did you know that shingles can come back if you get too stressed out? a fun thing I have suddenly learned

eight days ‘til I’m back in Svalbard

STRIKE ALERT: Prisoners across the U.S. will stage a National Prisoners' Human Rights Strike from May Day through June 19 (Juneteenth), 2027, uniting the fight to end legalized slavery with the struggle to restore voting rights to the prison class Jailhouselawyersspeak.com @jaillawspeak.bsky.social

on the train again

I absolutely love seeing people discover Twin Temple, and had to go dig up my first interview with ‘em way back in 2018. Yes, they’ve always been this cool🩸 www.vice.com/en/article/t...

Twin Temple’s Satanic Doo-Wop Is Feminist as Fuck

Watch the NSFW new video for "Sex Magick" and find out what makes these rock 'n' roll-loving, justice-seeking Satanic witches tick.

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Next up on the Labor Heritage Power Hour 📖 Labor history for the next generation - J. Albert Mann interviews labor journalist @kimkelly.bsky.social about Fight to Win and why #laborhistory belongs in our classrooms. Listen live at bit.ly/3P0fK8w or WPFW 89.3 FM in #WashingtonDC #historynerd

STRIKE STORY TIME with @opinorg.bsky.social ✨

Organized Power in Numbers@opinorg.bsky.social · 7d ago

Labor history is full of working class people getting creative! Labor journalist and historian @kimkelly.bsky.social tells us about the flying squadrons of The Great Textile Strike 🚗 Want to learn more labor history? Follow @opinorg.bsky.social for our upcoming Freedom Fridays series!

Labor history is full of working class people getting creative! Labor journalist and historian @kimkelly.bsky.social tells us about the flying squadrons of The Great Textile Strike 🚗 Want to learn more labor history? Follow @opinorg.bsky.social for our upcoming Freedom Fridays series!

just got an invite for my 20 year high school reunion and immediately crumbled into dust

Though the Trump administration says it “digs coal,” @kimkelly.bsky.social reports that it has delayed a silica dust rule, gutted a mine safety review agency, and left coal miners facing greater risk of injury, disease, and death. inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

For @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social, I reviewed "American Made: Stories of Work from the WPA," new from @beltpublishing.bsky.social and featuring words from @atrubek.bsky.social and @kimkelly.bsky.social. It's a banger of a book, and I loved writing about it. pittsburghprogress.com/review-ameri...

Review: 'American Made: Stories of Work from the WPA' connects U.S. readers to our working-class truth

Plus: Read a Q&A with Belt Publishing founder Anne Trubek

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got my feelings hurt on the train

boyfriend came home from working a brutal 14-hour moving job, gave me a kiss, handed me his pay for the day, and passed out stone cold asleep on the couch. all the wrong people are millionaires man

I would like to read some interesting writing on pretty privilege and desirability politics

Libraries are still essential in the digital age. Some librarians are even helping patrons ditch AI and get off Big Tech. This week Hannah Cyrus and @flexlibris.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to discuss how libraries address people’s concerns about tech. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/338_...

the only kind of ice I fw🍦

this is neat!

@geocollective.bsky.social · 2w ago

There's a new directory of US worker-owned co-op products! #WorkerCoops #Coops #Market geo.coop/articles/new...

I have truly done such a comical amount of research for my new book and could still keep going forever

I love my local newspaper so much and read it everyday! Sign the workers’ petition, they deserve the world!!

Abraham Gutman@abgutman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Help us. We are fighting for a fair contract that protects The Philadelphia Inquirer's journalism, our livelihoods, and our healthcare. We need you. If you value local news and what we do, *please* sign and share our petition: phillynewsguild.com Let our management know we are not alone.

what publications (i.e. magazines and proper websites, not substacks) are doing cool international reporting these days?

Kidnapping and deportation have been used as weapons against the working class for a long, long time now—and Arizona set the tone back in 1917

Organized Power in Numbers@opinorg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Did you know labor history could get this wild? Labor author & historian @kimkelly.bsky.social breaks down the Bisbee Deportation. Want to learn more labor history? Follow @opinorg.bsky.social for our upcoming Freedom Fridays series! #laborhistory #arizonaworkers #bisbeedeportation #arizonahistory

Did you know labor history could get this wild? Labor author & historian @kimkelly.bsky.social breaks down the Bisbee Deportation. Want to learn more labor history? Follow @opinorg.bsky.social for our upcoming Freedom Fridays series! #laborhistory #arizonaworkers #bisbeedeportation #arizonahistory

TODAY: @sirosenbaum.bsky.social on musician Andrew Sa and his mentor Patrick Haggerty, queer country pioneer. “When I witnessed Patrick perform, I felt like I was given permission to enter that world, the world of country music, which I had abandoned for a long time" flaminghydra.com/andrew-sa-am...

Andrew Sa: American Rough

“I don’t care if you don’t think I’m country / it’s at the heart of me,” sings Andrew Sa. He is a singer-songwriter working in the idiom of country music, a genre long coded as politically conservativ...

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I would like to wrap my entire body in a lidocaine patch the size of a comforter

the healthcare workers at the South Philadelphia Health Center are truly our strongest soldiers

ooooh this new jawn from @versobooks.bsky.social is so far up my alley I can hear it knocking on the back door ⛵️ www.versobooks.com/products/344... h

Empire Ablaze

As revolution raged in North America, James Aitken – house painter, highwayman, and escaped indentured servant – wandered the colonies formulating a dramatic plan to cripple the British navy by destro...

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The phrase “felony camping” just really shouldn’t exist www.npr.org/2026/07/21/n...

A homeless man was charged with a felony for camping. He's one of the first

When Joseph Lamont Williams refused to leave the public park where he has lived for years, he was charged with a felony. Camping bans are on the rise as states seek to crack down on homelessness.

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man this internal shingles thing is beating my ass, I fear it may be a bigger deal than I thought

I spoke with a nurse who has worked at a Bronx Hospital for 39 years and is now being laid off, along with 11 other nurses, to be replaced by AI. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The New York nurses replaced by AI: ‘It should concern every patient who cares about quality of care’

The union for 12 nurses laid off by Montefiore hospital say company broke contract they recently won through a strike

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boyfriend left the kitchen a mess so I’m putting Electric Wizard on the clean-up soundtrack as his punishment