Fred Hampton, born on this day in 1948, was a revolutionary socialist and chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, forming a class-based alliance known as the Rainbow Coalition before being assassinated by the Chicago PD.

The "Rainbow Coalition" included groups such as the Black Panther Party, the Young Patriots, the Young Lords, and worked together to organize against capital and broker peace treaties and alliances among Chicago street gangs.

In 1967, Hampton was identified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a radical threat. The FBI tried to subvert his activities in Chicago, sowing disinformation among these groups and placing a counterintelligence operative in the local Panthers.

In December 1969, Hampton was assassinated during a predawn raid at his Chicago apartment by the Chicago Police Department. During the raid, Panther Mark Clark was also killed.

At a press conference the next day, the police announced the arrest team had been attacked by the "violent" and "extremely vicious" Panthers, and had defended themselves accordingly. In another press conference, police leadership praised the assault team for their "remarkable restraint" and "professional discipline" in not killing all the Panthers present.

Photographic evidence was presented of bullet holes allegedly made by shots fired by the Panthers, but this was soon challenged. Later, it was found that all but one of nearly one hundred shots were fired by the police.

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1 1 2 4 = 8

1 1 2 2 2 = 8

1 1 1 2 5 = 10

Three Ages

Transposing the two digits of A's age gives B's age. The difference between their ages is twice C's age and B is ten times as old as C. What are the three ages?

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      • DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them]
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        :soviet-huff: "this is your third spanking this week comrade, why do you keep doing this"
        :soviet-bottom: "n-no reason Commissar, I'm just a n-naughty little comrade who needs to be punished"

        • Grownbravy [they/them]
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          “If i see you here again it’ll be to the pillory with you!”

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      Trudging through the cold night rain, the self-exiled moderates from Smolny reached Nevsky Prospect and the Duma. There they joined forces with its deputies, with Menshavik and SR members of the Executive Committee of the Peasants' Soviets, and together they set out to show their solidarity with the cabinet. They walked four abreast behind Shreider, the mayor, and Sergei Prokopovich, the minister of supplies. Carrying bread and sausages for the minister's sustenance, quavering the Marseillaise, the 300-strong group sallied forth to die for the Provisional Government.

      They did not make it a block. At the corner of the canal, revolutionaries blocked their way,

      'We demand to pass!' Shreider and Prokopovich shouted. 'We are going to the Winter Palace!'

      A sailor, bemused, refused to let them through.

      'Shoot us if you want to!' the marchers challenged. 'We are ready to die, if you have the heart to fire on Russians and comrades ... We Bear our breasts to your guns!'

      The peculiar standoff continued. The left refused to shoot, the right demanded their right to pass and / or be shot.

      'What will you do?' yelled someone at the sailor who doggedly refused to murder him.

      John Reed's eyewitness account of what happened next is famous. Another sailor came up, very much irritated. "We will spank you!" he cried energetically. "And if necessary, we will shoot you too. Go home now, and leave us in peace."'

      That would be no fir fate for champions of democracy. Standing on a box, waving his umbrella, Prokopovich announced to his followers that they would save these sailors from themselves. 'We cannot have our innocent blood upon the hands of these ignorant men! ... It is beneath our dignity to be shot down' - let alone spanked - 'here in...

      From China Mieville's October