DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

US excludes French groups from MAGA-aligned grant program (Marion Solletty/Politico)

JD Vance echoed one of Tucker Carlson’s most notorious comments at the GOP midterm convention (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)  Notorious!

Afghan woman in Texas dubbed an “alien terrorist” is deported in DOJ’s first case using obscure court (Sarah N. Lynch/CBS News)  ‘Obscure court’ means one they disapprove of.

Trump’s Weird Convention Just Tied Every GOP Candidate To His Sagging Popularity (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)  As usual, the Magazine of Record for AWFLs does what it does best.

Trump’s ‘Midterm Convention’ Tried to Reach Die-Hard Republican Voters, but Lacked Oomph (James Poniewozik/New York Times)  They were all normal people, unlike Democrats.

In ominous sign, USPS initially rejected Florida county’s mail ballot over spacing issue (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)  Rules? Democrats don’t need no stinkin’ rules!

Trump asks convention crowd to pledge to him they will vote, ‘cheat like hell’ (Amy B Wang/Washington Post)  Geez, you’d think they were Democrats or something.

Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say (Gillian Brockell/American Prospect)  Well, I guess Africans aren’t the Origin of True Civilization after all. Good to know.

What Does FBI Director Kash Patel Actually Do? (Alex Nguyen/Mother Jones)  Enforce the law, something with which Mother Jones is totally unfamiliar.

The Numbers Don’t Lie: Trump’s Convention Speech Was a Total Flop (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)  But the number-squinters certainly do.

Katy Tur Focuses on Islamophobia During 9/11 Anniversary, Says It Led to Trump’s Rise  Proglodytes wave the term ‘Islamophobia’ around as if it were a magic wand rather than a rational response to Muslim terrorism.

Trump’s Real Problem Is Real Wages (Wall Street Journal)  As if Trump could magically change that.

Republicans, Facing Midterm Peril, Try to Brand Democrats as Communists (Tim Balk/New York Times)  Which, these days, they are.

How Trump Is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech (New York Times)  Wake me up when Trump becomes worse than Obama or Biden.

These are the Trump investigations Democrats plan if they win in November (Washington Post)

Fear and Delusion in Dallas: Inside Trump’s Midterm Convention Flop (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)  The proglodyte Pravda exceeds expectations.

Some Media Outlets Make 9/11 About Bashing Trump  My,  what a surprise.

Babylon Bee.

I’m not sure this is satire.

Babylon Bee.

That’ll show ‘im!

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The ones who won’t kill you will gladly dance on your grave.

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The view that Islam is more likely to encourage violence than other religions is more widespread in the United States today than when Pew Research Center first asked Americans this question in March of 2002, around six months after the catastrophic events of the 9/11 terrorist attacks orchestrated by Al-Qaeda Islamists.

A step in the right direction, but only a step.

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Looking for systemic racism? Look no further.

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Wakey wakey.

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Ask me whether I care.

All of this hand-wringing over Ebola victims (the number of which is vastly exceeded by the number of traffic victims in any major metropolitan area) is merely a ploy to get the U.S. taxpayer to cough up the bucks that Turd World emergencies have traditionally attracted.

Newsbusters.

In Virginia, the Fairfax County Public School (FCPS) district advised teachers that they should not link the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people with radical Islam and instructed them to create “safe spaces” for Muslim students when discussing the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks.

A copy of the guide, titled “25th Anniversary and Commemoration of 9/11,” was obtained and analyzed by Fox News Digital, which notes that the guide’s focus has “prompted critics to accuse Fairfax County (Virginia) Public School’s liberal leaders of coddling post-9/11 sensitivities rather than teaching history.”

That’s like telling teachers not to link Buchenwald and Dachau with Nazis or National Socialism.

The New Neo.

itself as a “religion of peace” was absurd then and is absurd now.

That’s not to say there aren’t Koran verses supporting peace, but there are Koran verses for almost anything, including many supporting war. Nor is the religious text the only point, although the Koran probably has more advocacy of war than exists in other religions. More importantly, it’s pretty obvious that, at least in the last few decades, people acting in the name of Islam are involved in an enormous amount of the terrorism and war-making in the world, both internal (Muslim on Muslim) and internationally.

Polls are an indicator of how much support violence has in the Muslim world, including in the US. For example, in a 2024 poll (obviously taken post 10/7), 37% of Muslims in the US saw Hamas positively. And in July of 2026 the Hamas approval rate among Muslims in America had risen to 44%.

There are ‘good Muslims’ just as there were ‘good Nazis’, but they nevertheless subscribe to an ideology (I won’t dignify it with the name of religion) that has as an essential component a willingness to engage in terrorism ‘for the Cause’, just as National Socialism had as an essential component a willingness to engage in genocide. We won’t be safe until both Muslims and Nazis are excluded from our polities.

The Foundry.

Of course they do.

The New Neo.

Good point.

Yesterday on the thread about the murder – and attempted beheading – of Andrew Wimsatt in Austin, commenter “Marlene” brought up the murder/beheading of Daniel Pearl and wondered whether his being a Jew had anything to do with him being targeted. I replied that it did, and linked to a post I had written on the subject in October of 2023, just a few weeks after 10/7. Here’s the post again, because I think it’s become even more relevant as time has gone on.

Newsbusters.

“How the hell do you laugh while the names of those murdered on 9/11 are being read aloud? Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) asked Friday, reacting to video showing two New York Democratic Socialists – Mayor Zohran Mamdani (NYC) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – laughing and smiling at a ceremony honoring those killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack by radical Islamists.

Video of the jovial exchange between the two far-left New Yorkers while the names of the nearly 3,000 victims of the terrorist attack were being read was caught on camera by national news broadcasts and quickly went viral, prompting widespread outrage.

Not that they care.

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After the media spent the last two weeks casting pent up handmaiden feminist energy at the ‘male holdout’ juror who caused a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case, “CBS Mornings” anchor Gayle King had a visible record scratch after one of the karen jurors revealed that the holdout was a black man that the white ladies virtually lynched in the town square of national dialogue for not letting Clancy off the hook for murdering her children.

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“The other jurors have spent all week calling the lone male holdout an arrogant, uncooperative dummy who didn’t understand the law or follow the rules. Now we come to find out that they were talking about the only black guy in the room this whole time. Leftists have accidentally sided with 11 white bullies against a black man who stood up to them. Just an absolutely amazing twist. You couldn’t script it any better,” said the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh, who had several great takes.

Cue the media firestorm blackening (pun intended) his name for all eternity, even if they have to Make Shit Up.

UPDATE: Left-Wing Media Doxxes And Attacks Black “Rogue” Lindsay Clancy Juror  Told you so.

ATQUE: DeSantis Offers Florida ‘Asylum’ to Clancy Holdout Juror

UPDATE: NBC Affiliate Gives Mob All the Information Needed to Hunt Holdout Clancy Juror

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The distinguishing characteristic of a RINO is its thick skin.

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A woman sat in front of a camera this week and told the internet she had witnessed a “racist baby”…

Not a joke account. Not a sketch. A straight-faced lecture about an infant who looked at someone for a few seconds – and, in her telling, revealed the original sin of race hatred barely out of the womb.

The woman declares that “watching children mirror racist behavior is WILD.” She describes a baby staring at her ‘friend of colour’, the mother looking stricken, and then announces that the child is “literally mimicking” hostility toward “black and brown people.”

‘Literally’ means ‘I’m making it up and don’t you dare call me on it’.

The ‘children mirror racist behavior’ I’m actually worried about is black teen gang-bangers.

This is the new priesthood. A baby looks at a black person and the verdict is racism.

The Foundry.

Leftists and Democrats say the craziest things, and they can do it without fearing that a practitioner of the “fact-checking” arts is going to label them “Pants on Fire” liars on the internet. Occasionally, I will tweet these outrageous statements under the title “Zero Fear of Fact-Checkers.”

Many of these bizarre bangers are about race and racism, and the Republicans are smeared as segregationists and authoritarians. Here’s my recent collection.

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I’ve written a number of times in the past about Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic organization that serves to “radicalize” Muslims in the West. Young men who may have drifted away from the pure practice of Islam experience a revival under the tutelage of Tablighi Jamaat. The group does not field the mujahideen itself, but its graduates join other terrorist groups to become suicide bombers and throat-slitters for the Great Jihad.

Many Muslim countries have had the good sense to order the banning of Tablighi Jamaat due to its subversive nature. The feckless nations of Western Europe (as well as the United States) are not so prudent, and continue to allow the group to operate within their borders.

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The U.S. defense industrial base today faces a critical minerals challenge—one with serious national security implications.

On August 4, media reports indicated that a major U.S. defense contractor is, for the first time, planning to source germanium and scandium—critical minerals used to build high-end defense items—from American firms. Here’s the problem: the prospective supplier does not have an operational mine—and will not until at least 2028. To highlight the scope of this challenge, consider the fact that the United States has not mined scandium since the 1960s.

Critical minerals are vital elements used in numerous defense platforms: warships, stealth bombers, fighter jets, missiles, sensors, and radars. Today the United States is import-reliant when it comes to critical minerals. China accounts for 90 percent of worldwide refining and processing capacity and is the top global refiner for 19 of 20 strategic minerals especially relevant to defense production.

New York Post.

Those who know this don’t need proof. Those who refuse to believe it won’t believe proof, either.

New York Post.

This has been public knowledge for years. It just needed somebody in the government actually to Do Their Job.

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Crypto investor Ben Delo said on Friday he would donate a record £36 million ($48.7 million), or £1 million a month before the next national election, to Britain’s populist Reform UK to help the party get ready for government.

Delo, the British co-founder of crypto trading platform BitMEX who was convicted of a ?Bank Secrecy Act violation in the United States and pardoned by President Donald Trump, said he wanted to ensure a “fair fight” with Britain’s two main parties — the governing Labour Party and main opposition Conservatives.

There’s nothing like being targeted by the Crust to bring one to a true appreciation that if you’re not one of them they will crush you like a bug, so you need to support people who are also in that same position. You must all hang together or you will all hang separately.

Task & Purpose.

Aerial refueling tankers are the backbone of U.S. airpower, but the tanker fleet is falling apart. Most of the jets are KC-135s, which are over 60 years old, and the jet that’s supposed to replace them, the KC-46, is plagued by development issues and is already running low on spare parts.

With no let-up in operational tempo, it’s becoming more difficult for the Air Force to maintain its tanker fleet. That’s the main takeaway from a Government Accountability Office report published earlier this year. The report said the tankers’ full mission capability rate — that is, their ability to carry out all of their assigned missions — has “decreased substantially” from 2019 through 2025.

Tankers are critical for the U.S. military, which relies on airpower. Most of the U.S. fighter fleet needs tankers to cross an ocean, and tankers provide a high degree of flexibility for everything else, from bombers to transports and spy planes.

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I dream of living in a world where older white men can relax on a park bench and the possibility of being decapitated in broad daylight would be zero.

But this is the United States of America in 2026, so I’ll have to keep dreaming.

Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

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Thank God for the First Amendment.

Thank God I don’t live in Britain.

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For several days the pontificating media have been parading around the various jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, using the mostly white women to frame the deliberations as sexist and insensitive to the emotional plight of a woman who strangled her three children to death with an exercise band.

Millions of middle-age, suburban, angry white females have proclaimed that American men should not have an opinion in the case while simultaneously using toxic sympathy as a weapon to defend the murderer. The previously described “one male holdout juror” who created a mistrial by failing to find the murdering mother not guilty, has been criticized directly or by implication by an aligned leftist media.

Today, things changed. Today, all the toxic, murder-supporting, leftist feminists found out the lone male holdout was a black man in his 30’s. Suddenly, you can hear a pin drop as silence falls upon the professional AWFLs (Affluent, White, Female, Leftists).

Gayle King was interviewing juror Paula Devlin on CBS Mornings today, and as she was maneuvering through the narrative to hold the progressive banner in a certain direction – she asked the questions that froze her.

The Juror, Paula Devlin explained the jury panel consisted of nine women and three men, with 11 white jurors and one person of color. “Was the person of color a woman or a man?” King asked. After Devlin said the juror was a man, King sought clarification. “Is the holdout juror … a Black man?” she asked. “Yes,” Devlin replied. “A Black man is the holdout juror?” King asked incredulously. “Yes,” Devlin said. Stunned with disbelief and now incapable of formatting the DEI agenda, “Woah, I have to sit with that for just a second,” King said.

I am impressed by the frequency with which we have to thank black men for loudly yelling BULLSHIT! when they encounter it among the Wokerati.

Well done, that man.

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A federal jury in Richmond convicted three people this week on charges that they defrauded Medicaid out of more than $11 million. The charges relate to billing by their company, Divine Youth Counseling LLC.

The three people, 31-year-old twin sisters E’mon and Armone’ Ambers, as well as 32-year-old Traquan Brown, billed Medicaid for a service known as Crisis Stabilization and Mobile Crisis.

“The defendants falsely claimed that two mental health professionals simultaneously provided services to Medicaid recipients, when in truth, at most a single mental health professional was present for the service,” the Justice Department wrote. “The false claims that two professionals provided ‘Team Treatment’ services caused millions of dollars of loss to Medicaid.”

In addition to the billing fraud, the three were also convicted on charges that they illegally provided hotel rooms for Medicaid recipients to encourage them to obtain Medicaid services from Divine Youth.

Judging by the names, they were after surreptitious reparations.

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Apparently her lawyer is a real piece of work.

“Gee, George, how long have you worn an ear-ring?”

“Since the day my wife found it in my truck.”

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The only positive thing I can say about George W. Bush is that a Democrat would have been worse.

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Hey, before you go off about how awful women are for supporting Lindsay Clancy, and how all the female jurors seemed to be charmed by the defense attorney, remember a couple of dudes voted “not guilty” as well.

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Concur.

New York Post.

“Close to 25 years later, more people have died from 9/11-related illnesses than were killed on the day itself” — Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Tuesday

We say: Mamdani will stop at nothing to deflect from the core truths of the 9/11 terror attack, now making the insane case that Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg are the real culprits.

Hey, Mr. Mayor — don’t forget, the air was fine before the planes hit the towers.

“Mao Zedong, unlike George Washington, did not own slaves.” — Hasan Piker, Wednesday

We say: In fact, Mao had 660 million slaves, the entire population of China, and he killed 70 million of them. Nice try, though.

CNN, a Voice of the Crust.

A pointed reminder that Red China is still a totalitarian concentration camp.

Of course, nobody at CNN dares to wake up and think, “Hey, maybe socialism isn’t such a good idea.”

The War Zone.

Work at a specialized underground weapons test site in New Mexico, contracted earlier this year, was linked to planning for a potential new operation targeting Iranian nuclear facilities, according to a report from CNN. The U.S. military has notably left Iran’s hardest-to-reach site under Pickaxe Mountain untouched so far, but President Donald Trump and other U.S. officials have been openly talking about striking it.

On February 27, the day before U.S. and Israeli forces launched their initial wave of strikes on Iran, the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) quietly announced it had awarded a sole-source deal to Pate Construction Co., Inc., for new construction at the so-called Alternate Seismic Hardrock in Situ Test (ALT-SHIST) site. The work was needed to support an upcoming classified live-fire test. ALT-SHIST is situated within the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), a sprawling U.S. Army-managed complex in New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert basin. DTRA is a relatively small and obscure organization that plays a leading role in U.S. military efforts to develop new and improved ways to respond to Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) threats.

WSMR and DTRA have come up in discussions about strikes on Iran in the past. The U.S. military’s heaviest conventional air-dropped weapon, the 30,000-pound-class GBU-57/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bunker buster bomb, has been extensively tested at multiple sites there in the past. DTRA was also directly involved in its initial development. MOPs made their combat debut during U.S. strikes last year on underground Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordow and Natanz as part of Operation Midnight Hammer. The possibility has been raised that a different site within WSMR may have been used to test the plan of attack against Fordow, which involved two ventilation shafts being hit with six GBU-57/Bs each. The bombs were dropped in rapid succession, with each one burrowing deeper and deeper into the facility below. WSMR also happens to contain the site of the first atomic bomb test in 1945.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, credited Charlie Kirk for bringing him and President Donald Trump together and for making the Make America Healthy Again agenda possible.

“Charlie played a critical and indispensable role in bringing me and President Trump together,” he said on Thursday at the 2026 Republican National Committee’s Midterm Convention. “In fact, it was something that he was trying to do for almost a year. … And today, on the first anniversary of his assassination, I can’t stand here without thinking about him.”

Kennedy reflected on the first time he met Trump at an event with Kirk, where they shook hands and promised to make America healthy again.

“Some of my Democratic friends told me that I was a fool for trusting Trump, and so I want to make the record clear right now: President Trump has kept every single promise that he can make without exception,” he said.

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As we reported in May, OMG Media’s James O’Keefe and Turning Point USA’s Savanah Hernandez both went to Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles and discovered something quite eye-opening: petition circulators offering cash, cigarettes, and marijuana in exchange for signatures on California ballot petitions. The canvassers themselves were being paid, and they in turn gave cash to the ballot signers, who used fake identities culled from voter records. The signers had no idea what they were falsely autographing — they just wanted the cigarettes.

Paying someone to register to vote or sign a petition is a crime, as is using a fraudulent identity.

Fast forward to Thursday, when First U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli announced that the DOJ had taken notice of the operations. They’re taking action to clamp down on these fraudulent activities and hold the perps to account.

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As America prepares to memorialize the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, expect a bright, glaring omission in the upcoming speeches, editorials, and televised survivor retrospectives about this history, important to tell for its warning that national vigilance remains necessary even now.

Left on the cutting room floors will be the all-important, basic “why”, exactly, al-Qaeda hijackers carried out these attacks. The too-offensive-for-public-discourse “why” part of 9/11 can be readily found in, for instance, the recovered United Airlines Flight 93 cockpit recordings, which reveal one hijacker’s motivation at an authentic moment of truth. Nine times over that nosediving flight’s final six seconds before it disintegrated with all 40 victims into a Shanksville, Pa. field, the hijacker repeatedly chanted: “Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar…!” Allah is great.

Expect schoolteachers, media pundits, and elected leaders speechifying at the New York memorial (think New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani), to pretzel-twist themselves around ever saying aloud that a religious motive rooted in Islamist ideology drove the 9/11 hijackers to that mass murder—and still does. Removing even passing references to Islamism as 9/11’s guiding motivation from the coming national discourse short-circuits civic duty to remind Americans that this problem lives on 25 years later as a national security threat.

Not all Muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslims. I wonder why that is….

Angry, Unglued Trump Accidentally Reveals His Contempt for MAGA Voters (New Republic) Greg Sargemt loses his shit.

Lindsay Clancy’s attorney makes public plea for Trump pardon (Victoria Craw/Washington Post)  Don’t hold your breath.

Trump Is Quietly Planning to Majorly Change How National Parks Are Run (NOTUS)  OH NOES!

Morning Joe Clamors for Trump Era to Go to ‘Ash Heap of History’

Former GOP lawmakers join Democrats to challenge Trump’s mail-in voting crackdown (Kevin Frey/MS NOW)  RINO Alert!

Smithsonian’s Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the Institution (New York Times)  I guess he does.

Dems Ask for Probe Into Trump Team’s Handling of Anniversary Data (Dan Friedman/Mother Jones)

Trump’s Mail-Ballot Attack Is Already Sowing Midterm Chaos (Mary Ellen Klas/Bloomberg)

Which Republican Senate Candidates Are Skipping Trump’s Convention? (Kellen Browning/New York Times) Let’s read some minds, shall we?

The View: Vote Democratic in Midterms or Everyone Will ‘Literally’ Die  As long as it includes the shrews on The View, I’m good with it.

Trump’s next trade weapon (Courtenay Brown/Axios)  Let’s try some mind-reading, shall we?

Democrat El-Sayed Hits Trump Efforts to Cast Him as Villain (Bloomberg)

At 9/11 Tribute, Trump Claims Firefighters Carried Him to Safety (Katie Rogers/New York Times)  A rather transparent lie.

Veterans group launches new campaign against Trump’s planned arch (Ellen Mitchell/The Hill)

Newsbusters.

Quite agree.  Unfortunately, socialists aren’t any better.

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Blame America First!

And possibly further damage, depending on my mood, the time of day, and the phase of the moon.

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New Hampshire is now officially a Blue State.

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How about that government-provided ‘universal’ health care!

Worse on Purpose.

Today, I want to share the sources that I have bookmarked and return to whenever I make a purchase.

It is by no means a complete list. It is just an account of the resources I have personally come to value over the years. My hope is that we might build a more complete list together in The Community.

Before the list, I’ll outline the three mechanisms that corrupt almost every review you read online, then the three questions I ask of any reviewer. Together, they’ll tell you in about five minutes whether a source is worth your time.

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A real test produces numbers, and numbers produce losers. A costume lab produces ranked lists of only winners in spurious categories with buy buttons on every row.

Alma Boykin.

Is it important to be aware that hitching bulls to a wagon might not go well? Should younger people learn about suckling pig and the reason we eat pigs young (if they are old-breed animals)? How vital today is the knowledge of the death march drums, and military justice, or the sequence of plow-sow-harrow-weed-harvest with sickles?

I”m always somewhat surprised by what some of my students don’t know, and don’t realize that they don’t know. But then they’ve never been around horse and ox farming, don’t see really old wagons and hand tools, have no idea about crafts of the pre-industrial or even pre-WWII world. To describe, oh, Deism as “the watchmaker g-d” makes no sense to people who have never seen the interior of a mechanical watch or clock.

When and where I grew up, horse and ox-drawn farming was not that far away, and some people still had Conestoga-type wagons for reenactments. We read things like the Little House books in school, and I read the McGuffey’s readers. My grandparents had wash pot and washboard, and explained how they were used. I saw people making soap (not fun) candles (only the semi-fun part) and was encouraged to learn how weaving and so on worked. We had a big garden that was attacked by rabbits, which had to be thinned via air-rifle. Composted manure? Taught me about how fertilizer and crop rotation happened before nitrogen fertilizer was invented. “History” wasn’t all that far away, or at least, historic technologies like water-powered grist mills, windmills for water, and so on were not far away.