Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea

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writing in @jacobin, @thenation, @slate, @proteanmag, @boulevardlitmag—he/him

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hey I went on Chapo to talk about the Bush-Bell race, STL manhattan project uranium, and the year George H. W. Bush visited the Veiled Prophet Fair www.patreon.com/posts/843-su...

🌭 🎆 🇺🇸 happy july 🌭 🎆 🇺🇸 jacobin.com/2021/07/st-l...

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NEW EPISODE ALERT : Xmas in June continues with STL-based writer Devin O'Shea (@devintoshea.bsky.social) We talk STLPUNK, UwU Lend, Nut Abuse, Late Night Love and so so much more 48minutesofdogsbarking.com

@48minutesofdogs | Linktree48minutesofdogsbarking.com A podcast about the internet

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Wake up babe, new DTOS X QAA collab just dropped

back on the QAA Podcast to talk communist poets, Japanese ultranationalism, and dirty IWW limericks ⤵️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...

‎QAA Podcast: Proleterian Literature & the Red Dragons with Devin O'Shea (E280) on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show QAA Podcast, Ep Proleterian Literature & the Red Dragons with Devin O'Shea (E280) - May 28, 2024

Podcast content is on the way

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Engels, in The Conditions of the Working Class in England in 1844, describes sexual harassment in the workplace. This stuff isn't new, and Marxists have discussed it as long as there have been Marxists. "If the master is mean enough, his mill is his harem."

thanks to Arts & Letters Daily for recommending the Sage of Moberly essay today www.aldaily.com

Arts & Letters Dailywww.aldaily.com Philosophy, literature, ideas, criticism, history, art, music from The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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today is the anniversary of the Funsten Nut Strike walkout — "Carrie Smith argued with the boss for two hours before taking to the picket line with a Bible in one hand and a brick in the other. 'Girls,' she announced, 'we can’t lose!'" jacobin.com/2023/04/st-l... @jacobinmag.bsky.social

“Girls, We Can’t Lose!”: In 1930s St Louis, Black Women Workers Went on Strike and Wonjacobin.com During the Great Depression, St Louis’s Funsten Nut Factory was racially divided. Black workers, mostly women, worked harder and made less than their white counterparts. So they went on strike — and g...

this was good - mix of pg wodehouse, Hemingway, and the grand Budapest hotel

up now on STL Public Radio, check out our St. Louis On the Air conversation on St. Louis' canceled Disneyland ⤵️⤵️ www.stlpr.org/show/st-loui...

Walt Disney dreamed of a St. Louis park. Then the deal went bustwww.stlpr.org In the 1960s, St. Louis took its shot at a Disneyland.

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Prosecutor Challenging A ‘Squad’ Member Is Raising Big Bucks — From Republicanswww.huffpost.com Wesley Bell raised more than $65,000 from donors who also gave to several Missouri Republicans.

www.huffpost.com/entry/wesley...

Prosecutor Challenging A ‘Squad’ Member Is Raising Big Bucks — From Republicanswww.huffpost.com Wesley Bell raised more than $65,000 from donors who also gave to several Missouri Republicans.

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for @jacobinmag.bsky.social, I explain why calling someone a "hoosier" in st. louis is an insult akin to hillbilly, bumpkin, or white trash ⤵️ jacobin.com/2024/05/hoos...

How the Term “Hoosier” Became a Weapon in the Class Warjacobin.com In Indiana, “hoosier” is a badge of honor. In St Louis, it’s the nastiest insult around. The reason for the difference can be found in labor history, and it reveals the intraclass prejudice that break...

for @jacobinmag.bsky.social, I explain why calling someone a "hoosier" in st. louis is an insult akin to hillbilly, bumpkin, or white trash ⤵️ jacobin.com/2024/05/hoos...

goin on the radio tomorrow - stl npr at noonish

I’m having fun on the apps

making big moves

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in the 1960s, Disney was going to build in st. louis - all that's left are blueprints, which show a parallel universe, where a Manifest Destiny theme park would have been stuck between Busch Stadium and the Arch ⤵️ historynewsnetwork.org/article/walt... #disney #history #stlouis

Walt Disney Presents Manifest Destinyhistorynewsnetwork.org On the St. Louis theme park that never made it past the drawing board.

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It might seem impossible to imagine Disneyland existing anywhere besides Anaheim, but Walt originally intended to locate it in that renowned vacation destination . . . St. Louis. (Just like the ideology of manifest destiny, it eventually made its way to the West Coast instead.)

Walt Disney Presents Manifest Destinyhistorynewsnetwork.org On the St. Louis theme park that never made it past the drawing board.

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for @thenation.com, I got to write about Jack Conroy, the Sage of Moberly Missouri, whose novels are important to American literature, and were narrowly saved from the Red Scare ⤵️ www.thenation.com/article/acti... #publishing #novelist #literature

Jack Conroy and the Lost Era of Proletarian Literaturewww.thenation.com In the midst of the Depression, Conroy helped encourage a new generation of working-class writers.

Walt Disney Presents Manifest Destinyhistorynewsnetwork.org On the St. Louis theme park that never made it past the drawing board.

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fuckin bars, man

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Read @devintoshea.bsky.social on Walt Disney, St. Louis, and a very weird and thankfully nonexistent theme park. historynewsnetwork.org/article/walt...

Walt Disney Presents Manifest Destinyhistorynewsnetwork.org On the St. Louis theme park that never made it past the drawing board.

Jack Conroy and the Lost Era of Proletarian Literaturewww.thenation.com In the midst of the Depression, Conroy helped encourage a new generation of working-class writers.