Every Veteran’s Day I think about Leonard Matlovich’s headstone.

After the war and destruction, My daughter Sham had to leave school, 💔 She was dreaming of a bright future but the war has stolen her childhood and her education. 😓 we deserve the chance to restore our life.. Any help can make a huge difference 🙏❤️ gofund.me/66ae089c

Today is Armistice Day, commemorating the end of World War I in 1918. The official commemorations never mention what actually ended the war: the mutinies and revolutions which swept Russia and Germany, as well as in Bulgarian, French and British forces stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1096...

Alderman Sigcho-Lopez was right to call out Pritzker today about the state police arresting protesters. Pritzker responded that the state police are protecting protesters, and that just isn't true. State cops have arrested and brutalized protesters to facilitate ICE operations. That's reality.

Still looking to speak with SNAP recipients! 🚨

Every Veteran’s Day I think about Leonard Matlovich’s headstone.

"We move from data to information to knowledge to wisdom. And being able to distinguish among and between them, knowing the limitations and danger of exercising one without the others, while respecting each category of intelligence, is generally what serious education is about..." 1/ - Toni Morrison

This is giving off big “freshman who forgot to read their Lit 101 homework and is trying to bullshit their way through an essay” vibes.

“People may die, but at least the Republicans will lose!” Just another reminder that politicians have forgotten their purpose is not to “win”, but to help better people’s lives.

Some good news in the Seattle mayoral race!

Quote, and article, from Jimmy Williams, president of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.

BIG NEWS OUTTA PITTSBURGH 🔥

I’m sure you’ve all seen this by now, but I regret the mean things I said about Joyce Carol Oates when I was a bookseller (mostly due to her taking up too much real estate on the shelf).

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It wasn’t caving in when universities slashed entire programs and policies that supported students, staff, and faculty to appease conservatives…and its not caving in when the Democrats concede to the Republicans. They want this. They are superficially oppositional, not enemies.

The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen

So when do we think Schumer is going to announce he’s not running for re-election but Cuomo is going to run for his seat?

Donald Trump’s approval rating has tanked and Republican suffered heavy losses in last week’s elections. There’s never been a better time for Senate Democrats to cave on the ACA extension.

I was a union president for several hundred members during the Covid lockdown. I had regular meetings to check in, but folks just came to yell at me. It was brutal. Nobody could agree how they wanted us to respond. But I was always there, listening to them. And I was always available by email.

BREAKING: Starbucks baristas at Downtown Disney couldn’t stand another day of their managers’ unfair labor practices & kicked off our nationwide strike this weekend. These workers have shut down one of largest Starbucks stores in the country — and we’re just getting started! #NoContractNoCoffee

Leftists really have to prioritize public libraries in budget fights.

Chicago Public Library's budget cuts would mean losing HALF of the materials budget. It would mean losing 90 staff members. Cop budget's fine, though.

So who’s cancelling their travel plans to Core Forum?

"If discovery tools return hallucinated results, the credibility of the library itself could be undermined. Students may come to see the library’s systems as just another unreliable search engine." BINGO

Aside from my "was this really written in 2025, not two years ago" snarky response, I couldn't help thinking throughout this entire blog post that a huge part of why so many libraries are STUCK on dealing with AI is because we literally don't have the staff time or funding to deal with it.

SPD out here on Northgate shutting down the taco stand between 8th and Roosevelt due to "multiple licensing and health code violations" that they wouldn't provide anymore info about.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

@libbyapp.com I love you so much. Please reconsider using generative AI in your app. Just like @thestorygraph.com, we don’t need generative AI to make book suggestions that you can already make based on our interests.

Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books. But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.

Someone tell me how to explain to my clients they should listen to what courts say when the highest court in the land says they don't deserve to eat. Because all I've got is "if you don't you'll go to jail." And that's just government by force.

From “Jingo” by Terry Pratchett

Anyone who thinks this will work has never been into an indie book/music store staffed by sarcastic, judgmental staff that’s still doing gang buster business. I know this because I used to be one of those sarcastic, judgmental booksellers.

The Supreme Court’s ruling on Trump’s passport sex markers policy conveys as much casual transphobia as a two-page judicial opinion ever could without actually including slurs. Absolutely vile stuff. ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

some “cease” fire

Time to dust this old cherry off that someone shared with me years ago and support @sbworkersunited.org in their potential upcoming strike!

ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”

A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion

Workers: I enjoy doing this task Employers: that task is being done by AI now Mainstream journalism: nobody wants to work anymore

Pretty big turnaround in the latest (small) batch of about 36,000 Seattle ballots, which went 51.6 percent for Katie Wilson and 48.1 percent for incumbent Bruce Harrell. Overall, the new numbers are 52.6 Harrell, 46.9 Wilson. Yesterday, those numbers were 53.8 Harrell, 45.7 Wilson.

Seattles be like “I love Zohran” and then vote to re-elect Bruce fucking Harrell.

Treating anti-Blackness as beside the point, as not disqualifying, as something to be overlooked, I’d argue, is partially how we got here.

“The students are already using AI so we need to use AI too” okay 10 years ago you thought youths were eating Tide Pods and I didn’t see anybody chowing down on those in the break room at work.

Seattles be like “I love Zohran” and then vote to re-elect Bruce fucking Harrell.

BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting. If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.

Student 1: the weather forecast today makes no sense. Student 2: yeah that’s because they fired all the scientists

“While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” —Eugene V. Debs

🚨 STRIKE ALERT: Journalists at Science News are on strike and holding a 12-hour picket outside of the office! After 560 days of bargaining, the Science News Media Guild (@sn-media-guild.bsky.social) is demanding and fair contract NOW!

Colorado Republicans had targeted school board races as their best opportunity in 2026 but teachers union and Democrat-backed candidates lead in Denver, Jefferson County, Cherry Creek, and even conservative Douglas County, per 9NEWS' Jennifer Meckles. #copolitics

I’m going to sleep so well knowing how incensed with rage trump and Cuomo are right now.