For many New York children of the 1920s, "homework" had nothing to do with school. It meant staying home in your tenement and working for pennies. These girls are making paper flowers to be handed over to companies who sold them to shops. The picture was taken in 1924 as part of an investigation of child labor in the city. It had been outlawed in 1913, but only applied to work in factories and stores.

Photo: Lewis Wickes Hines via LoC/Wikimedia Commons

wild whenever i remember chilchuck is salaried. everyone else lives and dies by what treasures their adventuring party can find, meanwhile he gets to enjoy a steady flat rate. good for him. and he's a labor leader! our guy got sick of putting up w/ how he and other half-foots were being treated by adventurers and made a union about it. incredible.

oohhh god my schedule is so fucked i feel like I have worked every day for the last week. i just want more than one day off pleaasseee i got extremely gay shit to do

Did you know that under Japanese libel law you can get sued into the ground for saying provably true things if they damage a company's reputation?

got reminded of the "saying Arabs conquered and colonized North Africa is Zionist because obviously no one saying that coulx possibly draw a distinction between North African Arabs and Palestinian Arabs, and even drawing a distinction between Arabs and Imazighen is colonizer shit" school of thought

listening to hospital bed from lolina: origins and i know this is a sci-fi dystopia and not entirely representative of real life but fuck the healthcare system

Does anyone have any examples of positive portrayal of psychotic or schizospec people in media?

I only know of 1 confirmed schizophrenic hero, and I'm tired of only seeing it only depicted as scary or evil.

Some people really do assume nobody under 40 works in factories huh

Disability, cptsd, and adhd really has turned me into…egh. A planner. Not because I want to be. But because I either need to figure things out well ahead or I forget or avoid them, or because I can’t set them down mentally.

it's been so long since I posted tits on a monday morning.... I guess I do miss working

Reservation is not a poverty alleviation mechanism. Reservation was always implemented to address representation or the lack thereof in educational institutions and public employment. The Supreme Court has failed to recognise that the 103rd Constitutional Amendment has relied on economic criteria to extend reservations, something that has been expressly barred in law. In Indra Sawhney vs Union (1992), it has been categorically held that in the determination of backwardness, economic condition can never be the sole criterion. The reason for this is that income is a variable factor and not a structural or systematic tool for discrimination. On the other hand, caste is structural and systematic discrimination and poverty is a consequence of such discrimination.

Manuraj Shunmugasundaram, ‘EWS judgment is a setback to social justice, India’s constitutional scheme’, Indian Express

van helsing, shop steward: dracula may have all manner of infernal powers, but guess what everyone...

I just started my job today and they have one set music playlist and every once in a while I get jumpscared by weezer

these are unworkable conditions. i am so sorry

please stop spreading misinformation on what can and cannot be gerrymandered if you don't know the difference between what a filibuster proof majority is, a veto proof majority is, the definition of gerrymandering, and which offices exactly can and can't be affected by redistricting.

senators on the federal level cannot be gerrymandered on a state to state basis. they are a direct vote. if a republican gets 49.999% and a dem gets 50.001%, dem wins, does not take districts into account. even the biggest DINO or blue dog right now is safer than any GOP member for any minority.

governors (who have the ability to veto any bill without a 2/3 majority from their state senate) cannot be gerrymandered in the same way that senators can't. it's also a direct majority needed. if there's a dem in a governors seat and one of those anti-abortion bills gets up in the future to make further restrictions, they can veto it. its basically them ripping the bill up. ..and going "nope". if the republicans get a federal ban bill through the senate and it gets onto Biden's desk without 67 votes, he rips it up.

one of the only reasons we still have obamacare preexisting conditions protections is cause he vetoed the 2015/6 repeal the GOP got through the senate cause they didn't have the 67 votes needed to be veto proof.

filibuster is to prevent the bill from getting voted on, veto is for preventing a bill that has passed through the senate from becoming law.

gerrymandering can affect your local reps, it can affect your federal house reps, the electoral college is basically a national gerrymander. but it can not affect governors or senators....many which are on the ballot right now.

keep in mind alito is 72 and thomas is 74. the average death of an American man happens at 75. if there is a blue senate with a slim majority (even including manchin/sinema) we fix the court when they die. if there isn't a blue majority, mcconnell blocks more picks and pulls another garland because the senate majority leader is who chooses what comes to vote.

i know this country has an archaic and confusing political system, but please don't spread misinformation if you don't know even the most basics on how it works.

please continue to do community action, but voting at this point is to make the community action easier and for harm reduction.

you can both it.