#salemwitchtrials — Public Fediverse posts

"More weight!"

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1779773/more-weight

Also, getting rid of #Witches in #NewEngland had more to do with widows who were #landowners than it did with actual #Witchcraft! (I know, 'cuz it happened to one of my ancestors!)

#NewEnglandHistory #NorthShore #SalemWitchTrials #History #Greed #Histodon

#USpol #Fascism

👉Even before assuming office, #MadDogMusk assumes #role of lead prosecutor in a 21st century version of #the #SalemWitchTrials on #X👈

Via #RobertMcCoy, #TheNewRepublic

"*Elon Musk Keeps Unleashing His Crazed Followers on Government Workers

Musk is singling out federal employees by name on social media.*"

"...#senior advisers 4 climate + environmental justice @ the Dpt. of Housing + Urban Development,... Dpt. of Energy."

https://newrepublic.com/post/188891/elon-musk-crazed-followers-government-workers?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch
https://newrepublic.com/post/188891/elon-musk-crazed-followers-government-workers?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

Great suggestions in this essay about "temporal displacement, time loops, time skips, time slips or parallel timelines." https://www.salon.com/2023/07/25/gotta-get-back-in-time-the-current-explosion-of-time-travel-novels-goes-beyond-sci-fi-and-fantasy/
If #time is of interest, you can check out a volume of essays I edited, published by #CambridgeUP, that takes up this issue in #US #literature from its #indigenous roots to #DonDeLillo, from the #SalemWitchTrials to the #graphic novel, #RichardMcGuire's #Here. I also wrote a book on #tempo(e)rality with, you guessed it, #Poe as the (wobbly) center.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge March 7: a town meeting for #NationalTownMeetingDay

Raymond Rouleau's Les sorcières de #Salem (FR/GDR, 1957) – , with a screenplay by Marxist philosopher Jean-Paul #Sartre – is a very early #film adaptation of Arthur Miller's 1953 #TheatrePlay The Crucible. An allegory of #McCarthyism, the play is a (partially dramatised) retelling of the #SalemWitchTrials, a dramatic episode in early US-American history. During several court and town meetings, 200 people were falsely accused of meddling with the Devil; 19 of them were eventually executed.

Miller himself was accused of un-American activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended. Which doesn't mean that #WitchTrials are a thing of the past. As easily one can transplant Puritan religious mass hysteria to 1950s McCarthy anti-socialism, as easy is it applicable to the state of the world today.

#ArthurMiller #JeanPaulSartre #TheCrucible #DDR #SimoneSignoret #YvesMontand @film