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switzon · 10 months
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[ DAY 2836 ] “LASER ONION RING STATION SLR-4000”
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ausetkmt · 7 months
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On this day - October 03, 1912
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Incarcerated Black Man Lynched By White Prisoners Inside Wyoming State Prison
On October 3, 1912, Frank Wigfall, a Black man who had been threatened with mob violence at a Wyoming jail, was moved to the state penitentiary for “safe keeping” where he was soon lynched by 100 white prisoners. 
Mr. Wigfall had been accused of assaulting a white woman and was taken to the Carbon County Jail. During the era of racial terror lynchings, charges of sexual assault against Black men, even when made with unsubstantiated evidence, regularly aroused violent white mobs. Shortly after his detention at the jail, a white mob attempted to seize Mr. Wigfall to lynch him. In response, the local sheriff transferred him from the county jail to the state penitentiary for “safe keeping.” The next morning, 100 white prisoners attacked Mr. Wigfall while he was getting his breakfast, one of them producing a rope, and they proceeded to hang him from the balcony inside the state penitentiary.
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The white inmates had been shouting their intentions to lynch Mr. Wigfall from their cells all morning. Notwithstanding their repeated threats, the prison provided no security, which allowed 100 white prisoners to abduct Mr. Wigfall before hanging him by a rope. No one was held accountable for Mr. Wigfall’s death although it was widely known which prison officials and prisoners were culpable.
Mr. Wigfall was one of at least four documented racial terror lynchings in Wyoming. Learn more about how over 6,500 Black women, men, and children were victims of racial terror lynching in the U.S. between 1865-1950.
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Benjamin Wigfall, Chimneys, 1951 Oil on canvas
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gonzoduran · 2 months
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Bryan Wigfall: Who’s Your Next President – Trump or Biden?
Bryan WigfallRepublican Community Leader I am choosing Trump because he will restore law and order. He plans to achieve this by organizing a large deportation operation to send migrants who don’t qualify for asylum back to their countries. Additionally, he pledges to halt the promotion of gender ideology and critical race theory in K-12 schools. Furthermore, he promises to secure the southern…
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On Tuesday evening, the Berkeley County School District in South Carolina swore in the board members who were elected last week, six of whom were endorsed by the conservative activist group Moms for Liberty.
Within two hours, the school board had voted to fire the district’s first Black superintendent, terminate the district’s lawyer, ban critical race theory and set up a committee to decide whether certain books and materials should be banned from schools.
In addition, the board voted to replace the chair with Mac McQuillin, a local attorney and one of the board members backed by Moms for Liberty.
The rapid moves Tuesday in the Berkeley County district, the fourth largest in the state, showed the impact of Moms for Liberty’s focus on electing conservative school board members, and prompted uproar among some community members in attendance.
Moms for Liberty said it has endorsed more than 500 school board candidates across the country this year, 49% of whom have won. The organization’s candidates were highly successful in Florida, but they had mixed results in Arkansas, California, Michigan and other states.
Moms for Liberty celebrated the six candidates’ wins in Berkeley County as an example of flipping a school board in favor of people who “value parental rights.” Four of the candidates, including McQuillin, were incumbents, while the two others were new to the board; they promised more curriculum transparency and fiscal responsibility and to put a stop to the “woke agenda.”
Moms for Liberty celebrated the board’s first votes on Facebook, posting Wednesday, “6 new board members clean house first night on the job.”
Early in the meeting, according to video posted by the district, the board moved into executive session. Shortly after it returned, Kathy Littleton, one of the Moms for Liberty-backed members, moved to terminate Tiffany Richardson, the district’s in-house counsel, and retain Brandon Gaskins, a lawyer who was deputy chief legal counsel for former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.
Moments later, McQuillin moved to terminate Deon Jackson, who was appointed superintendent last year, and replace him with Anthony Dixon, who had worked in the district as an administrator. Dixon will be the district’s second Black superintendent, after Jackson.
Audience members gasped at the firing of Jackson and Richardson and shouted in disagreement.
“All right, listen up,” McQuillin chastised the audience. “We’re going to be respectful in this meeting. You may not agree with our votes, but I ask that you please be respectful and calm. What kind of example are you setting for our kids, disrupting a meeting like this?”
None of the board members responded to emails or phone calls seeking comment Wednesday. Jackson and Richardson also did not respond to requests for comment.
David Barrow, who had been school board chair until Tuesday’s meeting, asked McQuillin to explain for the terminations.
“I’m not going to discuss personnel matters,” McQuillin said. He added later that Gaskins, the newly hired counsel, who was not present, would share more information about Jackson’s firing another time.
Barrow called the firings a “travesty” and a “political witch hunt.”
Yvonne Bradley, who was one of the three board members to vote against the firings, said: “Ladies and gentlemen, you are being fooled by these six. Unbelievable — what the chairman would do. It is so unbelievable how this is going.”
She added, looking at the audience, “And we voted for these people, you did. You took the time.”
Bradley and Crystal Wigfall, another board member, then walked out of the meeting, and it appeared in the video that some members of the audience followed them.
Before the board took the votes, several speakers argued in a public comment session against the resolutions banning critical race theory and setting up a committee to evaluate books and other materials.
Two teachers said the district did not teach critical race theory, a pastor argued that critical race theory could help teach students about local history, an NAACP representative said addressing structural racism should be the board’s priority, and a district librarian said an additional committee was redundant because there were already policies dictating how to buy books for libraries. The librarian also noted that there is already a process for parents to challenge specific titles they don’t want their children to read.
“These vaguely worded bans have had an impact on the teaching of the Holocaust and its important lessons,” Brandon Fish, the community relations director at the nonprofit Charleston Jewish Federation, said at the meeting. “Learning about the Holocaust and other dark chapters in our history, including slavery and Jim Crow, are crucial to making sure that these mistakes are never repeated.”
Later in the meeting, the board moved to ban teaching critical race theory “in any form.”
Barrow asked for a definition of critical race theory, which is the study of racism’s effect on societal structures and is usually taught at the graduate level but has become shorthand to describe progressive ideas about race and gender. McQuillin read a different definition that matched language used by the Goldwater Institute, a conservative think tank, saying forms of it that aren’t appropriate for children are being taught in the district’s schools.
Each vote — firing the superintendent, picking his replacement, terminating the district’s lawyer and banning critical race theory — passed with support from only the six Moms for Liberty-backed members.
At the end of the meeting, the board voted 8-0 to set up a committee to evaluate guidelines on removing “inappropriate sexual/pornographic content” from schools after specifying that the committee include teachers, mental health professionals and librarians.
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Based on years of exhaustive and meticulous research, David C. Keehn's study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret southern society that initially sought to establish a slave-holding empire in the "Golden Circle" region of Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. Keehn reveals the origins, rituals, structure, and complex history of this mysterious group, including its later involvement in the secession movement. Members supported southern governors in precipitating disunion, filled the ranks of the nascent Confederate Army, and organized rearguard actions during the Civil War. The Knights of the Golden Circle emerged around 1858 when a secret society formed by a Cincinnati businessman merged with the pro-expansionist Order of the Lone Star, which already had 15,000 members. The following year, the Knights began publishing their own newspaper and established their headquarters in Washington, D. C. In 1860, during their first attempt to create the Golden Circle, several thousand Knights assembled in southern Texas to "colonize" northern Mexico. Due to insufficient resources and organizational shortfalls, however, that filibuster failed. Later, the Knights shifted their focus and began pushing for disunion, spearheading pro-secession rallies, and intimidating Unionists in the South. They appointed regional military commanders from the ranks of the South's major political and military figures, including men such as Elkanah Greer of Texas, Paul J. Semmes of Georgia, Robert C. Tyler of Maryland, and Virginius D. Groner of Virginia. Followers also established allies with the South's rabidly pro-secession "fire-eaters," which included individuals such as Barnwell Rhett, Louis Wigfall, Henry Wise, and William Yancey. According to Keehn, the Knights likely carried out a variety of other clandestine actions before the Civil War, including attempts by insurgents to take over federal forts in Virginia and North Carolina, the activation of pro-southern militia around Washington, D. C. and a planned assassination of Abraham Lincoln as he passed through Baltimore in early 1861 on the way to his inauguration. Once the fighting began, the Knights helped build the emerging Confederate Army and assisted with the pro-Confederate Copperhead movement in northern states. With the war all but lost, various Knights supported one of their members, John Wilkes Booth, in his plot to abduct and assassinate President Lincoln.
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Urgent warning to dog owners over 'flesh-eating' disease as cases spike in UK
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Urgent warning to dog owners over 'flesh-eating' disease as cases spike in UK
Dog owners in Nottingham have been issued an urgent warning about the rise in cases of Alabama Rot, a “flesh-eating” disease that shows no signs of abating. Veterinarian Dr Corinne Wigfall from Petsure has shared her expert advice on how to prevent the disease and identify its symptoms quickly if you suspect your dog may […]
See full article at https://petn.ws/uCyCK #DogNews
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tomandsons · 8 months
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talkoftitusville · 11 months
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Titusville Man Indicted for First-Degree Murder for April Shooting
Dominic Bland has been indicted on a 1st murder charge by a grand jury after fatally shooting his mother's boyfriend, Carl Wigfall during an argument on the morning of April 24
Dominic Bland, 31, has been indicted on a first-degree murder charge by a grand jury in Brevard County. Bland is accused of fatally shooting his mother’s boyfriend, Carl Wigfall, 56, during an argument on the morning of April 24. According to an eyewitness account reported to the police, Bland shot Wigfall twice while he was seated, then proceeded to push him off the chair, standing over him…
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insideusnet · 1 year
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South Carolina Man Convicted in Fatal Home Attack : Inside US
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (AP) — A jury in South Carolina has convicted a man for riddling a home with bullets in 2017, killing one person inside. The Post & Courier reports that Maurice Durell Wigfall of Hanahan was sentenced Friday to 45 years for the death of Steven Hutchins, and another five years on a weapons offense. Circuit Judge Jennifer McCoy sentenced Wigfall after a four-day…
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switzon · 11 months
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[ DAY 2812 ] “GOT MY MF* MIND MADE UP”
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obtener2 · 1 year
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Senator Louis Wigfall of Texas was capable of anything. Christmas Day 1860 he visited Secretary of War John Floyd with a radical proposal--to kidnap President Buchanan--if Secretary Floyd assisted with the coup. A Family and Nation Under Fire #iBooks https://goo.gl/SAVc8A #nook https://goo.gl/DSQXGu #Amazon: https://goo.gl/A3brGd KSU Press http://goo.gl/Z3z4Xs
Senator Wigfall [TX] proposed to kidnap President Buchanan and make Breckinridge acting president but wanted Secretary Floyd's help to get Buchanan and his captors safely out of Washington. Controversy already surrounded Secretary of War Floyd, after $870,000 in Indian trust bonds had been pilfered from the Interior Department. Floyd had also moved more than one-hundred thousand muskets south and sent artillery from Pittsburgh to Texas where rebels could seize them, if war came. He balked at kidnapping the president, however, claiming he had done all he could.
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door · 11 months
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Benjamin Wigfall, Untitled, 1954 Etching & aquatint
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switzon · 1 year
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[ DAY 2765 ] “IT’S ALL GOOD”
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switzon · 2 years
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[ Day 2677 ] “SUPREME CLIENTELE”
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switzon · 1 year
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[ Day 2678 ] “MAHSA AMINI”
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