We're excited to announce that "So Long, Dental Plan" Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV is scheduled to be published in April 2027 by SUNY Press. Pre-orders will begin around X-Mass time.
Shaun Richman
@shaunrichman.org
Labor guy in higher ed. Author, "Tell The Bosses We're Coming" (Monthly Review, 2020) & "We Always Had a Union" (U. of Illinois, 2025). Contributing writer: In These Times, Jacobin, American Prospect.
Cat Power out here making an unwitting argument to Never Stop Drinking.
kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · yesterdayCat Power is antivax
At our labor center, we once had a student adamantly refute the moon landing because, "If you landed on the moon, wouldn't you at least take a selfie?" Why's there only one film clip of Babe Ruth? If he was real and so famous, wouldn't he have had a YouTube show?
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2d agoThe whole Mariners' pen believes Babe Ruth didn't exist. Kinda want all MLB players to believe this and make the owners agree to it in next CBA
I love bargaining in election years. www.nydailynews.com/2026/07/28/s...
SUNY faculty union ratifies 5-year contract with pay bumps, insurance reforms
The five-year agreement with the United University Professions, or “UUP,” covers 42,000 faculty and professional staff across the SUNY system.
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Anecdotally, we found that the era of Peak TV (RIP) opened more opportunities for TV creatives to work in plots about unions vs. bosses.
Nina Metz@ninametz.bsky.social · last wk.Knew the numbers were down, didn’t realize by how much It does seem notable (if obvious!) that the output on broadcast TV has remained pretty stable. That’s a function of a finite number of primetime hours and days of the week, but stability is stability!
I love how the quickest establishment talking points are variations of "WE'RE ALL OGRES!" and "OGRE LIVES MATTER."
Politico@politico.com · last wk.El-Sayed comes under fire for 'ogre on a pike' leaked comment
TV showrunner, writer, and producer Mike Schur on the WGA lawsuit to block Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger. Read more writer testimony here: vist.ly/5cdzr. #BlockTheMerger
An under-the-radar part of the Paramount/Warner Bros merger is that the merged company would be 49.5% owned by the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and Qatar. Somehow this hasn't raised the ire of those who most fear Sharia law. prospect.org/2026/07/21/a...
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 2w ago
Mike Elk is a hack. The "pay day" in his report name is literally the payola he receives for putting out hit pieces on behalf of partisan actors.
The important thing here seems to be that he's a recent ICE hire who wanted his ex-wife to lie about abusing her and the mental health concerns that she'd previously flagged to the military www.pressherald.com/2026/07/16/i...
ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer
An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.
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Does anybody want to propose a panel at the @highered-cb.bsky.social conference on overturning the Yeshiva decision? s29068.pcdn.co/wp-content/u...
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I worry a lot about lowered expectations and narrow reform agendas. Not just from the centrists, but the left also tends to constrain the list of demands. The Trumpies broke so much, so fast. Are we prepared to push back with the same energy and intensity?
Pure war crimes. This is why Trump administration wants to dismantle the ICC, because when Dems win office, they could vote to rejoin the ICC - and immediately send Trump, Rubio, Vance, Hegseth et al to go on trial.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTrump: "Next week comes the power plants, next week comes the bridges. We're gonna knock out all their power plants, we're gonna knock out all their bridges unless they get to the table and negotiate."
counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them
I don't know what to call the specific political tendency represented by Ryan Grim, Ken Klippenstein, Matt Stoller, Michael Tracey, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, and Zaid Jilani, mostly because words sort of fail, but it isn't "the Left."
The speed with which psychotic Al Franken stans use the Platner situation to claim their man was done wrong because he wasn't a rapist is...something. Why is everybody in such a rush to re-set the bar that low?
Not enough people are talking about how a real working class candidate wouldn't have had the time to do 70 something Town Halls because they have jobs they need to show up for. That's where the "Working" part of "Working Class" comes from.
One thing I would love is if, when a straight white guy “sees the light” and joins the left, he would volunteer for a community group and like knock doors for someone who’d been on the left for ages instead of immediately wanting to be the candidate. It’d be like a litmus test for if they’re serious
Do you live in New York state? Do you have an NYPL digital library card? All NY residents are eligible, even if you do not live in NYC. The application is online. www.nypl.org/library-card... NYPL members have access to what I believe is the best digital ecosystem in the world rn. 1/5
The NYPD won't issue tickets to dangerous drivers. Bring back the civilian agency that used to. New from me at @nydailynews.com www.nydailynews.com/2026/07/06/n...
NYPD must enforce city traffic laws
The “second-most-reckless driver in the city” racked up 547 camera-issued red light and speeding tickets since 2002 before being exposed by Streetsblog NYC in April.
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I've got an op-ed coming out in tomorrow's @nydailynews.com, in which I join the anti-car culture insurgency (and take a few swipes at the NYPD along the way).
Reminds me of when I got Socialist presidential candidate David McReynolds on Bill Maher's show. Maher read the party platform in a scoffing tone of voice, but the audience cheered and hooted with glee. Out of touch has always been out of touch.
Tamoor Hussain@tamoorh.com · last mo.Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them
Obviously this is a dipshit opinion. But since I sometimes see people on the left rolling their eyes about those signs, I just want you all to know that the other night some lost Black teens came to our house after taking the wrong bus and we were able to get them home. Why’d they pick us? Signs.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · last mo.Vance: People hang out those hideous signs in their yard that say, "in this house we believe blah blah blah blah blah. You know, love is love, science is science, whatever. No person is illegal." That sign is such a disgusting butchering of the Nicene Creed
We've hit the 3,000 mark in letters to Congress on the mad power-grab by Russell Vought at OMB to take over all federal grant making with a team of political commissars reporting to him. Let's get to 4,000 letters this week. Share. Share. Share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...
Oppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political Appointees
On May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), OMB-2026-0034, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The scope of this proposed regulation is...
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campus 'civility' is just 'don't yell at me while I fire you, get rid of your program, and continue to fund the university's investments'. it's training in smug comfort for the comfortable
