Civil War in Focus – Mathew Brady’s Photography 🎩🥁
A century before smartphones, Mathew Brady and his team pioneered war photography. Brady (1820s–1896) organized dozens of photographers to document the Civil War – from bloody battlefields to stoic portraits. The National Archives holds thousands of these glass-plate images in the Brady collection (many originally War Dept records).
Brady’s photographs fundamentally changed how the public saw war. For the first time, civilians could see the reality of camp life, the aftermath of battles, and the faces of soldiers.
President Lincoln credited Brady’s portrait of him at Antietam with helping win re-election in 1864 (saying “Brady and the Cooper Union speech made me President.”)
Brady’s crew didn’t just photograph battlefields but everyday stillness and the daily grind of camp life for soldiers and crew.
Field kitchens were a favorite Brady subject – this rare stereo image shows Army cooks preparing stew in big cauldrons over fire pits.
Mathew Brady’s photographs are freely accessible in NARA’s Catalog. See faces of named soldiers, panoramic ruins of Richmond, or the eerie stillness of Antietam right after the fight. It’s a 160-year-old visual archive that still speaks volumes about honor, sacrifice, and the birth of photojournalism.
Stopped clock moment, because Albanese is incredibly antisemitic, hiding it under the crumpled fig leaf of “antizionism”.
In the past, she has:
Routinely engaged in Holocaust Denial, Holocaust Inversion, and comparing Jews to Nazis.
Claimed that there is a Jewish conspiracy controlling the world.
Denied or minimized the 7/10 Massacre repeatedly, including evidence that Hamas itself published.
Claimed that the Gazan death toll is three times higher than what Hamas has published.
Claimed that the hostages that Israel managed to rescue were, in fact, voluntarily released by Hamas (ignoring the firefight that Hamas started in the middle of a crowd hoping to kill them before they got away)
Claimed that the Los Angeles Wildfires were connected to (i.e. the fault of) Israel.
Called Israelis cannibals who eat children.
Justified terrorist attacks on Israelis and Jews.
Claimed that America and Europe are controlled by “the Jewish lobby” and “the sense of guilt about the Holocaust”.
Baselessly claimed that Israel is committing a genocide, and claimed so repeatedly and emphatically, using her position to amplify her bias as loudly as possible.
When we say that the UN is institutionally antisemitic, she is a prime example of what we mean, not only that she was able to get the position she holds, but that she was able to keep it when her bias is so emphatically clear.
Regarding the cannibals thing, it wasn’t just limited to Israelis. The account she shared from said Israelis and Zionists were cannibals. Thereby implying that any Jew that was labeled as a “Zionist”, by whatever definition she and her ilk are using, is therefore a cannibal.
Albanese has a long, long, long history of antisemitism as one of the requirements of being a UN rapporteur is being neutral and not letting personal bias into their assessments. It’s in the job description and she agreed to adhere to those requirements.
But instead she’s been one of the most overt and blatant antisemites in the UN for years.
moment of unspeakable beauty today when one of my coworkers called another coworker “judas” for not splitting a can of white monster with her, and i got to watch the guy who sits next to me open a new google tab, type in “jeudis,” and say quietly to himself “french thursday…?”
You better start getting comfortable with the idea of an extremely broad anti-fascist coalition that includes tons of people who you strongly disagree with, because buddy, you’re in one
There’s nothing more despicable and decadent than prioritizing purity policing over moving large numbers of people together to stop the fucking neo nazis
aha. a good example of lefty complaints about the protest, thanks.
us liberals can put up with your “eat the rich” chants and you leftists can put up with our “eat the pizza” praxis.
(i did not personally have pizza, just, if your large protest is near a pizzeria and is not against pizza it may favor pizza.)
Related: a coalition of the Communists and just about anyone else would have stopped Hitler. But no, the Communists decided they would never compromise. And then they lost, Hitler became Chancellor, and the rest is history.
Don’t be like Weimar Germany’s Communist party. Stop the fascists, then worry about how some of your antifa coalition want to tear down capitalism entirely and some of them just want moderately higher corporate taxes and socialized healthcare.
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