Erik Loomis

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Labor and environmental historian. Writer of books, teacher of American horrors, talker on labor movement. Beer, country music, and football are not just for the right wingers. Cats. The West. Music. Graves. Writes at https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/

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Testimony of @erikloomis.bsky.social in hearing re Connecticut Child Labor Amendment. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/03/test...

Testimony - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com There is a bill before the Connecticut state legislature for the state to ratify the Child Labor Amendment. As this is something I have advocated for over a long period of time, I was asked to submit ...

Of great interest.

Look at Costco being gracious in the aftermath of a successful organizing drive.

Gotta say--I bought a jar of caramelized onions recently instead of doing it myself and it was just fine. Certainly better than spending that kind of time on them.

Are you really cooking if you don’t have a chef dedicated to spending 50 minutes just caramelizing the onions?

For the zero people interested in hearing me talk about the Super Bowl www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/02/lgm-...

LGM Podcast: Viva Las Vegas - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com In our conversation about the Big Game, Scott, Erik and I touched upon: Transcript available here. The LGM podcast is now available from a variety of corporate overlords, so please perform freedom by making your consumer choice. We would very much appreciate reviews, whether of the thoughtful written variety or just by clicking on the appropriate […]

lol, nicely put

The latest @erikloomis.bsky.social grave post is a reminder that we as a country don’t talk nearly enough about how totally surreal it is that our greatest president was murdered by basically Casey Affleck www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/02/erik...

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,546 - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com This is the grave of Edwin Booth. Born in 1833 in Bel Air, Maryland, Booth grew up in the United States’ most prominent acting family. His father was Junius Booth and his brother, well, was John Wil...

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I was shorthanding there. There’s a lot more to say in my book. I don’t think TR was a fascist president, but he had proto-fascist tendencies on the international scale (including overseeing the creation of concentration camps) and was a dyed-in-the-wool eugenicist.

My employer is going to this incentive based budgeting ridiculousness and I learned a lot here about where that came from and what it means. Great piece.

University budgets, by design, suck the lifeblood out of the humanities. There's a history to this too, but it doesn't have to be this way. A new newsletter from @profgabriele.com and me. PLEASE READ. SUBSCRIBE. SHARE!

University budgets are moral documentsbuttondown.email Universities are creating a(n intentional) recursive doom loop for the Humanities

To every historian who is at the AHA: I am in Spain for two weeks.

It's 4 AM in Spain and I am truly loving the jet lag

This Day in Labor History: January 3, 1931. Farmers converged on England, Arkansas to demand poverty relief. This led to Will Rogers’ poverty tour and a greater national conversation about conditions in rural America in the early years of the Great Depression!

This Day in Labor History: January 2, 2006. A coal mine near Sago, West Virginia exploded. Thirteen miners were trapped inside and only one of those survived the two days it took to get the miners out. Let's talk about the horrors of murderous coal mining employers!

Freddie DeBoer remains the single worst person on the internet. Why do people take this horrible human seriously and given him platforms to promote his garbage?

Just got a bizarre, very personal, completely unhinged hate email from a fairly prominent writer with whom I’ve barely if ever interacted. Just a weird, specific stream of unexpected but clearly long-seething anger. Happy New Year, everyone!

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We knew Alabama didn't have a solid center when they voted for Tommy Tuberville over Doug Jones

2024's first nap has proven wonderful

This Day in Labor History: December 30, 1970. A coal mine exploded on Hurricane Creek, near Hyden, Kentucky. Thirty-eight miners died that day, yet another example of the terrible safety conditions of coal mining, even at a late date!!!!

Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2024

Pork chop over kale with olives and golden raisins, eggplant baked in oil and anchovies, and a green salad, plus a Bordeaux. Yep, grading is finally finished for the fall (we go very late)

Organizing America: Stories of Americans Who Fought For Justice. Should be coming out late 2024.

TELL BLUESKY MORE ABOUT YOUR BOOK PLEASE!

This Day in Labor History: December 28, 1869. The Knights of Labor were founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The organization grew slowly, but by the late 1870s, the Knights had become the nation’s largest labor union, remaining so through 1886. Let's talk about the Knights!

This Day in Labor History: December 27, 1831. The Baptist Rebellion began in Jamaica. This slave rebellion of up to 60,000 people, put down over the next couple of weeks, also was the final straw that moved the United Kingdom toward outlawing slavery in its colonies!!!

This Day in Labor History: December 24, 1969. St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Curt Flood wrote a letter to Major League Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn protesting a trade to the Philadelphia Phillies and asking to be declared a free agent. Let's talk about his brave fight for free agency!!

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Not my school, but the Illinois state speech team finals my freshman year were held in Pekin, IL, which had gone on a……. journey of learning…… vis a vis its mascot:

My high school changed their mascot from the Rebels two years ago almost and the alumni page is still full of dudes posting shit like “once a rebel always a rebel” and every few months I lose my shit and decide to get into it with them

This Day in Labor History: December 23, 1872. Coal miners near Clearfield, Pennsylvania got into a fight with strikebreakers trying to mine coal during a strike. This minor moment in American labor history tells us a great deal about how miners defined their jobs and their rights in 1872!!

This Day in Labor History: December 21, 1919. Emma Goldman is deported from the U.S. to the USSR as part of the Red Scare that saw the mass deportation of immigrant radicals and the imprisonment of many native-born radicals. Let's talk about this!

This is a beautiful little album here

Noopiming Sessions, by Leanne Betasamosake Simpsonleannesimpson.bandcamp.com 4 track album

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Oh, now it's a democracy and not a republic...

This Day in Labor History: December 19, 1907. The Darr Mine near Smithton, Pennsylvania, caught fire and exploded. 239 people died, many of them children. This was the largest workplace disaster in Pennsylvania history. Oh, here is the opening today.

This made me laugh and made me hungry.

Spicy Veggie Currywww.youtube.com Provided to YouTube by IngroovesSpicy Veggie Curry · Shonen KnifeOur Best Place℗ 2023 Tomato Head / Good Charamel RecordsReleased on: 2023-02-15Composer, Wri...

The platonic ideal of a great album is Rodney Crowell's Ain't Living Long Like This.

This is 1000% true and it's remarkable how many people just stopped following politics the moment Biden was elected. Things are going to be so, so, so much worse with a second Trump term than the first. And I feel huge chunks of Biden voters in 2020 are completely oblivious to any of it.

www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/o...