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Working Class Historical Fiction from the not so gilded age. Labor History. Social justice. An injury to one is an injury to all! https://michaeldunnauthor.com https://www.historiumpress.com/michael-dunn

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · Nov 24

ANYWHERE BUT SCHUYLKILL
Working-Class Historical Fiction

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#workingclass #fiction #novel #author #writer #historicalfiction #books #strike #union

Image of a gallows headframe, above a mine, with a powder blue sky, with clouds, in the background. Caption reads: That damned headframe always gave Mike the shakes. It looked like a giant wooden gallows towering over the mineshaft, only eviler, with its cables and hoist, and the illusion of security. A gallows, at least, was honest. With a gallows, you knew exactly when you would die.

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 11h

It's an excuse to go after the left and those who'd resist and fight fascism

Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 14h

www.eqfl.org/every-anti-l...

#lgbtq #homophobia #transphobia #florida #resistance #antifascism

EQUALITY FLORIDA ACTION, INC writes:

BREAKING: Every Anti-LGBTQ Bill Defeated in Florida’s 2025 Legislative Session

Grassroots coalition delivers a stunning blow to extremism — again

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 15h

SOLIDARITY!

MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 16h

Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 15h

Imagine being terrified of the most vulnerable demographics in society and then calling yourself an alpha.

Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 15h

ruler of Seattle @ThoughtSlime writes:

People who become right wing because they get annoyed by leftists are weak willed, most leftists are annoyed by leftists every single day.

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 15h

Photo of ICE agents, armed, in tactical vests, masked, in a wedge formation. Reads:

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 15h

Today in #LaborHistory 10/12/1892: Pledge of Allegiance was 1st recited by US school #children, without any mention of god. It was not until 1954 that the word “god” was added to it, to ingrain in U.S. children how much superior they were to the godless #communists in the #USSR.

Tweet by Neil deGrasse Tyson. If the Pledge of Allegiance told the truth: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the divided states of America. and to the PACs, for which it stands, one nation, at odds, divisible, with liberty and justice for some.

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Black Ashley @ashleysimpo writes:

| think a lot about how many kids get called "bad" because they're intelligent enough not to conform or comply to things that don't make sense to them.

Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Existential Comics @existentialcoms writes:

Capitalism is based on free, mutual agreements. The worker agrees to do whatever the capitalist says so they can pay rent and not starve, and the capitalist agrees to generate enormous profit off their work. Freedom.

Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 1d

If you aren't already familiar with her music, check it out. Great singer & songwriter. Had to postpone her west coast tour because of her detention during the recent Israeli attack on the Gaza aid flotilla.

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I am a Jewish American being targeted by Israeli drones in int’l waters. @GlobalSumudFlotilla

YouTube video by Carsie Blanton

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Today in #LaborHistory 10/11/1884: #miners in New Straitsville, Ohio tried to block scabs from working during a #strike by pushing burning coal cars into the mines, igniting a fire that continues to burn to this day.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIGK...

It Still Burns (New Straitsville Mine Fire) - Ethan Sellers and Jay Montana at Lagunitas

YouTube video by Tautologic

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Today in #LaborHistory 10/11/1944: #USSR annexed #Tuva previously indy socialist republic. “Tuva or Bust” (1991) #book by Ralph Leighton about attempt to travel to Tuva with physicist #RichardFeynman. Genghis Blues #PaulPena performs in Throat Singing competition.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_xl...

GENGHIS BLUES (OFFICIAL TRAILER)

YouTube video by Wadi Rum Films

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Today in #LaborHistory 10/11/1906: #San Francisco ordered #segregation of all #Asian children in schools until Teddy Roosevelt forced the city to rescind the order. It sparked a diplomatic crisis between the U.S. and #Japan.

Read more: michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/03/21/a...

Poster titled: Gentlemen's Agreement

* 1906 — US-Japanese relations damaged by school segregation policies of San Fransisco, CA against Asian children

*Japan protested --> Roosevelt persuades SF school board to end segregation policy

* 1907 — Gentlemen’s Agreement: Informal agreement btwn Japan and US
— Japan restricts emigration to America
— US only allows immediate family members of current Japanese residents
— Never ratified by Congress (ends in et A A “x 1924)
— Led to increase in Japanese picture brides and Japanese population in US

*Racism and discrimination against Japanese in California continued to hurt US-Japanese relations

Shows an original poster from the incident that reads:
N o Japs in oujr Schools
Citizens' Mass Meeting
Dreamland Pavilian
Monday Ever, Dec 10, 1906

Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Today in #LaborHistory 10/11/1865: Hundreds of former enslaved people, led by preacher Paul Bogle, marched in #Jamaica, starting Morant Bay #rebellion. 25 people died. Bogle was arrested. Authorities hunted & killed >400 more, incl #women & #children.

Statue of Paul Bogle in Morant Bay, Jamaica. By dubdem sound system – Flickr: Dubdem Sound System :: Jamaican Tour 2009, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28291876

Reposted by Michael Dunn

Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 3d

Give him the Nobel Prize!

Give him a Lifetime Achievement Award. Give him a stamp. Name an Ivy League Poli Sci department after him. Give him honorary positions at Harvard and Columbia.

None of these institutions stood against a genocide.

Let him have their honors.

Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · Aug 16

Indeed! It certainly worked for these:

Obama: 542 drone strikes killed US citizens

Gorbechev slaughtered scores in Baltics, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan

Elihu Root repression of Philippine Independence Movement

Arafat, Rabin & Peres

Menachem Begin: Lebanon, Sabra & Shatila, Irgun, Haganah

Nothing says ‘Nobel Peace Prize’ like deploying the military against your own citizens.

Posted by Judy Manteca » The Wokest Woke

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 2d

When "antifa" started showing up in neighborhoods and work places wearing gaiter makes, tactical vests, armed to the hilt and throwing people to the ground or into unmarked cars, let us know.

Until then, there's only one group of terrorists doing that and it's ICE

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 2d

supports Israeli #genocide
supports the privatization of state-run businesses,
advocated for foreign intervention in her country to remove Maduro, which hardly sounds like a peaceful stance.

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

Her greatest dream, turning Venezuela from Venezuelan Dictatorship into an American Dictatorship.

The only benefiters, her and the American Dictatorship (Trump).

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 2d

But let's not forget AI, which is quickly becoming one of the greatest polluters, too.

news.mit.edu/2025/explain...

@haymakana writes:

Funny how the world’s biggest polluter is the US military, but there are way more white ppl shouting about plastic straws, eating animals, and driving cars than military occupation of Indigenous lands and the US's continuous imperialist wars

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Today in #LaborHistory 10/10/1912: #IWW #immigrant knitters #strike Little Falls, New York. AFL tried to compete with IWW. Bargained a sell-out contract. Workers refused it, siding with the IWW, demanding greater concessions.

Strikers on parade shortly after the initial walkout. By Unknown author - https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/isr/v13n06-dec-1912-ISR-gog-ocr.pdf International Socialist Review, Vol. XIII, No. 6, p. 456, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=128258253

Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Today in #LaborHistory 10/10/1933: 18,000 #M3xican cotton workers struck in Pixley, California. 4 killed, but they ultimately won a raise. The #union led 24 #strikes in San Joaquin Valley in 1930s. Owners used bankers, merchants, ministers & Boy Scouts to attack the workers.

Caravan of migrant cotton pickers, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1933. signs on sides of vehicles read: Don't Scab.

Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Today in #LaborHistory 10/10/1980: #FMLN founded in #ElSalvador. Fought #civilwar to overthrow #dictatorship. Named for #revolutionary Farabundo Marti. Led 1932 #uprising & 1st #Soviet in the western. Crushed by the Martinez Matanza. Slaughtered >30,000 peasants, #indigenous people & communists

Mural showing Farabundo Marti in a broad brimmed hat, next to a modern indigenous woman, in a blue shawl, and ancient depiction of an indigenous man, with a long-tailed green Quetzal bird in the background.

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 3d

We all place ourselves in danger to one degree or another when we stand up. However, we place our children and grandchildren in even greater danger when we don't.

Show image of protesters with fists raised.

Posted by Catherine Dawdy

Reposted by Michael Dunn

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

While Trump falsely blames Tylenol for autism, he’s been taking millions from companies producing PFAs that cause birth defects, liver damage, and cancer — then weakening regulations and withholding reports on their danger.

His corruption is killing us.
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

www.propublica.org

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, we currently have <4 yrs to make necessary changes to prevent avg global temp from surpassing 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels.

Failing will accelerate breakdown of systems we rely on for water, food and health.

carboncopy.eco/blog/climate...

Our exlended forecast, includes global warning & the catastophic end of the human race. But for the weekend, its looking like sunny skies, mild femperatures, & a general apathy toward environmental Concerns.

Dan Piraro comics 8/8/2003

Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Today in #LaborHistory 10/9/1967: #Plowshares movement began when Father #DanielBerrigan & the Plowshares 8 trespassed onto #GeneralElectric & beat on parts for #Minuteman missiles & poured blood on documents. Many other actions & many activists imprisoned, incl Berrigan brothers.

Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares, a sculpture by Evgeniy Vuchetich in the United Nations Art Collection. Shows a burly man swinging a hammer into a sword. By Neptuul - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32412758

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