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Historical marker in Poolesville, Maryland. It reads: Lynching of George W. Peck January 10, 1880 George W. Peck, a 22-year-old Black man who lived and worked in Beallsville, Maryland, was lynched near this site by a white mob in an act of racial terror. On the morning of January 10, 1880, Mr. Peck was accused of assaulting a white girl on the farm where he worked. A local constable arrested him and brought him to the Odd Fellows Hall in Poolesville. Throughout the day an angry crowd gathered but eventually dispersed after dark, only to reappear before midnight. The crows then seized Mr. Peck as he was being moved to another location. Securing a noose around his neck, the mob dragged Mr. Peck to a vacant lot across from the Poolesville Presbyterian Church. Denied his rights to judge and jury, he was hanged from a locust tree. The following morning, as parishioners arrived for Sunday services, Mr. Peck's body was finally cut down and buried unceremoniously in an unmarked grave. A jury of inquest found that Mr. Peck died "at the hands of parties unknown." In an act of solidarity, Black residents later reinterred his body in the consecrated grounds of a nearby African American churchyard. On November 3, 2019, inspired by the Equal Justice Initiative, the wider community gathered to collect soil from the site of Mr. Peck's lynching as a gesture of racial healing. Today, the community rekindles his story in the name of remembrance and reconciliation.

Back side of George W. Peck lynching marker in Poolesville, Maryland. It reads: Lynching in Maryland Racial terror lynching claimed the lives of at least 6,500 Black people in the United States between 1865 and 1950. This created a legacy of injustice that can still be felt today. Though Maryland remained in the Union, more than 87,000 Black people were enslaved in the state when the Civil War began in 1861. As the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 only applied to states in rebellion, enslavers in Maryland sought to retain their human property as the reward for their loyalty. Maryland amended its constitution to abolish slavery on November 1, 1864. After the war, in the Reconstruction Era, racial violence was used nationwide to intimidate Black people and to reinforce racial hierarchy and segregation. Lynch mobs disregarded the legal system, often abducting their victims from jails, prisons, and courtrooms. The police did little to stop the violence. In fact, the mobs sometimes hanged, shot, burned, or mutilated their victims in front of crowds numbering in the thousands. Meanwhile, laws to protect Black people from discrimination and to provide them with security were rarely enforced. Although many victims remain unknown, at least 38 racial terror lynchings have been documented in Maryland. Of these, three took place in Montgomery County: Mr. George Peck in 1880 in Poolesville, Mr. John Diggs-Dorsey in 1880 in Rockville, and Mr. Sidney Randolph in 1896 in Rockville. Erected 2023 by The Montgomery County Lynching Memorial Project (MoCoLMP).

Think of all the progress made by @eji.org and others in putting historical markers at the sites of racial terror lynchings. Now realize we’re not even close to marking them all. (This one is in Poolesville, Maryland.) As evidence: cardinalnews.org/2026/03/13/o...

Ban all these fucking markets.

The Iran War features tactical successes for the US but is, overall, a strategic failure because it was initiated based on a strategy within which profound miscalculations were integrated.

Blinded by its tactical successes, the US is likely to proceed under the sunk cost fallacy.

New euphemism for “racist” just dropped?

I have no idea what the context is and I don’t care, this is my new motto.

Everything is awful but how can this not make you smile: there’s a guy whose account is devoted to reviewing sticky toffee pudding.

The tragedy here is that it took me so long to discover this guy ❤️

Your Jewish friends and neighbors are tired.

Sometimes we just want you to understand why our community and our synagogues being repeatedly attacked is frightening, without explaining it away because of the Mideast or comparing it to other forms of hate.

Stephen Miller complaining about the UK finally eliminating heredity nobility from their legislature is a perfect encapsulation of how perverse it is to have these people in charge during the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Talarico: "There's another war in the Middle East. There's a cost of living crisis. There's a secret pedophile ring & no one has been prosecuted. So the people responsible are trying to distract us with the same old culture wars ... what do the American people care more about -- pronouns or prices?"

I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is.

People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)

16 and Counting: Oil and Cargo Ships Are Growing Targets in War With Iran More than a dozen oil tankers, cargo and other commercial ships have been attacked in the Persian Gulf since the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran began nearly two weeks ago.

trump said we already won this war so why is this happening???

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I hope there are enough election clerks around the country ready to make the same decision

girl then quit

this idiot took us to war without knowing the size of the enemy’s navy

This is how it’s done folks

Are the global markets really swinging back because of an ambiguous comment by the world's most powerful idiot? Has everyone lost their fucking minds?

Happy bday New Zealand suffragist Kate Sheppard, b.1847, instrumental in making New Zealand first country guaranteeing women right to vote (1893).

"Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops."

"We will deliver adjectives to the objective with unyielding fury."

Was going to quote something like "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them" but no, he is just plain fuckin stupid.

This should end his career.

But it won’t—not in 2026.

Even so—call, complain, speak up, push back.

I wish that Anti-Muslim bigots didn’t belong here.

The story at this point is why folks of color in Maine, who are quite familiar with our current governor and Senate candidate, Janet Mills, aren't feeling her. Why are so many of us still leaning towards Platner?

There's some real interesting observations as a Mainer about who we support.

People of color can be dolts as well.

This post is one of the many reasons I haven't written part 2 of my piece on Graham Platner. People are more interested in clinging to their beliefs than listening to someone who isn't a traditional journalist who isn't white but lives in Maine. I'm so tired of people outside of Maine.

While Americans spent the weekend watching gas prices rise because of his illegal war with Iran, Donald Trump spent the weekend golfing.

America’s sons and daughters are being put in harms way because of his rogue and reckless actions, and this is how he is spending his time.

This is the Platonic ideal of a social media exchange, never again to be equaled or even attempted:

Georgia Democrats are running in 204 state legislative races, contesting 88% of House seats and 82% of Senate seats – Democrats’ highest number of qualified candidates and contested seats in at least three decades, according to the state party

This was the plan, right? This is what the White House wanted?

Now Senate can put hold on Mullin until Dems DHS demands are met

But it’ll probably be a good front for her and Corey to keep “working” together