How close are we to the Climate brink? Pretty damned close! And how do our leaders respond? Grab as much loot as possible, implement a police state, and fortify their bunkers.

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Four major Earth system components are losing stability

01.10.2025 – Four key parts of the Earth’s climate system are destabilising, according to a new study with contributions from the Potsdam Insti...

Thousands of Californians could become homeless, as the Trump administration plans deep cuts to federal funding for permanent housing.

Jefferson Public Radio

California braces for ‘devastating’ expected cuts to federal homeless housing funds

Thousands of Californians could return to homelessness as the feds reportedly plan to disinvest from permanent housing.

#homelessness #trump #california #housing

Today in Labor History October 7, 1944: Uprising at Birkenau extermination camp (associated with Auschwitz). Jewish Sonderkommando, mostly from Greece and Hungary, attacked the SS with stones and hammers, killing three of them, and set crematorium IV on fire and threw their Oberkapo into a furnace. Sonderkommando were Jewish prisoners who were forced by the Nazis, on threat of their own deaths, to dispose of gas chamber victims). After escaping, the rebels reached Rajsko, where they hid in the granary, but the SS pursued and killed them by setting the granary on fire. By the time the rebellion at crematorium IV had been suppressed, 212 members of the Sonderkommando were still alive and 451 had been killed. #workingclass #LaborHistory #holocaust #nazis #resistance #uprising #birkenau #auschwitz #fascism #antisemetism #rebellion

Today in Labor History October 7, 1977: Environmentalist activist Eric McDavid was born. He is green anarchist, convicted of conspiring to use fire or explosives to damage corporate and government property, as a member of the Earth Liberation Front. The FBI had used Zoe Elizabeth Voss, a paid FBI informant, to infiltrate the group and act as an agent provocateur. She provided the activists with bomb-making plans, the money to buy the materials, transportation and a cabin to work in. She exploited McDavid’s attraction to her to build trust and provoke increasingly radical and provocative actions. She taught the group how to make the bombs. After spending nearly 9 years in prison, McDavid was released in 2015, after the prosecution admitted that the FBI had withheld thousands of pages of potentially exculpatory evidence, including love letters between McDavid and Voss and proof that she had been exempted from an FBI polygraph test. These same tactics have been used by the FBI and police in the U.S. since at least as far back as the 1870s, when the Pinkertons used them to disrupt and destroy the Workingmen’s Benevolent Association and the Molly Maguires in Pennsylvania, a history that I write about in my novel, “Anywhere But Schuylkill.” #workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #environmentalism #earthliberationfront #FBI #agentprovocateur #police #elf

Today in Labor History October 7, 1879: Radical labor organizer and song writer Joe Hill was born in Gavle, Sweden. Hill was an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or Wobblies). He was arrested and convicted on trumped up murder charges in Utah. He claimed innocence and the evidence against him was flimsy. However, because of his radical associations, they still convicted and executed him. President Wilson, Hellen Keller (also an IWW member) and the Swedish ambassador all asked for clemency. His famous last words to IWW co-founder Big Bill Haywood were “Don’t mourn. Organize.” Some of Hill’s most famous songs were Rebel Girl, There is Power in the Union, Mr. Block, and Casey Jones-Union Scab. Joe Hill's song "The Preacher & the Slave" first appeared in the IWW’s Little Red Song Book. The song is a parody of the hymn, “Sweet By and By,” often song by the Salvation Army (who the IWW called the Starvation Army), which would try to drown out the union’s street-corner labor organizing with their hymns. The Wobbly bard, Haywire Mac, is believed to be the first person to sing this song in public. Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Utah Phillips also covered the song. Joe Hill’s ashes were supposedly sprinkled in every state of the union, except Utah, because he had said, "I don't want to be found dead in Utah." However, it is said that the IWW still keeps a small vial of some of his remaining ashes. Watch Paul Robeson singing “I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night,” to striking Scottish miners, 1949: You can read my bio of Haywire Mac here:

Michael Dunn

The Haywire Mac Story - Michael Dunn

Biography of Harry Haywire Mac McClintock

#workingclass #LaborHistory #joehill #PreacherAndTheSlave #IWW #union #strike #anarchism #deathpenalty #RebelGirl

In Spain, activists smashed shops that support Israel and disrupted a major bike race, after reports that Israel tortured members of the Global Sumud Flotilla. #freepalestine #genocide #israel #gaza #spain

They're coming for me and they're coming for you. Trump's recent NPSM-7 directive: anyone who opposes him is now a terrorist.

Trump's NPSM-7 Memo Could Enable Crackdown on Opposition

Donald Trump is upping his rhetoric about cracking down on anyone who opposes him, and his new NPSM-7 memo is a terrifying look at how he could do it.

#fascism #antifascism #trump #terrorism