Visualize the biggest douchebag dudebro you can imagine. Now make him Norwegian. Congrats, you've created this guy www.newyorker.com/sports/world...

Franzen may be a dick, but he's still a really good writer www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Going to spend a month in Chile, I guess you have to expect an earthquake. 5.1.

This Day in Labor History: July 6, 1892. In one of the Gilded Age’s most notorious anti-labor acts of violence, 300 Pinkerton detectives, working for Andrew Carnegie’s Homestead Steel, cracked down on thousands of strikers, leading to a gunfight that killed three Pinkertons and seven strikers!!!

For the record, this song is about the aftermath of the Seven Years War in Canada, not the Civil War

Mexico should sue England in the International Criminal Court for what "Mexican" food is like in London.

It's not antagonistic to discuss when strikes win or do not win.

The problem with this is that all students are being pushed from above and from all parts of society to use AI for everything. So they are going to graduate from college with no skills to offer employers. I really worry about this even with my humanities students. You can't assign papers anymore.

Here's a question: What if "movement unionism" doesn't work? I'm not rooting for it to work or not work. But perhaps we should look at things empirically instead of just swallowing an ideology that blames "union leadership" for everything wrong with labor?

Jabs like this are stupid. The question is not if you are a fan of the labor movement. Christ, we aren't rooting for teams here. We are trying to figure out how to win power for workers. It's not about what one "likes." It's about understanding American law, history, and politics. For fuck's sake.

This Day in Labor History: July 5, 1935. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act. This created real labor law and allowed unions to survive. Let's talk about the most important labor law in American history!

It's complete coincidence but spending July 4, 2026 in a town called Lolol seems perfect to me. The town is in Chile, but it still works.

This Day in Labor History: July 4, 1892. The People’s Party held its first convention in Omaha, Nebraska. Building upon two decades of rural labor’s deep dissatisfaction with the Gilded Age, the Populists articulated a powerful challenge to the unregulated capitalism of the day!!!

This Day in Labor History: July 3, 1835. Children employed in Paterson, New Jersey’s textile mills went on strike, demanding an 11 hour day and 6 day week. Let's talk about one of the first major strikes in American history!

The only species who will give a flying fuck are outraged dogs

Mistakes were made web.uri.edu/artsci/news/...

I was at a gallery recently and looking at some Giacomettis and some guy was complaining to his wife that the women Giacometti painted weren't hot enough. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/a...

This Day in Labor History: July 2, 1822. Denmark Vesey, a free African-American living in Charleston, South Carolina, was executed for his role in leading a purported slave rebellion. Let's talk about slavery as labor and the white violence to keep it under control!

The answer is obviously Birth of a Nation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/m...

Chait. I had almost forgotten about this asshole. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Kill me

This Day in Labor History: July 1, 1922. the Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins. Also known as the Railway Shopmen’s Strike, this action was the largest railway strike in the United States since the Pullman Strike in 1894. At least 10 died before the government and corporate America crushed it!

2 hours ago and the post by the president of the AFL-CIO has 1 retweet before me. Maybe, just maybe, this says something about how utterly irrelevant the federation is in the fight against Trump.

Who cares though, really

Is the lie or Landry's jacket more unbelievable?

Vance should be excommunicated.

I love drinking a delicious Manitoba, truly North America's center of both fine dining and brewing.

Yeah, what the fuck were Catholics from Italy and Ireland immigrating to the U.S. in the 19th century other than wealth management experts?

This Day in Labor History: June 30, 1928. Alabama reluctantly ended the leasing of convicts to mine coal. One of the most controversial practices in southern labor history, this was a significant step toward human and labor rights in a state that too often was actively hostile toward those ideas!

I mean, we shouldn't be surprised by this. They are neoconfederates

Tomorrow ends the 52nd year of my life where the Supreme Court has made the nation a worse place for all things decent and just. And I've been alive for 52 years.

Man alive do people on this site like to talk about Platner as if he was an existential crisis in their lives

This Day in Labor History: June 28, 1946. The CIO’s Operation Dixie campaign to organize the textile mills of Kannapolis, North Carolina began. It was a complete failure. We need to look at why and why labor has never organized the South in large enough numbers to make it a union region!

This Day in Labor History: June 27, 1905. The Industrial Workers of the World was founded in Chicago. The IWW would play a major role in the industrial warfare of the early twentieth century, scare the employer class, and capture the imaginations of late 20th century and early 21st century radicals!

This Day in Labor History: June 26, 1894. The American Railway Union, headed by Eugene Debs, called a nationwide boycott in solidarity with their striking members at Pullman, Illinois. This turned a small strike into a challenge over corporate control over America. The government crushed it!

This Day in Labor History: June 25, 1938. FDR signed the Fair Labor Standards Act. This groundbreaking piece of legislation set the standards of labor that defined post-war America, including minimum wages, overtime pay, and the banning of most child labor. Like everything, it was also incremental.

This Day in Labor History: June 24, 1867. Chinese workers building the transcontinental railroad across Sierra Nevada went on strike over the horrific conditions of their work for the Central Pacific Railroad. Let's talk about their brave, if failed struggle and how awful the railroads were!!

Culinary Workers Union Local 226 saved the party in NV

Beating Espaillat is so big--NYC politics won't be the same for a long time

I love the smell of David Frum tears in the morning

Eat Shit AIPAC

This Day in Labor History: June 23, 1855. A 19 year old slave woman named Celia murdered her master rather than allow him to rape her. She then attempted to burn his body, nearly succeeding in erasing all traces of the crime. Let's talk about the horrors of sex slavery in the antebellum South!!

This sums up the Trump administration more than any other single news story. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/trum...

This Day in Labor History: June 22, 1916. Cops shot a Croatian miner named John Alar who was part of the Industrial Workers of the World-led strike in the Mesabi Range of Minnesota. Let's talk about this brave but failed strike in some of the worst conditions in the nation!

Alan Greenspan was a hack ideologue who did unspeakable damage to the economy and who created much of the terrible inequality of the New Gilded Age we face today. He also may have had sex with Ayn Rand. Good riddance to bad rubbish. My obituary is here. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/rare...

This Day in Labor History: June 21, 1877. Ten alleged members of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society blamed for labor radicalism in the anthracite country of Pennsylvania, were executed. Let's talk about the Mollies, or at least what we know about this pretty secret organization!

ESPN Chile has the Copa Chile as its lead story instead of the Copa Mundial. I wonder why.

I've seen a lot of artifacts of terrible things humans do to one another in my time. Seeing one of the planes that the Argentine dictatorship used to throw leftists into the ocean is about the most disturbing.

A real shitty moment in history that we continue to suffer from today. The afl-cio just had a convention and they did a word cloud on how to build the labor movement. You can't even find "labor law reform" in it.

This Day in Labor History: June 20, 1947. President Harry S. Truman vetoed the odious Taft-Hartley Act, the most vile piece of labor legislation in American history. But Congress immediately overrode it, showing how weak organized labor was even at its strongest point in history!