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Once upon a time there was a person with the unnoticeable name of Mary Harris, born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1837, who lived a private life of suffering and failure. Her parents, fleeing Ireland’s Great Hunger, brought her as a teenager to Canada, where she briefly attended a Toronto teachers’ school, before she went to Monroe, Michigan, where she briefly taught school in a convent. A skilled seamstress from a girl, she left Monroe for Chicago, where she opened a dress shop. But she moved on yet again, to Memphis, where in 1861 she married George Jones, an organizer of his fellow iron foundry workers, to whom she quickly bore four children. Then her worst tragedy hit, the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1867, which wiped out all five members of her family. Back in Chicago, she reopened her dress shop, to have it destroyed by the Chicago Fire of 1871. Disaster had crowded on disaster throughout her entire blighted life, leaving no record of having done a single thing memorable.

America’s Best Made-Up Person

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Mother Jones

This quote perfectly exemplifies Mother Jones, a fierce and forceful labor activist who was dubbed "the most dangerous woman in America" by a US district attorney.

A photo of Mother Jones with a quote of hers reading, "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living."

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Rising up out of the Black Sludge Bath comes this blob of misery. Again. You're late to the game Baron. Trump's already said "Democrats would rig". Which is rather weird that this also coincides with the latest trend: Blowing up Ballot Boxes! Hmmp. So strange.

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Source 1 - P2025 website

Source 2 - Report from MotherJones

thank you very much for the news.

[Image ID: Depicted is the Destiel meme where Castiel tells Dean that he loves him. Dean's answer was edited to read '50 conservative think tanks in the US using dark money are pushing to completely control the government, turn the whole country into an even worse Christian theocracy, and completely erase all LGBTQ+ people from existence. It's called Project 2025' /.End ID]

Also a further note: This groups plan seems to rely heavily on a Republican win in the presidential election 2024 after which the whole U. S. federal government is supposed to be placed under direct presidential (Trump in this case) control. I don't know how feasible such a plan is even if the Republicans won, but let this serve as a reminder to

FUCKING VOTE!

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Republicans rely on people who would rather vote Democrat than Republican not voting 'cause they don't see any sense in it anymore/also don't want to support Democrats 'cause "even though they are the lesser evil they're not good"! By not voting you just play into their hands. This Project 2025 is nothing than a direct attack on democracy and if you still want to have a vote that counts in the future please vote. An example of what they want to do is to bring the FEC (Federal Election Commission) which enforces the campaign finance law under their control by only instating Republican commissioners (right now there are just as much Republicans as Democrats).

Please, please get as many people to vote as possible. Tell your family and friends about this. Reblog posts about how voting helps and what Republicans have planned even if you may not be able to vote in America yourself share those things for your American followers.

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Today in Labor History November 30, 1930: Mother Jones died, age 100, in Silver Spring, Maryland. She was an organizer or "walking delegate" for the United Mine Workers (UMW), famous for her bravado. When she and 3,000 women were released by a militia after being held all night in McAdoo, Pennsylvania, they marched straight to the hotel housing the soldiers and ate their breakfast. Even well into her 90s, she still roamed through the hills of West Virginia, encouraging miners to organize.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #MotherJones #union #strike #solidarity #FreeSpeech #prison #coal #mining #WestVirginia

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From the motherjones article:

A Clark County elections spokesperson assured me that elections staffers do, in fact, text voters—and call and email and even send them notices in the mail, and then continue to do so right up to the deadline.

❗️Nevada voters - this is going to sound weird, but PICK UP YOUR PHONE if an unknown number calls.

**Lots of signatures on ballots are not matching and your ballot may need to be fixed.

TLDR; yes, signature matching is an antiquated way to verify ballots but it is still being used. Reportedly thousands of ballots here need to be cured. Answer the phone!

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"Women at Work"

Another UAW painting, this one details through intricate artistry a portion of women's history and involvement in labor and the labor movement. Mother Jones, just one of many female labor organizers, was singled out in the painting and portrayed here for her strike efforts in Ludlow, Colorado, the aftermath of which ended in massacre by anti-strike militia.

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DISCOTECA

POEMARIO

Musa... Daniela Bula

1

A foto en posición de embeleso

En que enseña su peculiar semblante

Acercándose con audacia no obstante

Al agarrarla de la cintura

Y plasmarle un beso

Enamorado prendado al verte

Late mi corazón más aprisa por minuto

En que mis manos al tenerte

Sentirte toda en hurto

En la romántica suerte

En la noche inefable bailando

En la discoteca a surto

2

En mi faz la gota de sudor peregrina

A energía recobrar

Salada llegando a mi boca cristalina

A rostro entre luces a brillar

Enfrente a música rítmica mirar en pelo tu caída

Se alborota y aloca con mucho furor

En que la discoteca en si cual pasión en vida

Declarándonos sin hablar bailando nuestro corazón por amor

3

En la pista de baile en que tu rostro versallesco

Coquetísimo cual esencia por aroma

En que me enamora en saliz cual exótica voz

En movimiento me seduces ahí al besarme en la boca

4

Toda tú me enamoras

En que de ti solo reverbera

Fiesta algarabía y sonrisa verdadera

En que a gestos únicos y sutiles asomas

Aunado a tu voz en trino

Cual acentos frágiles

Asen vibrar mi oído

Cuando tus manos me rosan

La espalda bailando agiles

5

En fotografía tú inefable figura

En que en si por pose abreviada

En que a flashazo por natura

Tu coquetería y travesura ahí en la discoteca estampada

Por cual romántica memoria

A son cosmopolitano sales

A lo que en ti inefablemente veo

Por astur en tu victoria

Cual don corporales tienes

Única en ti a furor por meneo

6

Coñac queso y mujer la vida

Por entonces en la mesa a saborear

En que el restaurante toma por ti vida

La platica en mí por ti al escuchar

7

Al llegar por saludo un abrazo

Del cual de si única tan mía

A la par de si te tenía

A ritmo bailando en cada paso

Caras en si de ti tu única ternura

Entre luces murmullos y cigarros

Por estaca de si aduna

Las estrellas y el cielo con todos sus astros

8

Ritmo a sudores bulliciosos

Entre la gente tú y nadie más que yo

Nadie ni nada nos veía

Paradójicamente entre la gente la escena en la pista

De baile por amor

Dices y digo la canción que dijo

A barullo de interprete cual voz

Canción favorita aduna

Yo de ti mirador

Por astur cual mas en eso

Cerveza o licor cual alma impediosa

Y juvenil divirtiéndonos

Sanamente sin decirnos nada

Hablándonos mutuamente con

Gestos bailando el corazón

9

Por fin ahí en tiempo De tu día mi día

En que a pos vendrá

A paso en que venia a cita romántica tu y yo

en fin de semana por la tarde ahí en la ciudad ya

yo caminando apresurado entre los coches

y la gente y ella hermosa mas hermosa entonces también

entre el trafico por coches en sus clausond ahí

los dos cada quien apurados viendo

el reloj cual tortolos enamorados llevando yo

rosa roja en mano por llegar

a la discoteca a tiempo antes que tu a la vez

22 AGOSTO 2011

DANIEL GARCÍA ROMÁN

AUTOR EL ZORRO

Aclaraciones este poemario es ajustado a la agenda literaria 2024 actualizado en su musa

Daniel García Román

El zorro

Octubre 2024

Centro de operaciones vía gps satelital

Direccion de domicilio

Avenida orquidea calle durango numero 20 colonia san marcial fortin veracruz mexico código postal 94476

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NEW: With little fanfare, Trump said over the weekend he would implement "remigration"—a policy proposal popular with the far right in Europe to return immigrants to their native lands that the AP described as "a soft-style ethnic cleansing."

— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) September 17, 2024

“AP described as "a soft-style ethnic cleansing."”

Western press has abandoned all pretense of journalism

— Sunny Singh (@ProfSunnySingh) September 18, 2024

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New York Supreme Court Schedules Criminal Trial Against Trump

Former President Donald Trump, 2024. | Photo: X/ @MotherJones Newsletter Donald Trump is charged with 34 offenses related to the US$130,000 he paid to porn actress Stormy Daniel. On Thursday, Acting New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan announced that former President Donald Trump will stand trial for alleged irregular payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels starting on March 25. The…

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NPR reported that Mike Johnson has ties to the New Apostolic Reformation, an extreme far-right Christian movement seeking to dissolve the US’s separation between church and state by “any means necessary.” @motherjones

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Ilhan Omar

The Real Reason House Republicans Kicked Ilhan Omar off the Foreign Affairs Committee;

It’s not about anything she said. 

It’s about racism and Islamophobia.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/ilhan-omar-foreign-affairs-racism/ via @MotherJones

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I have a book rec, if you'd like to read an entire book on this topic and also how it relates to American history - "Craft: An American History" by Glenn Adamson.

(ID: the cover of Craft: An American History by Glenn Adamson. The top shows the lower half of John Singleton Copley's 1768 painting titled Paul Revere, the middle shows the title and author on an orange background, and the bottom shows a portion of Jessie B. Telfair's Freedom Quilt from 1978.)

The book's dust cover description is a good summary:

At the center of the United States' economic and social development, according to conventional wisdom, are industry and technology -- while craftspeople and handmade objects are relegated to a bygone past. Renowned historian Glenn Adamson turns that narrative on its head in this innovative account, revealing makers' central role in shaping America's identity. Examine any phase of the nation's struggle to define itself, and artisans are there -- from the silversmith Paul Revere and the revolutionary carpenters and blacksmiths who hurled tea intoBoston Harbor, to today's "maker movement." From MotherJones to Rosiethe Riveter. From Betsy Ross to Rosa Parks. From suffrage banners to the AIDS Quilt.

Adamson shows that craft has long been implicated in debates around equality, education, and class. Artisanshiphas has often been a site of resistance for oppresed people,such as enslaved African Americans whose skilled labor might confer hard-won agency under bondage, or the Native American makers who adapted traditional arts into statements of modernity. Theirs are among the array of memorable portraits of Americans both celebrated and unfamiliar in this richly peopled book. As Adamson argues, these artisans' stories speak to our collective striving toward a more perfect union. From the beginning, America had to be -- and still remains to be -- crafted.

“We don’t value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way!”

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson, 1995

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On This Day...

Mary Harris Jones, known as "Mother Jones", the labor organizer for the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers, passed away on November 30, 1930. Described as “the most dangerous woman in the country” and the “Joan of Arc of the coal fields,” she helped form the Industrial Workers of the World and organized a children’s march to President Theodore Roosevelt’s home to protest rampant use of child labor in Pennsylvania mines.