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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

The platform of the leftist candidate in France is very focused on cost of living. Seems strange that there aren’t more politicians of this type in the U.S., where inequality is more pronounced.

Mélenchon has called for a sweeping economic overhaul. He wants to increase the minimum wage, cap prices on fuel and essential goods, lower the age of retirement to 60, and adopt a wealth tax on the assets of people with net wealth of at least 100 million euros, about $112 million. He also proposes to massively invest in green technologies.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Five updates to the ArtCraft apps since last night. The interface for managing updates is as easy to use as CC. getartcraft.com #graphicdesign #software #linux #ArtCraft #Adobe

The ArtCraft Launcher showing all the ArtCraft apps running on Linux Mint. Updates shown in white for VectorCraft and PDFCraft. Wordcraft, CADCraft, SoundCraft updates are also available.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

…and the effect on people when AI surpasses the achievements of mathematicians or chess masters:

yes, this must relate to chess masters as well. until recently such pinnacles of success were accessible only to the very few; now Al has abruptly/rudely leveled the landscape. think if the young Mozart had been confronted with the great music he would/ could write in a lifetime, a few minutes, or seconds, of Al calculation. how devastated, how de trop the human life. that distinctive life. such pinnacles of achievement have been what makes us uniquely human, at least until now.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I was curious about the last time there was a Canadian firing squad… It was in 1946. German soldiers who had murdered prisoners of war were executed by the Royal Canadian Air Force. #execution

DEATH DECREE IN RCAF COURT Two German Soldiers Will Be Shot for Death of Airman Aurich, Germany, April 7. - An R.C.A.F. tribunal concluded -its third war crimes case Saturday by sentencing two former German soldiers to death and a third to 15 years imprisonment. Robert Holzer and Walter Weigal were convicted of murdering an unnamed Canadian airman captured at Opladen in the Ruhr in March, 1945, and sentenced to death by shooting Wilhelm Ossenbach, convicted of complicity in the same case, drew the prison term. As Air Vice-Marshal R. E. Mc-Burney of Montreal, Ottawa Saskatoon, court president, read the sentence Holzer's knees buckled. He had to be supported by service police in the court room. Weigal bowed his head and trembled vio-lently. ecoce and catside and weiga | Weigal broke down and wept. Sentences of all three are subject to review and confirmation by higher R.C.A.F. authorities. The defence lodged immediate appeals against the court's findings and sentence. A fourth case was put over for hearing by another court. It involved Hubert Broichhaus, also charged with murder of an unidentified Canadian at Oplanden the same night as the crime for which Holzer, Weigal and Ossen-bach were tried. In the first case before the high-ranking court, Johann Neitz, former German marine corps cook, was convicted of wounding with intent to kill FO. Rudolph Roman of Toronto and sentenced to life impris-onment. Neitz captured FO. Roman after the Canadian parachuted from a crippled bomber near Wil-helmshaven. In the second case, Wilhelm Junge, former burgomaster of the small Bavarian town of Oberweier and Wilhelm Schumacher, former soldier- policeman in the town, were sentenced to death by shooting for the murder of a captured Canadian airman.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Reaction to Carson’s Nobel has been unusually critical on X, generally on the basis that her work is too fey and elitist (Her translations of classics are silly, her poems are not relatable). A new generation expressing contempt for the longhairs. #poetry #nobelprize #annecarson

POEMS SATURDAY NIGHT AS AN ADULT By Anne Carson April 24, 2017 We really want them to like us. We want it to go well. We overdress. They are narrow people, art people, offhand, linens. It is early summer, first hot weekend. We meet on the street, jumble about with kisses and are we late? They had been late, we'd half-decided to leave, now oh well. That place across the street, ever tried it? Think we went there once, looks closed, says open, well. People coming out. O.K. Inside is dark, cool, oaken. Turns out they know the owner. He beams, ushers, we sit. And realize at once two things, first, the noise is unbearable, two, neither of us knows the other well enough to say bag it. Our hearts crumble. We order food by pointing and break into two yell factions, one each side of the table. He and she both look exhausted, from (I suppose) doing art all day and then the new baby. We eat intently, as if eating were conversation. We keep passing the bread. My fish comes unboned, I weep pretending allergies. Finally someone pays the bill and we escape to the street. For some reason I was expecting snow outside. There is none. We decide not to go for ice cream and part, a little more broken. Saturday night as an adult, so this is it. We thought we'd be Nick and Nora, not their blurred friends in greatcoats. We cover our ears inside our souls. But you can't stop it that way.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I don’t think he’s saying this to boost his company’s valuation.

Sam Altman: I am very uncomfortable about people trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models, and think it is a real safety issue.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I was curious how the Wall Street Journal scores, since I’m a regular reader. I wouldn’t say it’s a hard read, but there is a lot of financial jargon.

Average Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Modern Presidential Speeches Grade 7 - 8 USA Today / BBC Grade 6 - 7 The New York Times Grade 8 - 10 The Wall Street Journal Grade 11 - 12 Academic / Medical Journals Grade 12 - 16+

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Alright, yes I can be persuaded to look over your shoulder at your horny vampires, pirate ladies, and people in dungeons. Why not?

Ester Cardella beckoning the camera closer to her drawing board

Ester Cardella outdoors beckoning the camera closer to her sketch pad

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

If your drug use shocks even Keith Richards, you have a problem… and it caught up with Parsons. There’s some boomer sentimentality toward Gram Parsons, but if you see this kicking around your local record store, you should absolutely grab it.

Cover of The Gram Parsons Anthology. Cover photo is of Parsons seated on a chopper motorcycle.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

RIP Peter Max, the popular artist of the psychedelic era. Born Peter Max Finkelstein in 1937 in Berlin, his family had to flee Nazi Germany, living in Tibet, Israel and Paris before settling in New York where Max studied at the Art Students League. He became […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Doves fly in front of a peace sign that radiate beams above clouds. Four colourful hippy characters walk across the scene from left to right.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

I wonder if it’s true that the most anti-AI demographic is white college-educated liberals?

Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart on X.com): I'm guessing the pro-Al political coalition is going to be a mix of investors, immigrant associations, mental health advocates, small business owners, and people demanding recognition for their Al romantic partners. Quote: Conor Sen @conorsen. One thing I am confident of is white college Dems are going to be very anti-Al. And no matter where you personally stand, you have to operate in that reality. 6:58 PM • 2026-09-13 • 22K Views

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

The present U.S. military might be less progressive than the navy of 1949.

Race Differences We can treat the business of race differences very briefly. All the research on this topic boils down to one general, inescapable conclusion: None has been demonstrated.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Some time ago, I spotted a copy of ‘Human Behavior and Leadership’ at one of these book sales. A 1949 publication of the U.S. Navy, it has some observations about Americans’ distaste for authoritarian rule that are unfortunately dated. In the book’s own […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Normally Americans have a violent distrust of strong-man leaders. We tend to get rid of any leader who seems te get too strong. We prefer the "regular fellow" sort of leader. Perhaps that's why our candidates for high political office have their pictures taken doing every-day things like fishing, going to the village church, kissing babies and shaking the hands of laborers.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I spent much of the day yesterday sorting through old books, records, and videos to send to the symphony’s charity sale. A slow process, because I was always stopping to look through books, and I’m a reluctant declutterer. Flipped through an old book of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

COMMITMENT I have decided to live (with you) you have agreed to take out the trash (you don't trust me with the garbagemen) and I will put the toast in the oven for breakfast and coddle you an egg before you go to bed we are wary of being too close too often we circle one another like strange wolves or people who know too much I insist on separate rooms you want your own typewriter and ink your name on a cup we hang our photographs one on top of the other and draw lines on the whiskey bottle

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

This one is pretty good. I like noir comics, and Ignazzi’s art is a perfect fit for it.

Chachu No. 2 cover by Marianna Ignazzi. The image is split by a chain of flowers between Leila and her uncle. Leila appears as she is in the present, in a diner in Las Vegas, while her uncle appears as he did years earlier when he first moved to California from Karachi.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

You can probably tell from this panel that the protagonist is #Canadian (From Chachu no. 2 by writer Iman Vellani and artist Marianna Ignazzi). #comicbooks

Leila and her uncle (Chachu) walk through the casino after Leila has had a small win at the slots. Leila: LOOKIT--FIVE AMERICAN BUCKS. Chachu: MAZEL.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

The Star Trek 60th Anniversary Special has some fun little stories. There’s even a wedding romance for the TNG story. #comicbooks #startrek

At Riker and Troi’s wedding, Data sings old jazz standards, while Beverley encourages Jean-Luc to take things to the next level. Story by Dave Baker, art by Nicole Goux

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Natasha Lyonne’s dress got noticed on X, but her own tweets are like…

natasha lyonne • @nlyonne • 1d Exactamundi. Never thought of Bukowski as a futurist, but this quote certainly feels timely in a world of technocrats battling over attention economy. Quote tweet: Charles Bukowski Legacy •1d "People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice."...

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Sorted through my record collection and these are some that went on the discard pile. I have a bit of love for crazy mid-60s folk acts so it was hardest to part with Malka and Joso. Probably the only period when you would have an Israeli-Yugoslavian duo […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Scotty Stevenson and the Canadian Nighthawks - I can’t go back to Winnipeg. The band, in brown suits are in front of a prairie landscape and a blonde girl in a pink dress holding a gun.

Somethin’ Smith and the Redheads - Crazy People. The group is posed in straight jackets in front several nurses.

The Sesame Street Record, Original Cast on the street.

Malka and Joso - a severe looking folk duo against a black background. Malka’s hair is black and pulled up, Joso has a neat goatee.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

The Spider-woman 50th anniversary special is kinda bad, and I’d be a little disappointed if it weren’t. The original series presented a character that was difficult to relate to - a deliberate inversion of Spider-man, making her a sort of spider that tried to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Spider-Woman cover depicting the character (dressed in her distinctive red/yellow costume) in the rain with her fists lit by her bio-electric venom blast.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

The new Legion series could be fun. In the distant future, the United Planets is a failing, indebted empire where inter-world tensions are spilling over into violence. Use of super powers outside a governmental agency (The Persuaders) is illegal. While […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Lightning Lad and his sister Ayla in front of Lightning Lad’s locker full of Superboy memorabilia: newspaper, comic books, posters, toys and masks. Ayla says, “OR WORSE. I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU THINK SUPERBOY WAS REAL.”

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

This morning I was reading a Tim Higgins article on anti-AI protests, something he sees as a “symptom of a yearning for an American ideal without AI.” He mentioned a meme popular on Instagram that shows videos of old trucks accompanied by the phrase, “This […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

An old pickup truck on a rural road with a phrase overlaid, “This and never hearing about AI again.” From an Instagram video.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

@williampietri @gilduran.com The very same. She’s also known for clashing with Milo Yiannopoulos and the “Linux community”.

Shanley: Linus Torvalds is a fucking abusive piece of shit, has been for YEARS. when will Linux community grow a fucking spine

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

@gilduran.com I think you should give twitter another try so you and shanley can have it out.

Shanley: LMFAO Gil Duran's true colors on what to do to fight tech fascism: "There needs to be a massive counterforce rising from the business community to say that we want regular capitalism, not apocalypse capitalism."

Shanley: A pro-capitalist anti-fascist is not a real thing. Capture of this issue by Gil, the Democrats, and corporate publishing is about protecting "regular capitalism". Gil Duran's attacks on leftist movement against tech fascism - occurred before he knew ANYTHING about this - while the media says "A few years ago, Gil Durán felt he was working alone"

Journalist: "Do you believe there’s anyone in tech standing up to what the book calls “Silicon Valley Fascism”? Gil Duran: "I think there are some small efforts" This is calculated and erasing AF.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

I'm going to be so productive once I've spent a few hundred hours refining my #Linux setup.

Fedora KDE Fusion desktop with Favorites and Kasts open on a tiny 13" screen, lower than usual resolution. Favorites window shows: Kate, Konsole, KeePassXC, Spectacle, LibreOffice Writer, ghostwriter, Speech Note, Focus Timer, Krita, Inkscape, KColor Chooser, GIMP, Kasts, Shortwave, VLC Media, TreeSheets. The Odd Lots podcast is playing on Kasts. Other podcasts in the queue include BBC Documentary, Planet Money, The Intelligence, It's Been a Minute.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Willie Nelson has issued a statement against the construction of data centers. #artificialintelligence #willienelson

"I grew up in Abbott, and I still have a home there with farmed land where I can still see stars at night. And now our community, like many others, needs to fight against data centers invading our land. The last thing we need is a loud, water thieving, light polluting, data center anywhere near our town (or any others for that matter). The strength of rural America has never come from big industrial footprints. It comes from generations of people, open spaces, local businesses, and a connection to the land. All of America deserves thoughtful stewardship that doesn't steal farmland (where our essential shared-food is grown) and small family farmers' livelihoods, and not data centers that only destroy the environment around them. Whoever controls food and water, controls the masses. Let's not allow our own demise or give up control over necessary resources in the U.S. and especially in Abbott." -Willie Nelson

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

It’s sort of strange that demographic collapse isn’t a bigger issue for the American public given the likely outcomes. Liberals see it as a result of individual choices and not something requiring intervention. It’s an issue on the religious right - evidence […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Chart from a news story in today’s WSJ about the decline in the number of children in large cities. It shows that children under 18 have declined by 6% in cities and 1% overall. Children under 5 by 15.4% in cities and 7.2% overall.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Roald Dahl wrote a short story in the 1950s about a computer that cranks out stories and books somewhat similarly to AI-generated writing today. What kind of writer would outsource their work to a machine? […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

From Wikipedia: "The Great Automatic Grammatisator" (republished as The Great Automatic Grammatizator anthology): A mechanically minded man reasons that the rules of grammar are fixed by certain, almost mathematical principles. By exploiting this idea, he is able to create a mammoth machine that can write a prize-winning novel in roughly fifteen minutes. The story ends on a fearful note, as more and more of the world's writers are forced into licensing their names—and all hope of human creativity—to the machine.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Drawing by Joseph E. Southall from The Ghosts of the Slain by R.L. Outhwaite. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.8…

An assortment of the upper class (men in top hats, a bishop, an elegantly dressed woman) push a blindfolded man in military attire over a precipice. A skeleton stands alongside beating a drum. A banner reads, "Those who sit in the high places cast the people into the pit"

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Austrian artist Chris Scheuer has died. He was known for some beautiful volumes produced during the 1980s, and more recently autobiographical work. www.kleinezeitung.at/artikel/368281… #comicbooks

Marie Jade cover by Chris Scheuer - a woman’s portrait with blue skin tones

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

The uncertainty caused by Trump and the failed USMCA trade agreement extension is weighing heavily on the Canadian manufacturing. We already have low productivity (for too many reasons to mention), but just not knowing if a market will be there is causing strain and lack of investment. #canada

Source: Wall Street Journal “Job Market in Canada Continues Recovery”. In contrast, employment in goods-producing industries contracted during the month, driven by further weakness in manufacturing and construc-tion. Manufacturing and other trade-exposed industries have been squeezed by tariffs, and manufacturing employment in June was down by about 61,000 from a recent peak in January 2025.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Someone posted a photo of Bill Everett on Bluesky, and he looked exactly how you’d imagine a commercial artist of the 40s-70s might. A little info on Everett’s work can be found here […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A young man stands behind a large drawing table with his sleeves rolled up and smoking a pipe. A large chrome lamp stands next to the table. There is art in the background and a Bakelite radio.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

Unquestionably… There are a great many people who will take the easiest path to whatever they want to get done.

Joe Weisenthal on X/Twitter: Unfortunately, I think that in the near future, not using LLMs to write for you will be like someone refusing to use Google Maps for directions in a new city. A bizarre idiosyncratic choice that's just completely incomprehensible to the vast majority of people.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

As usual, there are many short vignettes without much dialogue. I would highly recommend the series to anyone who likes illustration, period pieces, or romance stories.

Talas’ horse Chubar is calmed by the ship’s cat en route to England.

A series of panels showing Talas finding her way around an English kitchen. Lighting a coal oven, tasting a beet

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

I’m getting caught up on A Bride’s Tale by Kaoru Mori. With volumes coming out infrequently (one a year or so) it’s easy to lose track and miss one. #manga

Hawkins, a British military vet/business man: I APPRECIATE THE THOUGHT OF LIVING ON HIGH IDEALS... ...BUT THE WORLD DOESN'T OFTEN ALLOW FOR IT.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

Finally, another parallel with today's left, a letter about young graduates and the difficult economy and political situation they faced. If you want to read through the whole thing (or other issues of the Daily Worker), there are cleaned up PDF copies on […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

What Have the Youth
To Be Grateful For?
New York, N. Y.
Editor, Daily Worker:
The thousands of young men and
young women who have just re-
ceived their graduation diplomas
have also heard, at the same time,
in baccalaureate addresses, that out
in the world there is an abundance
of dangerous shoals and threaten-
ing storms. The causes they were
never taught, or told to learn for
themselves, so that they might have
acquired an understanding of them
and prepared their minds for the
realities of life that they must con-
front in the future.
An ugly world of flerce competi-
tion; greed for profits; banks bulg-
ing with money while millions lack
employment and other millions are
paid very little for doing hard work.
Frantic preparations for war. Crime
unabated. Politicians and wealthy
publishers doing their best to fan
the flames of race hatred and in-
ternational rivalries.
These are the realities that con-
front the graduates. Could they,
will they be grateful to capitalism
for all the obstacles it has put in
the path of their lives?
A. G. D.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

The article on Palestine was maybe the one that surprised me the most. Not because it's so different than the present-day left's opinions on Israel, but because it is remarkably similar. It takes a very strongly anti-Zionist position and is predictive of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

WELL, the people of Palestine are
now engaged in a life and death
struggle with British imperialism
and here, in the two pamphlets by
Paul Novlck. may be found an ex
planation of that struggle and all
it involves.
A peculiar situation has arisen
in that Communists, the most bitter
foes of anti-Semitism, and the only
ones who have stamped it out where
they are in control, are accused of
helping anti-Semites by opposing
Zionism.

The author warns the Zionists
that for an exploited people, the
Jews, to join hands with British im-
perialism in exploiting the Arabs Is
bound to bring tragic consequences
in its train. And the ink is hardly
dry on the paper before the rifles
and machine guns begin to sputter
from Raffa on the south to the
hills of Galilee on the north.
A ferocious Jewish nationalism,
and let no one fool himself about
the quality of Jewish nationalism
in Palestine, links arms with British
imperialism against the Arab masses.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

Perhaps unsurprisingly there isn't a lot of advertising. The closest to something corporate is an ad for Florsheim shoes. Otherwise, I guess the Daily Worker depended on classifieds from fellow travelers, maybe some funds from Moscow, and Sol's Lunch and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Sol's Sandwich Lunch text advertisement, and one for Lillian Greenberg with a small illustration of a woman: "Unwanted Hair Permanently Removed by Multiple Electrolysis Free Treatment by Appointment"

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

There are a couple of cartoons. One portrays the ruling class as clearly racist - the types to cheer for Max Schmeling rather than Joe Louis. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Louis_vs.… 3/6 #Communism #USHistory

The Ruling Clawes by Redfield A cartoon of two boys on a couch with a paper in the foreground showing odds for the Louis/Schmeling fight at 2-1.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @kerrymitchell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

It got me wondering about what the communists were up to in America in the 30s, and it turns out there are quite a lot of digitized copies of the Daily Worker, including one from 90 years ago today: June 18, 1936. It contains a lot of reports on union […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A photo of kids in uniform marching, with the headline, "Mussolini Grabs Them Young for Army." Below captioned: So small they scarcely can walk, these youngsters are already being herded into the Italian Fascist military machine to be groomed as cannon fodder for some future combat They’re members of the Sons of the Wolf, and are parading In celebration of Italian entry Into the World War, which brought death to large number of their dads generation.

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