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LIFE has a series of photographs taken in post-war France when liberators were hunting soldiers of the Vichy government for execution. They also have new pictures of Paris on August 25, when German military in the city surrendered. A Nazi Collaborator Is Bound To A Post: In this photograph, the first of six members of the ruthless Milice — who served as the police force for the Nazi collaborationist Vichy government — is tied to a post by guards moments before being shot to death by a firing squad. Carl Mydans’ lens is one of the last things he will see. As John Osborne, LIFE’s on-the-scene writer, described the moment: “The place chosen for these first legal executions in Southern France was an open lot beside a brick factory in Grenoble’s extreme outskirt. In the same lot, the Germans had shot 23 [French] patriots in July and it was deliberately selected for the Milice’s executions. But, said the morning paper, Les Allobroges, they were to be shot in a different part of the lot. It would not be fitting for the blood of traitors to sully the ground hallowed by partriots’ blood.”

LIFE has a series of photographs taken in post-war France when liberators were hunting soldiers of the Vichy government for execution. They also have new pictures of Paris on August 25, when German military in the city surrendered.

A Nazi Collaborator Is Bound To A Post:

In this photograph, the first of six members of the ruthless Milice — who served as the police force for the Nazi collaborationist Vichy government — is tied to a post by guards moments before being shot to death by a firing squad. Carl Mydans’ lens is one of the last things he will see. As John Osborne, LIFE’s on-the-scene writer, described the moment: “The place chosen for these first legal executions in Southern France was an open lot beside a brick factory in Grenoble’s extreme outskirt. In the same lot, the Germans had shot 23 [French] patriots in July and it was deliberately selected for the Milice’s executions. But, said the morning paper, Les Allobroges, they were to be shot in a different part of the lot. It would not be fitting for the blood of traitors to sully the ground hallowed by partriots’ blood.”

The whole illustration is very cute and informative. via Fransee

The whole illustration is very cute and informative. via Fransee

Hitler's Failed Operation Barbarossa

Towards the end of WWII, the Germans were fighting off England and the US in the west and, with Finland, the Russians in the east. This is an intensive Flash map presentation with primary resource accounts of the invasion of Eastern Europe/Russia by the Nazis that inevitably lead to their defeat. I spent a night/morning going through it all.

Fisher Price Food This nostalgia blog is blowing my mind. I remember folding the egg just right to fit and the feeling of closing the shell over it (it popped open all the time). I haven’t thought of these toys since the last time I played with them before ditching them for the new toy and all of a sudden I remember everything..crazy brain stuff! I was quite the Fisher Price junkie and had the stove and everything (frying pan that sizzled!), thanks to my parents stopping at one kid. I also remember the day we put the stove out by the dumpster for some other family to play with and then seeing it in my younger friend’s apartment when I went over to play the next day..it was a Toy Story 3 moment. via imremembering

Fisher Price Food

This nostalgia blog is blowing my mind. I remember folding the egg just right to fit and the feeling of closing the shell over it (it popped open all the time). I haven’t thought of these toys since the last time I played with them before ditching them for the new toy and all of a sudden I remember everything..crazy brain stuff! I was quite the Fisher Price junkie and had the stove and everything (frying pan that sizzled!), thanks to my parents stopping at one kid. I also remember the day we put the stove out by the dumpster for some other family to play with and then seeing it in my younger friend’s apartment when I went over to play the next day..it was a Toy Story 3 moment.

via imremembering

“A haunting 150-year-old photo found in a North Carolina attic shows a young black child named John, barefoot and wearing ragged clothes, perched on a barrel next to another unidentified young boy. Art historians believe it’s an extremely rare Civil War-era photograph of children who were either slaves at the time or recently emancipated.” -AP via Lena

“A haunting 150-year-old photo found in a North Carolina attic shows a young black child named John, barefoot and wearing ragged clothes, perched on a barrel next to another unidentified young boy.

Art historians believe it’s an extremely rare Civil War-era photograph of children who were either slaves at the time or recently emancipated.” -AP via Lena

French townspeople lay flowers on the body of an American soldier. (Regional Council of Basse-Normandie/U.S. National Archives) -Big Picture: 66th anniversary of D-Day

French townspeople lay flowers on the body of an American soldier. (Regional Council of Basse-Normandie/U.S. National Archives)

-Big Picture: 66th anniversary of D-Day

Accidentally Googled ‘2’ which gave me the Wikipedia of the number: “It is the natural number following 1 and preceding 3.” Some more blah math stuff but then it got interesting with the history of the Western symbol for it (pictured above): “The glyph we use today in the Western world to represent the number 2 traces its roots back to the Brahmin Indians, who wrote 2 as two horizontal lines (it is still written that way in modern Chinese and Japanese). The Gupta rotated the two lines 45 degrees, making them diagonal, and sometimes also made the top line shorter and made its bottom end curve towards the center of the bottom line. Apparently for speed, the Nagari started making the top line more like a curve and connecting to the bottom line. The Ghubar Arabs made the bottom line completely vertical, and now the glyph looked like a dotless closing question mark. Restoring the bottom line to its original horizontal position, but keeping the top line as a curve that connects to the bottom line leads to our modern glyph.”

Accidentally Googled ‘2’ which gave me the Wikipedia of the number:

“It is the natural number following 1 and preceding 3.”

Some more blah math stuff but then it got interesting with the history of the Western symbol for it (pictured above):

“The glyph we use today in the Western world to represent the number 2 traces its roots back to the Brahmin Indians, who wrote 2 as two horizontal lines (it is still written that way in modern Chinese and Japanese). The Gupta rotated the two lines 45 degrees, making them diagonal, and sometimes also made the top line shorter and made its bottom end curve towards the center of the bottom line. Apparently for speed, the Nagari started making the top line more like a curve and connecting to the bottom line. The Ghubar Arabs made the bottom line completely vertical, and now the glyph looked like a dotless closing question mark. Restoring the bottom line to its original horizontal position, but keeping the top line as a curve that connects to the bottom line leads to our modern glyph.”

'Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence in Movements Enables State Violence'

via derailedcommodity: anthropophagous: curate:

“When queer organizers are humiliated and their political struggles sidelined, that is part of an ongoing state project of violence against radicals. When women are knowingly given STIs, physically abused, dismissed in meetings, pushed aside, and forced out of radical organizing spaces while our allies defend known misogynists, organizers collude in the state’s efforts to destroy us. The state has already understood a fact that the Left has struggled to accept: misogynists make great informants. Before or regardless of whether they are ever recruited by the state to disrupt a movement or destabilize an organization, they’ve likely become well versed in practices of disruptive behavior. They require almost no training and can start the work immediately. What’s more paralyzing to our work than when women and/or queer folks leave our movements because they have been repeatedly lied to, humiliated, physically/verbally/emotionally/sexually abused? Or when you have to postpone conversations about the work so that you can devote group meetings to addressing an individual member’s most recent offense? Or when that person spreads misinformation, creating confusion and friction among radical groups? Nothing slows down movement building like a misogynist.”

Fell Into A Wikipedia Wormhole Last Night

Do you dare?:

Jon Burge, torture cop living on full Chicago cop pension

Richard M. Daley, States attorney during Burge’s reign of terror

Chicago Police Department, fine upstanding organization

Fred Hampton, victim of fine upstanding organization

Took a break to watch ‘Parks and Recreation’, which actually brought me back to Fred Hampton because I looked up:

Rashida Jones, whose sister is:

Kidada Jones, whose fiancé was:

Tupac Shakur, whose step-father was:

Mutulu Shakur, whose sister is:

Assata Shakur, Black Panther Party member and target of COINTELPRO (hers is a particularly good featured Wikipedia article)

Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican nationalist Assata met in prison

Angela Davis, classified Assata as a political prisoner and was also a COINTELPRO target

COINTELPRO, COINTELPRO Targets

J. Edgar Hoover, shitheel creator of COINTELPRO

Apalachin Meeting, event that caused Hoover to accept the existence of the Mafia

W. Mark Felt, FBI’s Deep Throat

Fred Hampton, another BPP member, assassinated COINTELPRO target

Huey P, BPP cofounder

Weather Underground, group created to ally with Black liberation and radical groups

David Halberstam, COINTELPRO target civil rights journalist whose Pulitzer reminded me of:

Toni Morrison

Then I decided to start re-reading Beloved.

July 29, 1922. Newark, New Jersey. “Girl athletes to sail on Aquitania. Stine, Sabie, Gilliland, Batson, Snow.” Contestants bound for Paris, France, and the first international track meet for women. Bain News Service. Photo link.

July 29, 1922. Newark, New Jersey. “Girl athletes to sail on Aquitania. Stine, Sabie, Gilliland, Batson, Snow.” Contestants bound for Paris, France, and the first international track meet for women. Bain News Service. Photo link.