Monday, August 31, 2026

American-style capitalism is cruel, exclusionary, anti-Christian in the extreme, and causes wide-scale mental health problems. But we're supposed to fear "Socialism!"

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Above: "Doomed," an artwork by Michael J. Gallagher (1898-1965), created while he was in the WPA, between 1935 and 1943. Image fr...
Sunday, August 30, 2026

Remembering the indomitable Jeff Corey: Brooklyn native... New York, WPA & Hollywood actor... combat veteran... foe of the communist witch hunts

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Above: Actor Jeff Corey (1914-2002), in Brute Force (Universal Pictures, 1947). Later photos of Corey--which can be found with a simple Go...
Saturday, August 29, 2026

The 1% are using hospice and nursing homes to abuse the elderly and cash-in on our tax dollars

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Above: "The Farmer's Kitchen," an oil painting by Ivan Albright (1897-1983), created while he was in the New Deal's Publi...
Friday, August 28, 2026

Regressive taxation is possible because of our limited ability to move. That's not freedom, that's slavery.

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"An old English judge once said: 'Necessitous men are not free men.' Liberty requires opportunity to make a living - a living d...
Monday, August 24, 2026

Trump Administration changes to Section 106 will disenfranchise us from our history. See 22 ways that the New Deal connected us to our history.

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Trump's Advisory Council for Historic Preservation (it's an independent agency, but let's be real, almost all of the members are...
Friday, August 21, 2026

Thanks to Republicans and Corporate Democrats, tax revenue from working-class Americans is now increasingly given to the super-rich

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Above: "The Middle Class," a lithograph by Elizabeth Olds (1896-1991), created ca. 1939. Olds did several artworks for the WPA, b...
Thursday, August 20, 2026

Rich Americans are killing working-class Americans--by the millions--but it's been so normalized and systematized that we just don't fight it very much

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Above: "Done In," an aquatint etching by Frank Ominsky (1898-1991), created while he was in the WPA, between 1935 and 1943. Image...