so far Romania is very cool and weird and spooky (complimentary)

made it to the motherland! hello from Transylvania

Magnificent explainer by @kimkelly.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“The labor movement in our country cannot advance while ignoring the assault on democracy,” said Neidi Dominguez, founding executive director of Organized Power in Numbers & executive team member of May Day Strong. Great read by @kimkelly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

would you guys like me to do some service journalism and write a guide to getting a cool tattoo

BYE BYE BOZO www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

what should I do in Bucharest besides go to the big bookstore

a lot of my UK friends who used to come visit are now explicitly avoiding traveling to America for the foreseeable future. tough but fair

TODAY: Misha Angrist stands up for science. “But if I were going to speak, then I thought it was important to try to do more than just serve up a cocktail of rage.” flaminghydra.com/controlled-e...

never forget where ya come from 🌲

speaking of folk horror hexvessel.bandcamp.com/album/the-bo...

it’s all popping off now boys

the funniest thing about dating a (former) street dude is that whenever I’m annoyed about something, his first response is “you want me to go ‘talk’ to them?” and like I love the energy honey but that’s not how we get that editor to email me back

dunno about this one lads

time zones are cheat codes for late risers if you travel in the right direction

got to the airport early for my international flight and now I am just… here. this is terrible. where’s the excitement

gotta love a big Balkan news cycle

nightmare www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

my only contribution to the writers fellowship discourse is that I could really really use one right about now

such a horrible tragedy share.inquirer.com/cB8oBr

Pittsburgh is so cool

one nice thing about being heavily tattooed is nobody ever wants to chat with me on the airplane

See yinz soon!

"Workers’ rights and climate justice are parts of the same grand struggle: for survival, for clean air and water, for a fair wage, for dignity and respect, for bread and roses too." orionmagazine.org/article/all-... by @kimkelly.bsky.social

A @kimkelly.bsky.social byline is always an automatic click for me but this @orionmagazine.bsky.social piece on building solidarity across climate and labor is SO GOOD.

If you think this story is cool, please subscribe to my antifascist heavy metal newsletter, Salvo, so I can publish more like it! It’s mostly free but your $5 monthly subscription goes a long way salvo.ghost.io/chile-ecolog...

Workers' rights and climate rights are part of the same grand struggle, Kim Kelly explains in our Spring issue, WORKING THE LAND. Extraction—of labor, of resources—benefits exactly one group of people, and it’s not the worker.

Today, my fellow founding worker-owners and I are launching a subscription drive to @feedravenous.bsky.social. We are a group of experienced and award-winning food journalists here to publish thoughtful writing and incisive reporting from around the food world. www.weareravenous.com

alright so what’s the best nondairy milk to use for hot chocolate

Today in 1977 began the 504 sit-ins by disabled people. The protest was the longest occupation of a federal building and a reminder that our human rights and access protections were not gifts from the ableds, but fought for by us, and in this instance with a big assist from the Black Panther party.

my partner lost his job in December and still hasn’t been able to find full-time work; he can build or fix or plant anything, but no one’s hiring. things are bad out there.

New: I wrote about how the SPLC let union breaking and fear of MAGA drive it away from its own civil rights principles. After I spoke up about Gaza, the SPLC disciplined me and terminated my employment—leading to a discrimination settlement: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

Every so often, one of the most infamously abusive men in the American labor movement gets one of his shitty blog posts picked up and the whisper network gets called back into service. Do not engage with Payday Report.

watch your back, clankers share.inquirer.com/WNnxYM

working on some neat video projects (but don’t call it a pivot!!)

🚨 New on Salvo 🚨 Ecologist's harsh Chilean black metal is a tribute to the melting glaciers of Patagonia. "Many black metal bands talk about nature but very few about its disappearance..." Read our interview here: salvo.ghost.io/chile-ecolog...

and what do we call those who are anti-anti-fascism again? www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

happy trans day of revenge to all who celebrate, I love trans people and fuck you if you don’t girlslivingoutsidesocietysshit.bandcamp.com/album/trans-...

men who have the wherewithal to catcall strange women at this ungodly hour are truly god’s strongest perverts

the pain of buying an expensive hardcover book only to stumble upon a much cheaper paperback copy shortly thereafter

This is so fucking real and I love Kim Kelly for covering the labor angle inside of adult entertainment and sex work. It's not surprising though, if you've read Fight Like Hell by the same author. If you haven't, I recommend it highly! You can get it and read it before May Day even!

"Pete Hegseth is a modern-day Narcissus: preoccupied with image, extravagantly unqualified for his position yet extraordinarily self-assured, morally bankrupt, intellectually barren and as empty as a shattered amphora." @kimkelly.bsky.social reports. inthesetimes.com/article/amer...

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

Kim Kelly speaking at the space named after Henry Clay Frick is the most glorious justice for Alexander Berkman since BerkmanFest 2010, which featured everyone's favorite Working Class Accordionist besmirching both Frick AND Carnegie's names! www.youtube.com/watch?v=booj...

I’m coming to Pittsburgh next month ✨ I’m giving a talk at the University Pittsburgh’s Frick Fine Arts Auditorium on April 9th at 7pm as part of the Alice and Staughton Lynd Working Class History Seminar; it’s free and open to the public, so tell your yinzer friends!

For Playboy, I spoke to adult content creators about the hours of labor their subscribers *don’t* see. “The amount of times I have people in my comments being like, ‘Get a real job!’ and like, I probably pay way more to the IRS than you do!” - @siridahl.bsky.social www.playboy.com/read/sex-rel...

A new report offers evidence of worker exploitation at a Chinese factory that exclusively manufactures Labubu for the Hong Kong-listed company Pop Mart.

Did you know that the paperback version of my labor history book for young readers, ‘Fight to Win!’ is coming out in paperback soon, at a very low price point, right in time for summer reading lists? Now you do, and you can preorder it for 25% off here! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fight-to-w...