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Sep 6 • 11 tweets • 7 min read
1/ As we celebrate #LaborDay an often overlooked facet is the history of the Labor movement and how workers seeking better pay and conditions often were met with fatal force, extradition or arrest. Haymarket Martyrs' Monument
2/ This includes the #GreatRailroadStrike of 1877 in which the National Guard and federal troops were used to suppress the strike and fired into crowds with an estimated 100 deaths nationwide. #LaborDay
3/ The 1886 #BayViewMassacre in Milwaukee in which the state militia opened fire against peaceful demonstrators calling for an 8-hr workday killing 15. #LaborDay
4/ The 1887 #ThibodauxMassacre in which 35-50 striking black sugar cane plantation workers and their families were killed by paramilitary groups. #LaborDay
5/ This includes the #LattimerMassacre in 1897 Lattimer, PA where police open fired on 300-400 unarmed mine workers - killing 19. #LaborDay

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6/ The 1914 #LudlowMassacre in Ludlow, CO where the state militia opened fire and torched a striking miners' tent colony killing at least 19 (including 14 women and children). pbs.org/wgbh/americane…
7/ In 1917, mine owners, law enforcement and deputized vigilantes rounded up at gunpoint and “deported” some 1200 striking copper miners from Bisbee, Arizona, to internment camps in the New Mexico desert. #BisbeeDeportation #LaborDay arizonadailyindependent.com/2018/07/11/ari…
8/ The 1900-1921 #WestVirginiaMineWars in which over 100 were killed and workers subject to martial law in towns like Matewan, Paint Creek-Cabin Creek, Blair Mountain. nps.gov/articles/000/i…
9/ The 1923 San Pedro maritime strike in which the LAPD enlisted the KKK to help crush the strike and famed author #UptonSinclair was arrested after attempting to read the 1st Amendment at a pro-union rally on #LibertyHill. todaypast.wordpress.com/2020/05/14/may…
10/ The 1924 #HanapepeMassacre in which at least 16 striking Filipino sugar workers on Kaua'i were killed by police. Many surviving workers were jailed and deported. honolulumagazine.com/a-massacre-for…
Unfortunately, like much of America's Jim Crow past, the violent suppression of workers' rights often and the important role the labor movement has played in the US are not taught in US school history books. files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED524… #LaborDay #LaborHistory

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Jun 27
1/ My starting point for #SupremeCourt jurisprudence since 2000 is a telling quote from Joel Klein's "The Natural" in which a Republican Senator concedes to Clinton that Republicans don't believe in government, but they love power.
2/2000: #BushvGore, the Supreme Court stays the Florida recount with any opinion justifying the stay and then reverses the Fla. Supreme Court recount order as violating the Equal Protection Clause in a per curiam opinion that can't be cited as precedent.
3/2002: President Bush signed the #McCainFeingold campaign finance reform law, which foolishly included a restriction on the use of independent expenditures for commercials 60 days before an election.
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Jun 15
1/Tonight, for the 17th time in the last 50 years, the #StanleyCup champion returns to defend their crown. This time, the #TBLightning are going for that rare feat - a three-peat and #dynasty status.
2/Three-peats and dynasties themselves are relatively rare. Below is a tour of the dynasties from the last 50 years starting with the 1974 Oakland #Athletics completing a three-peat with a 4-1 win over the #Dodgers with this home run.
3/ In 1979, the #CanadiensMTL completed their second four-peat, winning 4-1 over the New York Rangers. #StanleyCup #Dynasty
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Dec 1, 2020
1/ #GivingTuesday #COVID19 Thread
The global pandemic has been devastating and we can help on Giving Tuesday. One way to help is to give to a COVID charity that is giving grants to an array of communities impacted - such as #GlobalGiving.

globalgiving.org/projects/coron…
2/ If your goal is to assist those on the front lines, Americares has provided more than 34 tons of PPE to health care workers on the front lines of the outbreak to facilities in 40 states. #GivingTuesday #COVID19 #Americares americares.org/emergency-prog…
3/ In the United States, #COVID19 has disproportionately impacted #NativeAmerican communities. The First Nations Development Institute has distributed over $2.5M in grants and provided food, PPE and water. firstnations.org/covid-19-emerg… #FNDI303 #GivingTuesday
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Jun 20, 2020
1/ A conservative friend of mine argued at various times and in different contexts (including racial preferences or affirmative action), that slavery ended in 1865, he had nothing to do with it, so why don't African-Americans "just get over it." #RaceMatters
2/ Yes, slavery ended in 1865 and while it contributed greatly to the wealth of white America, African-Americans were given nothing in return as the government reneged on its promise of 40 acres and a mule after the end of the Civil War. #RaceMatters pbs.org/wnet/african-a…
3/ Compare this to the Homestead Act of 1866 which transferred an area of land in the west the size of CA and TX (10% of all US land) to whites who need only improve it for 5 years and file a deed. aeon.co/ideas/land-and… #RaceMatters
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Jun 6, 2020
1/ Thread: How we got here (in brief).
2014: #MichaelBrown killing sparks #Ferguson unrest, #EricGarner killing triggers #BlackLivesMatter #icantbreathe protests. #HowWeGotHere
2/ 2015: President #Obama's post-Ferguson task force releases a report on 21st Century Policing outlined specific improvements that can make policing more just, safe, effective and constitutional — and work better for everyone. nytimes.com/2020/06/04/opi… #policereform #HowWeGotHere
3/ Fall 2016: Colin Kaepernick kneels for 1st time, #Trump says he should find another country. nfl.com/news/donald-tr… #KaepernickKnee #HowWeGotHere
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Jun 5, 2020
DC #MayorBowser is invoking the 3rd Amendment to force out of state Natl Guard troops to leave the city. It is most obscure of Bill of Rights and only one never considered by Supreme Court. Only one appeals case and it found NG troops are soldiers. #3rdAmendment
The absence of any case law directly construing this provision presents a serious interpretive problem and little illumination can be gleaned from the debates of the Constitutional Convention. Engblom v. Carey, 677 F.2d 957 (2d Cir. 1982). #dc #3rdAmendment
So if Natl Guardsmen are soldiers, is mere presence in DC sufficient or must they be on city property? businessinsider.com/third-amendmen… #dc #3rdAmendment
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