And beat up, imprison, fire, kick out of school, and call terrorist anyone who suggests otherwise! image
At least 15 people have died in ICE custody since President Trump took office. Hundreds are still missing. Mostly plucked from the streets, their homes, workplaces, immigration courts, by masked armed thugs, often without warrants. Overwhelming majority of those arrested had committed no felonies. Many were U.S. citizens with the legal right to be here. This is fascism. And Trump is ensuring that his buddies in the private prison system are profiting handsomely from it. https://www.npr.org/2025/09/23/nx-s1-5549411/ossoff-warnock-noem-immigration-detention-death #trump #ice #immigration #prison #concentrationcamps
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Yes, AI is taking jobs and making billionaires richer, while doing nothing to improve the material well being of the working class. And yes, AI is being used by militaries to slaughter civilians in the name of profits. But very little talk of the vast amounts of energy and water required to power it, much of which is not nuclear, but petroleum-based and accelerating the climate crisis. image
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This week in Labor History September 20-27, 1950: The U.S. Navy sprayed Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria over the San Francisco Bay Area in an illegal biological weapons test. Two weeks later, 11 residents checked into Stanford Hospital with very rare and serious urinary tract bacterial infections. One of them died. There was also a spike in pneumonia cases and heart valve infections in San Francisco. The military never alerted local authorities about the test. There were numerous other similar attacks in Dorset, England, New York, Panama City, Key West, Minnesota, and Washington, D.C.’s national airport and Greyhound bus terminal. #workingclass #LaborHistory #biologicalweapons #wmd #warcrimes
Today in Labor History September 26, 2014: A mass kidnapping in Iguala, Mexico. 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College were abducted and disappeared, most likely by local police, federal police and Mexican Army, possibly in collusion with the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel, as well. However, The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights conducted a 6-month investigation and concluded that the government’s story that the drug cartel mistook them for a rival gang and then murdered them and dumped their bodies in a garbage dump was scientifically impossible. The students had been on their way to the annual commemoration of the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre, in Mexico City. The mass kidnapping caused continued international protests and social unrest, leading to the resignation of Guerrero Governor Ángel Aguirre Rivero. Iguala Mayor José Luis Abarca Velázquez was accused of masterminding the abduction, but was never put on trial. However, a month later, he was arrested for the murder of activist Arturo Hernández Cardona. #workingclass #LaborHistory #massacre #iguala #mexico #students #teachers #Tlatelolco #police #policebrutality #policemurder #iguala image
Today in Labor History September 26, 1874: Sociologist and photographer Lewis Hine was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. In 1908, he became the photographer for the National Child Labor Committee and spent the next decade documenting exploited child labor to help the organization’s lobbying efforts to end child labor in American industry. The book cover for my novel, Anywhere But Schuylkill, is based on a Hine photograph. You can get a copy of Anywhere But Schuylkill from any of these indie retailers: https://www.thehistoricalfictioncompany.com/product-page/anywhere-but-schuylkill-by-michael-dunn Or send me $25 via Venmo (@Michael-Dunn-565) and your mailing address, and I will send you a signed copy! #workingclass #LaborHistory #lewishine #children #childlabor #photography #exploitation #novel #historicalfiction #AnywhereButSchuylkill #author #writer #books [@bookstadon]( ) image
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