Xmas Eve seems like a good time to share one of my favorite old sectarian satire songs.

I remember when a Canadian court ruled that Air Canada's chatbot was a representative of the company (so the company had to honor commitments it had made) and they yanked it immediately.

My Gods, they need to be sued until they switch these fucking things off.

Fall grades submitted, spring syllabi completed and filed. Writing a syllabus is always painful; there are never enough class sessions to cover everything I want to talk about.

I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for

No contract, no coffee. Starbucks workers are still on strike.

"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.

"Tenure is never going to be a way for all working-class academics to find dignity at work, economic stability at home, or prestige among their peers.... Unions offer a more egalitarian, cooperative form of worker protection than the rat race of tenure." www.aaup.org/underclass-s...

As of this morning 4,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. Don’t cross their picket line. No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!

this is the unspoken but absolutely clear argument at hand.

This changed my mind on AI, which I had previously thought was both aesthetically and ethically monstrous. I now see that it is a comrade engaged in sabotage against employers for the benefit of the working class. I'm not sure the most committed radical wobbly could have done better than AI here.

Now this 👇is how to write an obituary for a racist. "A man would carry such a prejudice to his grave has undoubtedly gone to hell, if there is such a place and if not, a hell should be made for his especial benefit."

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

It is no longer enough for me to get to Inbox Zero. I need to set Outlook on FIRE

A good article highlighting a genuinely difficult problem - the social barriers to whistleblowing will be high no matter what, even if whistleblowers didn't get frozen out of their fields www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Absolutely not.

Any GC will prioritize certain types of charges and Congress has provided that some allegations have a higher priority (§§ 10(l), (m)). But charges are up in part because GC Abruzzo had aggressive theories of how to use the law which people used to revitalize a dead statute. That is a good thing!

We have $ for a dozen ICE agents to hang around for hours trying to arrest 2 roofers working in MN. Meanwhile, the agency that investigates and prosecutes violations of Americans' right to organize is shedding staff again. Now down to like 1 agency staff per 145,000 workers.

hearing that this was the 37th shooting on a college campus THIS YEAR knocked the wind out of me.

This is a great piece on Trump's near-destruction of the National Labor Relations Board. (And I'm betting they don't let the Acting GC go on-the-record about anything after his performance here. Kudos to @msainato.bsky.social for a very effective interview.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

🚨Today is the final day to register for the Association of Law and Political Economy's inaugural conference🚨 And even if you are unable to attend the conference, you can still join @a-lpe.bsky.social as a member and vote in the spring elections! Links to both can be found in the post below!

ICYMI: We've got another (super rare!) successful discharge petition in the House forcing a floor vote THIS WEEK to restore federal workers' union rights. Tell your member of Congress to pass the bipartisan Protect America's Workforce Act!

"...negotiations between Tufts University & labor unions have degraded. [The] unions described challenging & exhausting negotiations, citing uncooperativeness & staunch resistance to pay increases as driving forces behind the recent growth in collective action..." www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...

My students love it when I talk about poetry in Labor Law. Just like they love my dad jokes, I assume.

We all know that Congress outlawed price discrimination in the Clayton Antitrust Act. What our business model presupposes is, maybe it didn't?

Friends and comrades, I give you the unitary executive.

This is the devastating closing paragraph. Again, college presidents are in an incredibly difficult position today. But I don't think that destroying colleges to save them is the right path.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

A new era for LPE — a more democratic one, not subject to university administrators and not reliant on funder money. LPE lfg lpeproject.org/blog/lpe-2-0...

Something I’ve encountered a lot lately is misperception of Luddites as technophobic reactionaries motivated by ignorance & resentment, rather than what they were, part of a well-informed labor movement seeking to seize control of means of production.

computer going to take my job? no. i’ll pour water on it

Association of Law and Political Economy @a-lpe.bsky.social conference schedule looks incredible. I just signed up, one day before late registration closes. Better late than never!

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

lol I remember saying to a colleague before Thanksgiving that the District Court’s detailed fact finding could make it difficult for SCOTUS to do this. It’s good to know I am not too cynical yet, even if I am a rube.

The Supreme Court is a corrupt, illegitimate institution governed by six right-wing hacks who value advancing Republican political agendas and politicians over any semblance of law or process. Democrats need a plan to address that reality.

Wow the Supreme Court intervened to help Republican electoral prospects? That’s crazy. I bet it’s never happened before.

We know the dance: -Amazon starts operating cheaper shipping -Many start using Amazon Post instead of USPS -The government eventually shuts down USPS -Amazon hikes prices Exactly as Uber did Taxis

As a lifelong wagon supremacist, I feel compelled to clarify: our movement does not endorse huffing leaded gas fumes straight from the tank like this guy.

I am glad that people are enjoying the Wicked telling of the backstory of The Wizard of Oz but I want a movie that explains why--judging from Ray Bolger and Jack Haley's Boston accents--the 1939 film's Oz is apparently in Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

Any “reform” short of packing (eg, term limits) will be struck down by the existing Court. Just add 6 seats, fill them immediately, and off to the races.

These are two paragraphs I would never expect Jeff Jacoby to write. If Jeff Fucking Jacoby is reacting negatively to ICE, that's saying something.

Allow yourself a couple of extra minutes this morning as there are slippery spots. Most towns have treated where necessary.

I could fail at coaching college football for much less than several million dollars. I could probably do it for a single million.

I'm not going to RT the fucking Atlantic but I do want to remind everyone that one in four U.S. adults is disabled, so one in five students accessing accommodations at their uni is among the most non-story stories ever penned.

Waking up. Pounding some Black Rifle Coffee. Creating some AI Slop based on children's novels. Bragging about some war crimes. No fucking beards. Only getting hammered with the boss by 3pm.

Love my new job at Dept of War comms for SecWar! Just tweeting out “we are acting with malice aforethought” 30 times a day with different based memes

the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them

The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time." Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...