Blair Mountain Left - RogerWallaceTN
@rogerwallacetn.bsky.social
"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country." ~ FDR, 1933
Musician, writer, opiner, general scaliwag
Pic: Eugene Debs, Ftn City Park, Knoxville, TN- 1905
Musician, writer, opiner, general scaliwag
Pic: Eugene Debs, Ftn City Park, Knoxville, TN- 1905
Pinned
All right, fine.
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The West doesn't have an immigrant problem.
It has a white supremacy and capitalism problem.
It has a white supremacy and capitalism problem.
December 16, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The West doesn't have an immigrant problem.
It has a white supremacy and capitalism problem.
It has a white supremacy and capitalism problem.
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From me: Trump's FTC dismissed a Lina Khan case against Pepsi and Walmart scheming to raise prices on competitors, then claimed it was "purely political" with no evidence. But advocates got the now-defunct case unsealed, & it reveals how pricing really works in America.
prospect.org/2025/12/15/p...
prospect.org/2025/12/15/p...
Pepsi and Walmart’s Monopolization Machine Revealed - The American Prospect
An unsealed lawsuit that Trump’s FTC tried to bury puts the pricing schemes of business on full display.
prospect.org
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
From me: Trump's FTC dismissed a Lina Khan case against Pepsi and Walmart scheming to raise prices on competitors, then claimed it was "purely political" with no evidence. But advocates got the now-defunct case unsealed, & it reveals how pricing really works in America.
prospect.org/2025/12/15/p...
prospect.org/2025/12/15/p...
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I can’t handle the Truth Social post from Trump about Rob Reiner
December 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I can’t handle the Truth Social post from Trump about Rob Reiner
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there's just something so bleak about the fact that the seemingly apolitical murder of two elderly people by their profoundly ill son becomes a political football before the bodies are even cold
December 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
there's just something so bleak about the fact that the seemingly apolitical murder of two elderly people by their profoundly ill son becomes a political football before the bodies are even cold
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A Tesla Robotaxi has been spotted in Austin, Texas with no safety driver! Only 8 years late!
Thing is, it's controlled remotely. Just like his fainting robot was!
Why are people such fools???
Only thing Musk has invented is tulip mania 2.0 and 1930s Germany 2.0.
Thing is, it's controlled remotely. Just like his fainting robot was!
Why are people such fools???
Only thing Musk has invented is tulip mania 2.0 and 1930s Germany 2.0.
December 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
A Tesla Robotaxi has been spotted in Austin, Texas with no safety driver! Only 8 years late!
Thing is, it's controlled remotely. Just like his fainting robot was!
Why are people such fools???
Only thing Musk has invented is tulip mania 2.0 and 1930s Germany 2.0.
Thing is, it's controlled remotely. Just like his fainting robot was!
Why are people such fools???
Only thing Musk has invented is tulip mania 2.0 and 1930s Germany 2.0.
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The people who wrote this about Charlie Kirk were fired and threatened with violence
December 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The people who wrote this about Charlie Kirk were fired and threatened with violence
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Trump’s immigration czar Tom Homan was caught taking a $50,000 cash bribe and the Trump administration covered it up.
December 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Trump’s immigration czar Tom Homan was caught taking a $50,000 cash bribe and the Trump administration covered it up.
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
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LA People, if you’re looking for a fun show tonight I’m excited to be one of the 12 Guests of Christmas on Doug Loves Movies! Tickets at dynastytypewriter.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
LA People, if you’re looking for a fun show tonight I’m excited to be one of the 12 Guests of Christmas on Doug Loves Movies! Tickets at dynastytypewriter.com
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Pretty crazy that Musk willfully killed 100,000's of people *earlier this year* yet Corporate Media still regularly talks about him without mentioning that.
December 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Pretty crazy that Musk willfully killed 100,000's of people *earlier this year* yet Corporate Media still regularly talks about him without mentioning that.
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🗣️ @redstateupdate.bsky.social (Murfreesboro): “It costs you a lot to be racist— health care, livable wages, due process… the racism is worth it for some people. And somebody’s making money hand over fist by dragging (brown) people out and locking them up in camps 🎯.”
December 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🗣️ @redstateupdate.bsky.social (Murfreesboro): “It costs you a lot to be racist— health care, livable wages, due process… the racism is worth it for some people. And somebody’s making money hand over fist by dragging (brown) people out and locking them up in camps 🎯.”
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ICC-wanted war crimes fugitive PM Netanyahu, who has presided over a 2+ year, daily live-streamed slaughter of 70,000+ Palestinian men, women & children—while claiming it’s done in the name of Jews worldwide—today blamed Australia’s recognition of Palestine for encouraging antisemitism & causing...
December 15, 2025 at 2:59 AM
ICC-wanted war crimes fugitive PM Netanyahu, who has presided over a 2+ year, daily live-streamed slaughter of 70,000+ Palestinian men, women & children—while claiming it’s done in the name of Jews worldwide—today blamed Australia’s recognition of Palestine for encouraging antisemitism & causing...
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ON XAI IN MEMPHIS: “There’s a horrible, sulfurous smell in the air… residents don’t want to open their windows… BOXTOWN is 90% Black… Musk did everything behind closed doors… environmental racism… not many jobs, no direct investment in BOXTOWN…”
December 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
ON XAI IN MEMPHIS: “There’s a horrible, sulfurous smell in the air… residents don’t want to open their windows… BOXTOWN is 90% Black… Musk did everything behind closed doors… environmental racism… not many jobs, no direct investment in BOXTOWN…”
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NEW JERSEY — bonkers… the husband of an ICE agent uses her marked car to pretend to be Homeland Security and respond to a call HE MADE HIMSELF… with a gun and sirens and everything.
December 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
NEW JERSEY — bonkers… the husband of an ICE agent uses her marked car to pretend to be Homeland Security and respond to a call HE MADE HIMSELF… with a gun and sirens and everything.
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The inevitable tensions between Republican claims that "we're a working class party now" and an agenda by & for billionaires are coming to a head. Harold Meyerson reports on swing district Republicans going along with Democratic pro-worker measures to save themselves in the midterms.
Republican Conundrum: Working-Class Base, Plutocratic Agenda - The American Prospect
Last week, some swing-district Republicans inched away, selectively, from their party’s economics.
prospect.org
December 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The inevitable tensions between Republican claims that "we're a working class party now" and an agenda by & for billionaires are coming to a head. Harold Meyerson reports on swing district Republicans going along with Democratic pro-worker measures to save themselves in the midterms.
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Danish intelligence classifies Trump’s America as a security risk
🚨No one should trust America until the the Trump regime is gone and after his stooges have been removed!
#NeverTrustPutinspuppet !! - EB
www.politico.eu/article/dani...
🚨No one should trust America until the the Trump regime is gone and after his stooges have been removed!
#NeverTrustPutinspuppet !! - EB
www.politico.eu/article/dani...
Danish intelligence classifies Trump’s America as a security risk
Denmark sounds the alarm about the U.S.’s increasingly antagonistic posture toward Europe.
www.politico.eu
December 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Danish intelligence classifies Trump’s America as a security risk
🚨No one should trust America until the the Trump regime is gone and after his stooges have been removed!
#NeverTrustPutinspuppet !! - EB
www.politico.eu/article/dani...
🚨No one should trust America until the the Trump regime is gone and after his stooges have been removed!
#NeverTrustPutinspuppet !! - EB
www.politico.eu/article/dani...
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It was good to march with the local letter carrier union down Lake Street between two post offices to support their ICE off postal property demand. It was a good group of people for a morning that never got above zero.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
It was good to march with the local letter carrier union down Lake Street between two post offices to support their ICE off postal property demand. It was a good group of people for a morning that never got above zero.
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Here’s @thewrap.com picking up the clip we shared of @karaswisher.bsky.social saying she’ll be done with CNN if Trump ally Ellison gets hold of it (to squash Trump criticism) www.thewrap.com/kara-swisher...
December 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Here’s @thewrap.com picking up the clip we shared of @karaswisher.bsky.social saying she’ll be done with CNN if Trump ally Ellison gets hold of it (to squash Trump criticism) www.thewrap.com/kara-swisher...
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How the Israeli occupation forces used an injured Palestinian woman as a “human shield” 👇
December 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
How the Israeli occupation forces used an injured Palestinian woman as a “human shield” 👇
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🔥 @briantylercohen.bsky.social to scottie nell Hughes: “Blaming people making minimum wage for rising costs is CRAZY… Trump’s trade war is raising costs, and these tax cuts overwhelmingly benefit the rich — Blaming people at the bottom is why people are voting Republicans out of office.”
December 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
🔥 @briantylercohen.bsky.social to scottie nell Hughes: “Blaming people making minimum wage for rising costs is CRAZY… Trump’s trade war is raising costs, and these tax cuts overwhelmingly benefit the rich — Blaming people at the bottom is why people are voting Republicans out of office.”
Australia has not had 35 mass shootings in the last 10 years. They've had 5 in the last 15 yrs. The US has had over 5000.
December 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Australia has not had 35 mass shootings in the last 10 years. They've had 5 in the last 15 yrs. The US has had over 5000.
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UN Special Rapporteur for Counter Terrorism 👇
December 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
UN Special Rapporteur for Counter Terrorism 👇
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As Sudan endures nearly 3 years of mass killing, rape & ethnic cleansing by the RSF, backed & armed by the UAE, the NBA has deepened its partnership w/ Abu Dhabi, launching the Emirates NBA Cup & expanding commercial ties.
The relationship, the Guardian reports, includes preseason games, airline...
The relationship, the Guardian reports, includes preseason games, airline...
December 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
As Sudan endures nearly 3 years of mass killing, rape & ethnic cleansing by the RSF, backed & armed by the UAE, the NBA has deepened its partnership w/ Abu Dhabi, launching the Emirates NBA Cup & expanding commercial ties.
The relationship, the Guardian reports, includes preseason games, airline...
The relationship, the Guardian reports, includes preseason games, airline...
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Make Congress take action and unmask ICE!
Tell Congress: Require ICE to unmask and display clear identification
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Make Congress take action and unmask ICE!
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"Australia will ban supermarket price gouging" (Bloomberg)
"ACCC ... found the grocery sector is ... an effective oligopoly (and) ... Australia’s largest supermarket groups rank among the most profitable globally"
Coles $COL and Woolworths $WOW supermarket EBIT margins at ~5.5%
"ACCC ... found the grocery sector is ... an effective oligopoly (and) ... Australia’s largest supermarket groups rank among the most profitable globally"
Coles $COL and Woolworths $WOW supermarket EBIT margins at ~5.5%
Australia to Ban Supermarket Price Gouging in Sweeping Competition Reforms
Australia will ban supermarket price gouging from July 1 under a new law the government says would protect shoppers from excessive grocery prices charged by major retailers.
www.bloomberg.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"Australia will ban supermarket price gouging" (Bloomberg)
"ACCC ... found the grocery sector is ... an effective oligopoly (and) ... Australia’s largest supermarket groups rank among the most profitable globally"
Coles $COL and Woolworths $WOW supermarket EBIT margins at ~5.5%
"ACCC ... found the grocery sector is ... an effective oligopoly (and) ... Australia’s largest supermarket groups rank among the most profitable globally"
Coles $COL and Woolworths $WOW supermarket EBIT margins at ~5.5%