And the Injunction depends on the 14th Amendment’s clause which holds that no person (= corporation) can be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process. Labor hates the Supreme Court, from John Marshall, who started the corporations = persons bullshit in 1820, to John Roberts, son of blue collar steel mill workers who were able to send him to college and law school thanks to the United Steel Workers Union. (A traitor to his class!) Strip the Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court!!!!
"The railroad-caused Panic of 1893 was not only emblematic of how corrupt railroads controlled the American economy in the Gilded Age, but how plutocrats expected the poor to sacrifice during hard times."
It's interesting that anger and hatred towards the railroad companies was one of the factors leading to the acceptance of the automobile as a form of transportation in the US, enabling Henry Ford to start his first automobile company in 1899. Automobiles eventually killed off most passenger rail service and much of the public transportation service in cities and towns in the US by 1970.
Now that the automobile is entrenched into our culture, we are having to fight to reestablish passenger rail service and public transportation while trying to curb the use and ownership of automobiles.
A worker got a paycheck for $0.00 after the rent and the company store charges were deducted. That’s why the ARU voted to strike in sympathy, which Taft Hartley made illegal. Repeal Taft Hartley!
At my induction into he US ARMY (1965) We had to swear that we never were followers of DEBS. Hell I didn't know about him from a hole in thre ground. Since then I have quite the knowledge about HOLES IN THE GROUND!
To quote WH Vanderbilt, richest man in America at the time, “The public be damned! I have a railroad to run!” A real job creator, who practiced class warfare on the lower classes. Fox News, the upper classes started class warfare.
Ta, Erik. Yesterday, I texted the head of our CBO to find out what I have to do to stay in my union as a retiree. I heard elsewhere that I'll pay $5 or $6 a month. 1199-SEIU represents many, many healthcare workers who, before the Union, had wages stolen from them by predatory agencies. It includes home health attendants, CNAs, food workers and the clean-up crews in hospitals, and many more worthy people. I went to Albany with several busloads of Union members for a lobbying day. Almost everyone in the Union is a POC, many of them women, many of them immigrants. This is a labor force without which the USA would fall apart. Solidarity forever.
I'm a Union maid. My husband is a Union man, as was my father, mother, elder sister, and brother-in-law. My jerk of a younger sister is a right-to-work idiot. Her practice (she's a chiropractor, and a good one) would fall apart without insurance money.
Cant we sue in the UK or the EU or the ICC to get the Epstein Files released? Can’t Interpol show up and confiscate the computers under an international warrant and say Fuck You to Todd Blanche? An Intetnational Treaty is the Law of the Land.
Was by there couple years back as the work on it was ongoing. I think it would be appropriate to go by train, and I think it's doable from my rural Illinois locale.
This would be a nice side trip for anyone planning to visit the Obama Library.
Before you pack up your kids to go down there, just know the main attraction is the state booths. And not every state offers an interactive attraction.
Real missed opp on the food aspect though. A Taste of the States would’ve been fun.
They could have done more "traveling" things like they did at the bicentennial which had several exhibits going all around the country for about a year so that many people had the opportunity to see and participate.
We're too fucking cheap for decent things now. A "state fair" that looks like it was put on by someone who has never set foot in a state fair ever.
You sir, are a true expert in State Fairs. It isnt a state fair without at least a geek (no chicken’s heads bitten off anymore, but garter snakes still allowed) and a psychic reading a crystal ball.
Being from the Mon Valley of Pittsburgh Baconz can say my family and I have a PRO Union stance every day of the week. And twice on Sundays for over 100 years.
Also, prison is one of the places I could see a willingness to really read Marx. You can only do so many pushups. Dude isn't exactly an easy or pleasant read.
The first time I actually read Karl Marx was in a philosophy class about three years ago. It was just a little essay but wow it was brutal to read. The man is not a wordsmith.
Great history lesson
And the Injunction depends on the 14th Amendment’s clause which holds that no person (= corporation) can be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process. Labor hates the Supreme Court, from John Marshall, who started the corporations = persons bullshit in 1820, to John Roberts, son of blue collar steel mill workers who were able to send him to college and law school thanks to the United Steel Workers Union. (A traitor to his class!) Strip the Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court!!!!
"The railroad-caused Panic of 1893 was not only emblematic of how corrupt railroads controlled the American economy in the Gilded Age, but how plutocrats expected the poor to sacrifice during hard times."
It's interesting that anger and hatred towards the railroad companies was one of the factors leading to the acceptance of the automobile as a form of transportation in the US, enabling Henry Ford to start his first automobile company in 1899. Automobiles eventually killed off most passenger rail service and much of the public transportation service in cities and towns in the US by 1970.
Now that the automobile is entrenched into our culture, we are having to fight to reestablish passenger rail service and public transportation while trying to curb the use and ownership of automobiles.
It’s the circle of life!
A worker got a paycheck for $0.00 after the rent and the company store charges were deducted. That’s why the ARU voted to strike in sympathy, which Taft Hartley made illegal. Repeal Taft Hartley!
At my induction into he US ARMY (1965) We had to swear that we never were followers of DEBS. Hell I didn't know about him from a hole in thre ground. Since then I have quite the knowledge about HOLES IN THE GROUND!
What about Krebs (Maynard G)?
You may know the difference between a shelter-half and an entrenching tool. (Tom Lehrer, RIP).
And when to resite the straddle trench latrine.
More labor history goodness? Woot!!
While there is a lower class I am of it, while there is a criminal class I am in it, while there is a soul in prison I am not free.
Be of cheer, for the Cross is Bending, and the Night is Lifting. I am prepared to receive your sentence.
This was all back before Republicans hated trains because socialism(!) .
To quote WH Vanderbilt, richest man in America at the time, “The public be damned! I have a railroad to run!” A real job creator, who practiced class warfare on the lower classes. Fox News, the upper classes started class warfare.
They still do for much the same reasons.
Ta, Erik. Yesterday, I texted the head of our CBO to find out what I have to do to stay in my union as a retiree. I heard elsewhere that I'll pay $5 or $6 a month. 1199-SEIU represents many, many healthcare workers who, before the Union, had wages stolen from them by predatory agencies. It includes home health attendants, CNAs, food workers and the clean-up crews in hospitals, and many more worthy people. I went to Albany with several busloads of Union members for a lobbying day. Almost everyone in the Union is a POC, many of them women, many of them immigrants. This is a labor force without which the USA would fall apart. Solidarity forever.
You, sir, are a hero. More than that, you are a Union man.
I'm a Union maid. My husband is a Union man, as was my father, mother, elder sister, and brother-in-law. My jerk of a younger sister is a right-to-work idiot. Her practice (she's a chiropractor, and a good one) would fall apart without insurance money.
Arguments about chiropractice itself spring to mind, as well as insurance companies covering it.
👍👍👍👍👍👍solidarity forever, the union makes us strong
OT: This is going to leave mark ... https://bsky.app/profile/normeisen.bsky.social/post/3mp7gt35nbk2h
Still marveling: a fed. judge ruled DOJ has conceded it's violating the Epstein transparency law--the one Trump signed
@katiephang.bsky.social sued to force compliance & won
& Acting AG Blanche's silence was treated as admission
DOJ now has one week to release the redacted names
Cant we sue in the UK or the EU or the ICC to get the Epstein Files released? Can’t Interpol show up and confiscate the computers under an international warrant and say Fuck You to Todd Blanche? An Intetnational Treaty is the Law of the Land.
I don't expect the DoJ to comply, but at least this brings Trump's best friend back into the news cycle.
"DOJ now has one week to release the redacted names"
Or what? I feel like that's the question that actually matters.
Or they'll get sued again!
OT: When narcissism goes wrong....
Abdohassan
@abdohassan.bsky.social
As it turns out the reflecting pool is just an extension of himself: one huge overflowing container of never-ending shit.
https://bsky.app/profile/abdohassan.bsky.social/post/3mp5vpembx226
how can blue state governors start using the pretense that djt (or PG David Steiner) interfered with the delivery of the mail?
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5939636-trump-postal-service-voter-data/
but what even are judges these days?
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/25/nx-s1-5869755/judge-blocks-postal-service-proposal-to-restrict-mail-in-voting-under-trumps-order
There is a Nice Time for this story. On the south edge of Chicago, The Pullman Historical Park has been established. I want to go.
Pullman National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service) https://share.google/qjww8Zi0ueyw4fWbM
Was by there couple years back as the work on it was ongoing. I think it would be appropriate to go by train, and I think it's doable from my rural Illinois locale.
This would be a nice side trip for anyone planning to visit the Obama Library.
Chicago. How can you not love it?
I love Chicago. The entire city is a museum of American architecture, and I love the Field Museum, among many others.
The city has preserved some of the best Architecture this country has. It’s lovely and its people are nice.
Ummm… Packer fans from Wisconsin have entered the chat. Also Brewers fans, who are ahead of Cubs fans just now.
Been there many times but there's never enough time to do all the cool stuff. I mostly just adore being on the lakefront/Loop in summer. It's magic.
Thank you for that. I am planning on visiting the Obama library in the next year or so hopefully.
OT Christina Henderson
@chenderson
6h Went to the Great American State “Fair” yesterday so you don’t have to.
Not a funnel cake, corn dog, bucket lemonade, or fried Snickers in sight. The only ride is the Ferris Wheel. It’s not that kind of state fair, y’all.
Saxophones were not added to this recording.Christina Henderson
https://x.com/chenderson/status/2070461904900767866?s=20
Heard that the Ferris wheel broke.
https://xcancel.com/chenderson/status/2070461904900767866?s=20
What a maroon. He's never been to a fair. No merch? No food booths? No butter animals? No fair!
No rigged games to win giant stuffed animals?
surely deep fried butter and ice cream?
@chenderson
Before you pack up your kids to go down there, just know the main attraction is the state booths. And not every state offers an interactive attraction.
Real missed opp on the food aspect though. A Taste of the States would’ve been fun.
Massachusetts McDonald's burger, Florida McDonald's burger, etc.
Also, a bunch of States didn't bother turning up.
Not even Alaska bothered.
Massachusetts didn't.
Connecticut didn't.
I saw the "booth" space.
Sad weak poop.
I've seen bigger better sales conferences.
Seriously, I don't blame any State for not bothering, its shite.
Looks exactly like it was thrown together at the last minute by people with no idea what they are doing. Not even a decent budget.
Trump is shit at everything he tries. It's almost impressive how he manages to fuck up everything he ever does.
They could have done more "traveling" things like they did at the bicentennial which had several exhibits going all around the country for about a year so that many people had the opportunity to see and participate.
We're too fucking cheap for decent things now. A "state fair" that looks like it was put on by someone who has never set foot in a state fair ever.
Of course. Most state fairs are fun to wander around stoned off your ass. They couldn't even get Sham Wow Vince to show up.
You sir, are a true expert in State Fairs. It isnt a state fair without at least a geek (no chicken’s heads bitten off anymore, but garter snakes still allowed) and a psychic reading a crystal ball.
OMG, LMAO!!!!!
My daughter was *glued to that exhibit* when we went to the Puyallup Fair when she was like 7. It was *hilarious*. XD XD XD
"You like me. You really like me"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YvqpyDWvDyE
Being from the Mon Valley of Pittsburgh Baconz can say my family and I have a PRO Union stance every day of the week. And twice on Sundays for over 100 years.
Don't get me started on women's rights....
Also, prison is one of the places I could see a willingness to really read Marx. You can only do so many pushups. Dude isn't exactly an easy or pleasant read.
"The party of the first part, to be know henceforth in this contract as the party of the first part, shall be called 'The Party of the First Part..."
The first time I actually read Karl Marx was in a philosophy class about three years ago. It was just a little essay but wow it was brutal to read. The man is not a wordsmith.
I can think of someone else who should have run for office from prison.