History doesn’t repeat itself. Greed and evil just tend to look the same, whenever and wherever. #genocide #EthnicCleansing

I've always been a glass-half-full kind of person, but when news outlets characterize Trump's approval rating of 37% as "unprecedentedly bad" for a US president after 1 year in office, my reaction is: "You mean if I walk into any random public space, 1 in 3 Americans, minimum, are still fascists?"

Trump just does it out loud, in the open.

3 of 3 Thank you, every one of you, for supporting voices who refuse to accept a world of “alternative facts”, hate, and corporate media propaganda. We’re going to take a breather for a couple of days, and come out swinging again.

No nation on earth fetishizes its military in the way the USA does. Do the lofty words of praise from US politicians match how veterans are treated? And if not, why not? In our new episode of BWWW, we explore who actually fights America’s wars, and on whose behalf. beforewewerewhite.com/episodes

I made this for those who believe that the current conflict in Gaza was started by Hamas on 7 October 2023.

American history and analysis served up raw, without garnish. A big welcome to all our new subscribers! After disengaging completely from the toxic META and X ecosystems, Bluesky and Substack seem to have been the right move. Now for a viable alternative to YouTube...

After a 5 month hiatus (as we moved from META to Bluesky and Substack), Before We Were White-Podcast is back with a new episode. Why have "poor white folks" - aka Hillbillies - always been seen as fair targets for vicious ridicule by "mainstream" American society? beforewewerewhite.com/episodes/

A brief appreciation upon news of the death of Brian Wilson. substack.com/@beforewewer...

I made this map as an aid for showing how much of the population of post-Revolutionary War Virginia was seen as “non-white”. These percentages DO NOT include people enslaved at the time. Millions of "white" Americans descend from free people of color. More at link: substack.com/@beforewewer...

The great Spanish poet and playwright Lorca was enrolled at Columbia University in 1929. If he were there today, he would have his student visa revoked, or be snatched and sent to a gulag in El Salvador. With the full connivance of the university. What have we become?

Hilarious how the witless MAGA cult wants to travel back to a "Golden Age" which never existed. Nearly 150 years ago, this is how people on the western frontier felt about the carrying of firearms in public spaces.

I would be very much obliged & grateful if someone with far more knowledge of economics than myself would explain why Trump’s tariff announcements and subsequent partial “backdown” is not simple and naked market manipulation faciltitating insider short-selling on world stock markets. Seriously.

What if this tariff thing has less to do with USA manufacturing, and more to do with trying to cause EU division? Will some EU members begin to negotiate individual trade agreements in order to mitigate the effect of tariffs? Germany/Slovakia/Hungary hardest hit. Latter 2 already in Putin's orbit.

A picture says a thousand words. Why Palestinians will never live to see a two-state solution.

No indictments. No due process. Capitalism has always known the value of offshoring. Now they will offshore their gulags. Venezuelans today, pro-Palestine demonstrators tomorrow. One day they will come for you.