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 meow-anarchist

“For a World Without Oppressors:” U.S. Anarchism from the Palmer Raids to the Sixties - Andrew Cornell anarchy

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  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Keep your pets indoors and on a leash when outdoors. Coyotes have settled the outdoor cat debate in north america; there won't be any more outdoor cats within a decade or so.

    Note that Coyotes respond to extermination attempts by going to ground and producing larger litters. If you decide to exterminate indigenous wildlife so your invasive species can wander outside and only have to worry about getting mauled by other cats, dogs, cars, busses, trains, pesticides, industrial chemicals, and all the other things that kill animals in urban and suburban areas you'd better get every coyote, then spend the rest of your life fending off the ones that move in to the desirable territory where there are no established coyotes to compete with.

    So, like, good luck.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        11 months ago

        The story of Coyotes is really cool. Like "Oh, you wiped out ever large predator in the US? I'm just gonna schooch in here. Don't mind me. It's free real estate, after all."

        And then there are coyotes in Manhattan.