new year, new project

i’m so, so, so, so, so very. very. tired. of every aspect of our existence being used solely for “maximizing shareholder value” or being stripped for parts by an incredibly concentrated group of people

Amazon has long evaded unionization of its last-mile delivery drivers by subcontracting them to third-party companies. Legislation introduced by socialist New York City Council member Tiffany Cabán could put an end to that.

I know that’s right. featuring @teamsters.bsky.social @local804.bsky.social full article: jacobin.com/2025/12/amaz...

it’s truly wild the canadian government or even the provinces aren’t going harder on amazon. the company literally shut down all its warehouses in quebec because workers unionized! this is an evil company that gets away with it because it’s seen as convenient, the costs be damned.

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This is really important. Amazon causes the pressure for speed and reaps the benefits. Contracting leaves workers vulnerable; who should pay for your long-term organ damage due to heat exposure in the summer? The small business, or Amazon?

I wrote about things going from bad to worse for the people who actually make movies. alt headline: The Dream Factory Turns Nightmare

I wrote about the growing scrutiny Amazon is facing in New York. The overwhelming majority of the city council has now co-sponsored a bill that would force the company to directly employ its last-mile delivery workforce.

foundational passage for me, sad to see Asad go viewpointmag.com/2018/09/24/s...

After years of scorched-earth union-busting and stonewalling tactics by their bosses, Starbucks workers are trying to get their union drive and contract negotiations unstuck through a nationwide strike.

I wrote about the @sbworkersunited.org strike for @jacobinmag.bsky.social

I wrote about the @sbworkersunited.org strike for @jacobinmag.bsky.social

I only go to NYC under duress now but this article made me smile so much. everyone in it deserves the world.

I joined @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social as he took his campaign to the people who keep New York running while the rest of us sleep, and considered what his mayoralty would (will??) actually look like.

"Watching Zohran late Thursday night, as I considered the obstacles ahead, I couldn’t help but be jolted back into the present by the sheer improbability of what I was witnessing" – @alexnpress.bsky.social

“Too many union leaders rely on staying in the good graces of Democratic Party leadership to maintain power because it’s easier than building enough muscle and engagement among rank-and-file members to enforce power in the old-fashioned way: through collective action.”

This long-ish piece is a good analysis of what @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social the candidate is facing now and potentially, as the next Mayor of NYC. Well done!

I joined @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social as he took his campaign to the people who keep New York running while the rest of us sleep, and considered what his mayoralty would (will??) actually look like.

Alex Colston of @dropsitenews.com is back in New York along with eight other of the US flotilla participants 👍

proud of my friend Colston and everybody else who took part in the flotilla and hope they are released soon and unharmed. also he was editing pieces from the boat right up until the Israelis kidnapped him 👑

Kaleb's death has caved in my hope. The more shock I see people express at his poverty, the more clear it is that he was killed by this country, by the wealthy few, starved, for the threat of his words. His shadow goes on for days and days.

Amazing work here by @alexnpress.bsky.social eulogizing Kaleb Horton and gathering his writing in one easy to locate place. If any indie publishers want to do an edition of his work, I’d volunteer time to see it done. thealexpress.substack.com/p/kaleb-hort...

wrote about a great writer thealexpress.substack.com/p/kaleb-horton

"Like a character from an earlier time, too cool for today. As it turns out, that was true: he couldn’t make a living at writing, not in a world where being a genius makes you unemployable." thealexpress.substack.com/p/kaleb-horton

"Pick an art or science: odds are, the greatest practitioner of it, the biggest talent, is instead doing something else because they need the money. So we mostly get the work of people who had enough of a cushion to do what they wanted."

wrote about a great writer thealexpress.substack.com/p/kaleb-horton

bluesky, an alien and maybe even hostile parallel universe

hello! I made a substack out as a way to stay in touch without incessantly posting on social media. here’s a dispatch from last night’s opening of the Gaza Biennale in New York thealexpress.substack.com/p/the-gaza-b...

RLS-NYC joined @dissentmag.bsky.social at @bookculture.com for a powerful conversation on union democracy & immigrant labor organizing. Moderated by Dissent co-editor Natasha Lewis, the talk featured Jacobin labor reporter @alexnpress.bsky.social and New Yorker contributing writer E. Tammy Kim.

New Yorkers👇

this bill passed in the state senate on Friday, meaning we just need it to be put to a vote in the assembly this week. please take one minute to call Heastie and urge him to do that, it is so important. thank you!

Alex is so incredible and this bill is going to help protect so many people with noncarceral solutions to discourage stalking. Please be vocal in your support of this bill wherever you live, but especially if you're in NY!

just want to raise awareness of this New York bill, which was drafted in large part in response to my experience of being stalked. if you’d like to support it, this link has ways to do that: thank you! www.cagoldberglaw.com/legislation/...

Moose is a lunatic

present I got today

all-time cool guy

blue sky is supreme because every time you post you get 100 school principals in the replies asking to see you in their office

wow

For a primer on how Eric Adams—mirroring tactics nationwide—has turned cruelty into policy, slashing homeless services while ramping up encampment sweeps that brutalize people and leave them even more vulnerable, read this piece by @alexnpress.bsky.social: jacobin.com/2022/04/eric...

I got him at a shelter but I’m selling him to Justin Bieber for $10 million unfortunately :(

found out my kitten is a Savannah cat, aka part African serval

we lost our damn minds at the Zohran fundraiser seeing No Other Land win

remembering a normal birthday present

happy six-months-old day to Moose

normal picture day fit