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Gregg Andrews

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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).

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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...

24.07.2025 16:31 — 👍 76    🔁 36    💬 9    📌 7

Superb analysis.

25.07.2025 11:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy Juneteenth!

19.06.2025 18:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thugs

12.06.2025 23:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts." ISAIAH 3:15, King James Version.

12.06.2025 21:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sending the Marines to shut this down is 2025's Footloose remake.

09.06.2025 22:39 — 👍 2529    🔁 598    💬 55    📌 16

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.

05.06.2025 23:45 — 👍 23631    🔁 5037    💬 635    📌 252

🎉🎉🎉

29.05.2025 12:52 — 👍 7899    🔁 2450    💬 197    📌 117

"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"

25.05.2025 12:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump's nasty war on working-class and poor people threatens to bring back the days of workhouse horrors.

24.05.2025 16:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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