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Teddy Still Teaching From Above

I’ve just reread… A Bully Father…Letters Theodore Roosevelt Wrote To His Children, by Jean Paterson Kerr. He too reread books he liked and said, they always read brand new. This goes for me too. For instance, he uses the word cunning a lot to describe his six children…Alice, Ted Jr., Kermit, Ethel, Archie and Quentin. I always assumed it only meant crafty and sly. Its second meaning…

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Gerald Ford vs. Teddy Roosevelt, no holds barred MMA fight. Who wins?

Despite his portrayal as a clumsy oaf, Gerald Ford was almost certainly the best athlete to ever serve in the White House. He was a legendary college football player who won two national championships at the University of Michigan, and was MVP of the team in his senior year. Ford turned down contract offers from the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers, but turned down a career in the NFL in order to attend law school. Ford was a avid skier until his 80s and continued swimming regularly for exercise into his 90s, and he would have had a notable size advantage over Theodore Roosevelt.

However, if someone genuinely knows what they are doing during a mixed martial arts fight, they are going to be very difficult to defeat -- even against an opponent who might be a superior athlete in every other sense. That has been a lesson learned throughout the growth of MMA as a mainstream sport dating back to Royce Gracie easily handling much bigger opponents in the early UFC with his Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Or Rickson Gracie calmly controlling and systematically dominating literally everyone he fought in Japan, no matter who Pride FC threw at him.

Theodore Roosevelt would be giving up quite a bit of size and athletic ability against Gerald Ford, but TR was an early student of martial arts. As President -- in the White House itself -- Roosevelt kept active with wrestling (always the best foundation for a mixed martial artist) and boxing. And he was among the first Americans to actually train in jiu jitsu and judo, receiving lessons directly from the legendary Yamashita Yoshiaki. Because of that experience, I think Theodore Roosevelt probably would have given any of his fellow Presidents a rough day at the office if they had an MMA fight, no matter how big or strong or athletic his opponent might be.

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Happy birthday, Mother Jones! (August 1, 1837)

In a life that spanned nearly a century, Mary Harris Jones, better known as Mother Jones, made a name for herself as a slashing crusader for the rights of workers. Born in Cork, Ireland, Jones' family fled Ireland for the New World in the midst of the Great Famine. After a series of personal tragedies, including the loss of her husband and children to yellow fever, Jones began work with the nascent labor movement, helping to organize strikes with the Knights of Labor, then the preeminent militant labor organization in the United States. The outspoken and vociferous Jones quickly gained a reputation as a firebrand, she gained the nickname "the most dangerous woman in America" in her work with the United Mine Workers and the Socialist Party. Beloved by the workers she organized, she took to referring to them as "my boys." In 1903, to protest against the depraved conditions under which children were forced to work in the sweatshops and mills of the Northeast, she organized a children's crusade, the "march of the mill children" from Pennsylvania to Theodore Roosevelt's summer White House in Long Island. An accomplished agitator well into her 80s, she published her autobiography in 1925, dying five years later.

"Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!"

#birthdays #mother jones

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[The Daily Don]

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

September 26, 2023

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

Today, on the anniversary of the creation of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 1914, the FTC and 17 state attorneys general sued Amazon for using “a set of interlocking anticompetitive and unfair strategies to maintain its monopoly power.” The FTC and the suing states say “Amazon’s actions allow it to stop rivals and sellers from lowering prices, degrade quality for shoppers, overcharge sellers, stifle innovation, and prevent rivals from fairly competing against Amazon.”

The states suing are Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

While estimates of Amazon’s control of the online commerce market vary, they center around about 40%, and Amazon charges third-party merchants for using the company’s services to store and ship items. Last quarter, Amazon reported more than $32 billion in revenues from these services. The suit claims that Amazon illegally overcharges third-party sellers and inflates prices.

This lawsuit is about more than Amazon: it marks a return to traditional forms of government antitrust action that were abandoned in the 1980s. Traditionally, officials interpreted antitrust laws to mean the government should prevent large entities from swallowing up markets and consolidating their power in order to raise prices and undercut workers’ rights. They wanted to protect economic competition, believing that such competition would promote innovation, protect workers, and keep consumer prices down.

In the 1980s, government officials replaced that understanding with an idea advanced by former solicitor general of the United States Robert Bork—the man whom the Senate later rejected for a seat on the Supreme Court because of his extremism—who claimed that traditional antimonopoly enforcement was economically inefficient because it restricted the ways businesses could operate. Instead, he said, consolidation of industries was fine so long as it promoted economic efficiencies that, at least in the short term, cut costs for consumers. While antitrust legislation remained on the books, the understanding of what it meant changed dramatically.

Reagan and his people advanced Bork’s position, abandoning the idea that capitalism fundamentally depends on competition. Industries consolidated, and by the time Biden took office, his people estimated the lack of competition was costing a median U.S. household as much as $5,000 a year.

On July 9, 2021, Biden called the turn toward Bork’s ideas “the wrong path” and vowed to restore competition in an increasingly consolidated marketplace. In an executive order, he established a White House Competition Council to direct a whole-of-government approach to promoting competition in the economy.

“[C]ompetition keeps the economy moving and keeps it growing,” Biden said. “Fair competition is why capitalism has been the world’s greatest force for prosperity and growth…. But what we’ve seen over the past few decades is less competition and more concentration that holds our economy back.”

In that speech, Biden deliberately positioned himself in our country’s long history of opposing economic consolidation. Calling out both Roosevelt presidents—Republican Theodore Roosevelt, who oversaw part of the Progressive Era, and Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who oversaw the New Deal—Biden celebrated their attempt to rein in the power of big business, first by focusing on the abuses of those businesses, and then by championing competition.

While still a student at Yale Law School, FTC chair Lina Khan published an essay examining the anticompetitive nature of modern businesses like Amazon, arguing that focusing on consumer prices alone does not address the problems of consolidation and monopoly. With today’s action, the FTC is restoring the traditional vision of antitrust action.

President Biden demonstrated his support for ordinary Americans in another historic way today when he became the first sitting president to join a picket line of striking workers. In Wayne County, Michigan, he joined a UAW strike, telling the striking autoworkers, “Wall Street didn’t build the country, the middle class built the country. Unions built the middle class. That’s a fact. Let’s keep going, you deserve what you’ve earned. And you’ve earned a hell of a lot more than you’re getting paid now."

Even as Biden was standing on the picket line, House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) released a new budget plan that moves even farther to the right. Yesterday, former president Trump backed the far-right extremists threatening to shut down the government, insisting that holding the government hostage is the best way to get everything they want, including, he wrote, an end to the criminal cases against him.

“The Republicans lost big on Debt Ceiling, got NOTHING, and now are worried that they will be BLAMED for the Budget Shutdown. Wrong!!! Whoever is President will be blamed,” Trump wrote on social media. “UNLESS YOU GET EVERYTHING, SHUT IT DOWN! Close the Border, stop the Weaponization of ‘Justice,’ and End Election Interference.”

McCarthy is reneging on the agreement he made with Biden in the spring as conditions for raising the debt ceiling, and instead is calling for dramatic cuts to the nation’s social safety net, as well as restarting construction of a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, as starting points for funding the government. Cuts of more than $150 billion in his new proposal would mean cutting housing subsidies for the poor by 33%, fuel subsidies for low-income families by more than 70%, and funding for low-income schools by nearly 80% and would force more than 1 million women and children off of nutritional assistance.

The “bottom line is we’re singularly focused right now on achieving our conservative objectives,” Representative Garret Graves (R-LA) told Jeff Stein, Marianna Sotomayor, and Moriah Balingit of the Washington Post. The Republicans plan to preserve the tax cuts of the Trump years, which primarily benefited the wealthy and corporations.

At any point, McCarthy could return to the deal he cut with Biden, pass the appropriations bills with Democratic support, and fund the government. But if he does that, he is almost certain to face a challenge to his speakership from the extremists who currently are holding the country hostage.

This evening, the Senate reached a bipartisan deal to fund the government through November 17 and to provide additional funding for Ukraine (although less than the White House wants), passing it by a vote of 77–19. Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) urged the House Republicans to agree to the measure, warning them that shutdowns “don’t work as bargaining chips.” Nevertheless, McCarthy would not say he would take up the bill, and appears to feel the need to give in to the extremists’ demands. Moreover, he has suddenly said he thinks a meeting with Biden could avert the crisis, suggesting he is desperate for someone else to find a solution.

Former president Trump has his own problems this evening stemming from the civil case against him, his older sons, and other officers and parts of the Trump Organization in New York, where Attorney General Letitia James has charged him with committing fraud by inflating the value of his assets. Today New York judge Arthur Engoron ruled that Trump and his company deceived banks and insurers by massively overvaluing his real estate holdings in order to obtain loans and better terms for deals. The Palm Beach County assessor valued Mar-a-Lago, for example, at $18 million, while Trump valued it at between $426 million and $612 million, an overvaluation of 2,300% (not a typo).

Engoron canceled the organization’s New York business licenses, arranged for an independent receiver to dissolve those businesses, and placed a retired judge into the position of independent monitor to oversee the Trump Organization.

This decision will crush the heart of Trump’s businesses, and he issued a long statement attacking it, using all the usual words: “witch hunt,” “Communist,” “Political Lawfare” (ok, I don’t get that one), and “If they can do this to me, they can do this to YOU!” Law professor Jen Taub commented, “It reads better in the original ketchup.” Trump’s lawyers say they are considering an appeal. The rest of the case is due to go to trial early next month.

Finally, today, the Supreme Court rejected Alabama’s request to let it ignore the court’s order that it redraw its congressional district maps to create a second majority-Black district. Alabama will have to comply with the court’s order.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#Letters from an American #Heather Cox Richardson #political #big money #corruption #anti-trust #the Public Good #TFG #FTC #government shutdown #Daily Don

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In 1902, this is 18-year-old Alice Roosevelt, accompanied by her long-haired Chihuahua, Leo. She also had a pet snake named Emily Spinach, whom she would wrap around one arm and take to parties. Unlike many women of her time, Alice was known for wearing pants, driving cars, smoking cigarettes, placing bets with bookies, dancing on rooftops, and partying all night. In just 15 months, she managed to attend 300 parties, 350 balls, and 407 dinners.

A friend of Alice's stepmother once remarked, "She's like a young wild animal that's been put into good clothes." Her stepmother went further, describing her as a "guttersnipe" who went "uncontrolled with every boy in town."

William Howard Taft banned her from the White House after Alice buried a voodoo doll (of Taft's wife) in the front yard. Woodrow Wilson also banned her after she told a very dirty joke (sadly, no record of the joke exists) about him in public.

Her father, Theodore Roosevelt, famously said, "I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both."

Alice once told President Lyndon B. Johnson that she specifically wore wide-brimmed hats around him so that he could not kiss her.

During an interview in 1974, Alice described herself as a "hedonist."

She died in 1980 at the age of 96.

#Alice Roosevelt #monochrome #portrait

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“Women’s associations, both old and new, experienced tremendous growth throughout the Progressive period. By the first decade of the 20th century, the foreign mission crusade had grown to astonishing proportions, with nearly three-quarters of a million members enrolled in local church auxiliaries all over the country. Foreign missionary work--the worldwide endeavor to convert non-believers to Christianity--was organized independently by each of the major American Protestant denominations. Missionary auxiliaries reflected middle-class interest in domesticity, marriage, and motherhood, while focusing on the lives of women in those distant lands that Americans saw as most backward and primitive. Local auxiliaries met weekly to study reports from women missionaries in Africa, Asia, or the Pacific Islands.

Contrasting these reports with their own lives of relative freedom and protection, middle-class Christian women deplored foreign customs that compelled women to live in harems or other polygamous marriage arrangements, forced them into marriage as children, or subjected them to ancient cultural rituals such as nose piercing or foot binding. Missionary enterprises connected American women to the rest of the world and also confirmed their sense of American cultural superiority. The women’s enthusiasm provided public support not only for missionary work in other countries, but also for the growth of American imperialism during the years in which the United States first joined other Western military powers in the conquest of weaker nations and the attempt to westernize their societies.

…For many women of the established black middle class, the response to instances of rising racism in the 1890s was to join the black women’s club movement. The movement’s growth in the 1890s paralleled the development of the federated club movement of white women at the end of the 19th century. Few black clubs were dedicated to culture, however. From their very beginnings, most black women’s clubs were more radical and activist than their white counterparts. Although the clubwomen were mostly middle-class and educated, their concerns were for the race as a whole and for the elevation of all black women, regardless of class. Their practical efforts were concentrated in education, health, housing, domestic training, and prison reform.

The slogan of the movement, “Lifting As We Climb,” reflected the club women's recognition that, although they were themselves privileged, their own survival and advancement, both as women and as African-Americans, depended on helping their less fortunate sisters. They knew that all black women were judged by the poorest and most disadvantaged of their sisters. They also knew that all black women were victims of the prevailing stereotype of black female immorality, a relic of the days of slavery when African-American women were at the mercy of their white owners’ sexual demands. No matter how ladylike her manners, how educated her speech, or how elegant her dress, in many parts of the country a black woman would be treated like a prostitute by contemptuous whites.

..Although the overall proportion of American women who attended college was very small--7.6 percent of all women aged 18 to 21 in 1920--the increase in attendance was significant: by 1920 women made up nearly 50 percent of all enrolled college students. It was mostly middle-class women, the daughters of professional men and businessmen, who went to college. Upper-class white American women tended to be educated at home, later traveling in Europe to expand their knowledge of Western art and culture. After they made their social “debuts,” sometime between the ages of 18 and 21, they lived a life of leisure, waiting to make good marriages. Eleanor Roosevelt, the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt and later the wife of President Franklin Roosevelt, always regretted the rigid social rules that had denied her a college education.

Considering its middle-class clientele, college was expensive: tuition, room, and board at Wellesley in 1906, with pocket money and books, never cost less than $350 annually. At the University of California at Berkeley, students spent between $90 and $495 a year. In an era in which annual middle-class family incomes ranged from $1000 to $3000, college for daughters was often out of the question. Scholarships were still rare. As time went by, it became increasingly respectable for a young woman to work her way through college. After graduation, many women progressed to good jobs as teachers, accountants, private secretaries, librarians, or journalists. Others sought advanced study in science and liberal arts, training that would lead to professional careers in medicine and academia. Women college graduates who went to work tended to marry later than their non-college-educated counterparts. More than half of college-educated women with full time-professional careers never married at all, instead finding their fulfillment in work, collegiality, travel, and good times spent with other single women.

…The anti-suffrage forces were everywhere, though they tended to surface mostly in response to specific woman suffrage campaigns in the states. Especially powerful in the Northeast, anti-suffragists called themselves “remonstrants,” though the suffragettes liked to call them “antis.” Most anti-suffragists believed that woman's subordinate position in society was ordained by God and that woman’ s weak, gentle nature did not fit her for active participation in the world beyond the home--most especially not for the man’s world of politics, with its smoke-filled conventions, rough language, and “shady” transactions.

Some argued that if women wanted the vote they would have to bear arms in defense of their country---a possibility few Americans could even contemplate in 1900. Others based their arguments on the widespread 19th-century belief that the basic unit of society was not the individual but the family. The family, they reasoned, needed only one voting member: its male head. Particularly painful to hardworking suffragists was the antis’ argument that women did not want suffrage. Indeed, there was plenty of apathy among women, and the number of registered suffragists was undeniably small.

Anti-suffrage sentiment found powerful and influential supporters among conservative clergymen, businessmen, and political and social leaders. Many anti-suffragists were women. Anti-suffragism was also backed by those who made and sold alcoholic beverages, because they tended to associate suffrage with prohibition. The liquor interests feared that if women got the vote they would find a way to ban the sale and consumption of alcohol and their businesses would be ruined. Many suffragists were indeed prohibitionists, but by no means all; and many anti-suffragists were prohibitionists.”

- Karen Manners Smith, “Women in Public Life.” in New Paths to Power: American Women, 1890-1920

#gender #karen manners smith #history #american #1890s #1900s #1910s #edwardian #christian #religion #new paths to power #imperialism

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Mugshot Monday - "Presidential Pets" coffee mug by The Unemployed Philosophers Guild with Morning Glory Signature Blend by Peace Coffee

Happy Presidents' Day to those who celebrate!

I have the day off so I'm lounging this afternoon drinking coffee in my Presidential Pets coffee mug.

It's a curated list of presidential pets who lived in the White House for 4 or 8 years depending if their owner survived re-election, or not.

When I think of presidential pets, the first one that comes to mind is "Socks", Bill and Hillary Clinton's cat. The second pet I think of is "Bo", Barack and Michelle Obama's rad dog.

I really don't know my presidential pets and I found some of the pets on the mug very interesting:

Calvin Coolidge had a racoon named Rebecca.

Thomas Jefferson had a mockingbird named Dick.

Theodore Roosevelt had guinea pigs named Admiral Dewey, Dr. Johnson, Bishop Doane, Fighting Bob Evans, and Father O'Grady.

My favorite--JFK had a pony named Macaroni!

Jimmy Carter gets the best name for a Siamese cat: Misty Malarkey Ying Yang.

Only Donald Trump, James K. Polk, and Andrew Johnson did not have a single presidential pet while they were in office. Very vary suspect, don't you think?

Here is every pet on my Presidential Pets coffee mug:

Admiral Dewey, Bishop Doane, Dr. Johnson, Father O'Grady, and Fighting Bob Evans (Theodore Roosevelt)

Barney (George W. Bush)

Bo (Barack Obama)

Dick (Thomas Jefferson)

Emily Spinach (Theodore Roosevelt)

Fala (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

Him and Her (Lyndon B. Johnson)

Jack (Abraham Lincoln)

Laddie Boy (Warren G. Harding)

Macaroni (JFK)

Major and Champ (Joseph R. Biden, Jr.)

Millie (George H. W. Bush)

Misty Malarkey Ying Yang (James Carter)

Mr. Reciprocity and Mr. Protection (Benjamin Harrison)

Old Ike (Woodrow Wilson)

Old Whitey (Zachary Taylor)

Pauline Wayne (William Howard Taft)

Polly (James Madison)

Rebecca (Calvin Coolidge)

Rex (Ronald Reagan)

Siam (Rutherford B. Hayes)

Socks (William J. Clinton)

Sweettips (George Washington)

Washington Post (William McKinley)

The mug impressively displays these 24 presidential pet illustrations and serves as a great introduction to the subject. If you'd like a more comprehensive list, check out the Presidential Pet Museum website.

Cheers to all the presidential pets! 🐕 🐈 🐎 ☕️

See also my 720+ photos from the Mugshot Monday project here: www.MugshotMonday.com– Every Mug Has A Story

#mugshot monday #Presidential Pets #Presidents' Day #coffee #Peace Coffee

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Women’s History Month: Biography Recommendations

Ida B. The Queen by Michelle Duster

Written by her great-granddaughter, this account tells the awe-inspiring story of Ida B. Wells, a pioneering woman who was often overlooked and underestimated - a woman who refused to exit a train car meant for white passengers; a woman who brought to light the horrors of lynching in America; a woman who cofounded the NAACP. Like her contemporaries Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, Wells left an indelible mark on history - one that can still be felt today.

Eleanor by David Michaelis

In the first single-volume cradle-to-grave portrait in six decades, acclaimed biographer David Michaelis delivers a stunning account of Eleanor Roosevelt’s remarkable life of transformation. An orphaned niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, she converted her Gilded Age childhood of denial and secrecy into an irreconcilable marriage with her ambitious fifth cousin Franklin. Despite their inability to make each other happy, Franklin Roosevelt transformed Eleanor from a settlement house volunteer on New York’s Lower East Side into a matching partner in New York’s most important power couple in a generation.

Red Comet by Heather Clark

With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials, this account brings to life the brilliant Sylvia Plath, who had precocious poetic ambition and was an accomplished published writer even before she became a star at Smith College. Refusing to read Plath’s work as if her every act was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark considers the sociopolitical context as she thoroughly explores Plath’s world: her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; her troubles with an unenlightened mental health industry; her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes; and much more.

Code Name: Lise by Larry Loftis

In 1942, Odette Sansom decided to follow in her war hero father’s footsteps by becoming an SOE agent to aid Britain and her beloved homeland, France. After landing in occupied France to begin her mission, she meets her commanding officer Captain Peter Churchill and, as they successfully complete mission after mission, Peter and Odette fall in love. They are eventually sent to Paris’s Fresnes prison, and from there to concentration camps in Germany. But in the face of despair, they never give up hope, their love for each other, or the whereabouts of their colleagues.

#women's history month #women's history #biography #Nonfiction #Nonfiction Reading #nonfiction books #Library Books #Book Recommendations #Book recs #Reading Recs #reading recommendations #TBR pile #tbr #Want To Read #to read #Booklr #book tumblr #book blog #library blog

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Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, known as Sissieretta Jones, (January 5, 1868 or 1869[1] – June 24, 1933[2]) was an African-American soprano. She sometimes was called “The Black Patti” in reference to Italian opera singerAdelina Patti. Jones’ repertoire included grand opera, light opera, and popular music.[3]

Matilda Sissieretta Joyner was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, to Jeremiah Malachi Joyner, an African Methodist Episcopal minister, and Henrietta Beale.[2] By 1876 her family moved to Providence, Rhode Island,[4]where she began singing at an early age in her father’s Pond Street Baptist Church.[2]

In 1883, Joyner began the formal study of music at the Providence Academy of Music. The same year she married David Richard Jones, a news dealer and hotel bellman. In the late 1880s, Jones was accepted at the New England Conservatory of Music.[1] On October 29, 1885, Jones gave a solo performance in Providence as an opening act to a production of Richard IIIput on by John A. Arneaux‘s theatre troupe.[5] In 1887, she performed at Boston’s Music Hall before an audience of 5,000.[2]

Jones made her New York debut on April 5, 1888, at Steinway Hall.[1] During a performance at Wallack’s Theater in New York, Jones came to the attention of Adelina Patti’s manager, who recommended that Jones tour the West Indies with the Fisk Jubilee Singers.[2] Jones made successful tours of the Caribbean in 1888 and 1892.[1]

In February 1892, Jones performed at the White House for PresidentBenjamin Harrison.[2] She eventually sang for four consecutive presidents — Harrison, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt— and the British royal family.[1][2][3]

Jones performed at the Grand Negro Jubilee at New York’s Madison Square Garden in April 1892 before an audience of 75,000. She sang the song “Swanee River” and selections from La traviata.[3] She was so popular that she was invited to perform at the Pittsburgh Exposition (1892) and the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893).[4]

In June 1892, Jones became the first African-American to sing at the Music Hall in New York (renamed Carnegie Hall the following year).[1][7] Among the selections in her program were Charles Gounod‘s “Ave Maria” and Giuseppe Verdi‘s “Sempre libera” (from La traviata).[1] The New York Echowrote of her performance at the Music Hall: “If Mme Jones is not the equal of Adelina Patti, she at least can come nearer it than anything the American public has heard. Her notes are as clear as a mockingbird’s and her annunciation perfect.”[1] On June 8, 1892, her career elevated beyond primary ethnic communities, and was furthered when she received a contract, with the possibility of a two-year extension, for $150 per week (plus expenses) with Mayor James B. Pond, who had meaningful affiliations to many authors and musicians.[8] The company Troubadours made an important statement about the capabilities of black performers, that besides minstrelsy, there were other areas of genre and style.[8]

In 1893, Jones met composer Antonín Dvořák, and in January 1894 she performed parts of his Symphony No. 9 at Madison Square Garden. Dvořák wrote a solo part for Jones.[1]

Jones met with international success. Besides the United States and the West Indies, Jones toured in South America, Australia, India, and southern Africa.[1] During a European tour in 1895 and 1896, Jones performed in London, Paris, Berlin, Cologne, Munich, Milan, and Saint Petersburg.[9]

In 1896, Jones returned to Providence to care for her mother, who had become ill.[1] Jones found that access to most American classical concert halls was limited by racism. She formed the Black Patti Troubadours (later renamed the Black Patti Musical Comedy Company), a musical and acrobatic act made up of 40 jugglers, comedians, dancers and a chorus of 40 trained singers.[2] The Indianapolis Freeman reviewed the “Black Patti Troubadours” with the following: “The rendition which she and the entire company give of this reportorial opera selection is said to be incomparably grand. Not only is the solo singing of the highest order, but the choruses are rendered with a spirit and musical finish which never fail to excite genuine enthusiasm.[10]

The revue paired Jones with rising vaudeville composers Bob Cole and Billy Johnson. The show consisted of a musical skit, followed by a series of short songs and acrobatic performances. During the final third of each show, Jones performed arias and operatic excerpts.[9] The revue provided Jones with a comfortable income, reportedly in excess of $20,000 per year. She led the company with reassurance of a forty-week season that would give her a sustainable income, guaranteed lodging in a well-appointed and stylish Pullman car, and the ability to sing opera and operetta excerpts in the final section of the show.[8] This allowed Jones to be the highest paid African American performer of her time.[8] Jones sung passionately and pursued her career choice of opera and different repertory regardless to her lack of audience attendance.[8] For more than two decades, Jones remained the star of the Famous Troubadours, while they graciously toured every season and established their popularity in the principal cities of the United States and Canada.[11] Although their eventual fame and international tours collected many audiences, they began with a “free-for-all” variety production with plenty of “low” comedy, song and dance, and no pretense of a coherent story line.[12]

Several members of the troupe, such as Bert Williams, went on to become famous.[1] April 1908, at the Avenue Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky, an audience made up mostly of whites (segregated seating was still prevalent), accepted Madam ‘Patti’ after singing ‘My Old Kentucky Home’ with much respect and admiration, and marked “the first time that a colored performer received a bouquet at the theatre in this city”.[12] For almost ten years, racial segregation had kept Jones from the mainstream opera platform, but by singing selections from operas within the context of a hard-traveling minstrel and variety show, she was still able to utilize her gifted voice, that people of all races loved.[12] The Black Patti Troubadours reveled in vernacular music and dance.[12]

Jones retired from performing in 1915 because her mother fell ill, so she moved back to Rhode Island to take care of her. For more than two decades, Jones remained the star of the Famous Troubadours, while they graciously toured every season and established their popularity in the principal cities of the United States and Canada.[12] She devoted the remainder of her life to her church and to caring for her mother. Jones was forced to sell most of her property to survive.[1][2] She died in poverty on June 24, 1933 from cancer. She is buried in her hometown at Grace Church Cemetery.[2]

In 2013 Jones was inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.[13]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_Sissieretta_Joyner_Jones

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#sissieretta black patti jones #blackherstory #black womens history #lightopera #popularmusic #grandopera

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🔸 This is 18-year-old Alice Roosevelt and her long-haired Chihuahua named Leo in 1902. She also had a pet snake named Emily Spinach who she would wrap around on one arm and take to parties. Alice was extremely independent and unlike many women of her time, she was known to wear pants, drive cars, smoke cigarettes, place bets with bookies, dance on rooftops, and party all night. In a span of 15 months, she managed to attend 300 parties, 350 balls and 407 dinners. A friend of Alice’s stepmom once remarked that she was “like a young wild animal that had been put into good clothes.” Her stepmom went a step further and described her as a “guttersnipe” that went “uncontrolled with every boy in town.” William Howard Taft banned her from the White House after Alice buried a voodoo doll (of Taft’s wife) in the front yard. Woodrow Wilson also banned her after she told a very dirty joke (sadly no record of the joke exists) about him in public. Her father, Theodore Roosevelt famously said, “I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both.” Alice once told President Lyndon B. Johnson that she specifically wore wide-brimmed hats around him so that he could not kiss her. During an interview in 1974, Alice described herself as a “hedonist.” She died in 1980 at the age of 96. Source: www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org #victorianchaps #vintage #1900s #goodolddays #aliceroosevelt #oldphoto #history #chihuahua #victorian #edwardian #pastlives https://www.instagram.com/p/CfBIjleAVND/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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When Did Loud, Obnoxious, And Cocky Become Signs Of Dominance?

There is a story told about Theodore Roosevelt when he was president. Some of you may not know that TR was a hunter and he had heard that a famous big game hunter was in Washington DC so he sent a note saying that he would like to meet him. So the hunter arrives at the White House and is ushered into a meeting with the President. An hour and a half later, the hunter emerges from TR’s office, appearing to be in a state of disorder, and one of the president’s aides approached the man to ask what he might have said to have angered his boss. The hunter looked at the aide and said, “I just told him my name”. One of TR’s traits, for better or worse, is that he could talk, loved to do it, and once he started on a roll he was going to go until he finished. It was not that the hunter had done or said anything that had caused anger or upset, he was just on the receiving end of Theodore Roosevelt being himself.

Now this story is completely unrelated to the wizarding world of D/S but it does relate to the way that some who identify as dominants cannot seemingly close their mouths and listen.

They always must control the conversation and they talk for no other apparent reason other than to hear themselves talk and we cannot forget their favorite subject to talk about, them. What is even worse, some newer submissives expect d-types to loud, obnoxious, and cocky. So here are six reasons dominants need to sit down, shut up, listen, and retain what they have heard and why submissives should steer clear of those who refuse to listen.

Even though the d-type leads the relationship, it is still a partnership however if your partner is not fulfilled they are not going to be a partner for long. The only way a dominant can make sure their submissive is happy is by listening.

You learn more from listening than you ever do from talking. Part of being a submissive’s leader is understanding them and their needs, desires, and dreams intimately which cannot happen if a person does not ask and then listen carefully when the s-type answers.

Here is what is sure to be a shocker for the Tumblr dumbinants, a D/S relationship is not about you, and ready for that big shocker? The submissive has 100% of the power in the relationship 100% of the time because with a little two-letter word they can stop anything and everything. Just in case someone reading this has not figured out the word yet, it is no.

Speaking of no and revoking consent, according to the National Coalition For Sexual Freedom one in five people have their consent violated within their first five years involved in the lifestyle. Submissives, if a d-type will not listen to you over dinner, what makes you think they will listen during play when you say your safeword?

In the lifestyle, there are so many myths as to what a dominant needs to be or should be that over the years many newer d-types, especially men, who rather than be themselves and show their insecurities, which all of us have, try to fake it until they make it. This faking often shows itself by the d-type acting as though they must ride roughshod and talk, talk, talk rather than have an actual conversation with active listening.

The final point is sharing some of the traits of your friendly, neighborhood narcissist. While it is true that our not-so-loveable or neighborly narcissist will indeed crave to talk about themselves and their greatness, do not interrupt them, but not all big talkers are nincompoop narcissists. So in addition to the love of talking about the most amazing person in their life, themselves, narcissists will display a lack of or total void of empathy. Their life is based on the one true way of doing everything, which is their way. Do not worry, they will correct the error of your ways in just a moment. They are the embodiment of the difference between being in control and controlling plus they are perfect because their mistakes are the fault of others. Do not fret because it will not be long before you are the reason they made a boo-boo. They cannot understand a relationship as a partnership because they are unable to accept a partner, only those who wish to do exactly as they demand when they demand it.

There is not a darn thing wrong if you are a person who tends to talk a lot, talk often, or even if you are a loud talker. A quick, cautionary note, be careful where/when you talk about BDSM if you want your involvement to not be widely known because a voice that carries can transport discreet news to ears connected to tongues that gossip. Everyone has unique communication traits and skills but within D/S some dominants need to take a zip-it-and-listen pill. Shiny thing moment, we have pills that can give a guy a rock-hard baloney pony but not one for curing failure to listen? D-types need to hear and listen to others, especially their s-types. Finally, submissives when you encounter “Sir Talks-A-Lot”, please take note of the subtle clues to determine if you are being chatted up by someone who just loves to talk or if your ship is sailing perilously close to narcissistic nastiness.

What methods do suggest that may help someone become better listener?

As with all of my writings, please see this disclaimer.

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GROVER CLEVELAND •Grover Cleveland: A Study In Courage by Allan Nevins (BOOK) •An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland by H. Paul Jeffers (BOOK | AUDIO) •A Secret Life: The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland by Charles Lachman (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland by Troy Senik (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

BENJAMIN HARRISON •Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier Warrior, 1833-1865 by Harry J. Sievers (BOOK) •Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier Statesman, 1865-1888 by Harry J. Sievers (BOOK) •Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier President, 1889-1893 by Harry J. Sievers (BOOK)

WILLIAM McKINLEY •In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech (BOOK) •President McKinley: Architect of the American Century by Robert W. Merry (BOOK | KINDLE) •William McKinley and His America by H. Wayne Morgan (BOOK | KINDLE) •The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters by Karl Rove (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

THEODORE ROOSEVELT •The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Edmund Morris Trilogy •The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Mornings On Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •T.R.: The Last Romantic by H.W. Brands (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT •The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •William Howard Taft: An Intimate History by Judith Icke Anderson (BOOK) •Chief Executive to Chief Justice: Taft Betwixt the White House and Supreme Court by Lewis L. Gould (BOOK | KINDLE)

WOODROW WILSON •Wilson by A. Scott Berg (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Woodrow Wilson: A Biography by John Milton Cooper Jr. (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson by Gene Smith (BOOK | KINDLE) •The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson by Herbert Hoover (BOOK) •The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made by Patricia O'Toole (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

WARREN G. HARDING •The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times by Francis Russell (BOOK) •The Available Man: The Life Behind the Masks of Warren G. Harding by Andrew Sinclair (BOOK) •1920: The Year of the Six Presidents by David Pietrusza (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •The Ohio Gang: The World of Warren G. Harding by Charles L. Mee Jr. (BOOK | KINDLE)

CALVIN COOLIDGE •Coolidge by Amity Shlaes (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •The High Tide of American Conservatism: Davis, Coolidge, and the 1924 Election by Garland S. Tucker III (BOOK | KINDLE)

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5 haunted places around the globe

The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall:

One of the most famous ghost photographs of all time is that of the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, a specter that is said to haunt the grand staircase of the English country house. The ghost is believed to be the spirit of Lady Dorothy Walpole, who was allegedly locked away in the house by her husband after he discovered her affair with a Duke. She died a few years later, and her ghost has been spotted numerous times since then, always wearing a brown dress.

The Flying Dutchman:

The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship that is said to be cursed to sail the seas forever. The ship is believed to be commanded by a captain who made a pact with the devil, promising to sail the seas for eternity in exchange for the ability to navigate through the most treacherous storms. Sailors who claim to have seen the Flying Dutchman often report a ghostly apparition of a ship with tattered sails and glowing eyes, and it is considered a sign of impending doom.

The Ghost of the Tower of London:

The Tower of London is one of the most haunted places in England, with numerous ghost stories associated with it. One of the most famous ghosts is that of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, who was beheaded in 1536. Her ghost has been seen numerous times throughout the tower, often carrying her head under her arm. Other ghosts that have been reported at the Tower of London include those of the two young princes who were murdered there in the 15th century, and the ghost of Sir Walter Raleigh, who was imprisoned there for over a decade.

The Ghost of the White House:

The White House, the official residence of the President of the United States, is said to be haunted by numerous ghosts, including that of President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's ghost has been reported by numerous people, including first ladies Eleanor Roosevelt and Grace Coolidge, as well as President Theodore Roosevelt's son, Quentin. Other ghosts that have been reported at the White House include those of President Andrew Jackson, who has been heard playing the piano in the East Room, and President William Henry Harrison, who died just one month after taking office.

The Ghost of Borley Rectory:

Borley Rectory, a former rectory in Essex, England, was once called "the most haunted house in England." The rectory was built in 1862 and was the site of numerous ghost sightings and other paranormal activity until it was destroyed by fire in 1939. Some of the ghostly activity reported at the rectory included strange noises, disembodied voices, and the apparition of a nun who was said to have been bricked up alive in the walls of the rectory. Other ghosts that were reported at Borley Rectory included those of a coachman, a little girl, and a horse-drawn carriage.

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John Darko

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

July 19, 2023

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

JUL 20, 2023

A little more than two years ago, on July 9, 2021, President Biden signed an executive order to promote competition in the U.S. economy. Echoing the language of his predecessors, he said, “competition keeps the economy moving and keeps it growing. Fair competition is why capitalism has been the world’s greatest force for prosperity and growth…. But what we’ve seen over the past few decades is less competition and more concentration that holds our economy back.”

In that speech, Biden deliberately positioned himself in our country’s long history of opposing economic consolidation. Calling out both Roosevelt presidents—Republican Theodore Roosevelt, who oversaw part of the Progressive Era, and Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who oversaw the New Deal—Biden celebrated their attempt to rein in the power of big business, first by focusing on the abuses of those businesses, and then by championing competition.

Biden promised to enforce antitrust laws, interpreting them in the way they had been understood traditionally. Like his progressive predecessors, he believed antitrust laws should prevent large entities from swallowing up markets, consolidating their power so they could raise prices and undercut workers’ rights. Traditionally, those advocating antitrust legislation wanted to protect economic competition, believing that such competition would promote innovation, protect workers, and keep consumer prices down.

In the 1980s, government officials threw out that understanding and replaced it with a new line of thinking advanced by former solicitor general of the United States Robert Bork. He claimed that the traditional understanding of antitrust legislation was economically inefficient because it restricted the ways businesses could operate. Instead, he said, consolidation of industries was fine so long as it promoted economic efficiencies that, at least in the short term, cut costs for consumers. While antitrust legislation remained on the books, the understanding of what it meant changed dramatically.

Reagan and his people advanced Bork’s position, abandoning the idea that capitalism fundamentally depends on competition. Industries consolidated, and by the time Biden took office his people estimated the lack of competition was costing a median U.S. household as much as $5000 a year. Two years ago, Biden called the turn toward Bork’s ideas “the wrong path,” and vowed to restore competition in an increasingly consolidated marketplace. With his executive order in July 2021, he established a White House Competition Council to direct a whole-of-government approach to promoting competition in the economy.

This shift gained momentum in part because of what appeared to be price gouging as the shutdowns of the pandemic eased. The five largest ocean container shipping companies, for example, made $300 billion in profits in 2022, compared to $64 billion the year before, which itself was a higher number than in the past. Those higher prices helped to drive inflation.

The baby formula shortage that began in February 2022 also highlighted the problems of concentration in an industry. Just four companies controlled 90% of the baby formula market in the U.S., and when one of them shut down production at a plant that appeared to be contaminated, supplies fell dramatically across the country. The administration had to start flying millions of bottles of formula in from other countries under Operation Fly Formula, a solution that suggested something was badly out of whack.

The administration’s focus on restoring competition had some immediate effects. It worked to get a bipartisan reform to ocean shipping through Congress, permitting greater oversight of the shipping industry by the Federal Maritime Commission. That law was part of the solution that brought ocean-going shipping prices down 80% from their peak. It worked with the Food and Drug Administration to make hearing aids available over the counter, cutting costs for American families. It also has worked to get rid of the non-compete clauses which made it hard for about 30 million workers to change jobs. And it began cracking down on junk fees, add-ons to rental car contracts, ticket sales, banking services, and so on, getting those fees down an estimated $5 billion a year.

“Folks are tired of being played for suckers,” Biden said. “[I]t’s about basic fairness.”

Today, the administration announced new measures to promote competition in the economy. The Department of Agriculture will work with attorneys general in 31 states and Washington, D.C. to enforce antitrust and consumer protection laws in food and agriculture. They will make sure that large corporations can’t fix food prices or price gouge in stores in areas where they have a monopoly. They will work to expand the nation’s processing capacity for meat and poultry, and are also promoting better access to markets for all agricultural producers and keeping seeds open-source.

Having cracked down on junk fees in consumer products, the administration is now turning to junk fees in rental housing, fees like those required just to file a rental application or fees to be able to pay your rent online.

The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission today released new merger guidelines to protect the country from mass layoffs, higher prices, and fewer options for consumers and workers. Biden used the example of hospital mergers, which have led to extraordinary price hikes, to explain why new guidelines are necessary.

The agencies reached out for public comment to construct 13 guidelines that seek to prevent mergers that threaten competition or tend to create monopolies. They declare that agencies must address the effect of proposed mergers on “all market participants and any dimension of competition, including for workers.”

Now that the guidelines are proposed, officials are asking the public to provide comments on them. The comment period will end on September 18.

One of the reporters on the press call about the new initiatives noted that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has accused the Biden administration of regulatory overreach, exactly as Bork outlined in a famous 1978 book introducing his revision of U.S. antitrust policy. An answer by a senior administration official highlighted a key element of the struggle over business consolidation that is rarely discussed and has been key to demands to end such consolidation since the 1870s.

The official noted that small businesses, especially those in rural areas, are quite happy to see consolidation broken up, because it gives them an opportunity to get into fields that previously had been closed to them. In fact, small businesses have boomed under this administration; there were 10.5 million small business applications in its first two years and those numbers continue strong.

This is the same pattern the U.S. saw during the Progressive Era of the early twentieth century and during the New Deal of the 1930s. In both of those eras, established business leaders insisted that government regulation was bad for the economy and that any attempts to limit their power came from workers who were at least flirting with socialism. But in fact entrepreneurs and small businesses were always part of the coalition that wanted such regulation. They needed it to level the playing field enough to let them participate.

The effects of this turnaround in the government’s approach to economic consolidation is a big deal. It is already having real effects on our lives, and offers to do more: saving consumers money, protecting workers’ wages and safety, and promoting small businesses, especially in rural areas. It’s another part of this administration’s rejection of the top-down economy that has shaped the country since 1981.

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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Two heroic forces who survived American slavery and rose to become great orators, authors and educators. Frederick Douglass met President Lincoln to share his concerns during the Civil War. Booker T. Washington was the first black man invited to the White House years later by Theodore Roosevelt. Their books are fascinating, inspiring reads.

What amazes me, in Up From Slavery, is how wise, patient and benevolent Booker was, even having lived his early life as a slave, and grown up in a very hostile South. He helped educate and motivate countless black men and women after slavery ended always with heart and hope.

"In later years, I confess that I do not envy the white boy as I once did. I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."

"The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of race."

"It is now long ago that I learned this lesson from General Armstrong, and resolved that I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."

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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

1882-1945

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York State, his family were well-off and he came from a Dutch and French ancestry. He was a distant cousin of President Theodore Roosevelt. He married his cousin and social reformer Eleanor Roosevelt in 1905.

He was struck down by polio in 1921 which left him paralysed from the waist down. Eleanor encouraged him to return to public life and continue his involvement in politics.

Roosevelt was a Democrat and became President in 1933. At the time a quarter of the population was unemployed and people were starving. As president he led America through years of the Depression and World War II. He provided help for the unemployed, farmers, businesses, and banks. In December 1941, after Japan attacked the American Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, he led his country into war. He had a close friendship with Winston Churchill, who became British PM in 1940, the two men made a pact to the ‘final destruction of Nazi tyranny’.

Roosevelt was so successful at improving the condition of America that he was elected as President four times.

Roosevelt’s health was declining and which he kept a secret from the public. Whilst sitting for a portrait on 12 April 1945 in Georgia, he complained of a headache and then slumped in his chair unconscious and was carried to his room. Roosevelt died of a massive intracerebral haemorrhage, aged 63, before the war ended. His coffin was placed onto a train to be taken to Washington for a funeral at the White House and then to Hyde Park where he was buried in the rose garden of his Springwood estate. German surrendered during his 30-day morning period.

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