None of the economic program “moderates” say they want - fair wages, dignified retirement, affordable housing & healthcare - are possible w/o a socialist mvt. & the cultural things they want - strong borders & patriotic education- are not possible w/o fascism www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...

“Wanna form a union?”

It's funny that on the first day of summer I remembered how good Paysage D'Hiver is

Ghanian poster for FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF (1986)

it’s time to run this country like a business

I just can’t even

Ron Howard owes us a Hilbilly Elegy 2

Maybe the dumbest bit that still seems to have purchase in American politics is “that really rich guy can’t be bought!” I assure you, his wealth is *proof* that he can be bought, despite a weird elite class of Americans who want you to believe they won their fortunes in single combat or something

watching the knicks game at a gay bar and everyone cheered for tracy morgan but booed for sydney sweeney

Happy Pride Pittsburgh!! It was an honor to serve as Grand Marshall for Pittsburgh Pride!

I’m publishing an academic book called "the idea of squares" and failing to write a definition of "squares" or sustaining any discussion of "squares" or entering "squares" in the index and you’re LAUGHING?!

$7 price tag at a yard sale?! Yeah, this neighborhood has gentrified, but fuck off

Just had a reason to look up and share this perfect @bakoon.bsky.social post from a decade ago

“we had no choice but to vote for Trump—the liberals went too far and forced us to” is received wisdom for the MSM

Tracy Morgan

this sucks so much and I need it in my life

Carol showed me fifty photos of her neighbor’s kid’s first communion, muttering the whole time: “just horrible. She looks like a foal in a wig. Awful, awful children”

I do a lot of thinking and writing and teaching about American masculinity, and I think that Dan Castellaneta's performance as Homer Simpson is such a rich text in that and many other regards

This is so much better than "eh, is what it is" or ACTUALLY RESPONDING IN A REAL COMPLEX WAY. my coworkers hate this. its their own fault for asking.

Usually when we say "Who do you protect? Who do you serve?" they simply don't respond.

Florida bartender - who used to live in Harrisburg - mentioned Tony Shalhoub. The world is aligning

deep in a late Hemingway phase (depressed, ordering two drinks at a time, writing absolute garbage 💫)

my favorite erick erickson moment is when he said that his family refused to eat asian food on the anniversary of pearl harbor to honor the tragedy. a reporter reached out to his mom to confirm whether this was true and she was like “i don’t know what the fuck he is talking about”

This is nicely put. The machine that subordinates all life to its own algorithm of self-expansion is already operating: It’s called capital. www.newyorker.com/science/anna...

buy me more 24oz beers and I’ll lazily post more spoonerisms

Anyway,

This looks like a problem made for a man with a title like organizing director.

ahh, the anecdote to the decadence of a professional class that constantly chases novel gustatory experiences

very cool how everyone in a twenty-mile radius voted for Trump three times and wants to call me a homophobic slur because I’m wearing a v-neck

BREAKING. Nick Cave has now inveighed on the issue of our era — the true relationship between Spongebob and Patrick.

what’s the opposite of a promised land? The Florida of Florida

feels good

hands-down, Philosophy of Color

Corporations will spend billions on union-busting attorneys and union-avoidance specialists to silence workers, but at the same time say there’s no money for better working conditions. Workers deserve better. Unions are how we take back our power and win.

You think your life is hard? I’m innovating *and* disrupting

Worth noting that this is actually a meta-question-- it's not "what policy do you think is good?" It's "what policy do you think other, imaginary people would think is good?" This encourages the "Everyone Think Like a Pundit Rather Than as a Citizen" disease that plagues political commentary.

nobody ever asks, but I live in central Pennsylvania and hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon

I think it's easy to think these things just happen, or they take a few weeks (or maybe even a couple of months) to bring together. I have watched @erikstrobl.bsky.social spend YEARS working on this through nights and weekends, committed, devoted. A deeply impressive feat. Congrats!

5,000 faculty members at Penn State have won their union. That includes all full-time and part-time faculty across multiple campuses. The union says this is the largest public sector win in 50 years.

the thing about tenure line professors forming Pennsylvania’s largest public sector union in 50 years is unions are for everybody!! profs are public servants! and we're doing all the big publics! we're doing Urbana we're doing Michigan we're doing California! www.statecollege.com/articles/psu...

Inbox: The 5,000 strong faculty of Penn State, including faculty members across all departments, full-time and part-time, and at the main and satellite campuses, have unionized with SEIU Local 668. The union says its the largest public sector win in 50 years.

I’m nodding

This is your guy —> @erikstrobl.bsky.social

That time @erikstrobl.bsky.social @catanese.bsky.social Organized Even Bigger Purp www.pennstatefacultyalliance.org/news/2026/05...

have never been prouder to call @erikstrobl.bsky.social a union brother and a friend

@erikstrobl.bsky.social took the kids to our local comic shop and saw this

Dear Students, When you click on Properties in a Word doc it shows how long you spent working on it and how many revisions were made. Something to keep in mind if you’re using Chat GPT.