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The rise of the DuPont Corporation in the 20th century is one of the most powerful American examples of cousin magic

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Episodes 9 and 10 are public! After an unprecedented year of conflict and growth, the Knights of Labor find themselves under attack from within the labor movement as well as employers and vigilantes. In response, they decide to do some purges.

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To mark VE day, I am posting an old folder of anti-fascist posters from the Spanish Civil War. I originally started collecting these to try and choose an image for my book cover, and kept going because they're objectively awesome. Lost many in the last laptop migration, but the best remain...

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The May Day strikes transformed working-class communities across the country in the image of the Knights of Labor. Hear more about the groundbreaking upheaval of 1886 in the latest episodes of Storm the Fort.

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The building blocks of the national crackdowns are built out of the actions of local things like this, even in our blue states! delawarecall.com/2025/04/30/s...

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This is the big one. On International Worker's Day, learn about the massive upheaval that is largely unknown today but created the first May Day in America and would be the widest and deepest strike wave of the 1800s.

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Getting to the real heart of the Knights of Labor story: their (largely unintentional) creation of the first May Day general strikes, which are still celebrated today as International Workers' Day

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Proceedings of the 1897 Delaware Constitutional Convention catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/01044...

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As a lefty, I generally believe that political changes are usually at least somewhat based in economic shifts. So I was curious if the increased leftward shift and instability in Delaware's politics might be based on the change in our economy. Some basic first looks definitely seem to show that 🧵

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These episodes start to really get into what it means to build and maintain a national labor organization, with several fun strikes in the midst, before getting into the real fun stuff next week with the origins of May Day and the Great Upheaval of 1886.

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Damn, how about that. It's almost like SB 21 was passed to benefit the interests of a small subset of people and wasn't actually going to benefit the vast majorities of companies and certainly not of shareholders www.delawareonline.com/story/money/...

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We recorded this episodes in mid-February as Elon Musk was destroying the federal government and his lawyers were pushing a bill through the Delaware legislature. History will always come back when you least expect it.

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Literally didn't know that trans people existed until 7th grade when an older trans woman came to speak in our UU church about her experience. Later in middle/high school found more communities through Reddit while also going to an arts school where it wasn't stigmatized at all

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The Great Railroad Strike launched a new era of labor organizing in 1877. Four years into an economic depression, thousands of workers across the country spontaneously launched into a violent strike against most of the major railroads, resulting in dozens of deaths 🧵

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In my opinion, this is where the story starts to get more interesting. Surprisingly few people know about the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, and even fewer know that it was the catalyst for the first real national labor movement in American history. These episodes tell that story.

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"Is Terence Powderly a sellout" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

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Spoiler: it's always the one that causes a split

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If there's one thing people know about me, it's that I'm a pissed off teacher If there's one thing people don't know about me, it's what I was doing in Iraq

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Delaware schools this year, for some reason

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The history of organized labor in America goes back to our first financial panics in the early 1800s, and that's where the story starts in Episode 1 🧵

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Only took about 16 months, but Storm the Fort is now officially out. Two episodes a week for the next six weeks.

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This is the classic type of political games that people hate about the Democratic Party right now. Going behind the backs of advocates to introduce a shittier version of a bill that would actually help people without consulting the original sponsor.

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“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.

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Thank you President Trump for the free promotion

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New York as we know it will no longer exist tomorrow

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Hard to get mad at protests that brought more people out to the streets than anything I’ve ever seen before apart from the 2020 George Floyd protests

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