Colonialism is bad, right? Wrong. The Aztec Empire ran sacrifice at industrial scale. Excavations of the Huey Tzompantli, the skull rack next to the Templo Mayor, have uncovered hundreds of skulls of men, women, and children. Spanish eyewitnesses described tens of thousands. The Aztecs fought "Flower Wars" whose purpose was capturing live victims for the altar. Hearts were cut out of living people. Subject peoples hated Aztec rule so much that Tlaxcalans made up most of Cortes's army. The conquest was largely an indigenous uprising against an indigenous empire. The sacrifices ended under Spanish rule. India: burning a widow alive on her husband's funeral pyre. British records from Bengal alone documented thousands of cases between 1815 and 1828. The British, with Indian reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, banned it in 1829. When priests told General Napier it was sacred custom, he answered: my nation also has a custom, we hang men who burn women alive. You follow yours, we will follow ours. India: Thuggee cults murdered travelers by the tens of thousands over centuries as offerings to Kali. It was a hereditary profession. William Sleeman's campaign in the 1830s wiped it out. Slavery was a universal indigenous institution. Dahomey and Ashanti were built on slave raiding and sold captives for a thousand years to Arab traders before any European ship arrived. Pacific Northwest tribes held up to a quarter of some village populations as slaves and killed them ceremonially at potlatches. The Comanche ran a captive-raiding economy across the Southwest. What colonizers introduced after 1807 was the first attempt in history to abolish slavery globally. The Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron spent fifty years hunting slave ships and freed about 150,000 Africans. African kings protested. The King of Bonny complained that abolition was destroying a trade ordained by his gods and priests. The Dahomey kingdom's "Annual Customs" beheaded hundreds of captives and slaves every year to honor dead kings. Documented by European visitors for two centuries. It ended when France conquered Dahomey in 1894. Sailors called Fiji the Cannibal Isles. Chief Ratu Udre Udre kept a stone for every victim he ate. His pile holds nearly 900. Shipwrecked sailors were killed and eaten. Within a generation of missionaries and British administration after 1874, the practice was gone. Nigeria: In parts of Igboland, newborn twins were left in the bush to die and their mothers ostracized or killed. Missionary Mary Slessor spent decades in Calabar rescuing abandoned infants until the practice collapsed. Indigenous genocide of indigenous people. In 1835, two Maori tribes invaded the Chatham Islands and slaughtered the Moriori, whose own law forbade them to fight back. They killed, enslaved, and ate them. The Moriori population fell from about 2,000 to barely 100. No European did this. British colonial law ended it. Add headhunting in Borneo, the Philippines, and Nagaland. Female infanticide in India and Polynesia. Foot binding in China, dismantled partly by missionary campaigns. Every one of these ended under pressure from the colonial powers we are taught to treat as history's unique villains. Colonialism was not charity. The Belgian Congo was a horror, conquest was for profit, and rule was without consent. But the ledger has two sides and one has been erased. Pre-colonial societies practiced slavery, human sacrifice, widow burning, infanticide, and genocide, because cruelty is not a European invention. The first civilization that tried to abolish these practices worldwide is the one you were taught to be ashamed of. If "indigenous" means innocent and "colonizer" means guilty by definition, that is not history.

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration. More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

@SusieWiles47 Ma’am I know you control what does and does not reach President Trump …. Please let this be one that gets through. Highlight this man and the children he works with…. Show them what they is important. Please.

@SenTuberville @CoachForGov @SenKatieBritt @RepDaleStrong in your State of Alabama you have an AMAZING CITIZEN Rodney Smith that started this Organization and looking to come to the White House to mow the White House lawn with a few of the OUTSTANDING AMERICAN Kids that have accepted the challenge across America. @karolineleavitt @RepTimBurchett @SenTedCruz @berniemoreno @SenFettermanPA @MaxMillerOH @RepNancyMace @RealAmVoice @SusieWiles47

This starling can copy ANY sound 🐦‍⬛ #funny #foryou #animals #cute youtube.com/shorts/aw8DhzLkN… via @YouTube

Norwegian school forces its students to go to the mosque, learn about Islam and listen to an Islamic cleric. I wonder when the government will make this compulsory in British schools.

George Carlin. It will ALWAYS make me angry that a child going hungry day after day was sanitized to the phrase “ food insecure”. If we ALL refuse to call things by the sanitized names, those names will disappear and what we will have is the truth. youtube.com/shorts/ZPYKoi45D…

DEMOCRATS ARE A THREAT TO HUMANITY.

Do you know why pilots need to do funny hand gestures and dances?#airfor... youtube.com/shorts/9Q10YW3ND… via @YouTube

Why hasn’t Congress codified the DOGE Cuts! Because they want the boomerang money to continue! If a Democrat gets elected wait and see how fast all the EOs Trump signed get cancelled! Watch how fast USAID Money starts flowing again! It will be like a water cannon! There aren’t many honest politicians left they’re all beholden to Dark Money contributors! If they don’t do as wanted they get primaried or just get zero money to get re elected !

Democrat Governor Tina Kotex and the hyperliberal governmental policies are ruining Oregon. Oregon Officials Push “Vacancy Tax” as Portland Empties Out youtu.be/q_N0YS6BzNQ?si=mY8Y… via @YouTube

Some progress on the National Debt!

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I support her, but my question is, where the hell is the Pope in condemning those atrocities by the Islamists? where is the Pope in condemning the murder of Christians in Nigeria? and where is the Pope in condemning the brutal murder of the almost 40 000 protestors in Iran?

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In Texas, district judges like this one are elected, so the primary way to remove them is at the ballot box in the next election cycle. You (or anyone) can also file a formal complaint with the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct at txcourts.gov/organizations/s…. They investigate misconduct claims and can recommend discipline up to removal. Legislative impeachment or Supreme Court action exists but is extremely rare and requires strong evidence of serious violations. Full details on the process are on the Commission's site.

Remove immunities and hold every single judge accountable - i do not care if they are activist or not - they make the decision, they need to be accountable! If you do not like - Don't be a f'n judge! x.com/D4rkR0b/status/2031160…

It's potentially worse than that. There was a Virginia Constitution amendment that required a redistricting commission that the Virginia assembly is trying to repeal in a special election so that they can Gerrymander their Congressional districts. What is to prevent a future Virginia government from deciding to ignore the NPVC if they don't like tbe outcome? Virginia Democrats have broken faith with the citizens of Virginia. x.com/i/status/2044078242173…

Would you please spend some time today going through your phone & send a personal text message to any voters you know in Virginia to encourage them to vote 👉NO👈 to the gerrymandering referendum by April 21st? Include this photo: ⬇️