Publetariat staff are taking Friday, 9/3 through Monday, 9/6 off in observance of the U.S. Labor Day holiday.
And by the way, did you know Labor Day was made a U.S. national holiday in order to quell social unrest following the deaths of some striking workers at the hands of the U.S. military and U.S. Marshals in 1894—essentially out of government fear of retaliation from the labor movement? Yeah, neither did we till we looked it up on Wikipedia.
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