The 16th-century population collapse in Mexico/New Spain. 90% of the population gone 50 years after the conquest. The Mexican population did not recover to pre-Hispanic levels until the 20th century.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2730237/figure/F1/

San Francisco's Summer of Love is long gone.

Now it's the Summer of Repressing Constitutional Rights.

Yale University School of Art website.

I have to assume they didn't use any artists to create it ...

The new Hillary Clinton memoir is out.

Adults who buy DNA testing services can't be expected to deal with their own results, so DNA testing services should be responsible for their customers' "shock" when there are unpleasant DNA surprises: "“Meanwhile, the gene test company has made its profit and walks away from the mess they have created. I think that is immoral. They should be made to pay for counselling for their customers.”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/26/alzheimers-disease-shock-for-genetic-ancestry-hunters

Venezuelans are starving and losing weight for lack of food, but they have money for hookers? Wait a minute.

I just want to say we should no longer use the $1, $20, $50, or $100 bills. They all have pictures of former slave owners on them. Also, you shouldn't just throw them away. That would be environmentally unsound. Instead you should send any you have to me. I've been specially trained in disposing of such 'toxic cash'. At no cost to you I will safely and in an environmentally sound manner dispose of these dangerous assets. I just want to help.

Swirling Down The Memory-Hole

We all hate tweet-storms, (sike!,) but this one is a good and instructive read.

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Disaster porn.

Antifa organizers vow to disrupt neo-Nazi rally, or whatever else is going on that day.

Gog: These same people had little tolerance for right-wing views during the 60's, too. They just didn't have the power to order armed men to violate constitutional rights for them.