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This Day in Labor History: October 16, 1859. John Brown and a group of followers invade the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (today WV) to start a war and end slavery. Let's talk about this key moment in American labor history!

here in MA people at a cafe were just griping about their first oil deliveries of the year. prices are 74% more expensive than last year.

I don’t like bringing the personal into the posting but if you feel comfortable publicly commenting (nicely, no fed posting) on the “let’s make employers pay 100K for H1-B visas” rule proposed by DHS, I’d appreciate it. My significant other would be effected by this and I love her very much

"What the Wounds Tell" just won this year’s European Press Prize. "Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted." www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

this would work in the timothy zahn-iverse

finally we have a name for those 6 persons on the supreme court

pass a law that explicitly lists the court’s bad VRA decisions and proclaims them null and no longer valid, makes their dissents valid law, and prescribes penalties to any government official who attempts to implement or enforce said bad law

Suspension of elections in order to rig them sounds like something Grant would've sent troops to quell in the 1870s.

a really cool proposal here from justin briley to not just break the court, but break it up--to reconstitute it as a random panel drawn from the circuits for each case www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...

The fact that professors in math, chemistry, and biology are all 80-90% Democrats -- disciplines where the vast majority of research & teaching content is apolitical -- reinforces this point. www.nas.org/wp-content/u... (registration ratios from: www.nas.org/blogs/articl...)

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

US not veering into a new, endless war, P̶e̶n̶t̶a̶g̶o̶n̶ my t-shirt says

best comment i've seen so far on how terrible dem leadership is on iran and war www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

another person congressional dems should question at public hearings. especially these private sector fascism enablers - they will look bad and be unable to defend their actions. the goal is to learn and show how bad they are and deter others.

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

with trump v us, john roberts is our own carl schmitt

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

Blackouts, gentrification, Trumpian corruption, Puerto Rican snow-cones, and other stuff you might have missed in Bad Bunny's Super Bowl spectacular. New Racket. theracket.news/p/the-most-a...

god lataco.com/captive-loti... via www.forever-wars.com/the-war-on-t...

4/ “Mi Familia,” by 5-year-old Luisanney Toloza from Venezuela, who had recently crossed the U.S.-Mexico border

Abolish state terror, abolish ICE www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

they're evil

only 2 of 9 had video evidence. imagine how much more unseen terror is coming if we don’t stop this madness

from @jamellebouie.net's newsletter today. makes you wonder about the judge who signed off on said warrant! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

so terrible this article is necessary www.startribune.com/how-to-talk-...

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

www.cnn.com/videos/us/20...

MAINE: -Report ICE/CBP activity: Maine ICE Watch Hotline: 207-544-9989 -Report “intimidating or excessive behavior used by federal agents” to CitizenReporting.OAG@maine.gov #ORGANIZE #RESIST #OPPOSE #NonViolenceIsPower #ICEoutOfMaine BELIEVE YOUR EYES - NOT THEIR LIES #Maine #MEpolitics

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.