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i looked this up to see where it happened (wisconsin), and the details are horrific.

nobody asked for it, but here's the mural of the great fire from the peshtigo fire museum

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David Bowie by Terry O´Neill, 1974

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You’re a 19 year old kid.

You are critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam .

Its November 14, 1965 . LZ (landing zone) X-ray.

Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO (commanding officer) has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in.

You’re lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you’re not getting out.

Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you’ll never see them again.

As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.

Then - over the machine gun noise - you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter.

You look up to see a Huey coming in. But.. It doesn’t seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it.

Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you.

He’s not MedEvac so it’s not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he’s

flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway.

Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come. He’s coming anyway.

And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of you at a time on board.

Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety. And, he kept coming back!! 13 more times!!

Until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm.

He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey.

Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Army, died at the age of 81, in Boise, Idaho.

I bet you didn’t hear about this hero’s passing,Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman.

Now… YOU pass this along.

Honor this real hero.

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Horsemaning is the act of posing for a photograph in such a way that the subject appears to have been beheaded, their head resting on the ground or on a surface. It was a photography fad in the 1920s.

It requires two individuals, one situated with one's head hidden (or tilted backwards) with the other hiding his or her body and exposing only his or her head.

The practice derives its name from the Headless Horseman, an evil character from Washington Irving’s 1820 short story, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”.

Horsemaning saw a revival in 2011 on Facebook and a series of photos began trending on sites like Buzzfeed as people tried to recreate the original trend.

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Protester, Cuban Missile Crisis, Whitehall, London, Don McCullin, 1963

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California Senator Alex Padilla being arrested and detained is Donald Trump trying to terrorize California for being a Democratic state.

Fuck everyone who voted for Trump.

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Kristi Noem had Alex Padilla, a UNITED STATES SENATOR, handcuffed and forcibly removed from a press conference for asking questions. I’m fucking furious. 

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Republicans spent all of today in Congress attacking Democratic Governors they were questioning in a hearing, and then Trump gave an obnoxious speech, and now Kristis Noem’s outrageous news conference…. They are in full attack mode on ELECTED democratic members of our blue states.

I just watched this live on TV news. THEY MANHANDLED A SENATOR. Alex Padilla of California. I have never seen anything like this and I am old enough to remember LydonJohnson in the 60’s.

From POLITICO just now:

Video provided by Padilla’s office shows the senator approaching the lectern as Noem was touting federal law enforcement’s immigration crackdown efforts in Los Angeles. He was stopped and shoved back by multiple men.

“I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary,” he said. He tried to speak further as he was forcibly removed into an adjoining room, where he yelled “Hands off!”

The video shows Padilla being forced to the ground and his arms handcuffed behind his back. He has since been released and is in a holding room. The spokesperson said the senator was told he could speak to Noem after the event.

The confrontation earned a swift rebuke from fellow Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who condemned the action from the floor shortly thereafter.

“Forcibly removing a United States Senator from a press conference is disgraceful,” Rep. Pete Aguilar, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, said on X. “This administration’s chaos and corruption is out of control.”

Gov. Gavin Newsom called the treatment of Padilla “outrageous, dictatorial, and shameful” in a social media post shortly after the incident.

“Trump and his shock troops are out of control,” he wrote.

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I knew outsourcing all of our banana factories would come back to bite us in the potassium.

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3rd & Spring | Downtown Los Angeles | 1937

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The 1953 North Sea flood - Picture Kitchen

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jury-rigged. even keel. by the board. three sheets to the wind. loose cannon. son of a gun. pipe down. taken aback.

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A very distinguished Poodle celebrates after winning first prize at a dog show in Berlin. 1928.