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Christopher Columbus was so infamously cruel that the Spanish crown paid to send someone to Hispaniola in 1500 to investigate. This resulted in a 48-page report detailing the testimony of two dozen witnesses, and the investigator himself, of how Columbus had mismanaged the colony, cut off ears and noses, tortured colonists that questioned his authority, paraded women naked, and sold natives into slavery. He was arrested, tried, and stripped of his titles. Some people that witnessed his barbarism, who had initially supported and participated in his colonization efforts, became so disgusted by Columbus's behavior that they also published accounts of his atrocities and began advocating for the rights of Indigenous populations. In particular, a contemporaneous Pope, and many other lesser Catholic figures, condemned Columbus explicitly, viewing his behaviors as grave offenses against G-d. Matt, you are literally more of a cretin than people that died before 1600 BCE. I wouldn't call you a conservative, I would call you a barbarian.

Where can one acquire a kid slapping robot

ICE at airports is just laying the groundwork for ICE at polling places btw

So there are illegal immigrants at polling places?

Trump on Iranian leaders: "They're gonna make a deal. They did something yesterday that was amazing actually. They gave us a present, and the present arrived today. It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I'm not gonna tell you what that present is but it was very significant prize."

I’m really glad you posted this. The biggest regret of my career was not fighting back against this op. In the early days, BuzzFeed was just an aggregator. The editors trained us how to drag and drop content from all over the internet. No regard for copyright or publishing standards. But things change fast. BuzzFeed leaders hung their massive editorial problems around my neck and fired me, all while mass deleting tens of thousands of articles from other BuzzFeed staff who faced zero consequences. They tried to kill my career. It was a lot for a 26 year old to handle. And I almost killed myself. But here’s why I’m writing this today… No matter what you’re facing, no matter how dark or unfair or insurmountable, God’s got you. God created you. God has a purpose for your life. Today, my media business is thriving. We have 17 million subscribers. I love my job and the company we’re building. And none of it would have happened without me being fired from BuzzFeed. Don’t ever give up.

What's your excuse for when I caught you plagiarizing at IJR more than a year later?

One from the Vault

NYT photoshoot of Greg Bovino directed by Jarvis

Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman spent over 20 years in public service. She lived a life worth remembering. What passes for political commentary here is just cruelty toward an elected official who was assassinated. You should be ashamed, you ghouls.

THREAD: (1/13) A foreign-linked influence network has been running coordinated operations against the Trump administration for 22 months. I know it's real because they ran one against me. I was targeted in something I knew was far from organic. This level of media is isolating, unwanted, and unwarranted. There was nobody to help, nobody to jump in and say, this is a false OP and help me. Well, I don’t believe in problems without solutions, so I’ve spent the last few months learning to build programs to utilize publicly available information to prove that this is way bigger than me. This is about creating chaos in the Republican Party. It's about the organized effort to lose Republicans the midterms and subvert President Trump's agenda, and I have the data for you to see 🧵