Chris Hedges Report: How ‘Paradise Lost’ Revolutionized the World
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/07/08/chris-hedges-report-how-paradise-lost-revolutionized-the-world/
Orlando Reade discusses the influence of John Milton’s 17th century epic poem on revolutionary thinkers and grapples with the moral gray area that exists in revolutions. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost There are few pieces of literature that remain as prescient and…
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#thomasjefferson
Bonus #Joke
My friend saw the Liberty Bell once and said it's not all it's cracked up to be.
(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Vijay Prashad: Punishing Haiti’s Liberation
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/13/vijay-prashad-punishing-haitis-liberation/
Ever since waging the first successful anti-imperialist revolution in 1804, the Caribbean nation that overthrew slavery has been hit with crippling debt, coups and foreign meddling. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research On a stormy August night in 1791,…
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Hanging out with Tom on the way to work, who reminded me that he would "rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."
He might not have much to say these days, being locked in bronze and all, but I'm onboard. 
Stay #Woke, Fam
All of this blew my mind.
The opening of #ThomasJefferson’s 1822 letter to James Smith, rewritten in the style of a #TikTok influencer for a 6th grade audience.
I feel...an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may...reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.
-- Thomas Jefferson
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@GottaLaff
History repeats.
‘They descended on Philadelphia from all over, determined to act against a king and his “establishment of absolute tyranny over these states.” Their long list of grievances included:
“For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;
For imposing taxes on us without our consent;
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury;
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses;"
…
‘But actually these are quotes from the Thomas Jefferson-penned Declaration of Independence, reminding us of the tragic irony that America under President Donald Trump has, in many ways, become the kind of tyranny that citizens on this soil rebelled against in 1776.’
#DeclarationOfIndependence
#ThomasJefferson #HandsOff #USPol
#TRumpTheTyrant
Chris Hedges: Restoring Lies to US History
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/04/05/chris-hedges-restoring-lies-to-us-history/
Lust for conquest and wealth — behind the enslavement of Africans and the Native American genocide — is sidelined to tell the story of the valiant struggle by European pioneers to build the greatest nation on earth. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost…
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Very sober thoughts from US lawyer John Flannery. The real #WarPlans are still developing.
Take 16 minutes, and catch up. #Share
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvCWRRX4v50
It should go without saying I don't agree with this rationalization just by sharing the quote.
Thomas Jefferson had got himself into debt, listing the people he imprisoned as collateral. He was also seriously scared by the violent self-emancipation which Haiti's slaves achieved 20 years earlier.
But Jefferson's "solution" was to postpone and postpone justice, so he could continue his lifestyle.
