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John Leavitt
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@Leavittalone from Twitter . Writer and cartoonist. Seen in The Toast, New Yorker, The Awl, The Nib, Racked, The Rumpus, The Baffler, etc. That guy you met at that party once. http://www.leavittalone.com/
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They had to briefly momento their mori and it broke then
November 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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i guess the thing is that the trump inner circle now entirely consists of extremely online freaks high on their own supply, and while trump has become mostly that he occasionally remembers his earlier life as an urbane new yorker for whom glitz and media approbation were the highest goals
November 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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immigrants joined in the songs, presumably because they did not know the words, and the leaflets, all of them in English, went unread. By 1919 Ford had traded its melting pot and elaborate welfare program for an extensive network of spies and a practice of firing workers for disloyalty to the nation or the corporation. Employers saw these programs as part of a broad effort to inoculate immigrant workers against the dangers of bolshevism and other forms of radicalism. They called their new offensive, which mixed lockouts, industrial espionage, and private armies and police forces with welfare plans and company unions, the "American Plan." 38 State and local governments' own version of one-hundred-percent Americanism involved the widespread use of injunctions and mounted police to quell strikes. Workers usually lost these struggles, and the new organizations that had provided the context for integrating the new immigrants were demolished. During the Red Scare, federal and local authorities raided meeting places, closed down presses, seized organizational records, and jailed or simply deported immigrant activists, decimating the ranks of radical labor in immigrant communities. Never more than a tiny minority in any immigrant community, the radicals had played key roles in organizing and leading the mass strikes of recent unskilled workers, and they linked immigrant communities to trade unions, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the Socialist and Communist parties, and other organizations that provided alternative forms of socialization for people who were still trying to understand the society in which they found themselves. 3 The Red Scare amounted to a kind of enforced Americanization
November 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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bbburgerrr.bsky.social
can’t have those scary foreigners bringing their evil ideas like unions and socialism with em
an excerpt from “Americanization from the Bottom Up: Immigration and the Remaking of the Working Class in the United States, 1880-1930” by James R. Barrett: “Henry Ford launched the most ambitious of these plans at his Highland Park Model T plant as part of the Five Dollar Day plan, which, beginning in 1914, combined assembly-line technology with a shorter work day, incentive pay, and an elaborate personnel management system. Accepting prevailing Progressive notions that environment shaped one's behavior and attitudes, Ford engineers established a Sociology Department to remake the lives of their immigrant workers and win them over to thrift, efficiency, and company loyalty. Case workers fanned out into Detroit's working-class neighborhoods, ready to fight for the hearts and minds of the immigrant auto workers. They investigated each worker's home life as well as his work record, and one could qualify for the Five Dollar Day incentive pay only after demonstrating the proper home environment and related middle-class values. Thus the company sought to show workers not only the "right way to work" but also the "right way to live." In describing the work of his Sociology Department, Ford argued that "these men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live." (And he meant business. When about nine hundred workers of Greek or Russian extraction missed work to celebrate Orthodox Christmas-on the Julian calendar, hence thirteen days after Christmas on the Gregorian calendar - he summarily fired them all. "If these men are to make their home in America," he argued, "they should observe American holidays.") Other companies established similar plans: meat packers, steel mills, farm implement manufacturers, textile plants, and others. By the spring of 1919, there were at least eight hundred industrial plants sponsoring their own classes or working in conjunction with the YMCA and other agencies to put on evening or plant classes.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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I was asked (twice) to contribute to a steampunk anthology and I was like “yes but only if we make it very clear combining high technology and Victorian viewpoints would be Very Very Bad”
November 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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seantcollins.com
For untold years the elite grift has depended on acting like we all believe the same things. Turning on a dime to "No it's fine, you can say slurs now, King President can install a Dave & Busters in the White House if he wants" fucks the whole game up. They haven't realized this yet, but they will.
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Summers/Epstein + Nuzzi/RFK/Lizza has done more than anything else to help me understand why elites have capitulated to fascism while normal ppl haven't. After decades of hot air from elites/their institutions about freedom, democracy, equality etc, they reveal they have no beliefs or morals at all
November 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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hey now, you're a rockstar, get paid
November 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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do not do a heist i will be upset
November 28, 2025 at 5:26 AM