Seth Cotlar

sethcotlar.bsky.social

13 October 2026 09:59

An organization whose mission is to prevent Spanish from being used on government documents in the US is celebrating the day Queen Isabella’s man, famous English speaker Christopher Columbus, landed in the Caribbean. And some people say this holiday is about framing the US as a white nation. Pshaw!

MFCarter

mfcarter.bsky.social

13 October 2026 09:57

If they can go after Ilhan Omar over alleged immigration paperwork fraud her late father filled out when she was a child - they can go after Melania Trump over immigration paperwork fraud she filled out as an adult lying about a college degree she never earned.

Robert Saunders

robertsaunders.bsky.social

13 October 2026 09:56

Here's the whole letter, published on 14 November 1849.

Robert Saunders

robertsaunders.bsky.social

13 October 2026 09:56

Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849.