Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

A hair-splitting distinction, but an important one: Not "illegal," just not legally protected.

It's hilarious that they've convinced themselves that there's a massive, under-served audience segment just yearning for more right-wing content if only someone would give it them. It doesn't exist! The people they're talking about already only watch TV and entertain themselves by bitching about it

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

Here’s Rosemary Feurer's @lawcha.bsky.social annual list of books published in labor history, this one for 2025.

What does it tell voters, who have said unequivocally we want fighters, that you sit & silently witness your own humiliation? If you will not fight for yourselves, are we to believe you will for us?

Bring on the #NY11 redistricting.

I resent the pivot to video so much. I do not want to become an "on air personality." I do not want to boil everything down into little pithy viral slogans. I don't want to worry about my f'ing hair. I hate it all. Hate it.

Indict every DHS employee on a broad RICO charge. Let the "I'm not saying it's a bad shoot, but..." types turn state's witness.

We got back our first peer reviews of the "SLDP" manuscript. Utterly delighted how much the readers enjoyed it. More to come!

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Am I going to be the only one to notice that he's a GYM TEACHER?!? What's the academic freedom principle for coach dodgeball being a racist?

Get fecked.

Remember the old jokes about how the word "disgruntled" didn't really have a natural antonym (pronym?) of "gruntled?" And, like, Gen X grouches would protest, "Oh, no, I'm fully gruntled?" Can we make the implied antonym of "feckless" a thing? Could be a good way to respond to useless Dem leaders.

Hey, uh, do you want to buy any Girl Scout cookies? My daughter LOVES being a Daisy and is super proud to wear her uniform. www.gsdigitalcookie.com/cookie/Landi...

This is also my position, as a New Yorker who occasionally gets survey phone calls, about Chuck Schumer's re-election.

I too have no desire to run, but I won't rule it out. Bee tee dubs, I have a couple of books for sale.

As a New Yorker who cares deeply about the well-being of students and our communities, I am urging lawmakers to invest $100 million in funding to expand community schools across our state. Join me: Mac.nysut.org/action/991

it's literally impossible for an LLM to do a historian's job it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library

Not a silver bullet, but she is an antidote to the low information voter problem.

It's kind of insane: the obvious lane open today in US politics is fiery left populism that vows to restrain & discipline the Epstein class ... but our only left party is run by that same class & its quisling pundits! Something is gonna break.

I cannot recommend this book enough. @shaunrichman.org knocked it out of the park.

The Ford worker who heckled Trump during a visit to the company's plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official said

Is it not unreasonable that some of simply hate bosses? Like, all of them, the power structure inherit in bossing, and hate the veneration of any kind of "boss?"

It devalues the craft, really. When magazines were invented, there remained many newspaper reporters because they were excellent at the craft. Radio didn't kill the magazine writer. Television didn't replace all radio formats. Let people be good at what they're good at!

LET’S GOOOOOO

I was on "The Rick Smith Show" discussing that @nydailynews.com op-ed, Zohran and strikes in general.

I personally think this is now all too clear - oligarchs catching and killing the mainstream media infrastructure so their repugnant crimes against humanity and the planet are hidden from public view - but **please** let's all say it louder for the people in the back.

Chapter 2 of "We Always Had a Union."

Ok fine let‘s gather together the existing remnants of professional book reviewing and figure out how to support what still survives/expand options.

It's not the money. It's the restricted and rarified social circle. These guys only see each other at Davos, Jeff's wedding, etc. Milling around, glass of champagne in hand; small talk about their private islands and doomsday bunkers the way Patrick Bateman & friends compare business cards.

Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota. This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup. Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.

Excited to dig into the new one from @dgorganize.bsky.social

I don't put my kids on this site, but if you're looking for a Girl Scout cookie connection, I got you. Slide into my DMs for a link.

Mamdani is right to side with the nurses on strike who deserve way better pay. @shaunrichman.org dives into NYC labor history and how Mamdani is channeling the late great Mayor Laguardia rather than the lame Lindsay. www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/28/m...

Let’s be clear: for most of the city’s history, a mayor getting “both parties in a room” and pressing for a settlement has usually meant weighing in on the bosses’ behalf. My new piece for the @nydailynews.com:

Let’s be clear: for most of the city’s history, a mayor getting “both parties in a room” and pressing for a settlement has usually meant weighing in on the bosses’ behalf. My new piece for the @nydailynews.com:

My review of "The Pandemic and the Working Class" by @umassboston.bsky.social scholars Nick Juravich & Steve Striffler: networks.h-net.org/group/review...

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

The best way to contact Chuck Schumer remains the fax machine.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Dutch retirement (n.) — a post-career involuntary stay in confinement at the direction of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. (example: “I wish Greg Bovino a fantastic Dutch retirement.”)

Extreme & dangerous ice out there, & a nasty winter storm too, so stay in with all the great public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books in my 260th #ScholarSunday thread. Add more below, share widely, & stay warm & safe, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

No. Indict every ICE employee on a broad RICO charge. Let the "just following orders" types turn state's witness.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Buy Shaun's book, it's really, REALLY good www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

Today, workers, community members, and clergy are stepping out into the frozen streets of Minneapolis to resist the ICE incursion--I will have my own reportback from the solidarity rally in Los Angeles later today. BUT; we've got a new Union Bug episode feat. @shaunrichman.org about his newest book.

New episode out now! I love hearing from writers who take a roundabout path into history. Shaun Richman went from journalism undergrad to union organizer to PhD-holding historian!