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Today in Labor History March 29, 1797: William Godwin married ...

2026-03-29T14:49:39Z

Today in Labor History March 29, 1797: William Godwin married Mary Wollstonecraft. Godwin was an English journalist, philosopher and novelist. And one of the first modern proponents of anarchism. His most famous books are “An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice” and “Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams,” a mystery novel that attacks aristocratic privilege. Wollstonecraft was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights, and is regarded by many as one of the founding feminist philosophers. Her most famous book was “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792). She died 11 days after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #feminism #marywollstonecraft #williamgodwin #philosophy #novel #fiction #frankenstein #maryshelley #books #author #writer #journalism [@bookstadon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon )

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2026-03-20T16:38:58Z

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2026-03-20T15:57:33Z

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And, meanwhile, those unemployed tech workers (as well as the rest of us) will be paying ever increasing energy and water bills and suffering greater risks from Climate disasters because the carbon footprint just from the AI systems was estimated to be between 32.6 and 79.7 million tons of CO2 emissions in 2025, with a water footprint of 312.5–764.6 billion L.

https://www.cio.com/article/4125103/oracle-may-slash-up-to-30000-jobs-to-fund-ai-data-center-expansion-as-us-banks-retreat.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/16/meta-ai-costs-mass-layoffs-20percent-up-premarket.html

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/tech/amazon-layoffs-ai

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925002788

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AI actually is causing a lot of unemployment in tech.

Not because it has been able to successfully replace anyone's job, but because the big tech companies are all gambling so much on becoming trillionaires that they have to throw tens of thousands of workers into unemployment to pay for it.

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2026-03-20T15:45:44Z

It's actually 771,480 unhoused people in the U.S., as of 2024 ...

2026-03-20T15:38:25Z

It's actually 771,480 unhoused people in the U.S., as of 2024 and the 15 million vacant homes is an accurate count as of 2024, as well. That's roughly 10% of the nation's entire housing stock.

And yes, the Pentagon is asking for another $200 billion for its insane war on Iran because, according to Hegseth, “It takes money to kill bad guys.” This, on top of the already record high Pentagon budget of $800 billion, at a time when they are already spending $1 billion/day on the war in Iran, when the U.S. debt is already $39 trillion.

https://endhomelessness.org/state-of-homelessness/

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-vacant-homes-are-there-in-the-us/

https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-us-pentagon-972ec1bd956a2c3633e6ab7fff389791

Today in Labor History March 20, 1922: The Red Army completed ...

2026-03-20T15:21:25Z

Today in Labor History March 20, 1922: The Red Army completed their defeat of the Iakov Fomin Mutiny. In March, 1920, Iakov Efimovich Fomin, formerly a Cossack commander within the Red Army, and inspired by the Kronstadt mutineers, led a mutiny against the Bolsheviks over food requisitioning for the Cossack troops. The mutineers’ slogan was, “Down with the requisitioning! Down with non-local Communists!” They had nearly 100% support among the local population of Veshenskaia, with many local peasants and anarchists joining the uprising. The mutiny developed into a 2-year guerilla uprising against Bolshevik terror and repression and for the power of worker-led soviets. They called on all citizens to rise up and establish “the true power of the whole laboring people.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #communism #anarchism #cossack #mutiny #uprising #bolshevik #soviet #iakovfomin #kronstadt

Today in Labor History March 20, 1985: The Bolivian authorities ...

2026-03-20T15:01:16Z

Today in Labor History March 20, 1985: The Bolivian authorities sent in the army to crush a General Strike. Workers had launched the strike in response to austerity measures by the Siles Zuazo administration. They demanded higher wages, stable food supplies, price controls and the president’s resignation. At the time, inflation was 3,400%. 10,000 miners filled the streets of La Paz each day. The General Strike lasted 16 days and spread to Santa Cruz and Chuquisaca. On March 24, the miners accepted a government offer to quadruple the minimum wage. They eventually forced Zuazo to resign.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #bolivia #GeneralStrike #minimumwage #austerity #inflation

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2026-03-12T13:57:37Z

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2025-10-08T14:06:30Z

Today in Labor History September 28, 2000: An uprising, known as ...

2025-09-28T15:41:25Z

Today in Labor History September 28, 2000: An uprising, known as the Second Intifada, began after the Camp David summit failed and Ariel Sharon, the butcher of Lebanon, visited the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Thousands of Palestinians were killed by Israeli soldiers during this Intifada. Just over 1,000 Israelis died. A tribunal held Sharon personally responsible for the 1982 Sabra and Shatila Massacre, in Beirut, during the Lebanon War, in which 3,500 Palestinian civilian refugees were slaughtered by Phalangist forces, as Israeli soldiers looked on.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #palestine #intifada #israel #colonialism #freepalestine #zionism #massacre #lebanon #refugees

Union membership in the U.S. peaked in the 1940s at 35% and has ...

2025-09-27T16:41:02Z

Union membership in the U.S. peaked in the 1940s at 35% and has been steadily declining each year. In 2024, it had dropped to only 9.9%.

At the same time, the wealth gap skyrocketed, with CEO-to-Worker compensation rising from roughly 20:1 in 1965 to nearly 399:1 in 2021.

Coincidence?

Time to fire your boss!

https://data.epi.org/unions/union_members_historical/line/year/national/percent_union_members_historical/overall?timeStart=1917-01-01&timeEnd=2024-01-01&dateString=1974-01-01&highlightedLines=overall

https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2021/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #union #poverty #oligarchy #capitalism #classwar

This week in Labor History September 20-27, 1950: The U.S. Navy ...

2025-09-26T13:46:30Z

This week in Labor History September 20-27, 1950: The U.S. Navy sprayed Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria over the San Francisco Bay Area in an illegal biological weapons test. Two weeks later, 11 residents checked into Stanford Hospital with very rare and serious urinary tract bacterial infections. One of them died. There was also a spike in pneumonia cases and heart valve infections in San Francisco. The military never alerted local authorities about the test. There were numerous other similar attacks in Dorset, England, New York, Panama City, Key West, Minnesota, and Washington, D.C.’s national airport and Greyhound bus terminal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcKWpiQO-7c

#workingclass #LaborHistory #biologicalweapons #wmd #warcrimes

Today in Labor History September 26, 1874: Sociologist and ...

2025-09-26T13:24:20Z

Today in Labor History September 26, 1874: Sociologist and photographer Lewis Hine was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. In 1908, he became the photographer for the National Child Labor Committee and spent the next decade documenting exploited child labor to help the organization’s lobbying efforts to end child labor in American industry. The book cover for my novel, Anywhere But Schuylkill, is based on a Hine photograph.

You can get a copy of Anywhere But Schuylkill from any of these indie retailers:
https://www.keplers.com/
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https://www.thehistoricalfictioncompany.com/product-page/anywhere-but-schuylkill-by-michael-dunn

Or send me $25 via Venmo (@Michael-Dunn-565) and your mailing address, and I will send you a signed copy!

#workingclass #LaborHistory #lewishine #children #childlabor #photography #exploitation #novel #historicalfiction #AnywhereButSchuylkill #author #writer #books [@bookstadon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon )

Today in Labor History September 24, 1919: The Ukrainian ...

2025-09-24T13:48:58Z

Today in Labor History September 24, 1919: The Ukrainian anarchist Black Army outmaneuvered and ultimately defeated the White Army of General Denikin. The Black Army (AKA Makhnovtsi) was an anarchist army made up of Ukrainian peasants and workers during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922. It was named after their leader Nestor Makhno and protected the free soviets and libertarian communes in the stateless anarchist liberated portion of Ukraine known as Makhnovshchina that lasted from 1918 to 1921.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #civilwar #russia #ukraine #NestorMakhno #Revolution

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2025-09-23T14:24:09Z

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after ...

2025-09-21T16:47:05Z

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article312042943.html

New poll shows that only about half of Republicans see the U.S. ...

2025-09-21T16:00:10Z

New poll shows that only about half of Republicans see the U.S. on the right course, down from 70% in June. Overall, 25% of Americans say things are moving in the right direction, down from about 40% in June. The drops were particularly significant among women and among younger Republicans.

The decline should come as no surprise. Trump's policies have shattered the fantasy that he would protect Americans' freedoms. The mass arrests by masked ICE thugs have terrified and disgusted millions, souring even many Republicans who still cling to the delusion that America stands for liberty, equality and justice. The bullying of universities, media companies, and the mass firings and deportations of people who speak out against his policies have also alienated many on the right who believe in Free Speech and due process. The increase in political violence has frightened and repulsed people from both parties. And his insane rants against trans folks, particularly in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, have become so unhinged that even many of his diehard followers must realize by now that he's full of b.s. Likewise, contrary to the naïve belief that he’d keep us out of wars, he’s escalated U.S. support for the Genocide in Gaza and ordered unprovoked attacks on Venezuelan ships. As of July 25, he’d already ordered 500 military attacks on other countries, nearly the same number as Biden had ordered over his entire tenure.

However, the most significant betrayal of his base has probably been on the economy, which he’s brought closer to stagflation than it’s ever been since the mid-1970s. Unemployment is up, exacerbated by his mass firings of federal workers, which hit red states particularly hard. And prices are way up, too, and will likely continue to climb as the effects of his tariffs and Big Heinous Bill start to take hold.

https://apnews.com/article/poll-republicans-direction-country-kirk-violence-economy-66e5a964a807a5a1412ef0596f37ec39

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-airstrikes-bombs-iran-how-many-b2789626.html

#republican #economy #inflation #unemployment #tariffs #genocide #gaza #trump #ice #freespeech #censorship

Today in Labor History September 2, 1885: 150 white miners, ...

2025-09-02T13:59:27Z

Today in Labor History September 2, 1885: 150 white miners, mostly affiliated with the Knights of Labor, attacked their Chinese fellow workers in the Rock Springs massacre in Wyoming. As a result, they killed 28 Chinese miners, wounded 15 others and forced all the other Chinese to flee town. By the time the federal troops arrived, there were no surviving Chinese people left in town. The bosses had been preferentially hiring the Chinese immigrants at lower wages than the European immigrants. The Chinese Exclusion Act, passed in 1882, also contributed by fanning the flames of anti-Asian bigotry.

You can read my entire article on the history anti-Asian hate in the U.S. here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/03/21/americas-long-sordid-history-of-anti-asian-violence/

#workingxlass #LaborHistory #strike #massacre #racism #AntiAsianHate #chinese #immigration #mining #wyoming #union

California's leading Republican candidate for governor, Kyle ...

2025-07-27T17:10:51Z

California's leading Republican candidate for governor, Kyle Langford, has a platform that includes incinerating unhoused and unemployed people in concentration camps, like Auschwitz, which he called a "beautiful work camp."

He also wants to force undocumented immigrant women to marry incels to avoid deportation. Immigrant men just get deported. And make Catholicism the official state language.

https://www.newsweek.com/republican-kyle-langford-proposes-forcing-migrant-woman-marry-2060334

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/california-governor-candidate-calls-auschwitz-solution-for-homelessness-sparks-critisism/ar-AA1JnFpI

#fascism #nazi #immigration #california #kylelangford #concentrationcamp #antisemitism #extermination #republican #auschwitz

As California's first Atmospheric River of the season dies ...

2024-11-23T17:22:55Z

As California's first Atmospheric River of the season dies out, I thought folks might like to read my article: "Worse Than the Big One," about the Great Flood of 1862, caused by nonstop Atmospheric Rivers lasting more than 40 days straight.

It was the worst natural disaster to hit the west in the last 160 years, inundating much of the land, from Oregon to San Diego. The agriculturally rich Central Valley became a vast inland sea, 300 miles long and 20 miles wide. The state capital in Sacramento was under water for six months, forcing the government to relocate to San Francisco. 33% of California’s state property was destroyed, along with one in every eight private homes. Thousands of people died, possibly up to 1% of California’s entire population. And while floods of this magnitude used to happen every 200 years or so, models generated by Daniel Swain and researchers at UCLA’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences found that they will now happen roughly every 65 years, due to the effects of climate change. Swain also predicts a 20% increase in the intensity of megastorms, meaning the next one could be far more devastating.

The event also influenced the course of wars. In New Mexico Territory, for example, the flooded Rio Grande impeded the California Column as it attempted to cut off the retreating Confederate Army of New Mexico, allowing them to escape into Texas. And in California’s Owens Valley, it brought the Paiutes, who were on the brink of starvation because the storms had decimated the wild game they relied on, into conflict with ranchers, who were trespassing on their lands to graze their herds. Over 200 Native Americans died in the Owens Valley Indian War (1862-1867), along with roughly 60 members of the California Militia.

Even without the effects of climate change, the consequences of a megaflood today are much more serious than they were in 1862, when California had only 500,000 residents. Today there are hundreds of communities and large cities just in the vulnerable Central Valley, with a combined population of 6.5 million people. The Sacramento area, alone, is home to more than one million people, while Fresno has over 500,000 people, and Bakersfield has nearly 400,000 residents. The Central Valley includes the flood plains of two major rivers, the Sacramento and the San Joaquin, as well as many smaller rivers that drain down from the Sierra Nevada mountains.

This is not just a problem for Californians, either. Another flood like the one in 1862 would have a dire effect on the availability and cost of food for everyone in the U.S. The Central Valley comprises less than 1% of all U.S. farmland, yet it produces 25% of the nation’s food supply, including 90% of the broccoli, carrots, garlic, celery, grapes, tangerines, and plums, as well as 40% of the lettuce, cabbage, oranges, peaches and peppers, and over 20% of the milk. That is $46 billion worth of food annually, double the next most agriculturally productive state in the U.S.

A megaflood would also be an ecological nightmare. There are still lots of cows in California, nearly 4 million, to be precise. A massive flood would severely pollute the soil and groundwater with rotting carcasses, highly pathogenic H5N1 birdflu, and concentrated manure. Then there are all the other toxins in the region, like fertilizers and pesticides. In Kern County, alone, farmers use 30 million pounds of pesticides per year, while California, as a whole, uses over 200 million pounds of pesticides. Kern County is also one of the nation’s most prolific oil-producing regions, generating 70% of California’s oil and more than double what the state of Louisiana produces. It also has two large refineries. A major flood would pull much of these toxins into the soil and ground water and quickly spread them throughout the flooded regions, creating by far the biggest Superfund clean-up site in the nation’s history.

You can read the full article here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2023/01/04/worse-than-the-big-one-californias-coming-megaflood-2/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #atmosphericriver #bombcyclone #weather #ClimateChange #inflation #food #flood #california #indigenous #mexican #disaster #H5N1 #birdflu