This swan doesn’t cross picket lines @sbworkersunited.org

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

Always exciting to see state AGs standing up for workers! hoodline.com/2025/11/wash...

Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry. The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions. A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪

the CDC museum inspired so many people (including myself) to serve this nation and world in public health. this is hard to see

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they are taking a wrecking ball to our healthcare system every chance they get, i swear

There is no 'congrats' loud or enthusiastic enough for the Penn State grad students, who didn't just win their union today, but did it by an utterly absurd 90 point margin. I'm so proud and happy for them!!!!!

How many profs in major PhD granting science departments have *not* advised even 1 Chinese student or Chinese postdoc in the last five years 😧?

I was a faculty member at IU in 2016, and after the election that year, I had to change the way I taught my 200+ student Intro Sociology class, because a handful of students started flooding the class whiteboard app by posting "MAGA" over and over again.

Email 1: Can I Say Black? Email 2: Can I say Black American? Email 3: Can I Say Black American Politics? 😂

The principled defense of academic freedom is hard and more important than ever.

There's a tendency among a certain type of poster to assume everything they hate about politics and the state can be blamed on avarice, and I'm here to tell you it's actually worse than that.

The retrenchment will be nonsensical

Here is the statement on the initial TAMU system proposal. The adopted rule apparently prohibits "advocacy" of "race and gender ideology" without approval.

they want to stamp out the entire profession of public health for a generation. same day they announce they’re closing the CDC museum

Folks, we are truly through the looking glass here. This statement - from Senator Jim Banks - could have been taken verbatim from an article lamenting the censorious left.

The regents apparently voted to ban courses from advocating "race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity" without campus president approval First, what does it even mean to "advocate ... topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity"?

Exhibit A:

chicago! how can faculty make sense of the rapidly shifting economic and epistemic conditions for learning? how should faculty exercise governance and exert expertise over expensive partnerships between universities and technology companies? join us for Theory At The Bargaining Table Dec 4!

BREAKING: Here we go with the first allegations of violations of the preliminary injunction Judge Ellis issued on November 6 in Chicago Headline Club v. Noem: "As this Court was issuing the Preliminary Injunction on November 6, federal agents shot pepper balls at a moving car"

I read about Piss Christ long before seeing an image of it, and just assumed it had been made with a life-sized crucifix -- and therefore that it must have taken *months* for Serrano to accumulate the requisite volume of urine

Reminder: "Ephebophilia" is neither in the DSM nor a recoginized term of art used by mental health professionals. It is, however, used by pedophilia apologists.

1) This sounds like a violation of the Anti-Deficiency Act. 2) Every federal worker suffered over the past 7 weeks. But if we pay some groups faster than others, and if one if the ruler’s chief courtiers delivers the money like a personal gift…it’s bad. Like, basic-modern-state bad. Weberian bad.

Epstein also texted with Larry Summers, and I will just say that Summers comes off *even worse* in those exchanges than he does in the emails that I've seen reported.

When I should have been going to bed last night, I started reading Epstein's imessages w/ Bannon. They weren't labeled with Bannon's name -- but I'm pretty sure, including b/c of this exchange:

Monday 12:30 ET: The chilling effects of the Trump administration's policies (and jawboning) are widespread - how are they being challenged in court, and what is the state of 1A doctrine on chilling effects? An expert panel will discuss, including current cases AAUP v. Rubio and UAW v. State Dept:

Is this Epstein giving Ken Starr media-relations advice re: the release of this report? The timing makes sense. (This is also a month before Starr's book came out.) www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/u...

LOL the NY Post has its finger on the pulse of today's big story

Also, law firms shouldn't be owned by entities that will have their own reasons to curry favor with the powerful.

"Kafka" - Lawrence Krauss's one-word response in September 2018 to being told by Epstein of reporting on a Jed Rubenfeld investigation and Amy Chua complaints. The Guardian story: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018...

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Andres Serrano, who was at the heart of the 1995 NEA funding controversy...

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

Everyone wants to be a public sector worker.

As everyone has pointed out, the guy is covered in racist-curious tattoos. But also, this is a lame, transparent attempt to deflect from the fact that his no beards policy is clearly aimed at and will disproportionately affect black men. "Hey look at all the silly white people we're pissing off!"

Just wait 'til the Trump administration hears about this... federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce-ri...

And who has stocked his administration and campaign staff with people who have been credibly accused of sexual assault or domestic violence. And whose friends and allies reached out to help the Tate brothers, and continue to pal around with Russell Brand.

How ironic would it be if it's emails that sink him in the end?

LOL, an actual modern-day Mechanical Turk

It's driving me batty that nobody except Heather Cox Richardson, the Washington Monthly, and myself is covering Trump's race to sell off (for likely demolition) "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal," w/ murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, etc. I've furnish links below to help reporters get started.

I know everyone read the Sarah Wynn-Williams book a while ago, but I am now halfway through. My most recurrent thought: How many ridiculous and high-profile disasters will it take for Facebook to realize that they have to hire someone whose whole job is advance work?

"Please confirm whether this is a billion in an English or an American sense." Learning there's a difference would blow Trump's mind. I bet he'd talk about it during rallies.

Not satisfied with having humiliated and weakened ABC and CBS, Trump turns his attention to the BBC. It goes without saying that Secretary of State Marco Rubio, self-styled champion of democracy, will raise no objection at all to this assault on press freedom. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

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I’m old enough to remember when Michael Dukakis couldn’t be president because a program started by the Republican governor before him gave a convicted criminal the opportunity to commit more crimes.