One thing about a snow day--you get a lot of albums in.
Today's list so far:
1) The Hacienda Brothers, self-titled
2) Tammy Wynette, 20 Greatest Hits
3) Priests, The Seduction of Kansas
4) Margo Price, All American Made
5) John Moreland, In the Throes
6) Lone Justice, The Western Tapes
7) Chris Knight, self-titled
8) Grateful Dead, Dick's Picks, Vol 5 Disc 1
9) The Paranoid Style, A Goddamn Impossible Way of Life
10) Margaret Glaspy, Born Yesterday
11) First Aid Kit, HearYa Live Sessions
12) Traffic, John Barleycorn Must Die
13) Tom Ze, self-titled

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2 Feb
This Day in Labor History: February 14, 1848. The U.S. and Mexico sign the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, with the US stealing the northern half of Mexico to expand slavery after an unjust war. Let's talk about its labor impact on the Mexican farmers of New Mexico! Image
The Spanish (and then the Mexicans after independence in 1821) settled the far northern lands of New Spain/Mexico through creating land grants. Some of these were given to an individual, others to a group of families to start a village.
It took a good long while to get most of these going because the northern edge of New Mexico was also the land of the Comanches, who in the 18th century were the stronger nation.
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31 Jan
When fake leftism erases Native people who are very much still around today
"I've read Marx and so I can erase Indians" is....something anyway
The way in which, even if the year of our lord 2021, some leftists use Marx as a tool to excuse their own active and overt racism is utterly astounding.
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24 Jan
This Day in Labor History: January 24, 1848. Gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in California. Let's talk about how the California Gold Rush reflected the intersection of race, gender, and labor that helped define 19th century America!
When white Americans reached California to pan for gold in 1849, they were not expecting to see racial diversity. In many ways, California was the first time when Americans really dealt with racial diversity. But they weren’t the only people coming to the gold diggings.
That word spread around the world and there was faster ways to get there than walking across the California Trail if you lived in Asia or Latin America. There were Native Americans already living in California. There was the local Mexican population too.
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23 Jan
Campus Reform fascists launch new attack against me for....stating the obvious point that when facial recognition technology falsely places Black people in prison, it reflects a racist society that produces racist technology

campusreform.org/article?id=166…
I love being attacked by fascists for stating the most obvious and uncontroversial things about American life.
The provost at @universityofri stated in our annual faculty summit on Friday that URI needed to become "anti-racist." Is the definition of anti-racism having the communications team throw a professor under the bus for pointing out connections between racism and technology?
Read 4 tweets
23 Jan
This Day in Labor History: January 23, 1749.

A supposed slave conspiracy was reported in Charleston, South Carolina. This probably nonexistent conspiracy is a good window into the complexities of the slave labor system and the paranoia of slaveowners. Let's talk about it!
That slaves would revolt in the New World was well known. South Carolina had survived the Stono Rebellion in 1739 and were determined to not let that happen again. But other slave revolts throughout the early eighteenth century kept slaveowners across the Americas on edge.
There probably was not in fact an organized attempt by slaves to revolt in 1749. But slaves were seething with anger and slaveowners were paranoid and scared of their Africans. In 1748, a slave named Joe burned down a barn on the plantation of his owner, James Akins.
Read 28 tweets
22 Jan
This Day in Labor History: January 22, 1599. Spanish troops began their attack on Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico. This incredibly violent incident and aftermath created a regime of labor under Spanish rule that would have devastating impacts on Native peoples! Let's talk about it!
From the moment Europeans came to the Americas, they had a pretty clear and consistent view of the labor regime they desired: people of color working for nothing or next to nothing.
Too often, our stories of American history downplay this because New England, which has played a huge part of national culture creation, was something of an exception, although not nearly to the extent that it gets portrayed.
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