On Wednesday, Sept 17, Davis Square workers voted to join Starbucks Workers United. One week later, on Thursday the 25th, Starbucks announced the imminent closure of hundreds of stores nationwide. By the 27th, the store had permanently closed. working-mass.com/2025/10/03/s...

Giving another shout-out to Ta-Nehisi Coates. This is a really well done article by a man who has continuously gone up in my book as an artistic and intellectual voice worth following. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Mark Ruffalo is based I guess? HAHAHAHA www.youtube.com/shorts/MMglk...

Currently sitting through a Boston University (my university) official seminar on AI and its effect on careers. Not only is this panel full of nothing-balls, with a full wide range of management word-vomit including: empathy, distribution, and literate.

There are two labor and tech writers in Boston? And they both have the name Freddy?!?

Fun lunchtime video if your head is spinning after a long week of work before an academic deadline! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exuj...

I was recently doom scrolling Reddit a bit and came across a particularly interesting subreddit - r/economicCollapse. While its stated purpose is "articles and discussion relating to economic collapse" it really seems like its a bunch of people who are actively rooting for an economic collapse.

Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business

Don't have any commentary here other than this is a fantastic video essay on the importance of black villains. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2dG...

Capital is value in motion, with rentiers extracting through that motion. Good god we need a revolution in tech. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBI_...

Hey its me!

OUT NOW: Hamilton Tenants Association Faces Terrible Landlord with Rally in Arlington "Tenants sent letters and raised demands. At every turn, Hamilton Company provided as much silence as when repairs were needed or rent was due." Read into the fight: working-mass.com/2025/08/19/h...

Maybe a hot take, but I think these chairs are post-Fordism incarnate.

Obligatory Fuck Columbia jacobin.com/2025/08/colu...

Perhaps the most frustrating thing in this genocide is how even if Israels full occupation is stopped, the absolutely fascist psychopaths responsible for the butchering of Palestinian voices will never face justice. “One day, everyone will have always been against this”

This story is pretty wild. Sources suggest Microsoft execs in US are concerned Israel-based employees, some of whom are reservists or veterans of the IDF’s Unit 8200 (aka eavesdropping unit), were not “fully transparent” about IDF’s use of Microsoft products in recent review

Maybe it's time for "everything is dialectical/historical materialism" book. Was recently reviewing some 1980s journals on old homes and found this gem. The Mansard roof became a thing because of taxes!

Banger

I was recently watching the new Ezra Klein show, and can't help thinking about how he positions himself. He has no problem having Yoram Hazony, a full blown psychopath on his show, but when was the last time he had a labor leader or a Palestinian? Oh wait, the answer was never.

"Every time we want to change society to benefit average people, we have to deal with ultrawealthy crybabies. We’re held hostage by those who already have it all. It doesn’t have to be like this." - jacobin.com/2025/07/ultr...

So much for getting any more work done today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zHT...

The postdoc is the pits for romantic relationships -Me and my drunk postdoc friend, 2025

Another in the long list of lives lost to a settler colonial project and genocide backed by my tax dollars. "Accountability for settlers who commit acts of violence against Palestinians is rare." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Amidst a hiring freeze, PhD admission pauses, and the refusal to pay workers a living wage, BU has decided to provide students with its own gen-AI tool. 🤮🤮🤮

Oh I forgot to post the baseball cards of the striking workers they were handing out. Genius.

Really excited that Michael Burns is still producing this kind of content! Both a great learning tool and fun commentary! youtu.be/JrnOxlUiPDM?...

Melbourne Folks! I will be hosting a book launch to celebrate The Mechanic and the Luddite! Come hear me chat about the book with Lizzie O'Shea and Chris O'Neill — and have a free drink! • August 14th, 6pm, Victorian Trades Hall • Register for free: events.humanitix.com/sadowkski-th...

"Trader Joe’s has engaged in numerous delay tactics to try and delay bargaining and try and make us argue about stuff that’s just not true," one worker-organizer told us. Read into the fight of Trader Joe's United: working-mass.com/2025/07/22/t...

Absolutely disgusting.

Just got an add for Dash-pass on the app I use for parking. Absolutely crazy that city infrastructure is now advertising tools that further exploitation.

Was recently at Boston's Pride/No King's rally and had a bit of a epiphany around the first section of Capitalist Realism. The commodification of culture and protest essentially freezes progress - with the current iterations of Pride being a great example.

SOMERVILLE FIGHTS FOR PALESTINE -- Read our report on Somerville for Palestine's campaign for city divestment through ballot measure, gathering signatures and building a base for Palestine at the municipal level: working-mass.com/2025/06/11/s...

Currently reviewing a bunch of reporting on labor disputes over the past 5 years in the US. Really frustrating to see the mainstream media give equal weight to both the firm and employee in these disputes.

Highlighting that Verso Book's May Day Sale is fantastic for the more radical-sociology minded folks! www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/m...

Just finished Sadowskis' new book! Stand-out chapters were risk and landlords for sure. Excellent treatment and discussion on both. Also a big fan of his model for analysis: the mechanic and the luddite. Great stuff overall!

Glad to hear for my friends at UMich!

#MusicSky #MayTheFourth

Great story by a fellow comrade and shame on BU!

Every few months someone rediscovers the humanities and goes “wait… this has politics in it??” Yes honey, we study power, meaning, culture, resistance… not rocks.

The rumors were true, Bethesda really did just shadow-drop an Oblivion remake - right before a paper deadline.... How am I suppose to finish my CSCW paper and spend 100 hours in Cyrodiil....

Just found out Wisecrack is closing 😢😢😢 Absolutely tragic to lose a fantastic and thoughtful voice in the digital media space. youtu.be/ByMPfm90r0I?...

Currently in the middle of editing my CSCW submission. Decided to take a break and crank through some of Jathans new book along with a few cups of chai!

READ NOW: Brandeis research associates, department coordinators, and other academic workers campaigned to successful ratification with SEIU 888 at the beginning of this year by building power with the community: working-mass.com/2025/04/11/b...

Currently a bit under the weather and half-working and half watching YouTube leftist video-essays and just wanted to shout out both the video and apparently Dua Lipa? www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN1r...

“But perhaps the greatest of these sins is convincing ourselves that posting is a form of political activism, when it is at best a coping mechanism”

Finally, some good news!

Was gathering images for an upcoming talk on some of my organized labor research, only to find this little gem of a page. Jesus the bourgeois sucks. www.craftbrewingbusiness.com/featured/cra...

We refuse to accept the normalisation of Palestinian deaths. End arms sales to Israel, now.

My partners finch doesn't like NYC pizza...