This Day in Labor History: November 8, 1970. Congress approved the Reorganization Acts Amendment that laid the groundwork for the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. Let's talk about how the EPA is a pro-worker agency, counter to those who want to divide labor and environmentalists!

Young people have failed the world.

I don't care if I am the last person on earth to refuse to use AI, but I am disabling this satanic technology from every operation I use. Without human thought, what possible reason do we have to live?

I really need N/A beer to be shittier, thanks.... www.fox10tv.com/2025/11/04/b...

Mamdani was elected and already NYC is transing the trains.

This Day in Labor History: November 7, 1861. The U.S. Army occupied the South Carolina sea islands. Having to deal with the existence of thousands of slaves with no masters, the military engaged in what became known as the Port Royal Experiment. Would black people grow cotton without the whip? Uh..

Weekend at Donnie's

This Day in Labor History: November 5, 1916. Cop thugs opened fire on a group of IWW organizers and workers attempting to land in Everett, Washington. Let's talk about the horrors of the Everett Massacre and the murderous ways of cops.

Time to repeal Virginia's right to work law. Should be the first bill.

Tonight's real lesson for everyone on the internet is that if only the Democrats nominated your preferred candidate every time, they will always win. This is true left, liberal, and centrist.

Tom Brady may in fact not be a human www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

I refuse to believe that Donald Trump has never thrown things at people when angry, which is like 95% of his life.

No lies told.

Allow me to build on this a bit and say the fundamental divide in the Democratic Party is not some warmed over 2016 battle over left vs. center. It's about who communicates politics directly and effectively and who is still listening to Clinton-era consultants.

This Day in Labor History: November 4, 1942. Copper miners in Butte, Montana went on strike to protest the use of Black miners on the job. Worse, these were members of the leftist Mine, Mill. Let's talk about hate strikes and white workers again choosing their racial identity over class identity!

Good morning! Dick Cheney is dead and I have an obituary that I wrote all the way back in 2017 about this monster! www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/cheney

Who do I hold accountable for this 4:30 sunset?

I see November 2 is not too early to be inundated with Christmas commercials

Oh hey, am caught up on grading. And that will last for 47 hours.....But hey, I'm caught up on grading!

This Day in Labor History: November 2, 1909. The Industrial Workers of the World called a free speech strike in Spokane, Washington. Let's talk about this foundational moment for the IWW.

This Day in Labor History: November 1, 1879. The Carlisle Indian School opened in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. This school, central to the genocidal project to end Native American culture in the late nineteenth century, was replicated across the nation. Work was central to the genocidal project!

This Day in Labor History: October 31, 1978. President Jimmy Carter signed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. Let's talk about this important piece of legislation that extended civil rights and worker rights!

This Day in Labor History: October 30, 1837. Nicholas Farwell, a train engineer toiling for the Boston and Worcester Rail Road Corporation fell off a train while at work and had his hand crushed by the train. Farwell sued the company for damages. Judge said, nope! Nothing for the injured workers!

This Day in Labor History: October 29, 1962. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference announced Operation Breadbasket, a boycott campaign against companies that refused to hire African-Americans. Let's talk about this core part of civil rights worker activism and the rise of Jesse Jackson!

This Day in Labor History: October 28, 1793. Eli Whitney submitted a patent for his invention known as the cotton gin. Let's talk about the massive transformation this caused for labor, north and south.

Having seen those deer, you actually could kick them if you wanted. Whether it has happened or not, I don't know, but they really do not fear humans at all, you can get close enough to smell them and they don't flinch.

This Day in Labor History: October 27, 1948. An air inversion trapped the pollution spewed out by U.S. Steel-owned factories in Donora, Pennsylvania. The Donora Smog killed 20 people and sickened 6000 others. Let's talk about this horrible moment and how it spurred pollution controls!

One of the sobering things about grading on the class management website is seeing how many students looked at their midterm grade. 7 of 22!

This Day in Labor History: October 26, 1825. The Erie Canal opened, eight years after construction commenced. This engineering marvel would have enormous impacts on the future of American work, including spurring ever-greater industrialization. It also killed over 1,000 workers building it!

This Day in Labor History: October 25, 1940. John L. Lewis gave a speech denouncing Franklin Delano Roosevelt and endorsing the Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie. This alienated Lewis from the rest of the CIO, which he had founded and funded. Let's talk about this weird moment.

I am highly disappointed in Deion Sanders for his well-done steak choices. www.espn.com/college-foot...

This Day in Labor History: October 23, 1995. John Sweeney won the election to become president of the AFL-CIO. Let's talk about this brave but ultimately failed attempted to rejuvenate organized labor through better leadership and a real commitment to organizing!

This Day in Labor History: October 22, 1945. Workers in the Charleston, South Carolina tobacco factories walked off the job. Let's talk about this multiracial strike in a time and place when that was not so expected!

The cops murdered Doug Martin www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

This Day in Labor History: October 20, 1969. A construction worker named Clarence Borel filed suit against eleven companies for asbestos exposure. Let's talk about workers starting to fight against being killed by asbestos!

This Day in Labor History: October 19, 1980. The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) forced the textile company J.P. Stevens to sign a contract for the first time in North Carolina and Alabama. Let's talk this epic campaign, made famous by the film Norma Rae!

This Day in Labor History: October 18, 1861. The Phulaguri Uprising began in Assam, modern-day India. This was a revolt against the British control over Indian workers in the aftermath of the 1857 Indian Rebellion. Let's talk the worker fight against colonialism in India!!

This Day in Labor History: October 17, 1945. A huge demonstration of workers in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, came together to demand the release of Colonel Juan Perón, recently arrested by the generals in charge of the government. Let's talk about Peronism and the Argentine workers!

This Day in Labor History: October 16, 1937. The Buchanan Dam, which dammed the Colorado River of Texas, west of the town of Burnet, was dedicated. Let's talk about how dams and electricity transformed the work lives of rural women!

This Day in Labor History: October 15, 1990. President George H.W. Bush signed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, finally providing a path forward for some of the Cold War’s most exploited workers, Navajo uranium miners, to get some compensation, but even here this did not work well.

This Day in Labor History: October 14, 1948. A rogue anti-militant thug named Jesus Diaz de Leon took over the independent Mexican railroad union with support from Mexican president Miguel Aleman. Let's talk about the Mexican state co-opting Mexican independent unions!

This Day in Labor History: October 11, 1979. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined the chemical company American Cyanamid $10,000 for coercing women workers into sterilization if they wanted to work in jobs where they would be exposed to lead and chemicals!!!!!

This Day in Labor History: October 10, 1917. The red light district of New Orleans, known as Storyville, closed due to the efforts of reformers seeking to eliminate vice from the city. Let's talk about sex work and how banning red light districts just made workers unsafe!

This Day in Labor History: October 9, 1961. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a Tennessee state Supreme Court order revoking the charter of the Highlander Folk School. Let's talk about the most important organizing space int he South for both labor and civil rights!

I continue to stand by my argument that liberals VASTLY overrate the impact of the MSM on contemporary politics, but my god the idea that only Dems have agency to end the shutdown makes me want to throttle some people at the Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare really sums up both Ginsburg and the Kavanaugh hearings in one righteously beautiful paragraph that I agree with in pretty much every way.

This Day in Labor History: October 5, 1886. Henry George accepted the nomination of the United Labor Party for the mayor of New York City, part of his reform campaign to raise the working class through the Single Tax. Let's talk about this interesting moment!

Good day for California Uber Alles to come up on my music shuffle.

This Day in Labor History: October 2, 1968. the Mexican military slaughtered students protesting in the Tlateloco Plaza at the edge of Mexico City. The Tlateloco Massacre demonstrated the complete corruption of the Mexican Revolution’s ideals!!!

This Day in Labor History: October 1, 1910. International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers member James McNamara blew up the Los Angeles Times building because the paper’s publisher, Harrison Gray Otis, was an anti-union scumbag. But the bomb went off early and killed 21 people!!!