YouTube video by Joe Glazer - Topic Dump the Bosses Off Your Back

Happy Labor Day!

Here's Joe Glazer's 1977 Smithsonian recording of the IWW classic, "Dump the Bosses Off Your Back."

"All the agonies you suffer,
You can end with one good whack.
Stiffen up, you ornery duffer,
And dump the bosses off your back."

One Big Union! 🗃️

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And it’s available for just 50 bucks at Trump Store dot com.

Hegseth shared attack plans in Signal chat including wife, brother, personal lawyer: NYT Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth allegedly shared attack plans in a Signal chat including his wife, brother and personal lawyer, The New York Times reported Sunday, citing four people familiar with t…

Pete Hegseth shared attack plans in Signal chat including wife, brother, personal lawyer. Sounds like he was anxious to show off what a big shot he had become 🤔
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It also should be obvious that people who hate unions and are destroying the NLRB are not going to bring back an appealing kind of manufacturing job, so reinvigorating that sector rather than just HAVING that sector can't be one of their goals

I hope everyone who is upset about "cancel culture" will find it similarly alarming that companies are too terrified of government retaliation to say anything critical about a policy that's seriously harming them. Seems maybe also bad?

Opinion | The manufactured nostalgia of Trump’s tariffs Those who credit manufacturing jobs for a glorious past America mistake correlation for causation.

if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Trump Weighs Bombing Mexico—Because Everything Else Is Going So Well Donald Trump is considering drone strikes on one of our closest trade partners.

JFC. This would be a violation of international law and an act of war. 👀 WHEN is enough from this lawless man.

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Trump Administration Will Review Billions in Funding for Harvard The move follows the cancellation of roughly $400 million in funding for Columbia, and suspension of $175 million for the University of Pennsylvania.

Hell of a closer.

"Although much of the administration’s focus has been on what it sees as endemic antisemitism on American campuses, it also paused about $175 million in funding for the University of Pennsylvania because it had allowed a transgender woman onto its women’s swim team in 2022."

God, the Soviets wanted that shut for ages, and now...hold on a minute...

Trump honored a cancer survivor. The boy's doctors now face his budget cuts. President Donald Trump honored a child cancer survivor during his joint address to Congress amid proposing vast cuts to medical research.

"A renowned medical school whose faculty helped treat a young cancer survivor honored this week by President Donald Trump is facing potentially devastating funding cuts because of the White House."

BREAKING: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration laid off 4% of its staff as part of a government-wide trimming of probationary employees, per Reuters.

The agency has pending investigations into Tesla, $TSLA, per Reuters.

"they're drinking vodka straight out of the bottle tonight..."

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Happy pub day to @katherinestewart.bsky.social's terrific - and very timely - new book!

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Mediaeval Almond Milk Over recent years, as we have become more aware of people’s food intolerances and allergies there has been a great rise in the amount of plant-based milks consumed in the western world. We’ve also …

You might think almond milk is a new fangled foodstuff, but it was very much enjoyed throughout the Middle Ages during fasting times (by the very wealthy, it has to be said).

Here's my recipe for medieval-style almond milk: britishfoodhistory.com/2019/04/29/m...

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True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow.

The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?"

When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.

After Censorship, Santa Rosa Students Write Their Own Play — and Take the Gold | KQED A state festival awarded top honors to ‘REDACTED,’ which ruthlessly lampooned district officials.

School play gets canceled for "inappropriate content".

In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival.

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A friend from the VA just sent this and asked me to share. PMDB is Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior in the workplace. THIS is the real war against women: being forced to say there are only 2 genders but not being allowed to mention 96% of violence is perpetrated by men.

There is Edward Kelley, who was pardoned for assaulting police at the U.S. Capitol, but who is now fighting another case. In November, a jury convicted him of conspiring to murder the Federal Bureau of Investigation agents who investigated his Jan. 6 participation, with evidence showing he had a “kill list” of targets. Kelley now argues that conviction should be tossed out, too. The Tennessee man believes that President Trump’s blanket pardon covering “offenses related to events that occurred at or near” the Capitol on Jan. 6 extends beyond that day. Other defendants are similarly arguing they should be absolved of other alleged crimes, such as illegal gun possession and child pornography, discovered during Jan. 6 investigations. At least one defendant has died in a post-pardon altercation with police.

Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump say it should absolve their child-porn charges, too www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

No rapist left behind

A new foreign policy for Europe "Give Russia a free hand on the Continent."

JD Vance is highly influenced by Curtis Yarvin...
Here is Yarvin's view of the future of Europe

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STEEL MILLS CLOSED; NEW TARIFF BLAMED --The York Dispatch, 18 Nov 1913

1913

The DOGE account on Xitter tweets: "Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month which are stored in manila envelops and cardboard boxes."

Musk portrays the most innocuous government actions as evil and/or wasteful. As every lawyer and banker knows, there is absolutely nothing unusual about using an Iron Mountain repository to stop paper records. Also, LOL at "mine workers."

The SAVE Act makes it difficult, if not impossible, for some women to vote

We are not a serious country.

A Brief History of Kids Today Are Too Rude

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Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including:

• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month

U.S. government officials privately warn Musk’s blitz appears illegal The billionaire’s DOGE team has launched an all-out assault on federal agencies, triggering numerous legal objections.

This @washingtonpost.com story is so important that I'm gifting it. These people appear to be operating totally illegally and outside the Constitution -- and they know it. wapo.st/40LVERn