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Ret. Labor Hist Prof in Texas; river rat; Hannibal MO roots; singer-songwriter; author of 7 books, including Hard Times in an American Workhouse, 1853-1920 (LSU Press 2024) and Shantyboats and Roustabouts: The River Poor of St. Louis, 1875-1930 (2023).
Dr. Tom Alter is at the forefront of resistance to the far right's attacks on universities. Please help support if you can.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fr...
Rights of free speech under fire in Texas. actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...
Epstein didnβt build the systemβhe refined it. The modeling industry was the real pipeline: visas gamed, girls exploited, silence enforced. Trumpβs agency played its part. This wasnβt a scandal. It was infrastructure. And it didnβt collapse. It rebranded. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1CSK...
Superb analysis.
Happy Juneteenth!
Thugs
"What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts." ISAIAH 3:15, King James Version.
Sending the Marines to shut this down is 2025's Footloose remake.
That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists β and that they both individually wield such massive power β is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.
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"I was aware that many men who have accumulated more millions of money than they can ever use have shown a rabid hunger for more, and have not scrupled to cheat the ignorant and the helpless out of their poor servings in order to partially appease that appetite."--Mark Twain, "The Damned Human Race"
Trump's nasty war on working-class and poor people threatens to bring back the days of workhouse horrors.