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October 2024

The End of Public Healthcare is democracy's obituary.
98 years ago my dad's sister Marion died in a workhouse infirmary from TB.
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The dread of homelessness is now in our bones like damp.
Our appointment with Gotterdammerung is nearing.
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Only a few political steps separate 2024 from the fascism of 1933.
Ideologically and economically, 2024 is only a few steps away from the 1930s.
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No matter who wins the US Presidential Election, we aren't getting back to normal.
The sun at breakfast time- on the 21st of October was as warm as if it were August.
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When we forget our working class history, the entitled exploit our present day existence.
From the struggles of the Greatest Generation, the modern Welfare State was born only to be destroyed by neoliberalism over the last three decades.
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Gather ye Rosebuds because we are living in a time of tragedy.
61 today.
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1928 wasn't a good year to be born Working Class.
Today would have been my mother's 96th birthday had she not died from cancer in 1999.
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The Dead Always Deserve the Last Word.
Peter died on this day in the before times, fifteen years ago.
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My Mother, a Rooming House Anna Karenina.
I started this Sub Stack in December 2022.
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We made a genocide and called it peace.
Israel's genocide against Palestinians struts as proud as a peacock across a bloodied landscape in Gaza, The West Bank and now Lebanon.
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