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NYC. Politics, boxing, dachshunds.
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Wealthy women began joining workers on the picket lines and bailing the arrested women out of jail. Among them were future Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. Even J.P. Morgan's daughter came out, no doubt to the disgust of America's chief capitalist swine.
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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At St James’ Church at Cooling in Kent are still to be seen the 13 children’s graves surrounding that of their parents that inspired Dickens to write the opening chapter of Great Expectations.

I guess even the folk memory of the huge mortality of childbirth and early life is now disappearing.
November 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Excellent at saying what he wants to say, but unsurpassed at never saying what he does not want to say.
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM