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Today in 1836,Mexican troops began the siege of the Alamoin San Antonio, Texas. The siege only ended in an assault on March 6ththat killed almost all of the remaining Texan defenders.
Today in 1861,afteran unsuccessful assassination attempt in Baltimore, Abraham Lincoln was transported secretly to Washington DC to take office.
Today in 1870,the state of Mississippi was readmitted to the Union after the Civil War.
Today in 1896, Leo Hirshfield introduced the Tootsie Roll.
Today in 1898,Emile Zola, a famous French writer was imprisoned after writingthe letter “J’accuse,” which accused the government of anti-Semitism againstAlfred Dreyfus. Dreyfus was a Jewish army officer who was accused of treason unfairly.
Thomas Ruff Is Making Sweet Propaganda | Highsnobiety
Thomas Ruff Is Making Sweet Propaganda
Thomas Ruff/VG Bild Kunst, Bonn/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner
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For photographers who’ve made a living showing large format photographs in galleries and museums, the small-screen future of the medium can be a touchy subject. Generally, they either admit that the medium is in its death throes, or hold steadfast that Instagram and its increasingly destructive digital milieu is a seperate beast altogether. The German photographer Thomas Ruff believes in the former.
He wasn’t.
Four of you are dead and you’ve killed a policeman. More of you will suffer and die from the COVID that spread through your maskless march. Many of you now face prison terms and ruined lives.
(Photo above:
Some of the MAGA Marchers in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. (photo: Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images)
Had you been black, you’d’ve been gunned down before you got anywhere near the Capitol building.
Some of you in Los Angeles compensated by assaulting a black woman who accidentally walked into one of your rallies. Others expressed your opinions about Jews by wearing hats saying 6MWE (Six Million Wasn’t Enough).
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