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"After his first X account was taken down..Parslow set up a new one & paid for a blue tick that saw his racist posts promoted.

As the weeks counted down to his attack, he glorified Hitler, posted a selfie performing a Nazi salute & called Jews & non-whites “animals”.

Two days before his attack, a user on X who reported Parslow’s posts received an official response from the social ­network saying his account had “not broken our safety policies.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/27/callum-parslow-nazi-racist-terrorist-who-plotted-to-kill-hid-in-plain-sight

Greta Thunberg interviews Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza. They discuss activism and Azaiza’s impactful coverage of the genocide in Gaza. This interview is the first of Greta’s series for Zeteo in which she speaks to people who inspire her https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHpC8zocGuI

Today in Labor History October 26, 1892: Ida B. Wells published “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases,” which led to threats against her life, and the burning down of her newspaper’s headquarters in Memphis. Wells, who was born into slavery, was a journalist, educator, feminist, and early Civil Rights leader who helped found the NAACP.

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Wells, c. 1893. She is wearing a lacy black blouse and has her hair in a bun. She is looking to the side. By Original: Mary GarrityRestored byAdam CuerdenDescriptionBritishImage restorationist, composer, amateur photographer and artist, and WikipedianAs Adam lives in Britain, which makes it incredibly easy to acquire copyright in his works, he grants, if needed, an irrevokable license to use this work however you see fit. He requests attribution where possible, and realises that "where possible" means that that request is not legally enforcable. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:44, 16 January 2022 (UTC)Date of birth8 June 1979Location of birthUnited States of America - Based on image originally from NAEMVZELXQV2iw — Google Arts & Culture, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28135837

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became angry. “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!” He turned to his chief of staff, , & issued an order: “Don’t pay it!” Later that day, he was still agitated. “Can you believe it?” he said, according to a witness. “Fucking people, trying to rip me off.”


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Today in Labor History October 22, 1790: Chief Little Turtle led the Miami and Chief Blue Jacket led the Shawnee in the defeat of the US in the Harmar Campaign, a punitive expedition of the Northwest Indian War. It was the US’s worst defeat to date, surpassed only by the Battle of Little Bighorn. As a result, Little Turtle became an Indigenous hero. The campaign had come in response to increasing conflicts between the indigenous Shawnee and Miami people in modern Kentucky and Indiana, and European-American settlers who were stealing their land. In the previous 5 years, 1,500 of those settlers had been killed in these conflicts. The goal of the campaign was to destroy indigenous villages and settlements. The campaign failed.

Lithograph of Little Turtle, reputedly based upon a lost portrait by Gilbert Stuart that was destroyed when the British burned Washington, D.C., in 1814. By Unknown author - lithograph reputedly based upon a lost portrait by Gilbert Stuart, destroyed when the British burned Washington DC in 1814., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1627554

Today in Labor History October 21, 1981: Kuwasi Balagoon was finally captured following a Brinks robbery. Balagoon had been a member of the Black Panther Party. While in prison, he became disillusioned with the Panthers, became an anarchist and joined the more militant Black Liberation Army. He escaped from prison twice. In 1979, while on the lam from his second prison escape, he helped to free political prisoner Assata Shakur, who fled to Cuba and lives there to this day. In 1986, he died in prison from AIDS. In 2019, PM Press released a collection of writings by and about Balagoon called, “Kuwasi Balagoon: A Soldier's Story.” And the prison abolitionist group, Black and Pink, which supports LGBTQ and HIV-positive prisoners, has, since 2020, run a "Kuwasi Balagoon award" for those living with HIV/AIDS.

Screenshot of Kuwasi Balagoon during a television interview conducted in the mid-1980s. He has a trim beard and mustache, with graying, receding hair. By WPIX - Original publication: New York, mid 1980sImmediate source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWn2B881BuQ&ab_channel=LibraryMachineBroke, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=67132755