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Chris Crews (he/him)An excellent piece by Renee DiResta <a href="https://mastodon.social/@lawfare" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@lawfare</a> on the history of HUAC and its resonances today."[under HUAC], strident inquisitions and the abuse of subpoena power lasted for decades in the lower house. I learned this after becoming fascinated by HUAC following the receipt of my first congressional subpoena, from Rep. Jim Jordan and his House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HUAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HUAC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JimJordan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JimJordan</a> <a href="https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/process-as-punishment--an-american-history-of-political-spectacle" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/process-as-punishment--an-american-history-of-political-spectacle</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History March 6, 1930: 100,000 people demonstrated for jobs in New York City. Demonstrations by unemployed workers, demanding unemployment insurance, occurred in virtually every major U.S. city. In New York, police attacked a crowd of 35,000. In Cleveland, 10,000 people battled police. In Detroit, the Communist Party organized an underemployment demonstration. Over 50,000 people showed up. Thousands took to the streets in Toledo, Flint and Pontiac. These demonstrations led to the creation of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), sponsored by Republican congressman Hamilton Fish, with the support of the American Federation of Labor, to investigate and quash radical activities.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/unemployment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unemployment</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/huac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#huac</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#communism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/policebrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#policebrutality</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/greatdepression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#greatdepression</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/riot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#riot</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#police</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/newyork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#newyork</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cleveland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cleveland</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/detroit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#detroit</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/flint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#flint</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#republican</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History February 10, 1898: Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht was born. Brecht was a doctor, poet and playwright. He fled the Nazis only to be persecuted in the U.S. by HUAC during the Cold War. He is most well-known for his play, “The Three Penny Opera.” He also wrote “Mother Courage and Her Children” and “The Days of the Commune,” about the Paris Commune. Additionally, he wrote poetry and composed the lyrics to many of the songs performed in his plays, like “Mack the Knife” and “Alabama Song” (AKA Whiskey Bar). <a href="https://youtu.be/6orDcL0zt34" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/6orDcL0zt34</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nazis</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/huac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#huac</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anticommunist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anticommunist</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/witchhunt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#witchhunt</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BertoltBrecht" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BertoltBrecht</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/marxist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marxist</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Poet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poet</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/playwright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#playwright</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ParisCommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ParisCommune</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstadon</a>

David Zappelli"So instead of saying <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/NonCitizen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NonCitizen</a> or <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/migrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#migrant</a>, they're supposed to say <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/alien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alien</a>. Instead of saying <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/integration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#integration</a>, they're supposed to say <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/assimilation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#assimilation</a>, things like that. And this particular worker described it as the most #1984 thing that they've ever gotten. And this is happening all across the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#government</a>" <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Orwellian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Orwellian</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Fahrenheit451" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fahrenheit451</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Dystopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dystopia</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/RayBradbury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RayBradbury</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/NeoMarcarthyism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeoMarcarthyism</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideology</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#repression</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/newspeak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#newspeak</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/FreedomOfSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreedomOfSpeech</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ThoughtControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThoughtControl</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Censorship</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HUAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HUAC</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GreatPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreatPurge</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BookBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BookBurning</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Wiping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wiping</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Digital</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Enshittification</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/NineteenEightyFour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NineteenEightyFour</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BrainRot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrainRot</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/WhatNext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatNext</a> | "Why <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> ’s <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DataPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DataPurge</a> is a Digital Book Burning"<a href="https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd/2025/02/donald-trump-is-changing-america-down-to-the-code" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd/2025/02/donald-trump-is-changing-america-down-to-the-code</a>

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