#ICYMI. Hard to find critical analyses of labor's response to AI supported by evidence. I think this is one, quick useful: truthout.org/articles/the...

The Labor Movement Is Divided Over How to Deal With AI

Some union leaders who are embracing AI are receiving pushback from rank-and-file workers.

truthout.org

When is a win an upset the machine needs to notice? Ken Klipperstein compares Obama's and El-Sayed’s margin of victory in this eye-opening piece. (Info and analysis are better than the title) : open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...

Chuck Schumer Eats Shit

Abdul El-Sayed’s victory is earthquake for Democratic Party old guard

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🚨New York City🚨 Join us for a citywide call on August 19th 6-7pm ET where we'll discuss the increase in ICE activity across NYC, threats to the upcoming midterms, other attacks by the Trump regime, and, most importantly, what we can do about fighting back against it all. RSVP at tr.ee/masscall.

I'm following @ncaaupgip.bsky.social and have subscribed to their substack because the resistance of higher ed faculty to AI is extraordinarily important to our society and prek-12 schools. We're in this together. futureschools.substack.com/p/just-say-n...

Just Say No to Corporate AI Partnerships in K12 and Higher Ed

Soon after the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) announced a partnership with Microsoft and OpenAI to create a brick-and-mortar national AI training center for teachers located at the United Feder...

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Good to see! Hope the convo includes how to resist, ways to make NEA and AFT, representing education workers, change their act. Good start is for officers to read this material, then explain support for pushing deals with tech bros to train teachers to use AI responsibly, as the moguls define it.

Kathy Harris@triproftri.bsky.social · 2d ago

An incredible reading list about #AI framed through what TMC calls "data politics" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

Bam! Exactly the same with preK-12 teaching. The "shortage" is a product of policy. Conscious.

Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · yesterday

hospitals want us to do more with less without a concern for patient safety or our own wellbeing while refusing to pay us adequate wages

The DOJ is now 0-20 in court trying to access states' voter files. They've lost in: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin

Do read the piece then mull over why the official mag of the AFT, "the American Educator," published a hit piece on Zinn in Winter 2012-2013. It was met by outrage, to no avail. But as the AFT prez now says we're "fighting fascism," our mag should reprint this to show AFT has learned Zirin's lesson.

Dave Zirin@edgeofsports.bsky.social · yesterday

To commemorate today’s official book release of “The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn” I wrote the following column for @thenation.com “Liberals Are Shaming Howard Zinn’s Memory Yet Again” thenation.com/article/soci...

Please read and consider signing if you have not already!

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 2d ago

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their names. openletter.earth/open-letter-...

New @truthout.org article explains divisions in labor on AI, rank-and-file pushback. Some unions with good positions aren't mentioned but there's clearly tough competition for the bad. In this too-crowded hall of shame, AFT is a front-runner, IBEW close by: truthout.org/articles/the...

The Labor Movement Is Divided Over How to Deal With AI

Some union leaders who are embracing AI are receiving pushback from rank-and-file workers.

truthout.org

As you read and watch AFT propaganda about CTE, consider that it rests on the assumption that business can be trusted to control the economy - with AI. And education's role is to help them do that. Do you agree?

AFT@aft.org · 2d ago

CTE works best when classroom and industry are connected. The Advanced Technology Framework is a partnership among @aft.org, @uft.org, Micron and New York State schools, connecting what students learn to on-the-job work and empowering them to explore careers in advanced manufacturing. Watch ⤵️

The GOP can scarcely muster a performance, the appearance of resistance to Trump.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d ago

no agreement with trump is binding, it's impossible that anyone at this point fails to understand that. All that's happening here is spineless toadies folding as anticipated bsky.app/profile/matt...

The union filing the charges, @nuhw.org, is known for being member-driven and supporting social justice. A strong model for organizing in the private sector.

CalMatters@calmatters.org · 3d ago

A health worker union has accused Kaiser Permanente of screening patients and making care recommendations through “a digital, automated algorithm” without clinician oversight — a practice the union says violates state law. cal.news/4fISnd7 📸 Jules Hotz

If "end the US war machine" is "barbarism" as the GOP claims in trying to whip up anti-DSA hysteria, what do we call bombing schools and threatening to destroy a society because it won't bend to our will about oil?

Clyde W Barrow@clydewbarrow.bsky.social · 3d ago

Democratic Socialism is the future! www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

Just to be clear, I reported an exhaustive piece about the allegations against Max Miller on July 18. The New York Times published their story, without crediting me, on July 28. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller

Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.

motherjones.com

Review and comments equally useful. And of course the book makes this all possible. "Shadow tradition" captures the history with a metaphor that distills the lack of material basis for the ideology of biological superiority.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3d ago

> On March 17, 1929, the Black sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois faced off against the white supremacist historian Lothrop Stoddard. The question under consideration: “Has the Negro the Same Intellectual Possibility as Other Races?” 1/n

Story is a wake up call about what we gained that is very much in danger: Rights of the disabled to live with us, equally, won in the past 50 years.

Marianne Dhenin@mariannedhe.bsky.social · 6d ago

Massachusetts is unsealing records of generations of disabled people and the violence many faced while institutionalized. Advocates told me their stories should serve as warnings to us as demands to return to institutionalization are ramping up under Trump 2.0.

Exclusive: Proposed rule changes at Head Start would eliminate quality standards and bar immigrants from the program: https://bit.ly/4yQ5HFh

A New Trump Rule Would Lower Standards at Head Start and Exclude Immigrants From the Program

The Trump administration is on the verge of releasing a proposed rule that would eliminate crucial quality standards at the nation's preschool program for low-income children.

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A smart, well-informed, readable review of a smart, readable book critiquing Stalin's rehabilitation on the left. Paul Le Blanc on Douglas Greene on Stalin's new defenders: newpol.org/review/stali...

Stalin’s Latter-Day Defenders - New Politics

Paul Le Blanc recommends Douglas Greene's latest book In Stalin's Shadow, a critique of the new wave of Stalinist revisionism.

newpol.org

We need to tweak this EPI report, which contains useful information and analysis but needs a critical lens. *Good* unions are key to better public schools for all kids: www.epi.org/blog/unions-...

Unions are key to high-quality public education

Our recent report asks a bold question: What would the United States look like if we tripled union membership? We find a range of economic and social benefits—such as higher wages, greater access to h...

epi.org

Her new bill, IMO more vicious than sad. Who thinks kids who go hungry because they're thrown off of SNAP are going to be educated to support the American way by saying the pledge of allegiance? www.moody.senate.gov/press-releas...

VIDEO: Senator Moody Fights to Bring Our Schools Back to Basics, Introduces PLEDGE Act to Instill Patriotism and the Pledge of Allegiance in D.C. Schools - Senator Moody

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Senator Ashley Moody is fighting back against the anti-American indoctrination in schools. Currently, there are schools in Washington, D.C., the nation’s capital, that do not display ...

moody.senate.gov

Free DC@freedcproject.bsky.social · 5d ago

Senator Hope Moody of Florida introduced a sad new bill trying to interfere in DC's schools. She's desperate to distract from the fact that she stole $10 million from Florida schools, and a grand jury's report looking into it is due out any day. www.fox35orlando.com/news/vindman...

Useful @mapthepower.bsky.social chart shows far Right big money influencing your state's elections to dismantle public education. Still, we need attention to vast sums pouring into the Democratic party to privatize schools with tech and public/private partnerships: littlesis.org/news/billion...

I was just asked to review a book manuscript by a well-known press. I agreed out of .. well, you know. The chapter and proposal were so awful they had to be written by AI. How are others handling this? Real question.

Description is entirely accurate. Solution many give in replies, to focus on the mid-term elections, won't protect people now. We need direct action!

Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny!@malena.bsky.social · 7d ago

Masked thugs are rampaging through our neighborhoods & abducting people. They're ripping apart families, stealing children away from their parents & parents away from their children. Don't become numb to it. The abducted are given no rights & they can do this to anyone, even you. #ICELawlessness

Straight out of the Nazi playbook, how they conducted deportations under the Vichy government in Marseille. Likely with political support from the banks.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 7d ago

I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.

“Instead of respecting NY’s historic minimum pay law, companies chose to manipulate their platforms to discourage tipping, stripping millions of dollars from the pockets of delivery workers who earned that money,” said Ligia Guallpa, of Workers’ Justice Project.

Join Ads Go Union and be part of the solution! #AdsGoUnion

Labor Eyes on ICE: HPAE Local 5094; OPEIU Local 153; URA-AFT Local 1766; Rutgers AAUP-AFT; PSC-CUNY; Newark Library Workers, AFSCME Local 2298; Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union, PTLFC-AAUP-AFT, Local 6324; Washington-Baltimore News Guild, CWA Local 32035; AAUP, Princeton; CWA Local 1037; (UCAN) at NJIT

RutgersAAUP-AFT@ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · last wk.

Labor Solidarity 🗞️ Read for the Day! Close Delaney Hall. Abolish ICE. Free them all. No one is free until we all are. The Trump administration attacks immigrants & criminalizes activists; organized labor must keep speaking out. https://loom.ly/CqKvBTg #CloseDelaneyHall #AbolishICE #InsiderNJ

Anyone else reminded of Robert Mitchum in "Night of the Hunter" when you read about these hucksters? Photos don't capture the malevolence that underlies their scams.

ProPublica@propublica.org · last wk.

NEW: Nick Adams’ Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness has brought in millions in donations and helped him land a State Department appointment, but records show there is almost no indication FLAG was spending that money on its stated mission.

1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.