They’re gonna pump him full of speed, give him a big jolt from the electrodes, and wheel him out for like five minutes.
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They’re gonna pump him full of speed, give him a big jolt from the electrodes, and wheel him out for like five minutes.
Congressional Democrats are interviewing Epstein victims tomorrow. He has to change the focus.
Announcing an invasion of Venezuela or Chicago, to jam up news cycle of Epstein/trump victims’ testimony on Wednesday.
American photographer Jerry N. Uelsmann, an influence to generations of both analog and digital photographers, and an alchemist of film photography and photomontage. Homage to Max Ernst, 1975 #JerryNUelsmann #Photography #Surrealism
NEW: Trump will be making an announcement from the Oval tomorrow at 2 PM ET.
Don't forget about #Sudan. 😢💔 Natural disasters are making an already horrible situation even worse. RIP to the 1000+ who lost their lives in the recent landslide. 🙏🏿
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Labor Day: Fight Oligarchy Rally Portland Maine
That’s what I was thinking.
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
#MotherNatureSong #MusicChallenge Day 2 Dead Can Dance 🎶 Tell me about the forest ( You once called home) youtu.be/ZiYBFwoyzoM?...
My son and I whipped up a Blackberry upside down cake! Never made one with Blackberries before but it looks good!
The problem isn’t refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat. Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.
Here's another contribution to #MossyMonday! I love how it kinda looks like bubbles of moss along the trunks!💚🌲🌿🌲🌿🌲💚 "In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us." - Robin Wall Kimmerer #moss #iseemoss #eastcoastkin #photography #nature #islandlife #green
Beef prices have hit record highs this Labor Day Weekend — in part thanks to Trump's tariffs. Remember when Trump said he would bring down the cost of groceries? https://youtu.be/9EXi6xyOXSk?feature=shared
Sørvágsvatn Floating Lake, Faroe Islands (📸 : Anton Petrus).
Introverts don’t recharge with sleep, we recharge by being left completely alone for 3–5 business days
#MusicChallenge #MotherNatureSong Les Fleurs - Minnie Riperton youtu.be/g1kDd6yBQZ4?...
I hope to see Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Civil War and Reconstruction go into paperback before too long, but for now, a discount code—AUFLY30—to help folks who want the hardcover directly from Oxford. ISBN 9780197804490; release date within a month! See global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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#OtD 1 Sep 1911 five women published the first issue of Japan's first all-women literary magazine, Bluestocking, credited with sparking the feminist movement in Japan. Often banned, it was still a commercial success and became more radical over time stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8155...
Wow. I had never read this one. Incredibly powerful. The close is also a gut punch.
All of Giuliani’s life events that I know about hit like season ending cliffhangers where you’re like ‘How’s he gonna get outta this one?’ People forget that Four Seasons Landscaping debacle was All Him, which is understandable because he also committed actual sexual harassment in a Borat movie.
Every Labor Day I remember that the holiday was moved from May 1 to September not only for the Haymarket attacks but to break up the possibility between the US and the international labor movement (which celebrates in May). And it worked!
Kershaw describes how Hitler’s belief he was dying pushed him toward apocalyptic choices: the invasion of Russia, the Final Solution. Trump disappears for days, and if he reemerges, it will be older, weaker, voice cracking. Decline doesn’t soften autocrats. It makes them bloodthirsty.
Here in the US, “two weeks” actually means never.
Children in Gaza are still being starved, bombed, and murdered.
Happy September! 🖼️ Grasset
September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth...
Marcellina Oseghale Akpojotor, artist who combines tiny pieces of ankara fabric to create portraits of Nigerian women #WomensArt
They are coming for Birth Control. #Contraception #Families #Sexuality #Feminism #Women
#LaborDay www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji8u... Which Side Are You On?
Frances Perkins was the *real* architect of America's post-WW2 prosperity.
... In 1972 they founded Operation Life, which was responsible for many firsts for the poor in Las Vegas-the first library, medical center, daycare center, job training, and senior citizen housing"
"compelling story of how a group of welfare mothers built one of this country's most successful antipoverty programs. Declaring "We can do it and do it better," these women proved that poor mothers are the real experts on poverty...
📚💙 💡📚💙 #LaborDay #BlackWorkingClass #AmericanHistory #Labor #Books #Feminism #Nevada Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty by Annelise Orleck 2005
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My Labor Day reflections on solidarity and democracy: www.acslaw.org/expertforum/...
Excellent! Thanks.
#LaborDay #MovieSky #Film
There's a great documentary - Harlan County, USA - that is mainly about a coal strike, but that also covers the Yablonski assassination. (Bonus labor lawyer trivia: a young Judy Scott. who later became GC of the Teamsters and then SEIU, appears briefly,, singing in a labor choir)
ears in robber barons, and thievery. They want to go back to The Old Ways, okay...then take a look at Matewan , Harlan County USA, freaking Norma Rae!!! These Mopes are dismantling our hard won rights, winning them back should not be as hard as the first time was, but to win we'll have to do it
The UMW strike made famous in "Harlan County, USA" ended on August 30, 1974 after over a year on strike. They persisted despite being shot at & undermined by strike breakers. Today we honor them — and all still fighting in our mountains for a better life. 📸 Appalshop Archive, Robert Gumpert, 1973
Matewan by John Sayles - Great American film 1987
‘North Country’ (2005) Charlize Theron plays Josey Aimes, a single mother who escapes an abusive marriage to work in a Minnesota iron mine. After management ignores her harassment complaints, she sues — sparking the landmark 1975 case that defined sexual harassment as a workers’ rights violation.
‘10,000 Black Men Named George’ (2002) Andre Braugher portrays A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first union led by Black workers.
‘Salt of the Earth’ (1954) Decades ahead of its time, this film about New Mexican mine workers confronts racism, sexism and class. Made during the Red Scare by blacklisted filmmakers, it was funded not by Hollywood but by the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers union.
‘The Devil and Miss Jones’ (1941) In this screwball comedy with a pro-union twist, Charles Coburn plays John P. Merrick, a New York department store tycoon who goes undercover after workers hang him in effigy. Disguised as an employee, he targets a union drive led by a shoe clerk and organizer.
‘Northern Lights’ (1978) A fictionalized account of a fascinating but little-known political movement: the Non-Partisan League, which organized farmers in the upper Midwest in the early 1900s.
#LaborDay watchlist 🎥 5 films that bring U.S. labor history to life, from picket lines to courtroom showdowns. A labor historian recommends these overlooked gems (beyond classics like "Modern Times" and "The Grapes of Wrath"). What would you add to the list? theconversation.com/5-unsung-fil...
How the success of a Black Little League team in 1955 South Carolina sparked one of the biggest crises in youth baseball history and led to the creation of an all-white rival league across the South:
20th-century history would have been a lot different if 200 years ago, a Jewish state had flourished in upstate New York. In 1825, Mordecai Manuel Noah started to establish Ararat there – a Jewish city-state which he imagined as a refuge for persecuted Jews. He failed miserably. buff.ly/VywoPcL
#tdih 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain In Logan County, WV, some 10,000 armed coal miners confronted armed forces marshaled by county sheriff + more during attempt by miners to unionize. #LaborDay Watch "Matewan" film. Read ⬇️ Art: @justseeds.bsky.social www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ba...
To quote my favorite movie Matewan: "Any union that keeps a worker out on account of his race ain't a union. It's a goddam club." This Labor Day, read about the brave people who desegregated the labor movement. Buy my book "Freedom Train": ucpress.edu/books/freedo.... @ucpress.bsky.social
But it is good for #Library circulation statistics...
Today is the day I must decide which of my #Library #Tsundoku to return and which to take off of Reserve -- #TBR way over possible upper limit for Fall. #Reading #Books 📚💙
What's "white"? Once upon a time in America, Irish & Italians were not allowed in the club. Meanwhile, it's hard to imagine American culture without the contribution of non-whites, notably blues & Jazz.
Adult children living with parents is the norm again.
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
One of Philip Roth's finest pieces of work was his championship of the work of writers from eastern Europe before the fall of the Berlin. His "Writers from the Other Europe" series for Penguin remains a superb collection, every book a gem.
A selection of covers from early (1951-1953) Decca classical long-playing records designed by the legendary graphic artist Erik Nitsche. (1/4)
Five years ago, I learned of Alice Koller's death, at the age of 94. Koller, the author of An Unknown Woman, deserves to be recognized as the patron saint of all who — stubbornly, relentlessly, and unapologetically — pursue a solitary life on their own terms. neglectedbooks.com/?...
This still is from A Go Go '67, a Malaysian musical that has some of the best 60s music you've never heard.
Carlene Carter wrote a touching tribute to this song and her mother and grandmother's band:
YES - I considered adding this one, too. I adore Carlene Carter. Thanks.
📚💙 #Graphic #MusicSky #AmericanMusicHistory #Books 💡📚💙 The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song by Frank M. Young with David Lasky 192 pages • first pub 2012
The Original Carter Family: A.P, his wife Sarah, and their cousin and sister-in-law Maybelle on guitar. The second version of The Carter Family - Maybelle and her daughters: Helen, Anita, and June.
#MotherNatureSong #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Let's celebrate the beauty of our fragile planet🐶🐺🐱🐮 And post each day a song with animals, flowers, waterways, natural landscape...or even Earth in the title🌻🌷🪻🌵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMVH... The Carter Family - Wildwood Flower
#500GreatBooksByWomen #BookSky 💡📚💙 💙📚 #Feminism #MentalHealth #Books #WomenWriting Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: The Loony-Bin Trip by Kate Millett 320 pages • hardcover • 1990 - paired with her seminal work of Second-Wave Feminism - Sexual Politics - 1970
#500GreatBooksByWomen #BookSky 🖊️📚💙 #JapaneseAmerican 💙📚 #ShortStories #Books #WomenWriting Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: The Loom and Other Stories by Ruth A. Sasaki 118 pages • 1991
Biggest flotilla yet on its way to Gaza + the most prominent Genocide scholars association declaring Israel’s actions to be genocide + the UNGA starting soon + record number of Israeli schoolchildren + so many other things happening. = we are allowed to hold on to hope. Hope is a discipline.
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#MotherNatureSong #MusicChallenge Mazzy Star ~ Blue Flower youtu.be/FGzNErpGZPg?...
#MotherNatureSong Day 1: The B-52's - Topaz youtu.be/B_Xy1eyOh5o?...
#MotherNatureSong #ThisWasThe90s #MusicChallenge #MusicSky The Sundays - "On Earth"
Indonesia's peatlands are home to endangered orangutans, as well as economically important fish species. They also help prevent flooding and drought, lower local temperatures and minimise saltwater intrusion. Choose #sustainable #palmoil to save #orangutans! www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/li...
My Republican State Representative, Jeff Farnan, voted to sign away earned sick time after it passed by nearly 58%. He doesn’t care about the will of Missouri voters.
They also fielded calls from all over and could realize if there was a pattern. That’s CDC, and they can’t come to the phone right now. Good luck
Who could identify cases and evaluate the situation? EPA and CDC. Without them, even localized cases of illness from exposure may go unnoticed if the people see different providers. And in that time, more and more people will be exposed.
I hope you understand that private industries have, for years, worked to limit scientific credibility. They don't want to be accountable if they cause cancer, if they poison you by dumping in your neighborhood's water.
Holy shit! This is an act of war.
long term continued morbidity & mortality of smallpox, influenza, mercury poisoning, lead poisoning, rabies, syphilis, measles, cholera, plague, etc., certainly suggests that just “letting er rip” rarely results in a population better adapted to disease & industrial scale environmental pollution
Frankly, if you're in the US, I'd be cautious about petting unfamiliar dogs, too, the vaccine lunatics walk among us
rabies is terrifying. if this is you or someone you know or someone who knows someone you know, anyone at all really, tell them to go to the hospital immediately. rabies has a fatality rate above 99.999% in humans once the symptoms begin to show.
#Rabies alert issued in Punta Gorda ... | #Florida | #raccoon | #virus | #Lyssavirus | Via mysuncoast .com
We have an uncontrolled outbreak of stupidity.
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From rabid skunks in Kentucky to gray foxes in Arizona and raccoons on Long Island, wild animals in more than a dozen places across the U.S. have experienced a rise in the deadly disease. Outbreaks of rabies seem to be rising across the U.S. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
please make sure your pets' vaccinations are up to date. it is not possible to test for rabies in a live animal. keep your distance from all wildlife, but especially mammals. extra especially bats, raccoons, foxes, and coyotes. if you see an animal exhibiting abnormal behavior, pls call a rehabber
may the dark lord have mercy on us all because why do DOCTORS call AN ANIMAL SHELTER to ASK WHAT SYMPTOMS OF RABIES ARE FOR HUMANS AND WHAT THEY SHOULD DO IF THERE ARE SIGNS OF RABIES? mr. doctor… you are the doctor here. i just know the animal side of things, what the fuck.
The rabies virus invades the central nervous system and is almost always fatal once symptoms start. Early symptoms, which can begin about a week or up to a year after exposure, may resemble the flu with symptoms progressing quickly followed by death within weeks. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
I myself got the rabies vaccine because I work with feral cats. I can't imagine people not vaccinating their pets. Dumbasses.
Oh & then later *another* rabid fox attacked the dad. They’re hard to catch because tho they want to bite people they’re no longer interested in food. Now, neighbors carry baseball bats when they go outside. I think I’ve seen this movie…
The USDA had an incredibly successful anti rabies program destroyed this year. Those clever nerds created treat that raccoons, coyotes, etc loved. They filled them with an oral rabies vaccine and tossed them out of small planes and trucks where needed. Rabies rates dropped like a stone. All gone. 😢
bruhhh as someone who used to be a dog groomer this is a wild read and I'm gonna be inflammatory I stg all these fucking doodle owners started this shit with the anit-vaxxing, but to be SO stupid to think the rabies vax will give your fucking dog autism should be a mandatory lobotomy holy SHIT.
To be clear: if you are bitten by an animal whose rabies vaccination status is unknown (ie, all wild animals, and possibly some domestic ones), seek care, and suggest that the doctor speaks with the state public health department (MN’s is excellent- I call them at least once a month!)
It’s not so much how likely it is, as the fact it’s possible and rabies is 100% fatal
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