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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was born in 1890 in Concord, New Hampshire, to a radical, activist working-class family. When she was 10, the family moved to the South Bronx, where she attended public school. By the time she was 15, Flynn was active in socialist groups. At 15, she gave her first public speech, and the next year she was expelled from high school. She became a full-time organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

In the years leading up to World War I, Flynn was active on women's rights, free speech for IWW speakers and organizing textile strikes in places like Lawrence, Massachusetts, and Paterson, New Jersey. She also worked to organize garment workers in Pennsylvania, silk weavers in New Jersey, restaurant workers in New York City and miners in Minnesota.

Flynn opposed the war when it broke out, and like many war opponents, she was charged with espionage. The charges were dropped and Flynn began working to defend immigrants threatened with deportation for their opposition to the war.

In 1920, Flynn helped found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and was elected to the national board. From 1927-1930, she chaired International Labor Defense. During that time she was active in trying to free jailed labor organizers Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings. For the first half of the 1930s, she withdrew from public life because of bad health, but she returned to public life in 1939 and was re-elected to the ACLU board. When Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin signed a nonagression pact, the ACLU expelled all Communist Party members from its ranks, including Flynn.

Flynn ran for the Communist Party of America's Central Committee successfully, and ran for a seat in Congress unsuccessfully. During World War II, Flynn fought for women's economic equality. After the war, as communism grew more unpopular in the United States, Flynn shifted back to defending free speech rights for radicals. In 1951, she was arrested for conspiracy to overthrow the government based on the Smith Act of 1940. She spent more than two years in prison.

She returned to political action once she was out of prison, and in 1961, she became the first woman elected national chair of the Communist Pary. A critic of the Soviet Union, Flynn traveled behind the Iron Curtain and was stricken ill. She died in the USSR and was given a state funeral in Red Square.

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[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Apparently some kids in fucking high school are now interning 3 days a week at some businesses (in my town btw)

Totally tracks with everything going to shit in America, if I’m being honest. College has basically been job training since neoliberal came to town, but we’re trimming the fat babyeeeeee No need to learn about the world and other viewpoints in college when your life is robbed of you at 17 instead of 22 I guess.

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

I bought a head of garlic today at the grocery store, not remembering if I had any in the fridge, but when I had to use it, the cloves were totally rotten. Thank God I found a head in my fridge that was still good. But what the hell is my grocery store doing selling old rotten garlic?

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

yall log everyone out or something?

[–] LargeAdultRedBook@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://slrpnk.net/post/25696399

Liberals, being brainlord geniuses, determined that Drumpf personally decided to edit out parts of the constitution that didn't vibe with him...ruling out the far less likely possibility of some shit going wrong on the website.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

I always read that URL as 'slurpunk'

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh no, my chapo.chat bookmark

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

admin pls fix

[–] Euergetes@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

theres so many mission impossible films now my god

[–] upmysleeves@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

hate the word 'enshittification'

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

feel like we let that one out of the gate too quickly and the redditors did what redditors do at record speed

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Genuinely believe that the propagation of language from one online channel to the next with no regulation whatsoever is how things burn irl

You see this in real time too, the most ridiculous ideas will spread like fucking wildfire but the same goes for language/rhetoric whose importance is underemphasized. Pains me because the solution to all of this is so fucking easy

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[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago (6 children)

i've decided that northernlion is actually quite entertaining

i still will not interact with twitch, but a youtube video of a bald man playing yet another roguelite will hold my attention over my work tasks

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

that happen to me a few months ago, i dont go to his twitch but i watch his channel and the one that edits the streams, they are fun, the videos about movie trivia game is what draw me in

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[–] wombat@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

it is august 6 and stalin saved the world from fascism

β€œYou’re vegan for ethical reasons, right?” Is the nicest way people call me fat.

Using flash cards is so damn effective for learning. The first 3 months of me learning spanish this year just felt like a waste compared to how much Ive learned in the last 2 months. Whenever I start nursing school Ill be balling with the new medical terms hopefully

[–] allthetimesivedied@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It fucking sucks that I can’t play Victoria 3 or Hearts of Iron 4 on my new laptop. It has 32 GB of RAM but only a crappy integrated graphics card.

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[–] blipblip@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are mammals even doing it on the discovery channel these days?

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[–] mayakovsky@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There should be a version of that goldbug NATIONAL DEBT website but it counts how much money is owed to indigenous peoples. Like start by just counting up all that property tax since the 1500s. It would be such a huge number, and it wouldn't even scratch the surface

[–] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

My cousin is marrying a cop in like a month and I do NOT want to go to his wedding but I know my cop-loving boomer family 1000% expects me there stalin-stressed

[–] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

One of my cousins married a cop with a straight up iron cross tattoo on his arm. I did not go to the wedding

poison?

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i mean the band poison

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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago
[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

If anyone ever tries to sedate me with melatonin they're in for a big surprise

[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

about to spend a month trekking through the arctic

last times I touched grass this hard biden dropped out, trump got shot, and the pope died. August is going to be huge, keep your eyes on the news

[–] spudnik@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

The lovely Dr. Partner is out of town for a few days and I have already fully descended into gremlin mode. I look forward to pushing the boundaries of how garbage a human being I can be for nearly a week

[–] Demifriend@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This morning while I was saying hi to the cat in my neighborhood I've been trying to make friends with, I saw a snail in the wild for the first time ever theory-gary

Snail photoPhoto of a tiny snail on the sidewalk on its way to the grass

Cat friendship seems like it has been established as well! It's a pretty skittish cat and I think my respirator was making it extra suspicious of me, but once I was able to communicate that I'm friendly it came over and was very sweet. I got some photos with it as well but unfortunately I don't think posting those would be a very good idea.

[–] Demifriend@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Here's my extremely realistic artist's interpretation of the cat. Medium effort MS Paint style drawing of a cat giving the camera a tentative look

Its coat is actually pretty complex but I did my layers in the wrong order and I couldn't be bothered to try and make it look textured and clean up the outlines later. bleh

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[–] Keld@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It is kind of wild how mad right wingers are about super hero slop, when the villain is literally always some take on a left wing ideology. Whether that be environmentalism, decolonialism, anarchism or anti-capitalism. It's not even that superheroes are defending the status quo, it's that they're always defending the status quo from moving left.

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Imagining hearing Melania Trump saying β€œlabubu” rn

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[–] Moss@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago (4 children)

What are we even supposed to be doing

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The only thing in life I'm certain of is that we are not at all doing what we are supposed to be doing

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[–] Keld@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Have we matured enough as a culture that we can admit to ourselves that 100 gecs was bad both ironically and unironically. As in it was just bad.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not ready to let go yet, I still hold out a lot of love for them. Maybe I am too attached.

trump-enlightened

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

I forgive you. I wish you luck on your journey towards enlightenment

[–] vertexarray@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

BET MY MONEY ON A STUPID HORSE I LOST THAT

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

A few days ago when it was raining - a window in my living room started leaking. My landlady has done zilch. I talked to her today face-to-face and she really pissed me off. She said stuff like "What do you want me to do?" In my head I had a filmic reply "Oh, I don't know - fix the fucking leak?" When I was young I wouldn't have used swear words but had a bad temper so I would have been obnoxious. Imagine John Podhoretz loudly complaining about the specifics of his incorrect pastrami sandwich. "Waiter - this is not what I ordered!"

But I lived in Japan and I'm not young anymore so my reply was the very measured "I don't know." and then I made some pregnant pauses. Long story short - my mature technic seems to have worked. An apparently qualified roof guy is apparently coming soon.

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[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

okay I still like Abiotic Factor (we just got to the hydroplant area) but jesus christ there are too many fucking things that use rebar and not enough of it. and the renewable ways I've found so far are really tedious (some of it spawns in a train portal world, so that's like, 8 or whatever rebar every few in-game days, which is nothing. The alternative is trading anomalies to the blacksmith but that's also tedious)

I need like 27 billion rebar for the fucking ammo for everything. I made a magnetic crossbow thinking it would free me from making grinder discs but no, it takes rebar too!

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[–] Arahnya@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

Theres a baby crow that's been visiting the feeder and bird bath... she's so cute, I love how she carefully observes everything around her. Switching between baby voice and adult croaks.

Its been difficult to win the friendship of the crows, so I am hoping she sticks around!

[–] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Soups are nourishing, whether one has teeth or not

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[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

at itchyballs park that's where I'll be

[–] FartGunBuster@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Euergetes@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I want to make a formal study of mod teams and release schedules to affirm my absolutely correct belief that releasing less finished projects more often self-perpetuates more sustainably than really polishing the shit out of your project before landmark releases

i think people are scared of people forking the project before the original team gets totally done with it but there's several examples of the bones of a fairly early release being the only thing the first team ever gets done, which have gotten finished (not in the original vision) later by others. it also attracts new blood, it's really hard to retain and keep momentum long term on a volunteer project, you need to get new talent occasionally and there's no stronger recruitment call than putting out something people can enjoy

yes this is me being bitter about a few mods taking way too long to release

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[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

I guess YouTube is broken? That or they really want me to log in and/or disable my adblocker. Fuck that, I will neither log in nor disable my adblocker.

[–] SterlingPooper@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

ChatGPT, why do I get brain fog at 11am every day

Edit: Sadly this is real and has been happening for months

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Anybody else see the new Harper O'Connor video? It's, uh, interesting

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