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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 1h

Here’s one more in which their commanding officer makes sure they don’t get in trouble for stealing a pig.

A Col. Lord yells at his men to get back in ranks but when the drum major tells him he has a stolen pig hidden in his drum he lets them go. They later share the pork.

Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 1h

As you can see in the last excerpt they made an effort to target slaveowners and pro-Confederates. Here’s another where they steal some cabbages.

An excerpt from a Union soldier’s memoirs where he describes stealing cabbages from a farm in Virginia.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 1h

Last year I read the memoirs, written as letters to his local paper 50 years later, of an ancestor of mine who fought in the Union Army. A lot of them are about stealing food. Here’s one. (They get the tomatoes and killed the dog when it tried to attack them.)

An excerpt from a Union soldier’s memoir where he discusses planning to see tomatoes from a plantation owner.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 13h

It’s common courtesy to label your containers of hard drugs, that way the police know what they are.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 20h

There’s a crab on mine, I could be a poacher.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 22h

Driving around with a bottle of drugs labeled DRUGS in my center console as one does.

Indian immigrant fights deportation after police mistake perfume labeled 'Opium' for the narcotic

Kapil Raghu, 28, was arrested in May after an officer in central Arkansas spotted the rollerball perfume bottle in his car during a routine traffic stop.

www.nbcnews.com

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CB⚾️ Baseball Highlights @badgerbaseball.bsky.social · 1d

The 2025 Tigers/Mariners ALDS Game 5 is the longest winner-take-all postseason game in Major League Baseball history (15 innings)

Second now is the 1924 World Series ended with the Washington Nationals, who defeated the New York Giants 4-3 in 12 innings.

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Eli, from the Bad Site @fuzzbeedeli.bsky.social · 1d

A meme of someone saying "stop giving me your toughest battles" and jesus saying "You're literally just staying up past 10:30 to watch playoff baseball"

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to all my Mariners fan friends in Idaho. Beat the Blue Jays!!!

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 1d

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 1d

It seems lamb was more popular back then. Don’t know what changed — maybe price, maybe people nowadays are more weirded out by the idea of eating a baby animal, maybe it’s perceived as harder to cook.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 1d

The steak menu certainly looks different than what you’d see today. I don’t even know what a “club steak” is — a cheaper cut I assume, maybe like a petite sirloin or something.

They also really liked their pineapple rings.

A steak menu from the 1960s featuring several steaks as well as spaghetti and meatballs.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 1d

Here are a few more. Liqueurs must have been more popular back then.

A whiskey list from a 1960s restaurant menu.

A long list of liqueurs from a 1960s menu.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes I like to look through the menu of the restaurant where my grandfather worked in the 1960s. Lot of little insights into what was popular then versus now. (For one the rye list is longer than the bourbon list.)

A menu of rye whiskey and gin from the 1960s.

A menu from the 1960s featuring chicken, lamb and pork chops, calf liver and more.

A cocktail menu from the 1960s listing “fancy drinks and fizzes.”

A menu from the 1960s featuring a broiled half chicken and broiled prime hamburg.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 1d

I guess you could make an argument he would have changed — political parties evolve and as they do people often change their views on specific issues to match their partisanship.

But yeah the Reagan who actually existed and governed took stances that were opposed to Trump’s in some major areas.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t want to be anti-dog, I like seeing dogs when I’m out and about, but the failure of so many owners nowadays to train their dogs has been forcing me to reevaluate. If it doesn’t act right around people leave it at home.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 4d

Abusing the Americans with Disabilities Act to bring your pet into bars, restaurants, and grocery stores is tacky. sfstandard.com/2025/10/08/d...

Dogs in restaurants? It’s getting hairy

In a city where canines aren’t just pets but children, the opinions over where they belong is fierce.

sfstandard.com

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Santa Fe New Mexican @thenewmexican.bsky.social · 2d

Commissioners were seeking to tamp down a firestorm that started with a short item in a newsletter noting all three commissioners had voted in favor of immigration detention in the county but that had spiraled into online rumors about ICE agents lurking behind pumpkins to arrest families.

Torrance commissioners decry tying ICE to pumpkin patch

A firestorm surrounded a local pumpkin patch after a teachers union newsletter warned of its owner's vote for ICE detention.

www.santafenewmexican.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

“‘It breaks your heart,’ Bart Giamatti said. ‘It is designed to break your heart.’ I love that quote, but I’ve never really believed it. Yes, baseball will break your heart — but baseball is designed to give you hope. Spring training will come again.”

www.joeposnanski.com/p/baseball-w...

Baseball Will Break Your Heart

But, even though it doesn't always feel that way, its real design is to make you believe again.

www.joeposnanski.com

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 3d

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 3d

I had no idea until just now that the Always Sunny episode where this happens was based on an allegedly real event.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 3d

The Catholic Church has famously been apolitical until now.

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Pinstripe Alley @pinstripealley.bsky.social · 3d

Good night, 2025 Yankees.
Thank you, Judge & Cam.
No thank you ... pretty much everyone else.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 4d

They shut off the water at our place this morning for some maintenance. Made the best of it by getting a light breakfast at one of our favorite spots.

A plate of chicken fried steak covered in white gravy with potatoes and scrambled eggs at Sunrise restaurant. Plates of huevos rancheros, tortillas and sausage are in the background.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 4d

A sign from the back seat of a taxi in New Orleans that says “calling this a po’ boy may be a first degree murder offense in the state of Louisiana punishable by death.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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