Michael Dunn (@michaeldunnauthor) — Bluesky Profile

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Martha Kelly @MarthaKelly3 writes

Under capitalism, it's normal to let children go hungry, let banks force people out of their homes, let sick people die for lack of access to healthcare. But the idea that billionaires could just be less rich - not poor, not struggling, just less rich, is considered insane.

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M102 howitzers of 1st Bn 320th FA, 82D Abn Div firing during battle. By TSGT M. J. CREEN - DoDMedia, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2060797

Today in #LaborHistory 3/13/1979: New Jewel movement overthrew #Grenada. Supported anti-racism worldwide. Opposed #Apartheid. Gave #EqualPay for #women, paid maternity, free #PublicHealth. 1983 US invaded paved way for future interventions in Panama, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria.

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Today in #LaborHistory 3/13/1968: Student demonstrations & #strike in Warsaw against communist regime led to #riots after #Soviet withdrawal of diplomatic relations with #Israel in protest of 1967 war led to antisemitic purges.

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Demonstration in Berlin against the putsch. The caption reads: "A quarter million participants" By Original photograph uncredited. Scan by Ning-ning. - Original silver gelatine print, postcard-sized, no attribution., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4125364

Today in #LaborHistory 3/13/1920: Right-wing #KappPutsch in #Germany. Govt fled, workers launched #GeneralStrike, ending right-wing assault on the republic. Led to Ruhr #Uprising, #communism, until right-wing Freikorps to suppressed it, killing >1,000 workers.

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The scene of the assassination immediately after the explosion of the first bomb. Horses rearing back. Smoke spewing from the back of the carriage. Corpses on the street. Government buildings in the background. By Anonymous Russian painter (1670s-1917)Public domain image (according to PD-RusEmpire) - http://ne-nai.livejournal.com/59587.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36437536

Today in #LaborHistory 3/13/1881: Narodnaya Volya (People's Will) assassinated Czar Alexander II of #Russia by bombing his carriage. #Revolution. #Socialism.

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Origin of the Flag of Germany: Cheering revolutionaries in Berlin, on March 19, 1848. By Unknown author - im Original: "Erinnerung an den Befreiungskampf in der verhängnisvollen Nacht 18.-19. März 1848", Kreidelithographie, koloriert, gedruckt im Verlag Winckelmann, Eigenth. v. C. Glück, Berlin, Signatur rechts unten nicht lesbar, wohl Blatt II, post-1848 und zeitgenössisch (genaues Datum unbekannt), gescannt von User:APPER, siehe https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/YSA74GHCTOXUCF2V3JY6ZQ2CC3TKLHP2, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=364558

Today in #LaborHistory 3/13/1848: #German #Revolution began. #Marx, Engels & #Bakunin participated. Violent repression by aristocracy. Many fled to US. Joined anti- #slavery groups like Wide Awakes.

More on The Wide Awakes: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/27/t...

#communism #anarchism #abolition

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1 day ago

It took the U.S. 10 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

But it only took them 1 week in Iran to replace Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei.

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1 day ago

Transness is not an ideology or a belief
to be challenged or debated - you can
not disagree with someone's fundamental
right to exist. Trans people have always
existed, will continue to exist, and
belong everywhere. But as attacks on
trans folks and their rights continue on
both a national and global level, it is
more important than ever that Cis allies
are unapologetically loud and continue to
show up, online, in-person, and
wherever to disrupt the false idea that
trans people are a threat to anyone.
We need your continued support today,
tomorrow, and every day after friends!

Courtney Anderson

And the attacks continue: 4th Circuit Court ruled Tues that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by banning gender affirming care. And continued transphobia by presumptive Dem frontrunner for POTUS Gavin Newsom.

www.advocate.com/news/court-b...

www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

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1 day ago

Savvy@sleepisocialist writes:

So many zoomers are anti-capitalist
because we were born into a state
of capitalist decay. We don't
remember the "good old days" where
an average job could pay for rent
and school - most of us have only
known debt, foreclosures, and
multiple "once in a lifetime"
economic crashes

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Graffiti on a pipe that reads:

Save the bees
Plant more trees
Clean our seas
Punch Nazis

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2 days ago

If a nuclear weapon is used against Iran it is very, very dangerous

There are about 12,500 nuclear weapons owned by at least 9 countries.

Once they are used it is very likely someone else will use one too.

It's not a case of you can use them and nothing happens.

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2 days ago

A vassal?

More like a prostitute, I kept expecting Merz to get on his knees when he was next to Trump in the Oval Office.

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A re-enactment of the Santa Cruz massacre (in East Timor), November 1998, with people laying on the ground to portray those killed by the government. By Mark Rhomberg/ETAN - http://etan.org/etanphoto/schmid/die-in.jpg, Attribution, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1430019

Today in #LaborHistory 3/12/1967: #Suharto took power from Sukarno in #Indonesia. #Dictator for 31 yrs. Before that, led 1965-1966 #genocide against #communism, murdering 1-3 million, mostly civilians. Supported by US & UK. Also, 1974 #EastTimor genocide.

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Massachusetts militiamen with fixed bayonets surround a group of strikers. Several of the strikers are carrying American flags. By http://womhist.binghamton.edu/teacher/DBQlaw2.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=131378

Today in #LaborHistory 3/12/1912: #IWW #union won #BreadAndRoses #strike Lawrence, MA. Organized workers in groups based on which of the 22 dif languages the spoke. Led by #BigBillHaywood & #ElizabethGurleyFlynn. #Police killed 3 workers were killed by police during the strike. 300 arrested.

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2 days ago

The people who commit war crimes are, indeed, the leaders of the U.S. and Israel, as well as numerous other nations.

And they never do get punished, unless they happen to lose a war again the U.S. and Europe...Or get executed by their own citizens, like Mussolini and Ceaușescu.

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unless you happen to be the leader of a nation defeated in war

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Red stop sign with the following white lettering on it: Stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be necessary, and start shaming the rich for profiteering off of things that are essential.

Originally posted by BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social

Better yet, abolish the class system.
Yeet the rich!

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2 days ago

Black and white sketch of Clément Duval, with a bushy mustache.

Today in #LaborHistory 3/11/1850: Clément Duval was born. Individualist #anarchism. Influenced #BonnotGang. Paul Albert said: "The story of Clement Duval was lifted and, shorn of all politics, turned into the bestseller #Papillon."
#workingclass #prison #novel #fiction #writer #author #books

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Photograph of a young Mollie Steimer, not smiling, with short, dark hair.

Today in #LaborHistory 3/11/1919: Ukrainian Jewish anarchist Mollie Steimer arrested in NYC for #riot & #sedition. Deported to #Soviet #Russia, where she fought for rights of anarchist political prisoners. Deported again, this time to western Europe. Had to flee #Nazis.
#anarchism #ukraine #prison

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3 days ago

ultraviolet-techno-ecology wrote:

Suicide rates are absolutely going to continue to climb
in the USA as long as our concept of “Mental Health”
remains separated from material conditions.
Antidepressants can't cure poverty and alienation.
They can't cure the crushing pressure that comes with
watching climate changing in real time, but feeling
powerless because the government is too corrupt to
care. They can't cure the many chronic physical health
conditions people go without treatment for because the
US physical health system is bullshit.

Always turning toward psychiatry for an answer is a
perfect example of American style individualism killing
people, because the problem is always said to exist in
the individual's brain chemicals, and society is always
innocent.

As the famous quote goes

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a
profoundly sick society.”

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@billieiswriting.bsky.social

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NO: We should have daylight when we go to work in the morning NO: We should have daylight when we come home from work YES: We shouldn't have to work so many hours that we have to ration The Sun

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Tijuana No & Kid Frost- "Stolen at Gunpoint" by Leonardo Bondani YouTube video by Leonardo Bondani

Today in #LaborHistory 3/10/1848: #Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Ended Mexican–American War. Ceded California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico & Colorado to the U.S. >1,733 U.S. soldiers & >5,000 Mexican soldiers & 25,000 Mexican civilians from disease and accidents
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jlO...

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Housing 4 All is Hot @ahouse4all writes:

Blaming the homelessness crisis solely
on mental health and drug abuse
means that politicians don't have to
address landlords and developer
profits.

They're really try to blame
homelessness on "personal failure"
instead of these $3000 a month rents
that no one can afford.

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5 days ago

Why the USA can't afford anything.

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