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The Black Wall Street Massacre - Profolus The Black Wall Street Massacre, also known as the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, is one of the worst acts of racial violence in U.S. history

IN HISTORY: The 1921 Black Wall Street Massacre, considered as one of the worst acts of racial violence in U.S. history, involved white mobs attacking the well-off Black American community in Greenwood District in Tulsa.

Government | Harvard University Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.

Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more.

pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

A piece by our co-founder and writer @elsawilliams.bsky.social

Take That (specifically 92-95), so much so that during my autism assessment I was asked about it and I just went into how the date was Howard’s birthday and he was 57.

Cartoon ginger cat with big beseeching eyes.

In the days of lovely Twitter I often put out a call for help with research in writing my books. So here goes, Bluskiers.

I'm looking for a social worker (adoption/fostering preferably) and a probation officer who worked between 2008 and 2012, the more senior the better.

Please share :)

The Real Horror of 'Sinners' Isn’t Supernatural The constraints of the Jim Crow economy drive every event in the film.

Sinners is a horror film in which almost all of the key events are driven by the constraints of the Jim Crow economy (spoilery) www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

This is "Clinton's private mail server" times, like, 20. This is a people go to prison sort of security failure if Trump people went to prison.

Cat records chart-topping album of autistic owner’s little songs A cat has become one of the world’s best-selling musical artists overnight, after secretly recording his owner while she sang about him. Marmaduke, six, is reported to have been the subject of near co...

“The tracks are a mix of original compositions and covers with the lyrics changed to make them about Marmaduke. For example, the theme of TV game show Blankety Blank becomes ‘Sausagey Cat.’”

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+++ May Day +++

Summer is icumen in
loudly sing cuckoo
grows the seed and blows the mead
and springs the wood anew.
sing cuckoo!
ewe bleats harshly after lamb
cows after calves make moo
bullock stamps and deer champs
now shrilly sing cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo
wild bird are you be never still cuckoo

Missing a trick: How Psychology could benefit more from the paranormal | BPS Richard Wiseman and Caroline Watt look at three areas where parapsychologists have been ahead of the curve.

Skeptic Richard Wiseman and his parapsychologist wife Caroline Watt look at three areas where parapsychologists have been ahead of the curve in psychological research.

www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Fascinating interview with the brilliant Pat Barker. I’m a huge fan of her brilliant, insightful novels.

A series of drawings of medieval dressed people playing various ‘games’. There is a man with a lady on his shoulders, and a man underneath a hanging rope either balancing it on his chin, or kissing it! The text underneath says 'Games unknown'.

A series of drawings of medieval dressed people playing various ‘games’, showing people on planks of wood over tubs of water holding candles. The text underneath says 'Games unknown'.

One of our #LocalStudies treasures is a copy of Joseph Strutt’s 'Sports and Pastimes of the people of England', 1801. It has beautiful illustrations and includes games we’ve all heard of like skittles, billiards and dominos, but Strutt was puzzled by these. Any ideas??

#EYAFunAndGames #history

Lovecraft Investigations: Crowley A Lovecraft Investigations audio series delving into the (true) life and works of Aleister Crowley

From the creators of the Pleasant Green Universe and the Lovecraft Investigations comes Crowley, a 5 part audio series on the man behind much of the occult history of the last century. #PleasantGreen #Crowley www.kickstarter.com/projects/cro...

Looking through the window inside the diorama, this shows the exhibition extending backwards, with miniature people and exhibits

This shows the window on the front of the item, where you can look through into the exhibition. The illustration shows people looking through the window too

The item held in hand, the front cover showing people viewing the exhibition, and the window in the centre

The box cover for the item, with detailed illustration

Take a peek at a miniature Great Exhibition, first open on this day in 1851! This diorama, ‘Lane’s telescopic view…’ was published the same year, and folds out accordion style so we can look through the mini window.

[Great Exhibition 07/13]

After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal This is After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal. The podcast that takes you to the shadiest corners of the past, unpicking history’s spookiest, strangest, and most sinister stories.Join histori...

The streets of Victorian England were stalked by a shadowy menace: Spring-Heeled Jack, with his glowing eyes, blue flames, claws, and springs in his heels. You can listen (or watch on YouTube) me discuss the folklore of this figure on the HistoryHit podcast pod.link/1705694900/e...

He he. I adore her.

Virginia Giuffre, who accused Britain's Prince Andrew in Epstein sex trafficking scandal, has died The woman who accused Britain’s Prince Andrew and other influential men of sexually exploiting her as a teenager trafficked by financier Jeffrey Epstein has died. Virginia Giuffre was 41.

They’re saying it’s suicide.
But highly suspicious.
She said just a few months ago, if I’m found dead you’ll know why. She expressed concern for her physical safety.

apnews.com/article/virg...

Colour in art: a brief history of blue pigment | Art UK Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 500,000 artworks by over 55,000 artists.

Artist Yves Klein was born #OnThisDay in 1928.

🔵 We're celebrating his birthday by looking at the history of blue in art 👉 buff.ly/Mzpdo0y

'The Virgin and Child with Angels' by Quinten Massys (1466–1530) 📸 @TheCourtauld

Ryan Coogler’s Road to “Sinners” The film represents a departure for the “Black Panther” director, and a creative risk; it grapples with ideas about music, race, family, religion—and vampires.

Can think of fewer better matches of writer and subject here www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Post a #vampire and pass it on

Some Thoughts on the Arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan - emptywheel Before Kash Patel's FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan based on charges that she corruptly obstructed the immigration arrest of a defendant before her, FBI never bothered to look for proof that she had t...

My post on the Dugan arrest from the weekend.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/27/s...

Lawyers for Deported U.S. Citizen Kids Say Moms Were 'Coerced' Into Taking Them Marco Rubio claimed two deported Louisiana mothers voluntarily brought their children with them. Attorneys for the families say that’s a lie.

After the Trump administration deported three U.S. citizen children, including one with cancer, Marco Rubio claimed their mothers chose to bring them. Lawyers for the families say that’s a lie.

Public sours on Musk’s role, is skeptical that government is cutting waste A Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll finding negative reactions to some cuts made by Musks’s U.S. DOGE service.

February: Why are you protesting in front of Tesla dealerships? That seems like at best a waste of time, at worst a big mistake.

April:

#GiftArticle

Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time” Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and…

#ICYMI: GlobalX flight attendants were told they would fly rock bands, sports teams and sun-seekers.

Then the company started expanding into deportation flights.

“They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.”

Thomas Tryon- The Other

The Other by Thomas Tryon from 1971 for my book group. Pretty good so far

So… this was supposed to be about Paul Revere’s ride, but the Senator just unloaded about the Trump administration and its Republican enablers. Far more newsworthy than I expected. (You can probably see me shifting to “crap, this was not the interview I prepped!” but the result was memorable.)

Ship's Cat - National Maritime Historical Society by Philippa Sandall 1803 was a momentous year for Matthew Flinders and his cat, Trim. In June they completed the circumnavigation of Australia aboard HMS Investigator. In August, sailing…

Cool article about the history of cats on seafaring ships. Says it’s a website of history for kids but I found the article interesting even as an adult, check it out cat and history lovers… seahistory.org/sea-history-...