Before the commies rose up and ruined everything, the first of May or the time around what would become the first of May, was a period of celebration.
The Romans were the origin of the so-called 'Flower Moon that is now associated with the first of May.
🧵The 1st of May celebrates spring, drawing on traditions that have united communities for centuries. The Romans introduced Floralia (28 April–3 May) which honoured Flora, goddess of flowers and fertility, with games, theatre, and famously unruly revelry. In the Gaelic world, pic.twitter.com/jB0sHOX1vw
— HistoryandHeritageYorkshire (@GenealogyBeech) May 1, 2026
In ancient times, the Celtic tribes on the British Isles celebrated Beltane. It was the transition of the seasons, from the depths of winter to the promise of spring. The folks then felt the veils between the worlds were exceptionally thin. They would hold their pagan rituals to both celebrate the coming of the light half of the year (hence it also being known as the 'Fire festival') and hopefully get some good juju flowing for the coming planting season.
Nowadays, as no one has an actual clue what the Druids did to celebrate - this is all winging it, as there are no Celtic instruction manuals - it gives everyone an excuse to costume up, beat a drum, wave a torch around, wear filmy dresses or cloaks, and pretend they're a wood sprite.
Edinburgh's Beltane Fire Festival this year is on Thursday, 30th April.
— Brian Ruadh 🏴 (@BrianTheGael) April 24, 2026
Rooted in ancient Celtic ritual, this celebration marks the return of summer, where fire, and story come together on Calton Hill.
From the meaning "bright fire" to the midnight bonfires, it's a night of… pic.twitter.com/hiQrtIHRAc
Whatever floats your boat.
The Maypole emerged during the Medieval ages, as did the tradition of little girls weaving daisy chains as crowns for their hair.
period of growth and renewal between the spring equinox and summer solstice. By the medieval period May Day mixed feasting, dancing, and street mischief, The May Queen became a symbol of renewal, and idealised as a flower-crowned figure. pic.twitter.com/Ue7DXPcwo4
— HistoryandHeritageYorkshire (@GenealogyBeech) May 1, 2026
Everyone was giddy with anticipation for those festival days.
In England, villages would gather flowers - ‘go a maying’ - and the prettiest village maid was crowned Queen of the May, celebrated with dancing around the maypole. pic.twitter.com/1Tzlf7PIXM
— Chris (Linky) Clawson (@beefeater407) May 1, 2026
Here in America, too.
#MayDay 🌸 For a few springtime days each year, the Village Green at Biltmore came alive with song, tradition, and celebration.
— Biltmore Estate (@BiltmoreEstate) May 1, 2026
Read more about our history: https://t.co/BP0y6SwE4h
📷: The May Day celebration of 1906 pic.twitter.com/RsjLYOADcM
Those village and community May Day festivals continued through the centuries, but have also, sadly, died away.
In Victorian times, May Day might also mean a posie left on a doorknob. The 'May Basket' is rumored to be making a comeback.
🌸🍃 The tradition of May Day baskets is making a comeback. 🌸🍃
— Elle Lookbook (@EvaLovesDesign) April 30, 2026
In the 1800s and early 1900s, people would mark the first of May by hanging baskets of flowers or sweets on neighbors’ doorknobs.
Winter is over, and it’s time to come together and celebrate spring.
Martha… pic.twitter.com/7JyQV4wN3W
Wouldn't that be lovely?
When everything else about the day has been co-opted and made so ugly.
How many years of Soviet and North Korean parades have we seen? Goosestepping soldiers and monstrously large missiles on flatbeds as a regime flexes its propaganda muscle?
It's now 'International Workers Day' and has been instrumental in communist and socialist countries in galvanizing workers' solidarity against capitalism.
May Day is International Workers' Day.
— UAW (@UAW) May 1, 2026
UAW President Shawn Fain has called on the rest of the labor movement to join us in preparing to strike on May Day 2028. It’s our opportunity to create a crisis for the billionaire class to win more for all of us.
When workers align their… pic.twitter.com/8ajqGPDVr2
We in the United States already have a 'Labor Day' celebrating workers, so what do we need this for?
For performative theater and another excuse to rage. So tiresome.
BREAKING: Activists with @sunrisemvmt are blockading every entrance at the New York Stock Exchange in lower Manhattan in protest against billionaires and fascism for May Day, International Workers Day.
— Talia Jane ❤️🔥 (@taliaotg) May 1, 2026
Security was extremely aggressive at first and NYPD has so far detained one. pic.twitter.com/3KNgqzCye6
As another excuse to brainwash more children into believing in progressive causes and ideology. To bring more foot soldiers into the ranks, as city governments in thrall to corrupt teachers' unions give students permission to leave their classrooms to attend protests.
They are even providing buses to students who want to participate in the march, perhaps against the very people who pay their parents' wages and put food on the table.
COMMUNIST RECRUITMENT: Multiple communist groups and far-left activists have set up shop in Union Park, pushing their message on Chicago Public School students.
— FRONTLINES TPUSA (@FrontlinesTPUSA) May 1, 2026
The teacher’s union is accused of encouraging students to skip class for this event. @choeshow|@TPUSA pic.twitter.com/XY9i4u32Y4
It's all possible when the mayor is an avowed activist.
BREAKING NOW: Fox live in Chicago as Dem Mayor Brandon Johnson joins May Day protests@MikeTobinFox pic.twitter.com/oStp8Cjz0c
— The Story (@TheStoryFNC) May 1, 2026
WORKERS OVER BILLIONAIRES
🚨 BREAKING: The Sunrise Movement says 100+ May Day activists have shut down every entrance to the New York Stock Exchange today.
— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) May 1, 2026
They call billionaires “clowns,” blame corporations for “fascism,” an “AI hellscape,” and “climate collapse,” then declare “It’s time to shut our… pic.twitter.com/UXkIcKgHbL
Feeding the class- and race-envy monster at every opportunity to create more Borg for the collective.
...Replacing Labor Day with May Day, even unofficially, though some school districts have contemplated the switch, is just as much an attempt to divorce Americans from their own history as tearing down statues is.
These progressives don’t want you to have the American traditional Labor Day, when you rip a few cold ones and think about your hard work and the fruit it bears for your family. They want you angry, out on the streets waving red flags and maybe tossing a few bombs for good measure.
This Marxist globalization is far more dangerous and older than the third way, neoliberal globalism of good haircuts and bad trade deals. Just look at how quickly Trump dismantled so much of that.
No, Marxist globalism is not just a new way to look at markets. It is an effort, as old at least as Leon Trotsky, to take over every aspect of our lives, not just our work, but also our holidays, and eventually our basic freedoms.
Reject it. Reject them.
Reject demands to be given what hasn't been earned, and reject the right to take what was never theirs.
Los Angeles (May 1) — Illegal migrants joined socialists and other leftists for the May Day rally where they demanded to be given citizenship. Video by @TaylerUSA | @FrontlinesTPUSA pic.twitter.com/183kIywmkw
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) May 1, 2026
Take off above the din of angry voices who will never be happy and never contribute a single worthy thing to anyone's life or society as a whole.
🚨 LMFAO! President Trump just brutally MOGGED the anti-ICE May Day protestors in DC by BUZZING THEM in Marine One
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 1, 2026
The pass was so low that it totally drowned out their microphones.
Which resulted in them SCREAMING and flipping off the sky 🤣
What a LEGEND 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/dvi7cyrzzu
Be proud of what you can do, what you believe in, and who you are.
Then pick some flowers at dusk to strew across your doorstep or a windowsill to keep the fairies away tonight.
(I read yellow ones are particularly good for keeping the bad ones away - they won't cross the flowers.)
Just a thought.
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