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Many thanks to my 9/9/25 #FineArtAmerica client from Unionville, VA. for their purchase of a 68" x 80" tapestry of "The Price Of Freedom." I hope you enjoy it very much!!!
Click into my website link to see the image on all the great products it's available on!!
At my website: https://lois-bryan.pixels.com/featured/the-price-of-freedom-lois-bryan.html
And at Fine Art America: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-price-of-freedom-lois-bryan.html
#art #giftideas #Gettysburg #CivilWar #eagles #canon #war #vigilence #EternalVigilance #photography #LoisBryan
A Review of The Last of What I Am: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-the-last-of-what-i-am/
"Historic Beallair" ... a new photo added to my gallery ... an architectural beauty with a whopper of a history in the #CivilWar ... click either of the links to read the deets, if interested!!
https://lois-bryan.pixels.com/featured/historic-beallair-lois-bryan.html
And at #FineArtAmerica: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/historic-beallair-lois-bryan.html
#art #giftideas #Beallair #JohnBrown #ColonelLewisWashington #WestVirginia #JohnBrownsRaid #HarpersFerry #CharlesTown #architecture #NotAi #LoisBryan #photography
So…this is it. The end of everything as we know it. The escalation that we’ve feared.
“Full force.”
Portland is about to become ground zero for live rounds and the civil war between fascism and everything that is good.
I’m very, very frightened for what is upon us here. In my own backyard, where kids are playing and people are walking by the river. The propaganda is insanity.
💔😭
American democracy keeps facing the same test. Reconstruction. Watergate. January 6th. Each was an inkblot: some saw freedom and law, others tyranny and betrayal.
The danger isn’t just the crisis—it’s perception unmoored from fact. A lie, repeated often enough, creates its own inkblot. Not to reveal the viewer. But to control them.
1/17
#history #blackmastodon #histodons #blackandwhite #photo #photography #politics #democracy #fascism #civilwar
Today in Labor History June 2, 1863: Backed by three gunboats, Harriet Tubman and her force of 300 black soldiers, freed 800 slaves in the Combahee River Raid, South Carolina. Furthermore, they set fire to the plantations and destroyed millions of dollars-worth of stores, cotton and homes of the wealthy, without losing a single person. Additionally, it was the only military engagement in American history where a woman, black or white, “led the raid and under whose inspiration it was originated and conducted.” Tubman devised her war strategy after repeatedly penetrating across enemy lines and spying on Confederate troop movements. In the aftermath, Confederate Captain John F. Lay said, “The enemy seems to have been well posted as to the character and capacity of our troops and their small chance of encountering opposition, and to have been well guided by persons thoroughly acquainted with the river and country.” Most Americans know of Tubman’s role in the Underground Railroad. However, she was also a spy for the Union Army. And in the late 1850s, she helped John Brown plan his raid on Harper’s Ferry and recruit supporters for the raid.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #civilwar #harriettubman #slavery #Abolition #undergroundgailroad #johnbrown #liberation #espionage #strongwomen #BlackMastadon #blm
RED FLAG WARNING:
Anti-Fascist author Mark Bray BLOCKED at airport from escaping the US at airport
Last night, Mark Bray had already cleared airport security to board a flight to Spain. He had announced he was leaving the US due to death threats and doxxing by Turning Point USA.
Suddenly his reservation for the flight was cancelled, blocking his trip. To reach Spain now he may need to make arrangements to cross into Canada or Mexico by land (where the US has few exit controls) and catch a flight from out of the reach of the United States.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/09/anti-fascism-mark-bray-rutgers-university
If you want out and are not well known, now's the time. If you have a high profile like mine you may already be committed to the fight.
One thing to remember on confederate surrender day is that after the war many thousands of elite rebel officers and government officials had their citizenship restored and their lands left unconfiscated. They worked their way back into public life -- white zillionaire class solidarity is a powerful thing --- and then, once the 1877 Hayes-Tilden compromise shut down any hope of radically reconstructing the South, these newly redeemed rebels fully reclaimed their ruling class status.
They served as state governors, federal representatives and senators, state legislators, judges from local magistrates all the way up to the US supreme court and everything in between, university presidents, cabinet members, and on and on and on. Former Confederate States Army captain Cameron Thom even served as mayor of Los Angeles.[1]
These men, perpetrators and beneficiaries of American chattel slavery, the most horrific crime in US if not world history, not only escaped all consequences but spent decades in powerful positions. They were able to shape American government, law, and culture to their own ends, ends which they now fully shared with the capitalist elite they'd been at war with just a few years earlier.
We still suffer from the effects of this. The racist laws, the violent cops that enforce them, the prisons, the 13th amendment slavery, etc., the former Confederate elite had a hand in making all of it. The fact that modern US police evolved from slave patrols isn't just a rhetorical flourish. Both were created to solve the same problems, in many cases created by the same people.
So yeah, it's fun to talk and joke about April 9 and stuff, but Appomatox wasn't the end of capitalism, only the end of a squabble between capitalists over the most sustainable way to exploit their victims. By 1877 the elites had settled their differences and buried their hatchets and were working in harmony once again. And the rest of us are still paying for it.
[1] See the book Patriots Twice: Former Confederates and the Building of America after the Civil War by Stephen M. Hood. This book is a self-published piece of revisionist lost cause bullshit, but it has useful and independently checkable lists of what former confederate elites got up to postbellum.
#ConfederateSurrender #CivilWar #Reconstruction #Slavery #HayesTilden #LosAngeles #Capitalism
The myth of “shared suffering” in Vicksburg turned history into faith—and faith into amnesia---for although the first war ended in 1865; the second one still shapes how Southerners see suffering, loss, freedom, sacrifice—and the redemptive struggle for truth.
1/20
Image: Confederate General Lloyd Tilghman dies with flair. Monument at Vicksburg National Military Park, Vicksburg, MS. Source: RoadsideAmerica.
#history #Histodons #CivilWar #Mississippi #BlackMastodon #Photography #BlackAndWhite
From Decoration Day to Memorial Day
Decoration Day started after the Civil War and eventually became Memorial Day.
Posted by: Neely Tucker
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/05/from-decoration-day-to-memorial-day/
Grave of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery, Washington, D. C.
MEMORIAL DAY was NOT created to celebrate all US veterans. it was created to remember the +600,000 Americans killed during the Civil War.
there were no fixed federal dates for #MemorialDay and states & localities had their own; but the earliest recorded mass commemoration was organized by formerly enslaved African Americans:
“The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started” https://time.com/5836444/black-memorial-day/
never forget today is about the #CivilWar against the slave-owning #oligarchy
Disgusting. Outrageous. Unacceptable.
#Trump said he would "take a look at" #pardons for 2 men #convicted of conspiring to #kidnap & #murder #Michigan Governor #GretchenWhitmer in 2020.
Barry Croft Jr. & Adam Fox were found guilty as the leaders of an anti-government #extremists group who wanted to grab Whitmer, a #Democrat, at her vacation home, kill her & start a #CivilWar.
#law #RevengePolitics #PoliticalViolence
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-will-take-look-possible-pardons-men-convicted-plotting-kidn-rcna209512
RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116520032707782074
i co-wrote, with other feminist bloggers, a letter to the US Congress asking them to reject Samuel Alito for #SCOTUS.
the lawyers in the group had a long list of cases but there was one case that stood out. we all agreed it was THE red flag about his extremism:
HIS CRUELTY TOWARDS A BLACK TEENAGE GIRL in a decision that allowed prosecutors to treat her as an adult instead of a child.
that case felt like a foreshadow of this #MAGA coup & #civilWar
The Little Stone House In Summer ... a new version of an old favorite. Digitally hand painted (Not Ai) in #CorelPainter using my own photo as a starting point, it's one of the properties on the #Beallair estate in the panhandle of West Virginia. Click the link to read a little bit about the history!
At my website: https://lois-bryan.pixels.com/featured/the-little-stone-house-in-summer-lois-bryan.html
And at #FineArtAmerica: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-little-stone-house-in-summer-lois-bryan.html
#art #giftideas #civilwar #HarpersFerry #ShenandoahValley #NotAi #LoisBryan
