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Jan 12, 2022

Personal news: I am writing a book for

@HachetteBooks

. It is called Year of the Hammer, and it's going to be a deeply reported look at how the labor movement can be the tool that fixes America, and whether the labor movement can rise to that challenge. Please buy it one day.

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[as AI police robots open fire on the sprawling homeless encampments choking every american city] welcome to the 2024 presidential debate where we're talking balloons and who should be allowed to play girls high school volleyball

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Feb 3

BAD: Hire IRS agents to ensure the rich pay taxes. GOOD: Hire Medicaid agents to ensure that anyone who does not submit three fast food job applications per week will be forced into a diabetic coma.

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Jeff Stein

@JStein_WaPo

Feb 3

"Matt Gaetz is trying to convince his fellow Republicans to demand new work requirements for Medicaid as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling" More good reporting from @josephzeballos semafor.com/article/02/03/

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Feb 2

Talk to your union about a resolution.

I’m Proud That My Union Just Urged the AFL-CIO to Kick Out Police Unions

Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.

The police union issue was forced into the mainstream during the BLM protests and I can tell you that most of the institutions in organized labor have zero desire to talk about it. Time to keep talking about it.

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Starbucks Workers United

@SBWorkersUnited

Jan 29

We stand with those protesting the horrific police murder of Tyre Nichols and call on the leaders of the labor movement to take action to continue abolishing systemic oppression. Remove police unions from our labor federations now! workersunitedupstate.org/2020/06/16/wor

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I would be grateful if someone made a publicly accessible website listing every media industry scab by name so that we could all reference it for years to come.

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Jon Schleuss supports our strikers in Pittsburgh

@gaufre

Feb 1

STRIKE UPDATE: More than 1,000 @newsguild members sent a letter to scabs at the Post-Gazette telling them they are "undermining the strike by crossing the picket line." unionprogress.com/2023/02/01/100

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Feb 1

Students: you can strike too. Sometimes you have to lead the adults.

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Educators in Florida and particularly teachers unions and all the higher ed unions in the state need to be seriously considering a strike over what Desantis is doing to schools. Not hyperbole. It is guaranteed to get worse if he gets no real resistance. Time to act is now.

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OxfamAmerica

@OxfamAmerica

Jan 31

"The only useful thing that happens at Davos each year is the release of Oxfam’s report on economic inequality, a document that always drives home exactly why Davos is a monstrosity" 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

The worst thing about Davos? The Masters of the Universe think they are do-gooders | Hamilton Nolan

Will the world’s most cutthroat plutocrats and cold-blooded status-seekers stop trying to convince us they have a heart of gold?

Jan 31

Just some highly paid anti-union attorneys talking among themselves about how their guiding philosophy is: working people are easily manipulated morons. levernews.com/fear-and-loath

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In These Times

@inthesetimesmag

Jan 30

“Disenfranchise some Democrats, demoralize the rest, and demolish the few institutions that can sustain their statewide power. This is the DeSantis plan, and he isn’t shy about it. He doesn’t need to be.”

Stop Cowering Before This Half-Bright Florida Fascist

Ron DeSantis wants to break the unions and make a temporary advantage permanent.

Writers Guild of America, East

Jan 30

A newspaper’s content should over the long term accurately reflect the relative importance of various issues which means the NYT needs to cut 14,000 fearmongering words about trans people and use those words on labor stories

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This piece does such a good job of making the point that the sheer, insane volume of “just asking questions” stories about trans issues in the NYT and other prestige outlets is journalistic malpractice.

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Tom Scocca

@tomscocca

Jan 29

Had some questions that needed asking popula.com/2023/01/29/the

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FAIR CONTRACT FOR HUFFPOST NOW!!!

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@WGAEast

Jan 28

Help us get a deal at @HuffPost before the deadline — send a letter in support of the union to @BuzzFeed CEO @Peretti and the rest of HuffPost/BuzzFeed management! Get started with your letter below

wgaea.st/HuffPost-Letter

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Jan 29

Jim Jordan on Meet The Press: “I don’t know that there’s any law that can stop this [police violence]… Democrats always think there’s a new law.” At last Republicans are moving past the failed “tough on crime” philosophy, as long as the crime is done by cops.

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Faye Irene

@UfcwFaye

Jan 28

The AFL-CIO's headquarters were burned and vandalized during protests following the murder of George Floyd in 2020. The AFL responded with this report. Tyre Deandre was murdered this week. The plan did not work. Thank you

for this work.

The AFL-CIO Releases Its Police Reform Report, But Doesn't Want to Talk About It

The long-awaited report affirms support for police unions, and rejects the idea of defunding the police.

How To Murder a Good Idea With Conventional Wisdom

"Defund the police" is a completely rational policy prescription. Political pundits don't care.

Democratic leadership: -Put on kente cloths and take a knee in the capitol after George Floyd - Win control of the federal government - Spend next two years loudly running against defunding the police - We’re so heartbroken at the latest police violence. Donate now

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Dear Opponents of Ron DeSantis Everywhere: Get Your Shit Together

Common Dreams

@commondreams

Jan 26

People in Florida of all political persuasions often talk of Ron DeSantis as if he is a formidable juggernaut that Democrats can't hope to restrain. This is false.

commondreams.org

The entire state of Florida, home to 22 million people, is currently being run as a giant Fox News campaign ad for the Ron DeSantis 2024 presidential campaign. As a method of crafting responsible...

Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor|Paperback

Kim Kelly

@GrimKim

Jan 26

The updated paperback edition of my book, ‘FIGHT LIKE HELL: The Untold History of American Labor’ drops 8/29 via

@OneSignalPub

, and you can preorder it for 25% off at

@BNBuzz

today and tomorrow with code PREORDER25! It’s my birthday this weekend too ;)

barnesandnoble.com

This revelatory and inclusive book “unearths the stories of the people—farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees—behind some of the labor movement’s biggest successes” (The New York Times)...

I think writers saying "but AI doesn't write well" are missing the point that many employers don't care. They'll take shitty and cheap.

Media unions, we really need to get together and figure out standards to deal with this in our contracts sooner not later. It's coming.

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The Wall Street Journal

@WSJ

Jan 26

BuzzFeed said it would rely on ChatGPT creator OpenAI to enhance its quizzes and personalize some content for its audiences, becoming the latest digital publisher to embrace artificial intelligence on.wsj.com/3RaAKGn

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Florida is not a red state. It’s a 50/50 state with an incompetent Democratic Party. Desantis wants to break the unions to make a temporary advantage permanent.

Stop Cowering Before This Half-Bright Florida Fascist

Ron DeSantis wants to break the unions and make a temporary advantage permanent.

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Melissa Gira Grant

@melissagira

I agree that this must be done and also: the culture war and class war (as laid out here) are inseparable, if indistinguishable. A DeSantis classroom book ban is an attempt to undermine teachers’ power at work; a fighting union could help fight these bans and undermine DeSantis.

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Ron Desantis is extremely beatable and we need to get our shit together to beat him, or else. inthesetimes.com/article/ron-de

Ron Desantis is extremely beatable and we need to get our shit together to beat him, or else.

Stop Cowering Before This Half-Bright Florida Fascist

Ron DeSantis wants to break the unions and make a temporary advantage permanent.

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Rationally you would think that times like this, when thousands of journalists are getting laid off, would be an opportunity for prestige outlets to purge their staffs of the worst, most complacent writers, and take their pick of new generations of talent. But actually, no.

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Vox Media Layoff Fund 2023, organized by Ashok Selvam

Vox Media Union

@vox_union

Jan 24

In collaboration with our comrades at

@thrillistunion

and

@thedodounion

, today we launched a GoFundMe for union members who were laid off by Vox Media last week. Please donate what you can, and share.

gofundme.com

On Friday, January 20, several members of the Vox Media Union, Dodo Union, and Thrillist Unio… Ashok Selvam needs your support for Vox Media Layoff Fund 2023

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If any political faction could figure out how to avoid descending into civil war because they disagree on the design of the official t-shirts… my god, the power would be unthinkable

It gives me peace to know that “centrists” can eat each other alive over the most unimportant possible shit, just like the left. Balance of power.

politico.com

Rebranding rift guts Blue Dog Dem ranks

Nearly half the members of the influential centrist coalition are letting themselves out after a failed push for a name change designed for a new era.

HarperCollins workers have been striking for over 50 days. Here's how to help

Prism

@prismreports

Jan 23

HarperCollins workers have been on strike for more than 50 days, unanswered by corporate. Solidarity between union workers at HarperCollins and authors is more crucial than ever, says Rye White in an op-ed. How can you help? Don’t cross the picket line.

prismreports.org

Solidarity between union workers at HarperCollins and authors is more crucial than ever

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Jan 23

It’s borderline impossible to “prove” a worker was fired for union organizing, but if you care about reality, the burden should be on Amazon to prove that he wasn’t.

Major worker organizer in the Amazon Bessemer union drive fired as soon as the company believes enough reporters have stopped paying attention.

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More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

Jan 23

Darryl Richardson, a worker fighting for a union with @BAmazonUnion in Alabama where Amazon illegally interfered in the union vote, was fired last night. He says they gave no reason for the firing, but he believes it was because of his union activity. twitter.com/DarrylR0663803

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College president is consistently high on the “Sniveling moral failure” career list. Right up there with corporate lawyers. You’d think all the books you have to read to get the job would have some effect, but no.

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Carlos Guillermo Smith

@CarlosGSmith

Jan 21

“This is a move toward authoritarianism, totalitarianism,” she said. “The fact that the Florida college presidents have, seemingly unprompted, gone along with this kind of move toward authoritarianism has raised the alarm bell to a five-alarm fire.” tampabay.com/news/education

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Jan 20

I am now technically able to "get a job." If you want to talk to me about a job, email or DM me.

Please buy this book in ~one year after it's edited and printed and whatever. Set calendar reminder now

Wow I wrote a (first draft of) a book

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The Guardian

@guardian

The worst thing about Davos? The Masters of the Universe think they are do-gooders | Hamilton Nolan

The worst thing about Davos? The Masters of the Universe think they are do-gooders | Hamilton Nolan

Will the world’s most cutthroat plutocrats and cold-blooded status-seekers stop trying to convince us they have a heart of gold?

TomDispatch

@TomDispatch

"It is no exaggeration to say this monstrosity of opulence playing out amid the ominously reduced snowpack of the Alps is such a powerful symbol of all that is wrong with the neoliberal era of the world that it will help to bring about its own downfall."

The worst thing about Davos? The Masters of the Universe think they are do-gooders | Hamilton Nolan

Will the world’s most cutthroat plutocrats and cold-blooded status-seekers stop trying to convince us they have a heart of gold?

Despite all the happy rah-rah union stuff last year, union density declined in 2022, to just 10.1%. Organized labor has no plan, no capacity, and no will to organize at the scale we need, and we need to be brutally honest about that in order to change it. bls.gov/news.release/u

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If the Davos people were really so wise they would stop going to Davos.