GUNMAN ARRESTED IN PHILLY SHOOTING THAT LEFT 5 DEAD IS BLM ACTIVIST WHO WORE WOMEN'S CLOTHES: SOURCES

Kimbrady Carriker, 40, was nabbed shortly after the bloodshed in the city’s Kingsessing neighborhood Monday night, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, citing sources--The rifle-wielding suspect who donned a bulletproof vest before allegedly shooting dead five men and injuring two children in Philadelphia has been identified as a Black Lives Matter supporter who shared gun-toting memes on social media.  Kimbrady Carriker, 40, was nabbed shortly after the bloodshed in the city’s Kingsessing neighborhood Monday night, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, citing sources.Cops haven’t yet publicly disclosed the suspect’s identity.  On his Facebook page, Carriker posted two pictures of him wearing a bra, a women’s top and earrings with his hair braided long in March, three months before his alleged outburst. .....More at Kimbrady Carriker IDed as Philadelphia gunman accused of killing 5 (nypost.com)

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THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER 

The mass shooter who killed five people and injured at least two others while wearing a bulletproof vest in Philadelphia Monday night fired their gun randomly at vehicles and pedestrians, police said.  When responding officers heard the gunshots, they reportedly ran after the suspect, who they found in an alley, where they arrested them. The suspect, who has not been identified, uses they/them pronouns, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office told CNN. SEE Philadelphia mass shooting: Suspect kills 5 people by shooting randomly | Washington Examiner

VIDEO--VAN CORTLANDT MANOR RE-ENACTMENT -- COURTESY OF ERICA LAUDON

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Video from Van Cortlandt Manor---4th of July Reenactment today-----courtesy of Erica Laudon---see the youtube video at (1334) July 4th 2023 - Independence Day Reenactment - YouTube

BIDEN LIKELY VIOLATED FIRST AMENDMENT DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC, FED JUDGE SAYS

Biden likely violated First Amendment during COVID-19 pandemic, federal judge says--Google, Meta and Twitter were all named in the lawsuit---A U.S. District Court judge is temporarily preventing White House officials from meeting with tech companies about social media censorship, arguing that such actions in the past were likely First Amendment violations. MORE AT Biden likely violated First Amendment during COVID-19 pandemic, federal judge says | Fox News

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS---WHAT THE NATION'S REPORT CARD SCORES REVEAL ABOUT CATHOLIC SCHOOL

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FROM THE 7/9/2023 BULLETIN FOR ST. AUGUSTINE---WHAT THE NATION’S REPORT CARD SCORES REVEAL ABOUT CATHOLIC SCHOOL -----America’s Catholic schools defied the sobering trends regarding learning loss. From the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) According to the latest NAEP data, current learning losses continue to extend far and wide. On average, public school students lost historic ground in math (10 points) and reading (6 points) since before the pandemic. Research just published in one of nation’s oldest and most respected economics journals echo the take home here: the more time students spent outside the classroom, the less they learned. America’s Catholic schools defied these sobering trends. Students attending parochial schools experienced no meaningful decline in either subject on the latest NAEP. There’s no secret to the Catholic school advantage in mitigating learning loss. The typical parochial school starts its learning day earlier, focuses on the basics, and most of all were much more likely to encourage and provide in person learning throughout the pandemic.

JULY 1894 IN CROTON LANDING

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BY SPECIAL REQUEST----COURTESY OF THE ARCHIVES MAINTAINED BY THE CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY, JULY 1894 IN CROTON LANDING. CLICK ON THE IMAGES BELOW. There's chickens, a brutal assault, some 4th of July doings and more!

AND EVEN MORE ON THE 1912 DUTCH PAGEANT IN CROTON

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Back in April of 2014--and courtesy as always of the outstanding archives maintained by The Croton Historical Society--Everything Croton featured a post about the village's 1912 Dutch Pageant. You can read and see more, including some outstanding vintage photos AT  http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2014/04/more-on-dutch-days-pageant-in-croton.html

Well from the 1912 SURVEY Magazine, there's also this---click on the images below--AND WITH REFERENCE TO MABEL HAY BARROWS MUSSEY---mentioned in the article--Mabel Hay Barrows was an actress and director of the stage, known for her production of the Greek drama Ajax at the University of California, Berkley.  She was also a journalist who contributed to the Nation and The Jabberwock, as an editor. Barrows died abroad in Germany, in 1931, from intestinal ulcers.  She married Henry Raymond Mussey. They had one son, June Barrows Mussey. Mussey, Mabel Barrows Hay (1873-1931) · Jane Addams Digital Edition (ramapo.edu) and

Letter from Mabel Hay Barrows Mussey, Croton-on-Hudson, New York, to Anne Whitney, Boston, Massachusetts, 1914 October 20 | Wellesley College Digital Collections

FUKISHIMA WATER RELEASE, ASSORTED ARTICLES

Atomic Agency Clears Japan to Release Fukushima Water---The International Atomic Energy Agency’s final report declared the treated water from the destroyed nuclear plant safe, but critics continue to demand more transparency.  MORE AT Atomic Agency Clears Japan to Release Fukushima Water - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

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Fukushima plan to release water into ocean approved by UN watchdog--
AEA report says discharge would have ‘negligible radiological impact on people and the environment’--Justin McCurry in TokyoTue 4 Jul 2023 06.23 EDT---MORE FROM THE GUARDIAN AT Fukushima plan to release water into ocean approved by UN watchdog | Japan | The Guardian

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FROM NBC NEWS U.N. gives Japan a stamp of approval for Fukushima water release (nbcnews.com)

HAPPY JULY 4TH CROTON

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Happy Fourth of July Croton! To celebrate, a collection of vintage and current "July 4TH" and "patriotic" Croton links...CLICK ON THE PHOTOS AND LINKS

p.s. Any USA-bashing comments or anti-American chatter will be deleted on sight....if that gives you the vapors, just move along. For everyone else, click on the photos and links:

FIRST UP AND NOW MORE THAN EVER---THE ICONIC DUMMY LIGHT--FOLLOWED BY 1976 CROTON'S BI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS; this one is by Tom Buchanan and shows then trustee Bill Ryder with Central Vet. Committee's Arthur Redding--holding Croton's "Bennington" flag----See more Bicentennial WONDERFUL OLD PHOTOS AND more here

AND DON'T FORGET---1776 WITH CROTON'S HOARD DA SILVA THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: REMEMBERING 1776 WITH CROTON'S HOWARD DA SILVA ON TCM JULY 4TH, 10:45 PM

JULY 4TH AT BLACK ROCK, 1952, and of course fireworks too--see more AT THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: BY SPECIAL REQUEST, JULY 4TH @ BLACK ROCK 1952

Robbins Pharmacy shares 2019 area fireworks video; CLICK HERE

For Croton's ties to the Declaration of Independence--yes THAT document----GO TO THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: CROTON'S TIES TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE........RESOLVED, UNANIMOUSLY , JULY 9, 1776

ANOTHER GREAT ARTICLE FROM THE CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ARCHIVES BY THE LATE ELISE SASSO: A HERO AMONGST US, JOHN PETERSON, MILITIAMAN; more here

2019, FOURTH OF JULY PHOTOS FROM CROTON; click here

2014 JULY 4TH WEEKEND AT THE DUCK POND; CLICK HERE

THROWBACK JULY 4TH; WE'RE AN AMERICAN BAND, FROM CROTON'S TOM FARANDA'S FOLLY; click here

JULY 4TH, BACK THE BLUE! https://tomfaranda.typepad.com/folly/2021/07/july-4th-back-the-blue.html

NY POST, WHY PATRIOTISM IS WORTH DEFENDING, 2019, more here

WASHINGTON AND NEARBY VERPLANCK: Verplanck's Point is best known for its role in the American Revolutionary War, several times serving as an encampment for Washington's Continental Army during its crossings of the Hudson River. Read and see more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verplanck%27s_Point

CROTON'S VAN CORTLANDT MANOR https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2014/02/van-cortlandt-manor-1953-thru-1973.html

THE NEW COUNTRY FROM JESSICA DIECKMAN THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: FROM CROTON'S JESSICA MICHELLE DIECKMAN: THE NEW COUNTRY....A POEM

7/3/2023 THE RAINBOW FLAG WAS TAKEN DOWN THIS DATE THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: DAN MURPHY---YONKERS TIMES--WHY IS THE PRIDE FLAG FLYING ABOVE THE US FLAG IN CROTON? IS THIS A VIOLATION OF THE FLAG ACT? 

CELIA WALDEN---GEN Z WANTS ANYONE OVER 30 TO BE A WALKING APOLOGY FOR THE PAST

Opinion by Celia Walden ----Warning: this column may contain the language and attitudes of the author’s time. Readers sensitive to any thoughts that do not directly cohere with the accepted views of today, please take note.

You won’t have been surprised to hear that a trigger warning like this one has been slapped on a new edition of Virginia Woolf’s 1927 novel, To The Lighthouse, intended for an American readership.

When I saw the headline in this paper on Sunday – Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Publishers – I just nodded numbly to myself. That’s where we are now. In a topsy-turvy land beyond outrage, where something that defies all sense… makes perfect sense.

“I mean she’s old, isn’t she?” I thought to myself as I began to read the article. “Also dead. So poor old Virginia’s probably committed some heinous posthumous crime against the perma-offended.”

Maybe she called one of the characters “fat”, like Roald Dahl in the recently scrubbed clean Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, or made some “racist” reference to a character’s “brown” skin, as Enid Blyton did in her also now-censored Famous Five, or alluded to someone’s “lovely white teeth”, as Agatha Christie was condemned for doing in one of her Miss Marple mysteries.  MORE AT Gen Z want anyone over 30 to be a walking apology for the past (msn.com)