombing suspected drug boats, kidnapping foreign leaders (regardless of how despicable they might be), starting wars for no reason at all. Covering up the Epstein files to protect politicians and businessmen.
Husband of Ruth writing:
Golly, Rick, not only do you sound like trump, your command of the English language is equally great.
Why is it when people have no answer? All they do, is insult and accuse without any substance. They just make dumb statements and walk away. Wait a minute I think that was redundant. lol by the way, which part was horseshit, please be specific LMAO
Gee, Rick. You are so well-informed, you should start your own Substack. That way you won't have to deal with all these people making dumb statements without any substance, redundant as that may be.
Hey Rick!
What "border" are you referring to?!? The one that was arbitrarily constructed out of whole cloth because Southern white people who wanted to expand American slavery into the northern part of recently independent Mexico, i.e., Tejas, decided that they could simply make up a bullshit rationale for war that one of our greatest Presidents bitterly opposed on the floor of the House?!? Is that the "border" you refer to?!?
And by the way, by what stretch of your delusional and ignorant exhortations do you see the slightest scintilla of a comparison between the multitudinous broken promises successive American governments made to the Indigenous Peoples whose land they stole and lives they destroyed, with the non-existent Biden promise of border security?!?
Please go back to the dark, dank hole you crawled out of, and leave the rest of us alone, as I have requested numerous times previously.
By the way, those were called Democrats back then…. including the inventors of the KKK. Oooops. It’s a little late at night for history lesson but there it is. Thank you for getting me involved. By the way, you’re gonna be a lot better off trying to live in reality a.k.a. today. Where the only palace racism exists is in racist heads.
One of my college buddies actually wrote a book you might want to read its titled TGIT. And I’m not sure if you can actually look it up like that but it’s an existing book. And TGIT stands for. thank God it’s today. Have a nice evening daniel.
The border isn’t and hasn’t been the problem.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT? You must be living in another country or perhaps another planet. The border has been a $1 trillion problem already. Problem has gone to the Supreme Court six times. I guess that’s not important. That’s not a problem.
The fact that there’s been hundreds of American citizen women RAPED AND MURDERED BY ILLEGALS IS NOT A PROBLEM EITHER? Do you know how many raped and murdered women by illegal would there have been if they were not allowed to cross the border? Hmmmmmmmmm. Fucking ZERO….. but other than that, it’s nice of you to stick up for women, even those that are being trafficked.
I’m actually sitting here stunned, thinking that there’s people that actually think that your statement is true HFS.
hey rick, does AI drink Kool Aid too?
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And sometimes the battlefield is in the courts. I recommend Rebecca Nagle's great 2024 book BY THE FIRE WE CARRY: The Generations-Long Fight for Native Land. It focuses on the legal fight for Native land in Eastern Oklahoma but works in plenty of the wider history in the process.
We should have listened to the Lakota tribes of South Dakota earlier on because they were not allowing Kristi Noem on their reservations. And they still don’t and they never will.
I might be mistaken, but I don't recall a single Senator of either party asking Moonbat Eyes why she wasn't allowed on Lakota land during her confirmation hearings. You'd think somebody would have focused on that.
D’ya mean in Congress? Focused? Lately?
It only hurts when I laugh.
And hopefully not Kristis replacement as DonOLDs second choices are always worse than his first. A good (bad) example is Blanche and Pulte.
The apples at the bottom of the barrel, sitting in small puddles of slime and goo, always tend to be the smelliest as well.
And are the slimiest.
And the Warm Ooziest!
Mullin is Cherokee. I didn’t know who he was before his nomination, but I remember seeing that right before and being confused about how this would go. I am curious about how the tribe has chosen to handle mullin’s new position.
Heather, expert historian on our Indian wars, and exterminations, gets one lovely side result here.
Accountability. The Sioux and their allies held Custer and his braggadocio accountable.
Earlier today Heather appeared on Katie Couric’s podcast, both there, too, centered on accountability.
Except for Jefferson Davis, who after the Civil War did do prison time, Heather pointed out how no Confederates were held accountable for their efforts to destroy the United States for a whites-only supremacy country instead. We know, too, that following the crash of the housing market in 2008, and the near-crash of the banking system then, no large bankers went to prison.
Nearly the same after the crash of 1929. I found online a piece by Jason M. Breslaw, which discussed the Pecora Commission, whose work from 1932 on “led to indictments,” but, again, then, “most escaped prosecution.”
So Heather and Katie went round and round on how criminal Donald just lets his criminality rule all, with Heather tying that up by looking at his enabling Republicans in Congress. Said she, “They vowed that they were going to enforce the Constitution, and they’re simply doing whatever he tells them to.”
That's the way it has been for much of American history, where genuine savages ever rule for the unaccountable rich and powerful -- still rule protecting them all covered up in the Trump-Epstein file.
And let's not forget Nixon. If Ford hadn't pardoned him, he would have gone to trial and perhaps done hard time. Then we might have been spared our current shame and disgrace.
I can only surmise that Ford, like most Americans, think a POTUS is above reproach…but COME ON! Donald Trump incited a murderous MOB to try and take over the Capitol.
We ALL saw it…expecting - now seems so näive - Trump and all his goons to rot in jail for TREASON.
UNBELIEVABLE…still!
Jean, there were some in Merrill’s DOJ who resisted prosecuting a (former) PRESIDENT; they thought that went too far. Others were afraid and some were holdovers from his first admin. That was one—but not the only—factor in the li g delay.
Unlikely. Much of our current shame and disgrace is deserved. We had 2 opportunities to make it better or different and we bungled both of them and made it catastrophically worse. Now we're experiencing what indigenous peoples did.
Part of it anyway, where rights and promises become meaningless.
And let's not forget the ChristoNazis' favorite brand of plausibly deniable genocide -- extermination by austerity, medical misogyny and anti-vax hysteria.
The greatest country in the world you’re sitting here on a computer, talking about whisper, living the same life of the Indians did? No, you’re totally lost in the past
“The greatest country in the world?” The U.S. is reviled by virtually every country around the world, except perhaps Russia and Saudi Arabia. I’m a citizen of the U.S. and Canada and Canadians certainly don’t think the U.S. is the greatest.
Whatever may have been Nixon's fate under law, it was imperative that his betrayals were met with legal justice and equal protection, and that did not happen. Ford may have meant well, but he undermined rule of law, and opened a crack in the concept of universal accountability that has much widened in the present.
"If," Joel.
If justice ever applied to the rich and powerful.
Except, too, Joel, it does -- in our humanities.
That’s a good thing. I’m glad you brought it up Joel, because if Biden hadn’t pardoned himself, he probably be hanging by his toes upside down on the White House lawn, naked, and not even know why he was there.
Then we might have stopped the auction
And in the Regan years of the 1980’s the debacle of the thrifts failing that we taxpayers had to bail out. Those guys should never have been allowed to touch money again but no consequences for them.
If you mean the S&L crisis, that was at least keenly investigated and many wrongdoers convicted. The subprime crisis was much greater and more damaging, yet dodgy bankers got a pass. Too big to fail, too big to hold accountable means they were just plain too big, and we had dealt with monopolists before; yet this time around, our government helped them get bigger.
Yep, and in the same vein, trumpty-dumpty will bever have to go to jail for his million crimes, either.
Do you have a link for Katie and the Professor's talk, Phil? I found one from ten months ago. Is there a later one you are referring to?
Thanks to laurie, providing specific link already.
Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yo0m3cPx_s
Thank you, laurie.
This is indeed today's. And well worth anyone's time.
Strange isn't it, how money so frequently eludes accountability, or when caught "red handed" winds up with token sentences. $COTUS fiercely defended a life sentence for a man who stole some videos for his kids, but some seem too rich (and/or connected) to jail. I have read about important businessmen selling to and aiding the Nazis in WW II, but somehow getting away with it. It's the same double standard all the fuss was about in 1776, but we couldn't quite bear to part with it, and today it's more than just metaphor that we struggle with a monarchy.
Hey, you missed all the big news today. A lot of people were apologizing for Obama building his library on stolen land boy they you really let him off the hook, huh?
Not to mention, they fixed the reflecting pool I guess that’s why you didn’t cover it
Yeah, and how is that impact in your life today phil. ? No, I’m gonna start suggesting a book that my friend will really appreciate I start suggesting to most of you here. He’s a very philosophical guy, and very smart. You would like it because he owns a number of flower fields where he had a raging successfully flower business. And he wrote a book called. TGIT. thank God it’s today. Imagine what you guys would learn from trying to live in today, rather than to live in ancient prehistoric history
Custer was an arrogant fool.
Does anyone else see Pete Kegsbreath's face flash before them when the topic of General Armstrong Custer's arrogance and cruelty arises? Did Custer also bounce up and down on his Florsheims in front of a TV camera when trying to co-splay GI Joe, I wonder?
I think GAC was more of a buckskin moccasin or a leather booted cavalry man than a Florsheim fop as Kegsbreath is. In fact, Custer was a real soldier, earning commendations for his bravery in the Civil War, commendations that Hegseth could only earn on the heavy carbon copy paper pumped out by the late Trump University.
You have a point there.
However, if you happen to use another nasty pseudonym for somebody, I’m gonna have to bring it. I can almost bet you you’re not gonna like it.
I learned tonight, on another substack, that he did something similar, maintaining his blond hair long specifically for effect. Apparently there were some similarities.
You know, I tried to be nice to you and I haven’t come up with a mean acronym for your name or a pseudonym or a moniker that I can hang on you. But you are beginning to attempt me. Lol.
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Lt. Colonel George Custer was so arrogant and condescending to the indigenous tribes that he refused to shake hands with Kiowa Chiefs Satanta and Lone Wolf when they tried to negotiate with him, having them arrested instead and the rest of the tribe confined to Fort Cobb. Custer even led an attack on the surviving members of northern Cheyennes, while his military band played music. In only a few minutes, hundreds of Native Americans were dead, only a few of them warriors. Among the dead was their Chief Black Kettle who had just tried to negotiate a truce and food for his starving people.
These are just a couple of examples of his cruelty and arrogance years before his last stand at Little Big Horn. Custer was a genocidal maniac that got a taste of his own medicine, but it was a short lived victory for the Plains tribes...
The Nazi Republicans: The Rise of Racist Christian Nationalism
Nazi Republicans know what their marching orders are: follow Cheeto’s voter suppression and interference. They are counting on the midterms will be rigged. Every Nazi Republican racist policy that comes from SCOTUS, Cheeto and his WH goons, or those in the legislature is driven by white Christian Nationalism, animated by Project 2025. The Nazi Republican plan seeks to disenfranchise 66% of the electorate.
WE the People demand more of the Democratic party and the Democratic Socialist movement within the party recognize the danger facing the country while the Democratic establishment continue to want business as usual, hoping this too will pass, hoping that they get a nice pat on the head from Nazi Republicans.
These “cowardly lions” as O’Donnell describes them are not to be believed when they say they regret that they voted for something that turns to shit….like Cassidy’s confirmation vote for RFK Jr. Let’s not forget that Cheeto was impeached twice and Senate Republicans prevented conviction because it would sure look bad for the party if two Republican presidents had been forced to leave office. And even if some Republicans did the right thing on the J6 impeachment it wasn’t enough to get the appropriate conviction but for Nixon in that day even Republicans had the moral conviction that there were enough votes for conviction.
Despite their failings the Nazi Republicans have managed until now to obfuscate the true KKK leanings they have for our fellow AfroAmerican citizens as evidenced by the SCOTUS ruling that finally gutted the last remnants of the VRA(Voting Rights Act). Of course the Federalist supported nominations came from a Nazi Repubican institution and with the help of McConnell sealed the partisan SCOTUS now serving.
And for now the Nazi Republicans who have so far rubberstamped Cheeto’s brazen nepotistic corruption are feeling uneasy. Tax breaks for the ultrawealthy donor class while gutting the American social safety net, abandoning American aid to foreign countries but ok with genocide, and firing necessary civil servants in the name of fiscal conservatism can seem alright, federal corruption is a step gone too far. But they’re ok with wining elections by cheating and digitally manipulating the results.
So the Nazi Republicans have shown the American people who they really are. A group of lawless, bought off, immoral, racist, misogynistic culture warriors who have propaganidized themselves to public office. WE the People have seen enough. The electorate should not give them the public office of dogcatcher for at least 20 years.
Nazi is overdone, although DJT would like to be Fuhrer. Ian
Cute. Maybe true. But does he really wear a diaper and smell????????????? And Hitler had one ball or some stuff wrong with his genitals... Makes sense.
Yes! All the Canadian veterans knew the song “Hitler Only Has One Ball”, and when they ended up in the local Veteran’s Hospital, used to request it of our band, every Tuesday at their pub, and they sang along
Most of them are gone now, but they would be appalled at what America now calls a ‘President’, and insulted on behalf of their counterparts on the beaches of Normandy…who preserved US Freedom…for THAT!
DJT is not the longer term point. The hard work is to ask if in fact the US presidency is monarchical, this despite all your No Kings ballyhoo, and what minimal but nevertheless sufficient changes are necessary. Try the hard work. Ian
Anyone with power can abuse it, as we see so often. The US Constitution is magnificent. We do have a balance of powers... No changes necessary. Remember how they thought about FDR!!! And term limits apply. I taught Con Law at Columbia so I did the hard work Ian. :)
We colonizers have been viciously brutal since day one. The native population may appear to have been "beaten," but I believe Mother Nature keeps score... and that's why we have a concept called "karma". In my bones, I feel a reckoning is coming. (see: the lack of water in many parts of our country... and how many stupid people think it's more important to use it for AI data centers than for people for example) And the native population maybe be all that's left. Just thinking out loud.
I worry too and our human karma is veryyyy bad!!!
Today SCOTUS, "calling balls and strikes", as Justice Roberts likes to say, decided to "Strike Out" immigrants to the US, more than 50 years after Congress passed humane asylum immigration legislation. They did this knowing full well that our Immigration Czar, Steven Miller, is a full on neo-Nazi, white nationalist, itching to throw as many non-white immigrants out of the US as he can. And probably African Americans too, who's forefathers have been in America for many, many more generations than Miller.
Of course, the "joke" is actually on Steven Miller. The people SCOUTS is empowering, will happily toss Miller into an Auschwitz style oven. He maybe a fascist, but he's also Jewish, so there is no way he qualifies as a true American.
How could we possibly have gotten to this point in America? We are so much better than this.
When I was a child in the South in the 1950s, it WAS worse than this. Civil rights battles had been going on since Reconstruction, but they bore fruit in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. We CAN find our way out of this debacle - personally, I believe the first thing we have to do is require that political ads provide evidence to substantiate their claims to a board of ethics - we HAVE to do something about the propaganda. But we also have to get an amendment providing terms for justices. The goals require participation. So WE can find our way out of this, but only if WE are all involved.
I was a child (involuntarily) in the South during the 1950s, and while it was bad, it has never in the history of our planet been as bad as it is now: not only are we facing a new Hitler and a new Nazi Regime, this time it has irreversible technological omnipotence, literally infinite wealth and perpetual control of the doomsday button. How could it possibly ever be worse than what it is already becoming?
It is also simple--- Miller is the new Roy Cohn.
They even look alike.
I used Knickerbocker restaurant for meetings and Cohn had a table in the back--- he was always eyeing me, sorta drooling... such a fucker. Bad man. But one of Trump's key advisors!!!
I think they are different in many ways
I was wondering if the most recent immigrants from South Africa were admitted under TPS? Will they be sent back to their 'dangerous' country?
That decision is blood chillingly appalling.
RICK, don’t forget to respond to Merrill tomorrow
Did you just use the word Auschwitz oven? Well it’s too late to respond, but I’m going to keep this alert for myself so that I respond to you tomorrow. Don’t ever use that word again don’t ever use that phrase again because there’s nothing today that even resembles those words. And to say that to another human being, well I’m not gonna let you get away with it. How’s that?
Well technically there are no ovens but people are getting extinguished as we speak. Including the followers of Islam in China that the Arab followers of Islam could care less about because I guess they are not from the middle east. Also in the Sudan Black Africans who practice Christianity are being extinguished by the Islamic peoples in the North. Nobody seems to care much about either of these atrocities but they are happening right now.
I think you’re missing the biggest point Atlanta. The single most group of persons created individuals on this planet, since the beginning of recorded history, have been the JEWS.
...you might want to rewrite this Rick--- not clear and maybe not correct either...
Yes he sounds ever so slightly insane? He certainly needs help of some sort.
Well, there may not be any ovens today, but any reference to the Nazis has no business being in the lethargy today. Where it should be verboten so to speak. And the only reason I say that Elena is because people use it out of ignorance because they don’t know the whole story or they don’t care, but usually it’s because they don’t know.
I could stop them from saying that by saying look every time you use the word Nazi here’s what we’re gonna do we’re gonna pretend you’re Jewish we’re gonna send a Nazi to you and we’re gonna pardon him in advance for anything he does to you that sound fair to you that OK ? Good
What’s the matter you don’t like the Supreme Court anymore? You sure did like it when they came out with the abortion really did didn’t you? But now Trump actually made it a democratic event rather than controlled by nine elites in Washington that you currently hate. Isn’t that amazing why don’t you thank Trump for doing that because he did.
See now it’s a democracy again
Why don't you go fuck yourself in your face you worthless Trumper DNA failure, you failure as a member of the species.
Do you find it odd that we discuss Miller this way on this site? I am not countering your analysis in any way, I just find it odd when he comes up in this way on this site, given the connections. I see it daily and I am starting to realize I may be the only person it kind of weirds out [for lack of a better way to put it].
Well, many of us are some of the time. And many of us are trying hard to be better.
Wait for today's Supreme Court to rule that birthright citizenship doesn't include those still living on ancestral lands on top of oil, gold, natural gas, cobalt, uranium and rare earth metal deposits that mysteriously keep ending up in the Republican Party's bank accounts.
I seriously can’t; I really need them to do us this one solid and just tell trump no in one sentence on this one. I am going to need to invest in pepcid if this keeps up.
And it never stopped. The poorest people in this country TODAY are the ones who were here first. We and the US government have always treated them like the enemy and it still continues. In a technologically superior 21st century, only 80% of indigenous people have access to electricity. We, as a nation should be ashamed and do something about it.
How about the Indian casinos... some are rich, yes???
Though I had a good public school education and then earned a bachelor’s and two masters degrees, I knew almost nothing about America’s indigenous peoples. Now that I’m retired, I’ve had the time to take classes and read about how Americans “conquered” the Indians who were here first. That history should have been part of my early education. When we’ve gotten our country’s leadership restored, I hope that American history is provided in more truth and detail to all our children. Knowing about the past makes more sense of the present.
Every generation inherits not only a history, but also its silences.
so well said.
Ohhh loaded in several directions at once. I have never heard someone put that so succinct before; so true.
I think that in red states nowadays, kids are taught that the “pure” white man was first in America, and those nasty savage Indians came later to take their jobs…
In 7th grade, one of our teachers had us keep a journal for the year, “pretending” we were on the trail of tears. That has really stuck with me for the almost 4 decades since. We have to teach history; I fully believe the failure to do so is why we are in this situation today.
Custer was a fool and paid the price. My ancestor was Cheyenne/Sioux after the Last Stand.
The Indians were screwed by the US government, always!!!
A book from the 1970’s rocked my world when I was in my 20’s. It is “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown. We are so fortunate to have Heather introduce history into today’s political landscape. There is much that has been forgotten and she brings the goods every time.
Notable Apache chiefs include Geronimo, Cochise, Victorio, Mangas Coloradas, Juh, Nana, and Lozen, among others.
The Apache people, native to the southwestern United States, were organized into various bands, each with its own leaders. Some of the most prominent Apache chiefs and leaders include:
Geronimo (Goyathlay) – A Chiricahua Apache medicine man and warrior, Geronimo became famous for his resistance against Mexican and U.S. forces in the late 19th century. He led raids across Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico, eventually surrendering in 1886 and later living on reservations in Florida and Oklahoma
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Cochise – A Chiricahua Apache chief known for defending Apache lands in southeastern Arizona. Cochise resisted American expansion and formed alliances with other Apache leaders, maintaining autonomy for his people until his death
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Victorio – Chief of the Chiricahua Apache, Victorio led his band in numerous raids and evaded U.S. forces for over a decade. He was killed in 1880 in Mexico after being surrounded by troops
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Mangas Coloradas – A Mimbreno Apache chief and father-in-law to Cochise, Mangas Coloradas was a key figure in Apache resistance against settlers and military forces in Arizona and New Mexico
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Juh – A Chiricahua Apache leader who often collaborated with Geronimo and Victorio in military campaigns against U.S. and Mexican forces
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Nana – An elder Apache warrior who fought alongside Victorio and continued to lead raids well into his later years
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Lozen – Sister of Victorio, Lozen was a warrior and prophet who participated in battles and was known for her spiritual abilities and strategic insight
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These leaders are remembered for their bravery, strategic leadership, and resistance to colonization, and they remain central figures in Apache history and cultural heritage.
Thank you for these in depth details. It is so obvious that we are ignorant of this part of our country’s history.
“Back on May 1, my friend Katie Phang joined us for Five Questions. Four days earlier, she had sued Todd Blanche over DOJ’s failure to fully release the Epstein Files in compliance with the Transparency Act. At the time, I called it “a novel theory, but one that’s very elegant.” And tonight, I can add successful. Late this afternoon, the Judge entered an injunction in her favor.
Katie explained her lawsuit like this in Five Questions: “This lawsuit is about making lawyers actually obey the law. Since December 19, 2025 [the date Congress set for full release of the files], the Trump DOJ has violated the Epstein Files Transparency Act and, in doing so, it has prevented me from being able to do my job as an independent journalist.”
*See link for full story on Substack. And we are grateful to United States District Judge Emmet G Sullivan.
DOJ has until July 2 to comply with the order. Tick Tock.
We’re in this together, Joyce”
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‘Finally: A Judge Orders the Government to Release the Rest of the Epstein Files in a Lawsuit Filed by Katie Phang’
JOYCE VANCE from CIVIL DISCOURSE
JUN 26 2026 | Substack
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/finally-a-judge-orders-the-government?r=kxzps&utm_medium=ios
The Battle of Little Bighorn should be remembered as one of the greatest military screw-up in our history. I can think of no other failed military operation that resulted in 100% casualties.
In histories I’ve read, Custer had big political ambitions he no doubt believed would be boosted by glorious military victories against “hostile” western natives. In his arrogance he vastly underestimated the strength and spirit of his Lakota adversaries. He shouldn’t be remembered as some kind of hero.
And a big part of the reason he is remembered as such is because of the PR campaign that his widow did. There’s a big statue of Custer on horseback in Monroe, Michigan.
Very likely Ms. Custer had ambitions similar to her husband’s that were dashed that day at the Little Bighorn. She was going to get what she could from his memory.
I always liked how Richard Mulligan portrayed Custer in the movie 'Little Big Man' starring a young Dustin Hoffman as the title character in 1970.
Sadly, at least since the dawn of the Holocene, prolonged episodes of brutal conquest have been recurrent themes in our history, and on every continent. One can only hope that Carney is wrong, and that the current mess is but a temporary departure from the new path we have been trying to set for humanity since the end of the second world war. Maybe with the help of leadership from the Canadians and Europeans we can get past this sort of horrific behavior.
Right now--- humanity looks like a failed species.
We, as a nation, have a history of failing those viewed as "other" and the current admin continues that sad tradition on a grand scale sadly. When Americans, all immigrantts, accept, we do a great job. When we don't, we are ugly, brutal racists.