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Harvey J Kaye

Harvey J Kaye

@harveyjkaye.bsky.social

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Professor Emeritus of Democracy @UWGB #AFTunion & Award-winning #Author/editor of 18 books + CoAuthor of 21C Economic Bill of Rights https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/economic-bill-of-rights 🌹🇺🇸

Harvey J. Kaye is an American historian. He has written and edited over a dozen books, many of which focus on the radical tradition in American history and thought.

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 18h

I am in Sarasota for the annual Florida Veterans for Common Sense Thomas Paine Party to be held tomorrow evening. My duty at the party this year is to deliver the Toast to Paine 🥂🍻!

I am in Sarasota for the annual Florida Veterans for Common Sense Thomas Paine Party to be held tomorrow evening. My duty at the party this year is to deliver the Toast to Paine 🥂🍻!

Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 8h

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Labour Left Podcast @brynhgriffiths.bsky.social · 19h

Movies versus capitalism is a great podcast so do subscribe. I haven’t seen this film but if former Labour Left Podcast guest Harvey thinks it’s worth a watch I’ll give the podcast then the film a go.

Here’s more of Harvey …

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 19h

And take your boss with you

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 19h

Developer Trump's largest and most consequential building project ever is the erection of an unprecedented network of concentration camps across America. If any buildings bear his name, it should be these. Trump Concentration Camps. An indelible stain on our society.

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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 19h

The new voter suppression bill—called the "Save America Act"—would require 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates to register to vote.

Most don't have these documents. This is a poll tax by another name.

#StopTheSaveAct

Contact Your MOC

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19h

Trump to repeal ruling allowing regulation of planet-heating gases

Trump to repeal ruling allowing regulation of planet-heating gases

Climate groups vow to fight rollback of 2009 finding determining CO2 and other greenhouse gases harm health In what is set to be its most audacious anti-environment move yet, the Trump administration on Thursday will roll back the mechanism allowing the government to regulate planet-heating pollution, the White House press secretary has told reporters. “President Trump will be joined by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to formalize the recession of the 2009 Obama-era endangerment finding,” Karoline Leavitt said at a press conference on Tuesday. “This will be the largest deregulatory action in American history.” Continue reading...

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 20h

If you believe in #SOLIDARITY you’ll want to hear Rivka Rivera and Frank Cappello and me discuss @Disney movie #Newsies about the 1899 newsboys’ strike.

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If you believe in #SOLIDARITY you’ll want to hear Rivka Rivera and Frank Cappello and me discuss @Disney movie #Newsies about the 1899 newsboys’ strike.

Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 20h

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Fiorello La Guardia and the Making of Modern New York

How the popular mayor and a popular front of radicals and reformers transformed New York City

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 20h

Trump says he raised tariffs on Switzerland because 'I didn't really like the way the Prime Minister talked to us'

Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 21h

If I lived in Maine, I’d def vote Graham Platner for the US Senate -I don’t but I donated - plz consider joining me

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 21h

Thirty years ago Susan Collins pledged to retire after two terms.

Today she announced she’s running for a sixth term.

Her word, as always, meant nothing.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

Susan Collins pledged to only serve two terms in the Senate.

A screenshot of a tweet from Susan Collins announcing her re-election.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Peter Navarro: "The jobs report comes out tomorrow. We have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job number should look like ... Wall Street has to adjust for the fact that we're deporting millions of illegals out of the job market."

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USMC86 @usmc86.bsky.social · 1d

Before anyone hurries off and submits their resignation...I want to see this garbage charged with perjury.

Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 1d

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for always standing up for the working class @dropkickmurphys.com. Incredible to stand up there with you tonight.

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Danny Postel @dannypostel.bsky.social · 1d

The use of unlawful imprisonment during the "war on terror" set the stage for the Trump administrations detentions and deportations today, the historian Jana K. Lipman writes for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

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From Guantanamo to Minneapolis

The use of unlawful imprisonment during the ‘war on terror’ set the stage for the US government’s detentions and deportations today

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

Republican politicians love trotting out and pretending to support veterans and the 2nd amendment. But the truth is most of them will sell both out at the drop of a hat.

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 1d

“This is the cruelest and most arrogant group of people who have ever ascended to high office in the U.S. — and their cruelty and arrogance are matched only by their incompetence…
This is the Epstein class.” @ossoff.senate.gov @ossoff.bsky.social

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We held five public campaign events this weekend.

Susan Collins held her usual number of events (zero).

Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 2d

Everything…
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'Everything Is for Sale': Trump Exploits 250th Anniversary of US Independence for Yet Another Grift | Common Dreams

Allies of the Trump administration, in partnership with the White House, are reportedly using the upcoming 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence as another opportunity...

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 2d

Success!
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Trump claims Bad Bunny’s historic Super Bowl show watched by millions was ‘affront’ to American ‘greatness’ – US politics live

Puerto Rican musician has been vocal critic of US president, who claimed performance held almost entirely in Spanish was a ‘slap in the face’

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 2d

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

We all we need.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

No one can explain to me how what I did in Iraq and Afghanistan made anyone's lives better in Sullivan, Maine.

We get dead soldiers, dead civilians, and young men and women with nightmares and drinking problems. And a Raytheon exec gets another yacht.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, it's true. The US Attorney's office in New York prepared a draft of an announcement of Epstein's death that is dated one day BEFORE Epstein died.

Nothing fishy here....

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d

Hannaford is pricing groceries higher in lower-income rural communities in Maine.

Corporate profits skyrocket while we all feel the squeeze.

Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 3d

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 3d

@infoweaver.bsky.social cherish the librarians