When we don't adequately fund public universities, and instead force students to take out loans, what we as a society are really doing is borrowing money from the younger generation—their hard-earned future income—to fund a necessary project that benefits us all: building an educated society.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d ago

1. This is bullsh*t & an epically stupid policy completely detached from any empirical evidence: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 2. We could simply avoid this entire issue by <all together now> Funding. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

As I've said many times, the revocation of TPS for Haitians is horrific on its face, but it's *also* going to have a devastating cascade of effects because Haitian workers are the backbone of health and human services supports for elderly and disabled folks, especially here in Massachusetts.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.

When I see how people drive and how little regard they have for others’ lives, I question whether we can have a functioning democratic society.

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today on my ride I got close passed by a speeding Tesla and I could see the driver just literally staring at the phone in his right hand. I'm used to that shit by now, but it was one of those moments that drives home how this blatant disregard for human life is just...normalized and accepted.

NLRB efiling is down for the weekend starting at 11. You have 55 hours this weekend to picket wherever you want.* *not legal advice, DO NOT do this

Gonna drive past the Stop and Shop with the radio on

Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 2w ago

This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning

The day my Labor Law I class begins studying § 8(b)(4) (addressing "secondary activity") is the perfect timing for a history of the competing claims to the origins of Scabby. I usually tell the IUOE 150 story, and was unaware of the Bricklayer's claim workerorganizing.org/scabby-the-r...

The history of Scabby the rat

Scabby is one of the most recognizable symbols of managerial misconduct. But where did he come from? It turns out this rat has a complicated history.

workerorganizing.org

"Everyone is a Consumer Now" is almost certainly the biggest cultural victory of Neoliberalism and the thing that most pop criticisms of neoliberalism don't seem to get

Airship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS@airshipchronos.bsky.social · 3w ago

I think @sharonk.bsky.social has been posting about the lack of solidarity among the working class or how Everyone Is A Consumer Now as part of the big challenge of socdem parties, and this is possibly related.

Official editorial communication: The New England Review of Boats, a handmade regional zine about the vessels and people who go down to the sea for adventure, work, or pleasure--seeks submissions for its inaugural issue.

news of a little girl in bluey pajamas witnessing ICE murder her dad happening concurrently with another discourse about "civility" towards those in power who... enable/condone/want a little girl in bluey pajamas witnessing ICE murder her dad makes you wonder what civility even means, ever meant

Fight like a professor.

Veena Dubal@veenadubal.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fight like a professor! Or better yet, like professors fighting together for academic freedom, shared governance, free higher education, and against contingency. @aaup.org

“What the Roberts Court treated as insubordination was instead classic unworkability — lower courts forced to choose between what they imagined the justices would do and what the doctrine appeared to demand.”

I banned genAI in my classroom. My course evaluations (upon which I my performance is measured and my contract renewed) cratered.

There is a significant psychic toll to living in an economy marked primarily by scam and fraud. It is the inevitable progression of capitalism, but the destruction of social trust that comes with it undermines our capacity to create a replacement built on solidarity.

"To lose her on a morning commute at an intersection the city has explicitly documented as dangerous for years is just an unmitigated tragedy, a systemic failure." Deaths like Louisa's occur because our leaders prioritize the convenience of drivers over the safety of pedestrians and cyclists.

‘Systemic failure’: Crash that killed Boston transit planner sparks furor over road safety efforts - The Boston Globe

Residents and public officials alike have been concerned about pedestrian and cyclist safety on the stretch of Tremont Street in Mission Hill near Parker Street for years.

bostonglobe.com

RETVRN but it's just shooting a firehose of federal funding for a new WPA

Vic Thorstenson@vthorstenson.bsky.social · 4w ago

Man, nobody could build a shithouse like the WPA.

As a proud union member, I stand with the 4,000+ nurses on strike at MGB today — the largest nurses’ strike in MA history. Every day our nurses stand on the frontline of patient care. They deserve safe staffing levels, fair working conditions, & the respect that comes with their essential work.

All of this. Adding: HR is also code for the state. if you are an affluent man with inherited entitlement Mark describes here, you simply don’t encounter the state very often. Maybe the DMV. But most of these dudes work. HR translates state power by managing regulations and risk.

Mark Andrew Price@pricelaborecon.bsky.social · 4w ago

I don’t think "Dem HR ladies" is labor coded or working class aligned. It comes from the same place everything that is terrible in the last two years has come from. The backlash to the Me Too and Black Lives Matter movements.

Surely there's someone on this website who can be commissioned to make these.

UAW Archivist@uawarchivist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Always a special day when I can pull the box with Walter Reuther’s carved wooden hand. From the @uaw.org’s archives here at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. Learn more: youtube.com/shorts/_9o31...

The 11th Cir. joins the list of courts holding that Garcetti does not apply to faculty teaching/research b/c academic freedom is an overriding First Amendment value. (I'm still skimming the opinion, but so far it is quite good)

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4w ago

BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Elyse D. Cherry ’83 — CEO of BlueHub Capital — has established the Elyse D. Cherry ’83 Pride Fund to support Northeastern Law’s new LGBTQ+ Clinic. Show your #NUSLPride in supporting the next generation of LGBTQ+ advocates. give.northeastern.edu/school-of-la...

LGBTQ+ Clinic Fund

Advancement Site

give.northeastern.edu

Instead of founding fathers let us aspire to be perennial midwives, helping always to deliver democracy anew. (The last line of Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone.)

It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.

Sounds to me like the USC faculty senate is a company union operating in violation of section 8(a)(2) of the NLRA.

UAW@uaw.org · last mo.

"What’s clear is that USC do want to bust this faculty union at any cost — and they saw this legally opportunistic avenue for them to pursue.” capitalandmain.com/usc-faculty-...

Busy waiting for Scotus to ruin your day? Get a jump on the weekend by browsing our LPE summer movie list!

15 Movies to Watch for an LPE Summer

The old school year is dying, and the new one struggles to be born: now is the time of movies.

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Go ahead, SCOTUS: issue more decisions. My analysis will only get more simplistic.

Ryan Quinn@ryanquinn.bsky.social · 9mo ago

When the crudest Marxism stops explaining the world, I will stop using it.

looking forward to future SCOTUS discovering other exceptions when a future Dem POTUS tries to use the Slaughter powers

ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · last mo.

Ugh. Supreme Court rules in Slaughter, 6-3 that Trump can fire people from the FTC. But in Cook, Court rules 5-4 that Trump cannot fire everybody from the Fed. Roberts writes both majority opinions There's no real difference between the FTC and the FED other than Roberts likes the Fed.

This is the most transparently absurd set of twin decisions in Cook and Slaughter.

Capital gets stability; consumers, workers, and the environment get the whims of mad kings.

Ryan Quinn@ryanquinn.bsky.social · last mo.

our unelected, anti-democratic supreme court overruled congress to allow trump to remake every part of the state *except* the part that controls monetary policy. the court cares about capitalists. it does not care about you and me. it is not a legitimate governing body.

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last mo.

We have Slaughter and Cook. By a 6–3 vote, SCOTUS overturns Humphrey's Executor and lets Trump fire heads of independent agencies. But by a 5–4 vote, it refuses to let him fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...