Ret. Labor Hist Prof in Texas; river rat; Hannibal MO roots; singer-songwriter; author of 7 books, including Hard Times in an American Workhouse, 1853-1920 (LSU Press 2024) and Shantyboats and Roustabouts: The River Poor of St. Louis, 1875-1930 (2023).
Dr. Tom Alter is at the forefront of resistance to the far right's attacks on universities. Please help support if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fr...
Dr. Tom Alter is at the forefront of resistance to the far right's attacks on universities. Please help support if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fr...
Epstein didn’t build the system—he refined it. The modeling industry was the real pipeline: visas gamed, girls exploited, silence enforced. Trump’s agency played its part. This wasn’t a scandal. It was infrastructure. And it didn’t collapse. It rebranded. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1CSK...
July 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Epstein didn’t build the system—he refined it. The modeling industry was the real pipeline: visas gamed, girls exploited, silence enforced. Trump’s agency played its part. This wasn’t a scandal. It was infrastructure. And it didn’t collapse. It rebranded. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1CSK...
That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists — and that they both individually wield such massive power — is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.
June 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists — and that they both individually wield such massive power — is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.
"I was aware that many men who have accumulated more millions of money than they can ever use have shown a rabid hunger for more, and have not scrupled to cheat the ignorant and the helpless out of their poor servings in order to partially appease that appetite."--Mark Twain, "The Damned Human Race"
May 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
"I was aware that many men who have accumulated more millions of money than they can ever use have shown a rabid hunger for more, and have not scrupled to cheat the ignorant and the helpless out of their poor servings in order to partially appease that appetite."--Mark Twain, "The Damned Human Race"