In the aftermath of Emmett Till's lynching, white supremacists called for federal troops to invade and occupy Chicago. "If the federal government intervenes in the interests of law enforcement anywhere, it should start in Chicago, crime capital extraordinary." h/t @larryglickman.bsky.social
time is a flat circle and everything is horrible
Also: “Biscuits and muffins reheat beautifully…” What the … ?
Newspapers used to have slugs of text like that to fill up space since it was hard to get things to come out exactly the right length when you were composing in the press itself. But it is kind of fun to think of it as the big takeaway point of the whole "communists are stirring race hatred" stuff.
Yes, there’s the “practical” side as well as my “fantasy” reading — but it’s also the case that readers are assumed to be comfortable with transitioning from “oh no! communist infiltration!” to “mmm! warm biscuits!” without batting an eyelash. Well, actually, maybe not so different now.
Holy crap, there were routine bombings in Chicago in 1955?
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The Union had Lincoln leading them.. Now we have Jeffries&Schumer. Biden fxxxed things up badly for all of us at the end.. And he probably can't even remember Gaza, Merrick Garland,letting millions cross the border or refusing to be a one term president as he promised until forced2 drop out anymore
Bastards can't even come up with a new idea.
Rural overrepresentation is waging war on cities because they don't understand them, and therefore fear them.
Confederate Go Home
The irony of course is that Trump and his Broligarchs will be burning down the south soon. They're already poisoning and stealing their water and destroying their farms. They want the south dead almost as much as they want the north dead.
Do you get a Nobel Peace Prize for sending Texas white nationalists into Illinois to hunt people of color and murdering eleven people in international waters with a US military missile strike?
Trump wants to start riots, anything that he can start to not have an election and declare martial law. This whole thing is just bait, killing black and brown people doesn't matter to him.
Emmett Till = Waymos on fire in LA?
Trump is 110% Jefferson Davis and less than zero Abraham Lincoln.
Wow! This 'history repeating itself' is too creepy.
If he sends Texas guards into Chicago he's gonna have a war.
Trump’s mindset is frozen in a white racist’s worldview from 1955.
This is the New Civil War and the rise of the New Confederacy. They told us over the last 5 years that they would do what they're doing now,challenging blue states and blue states government. The racists fascists have been fighting the Civil War since the end of the last one. We need to fight back
Fuck them
And here we are. Excellent work.
We are IL. We got backbone. And morals.
Trump is regurgitating the white supremacist tropes of his youth.
This is a great example of “nothing ever really went away” but also…. …what’s up with the last paragraph about reheating biscuits and muffins!?
That's a "filler," one among a large collection of random facts used to fill out the leftover vacant space after a story's conclusion. (They were common in newspapers in the days before computerized pagination.)
At least when the devil quotes Scripture, he gets it right. Another in a long and venerable history of Christians who wouldn’t know Christianity if it ear-fucked them