šØA vignette into our #Art+Feminism editathon at the National Gallery of Ireland
šŖ A group of motivated first-time Wikipedia editors making the internet a more equal place!
šRead all about the event https://tinyurl.com/4sz2bfd8
#irishartists #wikipedia #gendergap #rewritinghistory #digitalactivism
Social post by Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski
Trump has removed civil rights leader MLK Jr's bust from the Oval Office.
(Photos of bust of Martin Luther King Jr., and of Donald Trump)
From meidasnews.com
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#USpol #Trump #RewritingHistory #racism #racist #MartinLutherKingJr #MLK #CivilRights #CivilRightsLeaders
Lost City Rises Again
A submerged city off India's coast, possibly from 7000 BC, is forcing archaeologists to rethink early human history. Pottery, skeletons, and urban planningācenturies ahead of what was thought possible.
#archaeology #ancienthistory #india #lostcivilisation #timeline #humanhistory #rewritinghistory
https://www.sustainability-times.com/research/lost-city-rises-again-submerged-indian-metropolis-stuns-archaeologists-and-forces-a-rethink-of-all-human-civilization-timelines/
#Russia #Putin #VladimirPutin #Stalin #USSR #BBC #SteveRosenberg #Russian #UkraineWar #Indoctrination #History #RewritingHistory #ErasingHistory
The slow indoctrination begins. If Steve asked the same questions to young Russians in thirty years, I wonder what answers heād get?
Steve Rosenbergās past exploits make him a top journalist in my opinion. Anyone gutsy enough to ask Putin inflammatory questions head on in fluent Russian is definitely worth listening to.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cz63n6j7407o
When ideals collapse, even the music
changes... š¼āļø
#Beethoven #Symphony #ClassicalMusic #Napoleon
#MusicHistory #ComposerLife #ArtInspiration
#MusicRevolution #CulturalImpact #HistoricalFigures
#MusicLovers #Inspiration #CreativeProcess
#MusicalGenius #RewritingHistory #FamousComposers
#MusicEducation #ArtisticExpression #Legacy
#TimelessMusic #MondayMood #monday
#TheHistoryAvenue
Welcome to the Ministry of Culture: Where Art Goes to Die Quietly in a Patriotically Approved Corner
Nothing screams āfreedomā quite like the government telling museums which stories are too real and which artists are too brown.
In the latest installment of āMake Art Great Again,ā Trumpās regime has decided that cultural institutions like the Smithsonian and the Kennedy Center are just a little too independent. Canāt have artists running around making people think or, doG forbid, reflect. So out goes āThe Shape of Powerā exhibit for being ādivisive,ā and in comes a new aesthetic: Norman Rockwell, but make it autocratic.
The Smithsonianās been told to clean house, and we all know what that means. Anything that centers race, systemic injustice, queer identity, or uncomfortable truths gets quietly repatriated to oblivion. Meanwhile, the Kennedy Center has seen its Social Impact team dismantled and its Artistic Director fired; for what? Caring too much about actual impact. Apparently, art that speaks to society is now āinappropriate.ā Unless, of course, itās glorifying flags, founding fathers, or folks whoāve never had to protest anything other than brunch prices.
Weāve seen this playbook before. It ran in Germany. It aired in Italy. It sold out stadiums in 1930s Europe. Authoritarian regimes donāt hate artāthey just hate art they canāt control. And now, in 2025 America, the long knives have been replaced by executive orders and budget cuts.
Letās be clear: this isnāt just a culture war. Itās a cultural purge; a forced rewriting of national memory, where history gets edited with the same grace and subtlety as a Soviet photo archive.
You might think, āWell, theyāre just targeting a few exhibits or programs.ā But this is death by a thousand redactions. A chilling signal to artists, curators, and institutions: Comply or be cut. Conform or be canceled (ironically, by the same people who whine about cancel culture between golf rounds and grift emails).
The real tragedy? Weāre watching it happen in real timeāthis gutting of public arts, this sanitizing of cultureāand people are still asking, āBut isnāt this just about restoring balance?ā Sure. If by balance you mean tipping everything into the sea and lighting it on fire.
So hereās to the brave artists who refuse to be scrubbed out of history, and to the rest of us: wake up. Because the last time governments told museums what they could show, the world got a lot darker. And no oneās commissioning murals about that. #ArtsAndCulture #Censorship #FreedomOfExpression #CulturalHeritage #MuseumLeadership #ArtsAdvocacy #HumanRights #PublicPolicy #CreativeFreedom #LeadershipInCrisis #DefendTheArts #HistoricalNarrative #SocialImpact #CivicEngagement #Smithsonian #KennedyCenter #Authoritarianism #RewritingHistory #ArtMatters #voicesthatmatter
Have you read 1984?
https://my-place.social/display/e599373b-2067-9fbb-dde5-b86180284711
"Thatās why the Alberta document is really just despicable.
Itās a complete insult to so many people who sacrificed so much doing everything they could to keep people alive while their work was sabotaged and undermined by information spread by some of the people in this document."
#Covid19 #abpoli #Covid19Response #RewritingHistory
Myth of #Thanksgiving
"Paula Peters, a citizen of the #MashpeeWampanoag Tribe and independent scholar of the history of the #Wampanoag, said the notion that it was just a harmonious celebration is partly a myth.
"'There wasn't an invitation extended to invite the Wampanoag to come and feast with them,' Peters previously told USA TODAY. 'It was really quite by accident, that there were any shared festivities at all.'
"The pilgrims were celebrating their first harvest when they fired off muskets repeatedly, a form of entertainment for the settlers.
"Hearing the blasts, the Wampanoag thought it was a threat. The supreme leader Massasoit Ousamequin assembled a small army of approximately 90 warriors and approached the settlement, much to the surprise of the pilgrims.
"After de-escalating the situation, the pilgrims and the Wampanoag feasted together, though historical texts don't indicate what they might have eaten besides deer hunted by the Wampanoag, as Peters writes in an introduction to 'Of Plimoth Plantation.'
"'The contemporary holiday perpetuates the myths of the Wampanoag and Pilgrim relations,' Peters writes in the book. 'It conjures up Hallmark images of happy Natives and Pilgrims feasting on a cornucopia of corn, pies, and meats, including a fully dressed roast turkey.'"
#Ousamequin #Colonialism #MythOfThanksgiving #WhiteSettlers #RewritingHistory #Pilgrims #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory
the boomers are apparently passing around some long-winded, #cia-made video on facebkkk about how bukele is big on "fighting crime" and "law and order".
apparently the doco fails to mention that el salvador was the first country on the planet to make bitcoin legal tender. #rewritinghistory #elsalvador
colonialism works in specific ways.
#Blood #LandTheft #Genocide #CulturalGenocide #Denial #RewritingHistory
I told a group of young scientists what #JFK was saying in German in his historic speach, where he said "ich bin ein Berliner".
So, it basically means: I am a donut.
Well š a Berliner is a Donut filled with marmelade. Maybe it was to relax the situation. The Kuban missile crisis.
World Health Organization (WHO) errors š§µ
(including rewriting history)
Welp, the new Republican Congress just censured Rep Adam Schiff for supposedly bringing ādisrepute on the Houseā (šāļø) in previous Congresses. The censure resolution (especially the first one that even the Repubs couldnāt stomach) reads like a greatest hits of trumpās malevolent tweets against Schiff.
As Bill Barr notoriously said, āHistory is written by the winners.ā
#trump #RewritingHistory #schiff #billbarr
"Why build a better future when you can just write a better past."
- Azeem Banatwalla on why authoritarians like to rewrite history. One of my favorite stand-up comedians.
If we are rewriting historical and scientific fact; remember when I created the human race from a discarded toenail clipping?
What a riot that day was!
"Indiaās right-wing government removes significant historical and scientific facts from textbooks as it pursues a Hindu supremacist agenda."
Right Wing Historyā¦
Florida textbooks: A fourth-grade lesson about segregation states that it was illegal for āmen of certain groupsā to be unemployed and that ācertain groups of peopleā were not allowed to serve on a jury.
they all act as if this protocol was forced on them by some evil other power, when indeed it was negotiated and celebrated by johnson and got him a huge majority
