Jeff the Neighborhood Opossum update: really has a problem with the camera.

Jeff the Neighborhood Opossum update: really has a problem with the camera.

You just had a fucking chance to hold them accountable, and you caved. And don't give me the "I didn't vote for it" crap. You did nothing to stop them, which means you're happy they dud it but wanted deniability.

Outstanding news. One of the biggest weapons the boss has, when fighting unions, is playing for time. Congratulations and solidarity to the @pghguild.com members and leaders who stayed strong all this time. It ain't easy.

BREAKING: We won! Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years. pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...

BIG NEWS OUTTA PITTSBURGH 🔥

again, if chuck schumer wants to energize Ds for the fight ahead, the absolute best thing he could do is resign.

This is another thing that I think ought to be considered in terms of the exchange @kcolempls.bsky.social, @dbrauer.net, and I, along with others, had over the weekend.

“An Optimistic Book for Horrifying Times”: An Interview with Labor Writer and Historian Dave Kamper workdaymagazine.org/an-optimisti... #1u #Books

Starbucks workers are ON STRIKE! Now is the time to tell everyone in your life to STOP BUYING Starbucks. www.nocontractnocoffee.org?utm_source=s...

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Chuck Schumer is a miserable failure

Me in the @startribune.com today on the moral obligations of elected officials: www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...

Of course lots of folks want Schumer primaried. But due to his behavior, there may be some confusion, so remember, if he runs, it'll be in the 2028 Democratic primary, not the Republican one.

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

thinking back to when eric cantor got knocked out in a primary in 2014

"What if, hear me out, we aligned with & helped pass the agenda of the people voters just rejected Tuesday and sports fans are booing?"

Not sure what's more embarrassing: admitting you're afraid of a sandwich or admitting you believe MAGA will revisit their promise to vote on anything other than blow jobs for billionaires.

Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov: compromising with fascists is compliance. Read the room. Do your jobs. Protect your constituents.

Gus the Neighborhood Tomcat update:

“An Optimistic Book for Horrifying Times”: An Interview With Labor Writer and Historian Dave Kamper portside.org/2025-11-06/o...

Goddammit

One of the things the very strongest and the very weakest unions have in common is they don’t go on strike. The weak ones can’t, while the strong ones don’t need to because the boss knows they can. MFE striking in 2022 set up this win last night.

Me in the @startribune.com today on the moral obligations of elected officials: www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...

Living his best life. Love this for him.

Some of these people are low-level drug smugglers on tiny boats that are NOT GOING TO THE US and NOT CARRYING FENTANYL. And it's murder to vaporize people without due process regardless of what you suspect them of doing.

Wage growth was much faster than price growth at the bottom even when you use consumer price adjustments that differentiate. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/aaro...

Jeff the Neighborhood Opossum update: Jeff the Lesser enjoying carrot.

A “starter pack” consisting of accounts that don’t identify where they live or what they do, that have bios full of vague platitudes, and have “websites” that our obvious AI slop. A whole starter pack of bots.

I'd read that Robert Parker wrote a lot like Raymond Chandler, but I finally picked up a Spenser book and it's straight up pastiche.

One takeaway from this excellent essay is that we can’t let news organizations get away with “critics say” framing anymore. Either name the critic and clearly explain their critique, or just write the biased oped you’re obviously dying to write.

Laverne update

Was doing the exact same thing at the time of this post from @lollardfish.bsky.social.

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

and if you *are* a ghoul, faking decency is the price of admission into polite society. seethe about it on your own time

Is there a term for absconding with a kid?

Abolish Border Patrol.

Scoop: Starbucks baristas plan to strike on Red Cup Day next week if demands aren’t met, and to mount what the union says would grow to be their biggest and longest work stoppage yet www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I posted a video of Jeff the Neighborhood Opossum licking the cat camera and it has been flagged for adult content.

Jeff the Neighborhood Opossum update: in which Jeff the Lesser Possum goes absolutely ham on the cat camera. (CW: possum going ham on cat camera)

it does seem like there’s a major—though potentially fleeting—opportunity to invest in left-wing media. more than a million people in the most populous city in america just enthusiastically elected a democratic socialist and the world is watching. putting $$ towards left media rn is good business.

Jeff the Neighborhood Opossum update:

Listening to @jazbrisack.bsky.social of @sbworkersunited fame talk about their great book, Get on the Job and Organize. Wonderful stuff. Plus bonus appearance by @caseymoore.bsky.social. Both signed my book!

Great thread

When federal data is suppressed EPI's @elisegould.bsky.social turns to state-level information for the latest read on jobs. See the latest →

Headline doesn't do the piece justice, as it ends: "[Cheney's] take-no-prisoners approach to politics and governance helped pave the way for Trump’s abuses ... did a great deal to make possible the damage that Trump is wreaking upon American democracy today."

The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact

I don't disagree, but it doesn't help that Dem leaders - at the same time they're explaining how terrible GOP policies and beliefs are - go out of their way to say how important bipartisanship is to them and how much they want to work with those same terrible people.

We have reached a verdict: Not guilty.

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.