This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

suspended pending promotion

“Hovering over all proposed solutions was the prospect of faculty unionization.… A lot of tenure-track faculty are now where graduate students were a few decades go.” @cnewf.bsky.social reflects on his recent tour of U.S. universities utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/line...

this is exactly what you do when you’re not a pedophile

I find this pretty striking - we're not even offered the standard "here's why Mamdani's victory is actually trouble for the left" kind of gymnastics, the strategy really seems to be to hope no one notices

the Democratic Party should have 2 major goals for the next time it holds power: (1) completely rebuild the destroyed federal government capacity, and (2) crush the GOP, which enabled so much corruption and immiseration. destroy their funding, jail their leaders, make it so a new party has to emerge

that’s why @wussymusic.bsky.social improved it

The president is implicated in the crimes of his friend, the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and the Republican Party is protecting him

The Third Circuit ruled in favor of @pghguild.com and said the Post-Gazette bargained in bad faith by offering contracts that took away key reasons for being in the union. The union is declaring victory after 3 years on strike, as the court ordered the paper to roll back changes it made in 2020.

BREAKING: We won! Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years. pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...

A serious answer to this question would involve nothing short of social revolution and wholesale reorganization of American society so we just laugh uneasily and pretend they’re serious people with a normal moral compass

In the eyes of the establishment, there’s literally nothing Mamdani can do to prove he’s not an antisemite, and literally nothing the openly fascist trump regime can do to prove they are, up to and including intentionally dressing like literal, historical Nazis

“London Dungeon” is the scariest Misfits song because it’s about being stuck in Britain for an undetermined length of time

"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"

SEIU 668 President Steve Catanese has an eye patch.

a while ago @annakornbluh.bsky.social asked what living philosophers were from & educated in the Midwest & that got me thinking about how unis like DePaul, NWern, Loyola, Purdue, Miami, SIU-Carbondale, Marquette have long histories of grad programs emphasizing pluralist 'minor' traditions.

Remember Pennsylvanians to vote YES to retain our three state supreme court justices Don't forget down ballot and retain Dubow and Wojick on the other courts as well

trump: [video of porn star blasting milk enema on his face] news: trump responds to no kings rally with proposal for irrigation reform

Ran into an anti-fascist, pro-Jared Goff guy at the #NoKings protest in DC today. Detroit Lions fans are everywhere 😻

"i dont want to eat a kebab, i want fish and chips" well sorry little buddy but we're at the kebab shop and you're twelve

Horror is as Pennsylvanian as scrapple. From the Gothic fiction of authors like Charles Brockden Brown and Edgar Allan Poe, to the creature features of George A. Romero and mindbenders of M. Night Shyamalan, the commonwealth has long been a hub for the genre.

The #PAbudget stalemate in Harrisburg is a crisis. I spoke with @citycastphilly.bsky.social about how Senate Republicans forced our commonwealth to a halt and what everyday people can do to help build the political pressure necessary to break this impasse. philly.citycast.fm/local-civics...

Commonwealth Partners, who created the misleading gerrymandering mailer, continue to lean into the "convince liberals to vote against retention" messaging per this mailer shared with me over the weekend.

long overdue 🙏

I bet security personnel hired by publications, networks and individual journalists aren't spending an equal amount of time on left and right wing threats. I wonder if those outlets would feel safer if they had to order their security contractors to do so. For balance.

You know things are bad when there's mainstream news stories about the U.S. Navy having decades of reports of UFOs coming from underwater and no one cares.

HELU's International Campus Worker Protections (ICWP) Campaign is organizing to pressure our institutions to stand up for international workers. Read more about this campaign in a recent piece by organizer Bobby Huggins higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/22/t...

We're lucky to have writers like China Miéville for this moment

"the solution is still the one that can succeed: to build a new cultural order, a new civilization. To do so, academics must embrace an unusual new role: as knowledge workers, they must seize the means of knowledge production." www.publicbooks.org/academics-mu...

Hmm maybe handing the keys to universities over to MBA morons who admire rich people instead of knowledgeable people was a . . . bad idea

seeking guest contributors on a writing project I’m simultaneously too busy and lazy to jump-start myself

*exhales for nine straight minutes*

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

made in a lab for me. Quite possibly the find of the year

If resistance history were a franchise studio, this would be its Fantastic Four.

Need to petition the city to preserve the historic Rite Aid and parking lot that's at the edge of my neighborhood

just got raptured ama

it's just a fact. you can't have a global hegemon who every few years is at risk of electing a lunatic government that will undo treaties, start murdering people in international waters on a whim, stop aid programs, and slap wanton tariffs on the world capriciously. we have no credibility anymore

dudes rock

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

guy at hotel breakfast looks like Oliver Reed. Extremely blessed omen

the history will continue until morale improves

to state the obvious: everyone in the regime believes it is someone else's kids who are going to be stitching the shoes together in the factories. but i think the majority of their supporters also think the factories are for others' kids. there's only so many jobs where you go to yale law like JD

They fired someone famous and well-liked in defense of a guy most people don't know and most people who do know him dislike, on the orders of history's most unpopular president

$11. Bless the Broad Street Market

This explains it better than I can