#assassinated — Public Fediverse posts
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Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Explosions rock Russia's Novorossiysk, occupied Crimea amid reported drone attack . . . . . Ukraine faces race against time as Russia chokes Black Sea ports . . . . . Belgium LNG imports in July 100% Russian . . . . . Russia prepares its 'final push' of the war this fall . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/wednesday-august-12-2026/
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Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Explosions rock Russia's Novorossiysk, occupied Crimea amid reported drone attack . . . . . Ukraine faces race against time as Russia chokes Black Sea ports . . . . . Belgium LNG imports in July 100% Russian . . . . . Russia prepares its 'final push' of the war this fall . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/wednesday-august-12-2026/
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Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Explosions rock Russia's Novorossiysk, occupied Crimea amid reported drone attack . . . . . Ukraine faces race against time as Russia chokes Black Sea ports . . . . . Belgium LNG imports in July 100% Russian . . . . . Russia prepares its 'final push' of the war this fall . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/wednesday-august-12-2026/
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Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Explosions rock Russia's Novorossiysk, occupied Crimea amid reported drone attack . . . . . Ukraine faces race against time as Russia chokes Black Sea ports . . . . . Belgium LNG imports in July 100% Russian . . . . . Russia prepares its 'final push' of the war this fall . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/wednesday-august-12-2026/
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Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Explosions rock Russia's Novorossiysk, occupied Crimea amid reported drone attack . . . . . Ukraine faces race against time as Russia chokes Black Sea ports . . . . . Belgium LNG imports in July 100% Russian . . . . . Russia prepares its 'final push' of the war this fall . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/wednesday-august-12-2026/
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‘Delusional’ N.Korean leader killed half-brother: Seoul
South Korean spy chief Lee Byong-ho claimed on Wednesday North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had his exiled half-brother…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #assassinated #KimJong-nam #Malaysia #northkorea #southkorea
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‘Delusional’ N.Korean leader killed half-brother: Seoul
South Korean spy chief Lee Byong-ho claimed on Wednesday North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had his exiled half-brother…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #assassinated #KimJong-nam #Korean #Malaysia #NorthKorea #SouthKorea
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RE: https://masto.nyc/@GetMisch/115967949176520649
Our #WarCrimePresident:
Hundreds #assassinated in fishing boats. Girl's school targeted using old data. Citizen #infrastructure #bombed, like #bridges, #hospitals. Critical systems destroyed like water #desalinization plants.
These. Are. War. Crimes.
So is anyone surprised, USA current regime is *targeting the ICC* #InternationalCriminalCourt, who can, should, and must bring them to #justice.
#fascist #USA #OurPutin #ChristoFascism #MarcoRubio #IranWar #JaredKushner
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RE: https://masto.nyc/@GetMisch/115967949176520649
Our #WarCrimePresident:
Hundreds #assassinated in fishing boats. Girl's school targeted using old data. Citizen #infrastructure #bombed, like #bridges, #hospitals. Critical systems destroyed like water #desalinization plants.
These. Are. War. Crimes.
So is anyone surprised, USA current regime is *targeting the ICC* #InternationalCriminalCourt, who can, should, and must bring them to #justice.
#fascist #USA #OurPutin #ChristoFascism #MarcoRubio #IranWar #JaredKushner
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/us-vows-campaign-end-icc-185057775.html -
RE: https://masto.nyc/@GetMisch/115967949176520649
Our #WarCrimePresident:
Hundreds #assassinated in fishing boats. Girl's school targeted using old data. Citizen #infrastructure #bombed, like #bridges, #hospitals. Critical systems destroyed like water #desalinization plants.
These. Are. War. Crimes.
So is anyone surprised, USA current regime is *targeting the ICC* #InternationalCriminalCourt, who can, should, and must bring them to #justice.
#fascist #USA #OurPutin #ChristoFascism #MarcoRubio #IranWar #JaredKushner
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/us-vows-campaign-end-icc-185057775.html -
RE: https://masto.nyc/@GetMisch/115967949176520649
Our #WarCrimePresident:
Hundreds #assassinated in fishing boats. Girl's school targeted using old data. Citizen #infrastructure #bombed, like #bridges, #hospitals. Critical systems destroyed like water #desalinization plants.
These. Are. War. Crimes.
So is anyone surprised, USA current regime is *targeting the ICC* #InternationalCriminalCourt, who can, should, and must bring them to #justice.
#fascist #USA #OurPutin #ChristoFascism #MarcoRubio #IranWar #JaredKushner
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/us-vows-campaign-end-icc-185057775.html -
https://www.europesays.com/africa/331058/ South Africa anti-migrant group says one of its leaders ‘assassinated’ #Africa #antimigrant #assassinated #group #its #Leaders #of #one #says #south #SouthAfrica
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#MissKittyRaw
It's easy to throw #Russia under on this. I thought #Ukraine before Russia. But because of both of those circumstances it's easy for a third actor to make use of that situation. It could have been anybody. I think he was #assassinated.
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#MissKittyRaw
It's easy to throw #Russia under on this. I thought #Ukraine before Russia. But because of both of those circumstances it's easy for a third actor to make use of that situation. It could have been anybody. I think he was #assassinated.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t6ubj2wlhc34awzcymh3qpur/post/3mqh4geypgs2c -
#MissKittyRaw
It's easy to throw #Russia under on this. I thought #Ukraine before Russia. But because of both of those circumstances it's easy for a third actor to make use of that situation. It could have been anybody. I think he was #assassinated.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t6ubj2wlhc34awzcymh3qpur/post/3mqh4geypgs2c -
#MissKittyRaw
It's easy to throw #Russia under on this. I thought #Ukraine before Russia. But because of both of those circumstances it's easy for a third actor to make use of that situation. It could have been anybody. I think he was #assassinated.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t6ubj2wlhc34awzcymh3qpur/post/3mqh4geypgs2c -
#MissKittyRaw
It's easy to throw #Russia under on this. I thought #Ukraine before Russia. But because of both of those circumstances it's easy for a third actor to make use of that situation. It could have been anybody. I think he was #assassinated.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t6ubj2wlhc34awzcymh3qpur/post/3mqh4geypgs2c -
And look I don't believe anything anymore from mainstream #News. I'm not saying that he's not dead, but was he murdered by the #Russians? The #Chinese? Was he #Poisoned? Is somebody going to do an autopsy? If he was #Assassinated we should know. Right? Never heard that he was sick.
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https://www.europesays.com/videos/55167/ Huge crowds gather in Iran for funeral of Ayatollah Khamenei – killed in US airstrike | BBC News #Airstrike #Ali #anger #assassinated #Ayatollah #bbc #BBCNews #BreakingNews #Ceasefire #compound #danger #fighting #funeral #Hormuz #Iran #iraq #Israel #khamenei #killed #Leader #Leadership #missile #mourners #Netanyahu #news #risk #Shia #Strait #StraitHormuz #strike #SUPPORTERS #Supreme #Tehran #threat #Trump #US #victory #war #WorldNews
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That's right, fuck the war. Shutdown anything you can. Fuck Russia everyday until #Putin #is #assassinated. Yea, let me just say what we all want to say about somebody I can say it about. KILL THAT FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT PUTIN TODAY. PUT A BAZOOKA UP HIS ASS IN MOSCOW SQUARE LIVE! Death to traitors!!
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Earlier on Wednesday, #Iran intelligence minister, Esmaeil Khatib, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, becoming the latest high-ranking Iranian official #assassinated in the #war. The Israeli military said in a statement that Khatib’s ministry had overseen espionage & covert operations against Iranians as well as #Israel & #US targets across the world.
#TrumpsWar #war #Trump #Netanyahu #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #geopolitics #MiddleEast #economy
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Earlier on Wednesday, #Iran intelligence minister, Esmaeil Khatib, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, becoming the latest high-ranking Iranian official #assassinated in the #war. The Israeli military said in a statement that Khatib’s ministry had overseen espionage & covert operations against Iranians as well as #Israel & #US targets across the world.
#TrumpsWar #war #Trump #Netanyahu #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #geopolitics #MiddleEast #economy
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Earlier on Wednesday, #Iran intelligence minister, Esmaeil Khatib, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, becoming the latest high-ranking Iranian official #assassinated in the #war. The Israeli military said in a statement that Khatib’s ministry had overseen espionage & covert operations against Iranians as well as #Israel & #US targets across the world.
#TrumpsWar #war #Trump #Netanyahu #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #geopolitics #MiddleEast #economy
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Earlier on Wednesday, #Iran intelligence minister, Esmaeil Khatib, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, becoming the latest high-ranking Iranian official #assassinated in the #war. The Israeli military said in a statement that Khatib’s ministry had overseen espionage & covert operations against Iranians as well as #Israel & #US targets across the world.
#TrumpsWar #war #Trump #Netanyahu #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #geopolitics #MiddleEast #economy
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Earlier on Wednesday, #Iran intelligence minister, Esmaeil Khatib, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, becoming the latest high-ranking Iranian official #assassinated in the #war. The Israeli military said in a statement that Khatib’s ministry had overseen espionage & covert operations against Iranians as well as #Israel & #US targets across the world.
#TrumpsWar #war #Trump #Netanyahu #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #geopolitics #MiddleEast #economy
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TOP #Iranian Official #ASSASSINATED By #Israel As 200 #US Troops Wounded #Varoufakis #BreakingPoints #yt
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TOP #Iranian Official #ASSASSINATED By #Israel As 200 #US Troops Wounded #Varoufakis #BreakingPoints #yt
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TOP #Iranian Official #ASSASSINATED By #Israel As 200 #US Troops Wounded #Varoufakis #BreakingPoints #yt
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TOP #Iranian Official #ASSASSINATED By #Israel As 200 #US Troops Wounded #Varoufakis #BreakingPoints #yt
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TOP #Iranian Official #ASSASSINATED By #Israel As 200 #US Troops Wounded #Varoufakis #BreakingPoints #yt
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#MustRead
#Israel's #Nuclear Weapons Program
"late 50s & early 60s US officials were concerned abt te construction of te (Israel nuclear) reactor.. CIA produced report highlighting te dangers but #Eisenhower admin suppressed it. Pres #Kennedy was v alarmed abt Israel acquiring nuclear weapons & demanded thorough inspections.. He was in te final process of sett'g up te inspection regime & possibly shutt'g down prod'n of nuclear weapons in Israel when he was #assassinated"🤔
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/03/armageddon-now-israels-nuclear.html -
#MustRead
#Israel's #Nuclear Weapons Program
"late 50s & early 60s US officials were concerned abt te construction of te (Israel nuclear) reactor.. CIA produced report highlighting te dangers but #Eisenhower admin suppressed it. Pres #Kennedy was v alarmed abt Israel acquiring nuclear weapons & demanded thorough inspections.. He was in te final process of sett'g up te inspection regime & possibly shutt'g down prod'n of nuclear weapons in Israel when he was #assassinated"🤔
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/03/armageddon-now-israels-nuclear.html -
#MustRead
#Israel's #Nuclear Weapons Program
"late 50s & early 60s US officials were concerned abt te construction of te (Israel nuclear) reactor.. CIA produced report highlighting te dangers but #Eisenhower admin suppressed it. Pres #Kennedy was v alarmed abt Israel acquiring nuclear weapons & demanded thorough inspections.. He was in te final process of sett'g up te inspection regime & possibly shutt'g down prod'n of nuclear weapons in Israel when he was #assassinated"🤔
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/03/armageddon-now-israels-nuclear.html -
#MustRead
#Israel's #Nuclear Weapons Program
"late 50s & early 60s US officials were concerned abt te construction of te (Israel nuclear) reactor.. CIA produced report highlighting te dangers but #Eisenhower admin suppressed it. Pres #Kennedy was v alarmed abt Israel acquiring nuclear weapons & demanded thorough inspections.. He was in te final process of sett'g up te inspection regime & possibly shutt'g down prod'n of nuclear weapons in Israel when he was #assassinated"🤔
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/03/armageddon-now-israels-nuclear.html -
#MustRead
#Israel's #Nuclear Weapons Program
"late 50s & early 60s US officials were concerned abt te construction of te (Israel nuclear) reactor.. CIA produced report highlighting te dangers but #Eisenhower admin suppressed it. Pres #Kennedy was v alarmed abt Israel acquiring nuclear weapons & demanded thorough inspections.. He was in te final process of sett'g up te inspection regime & possibly shutt'g down prod'n of nuclear weapons in Israel when he was #assassinated"🤔
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/03/armageddon-now-israels-nuclear.html -
After Pam #Bondi's appalling performance in #Congressional hearings, I have seen a number of people wishing her various kinds of harm. Some I understand, others I don't.
Most obviously, #prison #rape. This is something a lot of people who should know better seem to think is an appropriate punishment for sex crimes. There are about a million reasons why this is wrong, and I'll go into them if anyone wants.
TL;DR: if you wish rape on anyone, for any reason, you are bad person. You may be a good person in other ways, but in this particular way you are scum. Either do better, or own it—just don't pretend righteousness. I'm genuinely baffled by how people I call friends don't understand this.
Nor do I want her, or any of #Trump's coterie of crooks, #assassinated or #lynched. I'm more sympathetic to those wishes, but just no. Every revolution in history has been, in every sense, a bloody mess.
What I want is for We The People, in accordance with the #Constitution and the United Staes Code, to #impeach, arrest, try, and convict every one of them for the numerous crimes of which everyone knows they're guilty, and then sentence them to prison for life without possibility of parole.
I want us to show the world that we can, legally and correctly, clean up our own mess.
And all that said ... I do hope when Bondi is led, stunned and baffled, down the concrete corridor to her final home, that just before the cell door slams shut, a guard whispers to her, "It's okay, Pam. The Dow is doing *great*!"
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After Pam #Bondi's appalling performance in #Congressional hearings, I have seen a number of people wishing her various kinds of harm. Some I understand, others I don't.
Most obviously, #prison #rape. This is something a lot of people who should know better seem to think is an appropriate punishment for sex crimes. There are about a million reasons why this is wrong, and I'll go into them if anyone wants.
TL;DR: if you wish rape on anyone, for any reason, you are bad person. You may be a good person in other ways, but in this particular way you are scum. Either do better, or own it—just don't pretend righteousness. I'm genuinely baffled by how people I call friends don't understand this.
Nor do I want her, or any of #Trump's coterie of crooks, #assassinated or #lynched. I'm more sympathetic to those wishes, but just no. Every revolution in history has been, in every sense, a bloody mess.
What I want is for We The People, in accordance with the #Constitution and the United Staes Code, to #impeach, arrest, try, and convict every one of them for the numerous crimes of which everyone knows they're guilty, and then sentence them to prison for life without possibility of parole.
I want us to show the world that we can, legally and correctly, clean up our own mess.
And all that said ... I do hope when Bondi is led, stunned and baffled, down the concrete corridor to her final home, that just before the cell door slams shut, a guard whispers to her, "It's okay, Pam. The Dow is doing *great*!"
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After Pam #Bondi's appalling performance in #Congressional hearings, I have seen a number of people wishing her various kinds of harm. Some I understand, others I don't.
Most obviously, #prison #rape. This is something a lot of people who should know better seem to think is an appropriate punishment for sex crimes. There are about a million reasons why this is wrong, and I'll go into them if anyone wants.
TL;DR: if you wish rape on anyone, for any reason, you are bad person. You may be a good person in other ways, but in this particular way you are scum. Either do better, or own it—just don't pretend righteousness. I'm genuinely baffled by how people I call friends don't understand this.
Nor do I want her, or any of #Trump's coterie of crooks, #assassinated or #lynched. I'm more sympathetic to those wishes, but just no. Every revolution in history has been, in every sense, a bloody mess.
What I want is for We The People, in accordance with the #Constitution and the United Staes Code, to #impeach, arrest, try, and convict every one of them for the numerous crimes of which everyone knows they're guilty, and then sentence them to prison for life without possibility of parole.
I want us to show the world that we can, legally and correctly, clean up our own mess.
And all that said ... I do hope when Bondi is led, stunned and baffled, down the concrete corridor to her final home, that just before the cell door slams shut, a guard whispers to her, "It's okay, Pam. The Dow is doing *great*!"
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After Pam #Bondi's appalling performance in #Congressional hearings, I have seen a number of people wishing her various kinds of harm. Some I understand, others I don't.
Most obviously, #prison #rape. This is something a lot of people who should know better seem to think is an appropriate punishment for sex crimes. There are about a million reasons why this is wrong, and I'll go into them if anyone wants.
TL;DR: if you wish rape on anyone, for any reason, you are bad person. You may be a good person in other ways, but in this particular way you are scum. Either do better, or own it—just don't pretend righteousness. I'm genuinely baffled by how people I call friends don't understand this.
Nor do I want her, or any of #Trump's coterie of crooks, #assassinated or #lynched. I'm more sympathetic to those wishes, but just no. Every revolution in history has been, in every sense, a bloody mess.
What I want is for We The People, in accordance with the #Constitution and the United Staes Code, to #impeach, arrest, try, and convict every one of them for the numerous crimes of which everyone knows they're guilty, and then sentence them to prison for life without possibility of parole.
I want us to show the world that we can, legally and correctly, clean up our own mess.
And all that said ... I do hope when Bondi is led, stunned and baffled, down the concrete corridor to her final home, that just before the cell door slams shut, a guard whispers to her, "It's okay, Pam. The Dow is doing *great*!"
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Letters from an American – January 18, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox RichardsonLetters from an American, January 18, 2026
By Heather Cox Richardson, Jan 18, 2026
You hear sometimes, now that we know the sordid details of the lives of some of our leading figures, that America has no heroes left.
When I was writing a book about the Wounded Knee Massacre, where heroism was pretty thin on the ground, I gave that a lot of thought. And I came to believe that heroism is neither being perfect, nor doing something spectacular. In fact, it’s just the opposite: it’s regular, flawed human beings choosing to put others before themselves, even at great cost, even if no one will ever know, even as they realize the walls might be closing in around them.
It means sitting down the night before D-Day and writing a letter praising the troops and taking all the blame for the next day’s failure upon yourself in case things went wrong, as General Dwight D. Eisenhower did.
It means writing in your diary that you “still believe that people are really good at heart,” even while you are hiding in an attic from the men who are soon going to kill you, as Anne Frank did.
It means signing your name to the bottom of the Declaration of Independence in bold script, even though you know you are signing your own death warrant should the British capture you, as John Hancock did.
It means defending your people’s right to practice a religion you don’t share, even though you know you are becoming a dangerously visible target, as Sitting Bull did.
Sometimes it just means sitting down, even when you are told to stand up, as Rosa Parks did.
None of those people woke up one morning and said to themselves that they were about to do something heroic. It’s just that when they had to, they did what was right.
On April 3, 1968, the night before the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a white supremacist, he gave a speech in support of sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. Since 1966, King had tried to broaden the civil rights movement for racial equality into a larger movement for economic justice. He joined the sanitation workers in Memphis, who were on strike after years of bad pay and such dangerous conditions that two men had been crushed to death in garbage compactors.
After his friend Ralph Abernathy introduced him to the crowd, King had something to say about heroes: “As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about.”
Continue/Read Original Article Here: January 18, 2026 – by Heather Cox Richardson
Tags: 1966, Assassinated, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Heather Cox Richardson, heroes, I Have a Dream, Letters from an American, Martin Luther King Jr., Memphis, Ralph Abernathy, Tennessee, White Supremacist
#1966 #Assassinated #CivilRights #CivilRightsMovement #DrMartinLutherKing #HeatherCoxRichardson #heroes #IHaveADream #LettersFromAnAmerican #MartinLutherKingJr #Memphis #RalphAbernathy #Tennessee #WhiteSupremacist -
Letters from an American – January 18, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox RichardsonLetters from an American, January 18, 2026
By Heather Cox Richardson, Jan 18, 2026
You hear sometimes, now that we know the sordid details of the lives of some of our leading figures, that America has no heroes left.
When I was writing a book about the Wounded Knee Massacre, where heroism was pretty thin on the ground, I gave that a lot of thought. And I came to believe that heroism is neither being perfect, nor doing something spectacular. In fact, it’s just the opposite: it’s regular, flawed human beings choosing to put others before themselves, even at great cost, even if no one will ever know, even as they realize the walls might be closing in around them.
It means sitting down the night before D-Day and writing a letter praising the troops and taking all the blame for the next day’s failure upon yourself in case things went wrong, as General Dwight D. Eisenhower did.
It means writing in your diary that you “still believe that people are really good at heart,” even while you are hiding in an attic from the men who are soon going to kill you, as Anne Frank did.
It means signing your name to the bottom of the Declaration of Independence in bold script, even though you know you are signing your own death warrant should the British capture you, as John Hancock did.
It means defending your people’s right to practice a religion you don’t share, even though you know you are becoming a dangerously visible target, as Sitting Bull did.
Sometimes it just means sitting down, even when you are told to stand up, as Rosa Parks did.
None of those people woke up one morning and said to themselves that they were about to do something heroic. It’s just that when they had to, they did what was right.
On April 3, 1968, the night before the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a white supremacist, he gave a speech in support of sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. Since 1966, King had tried to broaden the civil rights movement for racial equality into a larger movement for economic justice. He joined the sanitation workers in Memphis, who were on strike after years of bad pay and such dangerous conditions that two men had been crushed to death in garbage compactors.
After his friend Ralph Abernathy introduced him to the crowd, King had something to say about heroes: “As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about.”
Continue/Read Original Article Here: January 18, 2026 – by Heather Cox Richardson
Tags: 1966, Assassinated, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Heather Cox Richardson, heroes, I Have a Dream, Letters from an American, Martin Luther King Jr., Memphis, Ralph Abernathy, Tennessee, White Supremacist
#1966 #Assassinated #CivilRights #CivilRightsMovement #DrMartinLutherKing #HeatherCoxRichardson #heroes #IHaveADream #LettersFromAnAmerican #MartinLutherKingJr #Memphis #RalphAbernathy #Tennessee #WhiteSupremacist -
Letters from an American – January 18, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox RichardsonLetters from an American, January 18, 2026
By Heather Cox Richardson, Jan 18, 2026
You hear sometimes, now that we know the sordid details of the lives of some of our leading figures, that America has no heroes left.
When I was writing a book about the Wounded Knee Massacre, where heroism was pretty thin on the ground, I gave that a lot of thought. And I came to believe that heroism is neither being perfect, nor doing something spectacular. In fact, it’s just the opposite: it’s regular, flawed human beings choosing to put others before themselves, even at great cost, even if no one will ever know, even as they realize the walls might be closing in around them.
It means sitting down the night before D-Day and writing a letter praising the troops and taking all the blame for the next day’s failure upon yourself in case things went wrong, as General Dwight D. Eisenhower did.
It means writing in your diary that you “still believe that people are really good at heart,” even while you are hiding in an attic from the men who are soon going to kill you, as Anne Frank did.
It means signing your name to the bottom of the Declaration of Independence in bold script, even though you know you are signing your own death warrant should the British capture you, as John Hancock did.
It means defending your people’s right to practice a religion you don’t share, even though you know you are becoming a dangerously visible target, as Sitting Bull did.
Sometimes it just means sitting down, even when you are told to stand up, as Rosa Parks did.
None of those people woke up one morning and said to themselves that they were about to do something heroic. It’s just that when they had to, they did what was right.
On April 3, 1968, the night before the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a white supremacist, he gave a speech in support of sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. Since 1966, King had tried to broaden the civil rights movement for racial equality into a larger movement for economic justice. He joined the sanitation workers in Memphis, who were on strike after years of bad pay and such dangerous conditions that two men had been crushed to death in garbage compactors.
After his friend Ralph Abernathy introduced him to the crowd, King had something to say about heroes: “As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about.”
Continue/Read Original Article Here: January 18, 2026 – by Heather Cox Richardson
Tags: 1966, Assassinated, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Heather Cox Richardson, heroes, I Have a Dream, Letters from an American, Martin Luther King Jr., Memphis, Ralph Abernathy, Tennessee, White Supremacist
#1966 #Assassinated #CivilRights #CivilRightsMovement #DrMartinLutherKing #HeatherCoxRichardson #heroes #IHaveADream #LettersFromAnAmerican #MartinLutherKingJr #Memphis #RalphAbernathy #Tennessee #WhiteSupremacist -
Letters from an American – January 18, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox RichardsonLetters from an American, January 18, 2026
By Heather Cox Richardson, Jan 18, 2026
You hear sometimes, now that we know the sordid details of the lives of some of our leading figures, that America has no heroes left.
When I was writing a book about the Wounded Knee Massacre, where heroism was pretty thin on the ground, I gave that a lot of thought. And I came to believe that heroism is neither being perfect, nor doing something spectacular. In fact, it’s just the opposite: it’s regular, flawed human beings choosing to put others before themselves, even at great cost, even if no one will ever know, even as they realize the walls might be closing in around them.
It means sitting down the night before D-Day and writing a letter praising the troops and taking all the blame for the next day’s failure upon yourself in case things went wrong, as General Dwight D. Eisenhower did.
It means writing in your diary that you “still believe that people are really good at heart,” even while you are hiding in an attic from the men who are soon going to kill you, as Anne Frank did.
It means signing your name to the bottom of the Declaration of Independence in bold script, even though you know you are signing your own death warrant should the British capture you, as John Hancock did.
It means defending your people’s right to practice a religion you don’t share, even though you know you are becoming a dangerously visible target, as Sitting Bull did.
Sometimes it just means sitting down, even when you are told to stand up, as Rosa Parks did.
None of those people woke up one morning and said to themselves that they were about to do something heroic. It’s just that when they had to, they did what was right.
On April 3, 1968, the night before the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a white supremacist, he gave a speech in support of sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. Since 1966, King had tried to broaden the civil rights movement for racial equality into a larger movement for economic justice. He joined the sanitation workers in Memphis, who were on strike after years of bad pay and such dangerous conditions that two men had been crushed to death in garbage compactors.
After his friend Ralph Abernathy introduced him to the crowd, King had something to say about heroes: “As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about.”
Continue/Read Original Article Here: January 18, 2026 – by Heather Cox Richardson
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Letters from an American – January 18, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox RichardsonLetters from an American, January 18, 2026
By Heather Cox Richardson, Jan 18, 2026
You hear sometimes, now that we know the sordid details of the lives of some of our leading figures, that America has no heroes left.
When I was writing a book about the Wounded Knee Massacre, where heroism was pretty thin on the ground, I gave that a lot of thought. And I came to believe that heroism is neither being perfect, nor doing something spectacular. In fact, it’s just the opposite: it’s regular, flawed human beings choosing to put others before themselves, even at great cost, even if no one will ever know, even as they realize the walls might be closing in around them.
It means sitting down the night before D-Day and writing a letter praising the troops and taking all the blame for the next day’s failure upon yourself in case things went wrong, as General Dwight D. Eisenhower did.
It means writing in your diary that you “still believe that people are really good at heart,” even while you are hiding in an attic from the men who are soon going to kill you, as Anne Frank did.
It means signing your name to the bottom of the Declaration of Independence in bold script, even though you know you are signing your own death warrant should the British capture you, as John Hancock did.
It means defending your people’s right to practice a religion you don’t share, even though you know you are becoming a dangerously visible target, as Sitting Bull did.
Sometimes it just means sitting down, even when you are told to stand up, as Rosa Parks did.
None of those people woke up one morning and said to themselves that they were about to do something heroic. It’s just that when they had to, they did what was right.
On April 3, 1968, the night before the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a white supremacist, he gave a speech in support of sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. Since 1966, King had tried to broaden the civil rights movement for racial equality into a larger movement for economic justice. He joined the sanitation workers in Memphis, who were on strike after years of bad pay and such dangerous conditions that two men had been crushed to death in garbage compactors.
After his friend Ralph Abernathy introduced him to the crowd, King had something to say about heroes: “As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about.”
Continue/Read Original Article Here: January 18, 2026 – by Heather Cox Richardson
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Someone from Find-a-Grave-dot-com posted a photo of Hampton's son, posing with his father's vandalized tombstone. Louisiana police have allegedly shot it repeatedly.
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Someone from Find-a-Grave-dot-com posted a photo of Hampton's son, posing with his father's vandalized tombstone. Louisiana police have allegedly shot it repeatedly.
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