yay

so, while Texas A&M has a chapter of the AAUP... they can't actually really do much in the way of like. securing a contract or a real above-board agreement between their members and the university, even if they had the membership numbers

public universities fall under state labor laws, not federal, so unionizing faculty and staff depends on what your state has to work with. Michigan for example has a robust Public Employment Relations Act. Meanwhile in Texas, the law is actively hostile to collective bargaining in the public sector

tbf after the absolute shitshow ratfuck that was the Huwaida Arraf incident last year, DSA types have been doing a lot of registering people for the MDP specifically to show up at the convention and make a big stink this time and it did pay dividends with how many dickheads got heckled

yeah and we'll see how that shakes out for us going forward, since apparently they need historic supermajorities to enforce basic legal precedent of the last decade or two

and that's all they did? with a supermajority? you see what the republicans have done and are doing with the landscape they have right now, right

hey, remind me what Congress looked like in the Obama years

everything's gambling

talk to me like 15 years ago, none of them fit anymore

For a game that could have been a phone app?? Nintendo off the shits with this one

hell yeah

got too excited, like a dog

"Proletarian solidarity is our strength!", USSR, 1973

crunchy or wet

(the fundamental problem here is that I am delightful company and people want to spend all their time with me, but if not for the whole Society thing I think left to my own devices I would be a fully solitary, silent nocturnal animal)

It is my day off and I have to be awake so early tomorrow. I don't take up all of your evening when you have to be awake at 4am for a meeting

look. I am a simple butch and I have simple wants, such as to be left alone before 4am so I can do chores and watch my boring youtube channels and eat nonvegan chili and sfincione leftovers in peace

I'm not taking piss takes from some loser from Kentucky. When he thinks about people in prison I know he's having pillowy fantasies about The South Rising Again

Lewd messages linked to University of Michigan regent who led campaign against pro-Palestinian students Jordan Acker, who pushed legal action against protesters, is running for re-election in race reflecting tensions on Israel

> When asked by the Guardian whether Acker denied writing the messages, his attorney responded: “Your understanding that Mr Acker does not deny this is not correct or incorrect.”

are certainly words your lawyer could write…

well, at least he's of sound mind and judgment and has some baseline competence at the job otherwise, right?

never stop wanting to dig up Henry Ford and kill him again

a map from 1918 showing the interurban network sprawling across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio

One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.

also they should invent a plank that isn't hard on every single one of my Problem Joints

2. while I don't think there's any specific law or ordinance on the books at the state or county level saying I necessarily *can't*, taking my shirt off at the gym seems much more likely to cause a Scene than under cover of night where worst might happen is I'm a cryptid on someone's ring camera

this is the first time in a while I went around the block instead of the gym. And two things with that: one, my distance is worse outside, either because cold outside air or I just don't feel as judged by the girlies doing 30+ minutes of cardio next to me as under cover of night, but also,

oh jogging sucks so bad. it sucks so bad

they won't, because they'd be just as implicated

Dems could run actual human beings and not geriatric cardboard cutouts, Actual Real Life Nazis, proud CIA or Blackwater mercenaries, I'm no big city beltway consultant or opinion columnist but I think that might help

tbh, because I was a teenager right as the 2008 crash happened, most of us who were there at the time also couldn't really reach our mallgoth dreams on account of not having any money, or any real prospects for part time jobs