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An intense month of focused reading including old friends (Baritz & Marx/Engels), several books that I should have read a long time ago (Whyte and Weber), plus a 26 book that fit right in the mix, Control Science by @henrysnow.bsky.social plus a 50s novel (Karp). June was great! #booksky #storygraph

Ouch but true

There's a great deal that's alarming about the Prairieland sentencing, regardless of how one views the shooter, but the biggest deal is 30 years for a man who wasn't there, convicted of moving a box of zines while knowing protesters. Consider the implications. theintercept.com/2026/06/23/p...

Four states enacted laws this year that weaken child labor protections, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank. In all, 13 states had bills seeking to weaken those protections; some are still under consideration. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/06/24/r...

Happening everywhere in Ohio.

the importance of reading

Happy Juneteenth. We can honor the people who have fought for freedom and justice by learning from them and remembering their history.

Fascinating reflections from students about AI

New political typology report from @pewresearch.org just dropped. You can take their quiz to see which group you fall into:

Very pleased to have been on the leadership team for this paper! LLMs are already being used all over behavioural science. But it is often pretty hard to work out exactly what has been done, and therefore how much confidence to place in the results. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sounds like he never did stop drinking

Still not on either the NYT or WaPo homepages: Trump: "I love inflation"

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

Ohio Republicans secretly awarded Google, Meta, and Amazon $600 million in tax breaks to build data centers. The tax breaks were written to last 40 years and cannot be undone.

The historian Gordon Wood, who died yesterday after being run over by a motorist in East Providence, was my dissertation advisor. He was 92. Here are some memories of him. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/gordo...

Damn. RIP Gordon Wood. 🗃️ www.golocalprov.com/news/pulitze...

The best of America in Senator Kim

"Husted caved" He voted for Trump's slush fund. www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...

Some real joys reading @davidharvey.org & @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social plus Andre Gorz this month. #booksky

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

Excited to get Crisis of the Common Good by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social today! #booksky

Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.

Excited to get a copy of Control Science: How Management Made the Modern Work by @henrysnow.bsky.social on @versobooks.bsky.social #booksky

In paragraph 23 of the Introduction to his encyclical, Magnifica humanitas, Pope Leo praises the social sciences. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Fascinating waking up to a new Papal encyclical directly related to labor while working on a manuscript about Monsignor John Ryan and his advocacy for a more just economy (Ryan was inspired by the 1881 encyclical). www.huffpost.com/entry/pope-l...

Meanwhile, no time for his son's wedding

No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.

This is not SNL

Our next talk in the series with Michael Hudson takes place on Friday (22nd May). He will be joined by Kathleen Tyson, and they will discuss the Post-Dollar World. youtu.be/ps6iOpG1Xek

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Important information here. Let's protect public education in Ohio by voting for @amyactonoh.bsky.social

For those colleagues in the social behavioral and economics sciences, please contact Congress to protest the elimination of the SBE. You can use this advocacy form from APA to quickly contact your representatives: www.votervoice.net/Shares/Be2lJ... #nsf #scienceadvocacy

Take a break with our newest collection: Read and Relax with AR 🔬 Explore 43 expert reviews that reveal the science behind our simple pleasures and daily comforts. 🔗 Kick your shoes off and race down the rabbit holes of endless discovery (and workplace recovery): arevie.ws/3R23YLG

Got caught up at the #siop2026 conference that I forgot to post April's reading. Excited to read Daniel Bell'# Work and It's.Discontents alongside Frederick Taylor's Shop Management. #booksky #storygraph

Family vote date in the Ohio Primary (early vote). Our daughter hasn't missed an election!

I wish the same energy for demanding a ballroom went into demanding gun reform when children are shot in schools.

Sorry, but if you’re mad that the Southern Poverty Law Center paid informants to infiltrate Nazi groups to expose them, then you are a Nazi.

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Republicans hyper focused on avoiding the affordability crisis.

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time. This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

Proud of my home state!

Harry Brodsky, Stevedore, 1940, Lithograph from the Crystal Bridges Museum. #artsky #laborsky

We all deserve some joy.

Being unemployed is not always a bad thing.

Exactly 💯

Nice experience of watching this documentary from 1982 on Pullman porters and at the end of it seeing that it was directed by BGSU emeritus professor Jack Santino. Great and important work Jack! youtu.be/OLQJ16SokVg?...

It's really something to be living through the worst President, the worst Supreme Court, and the worst Congress all at once

If you couldn’t join us in person today, you can watch our forum live here! www.youtube.com/live/J31yvEw...

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