“When the Knicks won the NBA Cup this season, Brunson devised a plan to make sure that the peripheral people in the Knicks organization—medical staff, locker-room attendants, etc.—received a portion of the money that the players get for winning the in-season tournament. This is who Brunson is.” 🎁

storycorps.org/stories/daug... "He died where he felt like himself" Broke my heart this morning.

US accepts only white refugees for sixth consecutive month

Solve long term structural budget shortfalls with one easy trick

I've worked in Democratic digital comms for a long time and pay attention to campaign metrics across platforms. Increasingly I'm seeing Dems who crosspost on X, Bluesky, and Threads get better engagement on Bluesky even with far fewer followers. Here's @jamestalarico.bsky.social's clip last night:

so excited that this group of hard working journalists and media workers is getting to the table! their employer is famously anti-union, so it'll be a fight, but I know they got it in 'em. <3

Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion. It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make. (Published May 2025)

Every graph of this reads like a horror movie

NEW on the podcast: REI workers are calling for a national consumer boycott of the popular outdoor sports co-op during it’s annual anniversary sale from May 15-25. I sat down with Ashley, a worker in Greensboro, NC to talk about what’s been happening at the table, boycotts as a tactic, and more.

Really sad it’s come to this. On my way to join my colleagues at the picket line. We deserve a fair contract!

About 100 people a year die from heart attacks brought on by shoveling snow. Thousands more wind up in the emergency department with chest and back pain and other problems.

"And in Paris, Mayor Anne Hidalgo has over the last decade prioritized banning cars from the city center and expanding pedestrian space. Last year, Parisian voters passed a referendum to close an additional 500 streets to traffic — and remove 10% of the city’s parking spaces."

Happy National Squirrel Day! This American Red Squirrel, also known as a Pine Squirrel, perched on this branch for a moment before launching off. These squirrels are territorial, often chasing away much larger squirrels.

Horror pon horror.

Thousands of nurses in three hospital systems in New York City went on strike Monday after negotiations through the weekend failed to yield breakthroughs in their contract disputes. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4bvuYLH 

We’re ready to bring fairness and transparency to Hearst CT and negotiate our first contact with Hearst Newspapers in 2026. It’ll ensure better journalism for our readers and better working conditions for all our colleagues, including our members and managers. Let’s get bargaining!!

How Senegal rose to become one of the most fertile grounds in African football, and why this success still struggles to transform the local football economy. africasacountry.com/2025/12/the-...

Mayor Eric Adams’ administration announced a major settlement in a case against Starbucks, which alleged that the company flagrantly violated the city’s Fair Workweek Law.

This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

NEW: 88 Ski Patrollers for Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Wyoming are unionizing with @cwaunion.bsky.social.

the owner of an irish pub i frequented in the south of france gave me the typical, joyous "a good irish name!" response to finding out my last name before his smile dropped and the blood drained out of his face :) love that man

unfathomable

an oldie but goodie www.teenvogue.com/story/what-t... (relatedly, teen vogue's recent anti-union firings will make this type of work more difficult)

I remember going to the Last Look in 2018! So so so excited to go back! amsterdamnews.com/news/2025/11...

And the great learning from our libraries "will be delivered to you by an army of overworked, underpaid, too-often verbally abused library staff, who deserve so much better from Britain, from their government, from the executives of the British Library, and from all of us."

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...

🚨BREAKING: STRIKERS WIN! The order affirms what we’ve said all along: The PG’s lawless union-busting cannot stand. We made sure it didn’t. We’re taking back what they stole from us. We won this strike.

Nearly a 1,000 people have signed the @condeunion.bsky.social and @newyorkerunion.bsky.social petition to reinstate the Fired Four and reverse the suspensions. JOIN US in standing up for workers' rights and tell Conde Nast that union-busting is DISGUSTING actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

I found "I agreed to an interview. I did this because, in ways you might think I’d have outgrown by now, I’m a fucking idiot," to be particularly relatable

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Amid settler attacks, Palestinians are trying to save their traditional olive and date harvests one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5592...

I go to a 6 am gym class and on my way back there were folks already lined up outside our local food pantry. Four people who looked in their 70s — among them a man listening to the radio about the Mets. They pushed carts ahead of them.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

But his assertion that diversity weakens unions ignores two things. First, labor unions have a long history of multiethnic coalitions. Second, it was the capitalists and political elites who tried to *exploit* ethnic divisions to maintain power. There is only one person here trying to stop unions:

Dad, may he rest in peace, always said Mario was a gift to NY + he should have been president “but America wasn’t ready for an Italian president.” Watching his son capitalize on this racist BS makes my stomach turn. There’s no shame in losing a race run well, but there’s tons in whatever this is.

Check out @workingclasshistory.com It's time for lessons to be learnt brothers and sisters

A reminder-there are really great books about magic that center Black & Brown & queer characters where profits don't go to tearing down trans community=The Marvellers @dhonielle.bsky.social; Nic Blake @angiethomas.bsky.social ; The Vanquishers-Kaylynn Bayron; Amari & The Night Brothers-B.B. Alston

Gee, I can’t imagine why…

I used to have a dad with whom I could have a complex, joyful, loving, rage inducing, frustrating, all encompassing, delightful, ridiculous pattern-repeating relationship, and now all I get is photos of him on a patio in Brooklyn the one and only time I got to drink too many martinis with him.

that’s funny, because it’s cringe and also because she’s never ‘done the news’ once in her career. she’s coasted on the opinion pages since she started working, which really explains a lot about her whole deal

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Italy only has just under 60 million people!

The Daily News and its journalists serve an essential function in our city. Given the assaults on free speech, democracy, and truth, now is a critical moment for newspapers to invest in their workers and staff.

Reading Mahmoud Darwish's Memory For Forgetfulness, about Israel's 1982 shelling of Beirut, which is extremely vivid and one of those pieces that changes your relationship to the written word, but searching for accompaniments anyway. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yIC...

White House Officials Vow Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09... Open authoritarianism. Happening right in front of us.

Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

In this week’s newsletter I have thoughts on Ezra’s Klein value judgements about the “right way” to do politics.

Signal Ohio workers just walked off the job! Send an email to their management: actionnetwork.org/letters/one-...

More than a week has passed since we announced the formation of the Signal Ohio News Workers Guild. Since then, Signal Ohio enlisted Jackson Lewis, a law firm with an anti-union reputation, to try to intimidate us. They are saying we are 3 unions. Send a letter! actionnetwork.org/letters/one-...