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#OtD 3 Aug 2019 the El Paso mass shooting took place when an anti-immigrant gunman murdered 22 people and injured dozens more at a Walmart store in the predominantly Latine city, later telling police he wanted to kill as many "Mexicans" as possible.
August 3, 2025 at 10:10 AM
#OtD 3 Aug 2019 the El Paso mass shooting took place when an anti-immigrant gunman murdered 22 people and injured dozens more at a Walmart store in the predominantly Latine city, later telling police he wanted to kill as many "Mexicans" as possible.
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Timeline cleanse: Insta video of Allen Dershowitz being told by Martha's Vineyard police to stop harassing vendors or be charged with trespassing after three different sellers refused him service. 1/3
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August 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Timeline cleanse: Insta video of Allen Dershowitz being told by Martha's Vineyard police to stop harassing vendors or be charged with trespassing after three different sellers refused him service. 1/3
www.instagram.com/reel/DMvVG1S...
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#OtD 2 Aug 1924 James Baldwin, gay African-American author and social critic was born. During the civil rights movement he played an active role in fighting racism, encouraging civil disobedience and taking part in demonstrations stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9166...
August 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
#OtD 2 Aug 1924 James Baldwin, gay African-American author and social critic was born. During the civil rights movement he played an active role in fighting racism, encouraging civil disobedience and taking part in demonstrations stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9166...
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#OtD 2 Aug 1944 4000 Roma people in Auschwitz resisted being taken to the gas chambers. They armed themselves with sticks and crowbars, and barricaded the doors, women in particular fighting the SS with hands and nails. They were overcome and murdered stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9169...
August 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
#OtD 2 Aug 1944 4000 Roma people in Auschwitz resisted being taken to the gas chambers. They armed themselves with sticks and crowbars, and barricaded the doors, women in particular fighting the SS with hands and nails. They were overcome and murdered stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9169...
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“Both of them.”
August 2, 2025 at 4:33 AM
“Both of them.”
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i think the correct way to think about the lonely boy question is not "how do we reach out to incels?" but "how do we make sure that a teenage boy looking for romantic advice isn't flooded with right-wing propaganda?"
August 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
i think the correct way to think about the lonely boy question is not "how do we reach out to incels?" but "how do we make sure that a teenage boy looking for romantic advice isn't flooded with right-wing propaganda?"
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end the male lonliness epidemic with this one weird trick!
August 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
end the male lonliness epidemic with this one weird trick!
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#OtD 1 Aug 1917 Frank Little, a biracial white and Cherokee organiser for the @IWW was brutally murdered during a miners' strike in Butte, Montana. He was kidnapped from his boarding house, tied to the back of a car and dragged to death workingclasshistory.com/2018/05/23/w...
August 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
#OtD 1 Aug 1917 Frank Little, a biracial white and Cherokee organiser for the @IWW was brutally murdered during a miners' strike in Butte, Montana. He was kidnapped from his boarding house, tied to the back of a car and dragged to death workingclasshistory.com/2018/05/23/w...
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Wilbert Awdry, who created Thomas the Tank Engine, disliked change, venerated order, and craved the administration of punishment.
The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends”
Wilbert Awdry, who created Thomas the Tank Engine, disliked change, venerated order, and craved the administration of punishment.
www.newyorker.com
August 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Wilbert Awdry, who created Thomas the Tank Engine, disliked change, venerated order, and craved the administration of punishment.
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Did you know we have SO MANY books listed on our website for $2.00 or less? Unlike other websites *cough cough* rhymes with Glamazon *cough* *cough*, our bargain books are NOT falling apart. Most of them are in G condition and will have some flaws, but nothing too serious -- and some are even VG.
August 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Did you know we have SO MANY books listed on our website for $2.00 or less? Unlike other websites *cough cough* rhymes with Glamazon *cough* *cough*, our bargain books are NOT falling apart. Most of them are in G condition and will have some flaws, but nothing too serious -- and some are even VG.
For some reason, the thing that has me down is the news about the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I mean, today, anyway. I’m imagining Studs Terkel dusting off a notepad and putting his shoes on, to go back and do all this shit all over again.
August 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
For some reason, the thing that has me down is the news about the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I mean, today, anyway. I’m imagining Studs Terkel dusting off a notepad and putting his shoes on, to go back and do all this shit all over again.
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1/ Ever received a random text or DM from a stranger looking to befriend you?
Here's how a simple message could be a small piece of a global fraud machine that exploits some of the world's largest banks. THREAD 🧵
Here's how a simple message could be a small piece of a global fraud machine that exploits some of the world's largest banks. THREAD 🧵
July 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
1/ Ever received a random text or DM from a stranger looking to befriend you?
Here's how a simple message could be a small piece of a global fraud machine that exploits some of the world's largest banks. THREAD 🧵
Here's how a simple message could be a small piece of a global fraud machine that exploits some of the world's largest banks. THREAD 🧵
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Zohran Mamdani, who recently cross-endorsed with Lander, called for the comptroller’s immediate release. “This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice,” said Mamdani.
Federal agents handcuff and detain New York City mayoral candidate
Brad Lander was taken into custody at an immigration court in Lower Manhattan.
www.motherjones.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Zohran Mamdani, who recently cross-endorsed with Lander, called for the comptroller’s immediate release. “This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice,” said Mamdani.
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THEM: how can you joke about Kristi Noem being hospitalized for having an allergic reaction
ME: easily
ME: easily
June 18, 2025 at 2:48 AM
THEM: how can you joke about Kristi Noem being hospitalized for having an allergic reaction
ME: easily
ME: easily
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Can’t wait to read this!
Happy pub day to @greenwell.bsky.social and her important and fascinating book bookshop.org/p/books/bad-...
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
bookshop.org
June 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Can’t wait to read this!
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Movies now relentlessly signpost their meaning and intent. “Artists and audiences sometimes defend this legibility as democratic, a way to reach everyone,” Namwali Serpell writes. “It is, in fact, condescending.”
The New Literalism Plaguing Today’s Biggest Movies
Buzzy films from “Anora” to “The Substance” are undone by a relentless signposting of meaning and intent.
www.newyorker.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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If you missed the northern lights, here's your chance: This time-lapse video shows how streaks of colorful light painted the night sky across parts of the U.S. as a geomagnetic storm made the aurora borealis visible. trib.al/uQhTWXE
June 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
If you missed the northern lights, here's your chance: This time-lapse video shows how streaks of colorful light painted the night sky across parts of the U.S. as a geomagnetic storm made the aurora borealis visible. trib.al/uQhTWXE
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San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat
June 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat
I didn’t know she had a new story! Finally, some good news.
“Early one morning, Jake Weir went to town to see about a mixture of grains for his horses. When he returned to his farm and went into the house, he saw a stranger sitting at his table.” Read a short story by Louise Erdrich.
“Love of My Days,” by Louise Erdrich
She knew who the man was, knew a bullet furrow when she saw one.
www.newyorker.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I didn’t know she had a new story! Finally, some good news.
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#OtD 26 May 1970 Black auto worker Gary Thompson was killed at the Eldon Chrysler plant in Detroit due to inadequate safety. Workers went on wildcat strike the next day, partly organised by the League of Revolutionary Black Workers workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e61-...
May 26, 2025 at 6:55 AM
#OtD 26 May 1970 Black auto worker Gary Thompson was killed at the Eldon Chrysler plant in Detroit due to inadequate safety. Workers went on wildcat strike the next day, partly organised by the League of Revolutionary Black Workers workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e61-...
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Somebody somewhere
Needs flowers tonight
Needs flowers tonight
May 5, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Somebody somewhere
Needs flowers tonight
Needs flowers tonight
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JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
May 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
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#OtD 5 May 2024 the Israeli govt raided news organisation Al Jazeera and ordered them to shut down amidst a brutal invasion of Gaza. Israeli forces had killed dozens of journalists in what the CPJ called “the deadliest period for journalists". More: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1275...
May 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
#OtD 5 May 2024 the Israeli govt raided news organisation Al Jazeera and ordered them to shut down amidst a brutal invasion of Gaza. Israeli forces had killed dozens of journalists in what the CPJ called “the deadliest period for journalists". More: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1275...
