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They never built statues of us. But we left signs: a cracked CD-ROM, a carved name in a desk, a username that never logged in again.
My first blog post is live: “Him, They, Them, and Us.” A love letter, an archive, and a refusal to be forgotten.

🔗 medium.com/@christopherpryce02

Medium · Him, They, Them, and UsA love letter, an archive, and a refusal to be forgotten.

'The Oligarchy Is the Enemy': Maine Oyster Farmer Launches Senate Bid to Oust Susan Collins

"I will be a senator," said Graham Platner, "for all those who can't buy senators."

from #CommonDreams
Julia Conley
Aug 19, 2025

Launching a #US #Senate run to unseat five-term #Maine #Republican Sen. #SusanCollins, oyster farmer #GrahamPlatner on Tuesday made clear in his inaugural ad that beating the "fake" moderate also means taking on the power-hungry billionaire class that has helped keep her in power all these years.

The enemy that the vast majority of Americans and Mainers have in common, said #Platner, "is the #oligarchy."

commondreams.org/news/susan-co

#PlatnerForSenate
#USA #USPol #politics #Democrat #DemocraticParty #WorkingClass #BillionaireMinimumTax #MedicareForAll
#news #press

Common Dreams · 'The Oligarchy Is the Enemy': Maine Oyster Farmer Launches Senate Bid to Oust Susan Collins | Common DreamsGraham Platner, a veteran and oyster farmer, is challenging Susan Collins for her Senate seat in Maine. He's fighting against the oligarchy and billionaires who control politics, advocating for universal healthcare and economic justice. Will Mainers choose real change over the status quo? #PlatnerForSenate

In #Maine, a Political Novice Makes a Long-Shot Bid to Oust Collins

Democrats hope to recruit Governor Janet Mills to challenge the powerful #Republican senator, but an oyster farmer with a working man’s pitch thinks he has a better chance.

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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Annie Karni
Aug. 19, 2025

Enter #GrahamPlatner, a 40-year-old oyster farmer and former Marine who served three tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, and is set on Tuesday to announce a long-shot challenge to Ms. Collins, with a campaign focused on making life better for his state’s working class.

A competitive pistol shooter who worked as a bartender at the Tune Inn on Capitol Hill while attending George Washington University on the G.I. Bill, he said that “everyone knows we live in a system that is not built to represent working-class people.”

nytimes.com/2025/08/19/us/poli

#USA #US #USPol #DemocraticParty #SusanCollins
#news #press #politics #WorkingClass

The New York Times · In Maine, a Political Novice Makes a Long-Shot Bid to Oust CollinsBy Annie Karni

I'm signing off with this track 🎶🎸🎵👩‍🎤✌️

#NowPlaying

Socialism Or Barbarism - #TheReds
youtu.be/xz8oTfNFq1I?si=6z37P8

Lyrics:

The cities burn, the rivers dry,
They sell us hope, we buy the lie.
A world in chains, a rising flood,
The gears grind on, soaked in blood.
And from the ashes of the old,
A voice of fire, brave and bold.
It's socialism or barbarism, nothing in between,
A future built on justice, or a nightmare machine.
We rise or we perish, there’s no other way —
Choose love or the sword, we decide today.
The workers march, the bosses scheme,
They steal our labor, kill the dream.
But from the fields to factory floor,
We won’t be slaves forevermore.
Hear Rosa whisper through the storm:
"The world can break, or be reborn."
It's socialism or barbarism, nothing in between,
A future built on justice, or a nightmare machine.
We rise or we perish, there’s no other way
Choose love or the sword, we decide today.
History bends, but it remembers
The blood spilled in the cold Decembers.
If we don’t fight, if we don’t shout
They’ll burn the whole damn planet out.
Breakdown
No more war for oil and gold.
No more lies that we are sold.
We take the world back in our hands
No gods, no masters, just demands.
It's socialism or barbarism, the line is drawn in flame,
We march for liberation, not fortune or fame.
We rise, we resist, we fight, we stay
For the red dawn that breaks a brighter day.
Choose now…
Choose clear…
Socialism…
Or disappear!

"Less than half of ‘class marginalised workers’ were offered career development in the past year in Australia, compared to 76% of ‘privileged’ employees, a new study suggests."

Australians tend to deny and ignore the fact that we have classes in our society. I notice it in particular in the large cities. Even though I like living in Melbourne I didn't want to move back when we had children in high school because we couldn't afford private school education. Working in chartered accounting, I had seen how disadvantaged my husband was in that industry, having grown up poor and attending government schools.

My husband was the first in his family to make it to year 10, first to finish year 12 and first to enter university. He struggled at university because he had no-one in his family who understood what it is like and to give him the kind of guidance that I had from 2 university-educated parents. I could see in social conversations at professional social events what a disadvantage he was at as he did not have the middle class way of conversation. He has done incredibly well in his career to overcome many of these invisible barriers. It was a struggle that others, including me, did not have.
#Melbourne #Australia #workingclass

theguardian.com/australia-news

The Guardian · Mark Baxter stopped talking about his upbringing to break through the ‘class ceiling’. Now he’s fighting for changeBy Adeshola Ore