The GOP reached out to union workers in 2024 and won many of their votes. But Trump's labor policies have largely continued the party's historically anti-union stance #LaborDay buff.ly/Oreb5Vc

Not great that people like Micah Beckwith are in positions of power but don’t understand how our constitution works, and are arrogant in their ignorance.

Uncharacteristic about both last year's and this year's Boeing strike is the workers are out ahead of the union, voting down proposals the union urged them to accept. More of my thoughts @Marketplace www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

I’m currently building a dataset on police forces around the globe. No other country has a force quite like ICE (w/ broad enforcement powers, tactical gear, immigration focus); the most apt comparisons are to secret police in authoritarian regimes rather than border/immigration forces elsewhere.

Senator Ossoff speaking the truth. We need real action

"Trumpism can be seen as a giant attempt to amputate the highest aspirations of the human spirit and to reduce us to our most primitive, atavistic tendencies."

While eating cats and dogs

First research, now data. The Trump administration is proposing to reclassify many positions in the federal government including statisticians. The Friends of BLS has made it easy to voice your concerns to your elected representatives www.friendsofbls.org/email-template-1

The gambit being carried out by Trump, Vought & Musk amounts to a kind of bet that 21st century Americans lack a sense of state—of every day connection to the federal government. But as constituents flood town halls with complaints, and friends lose jobs, that bet looks less likely to pay off.

"Organized labor has taken a leading role in challenging the Trump administration’s downsizing agenda in court." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/b...

Part of the immense and urgent collective action challenge in civil society is to muster a climate that reverses this logic of the capitulators: i.e. precisely IF the crisis proves temporary and the country manages to survive it, those who bent the knee will suffer real lasting reputational damage.

Essential @daschloz.bsky.social and @samrosenfeld.bsky.social piece on Schumerism, the groups, the DNC, and Democratic dealignment in politics and policy.

It was a real pleasure discussing the present, past, and possible future of the labor movement on the Inequality Podcast - and to hear @dschneider.bsky.social talking schedule unpredictability. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/18Nf...