Nonilex

Several family members took the opportunity to…[give victim/survivor statements] to Kohberger…. Randy Davis, the stepfather of 1 of the victims, concluded by telling him to “go to hell.”

Kohberger, 30, agreed to 4 consecutive #LifeSentences as part of a #PleaDeal that allows him to avoid #execution for the fatal #stabbing of the 4 #UniversityOfIdaho #students early on Nov 13, 2022. But many questions remain unanswered, including…: What was the motive?

#UIdaho #MassMurder #criminal #law

Atlas Obscura

Anabaptist Cages in Münster, Germany

Cages that once displayed the bodies of executed leaders hang from a German church tower.#execution #churches #section-Atlas
Anabaptist Cages

Anabaptist Cages

Cages that once displayed the bodies of executed leaders…

Atlas Obscura
Auschwitz Memorial

19 July 1943 | During a roll-call 12 Polish prisoners were publicly hanged by the SS on a gallows erected in front of the kitchen at the #Auschwitz I camp. It was the largest hanging #execution in the history of this German concentration camp. Learn more below.

MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor and Writing History 7/15/1381: The authorities executed Peasants Revolt leader John Ball by hanging, drawing and quartering. They later stuck his head on a pike and left it on London Bridge. Ball was a radical roving priest who routinely pissed off the Archbishop of Canterbury. As a result, they imprisoned him at least three times and excommunicated him. He helped inspire peasants to rise up in June of 1381, though he was in prison at the time. Kentish rebels soon freed him. The revolt came in the wake of the Black Plague and years of war, which the government paid for by heavily taxing the peasantry. Furthermore, the plague had wiped out half the population.

Ball and his followers were inspired, in part, by the contemporary poem, “Piers Plowman,” (1370-1390) by William Langland. Ball put Piers, and other characters from Langland’s poem, into his own cryptic writings, which some believe were coded messages to his followers. Ball is mentioned in the poem, “Vox Clamantis,” (also 1380-1390) by John Gower:

“Ball was the preacher, the prophet and teacher, inspired by a spirit of hell,
And every fool advanced in his school, to be taught as the devil thought well.”

Ball was also the main character in the anonymous play, “The Life and Death of Jack Straw,” (1593), which is about the Peasants’ Revolt. And socialist, William Morris, wrote a short story called “A Dream of John Ball.” John Ball is also referenced several times in “The Once and Future King,” (1958) by T. H. White.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #peasant #revolt #rebellion #uprising #JohnBall #prison #rebels #execution #poetry #books #fiction #novel #author #writer @bookstadon

MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History July 1, 1766: François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, was tortured, beheaded and burnt on a pyre for reading Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique and, more importantly, for not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France. The articles in Voltaire’s work included critiques of the Catholic Church, as well as Judaism and Islam. The general public loved the book, which sold out quickly after its first, anonymous, printing. The religious authorities hated it and censored it in France and Switzerland. Charles Dickens reference the torture and murder of la Barre in his novel, Tale of Two Cities. Voltaire tried, unsuccessfully, to defend la Barre. His writings immediately after the arrest did help several other young Frenchman get acquitted for the same offenses.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #freespeech #censorship #torture #voltaire #enlightenment #execution #books #author #writer #philosopher #fiction #dickens @bookstadon

Futurist Jim Carroll

"𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

One of my main messages yesterday during my keynote was that you need to make the most of the moment if you have one. If a wide variety of trends are suddenly coming together - which they are for medical device technology as they are for many other industries - then you have to move at the speed of the trends. This is a message I often share while on stage.

In that context, I've also been doing a final proofread of 𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒂𝒊𝒏 - I suspect we are days away from release. And in one of the chapters, I saw one of the phrases I wrote - "𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒." When you write tens of thousands of words, you sometimes forget the wisdom you wove into just a few of those words.

With that in mind, here's what you need to think about.

You need to commit.

You need to have a compelling sense of urgency.

You have to decide to move forward, not back.

You should have a sense that RIGHT NOW is the right time.

You must be ready to act decisively.

You need to make decisions.

You need to move with the trends as they mature, not as they fade.

Do things. Now.

Get it done - because why should you wait?

Kill indecision - otherwise, it will kill you.

Start doing. Action is better than stasis.

Act faster - because your world is.

Volatility is normal - learn from it.

Think faster. Don't wait for perfect information.

Act more. Momentum is valuable.

Change is inevitable - Indecisiveness isn't.

Because waiting is fatal.

Agility, innovation, and execution are key.

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Futurist Jim Carroll admits to having never understood indecision.

**#Action** **#Urgency** **#Decisiveness** **#Momentum** **#Innovation** **#Agility** **#Execution** **#Trends** **#Commitment** **#Now**

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2025/06/decodin

Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELS

When 22-year-old Cole went to refill his #asthma medication, he saw a #shocking #price. The #inhaler that once cost <$70 suddenly cost >$500. [He] didn’t have an extra $500 to buy it. 5 days later, he #died after a severe asthma attack. #profit-driven #execution #UnitedHealth tinyurl.com/mr4bvkae

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