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The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis A provocative look at the secret society that has controlled St. Louis for over a century, revealing how shadowy elites organize themselves against working-class power. Every December in downtown St. Louis, the city's upper crust attend a garish costume party that doubles as a debutante's ball. The daughters of high society are paraded to the throne of a cloaked monarchical figure, and bow to the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. At first glance, the event seems outdated and clownish, but in truth the Veiled Prophet Society has functioned as an exclusive club for the "city fathers," where solidarity is built between wealthy men who head major U.S. corporations, banks, and control whole industries. At the Veiled Prophet's Ball, these titans of capital come together to crown one of their daughters the Queen of Love and Beauty, and celebrate the breaking of strikes, the sabotage of protests, and the enforcement of racial hierarchies. Devin Thomas O'Shea's The Veiled Prophet is the definitive history of the Veiled Prophet Society in all its violence and pageantry, offering a colorful alternate history of the United States through the lens of the Midwestern elite. O'Shea follows the Veiled Prophet Society from its origins in the wake of the 1877 general strike, through the 1904 World's Fair, to the height of the Prophet's--and St. Louis's--influence during the Cold War. The Veiled Prophet examines the unexpected ways this secret society has shaped the course of history, from the CIA to the Vietnam War to the assassination of Martin Luther King. Yet the power wielded by the Veiled Prophet has not gone uncontested. Since the Gilded Age, the Prophet has faced resistance from orphans armed with pea-shooters, Communist Party organizers during the Depression, Civil Rights icons, and renegade debutantes. The Ferguson uprising of 2014 was only the most recent challenge to the Prophet's influence. As the fight for the soul and streets of St. Louis intensifies, it's more critical than ever that we expose the sordid history of these powerful, masked figures and their control over our democracy.

Been sucked into this forthcoming history book, primarily because it is, like, 5 bananas conspiracies all rolled into one, but also because I think it shows how much money & power are leveraged to preserve the ideas of white supremacy in this country. They're not inherent. They're manufactured

bloom look like asparagus

it is kind of funny to be like, thinking about getting in touch with the klan, better reach out to this Southern Poverty Law Center

hmm

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yea I keep that strap [an otter bag] on me

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not controversial to say Bob Clark is an out of touch rich guy but does he expect everyone to buy this

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I’m sure there was / is some kind of department like that

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could be us but not with shit like this happening

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could be us stl

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The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

please do not kill one of the only things that works on the internet

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Oh shit this guy countered me when I was trying to have a UK Gotcha moment

as a tree guy, i'm very pissed off about this

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From Slavery Abolition to Public Education, German Radicals Made American History The United States has forgotten the radical German American immigrant socialists who spilled blood for antislavery and other liberatory causes.

happy Confederate surrender day - always a good time to salute the Union's socialist-abolitionist Germans

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Admiral Byng was executed on the quarterdeck of his flagship in 1757 for not trying hard enough. Much to ponder