Very interesting article. Following WWII, this opening gambit to kick the commies out was solidified, and the large unions all shifted to an economics-only paradigm. And that worked for a very long time. The downside of that kind of restricted policy structure is that when the USG and corporate capitalism began joining forces against all workers, finding a way to fight broader anti-working class policies becomes much more difficult. Examples are the decimation of air traffic controllers, the destruction of garment industry unions in the south as companies moved over seas, etc.
With regards to the antipathy of union leaders to workers, I still believe that even a corrupt union is usually (not always) better than no union. Rank and file can, and often do, stand up to corrupt union leadership and reform unions. This has happened in restaurant unions in NYC, in the telco Operators unions, in TWU 100 ... . By the same token, without a union, it is simply impossible to stand up to corporate bosses.
Appreciate the labor history. Sadly, many of America's workers are illiterate and will not benefit from the well written piece. And the people in charge now are complete fucking racist idiots.
Hmmmmm...I wonder who in the White Power House did this?????
Tickets for Iran fans revoked, says federation
Iran's allocation of fan tickets for the group stage of the World Cup has been revoked just days before the start of the tournament, says the country's football federation.
The World Cup, co-hosted by Canada, Mexico and the United States, begins on Thursday, with Iran scheduled to play New Zealand on 15 June and Belgium on 21 June - both in Los Angeles - before facing Egypt in Seattle on 26 June.
Iran's governing body says Fifa regulations state each federation involved in the World Cup receives 8% of the tickets for each of their matches, to distribute to supporters.
It added that it had already begun selling tickets but can no longer provide them to fans, some of whom have already made travel arrangements.
"Depriving Iranian supporters of access to their lawful and official allocation of tickets is an action contrary to the spirit of governing international competitions and the principle of equality among participating countries," the FFIRI statement said.
"This development raises serious questions about the interference of non-sporting and political considerations in the organisation of the world's biggest football event."
The FFIRI also called on Fifa "to uphold the principles of neutrality, fairness, and established regulations".
OT: Well boo hoo fucking hootie hoo hoo. If one country wants to care for their children and not let them get hooked into social media, our shithole should have ZERO FUCKING SAY IN IT!
Canada is also moving towards a ban on social media for the under 16 set. Since social media companies have proven themselves unwilling to control their own platforms, the government is stepping in.
I don't particularly like it, but something needs to be done.
My niece and her husband allow absolutely no screen time for their kids - no tv, no computer, no phones. The eldest child (age 7) reads three grades above the class, does mental math, and writes stories to read to classmates. The next child at 4 is reading and beginning to write. The grand parents on both sides were - in the beginning - kind of horrified at the idea of no TV, etc. Now, everyone is completely behind the idea. Oh and my niece and her husband both work full time, so no stay at home parent.
That is really good, and I would just say: Watch what the tech bros are doing with their kids and their kids' education. It's largely not on screens and I've heard they limit the time on it. The evidence is piling up all around us that it's not good. :(
I didn't allow my daughter screen time until she was 12. No TV (videos, but no commercial TV at my house), no social media until she was a sophomore in HS, and no cell phone until her senior year.
That was a hard fucking figh to fight b/c it set her apart from her peers.
I have zero issue with it. It is rotting their brains and making the younger generations stupider, less curious, more narcissistic, LESS EMPATHETIC (which is a real fucking preoblem right now) and with less critical thinking abilities.
The younger 2 generations score significantly lower on all measures of cognitive ability compared to their older cohorts.
It is 100% this technology.
What is the benefit? Why do people keep insisting under 16s have some right to this and/or it will be harmful to them?
I'm against it just from the whole "government having to intervene" point of view. I agree social media itself is a pox on humanity, my objections are more about the government legislating it (because they'll mess it up somehow) than the desired result of that legislation.
Got it. I guess I would agree with that if the companies would be willing to reaonably police themselves but they have been proven to not be capable of doing that. :(
...The committee’s report, published Monday, alleged that Minnesota state officials, including Walz and Ellison, were “aware of widespread taxpayer fraud in federally funded social programs for years” and did not take steps to stop it...
This provoked one of those vivid daytime reveries that I enjoy so much:
This one featured powerful "people of conscience" who'd decided that enough was enough, but à la Agnew, Vance gotta go first. Diligent investigation found one of the couches was underage...
Bring it. With investigations (from this admin) comes poorly thought out charges. And with charges comes discovery. And that is where the popcorn comes in.
See the BBC lawsuit for $10 large that now sees the DOJ getting raked over the coals for missing court ordered deadlines and being told "You WILL explain yourselves or be sanctioned"
"Out of an abundance of caution, (Stellantis is) taking this action and advising owners of these vehicles to park away from structures or other vehicles..."
If I owned one of the afflicted vehicles, my caution would have me parking it at the dealership that sold me the menace
Yeah. Thanks for the story! John L Lewis never wanted Labor to align too closely with either party, because Taft Hartley and Harry Truman strikebreaking during the Korean war showed that neither party could be trusted. But just remember, the first minimum wage was 25 cents an hour in the middle of the Depression. Workers were getting a lot less, and kids were starving to death. Mandatory education until 10th grade and mandatory retirement at 65 were ways to make unemployment statistics lower. Age Discrimination? What age discrimination? You worked from the time you were old enough to stand and talk until the day you died, 14 hours a day, no bathroom breaks, Sundays included. (The plutocrats were job creators? Yeah, right.)
Please tell a story with a happy ending next. Harry Bridges and the Longshoremen in San Francisco, the real On The Waterfront. As Harry said, “they kept trying to prove I was a Communist, and couldn’t, because I never joined the Party.”. Harry was a great American, born in Australia, with an infectious smile. How could anyone so nice be dangerous?
I wonder how many people today understand the allure of the Communist Party in the 20's and 30's to the more progressive members of the US population.
Not just the workers' rights aspect, which the Democratic Party was, obviously, already adopting in the 30's, but the ideals of racial equality and economic justice for the poor and immigrants.
'Hell Bent for Election,' 1944: The International Union United Automobile Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (Richard T. Frankensteen and Walter Reuther) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzjlMlEvv4U
The Cold War era has always fascinated me because the nation so desperately wanted to put on this perfect, placid, all-American facade (hence the rise of sitcoms like Leave It To Beaver and that ilk) but there was so much tension boiling up behind the scenes, and it took everything in the FDR, Truman, and Eisenhower administration's power to keep it contained.
And as we see here, containment came at a heavy price for a lot of people.
There's a book that I haven't yet read called "The Way We Never Were" about precisely this issue. How all that perfect "Woo ho, the 50s were great!!!!!" was bullshit.
I did a profile on U.S. senator's wife years ago. She was all about how the '50s were "just like 'Happy Days.'"
Yes, life for many was like a TV show with a Jewish tough guy in a leather jacket who jumped sharks on skis and gave life lessons to the dorks, but for much of America life sucked goat testicles. ... Like the black people in the South where she grew up. Life was no TV show for them.
Hell, I remember a guy who moved, for like a year, to the small town where I grew up, Italian Catholic guy. I can't remember what his last name was, but lots of folks teased him as "Tony Manudo." He was basically ostracized, so of course I was nice to him, one of the few if not the only people who was. And that was in the '70s.
Anyone considered different was immediately made to feel their given role of inferiority in that world. And being Catholic put people in definite "other" territory in a town where the nearest Catholic church was probably 50 miles away.
LA had the Braceros and the Zoot Suit riots in the 1940s. After Upton Sinclair’s EPIC campaign for governor was murdered, the big money guys clamped down hard. LAPD was pretty awful. So was organized crime.
California has never been a libtard Socialist paradise, but a land stolen from Mexico, which means stolen from the Native Americans, that Latinos have been fighting ever since to reclaim from the likes of Leland Stanford. (It really, really sucks about Cesar Chavez. Can’t Labor have just a few heros?)
Very interesting article. Following WWII, this opening gambit to kick the commies out was solidified, and the large unions all shifted to an economics-only paradigm. And that worked for a very long time. The downside of that kind of restricted policy structure is that when the USG and corporate capitalism began joining forces against all workers, finding a way to fight broader anti-working class policies becomes much more difficult. Examples are the decimation of air traffic controllers, the destruction of garment industry unions in the south as companies moved over seas, etc.
With regards to the antipathy of union leaders to workers, I still believe that even a corrupt union is usually (not always) better than no union. Rank and file can, and often do, stand up to corrupt union leadership and reform unions. This has happened in restaurant unions in NYC, in the telco Operators unions, in TWU 100 ... . By the same token, without a union, it is simply impossible to stand up to corporate bosses.
Really interesting, I had no idea!
Appreciate the labor history. Sadly, many of America's workers are illiterate and will not benefit from the well written piece. And the people in charge now are complete fucking racist idiots.
👏🏼 Yet another "in unionizing history" piece, Lord Erik of Loomis!! 🫡
Ya know what breaks a strike really quickly? Pay the workers, they'll go back to work that same day!
Five years later Truman seized our Topeka meat packing plant—Morrell’s.
Ta, Erik. I always learn something whenever you post.
Hmmmmm...I wonder who in the White Power House did this?????
Tickets for Iran fans revoked, says federation
Iran's allocation of fan tickets for the group stage of the World Cup has been revoked just days before the start of the tournament, says the country's football federation.
The World Cup, co-hosted by Canada, Mexico and the United States, begins on Thursday, with Iran scheduled to play New Zealand on 15 June and Belgium on 21 June - both in Los Angeles - before facing Egypt in Seattle on 26 June.
Iran's governing body says Fifa regulations state each federation involved in the World Cup receives 8% of the tickets for each of their matches, to distribute to supporters.
It added that it had already begun selling tickets but can no longer provide them to fans, some of whom have already made travel arrangements.
"Depriving Iranian supporters of access to their lawful and official allocation of tickets is an action contrary to the spirit of governing international competitions and the principle of equality among participating countries," the FFIRI statement said.
"This development raises serious questions about the interference of non-sporting and political considerations in the organisation of the world's biggest football event."
The FFIRI also called on Fifa "to uphold the principles of neutrality, fairness, and established regulations".
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c9q2vrdx0ewo
"And also called upon the Mongol MC Club members to please use their turn signals"
Miller. Miller, btw, was what British sailors called rats when they ate them because of meat shortages.
OT: Well boo hoo fucking hootie hoo hoo. If one country wants to care for their children and not let them get hooked into social media, our shithole should have ZERO FUCKING SAY IN IT!
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/09/white-house-urges-uk-not-ban-social-media-under-16s
Canada is also moving towards a ban on social media for the under 16 set. Since social media companies have proven themselves unwilling to control their own platforms, the government is stepping in.
I don't particularly like it, but something needs to be done.
My niece and her husband allow absolutely no screen time for their kids - no tv, no computer, no phones. The eldest child (age 7) reads three grades above the class, does mental math, and writes stories to read to classmates. The next child at 4 is reading and beginning to write. The grand parents on both sides were - in the beginning - kind of horrified at the idea of no TV, etc. Now, everyone is completely behind the idea. Oh and my niece and her husband both work full time, so no stay at home parent.
That is really good, and I would just say: Watch what the tech bros are doing with their kids and their kids' education. It's largely not on screens and I've heard they limit the time on it. The evidence is piling up all around us that it's not good. :(
I didn't allow my daughter screen time until she was 12. No TV (videos, but no commercial TV at my house), no social media until she was a sophomore in HS, and no cell phone until her senior year.
That was a hard fucking figh to fight b/c it set her apart from her peers.
I have zero issue with it. It is rotting their brains and making the younger generations stupider, less curious, more narcissistic, LESS EMPATHETIC (which is a real fucking preoblem right now) and with less critical thinking abilities.
The younger 2 generations score significantly lower on all measures of cognitive ability compared to their older cohorts.
It is 100% this technology.
What is the benefit? Why do people keep insisting under 16s have some right to this and/or it will be harmful to them?
I don't get it.
I'm against it just from the whole "government having to intervene" point of view. I agree social media itself is a pox on humanity, my objections are more about the government legislating it (because they'll mess it up somehow) than the desired result of that legislation.
Got it. I guess I would agree with that if the companies would be willing to reaonably police themselves but they have been proven to not be capable of doing that. :(
"you wanted Independence, didn't you?"
LOL!
𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬ing of terrible people doing pointless shit,
𝗩𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗚𝗼𝘃. 𝗧𝗶𝗺 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝘇 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘁𝗮 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗢𝗝 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
...The committee’s report, published Monday, alleged that Minnesota state officials, including Walz and Ellison, were “aware of widespread taxpayer fraud in federally funded social programs for years” and did not take steps to stop it...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/vance-refers-gov-tim-walz-minnesota-attorney-general-doj-fraud-investi-rcna349125
This provoked one of those vivid daytime reveries that I enjoy so much:
This one featured powerful "people of conscience" who'd decided that enough was enough, but à la Agnew, Vance gotta go first. Diligent investigation found one of the couches was underage...
What an utter waste of time and more money. Vance will fail here too, adding to his resume.
Bring it. With investigations (from this admin) comes poorly thought out charges. And with charges comes discovery. And that is where the popcorn comes in.
See the BBC lawsuit for $10 large that now sees the DOJ getting raked over the coals for missing court ordered deadlines and being told "You WILL explain yourselves or be sanctioned"
We know the real reason Tammy Faye Vance did this--It's payback for Tim Walz calling Republicans "Weird"!
This "fraud" thing is just more fucking bullshit aimed at "liberal" states.
If we ever get another opportunity we need to Reconstruct the fuck out of these fascists. I don't care how much people howl. It has to be done.
The howling means it's working.
Politics is an ugly game.
I didn't know the Canyonero was a Jeep made vehicle.
"Top of the line in utility sports, Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chrysler-recall-jeeps-catch-fire-even-turned-off/
Should have upsold the BBQ option
"Out of an abundance of caution, (Stellantis is) taking this action and advising owners of these vehicles to park away from structures or other vehicles..."
If I owned one of the afflicted vehicles, my caution would have me parking it at the dealership that sold me the menace
Also see BMW. Had one incinerate in front of my apartment at 2am.
somebody used their turn signal earlier.
That initiates the self destruct sequence.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah. Thanks for the story! John L Lewis never wanted Labor to align too closely with either party, because Taft Hartley and Harry Truman strikebreaking during the Korean war showed that neither party could be trusted. But just remember, the first minimum wage was 25 cents an hour in the middle of the Depression. Workers were getting a lot less, and kids were starving to death. Mandatory education until 10th grade and mandatory retirement at 65 were ways to make unemployment statistics lower. Age Discrimination? What age discrimination? You worked from the time you were old enough to stand and talk until the day you died, 14 hours a day, no bathroom breaks, Sundays included. (The plutocrats were job creators? Yeah, right.)
Please tell a story with a happy ending next. Harry Bridges and the Longshoremen in San Francisco, the real On The Waterfront. As Harry said, “they kept trying to prove I was a Communist, and couldn’t, because I never joined the Party.”. Harry was a great American, born in Australia, with an infectious smile. How could anyone so nice be dangerous?
I wonder how many people today understand the allure of the Communist Party in the 20's and 30's to the more progressive members of the US population.
Not just the workers' rights aspect, which the Democratic Party was, obviously, already adopting in the 30's, but the ideals of racial equality and economic justice for the poor and immigrants.
I believe your autocorrect incorrectly spelled 'lip service' as 'ideals'. ;)
'Hell Bent for Election,' 1944: The International Union United Automobile Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (Richard T. Frankensteen and Walter Reuther) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzjlMlEvv4U
Nice find mem.
The Cold War era has always fascinated me because the nation so desperately wanted to put on this perfect, placid, all-American facade (hence the rise of sitcoms like Leave It To Beaver and that ilk) but there was so much tension boiling up behind the scenes, and it took everything in the FDR, Truman, and Eisenhower administration's power to keep it contained.
And as we see here, containment came at a heavy price for a lot of people.
but even with the Cleavers there was a dark side - Eddie Haskell and Clarence Rutherford
aw come on, clarence rutherford libelz.
i'll give you eddie haskell, even if he did grow up to be a cop.
Personally I always identified with Eddie - he was so predictable and transparent - "Oh you look lovely today Mrs Cleaver"
hope you don't get the barbara billingsley side-eye when you do it, though. :)
Lumpy could be kind of a bully
in a lumpy kind of way
There's a book that I haven't yet read called "The Way We Never Were" about precisely this issue. How all that perfect "Woo ho, the 50s were great!!!!!" was bullshit.
I did a profile on U.S. senator's wife years ago. She was all about how the '50s were "just like 'Happy Days.'"
Yes, life for many was like a TV show with a Jewish tough guy in a leather jacket who jumped sharks on skis and gave life lessons to the dorks, but for much of America life sucked goat testicles. ... Like the black people in the South where she grew up. Life was no TV show for them.
Hell, I remember a guy who moved, for like a year, to the small town where I grew up, Italian Catholic guy. I can't remember what his last name was, but lots of folks teased him as "Tony Manudo." He was basically ostracized, so of course I was nice to him, one of the few if not the only people who was. And that was in the '70s.
Anyone considered different was immediately made to feel their given role of inferiority in that world. And being Catholic put people in definite "other" territory in a town where the nearest Catholic church was probably 50 miles away.
I've got that one at home! It's SO GOOD.
LA had the Braceros and the Zoot Suit riots in the 1940s. After Upton Sinclair’s EPIC campaign for governor was murdered, the big money guys clamped down hard. LAPD was pretty awful. So was organized crime.
California has never been a libtard Socialist paradise, but a land stolen from Mexico, which means stolen from the Native Americans, that Latinos have been fighting ever since to reclaim from the likes of Leland Stanford. (It really, really sucks about Cesar Chavez. Can’t Labor have just a few heros?)