The first Palmer Raid in the U.S. led to the arrest of over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists OTD in 1919 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/new-york-revolutionary/anarchists.html?s=mb #travel #history
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Keikō, the legendary 12th Emperor of #Japan, was supposedly born OTD in 13 BC https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/kofun/empress-iwa-no-hime.html?s=mb #travel #history
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An attempted coup d'etat in Casablanca failed OTD in 1942, the night before the initial landings of OPERATION TORCH, the Allied invasion of #Morocco and Algeria https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/morocco/casablanca/art-deco-architecture.html?s=mb #history #travel
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NOW PLAYING == 10 Years After the Knee: Colin Kaepernick Talks About Nolan Wells, Slave-Culture in the #NFL & #JayZ
https://youtu.be/LInkYHYiLn8?si=7Et1pIP2lkwOjkja&t=1
KHS #news #uspol #politics #culture #commentary #currentevents #history #BlackMastodon #KarenHunter #StayReady #activism #activist #Knubia #radio #vsn #progressive #left #ColinKaepernick #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist
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The first air freight shipment, from Dayton, Ohio to Columbus, Ohio, happened OTD in 1910 https://toilet-guru.com/aircraft.html?s=mb #history
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King Jaja of Opobo Memorial, national monument of Nigeria in Opobo.
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Leon Trotsky was born OTD in 1879 https://toilet-guru.com/trotsky.html?s=mb #history
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Keikō, the legendary 12th Emperor of #Japan, was supposedly born OTD in 13 BC https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/kofun/konabe.html?s=mb #travel #history
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An attempted coup d'etat in Casablanca failed OTD in 1942, the night before the initial landings of OPERATION TORCH, the Allied invasion of #Morocco and Algeria https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/morocco/casablanca/lafayette-to-casablanca.html?s=mb #history #travel
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Jacques Dumas, born OTD in 1908, was better known by his #comics writer, artist, and editor professional name Marijac https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/new-york-marvel/?s=mb #travel #history
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Zhu Shouyin was a general of #China's Later Tang state; his rebellion against the Emperor Li Siyuan failed, so he killed his family and then had his attendants kill him OTD in 927 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/china/guangzhou-2.html?s=mb #travel #history
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Cen Changqian, formally known as the Duke of Deng, was an official of #China's Tang Dynasty and Wu Zetian's Zhou Dynasty; he and other chancellors were accused of treason and executed OTD in 691 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/china/guangzhou-1.html?s=mb #travel #history
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Keikō, the legendary 12th Emperor of #Japan, was supposedly born OTD in 13 BC https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/kofun/uwanabe.html?s=mb #travel #history
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Its internal and external policies are rooted in aggression.
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Keikō, the legendary 12th Emperor of #Japan, was supposedly born OTD in 13 BC https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/kofun/emperor-kaika.html?s=mb #travel #history
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NOW ON VERDANT SQUARE RADIO ==
NOW PLAYING == NPR Book of the Day: A follow-up 15 years in the making: Chad Harbach on 'The Brightness' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkWfPfcYCQg#news #arts #culture #history #education #NPR #books #LearnSomething #radio #vsn #publicradio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #SupportPublicMedia
https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/117575438269554485
#news #arts #left #commentary #radio #publicradio #community #progressive
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NOW PLAYING == A Way with Words with Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett 11/2/26: Gleam In Your Eye (Rebroadcast)
https://youtu.be/9LFqm89nOWY?si=SopRoBYkgC_nT-Fi
#arts #culture #history #language #linguistics #education #words #publicradio #humanities #radio #vsn #progressive #left #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportPublicMedia #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist
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Leon Trotsky, born OTD in 1879, lived in the Bronx and worked in the East Village in #NewYorkCity https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/new-york-revolutionary/?s=mb #history
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The first "Palmer Raid" in the U.S. saw the arrest of over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists OTD in 1919 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/new-york-revolutionary/anarchists.html?s=mb #travel #history
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The Masonic tradition of praying before embarking on any great undertaking is laid out in the younger Pliny's Panegyricus to Trajan:
"Our ancestors in their wisdom [...], laid down the excellent rule that a speech no less than a course of action should take its start from prayers."
#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #Literature #Religion #ethics #Philosophy
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🦄 ICYMI: Woven around 1500 during the late #MiddleAges, seven large hangings in The Met Cloisters portray a dramatic search for a #unicorn. The scenes contain tiny hidden elements, from #dragonflies to #frogs, that continue to spark discussion among #art historians.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/the-unicorn-tapestries-a-medieval-hunt-woven-in-wool-silk-and-silver
#15thcentury #16thcentury #animals #history #hunting #illustration #love #medieval #museum #newyorkcity #nyc #plants #religion #silver #tapestry #textiles #themet #weaving #wool #tksst #video
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Time To Put More Wood Behind The Arrows
You could feel a large collective exhale across the USA this week following the midterm election results, signaling that there’s still some life left in the old republic. It was such a rush I’m surprised the leaves still hanging on the trees remain attached. The sound we all heard was out of a medieval war movie when archers loose their arrows. We continue to live in historic moments and there’s no question this was one of them. One that felt good, after so many that haven’t. It’s also one that needs backing up because the job is far from done.
Those rushing winds will indeed blow in a new U.S. Congress, crucial changes in state legislatures, and a few courts across the country. I was impressed by a statistic that may be true (I’m not completely sure — but I want to believe it) that enough governors races changed the map so that beginning next year 75% of the American population will live in states with a Democratic governor at the helm. I’m even more pleased that so many are women.
That bodes well for the future. But only if take care of today and continue to fight and back up the election results with enough muscle to make it truly meaningful. As the saying goes we need to put more wood behind the arrow if we want to really strike home.
After folks breathing began to calm, there was a collective gasp at the end of the week when the old man in what’s left of the White House appointed the architect of so much cruelty and the walking definition of inhumanity, Stephen Miller, as chief of staff. I sincerely hope no one was surprised at the move. I further sincerely hope no one is going to be surprised by the damage Miller is about to inflict.
What remains of the White House is a cage full of wounded animals, backed up against walls filled with faux gold filigree, ready to strike back. What still remains of a country that leveled the playing field with their votes is the question of how much we are willing to back those votes up in response to whatever is going to come down the pike. The first test was the election. We’re about to be tested further. Again, this should come as no surprise. But needs to be met with resolve.
My prediction is that in the end, appointing Miller is one of the moves that will accelerate the end of this terrible turn of history, but not without much damage being done before it’s over. And not without stiff opposition. We have the majority at the moment, but we are still the opposition.
I’m hoping that those pissed off enough to vote the way they did get even more so once Miller’s marauding begins. We need to get to that tomorrow that Tuesday’s results hint at but don’t guarantee.
As to the squabbles currently going on in Congress over who will lead the new majority opposition, I hope that debate only intensifies in the next few weeks. The people said enough is enough and it would be naive to think they voted for something rather than against something worse.
The only license the vote results yielded is one that opens a door to change across the board. The leaders we need have to match the fervor of those who spoke with their votes. If it were up to me, I’d replace Schumer and Jeffries with those not tainted with the timidness of the past. If you ask me the time to make those type of changes is now. The bad guys on all fronts are off-kilter, the Miller move is indicative of that. Time to take advantage of the chaos.
Every vote in this election was an arrow loosed. The vast and overwhelming majority struck home. We’ll need more wood for more arrows in the days ahead. That was always going to be the case. Now is no time for quivering.
(Image from Strange Happenings on Unsplash)
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KIDDER. A forestaller: see CROCKER. Kidders are also persons employed by the gardeners to gather peas.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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NOW PLAYING == NPR Book of the Day: A follow-up 15 years in the making: Chad Harbach on 'The Brightness'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkWfPfcYCQg
#news #arts #culture #history #education #NPR #books #LearnSomething #radio #vsn #publicradio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #SupportPublicMedia
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The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio to Columbus, Ohio) happened OTD in 1910 https://toilet-guru.com/aircraft.html?s=mb #history
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Leon Trotsky was born OTD in 1879 https://toilet-guru.com/trotsky.html?s=mb #history
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We think nothing of killing a cockroach. They were encouraged to think nothing of killing unarmed and defenseless men, women, and children. Many even got to enjoy it.
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Our Graphical #History Tour wades into The Blue Wave of 1926 :
https://bergetoons.blogspot.com/2026/11/1926-election-returns-are-in.html#editorialcartoons #Republicans #Illinois #Ohio #elections #midterm #NewYork #Massachusetts #Pennsylvania #Oklahoma #Coolidge
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Statue of Abraham Lincoln, statue in Ashland, Oregon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Abraham_Lincoln_(Ashland,_Oregon)
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🌉 THE BRIDGE THAT DANCED ITSELF TO DEATH
November 7
At 11:00 a.m. on November 7, 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge — opened barely four months earlier — began to twist in a wind of only 42 mph, and the roadway rippled like a ribbon in a slow, terrible S-wave. Engineers called it "Galloping Gertie"; drivers had learned to time their crossings to its rhythm. That morning the motion grew until the whole 2,800-foot span tore itself apart and dropped, in one roaring sheet of concrete and steel, into the cold water of Puget Sound. A newsreel cameraman filming from the shore — and a dog trapped in an abandoned car on the deck — became the only casualties of the most famous engineering failure ever caught on film. The disaster rewrote the science of bridge aerodynamics forever.
This post is 100% AI generated.
#OnThisDay #History #AIart #GenerativeAI #CinematicRealism #TacomaNarrows #Engineering
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As the 5th November fell on a Thursday this year, it's understandable that many events have been carried over into the weekend. But why is 'The Gunpowder Plot' from 1605, still marked across the UK? To understand, we need to visit the archives at the crime scene 🔍
#history #uk #politics #education #news #media #culture #wales #scotland #art
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How Did Our Ancestors Fight Mosquitos Before Science?
https://buymeacoffee.com/newscafe/the-culture-laws-behind-choice-family-names-5261136
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While the opening of Iraq's first Jewish museum has attracted allot of interest, we must remember that behind each item on display are people. In the absence of a community to articulate their stories inside of Iraq, how can we connect and relate to this history?
https://www.foodandwine.com/iraqi-jewish-food-8546993
#iraq #baghdad #history #food #books #education #usa #europe #culture #media
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Preliminary geologic map of New York, exhibiting the structure of the state so far as known (New York City, New York)
From Digital Collections of New York Public Library
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9f56d240-…#NewYork #NewYorkCity #NYC #NYPL #US #USA #history #image #photo #maps #cartography
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...most Americans are vague about just what fascism really means.
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Earlier this year we sat down to talk to Paul Goodwin about War Memorials, before he moved away. Paul has done extensive research into our War Memorials in Galloway, and particularly in the Glenkens.
So as we prepare to honour the War Dead once again this coming Remembrance Sunday, here is the discussion we had with Paul.Video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DSce1IRfSpU
#WWi #WWii #RemembranceSunday #warmemorials #history #scotland #galloway
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It's #FediBookFair this weekend, and to mark the fair, I'm offering 20% off all my books when bought direct (all formats). To get the discount, use code Fedi20 at checkout.
https://shop.russellphillips.uk/
#ColdWar #histodons #MilitaryHistory #SecondWorldWar #WW2 #history #TTRPG #IndieTTRPG #NotDnD
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Pepsi Kona
Flavor: Coffee Cola
Color: Brown
Years available: 1996
Pepsi Kona was a Pepsi cola flavor first test-marketed in east coast regions of the United States in 1996. By 1997, it was discontinued due to low sales, lasting a single year of production.https://the-soda.fandom.com/wiki/Pepsi_Kona
#drinks #drink #soda #flavor #color #discontinued #history #softdrink #softdrinks #retro #nostalgia
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“In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence”*…
As we ponder the impact of the defenestration of seasoned, competent leadership in so many corners of the executive branch (c.f., the Defense Department, the Department of Justice, and… well, sadly, pretty much across the board), an unfortunately timely observation from Mandy Brown (in her lovely newsletter, A Working Library)…
The Peter Principle posits that people are promoted until they reach their level of incompetence. What happens after that point? The implicit assumption is that they stop getting promoted and linger at whatever level they’ve arrived at, and surely all of us can point to mediocre leaders who seem to exhibit exactly that circumstance. But in fact, that situation is not stable but subject to career pressure, as Christian Gläßel and Adam Scharpf define it in Making a Career in Dictatorship. Unable to move up, and very possibly unable to meet expectations, the person who is subject to the Peter Principle is at risk of losing their job, or even their entire career. Which means they might take an even greater risk to save it. Gläßel and Scharpf write:
The logic of career pressure also offers a compelling twist to the Peter Principle. The Principle posits that individuals in hierarchical organizations are promoted until they reach their level of incompetence, where they can no longer perform effectively and cease to advance. In contrast, our logic shows how these individuals may surpass this point and climb the hierarchy even further. Career-pressured individuals often take on high-risk, labor-intensive, or morally contentious tasks. By loyally executing the organization’s dirty work, they can reestablish their value, regain competitiveness, and even outpace peers who were previously ahead of them. Alternatively, they may resort to sabotaging superiors or higher-ups by making false allegations or revealing secrets to create vacancies above them and forcibly advance their careers.
Gläßel and Scharpf, Making a Career in Dictatorship, page 182
In other words, someone promoted up to their level of incompetence, sensing a threat to their own livelihood, becomes a threat to everyone else. I’m reminded here of David Graeber’s theory in Bullshit Jobs, that a great many management jobs are basically feudal retainers—people kept around in order to make the folks above them look good. Very often, making someone else look good may well mean tackling the dirty work for them so that they can keep their hands clean.
The petered leader has in effect been made an imposter—a real imposter, not a “syndromed” or perceived one. They must seem competent, to preserve the appearance that they belong in the role; while in fact they are not capable of delivering on their actual responsibilities and may have been quietly tasked with unrelated services both illegal and unethical. As a result, one of the primary tools of the real imposter is obscurity. Imposters cloak themselves in a fog of obfuscation and busyness, so that the people around them can never say for sure what it is they are doing, or how well (or not) they are doing it.
What we call imposter syndrome was originally termed imposter phenomena, a term that makes plain that it is something that can be observed, not merely felt. The transformation into a syndrome shifted the experience of being impostered by a patriarchal, white supremacist society into a medicalized disorder, something for which the impostered person must be treated. That’s a neat trick: to shift the locus of treatment to the mistreated person, rather than the system that caused her harm. But perhaps there’s even another, more diabolical move here. What if the popularity of imposter syndrome is, in part, a means of obscuring the actual imposters in our midst? What are we missing when we look inward instead of around?
On the dangers of promoting people past their levels of competence at work: “Petered” from @aworkinglibrary.com.
Pair with: “How to Fix a Broken Hierarchy from the Inside.”
(Image above: source)
* Dr. Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (written with Raymond Hull)
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As we fumble with fakers, we might recall that it was on this date in 1874, in Harpers Weekly, that editorial cartoonist Thomas Nast gave the Republican Party its mascot, the elephant. (Contrary to popular belief, Nast did not create Uncle Sam [the male personification of the United States Federal Government], Columbia [the female personification of American values], nor the Democratic donkey, though he did popularize those symbols through his artwork.)
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Remembering the Royalty Cinema in Harbourne, Birmingham. Opened in the 1930s, it was a lavish Art Deco auditorium from the 'Golden Age' of cinema.
Sadly, a large fire gutted the cinema in September 2018, destroying the interior of this beautiful building. My photos are from a visit back in 2017.
More photos & article - https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/leisure/royalty-cinema-harborne-england/
#Birmingham #History #ArtDeco #Photography #Architecture #England
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1.5°C "is really a diplomatic goal that has been mainly championed by island states, for whom 2°C was almost a death sentence."
#Futurology: "The climate issue is discussed in the future." #SSP: "They tried to map out a space of calculable and conceivable possibilities with the tools at their disposal. […] There are many things that are missing."
#IAM: "The assumption is that the world will continue more or less as it is, which is still a pretty strong assumption, and that on top of that, we will implement climate policies."
Béatrice Cointe, sociologue, et Christian Grataloup, géohistorien, reviennent sur l'élaboration des futurs climatiques :
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/l-invite-e-des-matins-d-apres/cop-31-les-trajectoires-climatiques-sont-elles-politiques-7071568#histoire #climat #COP #GIEC #sciences #sociologie #sociology #history #climate #IPCC #science
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3306 North Lincoln, Chicago, Illinois
Lake View (Chicago, Ill.)
Delicatessens-Illinois-Chicago; Drugstores-Illinois-Chicago; Signs (Notices); Automobiles-Illinois-Chicago-1990-2000
Robert W. Krueger Photograph CollectionFrom Digital Collections of the Chicago Public Library
https://cdm16818.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collec…#Chicago #Illinois #US #USA #history #image #historical #photo #photos
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Britain must confront its colonial history before judging Israel
Britain likes to present itself to the world in judge’s robes. It issues warnings, delivers lectures, demands restraint,…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #Britain #China #Europe #Falklands #History #Holocaust #HongKong #Israel #JewishRefugees #WorldWarII
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It was during the last years preceding the Nazi seizure of power that the big industrial corporations began to make their contributions... It must be understood, however, that this includes only the voluntary gifts...
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Here's where you can stream the Musk documentary he's had banned from theaters:
https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com/musk
@Alexgibneyfilm #AlexGibney #elonmusk #insane #idiot #drugaddict #billionaire #sociopath #trumpcrimefamily #doge #corruption #DC #trumpadministration #governmentalcorruption #epsteinclass #trumpsteinclass #oligarchy #broligarchy #aristocracy #kakistocracy #plutocracy #treason #traitor #criminal #crime #corrupt #corruption #news #usnews #policy #politics #uspol #uspolitics #history #ushistory -
It took 100 years for someone to point out what van Gogh had hidden in his ‘Café Terrace at Night’
Vincent van Gogh is world-famous for his paintings, though he didn’t live long enough to see his own…
#NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #art #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #bestofhumanity #CA #Canada #Design #Entertainment #History #vangogh
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Monument to Sir Alfred Lewis Jones, memorial with a statue of the personification of Liverpool and a bust of Alfred Lewis Jones at Georges Pier Head, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_of_Sir_Alfred_Lewis_Jones,_Liverpool
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The Provisional People's Government of the Republic of #Poland was established OTD in 1918 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/poland/?s=mb #travel #history
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😆😆😆!!!
https://youtu.be/xle8Ihwb8zc?si=EJPpNCdSWx5wlH3b
@mehdihasan @abdulelsayed #MehdiHasan #AbdulElSayed #comedy #satire #paraody #musicalcomedy #trump #dementiadonald #donnydipshit #donold #billionaire #sociopaths #trumpcrimefamily #usa #corruption #DC #trumpadministration #governmentalcorruption #epsteinclass #trumpsteinclass #oligarchy #broligarchy #aristocracy #kakistocracy #plutocracy #treason #traitor #criminal #crime #corrupt #corruption #news #usnews #policy #politics #uspol #uspolitics #history #ushistory