Quoted www.texasobserver.org/texas-domest....

Nate Holdren revisits Matewan and memory at a recent screening at the Iowa Labor History Society. Read about it at LaborOnline. lawcha.org/2025/09/15/s...

@wendymink.bsky.social @sarahfrose.bsky.social @noahzatz.bsky.social @jenmittelstadt.bsky.social @eileenboris.bsky.social @kmtani.bsky.social @kaaryngustafson.bsky.social @brycecovert.bsky.social

Over 1,000 garment workers are demanding @Nike give them the recognition and pay they deserve. We stand with them. #SeeUsNike bsky.app/profile/glob...

They are trying to prevent research on racial equity and universities are just like we’ll just stop doing research on racial equity instead of calling this out for the existential threat to academic freedom that it is.

UDW Executive Director, Doug Moore added: "I urge all of our followers on social media, especially unions and other social justice organizations to do the same. Stop feeding the beast that trying to kill you off!"

So, basically, the equivalent of announcing a nearly $1 billion cut to the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social's budget. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Just added my name to this @histpeace.bsky.social petition urging the @historians.org Council to rescind its veto of the scholasticide resolution. Please consider doing the same. www.historiansforpeace.org/2025/02/08/p...

As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education. 🧵 www.aaup.org/news/against...

Mike Davis in 1998: "Two kinds of Californians will continue to live with fire: those who can afford (with indirect public subsidies) to rebuild and those who can’t afford to live anywhere else." longreads.com/2018/12/04/t...

Obsessing over the deficit has curtailed progressive priorities for decades. @davidstein.bsky.social explores the rise of the deficit-hawk paradigm, arguing that it must go for us to achieve a high-care, low-carbon future: rooseveltinstitute.org/public...

USC so anti union it is trying to misclassify 85% of all faculty, ALL of whom are lecturers, as "managerial employees and/ or supervisors." It also argues that "the @nlrbgov.bsky.social structure is unconstitutional."

Arise Chicago is distributing an immigrant worker toolkit that has all sorts of useful information, including this infographic about what to do if ICE shows up at your workplace. assets.nationbuilder.com/arisechicago...

Doubling union density is the best and fastest way to defeat Trumpism

The way that university officials have begun to treat “peaceful” and “disruptive” as antonyms, when they in fact are not antonyms, is the kind of violence to language that one expects of authoritarians

Subject: I just signed -- will you? I just signed this petition asking President Biden to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg. Please join me and add your name. www.rfc.org/exonerate-ethel

hey bluesky, in case anyone's interested, I wrote this for my students about why I don't want them to use anything AI in my classes. It interrupts the course calendar part of the syllabus, coming immediately after the first day there's a writing assignment assigned. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This is not a good time of year for a city on Lake Superior to insult its snowplow drivers.

Our collection will not be officially out until February 2025 but Publisher's Weekly seems to like it: www.publishersweekly.com/9781620978818

Grateful this thanksgiving for the workers who grow and harvest our food. Pssst: many are immigrants!

[email protected]'s first blog, @quinnslobodian.com & I discuss how “globalism” has been understood by scholars & far-right activists, how concerns about “sovereignty” stoked grassroots opposition to the UN, & what all this means for Trump’s 2nd term. www.hpeproject.org/blog/globali...

Stripping people of their Medicaid benefits would leave many low-income enrollees, especially those in nonexpansion states, without any affordable coverage options, forcing them to forgo essential medical care and undermining their ability to work.

Chris Newfield on "What are the Humanities For? Academic Thought after the Neoliberal Era." youtu.be/MBARKb_eMRI?...

"I call myself a public historian or a fashion historian, because most people know what that means. But in my head I’m a dress historian, because not all dress is fashion." 🗃️

115 years ago today, thousands of garment workers, mostly women, went on a strike known as the "uprising of the 20,000." These women fought for both "Bread and Roses"-for their right to enjoy life. That strike not only turned women into a political power but also the ILGWU into a powerful union. 🗃️

Also, Dems: Let's (pretend to) speak to the 8% of workers who work on an assembly line rather than the 80% who work in services.