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This week's Top 5:

➡️ Dark-web dealing
➡️ A cruel tradition
➡️ Revisiting Twain
➡️ Flushing in flux
➡️ An unlikely reunion

Our editors recommend excellent #longreads this week by Andy Greenberg, Michelle Orange, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Jefferson Mao, and Will Steinfeld.

longreads.com/2025/05/30/the-t

Longreads · The Top 5 Longreads of the WeekBy Longreads

"With Twain it seems more the case that we go on suspecting he hides some meaning, some message that we could probably use, behind the bushy eyebrows and mustache, but are less and less able to name or remember. He doesn’t quite haunt us." —John Jeremiah Sullivan for Harper's

harpers.org/archive/2025/06/tw
#novels #MarkTwain #HuckleberryFinn #PercivalEverett

Harper's MagazineTwain Dreams, by John Jeremiah SullivanThe enigma of Samuel Clemens

Today in Labor History April 21, 1910: Mark Twain died. “I have read carefully the treaty of Paris and I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate the people of the Philippines. We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem… And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.” During the Boxer Rebellion, he said that "the Boxer is a patriot. He loves his country better than he does the countries of other people. I wish him success." From 1901, until his death in 1910, he was vice-president of the American Anti-Imperialist League, which opposed the annexation of the Philippines by the U.S. He was also critical of European imperialists such as Cecil Rhodes and King Leopold II of Belgium, who attempted to establish colonies in African. He also supported the Russian revolutionaries fighting against the Tsar.

Many people have criticized him for his racism. Indeed, schools have banned “Huckleberry Finn.” However, Twain was an adamant supporter of abolition and said that the Emancipation Proclamation “not only set the black slaves free, but set the white man free also." He also fought for the rights of immigrants, particularly the Chinese. "I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible... but I never saw a Chinaman righted in a court of justice for wrongs thus done to him." And though his early writings were racist against indigenous peoples, he later wrote that “in colonized lands all over the world, "savages" have always been wronged by "whites" in the most merciless ways, such as "robbery, humiliation, and slow, slow murder, through poverty and the white man's whiskey."

Twain was also an early feminist, who campaigned for women's suffrage. He also wrote in support of unions and the labor movement, especially the Knights of Labor, one of the most important unions of the era. “Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #marktwain #imperialism #racism #feminism #union #literature #fiction #satire #books #writer #author #novels @bookstadon

"The American Dream keeps you working for a future that never comes built upon a past that never happened."

I think this sums up the Gen X or Xennial experience quite succinctly.
(This is an Advance Reading Copy)

This author is brilliant, btw. You should look up her other articles and books.
⬇️
open.substack.com/pub/sarahken

#storygraph #goodreads #books #bookstodon #bookcommunity #amreading #reading #currentlyreading #politicaleducation #americana #route66 #marktwain #sarahkendzior @bookstodon

Czy Twoja marka nadal wyróżnia się na rynku?
Czasem warto zadać sobie takie pytanie – szczególnie, jeśli zauważysz, że stoisz w miejscu lub notujesz spadki.

Historią, zaangażowaniem, niestandardową obsługą, wyjątkowym doświadczeniem zakupowym – czym Ty się wyróżniasz?

🔴 🇺🇸 Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?

Ultimately, a lack of conviction in the Confederate cause, unwilling compatriots, and fear of battle influenced his decision to withdraw from the military.

Stoyack, Aaron. “Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?” TheCollector.com, thecollector.com/mark-twain-ci (accessed August 30, 2024).

#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Confederacy #MarkTwain @histodon @histodons

TheCollector · Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?Mark Twain is one of America’s most celebrated authors. He served against the Union during the Civil War. Where did his true allegiance lie?

#P1

I always disliked #MarkTwain or at least thought I did.

I hate #narcissists and #manipulators and he always seemed very high on those two traits.

What I just found out is that in his later years he was very #cynical, to the point of #mocking all of the #Abrahamic #religions! This is after god creates earth:

#LettersFromTheEarth

"Yes," said Satan, "I heard Him, but did not understand. What is animals, Gabriel?"

"Ah, how should I know? How should any of us know? It is a new word.”

Today in Labor History April 21, 1910: Mark Twain died. William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature." He grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which provided the setting for “Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn.” He apprenticed with a printer and worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later worked as a riverboat pilot before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. Twain was famous for his wit and brilliant writing. However, he also had extremely progressive politics for his era. Later in his life, he became an ardent anti-imperialist. “I have read carefully the treaty of Paris and I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate the people of the Philippines. We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem… And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.” During the Boxer Rebellion, he said that "the Boxer is a patriot. He loves his country better than he does the countries of other people. I wish him success." From 1901, until his death in 1910, he was vice-president of the American Anti-Imperialist League, which opposed the annexation of the Philippines by the U.S. He was also critical of European imperialists such as Cecil Rhodes and King Leopold II of Belgium, who attempted to establish colonies in African. He also supported the Russian revolutionaries fighting against the Tsar.

Many people have criticized him for his racism. Indeed, schools have banned “Huckleberry Finn.” However, Twain was an adamant supporter of abolition and said that the Emancipation Proclamation “not only set the black slaves free, but set the white man free also." He also fought for the rights of immigrants, particularly the Chinese. "I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible... but I never saw a Chinaman righted in a court of justice for wrongs thus done to him." And though his early writings were racist against indigenous peoples, he later wrote that “in colonized lands all over the world, "savages" have always been wronged by "whites" in the most merciless ways, such as "robbery, humiliation, and slow, slow murder, through poverty and the white man's whiskey."

Twain was also an early feminist, who campaigned for women's suffrage. He also wrote in support of unions and the labor movement, especially the Knights of Labor, one of the most important unions of the era. “Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #marktwain #racism #feminism #imperialism #abolition #KnightsOfLabor #union #Literature #fiction #books #novel #author #writer @bookstadon

Today in Labor History March 22, 1886: Mark Twain, who was a lifelong member of the International Typographical Union, gave a speech entitled, “Knights of Labor: The New Dynasty.” In the speech, he commended the Knights’ commitment to fair treatment of all workers, regardless of race or gender. “When all the bricklayers, and all the machinists, and all the miners, and blacksmiths, and printers, and stevedores, and housepainters, and brakemen, and engineers . . . and factory hands, and all the shop girls, and all the sewing machine women, and all the telegraph operators, in a word, all the myriads of toilers in whom is slumbering the reality of that thing which you call Power, ...when these rise, call the vast spectacle by any deluding name that will please your ear, but the fact remains that a Nation has risen.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #KnightsOfLabor #solidarity #union #MarkTwain #writer #author #books #fiction #race #gender @bookstadon

Continued thread

I’d be remiss if I failed to note that my correspondent’s argument is not only empirically wrong, but also deeply morally repugnant.

All of these systems—American chattel slavery, the feudalism of ancien regime France or czarist Russia, modern capitalism—are deeply, intrinsically violent. *Even if* exploited people tended to free themselves through violence, and *even if* they took revenge against their former exploiters, that violence would still pale against the constant violence of the systems against which they fought.

A history that prioritizes a handful of high-profile examples of spectacular but brief violence against elites while downplaying millennia of elite violence against everyone else isn’t really history; it’s propaganda. As Mark Twain noted:

“A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”

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Mark Twain Cats!

They're bold.

They're beautiful!

They tend to write funny well!

"His pen name 'Mark Twain' comes from a term in steamboat navigation meaning the water is at a depth of two fathoms, or 12 feet, which was considered safe for riverboat passage. This tied into his days working on riverboats on the Mississippi River."