Notices by Philip Cardella (philip_cardella@historians.social)

Hey #progressivecafe I'm mad that Tony attacked me and hid behind that anonymous account.

Tony and I had a history and I don't need shit like that from a power user hiding after they've DM'd me hundreds of times.

I used an anonymous account on twitter long before X and I get some people need them. I'm all for it!

But Tony was out of line, we have a history. I didn't deserve his attack.

All in defense of a false narrative about the 2024 election that is BEING PUSHED BY THE RIGHT.

Look, I like Tony but going after me for asking people to focus on the fascists?

That's a black flag for ANY account much less an anonymous one.

I'm not at all suggesting what anyone should do vis a vis Tony and their instance. I'm not suggesting anonymous accounts are bad.

@HistoPol or perhaps killing Citizens United. Or imprisoning Manafort well before the 2016 election as his crimes demanded.

I'm not against violence but if history teaches only one universal truth its that violence begets violence.

Or to take Colin Powell's* thinking domestic violence is the failure of laws.

*I'm not a big Powell fan but he was the last Republican I had a shred of respect for and I'm pretty sure he died a Democrat.

@jstatepost @liferstate I just don't think executions are the solution because they tend to be self feeding and defeating.

Besides, if the fascists like it I always question if I should.

Also, taxes and civil forfeiture (after all, any pile of a billion dollars in private hands involved hundreds of millions worth of illegal wealth extraction) would drive most billionaires to suicide anyway.

@HistoPol I'm fine with that for people who get due process. Or, rather, I'm ok with it, lol. I'm not a Death Penalty Guy though Trump and Musk (and Thiel and Miller and Bannon et al) are tempting me. LOL.

The problem with the French Rev is there was no due process and thousands of innocent people faced the guillotine. Perhaps 15,000 or more commoners were executed.

Folks, you can't one day call for the #FrenchRevolution and the next be big mad #Trump quoted #Napoleon to state he was a dictator.

The French Revolution started in 1789 and ended in 1799 when Napoleon named himself dictator.

The French Revolution ended in a fucking dictatorship not ten years later.

Your calls for the #guillotine are based in either a lack of historical knowledge, inability to do basic arithmetic or both.

Hey #SoFla #Miami Demonstration at the office of Rep. Maria Salazar and tell her to stand up to Trump!

Today at noon!

Want to join me for this Indivisible event? https://mobilize.us/s/ZFgs04/n

On February 12, 1900, the "Black National Anthem" was performed for the first time publicly for Booker T. Washington in Jacksonville, Florida. Written by James Weldon Johnson, the principal of the school Washington was visiting, the performance was in honor of Abraham Lincoln's Birthday. (Source: This Day in Florida History, page 27).

https://youtu.be/pKROH_zbQWQ?si=gwYKFSA-WhxsU1hd

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory

As much chaos, hate and self serving are driving #Trump #Musk and #Project2025 we need to talk more about the institutions they're targeting hardest.

USAID, NIH and NSF are all basically Cold War devices to stop China and Russia from their imperialistic expansion.

They continue to serve that purpose and the entities that stand to gain the most from their demise are not American billionaires or Evangelicals but Beijing and Moscow.

In today's edition of you fucked around and now you're finding out, Miami-Dade County Council led by MAGAts begs Trump to not keep campaign promises they voted for.

To be clear, some council members are not Trumpers.

But the leadership largely is. These fools thought they were white enough for white supremacy. #Trump #SoFla

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article299716144.html

@GottaLaff it is dirty and illegal

@HistoPol @GottaLaff he just wanted an issue to get a headline on. But Trump doesn't know this but he seems stuck in the seventies in many ways.

@HistoPol @GottaLaff fascists have to violently expand or they just turn on their own people to the point of extinction.

The far right has dreamed of war with Mexico and Canada for decades. Reagan campaigned on Panama.

The thing about these jackasses is they have no capacity for novel ideas.

@GottaLaff @TCatInReality I've chatted with a historian of the labor movement and he says unions are essential to organizing a general strike and they're way too weak and represent far too few people for it to work today.

This was a few years ago. Labor has gotten stronger but it's still at near all time lows. I suggested social media could help he disagreed.

That was before X and Facebook openly enshittifying.

I agree we need it. But how to make it happen is the question.

And, yes, I'm thinking about leaving before it starts.

Just down at a local Dem meeting, wearing my mask, two old ladies are talking about how sick they've been recently, one even went to the Dr yesterday to be tested for COVID and flu, the other obviously has laryngitis

Either wearing a mask? Of course not.

Now I am being asked if I am sick.

FML.

No, I'm not sick and have only rarely been sick since 2019.

Because I wear a mask.

Long story how I have gotten sick those few tomes but basically, it involves my kids.

@dashrb @GottaLaff @WarnerCrocker I was going to do this but, thankfully, you beat me to it. 🤣

@GottaLaff @dashrb @WarnerCrocker 🤪😆

I don't! I've just got a warped sense of humor for dealing with this stuff. Certainly don't want to bug you.

Anyway...truth be told, at least one of those accounts was almost certainly bot designed to piss people off.

I try (but often fail) to laugh them off.

"Together with emails obtained from local health departments through public records requests, this investigation revealed key problems, including a deference to the farm industry, eroded public health budgets, neglect for the safety of agriculture workers, and the sluggish pace of federal interventions."

Deference to the industry.✔️
Eroded public health budgets✔️
Neglecting worker safety✔️
Sluggish Federal response✔️

This is #neoliberalism not necessarily "capitalism" writ large.