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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

Available from these retailers:
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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 · 7h

Waters skewers nick cave

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#FreePalestine #bds #israel #genocide

"F**k You, Nick Cave!" - Roger Waters

YouTube video by Katie Halper

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 8h

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#ice #policestate #fascism #trump #immigration #palantir #privacy

Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 8h

Poster of Trump, screaming, pointing finger at viewer.

Reads: America, we want YOU to Praise Our Leader.

Dissent is Treason.

Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 8h

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Americans For Tax Fairness @4TaxFairmess writes:

From 2019-2024, Lowe's spent $46.6 BILLION on stock buybacks. That's enough to give each of its 273k employees a $28k bonus for the next six years. Instead, it paid its CEO 659x what it paid median employees. And we STILL think corporate tax breaks will magically trickle down?

Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 8h

Kids watching a ballgame by peaking over a fence. 1st panel they're all on the same sized milk crates. Caption reads: Equality. Middle panel they're on crates that vary in size such that each can see over the fence. Reads: equity. Last panel shows cops beating and arresting them.

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 8h

Today in #LaborHistory 10/8/1969: #SDS #Weathermen launched Days of Rage, #Chicago, to protest #Vietnam War. Attacked cops & local businesses. 6 unarmed activists were shot. >60 arrested. Blew up statue of #police from 1886 #Haymarket affair.

Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 8h

Today in #LaborHistory 10/8/1969: Disguised as funeral, leftist Uruguayan #Tupamaro guerrillas robbed 3 banks of >40 million pesos. Later murdered #FBI & #CIA agent Dan Mitrione. Gave away stolen food & money to the poor. Named for Túpac Amaru II, 1780 #indigenous #revolt against colonial #Peru

Flag with the word “Tupamaro” inside a white star, against a red and black background. By Dilectus, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23292286

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 9h

Today in #LaborHistory 10/8/1965: Indonesian military, led by future #dictator #Suharto, began massacring Communists, unionists, women's movement, teachers, students, minorities. US, UK, Australia provided military aid. #Genocide (1965-1966) of 1.2 million civilians deaths. 1.5 million imprisoned.

Student being arrested during the Indonesian genocide.

Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Thousands of Californians could become homeless, as the Trump administration plans deep cuts to federal funding for permanent housing.

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#homelessness #trump #california #housing

California braces for ‘devastating’ expected cuts to federal homeless housing funds

Thousands of Californians could return to homelessness as the feds reportedly plan to disinvest from permanent housing.

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Today in #LaborHistory 10/7/1944: #Uprising at Birkenau #concentrationcamp. Jews attacked SS with stones & hammers, killing 3. Set crematorium on fire & threw Oberkapo into furnace. By the time they'd put down the rebellion, the SS had killed 451 rebels.

Image shows the inside grounds of Birkenau.

Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Today in #LaborHistory 10/7/1977: Environmentalist activist Eric McDavid was born. Green #anarchism. Convicted of using fire or explosives to damage corporate and government property, as a member of #EarthLiberationFront. #FBI paid informant provided the plans, the money & transportation.

Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Today in #LaborHistory 10/7/1879: Radical #IWW labor organizer & song writer #JoeHill was born. Falsely convicted & executed for murder. Famous last words to IWW co-founder #BigBillHaywood were Don’t mourn. Organize.

Paul Robeson sings “I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill,” www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0be...

Paul Robeson sings to Scottish miners (1949)

YouTube video by BFI

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Image of a person. Reads: 'Katelyn Reulet @kreulet2 A tweet "the entire education system is built on unpaid teacher overtime." Nicholas Ferroni teachers @NicholasFerroni 1d I can't even imagine what would happen if teachers and school staffs only worked their contractual hours, only fulfilled their contractual duties and only used the resources their schools provided.”

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 2d

"Say what you like about nurses, garbage collectors, or mechanics, it's obvious that were they to vanish in a puff of smoke, the rsults would be immediate & catastrophic.

A world without teachers or dock-workers - would soon be in trouble, and even one without science fiction writers or ska musicians would clearly be a lesser place.

It's not entirely clear how humanity would suffer were all private equity CEOs, lobbyists, PR researchers, actuaries, telemarketers, bailiffs or legal consultants to similarly vanish - many suspect it might markedly improve."

- David Graeber

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

Start charging AI companies, in full, for the energy they use and the pollution they cause, and they’ll quickly find a way to be more energy efficient and environmentally friendly.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

They are not “going after illegals,” they are targeting brown people, because it’s not about immigration, it’s about white nationalism.

This isn’t “law and order” — it’s fascism.

Don’t let them pretend that what they’re doing is normal, legal, or moral.
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How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens

Last week, hundreds of heavily armed federal agents descended on an apartment complex in Chicago, arriving in Black Hawk helicopters and moving trucks.

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Yeh, and now Trump has declared them to be terrorists, too, along with Trans folks, immigrants, teachers, unions, anyone who opposes trad family values or Christianity, essentially everyone who doesn’t embrace MAGA and Christian white nationalism.

Walker Bragman @WalkerBragman writes:

The centrists act like they’re the adults in the room. They’re sleepwalking America into the arms of fascists and into ecological catastrophe.

Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Today in #LaborHistory 10/6/1934: Catalan republic declared during workers' #uprising throughout #Spain. By 1936, Catalonia was fully under the control of the workers, led predominantly by the anarchosyndicalist #union, #CNT, and Iberian Anarchist Federation.

#anarchism #fascism #antifascism

Flag composed of a rectangle divided into 2 triangles, one black, with FAI printed on it, and one red, with CNT printed on it. By Liftarn - user created, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1133405

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Lalo Alcaraz cartoon showing two masked ICE thugs saying: Are you seeing what I'm seeing??? Yeah! Migrants! As two bags of money walk toward a rich white dude, wearing a suit labeled "Private Prisons," saying, "You round 'em up, boys, and I'll take 'em from there!"

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Jason Bassler @ @JasonBassler1 writes:

During his recent lecture, Peter Thiel called Greta Thunberg the "Antichrist"—which is wild, because she was just detained on a flotilla delivering aid to the starving people of Gaza, while he sells software used to facilitate a genocide.

I'll let you decide which one is worse.

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Robert R. Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social writes:

socialism doesn't work, that's why we had to sanction venezuela's economy. but libertarian capitalism works just fine, that's why we had to bail out argentina

Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 4d

The national right to work act (NRTWA) of the Republican Party explained:

2 guys fishing on either side of a river. Working-class guy has fishing line in the water and a bucket of fish that he has caught. Upper class guy, with a Trump NRTWA hat, has his line grabbing the working-class guy's entire bucket.

Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Today in #LaborHistory 10/4/1936: The Battle of Cable Street, in the East End of #London, when Oswald Mosley’s British Union of #Fascism & the #Police sent to protect them, were attacked by 300,000 #antifascism demonstrators. #communists, #jews, #unions participated.

Flyer distributed by the London branch of the Communist Party of Great Britain, titled: All Out Against Fascism. By Joe Jacobs, Out of the Ghetto, 1991, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16658614

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Today in #LaborHistory 10/4/1887: 10,000 #Louisiana sugarcane workers went on #strike with #KnightsofLabor #union. On Nov 23, the Militia + vigilantes murdered 60 unarmed black workers during Thibodaux Massacre. #Democrats then passed series of laws enforcing segregation & #JimCrow.

Louisiana sugar cane laborers c. 1880. By William Henry Jackson - Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Possibly Baton Rouge; cf. negatives D418-8131 to 8133. "7435" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 08135. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22828998

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 5d

Peter Thiel has called Greta Thunberg the Antichrist.

I think there's a bit of projecting going on.

What do you think?

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