Nic

[Nic @NicZeit]

@bormeleon Never stop yapping

[counterparty @DeltaFlat]

Heard someone call West Loop WeLo so I got in the lab

[Nic @NicZeit]

@bormeleon When people get pissed off after they find out which game you mean 🤭

[Alex @bormeleon]

Shes played in the wrong role...

[Nic @NicZeit]

@bormeleon :3 i’m 33-3.33 soon

[Tom Ruby @bgcts]

This morning @scratchyjohnson tweeted an important factoid. Squanto, the Indian who spoke English and helped the pilgrims survive, was sold by John Smith to a Spaniards and the deed exists in the city we're in for Excursion.

Rather than rolling our eyes, Alan, Gavin & I went to the state archives in Málaga to see if we can find said recorded deed of 20 Indians sold by John Smith to Juan Bautista Reales.

We get to the Archives (see Alan's picture below), and a small genial white lab coat wearing gentleman who speaks no English says this is impossible to find. His new boss, the head archivist, Carmen, comes in and says it certainly exists but may be difficult to find. If you only had the year. We tell her it was 1614. She pulls up a list of the books from 29 notaries whose work they have from 1614. She asks who the notary was. We have no idea. They say they can't go through 29 archives to look for it. Also it's all in old Spanish which nobody speaks and it'll be hard to locate even if they know the Notary.

So Alan and Gavin get to work. Gavin finds an article in the internet archive that seems to have a partial picture of the document. Carmen and the other archivist decipher the name after 15 min. They find that name in their cross reference. Carmen goes to the vault to look while the lab coat gentleman asks for my life history, driver's licence number and a lien on my grandchildren. Totally worth it.

Carmen comes back to say she found the volume. It is tremendously delicate. Opening it may break some pages. Does it have to be today because if so the answer will be no. We ask her if this is interesting to them. Both very seriously nod their heads. We tell them this is very important to the United States and many of our friends. Carmen tells us she will find it but that it takes time. White linen gloves and patience. We tell her to take her time. She says she will take a picture and email it to me.

So here's why all this is important: after Squanto was sold by an Englishman to a Spaniard names Reales, said Spaniard brought Squanto and 19 other "inios" to Málaga. He recorded the deed in the state archives. Then a Franciscan priest ransomed Squanto. Squanto became Catholic. Was baptized and confirmed in Málaga. He then made his way to England where he worked and learned English. He paid his passage back across the ocean and found his Wampanoag tribesmen. Then when the Pilgrims landed they found a Catholic English-speaking native who helped them survive their first winter.

It is entirely possible that but for a Franciscan priest who ransomed Squanto, the Pilgrims may not have survived their first winter in New England. That's history. American history. And the record of it is in Málaga. In a book. One of 29 books kept by notaries in Málaga in 1614. That are still searchable.

This image, when it comes, belongs in the US National Archive.

This is Cultural Debris.

https://t.co/THgVYIAgcK

cc: @alancornett @gwbled @Gonnassaurius_ @wrathofgnon

[New Jersey @NJGov]

central jersey, south jersey, north jersey

[🙂 @okay_stef]

@HappinessHitHim A New York 30 is actually 19

[Nic @NicZeit]

@sharghzadeh Is this rage bait bc only normal people like those areas

[Nic @NicZeit]

@DavidRunn2 @itsJenRamos @ColinAllredTX @jamestalarico Why is it so difficult to find “what Talarico said”? What’s up with that

[Alice Yin @byaliceyin]

A Chicago woman who was adopted carries around a copy of her passport but was still detained by federal agents who didn’t believe that was her last name bc she’s Latina. Latest dispatch from @royalpratt: https://t.co/mq2FaVddra

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

UPDATE: Debbie Brockman—released without charges.

The veteran producer for WGN in Chicago was violently detained yesterday by Border Patrol. DHS issued a statement claiming that Brockman had thrown an object at the Border Patrol vehicle, and that she would be charged with assaulting a federal officer. A very serious charge. Now it’s gone.

It would be rare for an administration, but especially this one, to drop a charge of assault of a federal officer.

An eyewitness said that he saw the entire incident, and did not see Brockman throw anything.

It seems that the claim DHS made would not hold up in court. Many federal judges have said that the Trump administration’s representations in court cannot be trusted.

Another possibility: These were Border Patrol agents. There is no international border anywhere near Chicago, and there are significant constraints and limits on Border Patrol authority to detain and arrest people far from our borders. It is possible that the administration did not want to test this in court.

I’ll stay on the story.

https://t.co/se3ogIUkSl

[Susan Sternberg @susansternberg]

@alexarriaga__ @nunez_anna Horrific
"Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties.
Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building"

[Alex Arriaga @alexarriaga__]

Please read this report about the people who were arrested and detained from this raid: https://t.co/uI6NqF55rH

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

In the last few years we've seen:

- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk

Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.

[Nic @NicZeit]

@bormeleon nurse!!!! Someone restrain her!!

[CBS New York @CBSNewYork]

The Delacorte Theater, a beloved Central Park landmark, is back after a nearly two-year renovation.

The 63-year-old theater has been revamped and will reopen just in time for the return of Shakespeare in the Park.https://t.co/Alz7Jwg1Db

[Nic @NicZeit]

@MargBarAmerica @KatAbughazaleh Candidates for Congress actually should share their beliefs in a public forum. Congress is an important part of this country’s foreign affairs policy.

[Alex @bormeleon]

How does she do this?