@sean@scoat.es2025-09-16 14:38:03
@sean@scoat.es2025-09-16 14:38:03
@mapto@qoto.org2025-09-18 05:05:46
It's more than obvious now that common Israelis think of themselves as superior to a Palestinian. It is beyond understanding how ignorant they must be of their own family history to allow themselves into such levels of ethno-nationalism.
https://www.aljazeera.com/ne…
@brian_gettler@mas.to2025-07-14 17:54:38
I've got a new article on loans made by an Indigenous (Wendat) family to their settler neighbors in the 19th c. Among other things, it looks at credit in the countryside, Indigenous interactions with banking and capitalism, Catholicism and usury, and notarial archives (they're the best).
Paywalled, but I know a guy.
"The Vincent-Picard Family’s Investments: Wendat Wealth and Notarized Contracts in the Mid-Nineteenth Century"
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-03 21:06:19
In what Public Citizen called
"the greatest corruption in presidential history,"
Donald Trumpand his family added $5 billion in cash to their fortunes this Labor Day
as his new cryptocurrency was opened to the public market.
The currency, known as WLFI,
is owned by World Liberty Financial,
a company founded by the president's sons, Donald Trump, Jr., and Eric Trump.
A Trump business entity owns 60% of the company and is entitled to 75% …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-04 02:40:47
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) described Trump's latest $5 billion windfall as
"blatantly corrupt and a brazen abuse of power."
"The current occupant of the White House," she said, "is putting personal profit above the people,
using his power to illegally line the pockets of his family and billionaire friends
while hanging everyday families out to dry
by ripping away their healthcare, food assistance, raising the cost of consumer good…
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-07-20 13:06:07
Family Reunion
This weekend marks the 70th reunion of Albert Campbell Smith and Mary Susan Mallow's descendants in West Virginia. I take a nostalgic trip through familiar places, reflecting on family history and memories. I also wonder about my grandmother's estrangement from her relatives.
https://www.bobm…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-07-26 15:39:59
GOP Rep Lied About His Family's Immigration History - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/gop-rep-lied-about-his-familys-immigration-history/
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-07-30 19:33:03
Refugees, intergenerational trauma, child death, abusive family
Also just finished "The Best We Could Do" by Thi Bui, which is the second memoir I've stumbled upon recently that deals with the Vietnamese exodus after the end of the war (House Without Walls by Ching Yeung Russel is the other one, which is written in verse, not illustrated). Bui traces more of the political landscape and history of Vietnam through the stories of both of her parents, and also unpacks a lot of intergenerational trauma, but has less focus on the boat trip out and refugee camp experience, presumably because hers were easier than Russel's.
My thoughts after reading this return repeatedly to all of the impacts that patriarchy and toxic masculinity had on her father, from setting up his father and grandfather to be abusive towards him and the women in their lives, to pushing him deep into depression when he feels unable to fulfill the role of a protective husband, ironically leaving his wife to pick up the slack and ultimately ruining their relationship, to how it teaches him to despise and shirk the caregiver role he's left with, ultimately passing on some measure of trauma to his children. For sure war, abusive family, and child death can happen in the absence of patriarchy and those are in some ways perhaps bigger factors here, but at the same time, Bui's mom copes with most of the same factors in healthier ways.
#AmReading
@cai@mastodon.social2025-07-04 04:19:01
Content warning: us pol, personal
I’m a US citizen who has never lived there but has family there and has a certain history, affinity and complicated relationship with the country. I am simultaneously disconnected from the reality of “on the ground” culture — just as incredulous and horrified as the rest of the world — while also having a particular additional fear and a grief from my personal connection. I don’t really have capacity to examine that at the moment. That’s why I’m not talking about it, really.
@mapto@qoto.org2025-08-09 05:38:02
An amazing example of how human testimonies of suffering might fail, and why - as in any other context - validation through fact-checking and triangulation are crucial in order to understand history.
https://forward.com/news/761437/holocaust-survivor-ari-schnei…
@prachisrivas@masto.ai2025-06-23 13:10:38
@villavelius@mastodon.online2025-08-24 09:18:16
"The impression I had of the late Czar Alexander III was of an extremely energetic, headstrong, haughty, but also kind and benevolent personality. His family life has been a model in every respect. On what he has done as an autocrat for his people and country, history will judge." (Alexander's physician Ernst von Leyden* in his Memoirs, 1910).
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@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-06-28 13:30:10
In Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Man of the People" (part of "Four Ways to Forgiveness") there's a scene where the Hainish protagonist begins studying history. It's excellent in many respects, but what stood out the most to me was the softly incomprehensible idea of a people with multiple millions of years of recorded history. As one's mind starts to try to trace out the implications of that, it dawns on you that you can't actually comprehend the concept. Like, you read the sentence & understood all the words, and at first you were able to assemble them into what seemed like a conceptual understanding, but as you started to try to fill out that understating, it began to slip away, until you realized you didn't in fact have the mental capacity to build a full understanding and would have you paper things over with a shallow placeholder instead.
I absolutely love that feeling, as one of the ways in which reading science fiction can stretch the brain, and I connected it to a similar moment in Tsutomu Nihei's BLAME, where the android protagonists need to ride an elevator through the civilization/galaxy-spanning megastructure, and turn themselves off for *millions of years* to wait out the ride.
I'm not sure why exactly these scenes feel more beautifully incomprehensible than your run-of-the-mill "then they traveled at lightspeed for a millennia, leaving all their family behind" scene, other than perhaps the authors approach them without trying to use much metaphor to make them more comprehensible (or they use metaphor to emphasize their incomprehensibility).
Do you have a favorite mind=expanded scene of this nature?
#AmReading
@markrsmith@smithtodon.org2025-07-21 20:58:26
Today, the senior progressive living facility that my mother is living in (until May - in an independent apartment) confirmed in a meeting today that she is no longer able to be independent. So my 2 siblings and I are working on moving her out of her 2 bedroom apt into a single Skilled Nursing room.
This looks like the family history of Alzheimer's has bit her too.
I and my siblings are fine and working on everything that needs to be done. But tired.
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-07-27 06:26:52
The Ghosts of West Virginia
At our family reunion, we stood where our ancestors once fought, fled, and fell at Fort Seybert. I shared Rebecca’s story, traced our Mallow line, and felt the weight of history settle in. These are more than names—they're echoes we carry.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.co…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-29 22:42:09
Established by the Black Guerrilla Family in San Quentin Prison in 1979,
Black August is an annual commemoration of the struggle for Black liberation
and a time to remember the freedom fighters who have passed
or who remain locked up in prison.
In 2025, as fascism rises in the US and around the globe,
what can the radical tradition of Black August teach us about keeping the fight for freedom alive in dark times?
In this on-the-ground edition of Rattling …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-29 04:12:58
When Ashley Robinson and her mother took DNA tests 10 years ago and began meeting long lost cousins,
they stumbled across a surprising family history that changed their lives.
Robinson’s lineage traced back to the 272 West Africans who were enslaved by Jesuits
and sold to plantation owners in the southern US in 1838.
The sale of the enslaved Africans helped fund Georgetown University,
the oldest Jesuit higher education institution in the US,
and served a…
@arXiv_statAP_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-25 09:09:50
Multivariate Shared Frailty Cure-Rate models: a focus on Breast Cancer family history
Maria Veronica Vinattieri, Marco Bonetti, Kamila Czene
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16350 htt…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-07-22 17:38:33
I wonder how involved my abuelo, who would have been only 13, or his father/family, was in this. They lived in village called Silla a few kilometres south of Valencia.
Soy pensamiento de mi abuelo y su familia durante el guerra civil en València.
#Valencia #SpanishCivilWar #España #historia #history #fascism
https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/114898085057932640