The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to capture and arrest suspected socialists, especially anarchists and communists, and deport them from the United States. The raids particularly targeted Italian immigrants and Eastern European Jewish immigrants with alleged leftist ties, with particular focus on Italian anarchists and immigrant leftist labor activists. The raids and arrests occurred under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, with 6,000 people arrested across 36 cities. Though 556 foreign citizens were deported, including a number of prominent leftist leaders, Palmer's efforts were largely frustrated by officials at the U.S. Department of Labor, which had authority for deportations and objected to Palmer's methods.
The Palmer Raids occurred in the larger context of the First Red Scare, a period of fear of and reaction against communists in the U.S. in the years immediately following World War I and the Russian Revolution. There were strikes that garnered national attention, and prompted race riots in more than 30 cities, as well as two sets of bombings in April and June 1919, including one bomb mailed to Palmer's home.
Between November 1919 and January 2020, Palmer’s agents deported nearly 250 people, including notable anarchist Emma Goldman, and arrested nearly 10,000 people in seventy cities.
100 Years Ago, the First Red Scare Tried to Destroy the Left
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Shitty little rat dogs are mostly working dogs bred to hunt and kill vermin with extreme, often distressing, prejudice.
Like people get chihuahuas and terriers because they think they're cute and it's like no, I'm sorry, that thing is the fucking terminator but for the entire order rodentia. It was bred to do only one thing and that is kill. Cats kill for food or for fun. Shitty little rat dogs kill because they know nothing but killing and desire nothing but killing.
Source; I've lived with all kinds of cats and most of them were pretty shitty mousers. I've lived with one terrier-chihuahua mix. She killed EVERY SINGLE RODENT that entered my house over a ten year period like rodents had wiped out her family and she swore unlimited vengeance. That was the only period in that house we never had any voles or mice. Like if you want a cat get a cat. If you want to build a mountain of very, very small skulls get a terrier.
my literally blind, mostly deaf terrier still killed several mice, snakes, and birds in the last months of its life. we have no idea how, tbqh
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