John AutryMay 1, 2025

May 1, 1948 - Senator Glen Hearst Taylor (D-Idaho) was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked for "Negroes" rather than using the “whites only” door, and convicted of disorderly conduct.

Taylor was the Progressive Party candidate for Vice President, running mate of Henry Wallace. He was in Birmingham to address the Southern Negro Youth Congress.

#GlenTaylor

Show threadbs2Jan 3, 2023
> #AnimalRights protesters targeted Rembrandt’s billionaire owner, #GlenTaylor, over the cull, including disrupting games played by the professional basketball team he owns, the #Minnesota #Timberwolves.
> Others fired from the plant contrast the seriousness with which the #BirdFlu outbreak has been taken... the company’s lax approach to the threat to workers from #Covid, as it swept through #FactoryFarms and #slaughterhouses in #Iowa and elsewhere.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/28/egg-factory-avian-flu-chickens-culled-workers-fired-iowa
US egg factory roasts alive 5.3m chickens in avian flu cull – then fires almost every worker

Laborers worked for a month disposing of birds killed in a gruesomely inhumane manner. Then they found they too were disposable

The Guardian
Show threadbs2Jan 3, 2023
The #SportsTeamOwner lines that have been bothering me for 6 months. People in #Florida probably know who the model for Helmut von Zeppelin is, maybe Huizenga in 2001?
> He was nearing the rarefied peak of Mount Bastard. When Helmut walked by, even other most vicious corporate bastards sad, "Now that's a bastard!" There was only one more level above him, and von Zeppelin was determined to reach it.
> Sports team owner
The book came to mind in June with #GlenTaylor
https://mstdn.jp/@bsmall2/108469100786710767
bs2 (@[email protected])

> .. authorities[1] appear to have learned.. lessons from 2015, when a bird flu outbreak resulted in what the US agriculture department calls “the largest poultry health disaster in US history”, with the slaughter of about 50 million chickens and turkeys. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/28/egg-factory-avian-flu-chickens-culled-workers-fired-iowa #AnimalFactory #chickens #RembrandtEnterprises #GlenTaylor #Timberwolves #AvianFlu [1] Still not learning to reform centralized large-scale organization for decentralized small-scale activity with resilience.

mstdn.jp
bs2Jan 3, 2023
#SportsTeamOwners are the worst of the worst. Buying a team is the way #billionaires prove that they are worse than the other spoiled, subsidized guys. I can't remember if I read the discussion in a #TimDorsey or a #CarlHiaasen book. gotta look around for the #Florida paperbacks laying around and try to find the quotes. Searching turned up articles about subsidizing stadiums, so maybe the paragraphs were in a #Hiaasen book.
https://archive.tcpalm.com/opinion/columnists/carl-hiaasen-not-sure-whats-a-bigger-stinker--the-miami-dolphins-or-the-plan-to-renovate-their-su-ep-342733012.html/
#StadiumSubsidies for #GlenTaylor too?
Carl Hiaasen: Not sure what's a bigger stinker — the Miami Dolphins or the plan to renovate their Su

Here's all you need to know about the Miami Dolphins' outrageous scheme to publicly finance renovations at Sun Life Stadium:

bs2Jun 13, 2022
> .. authorities[1] appear to have learned.. lessons from 2015, when a bird flu outbreak resulted in what the US agriculture department calls “the largest poultry health disaster in US history”, with the slaughter of about 50 million chickens and turkeys.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/28/egg-factory-avian-flu-chickens-culled-workers-fired-iowa
#AnimalFactory #chickens #RembrandtEnterprises #GlenTaylor #Timberwolves #AvianFlu
[1] Still not learning to reform centralized large-scale organization for decentralized small-scale activity with resilience.
US egg factory roasts alive 5.3m chickens in avian flu cull – then fires almost every worker

Laborers worked for a month disposing of birds killed in a gruesomely inhumane manner. Then they found they too were disposable

The Guardian