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RealGravitas -Citizen Saboteur<a href="https://beige.party/@RickiTarr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@RickiTarr</a> There she was. I was standing right in front of her. I literally fell to my knees and cried. I had found her! <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Wilbur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wilbur</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AngelusRosedale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AngelusRosedale</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/cemetery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cemetery</a>

RealGravitas -Citizen Saboteur<a href="https://beige.party/@RickiTarr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@RickiTarr</a> Some relatives ended up in the Angelus Rosedale cemetery, and the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/wilbur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wilbur</a> plot was all laid out. But no record of an Ella Wilbur. I went to Curtis’s gravesite in Colma. He and Olive Doolittle, my gr grandmother were there. No one else. Meanwhile a cousin did some investigation and determined Ella had died from tuberculosis. Rereading the letters now about her going to Arizona for “the air” now made heartbreaking sense. Her’s was a tragic story, and doubly so because she had no one to remember her. I made a vow to find her and tell her story. After months of friutless searching, I went back to Angelus-Rosedale, fully armed with names: Ella, her brother, and mother had all moved to California together. Were they still? Office double checked. No records, but worth walking around the family plot. So I did that. The first person I found was Ella’s mother. If Ella was there, she’d be nearby. Then I saw a stone with Curtis’s name on it. That’s not right. He’s not here. I looked closer.

RealGravitas -Citizen Saboteur<a href="https://beige.party/@RickiTarr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@RickiTarr</a> As the family historian, I’ve spent a little time in cemeteries; the family is scattered around California. I want to tell you a story about an investigation I did trying to find a missing family member. Her name was Ella Chilson. The <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Wilbur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wilbur</a> family nexus, as it were, was focused on two brothers, both born in Iowa and died here in California. One, my name sake, Curtis D Wilbur, distinguished himself as both Calif Supreme Court Justice and Secretary of the Navy under Coolidge. The other, Ray Lyman Wilbur, was president of Stanford and Secretary of the interior under Hoover. I came into possession of somewhere around 6000 family letters when my dad passed away in 2007, and I began archiving them, sorting them by sender. Took a while, but I discovered that Curtis married my great grandmother Olive as a widower. Some letters from the 1890s mentioned an Ella, and there were photos of another woman (with a much younger Curtis). Further study discovered her full name. But where was she?

Chuck DarwinOthers in the Trump inner circle who made their fortunes via privately held ventures include treasury secretary <a href="https://c.im/tags/Steven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steven</a> T. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mnuchin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mnuchin</a>, who got a great deal during the financial crisis on IndyMac, a mortgage lending bank, thanks to our government’s penchant for the socialization of risk and privatization of profit when entities considered “too big to fail” go into a state of distress. Mnuchin and his fellow investors, a group that included liberal donor and hedge-fund honcho George Soros, changed the company name to <a href="https://c.im/tags/OneWest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OneWest</a> and began to aggressively foreclose on homeowners. The bank earned Mnuchin and his partners a profit of $1.6 billion in its first year of operation, even as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was preparing to take a hit of nearly $11 billion “on bad loans that the Pasadena institution made before it was sold last March and renamed OneWest Bank,” according to E. Scott Reckard of the Los Angeles Times.Then there’s commerce secretary <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wilbur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wilbur</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ross" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ross</a>, worth $2.5 billion according to Forbes, who started a second career in 2000 with the creation of his eponymous investment company, which he later sold to Invesco for a reported $375 million. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Reed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reed</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cordish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cordish</a>, special assistant to the president for intragovernmental and technology initiatives, is a scion of the family that owns privately held Cordish Companies, involved in gaming and entertainment. He’s said to be tight with Jared Kushner. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sonny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sonny</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Perdue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Perdue</a>, Trump’s secretary of agriculture, founded the private company Perdue Inc., a trucking outfit, with his wife, Mary, who was reported in 2005 to be the company’s sole shareholder. (An official at Perdue Inc. declined to confirm to The Baffler whether this is still the case.)And, while not a rich guy himself, CIA director <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mike</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pompeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pompeo</a> founded a private company called <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thayer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thayer</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Aerospace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Aerospace</a> in the late 1990s with help from Koch Venture Capital, an arm of Koch Industries. A Pompeo aide told the Washington Post that the Koch investment amounted to only 2 percent, but there’s no way to really know, since the transaction took place between two privately held companies. He later became president of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sentry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sentry</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/International" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#International</a>, another private company, before his 2010 run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, which he won, again with an assist from the Koch brothers. He’s also a climate-change denier—an appealing trait in a public official if you’re a fossil fuels magnate looking to buy one

Claudia ZahnJust a tiny prehensile-tailed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/porcupine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#porcupine</a> called <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wilbur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wilbur</a> eating a slice of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/banana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#banana</a> 😂🍌🙌 He lived in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OutOfAfricaWildlifePark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OutOfAfricaWildlifePark</a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arizona</a> and he was very loved for his kind and gentle nature and for his love of snacks. At 12 years old, he passed peacefully and will be missed dearly and he will never be forgotten. 📷-Sarah Fredrickson <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OutofAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OutofAfrica</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NatureLovers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NatureLovers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wildlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NaturePhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NaturePhotography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Plant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Plant</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Plants</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Flower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Flower</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Flowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Flowers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Photography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Photographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Photographer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pets</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PetsAreFamily" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PetsAreFamily</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AdoptDontShop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AdoptDontShop</a>

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