Erik Strobl
@erikstrobl.bsky.social
Organizing Director, SEIU 668 A terror since the public school era
email is the biggest obstacle to doing my actual job and it’s not close. An email with a “quick question” takes two minutes to send and often demands an hour or more for me to research and follow up. I get, at minimum, eighty emails every day (and I do not mean “workday”) h/t @lecagle.bsky.social
John Gallagher@johnrgallagher.bsky.social · 7d agoEmail lowered productivity and you’ll never convince me otherwise
Colleges exist to serve communities, not corporate interests or political agendas. We must defend affordable, quality, & democratic higher ed in the 2026 midterms! Tell candidates to stand with us: #HigherEdVoter https://bit.ly/47vCnHN
optimistically tunneling through the layers of American stupidity like Schliemann digging past Troy to uncover an even older lost city
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 3w agoNew: Low-info voters, who put Trump in the White House, now look even more anti-Trump than high-info voters, and give Dems bigger margins on the generic ballot. 1 out of 3 Trump voters who can't name the party in charge of Congress now back Dems for 2026. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/poll-low-i...
“Don’t bring a union rep” is one of those sentences that always means your employer is going you treat you with respect and dignity
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2mo ago'The University and College Union (UCU)’s Edinburgh branch said staff had been called into “informal meetings at less than 24 hours' notice” and told not to bring union representatives.'
deer hunting season is gonna go so hard this year
I'm just up at 5:30, thinking about how the sparkling piano that sends tingles through each of my vertebrae in Nick Drake's Northern Sky is played by the same guy who plays the frontal-lobe-disabling viola drone on the Velvet Underground's Heroin.
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs@500songspodcast.bsky.social · last yr.Fourth episode of Pledge Week is “Fruit Tree” by Nick Drake! A solitary performer who rarely collaborated with other artists, Drake only became recognised as a major figure in music after his death in 1974. Available on Spotify, Apple Music and via Andrew’s website: 500songs.com/podcast/pled...
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He’s lost the “wearing a sleeveless tee that says Suck Squeeze Bang Blow at the state fair” crowd, it’s Joever-Joever
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 3mo ago3-time Trump voter: I would give the economy a D-. Everything is expensive. Gas is expensive. I regret my vote.
if you're looking for the cause of declining good union manufacturing jobs over the last 50 years, domestic competition from right-to-work sunbelt states is a much bigger deal than foreign competition from free trade.
IMO @stevesalaita.bsky.social does *really* well in a Chronicle interview that feels very gotcha ("Confessions of a Campus Radical"). Below, facing a question designed to make him 'endorse' violence, he carefully indexes who is allowed to commit violence (Israel) and who isn't ("Hamas").
Not even close. It's going to be bare knuckle politics for the foreseeable future.
Screamer Jim@screamerjim.bsky.social · 3mo agoI do not think certain liberal pockets have the stomach for even half of what an effective Truth and Reconciliation process would look like
Last week I had drove 4 hrs, shot 2723 shots over 7 hours with 2 cameras, hardly slept, then drove back to LA, had a dentist and doctor's appointment Worth it This is the Perseids Meteor Shower over the Milky Way in Mt Pinos with 100s of my newest friends 🌌 PDFs: drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fo...
Wage stagnation is a defining dynamic of the K-shaped economy, but millions of Americans work beneath the wage. How has culture in the age of service work, including reality tv and literature, crafted the myth that precarious labor is freedom? interccect.com/2026/08/11/f...
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Wage stagnation is a defining dynamic of the K-shaped economy, but millions of Americans work beneath the wage – they pay for the privilege of working, work in tip-dependent industries (servi…
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many of u appear to be trying to play a sophisticated game of chess while your opponent is pointing a gun at you and also pulling the trigger on the gun pretty frequently and you're being shot by the gun a lot
When I was adjusting (plus when I was between adjuncting and my current position!) — I was also working retail to make ends meet. So many academics proclaim class solidarity while ignoring the fact that there are *presently working class* thinkers in the office next door!
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3mo agoI will also say this. There is a real, authentic cohort of poor and working class people in higher education. They can speak to the complexities of being in and not of a class position without making broad, provocative generalizations. One day, someone should publish those people.
I know a lot of you might have heard different but to me, the map is actually the territory. They're the same thing
Reading reviews of the hersheys chocolate tour and really loving the guys that say “it’s sad to say but this is all a marketing scheme to sell more chocolate”
Molly Bloom laughed at my ideas and now I can’t read
the Jarvis Cocker of the Chicago lit scene@yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 3mo agoExcuse me?
You see, workplace freedom is when your boss sets your working conditions unilaterally, and you don’t get a say at all.
Pennsylvania Republicans hate workers. Their gubernatorial nominee is now backed by an anti-union group seeking to prevent workers from having more rights on and off the job. keystonenewsroom.com/news/electio...
Stacy Garrity backed by national anti-union organization
While Gov. Josh Shapiro has campaigned on keeping Pennsylvania a union-friendly state, Stacy Garrity received an endorsement from an organization that supports right-to-work laws.
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i am trying to remember that all of this struggle to stop the democratic party from being dragged left is, on the bright side, because it is necessarily being dragged back to the left. like it or not this is a required corrective. and the hollering means dogs are getting hit
"Higher Ed is a working-class issue. most college students aren't at elite private universities—they are studying at community colleges, balancing work Free College is public transportation, a guarantee that gets everyone to their destination." www.equityresearchcooperative.org/work?fbclid=...
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“why would someone with anger issues,violent tendencies, and an axe to grind need to be humored and placated??”
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3mo agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
We’re reaching President Rodney Dangerfield in Natural Born Killers levels we’ve never seen before.
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 4mo agoRemarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.
if, instead of organizing around rallies or campaigns, if the democrats ever wholeheartedly re-embraced the labor movement specifically and formal organizing like this around housing and similar material aspects of american life, my god just imagine
Alex Press@alexnpress.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew in @jacobinmag.bsky.social: The Mamdani administration is launching an initiative to help build tenant unions.
william vollmann wrote a 3000 page novel about it and he...just...tweeted it out...
Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe vast, vast majority of CIA personnel are just analysts writing reports, not like ground branch or whatever boogieman
you guys should find the four most racist people in a diner in Grundle Heights, Ohio and ask them how they feel about it
Peter Baker@peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 4mo ago"The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...