Abe Lincoln on Argentina’s loss: “It must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.’”
Orlando Vermicelli. My signature pitch is the Spicy Meatball.
kim@kimmymonte.bsky.social · 3w agoyour baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Sandals
I had a lot of fun talking to the team behind the @laboraction.bsky.social Labor Action Tracker for @cunyslu.bsky.social’s Reinventing Solidarity. If you’ve never used their interactive map, put down what you’re doing and do it now (but be warned, it’s addictive) on.soundcloud.com/mnvLpfuMa9Yk...
Episode 69 - Talking Strikes w/the Labor Action Tracker Team
How do we know where, when, and for how long strikes and other labor actions happen in the U.S.? Since 2021, the Labor Action Tracker has been the only comprehensive database of strikes and other work
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I wrote something short on @socialists.nyc and Tuesday’s electoral earthquake for @dissentmag.bsky.social. Yes, I managed to shoehorn Jalen Brunson and the Knicks’ miraculous Game 4 comeback in there. No, I’m not sorry. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
The New York Left’s Super Tuesday - Dissent Magazine
The Democratic Party establishment was not happy about Zohran Mamdani’s election, but most did not treat it as an existential threat. The results of the 2026 primary elections can’t be so easily dismi...
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NYC’s insurgent left keeps notching big wins because it’s built on organizations that do the things parties used to do but don’t anymore dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Partyism Without the Party - Dissent Magazine
Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.
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The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao
If the 2025-2026 Knicks take it all the way, they’ll share some uncanny similarities with the last team to bring a championship to Madison Square Garden: the 1993-1994 New York Rangers.
It’s a real shame we don’t have more working filmmakers like Alex Cox today. His stuff doesn’t always work, but that doesn’t really matter. He’s always up to something interesting and has something to say. And when it hits, it hits.
Criterion Channel@criterionchannl.bsky.social · 2mo agoALEX COX'S PUNK PROVOCATIONS ❤️🔥 📺 Now playing on the Criterion Channel! A patron saint of punk cinema and borderless storytelling, Cox remains one of the greatest subversives to ever pick up a camera, a rebel auteur who blends gonzo surrealism, anarchic irreverence, and blistering anticapitalist
There’s a book on the history of union-busting in the USA called “From Blackjacks to Briefcases.” That about sums it up.
Jacobin@jacobinmag.bsky.social · 3mo agoA new study reveals that employers are spending big to maintain their dictatorial control over the workplace and crush unions. It’s a daunting amount of money, but it’s not impossible to overcome if workers can act with clarity, unity, and strategy.
I wrote something short on the recent UK elections, I hope it’s of interest and potentially even some use jacobin.com/2026/05/uk-e...
The Labour Party’s Main Problem Isn’t Losing Voters to Reform
Labour lost many seats and councils to Reform in the recent UK local elections, leading many to assume that they lost many voters to Nigel Farage’s far-right party. But a look at the data suggests thi...
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Here’s the great labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein on the UAW situation ahead of the union’s constitutional convention and leadership elections, for @cunyslu.bsky.social’s New Labor Forum: newlaborforum.cuny.edu/2026/05/15/s...
Shawn Fain's UAW Is Facing Strong Headwinds - New Labor Forum
The forthcoming UAW election will constitute more than a referendum on the Fain leadership. It will be a token of the hopes and frustrations of US workers.
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All I will say is that today's results are the very predictable outcome of Labour's strategic decisions. Most of them without any pressure to do so. This is true for both the big losses to the Greens and the normalization and legitimation of Reform.
Tarik Abou-Chadi@tabouchadi.bsky.social · 2y agoLike many other European social democratic parties, Labour is moving right on immigration, certainly driven by the recent success of Reform. We have researched this question for years now. There is an abundance of evidence of why this isn't a good strategy. A thread summarizing some of our research
Center-left parties have been obsessed with “winning back” voters from radical right-wing parties like Reform UK, but the more they try to do so the more they undermine themselves: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer’s failure to demonstrate strong values ‘driving away progressive voters’
Report using research from senior Blair and Clinton pollster comes as Labour braces for dismal election results
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Important lessons on how to interpret the local election results in the UK next week. Especially - saying this from experience - Reform winning in places that used to be Labour strongholds does not mean that Labour has actually lost voters to Reform. That‘s an ecological fallacy.
Steve Akehurst@steveakehurst.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis time next week there's going to be a lot of hot takes and spin knocking around, especially re: Reform. I've written a short primer for @politicshome.bsky.social on how to stay sane and navigate the immediate post-election chaos. Thread here too. 🧵 www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
Strikes in America - they don’t happen very often, and when they do they’re usually in California. Useful and sobering research here.
Jacobin@jacobinmag.bsky.social · 3mo agoA group of researchers tracking every strike in America for the past five years write that after a promising increase in strikes and number of strikers in 2022 and 2023, strike activity dropped off significantly in 2024 and remained low in 2025.
The dilemma facing all center-left parties: turn right on social-cultural issues and turn off progressive voters you need to win (while failing to stem the radical right’s appeal). Or turn to the left on economics, and pick a fight with powerful interests you don’t want to have. (1/2)
🚨LABOR PODCAST CONTENT🚨 What can we learn from the UAW’s efforts to organize in higer ed and manufacturing? @micahuetricht.bsky.social and I talked to @chactivist.bsky.social for @cunyslu.bsky.social’s Reinventing Solidarity to find out on.soundcloud.com/GGU59U6ge3LS...
Episode 67 - How Can Workers Win?
What can the UAW’s efforts to scale up new organizing efforts teach the rest of the labor movement? Former UAW chief of staff Chris Brooks shares his reflections on organizing in higher education and
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Good stuff by Puya Gerami on Iranian workers and their long fight for democracy in @cunyslu.bsky.social’s New Labor Forum newlaborforum.cuny.edu/2026/04/22/l...
Labor and the Struggle for Iranian Democracy - New Labor Forum
Workers have been central actors in the struggle to achieve democracy in Iran in the face of domestic repression and foreign intervention.
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“…notice how Mets fans, more than any other team, are drawn to the breakdowns, neurosis, weirdness, and humor of the game…The Mets are a team bursting with all the desperation, psychosis, pain, chaos, and cruel optimism for a better future that persists through civilization’s sunset.”
🚨ATTN: Labor People 🚨 we’ve got a nice debate going at @cunyslu.bsky.social’s New Labor Forum on the UAW’s recent efforts to scale up new worker organizing. First up is @chactivist.bsky.social with his take on organizing in higher ed and Southern auto (1/2) newlaborforum.cuny.edu/2026/01/15/s...
Seizing the Moment: Lessons from the Front Lines of the UAW’s Fight to Scale Up - New Labor Forum
The United Auto Workers’ 2023 Stand Up Strike against Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis delivered historic gains for our members. But just as significant is what came next. Before the strike even e...
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Just finished this excellent book on Kwame Nkrumah and the largely forgotten global impact of pan-Africanism. Ranges from Ghana, to the US and West Indies, to Congo and Tanzania, making a convincing case for Nkrumah’s central place in the era of decolonization. Loved it. wwnorton.com/books/978132...
The Second Emancipation
Finalist for the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award<br /> Longlisted for the 2026 Plutarch Award (Biographers International Organization)<br /><br /> <em>Publishers Weekly</em> • Best Books of 2025 [Nonfi...
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Many thanks to @drodrik.bsky.social for joining me on the @cunyslu.bsky.social podcast Reinventing Solidarity to talk about his new book and how to deal with climate change, global poverty, and creating good jobs for workers in a services-based economy. soundcloud.com/cunyslu/epis...
Episode 66 - An Abundance Agenda for Workers?
Can we have an
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Worth a read for anyone who want to makes sense of the rapidly shifting contours of UK politics. Also relevant to similar debates and discussions regarding Democratic Party electoral strategies in the US.
Tarik Abou-Chadi@tabouchadi.bsky.social · 5mo agoVery informative deep dive into the voters that have abandoned Labour for more progressive parties. Debunking some myths around who these people are and what they want.
I learned a lot from @philiprathgeb.bsky.social’s excellent book on how the radical right in the USA and Europe uses economic policy to advance its cultural and ideological goals, so I spoke to him for @cunyslu.bsky.social’s Reinventing Solidarity podcast. soundcloud.com/cunyslu/epis...
Episode 65 - Making Sense of the Radical Right
Radical right-wing politics is commonly understood as a cry of the “left behind” - working-class voters who lost out in the transition to a post-industrial, services-based, and globalized economy. Phi
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Heaven help me, I am a Podcaster now. I recently talked to @katharinapistor.bsky.social about capitalist law and its discontents (with a particular eye toward the law’s impact on labor and worker organizing) for @cunyslu.bsky.social’s Reinventing Solidarity podcast: soundcloud.com/cunyslu/epis...
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Capitalism is commonly understood as an economic system, but Columbia University legal scholar Katharina Pistor argues that its more properly understood as a kind of legal regime. Pistor joins Chris M
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What a loss. To me, Werckmeister Harmonies is arguably the greatest film yet made in the 2000s, a beautiful, terrifying, too-prescient film. Precisely the sort of art we need in a world of brain-dead, heartless “content.” RIP.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 7mo agoBreaking News: Bela Tarr, a Hungarian director whose long, grim films like “Werckmeister Harmonies” made him an art-house titan, died at 70.