The court overturned Enbridge's Line 5 tunnel permit, siding with Tribal Nations who fought to protect the Straits of Mackinac and uphold treaty rights.
The labor librarian
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Grew up in a UFW/IWW household. Now I’m a public to academic librarian, union thug, and general roustabout. Anonymous because I’m not tenured yet. Pro-Palestinian, pro-trans, anti-racist, and not fit for human consumption.
Just saw the trailer for Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, and I cannot wait but also, Mahershala Ali would have been so amazing in Blade. Just look at him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEco...
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother | Official Trailer
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A lot of people are going to try and insist in about six hours that being outspent by tens of millions of dollars and winning by five to possibly fifteen points is actually not that big of a deal
Me on the AAU "The AAU claims to be comprised of America’s leading research unis...But if the member presidents choose the guise of institutional neutrality as a way to gain political cover, they may now be leading higher ed toward greater authoritarianism." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
How Elite Colleges Aided Censorship During the Red Scares
Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.
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i keep seeing people say that university presidents should rise up against this, whomst have clearly missed the second sentence here
Liam Knox@liamknox.bsky.social · 2d agoScoop: The Trump administration is sending a letter to college presidents asking them to pledge a series of policy changes by the end of the year. Unlike last year's Compact, this effort was devised with input from higher ed leaders. Free link to my exclusive: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.
Hey #comics peeps - readers, creatives, librarians, reviewers - help exert some pressure on @darkhorse.com management to negotiate in good faith with the company's union @darkhorseunion.bsky.social #Solidarity #Labor #WorkersRights
DHWU Wants Senior Editors in the Bargaining Unit!
Since the Voluntary Recognition Agreement was signed, Dark Horse Workers United has been working in good faith with Dark Horse Comics to take the next steps toward contract negotiations—but that good ...
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Alt text: Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve standing on the sideline during a game versus Indiana Fever in a white suit jacket and blue t-shirt with the trans pride flag and text “Trans Kids Belong”
Dan🌹🔵🌊🇺🇸@arepublic86.bsky.social · 3d agoCheryl Reeve today with the Lynx vs Fever game ❤️🏳️⚧️
And of course, the many anti-LGBTQ actions under his leadership, including attacks on pro-LGBTQ protesters against an anti-trans rally, his decision to promote an anti-trans cop who nearly ran over protesters in 2020 over a well-liked gay officer, and cops hassling sunbathers at a gay nude beach.
For the past 19 months, I've been covering Barnes' controversies, including the fact that he is out of town much of the time, his lengthy refusal to meet with the head of our CARE Team, his decision to vastly expand his executive staff, his taking of a $50K bonus meant for rank and file cops....
One last Baldwin quote in celebration of his 102nd birthday. This is probably the one I think about most often. “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
Between the 1970s and 1990s the UK state made a strategic bet to expand Higher Ed. They poured in untold billions of your money. Now it's been handed over to private creditors to burn in a furnace. Then they just laugh at you: at all the taxes you've ever paid or will ever pay. True story. (2/2)
A Texas city allegedly paid a family farm $10 in exchange for land meant to be used for a park — and then sold the land to a data center developer for $10 million. We investigated: www.snopes.com/news/2026/07...
Texas city sold land to data center developer. Residents say it was supposed to be a park
Residents in Taylor, Texas, say the city should honor a clause from a 1999 deed.
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Anyone who is shocked at higher ed administration for bowing to trump, supporting censorship, and clamping down on students and faculty who speak out, only needs to be reminded of what Baldwin told us.
The labor librarian@laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 3d ago“The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious, one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.” -James Baldwin, born on this day 102 years ago
Members & supporters of NY Metro APWU rallied in front of the Farley Post Office to remind the public & elected officials that the USPS is a public service, not a business, & that it belongs to the American people & needs to be protected. More: nycclc.org/news/new-yor...
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive." -James Baldwin
What was that skeet going around a few months ago? Something like “being a leftist is being accused of fearmongering because you were right too soon.”
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d ago"“We need to revisit the point of expanding the court to 13 justices like we have 13 district courts,” Harris said at the National Urban League’s annual conference...also calling for a review of the Electoral College and statehood for Puerto Rico and Washington, DC." www.cnn.com/2026/07/31/p...
Disagree w/Wilson from the left on stuff like surveillance cams but know that she is as progressive as we're gonna get in a citywide position & every day she doesn't do the stupid do-nothing status quo shit Harrell did as effortlessly as breathing is a win for the city. Let her cook, fuck the haters
I'm gonna lose my goddamn mind. Usually I can brush off The Atlantic shit I hate (and the idiots who line up to defend bad pieces) but this one brought the absolute worst people out of the woodwork to shit on stuff when they should just shut up
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is the exact problem, right here: people would rather make up a social justice warrior to get mad at than take a hard, honest look at the problem.
Sid Hatfield is the only potential exception to ACAB.
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 5d ago#OtD 1 Aug 1921 Sid Hatfield, the pro-union chief of police of Matewan, WV, was assassinated by Baldwin-Felts detectives. He had helped defend striking miners from B-F agents the previous year, killing several. Books and commemorative items here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
"Call me a socialist or any blame thing you want to, as long as you grab hold of the other end of the cross-cut saw with me and help slash the big logs of Poverty and Intolerance to pieces." -Sinclair Lewis "It Can't Happen Here"
"Call me a socialist or any blame thing you want to, as long as you grab hold of the other end of the cross-cut saw with me and help slash the big logs of Poverty and Intolerance to pieces." -Sinclair Lewis "It Can't Happen Here"
Follow up to yesterday’s cover letter advice to #mlis grads: In the US, do not ever, ever, ever put your picture on your resume. Ever. Avoid fancy fonts, background photos/vibrant colors, and weird resume formats. Do not get lured in by Canva resume templates! They are not your friends!
It's so god damn predictable. Go to a progressive space, spout dogwhistles and bigotry, get called out for it, run to Fox News claiming to be a victim, and get the issue turned into a national culture war news cycle. It's the same playbook as the campus speech stuff.
There are no trans athletes at a serious competitive level anywhere in the US. Bans from sporting bodies apply now to amateur and recreational leagues so trans athletes are banned from those too. So what is there even to supposedly protest? Y'all won and still can't shut up about it.
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I know I’m officially old because I finally see the value of cover letters. Related: #mlis grads, I am literally begging you to read the job posting before applying. I want so badly to give y’all a chance. But you have to prove you know what job you’re applying for (🧵)
New podcast: we tell the story of Negro Matapacos, Chile's legendary riot dog, and the protest movements in which he took part, protecting demonstrators from the police. Listen early by joining us on Patreon and supporting our work: www.patreon.com/workingclass...
My favorite part of academic employment is having the university’s marketing team insist on publishing a press release for the libraries that you didn’t ask for, sending you some AI-written slop, and then expecting you to correct it.