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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 10h ago

#OtD 5 Aug 1981 11,345 federal air traffic controllers were fired by US President Reagan for refusing his order to return to work after 2 days of strike action. Military air traffic controllers were used as scabs until new hires could be trained stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1049...

Approximately 350,000 Haitians and Syrians who have remade their lives in the U.S. are now at a crossroads. Their work permits and legal status have expired, yet their home countries haven't recovered from the crises that drove them to seek Temporary Protected Status. https://to.pbs.org/4hckHal

They lost their work permits and their legal status. Returning to Haiti is still ‘unimaginable’

Approximately 350,000 Haitians and Syrians who have remade their lives in the United States are now at a crossroads. Their work permits and legal status have expired, yet their home countries haven’t ...

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This man is quietly behind the scenes the most brutal of right-wing fanatics dismantling US democracy, environmental oversight, labor regulations, etc.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2w ago

Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.” (Published Oct. 2025 w/ @newyorker.com)

My book copies have arrived!

Congratulations to ECU-endorsed Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet on officially securing the Democratic nomination for #MI08. In Congress, she’s always stood by her constituents’ interests and worked to lower costs. We look forward to supporting her reelection in November.

The extension of the National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C. until January 2029 will cost roughly $1.4 billion, according to a Defense Department estimate provided to Congress. https://to.pbs.org/4pVAKf1

National Guard deployment to Washington through 2029 will cost roughly $1.4 billion, estimate shows

The cost estimate is for fiscal years 2027-2029 and came in response to questions from Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

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Massive oil profits $$$: - Exxon Mobil (Spring, TX) reported that its second quarter profits doubled to $14.53 billion; $116.02 billion in revenue, up 42% - Chevron (Houston TX) nearly quadrupled its profits to $12.07 billion and revenue jumped 56% to $70.06 billion Sickening and infuriating

Major oil companies reap massive profits as U.S. and Iran fighting drives energy prices higher

American oil and gas giants raked in massive spring profits while fighting between Iran and the U.S. impeded petroleum shipments and consumers around the world paid more for fuel and confronted shorta...

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ICE agents are untrained, unqualified, and killing people on the streets. Oversight Dems will investigate every failure that led to these tragedies and hold agents and their leadership accountable.

The massive #xAI data center behind Grok, the #AI for X, produces more climate pollution than all but one of TVA's #coal power plants. The NAACP, represented by @selc.bsky.social & @earthjustice.org, is suing.

This data center rivals TVA’s largest coal plant for climate pollution

Power plants, an oil refinery and a chemical plant are among Tennessee’s top climate polluters. If Elon Musk’s sprawling xAI data center campus in Memphis

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Out of touch elite govt officials, do not even know the statistics so they might keep their mouth closed. Too busy comparing themselves to Musk and Zuckerberg. Tax billionaires out of existence! Good for so many reasons!!! #taxtherich

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo: "I don't get paid very much" (His salary is $170,000, over twice the median income in his state.)

Someone who used to teach social studies 9-12 and watched requiremts for civics, Amer govt, history decline as state testing focused on reading excerpts, math, science: increase requiremts in K-12. Don't need more science. Need people who understand how to legislate, negotiate in democratic govts.

Journal of Democracy@jodemocracy.bsky.social · 5d ago

Public-opinion surveys tell us that global support for democracy is as widespread as ever. Yet if democracy is so popular, why have democratic institutions around the world become so fragile?

If the US federal govt dealt with reality, it would be shifting the tens of millions $$ in oil subsidies to training for these jobs planning/designing/building/maintaining charge stations. Decent jobs in a new energy economy moving off fossil fuels. #labor #workingclass

NRDC@nrdc.org · 5d ago

As we electrify the economy, every community needs access to affordable, accessible electric vehicle charging. We're proud to help launch the Energize Coalition and work with partners to expand charging infrastructure across the country.

A new episode of Solidarity Breakfast goes on-air on @3crmelbourne.bsky.social 855 AM at 7:30 AM Eastern Australia Time in #Melbourne. Listen live at www.3cr.org.au/ #LaborRadioPod

China’s factory activity unexpectedly contracted for the first time since February as Beijing faces challenges kickstarting its slowing economy. www.semafor.com/article/07/3...

China’s factory output contracts unexpectedly

The results underscore the challenge facing Beijing as it seeks to kickstart a slowing economy.

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Mitch McConnell's vanishing is a labor issue. These Republicans in Congress have demanded, enacted, and enforced severe work requirements + health insurance limitations. But yet they have unlimited medical leave and public health insurance coverage for life. #labor #workingclass @lawcha.bsky.social

Pivot Podcast@pivotpod.bsky.social · 5d ago

“Why does Mitch McConnell get to be quiet?” @karaswisher.bsky.social and @profgalloway.com question why ordinary Americans are expected to keep working through health issues while elected officials can keep serious health issues private.

Immigration agents' abuses are rampant, but ACLU state affiliates across the country are coordinating an all-out effort to hold them accountable.

Make pension plans work for them in Trump era. Join PensionDefenders and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for this half-day event. Hear from public and Taft-Hartley pension trustees, along with capital stewardship professionals, in presentations and interactive discussions. @georgetownkilwp.bsky.social

International Workers Order (IWO), founded during Great Depression to provide life, burial/health insurance to members (200,000 at height). Organization had a very wide agenda that also directly combated racism and antisemitism, championed progressive causes. #laborhistory #workingclass

Elissa Sampson and Robert M. Zecker on their new book, From Popular Front to Cold War | LAWCHA

Ian Rocksborough-Smith interviewed Elissa Sampson and Robert M. Zecker about their recent edited volume, From Popular Front to Cold War: The Interracial

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The right had millions of $$ but also careful organizing to work at the local and state level with these policy plans, from ALEC to Rufo to Heritage. Anti-democratic and for the elite.

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · last wk.

Rufo was "supplying policy blueprints and social-media firepower for an ambitious conservative overhaul. In return, FL became Rufo’s proving ground, elevating the up-and-coming activist into one of the movement’s most influential cheerleaders." www.chronicle.com/article/flor...

***IEHS Digital History Grants*** The IEHS invites submissions for 2 awards, up to $2,000 each, to support graduate students and early-career scholars seeking to develop or engage with historical digital scholarship connected to migration history and related fields. iehs.org/awards/seed_...

Digital History Seed Grants

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@splitrockreview.bsky.social is accepting submissions through August 1! Send poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, graphic narrative, hybrid work, and visual art that explores “place, environment, and the complex relationship between humans and the natural world.” www.clmp.org/members/open...

Obama Center private model $30 admiss vs. different Hyde Park, where FDR commissioned library to house papers, donated to NARA for public. Past considered private property; FDR precedent codified 14 years later w Presidential Libraries Act of 1955 (ignored by Obama, challenged by Trump) @oah.org

There Goes the Neighborhood

The Obama library will displace the black working class on Chicago’s South Side, completing the work the University of Chicago started sixty years ago.

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Without a permanent archivist, the National Historical Publications Records Commission has no chair to organize its semiannual meetings that determine which grants will be made to projects throughout the nation that preserve vital records @oah.org @aaup.org @lawcha.bsky.social

Who Will Tell America’s 250-Year Story?

BY EILEEN BORIS AND KRISTIN AHLBERG In an interview with journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Donald Trump claimed to be a great man, on par with world-shattering figures like Mao, Napole…

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"K-Labor Chamber" for platform workers/freelancers. "a self-help group for nonstandard workers and, for many who cannot organize a union, a welfare delivery system. It will also take on roles such as small loans and processing severance pay applications" #labor

LabourStart@labourstart.bsky.social · 2w ago

SOUTH KOREA: Labor minister urges new social system for AI era, outlines K-Labor Chamber biz.chosun.com/en/en-policy...

Greenbrier County, West Virginia. I can’t believe Law and Order didn’t pick this one up.

Steph Lundberg@smlundberg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Found this historical marker 10 years ago when we had car trouble during a cross-country move. Fun to read every time I come across it.

How did the epistolary friendship between a French socialist and an Irish feminist generate some of the most advanced ideas about gender and human emancipation in mid-nineteenth-century Europe? Ophélie Siméon explores the radical politics of Anna Wheeler and Charles Fourier.

Radical Friendship and Early Feminism: Anna Doyle Wheeler and Charles Fourier

Ophélie Siméon dives into the letters exchanged between nineteenth-century radical thinkers, Anna Wheeler and Charles Fourier.

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"Whatever they want to get rid of, whether it’s human crap or garbage, this is where it gets dumped.” Tremont, Pennsylvania, a tiny town in a region once ruled by coal barons, he worked a summer job stretching tarps over a pit in the countryside, preparing it to be filled with garbage. #workingclass

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2w ago

“We do deserve better than a plethora of data centers, detention centers, warehouses, biosolids processing plants, massive landfills.” How the threat of an ICE detention center galvanized a Trump-country coal town.

WA State farm workers: The weather is heating up. We want to remind you that you have rights. If temps hit 90°, the law guarantees you a 10-min break every 2 hours. If temps hit 100° you must receive a 15-min paid break every hour. Any violations? Call WA LNI at 1-800-423-7233 #CALOR

$5000  Black Appalachian Storytellers Fellowships Mid Atlantic Arts w National Association of Black Storytellers (NABS) and South Arts. Honors and promotes understanding of Black Appalachian storytelling. Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) Kentucky, N Carolina, Ohio, Tenn, West Virginia, Virginia