Ok, I’m conflicted here. The book looks necessary and amazing but…

But…

…

It’s AN Historian’s Handbook, and this is killing me.

Opinion | You Can’t Game Your Way to a Real Education

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In reality, you couldn’t, but labor relations has always been more alchemy than science, so if their kids looked to dirty or their wife wasn’t deferential enough they’d get marked as trouble.

Lots of company education programs can be unionbusting even if they never mention unions. Reagan’s political start was speaking to big groups of GE employees about the dangers of communism. He’d never mention unions except in a positive light, but they absolutely were union busting talks

Back in the day, company picnics were a way for the bosses to observe the home lives of workers, so they could weed out folks who might seem to be troublemakers based on their families.

More to your subject, a common one is breaking large break rooms into smaller, physically separate nooks, and staggering lunch breaks even when not necessary for productivity, so the workers don’t have the chance to congregate together for any reason.

Hilariously nasty one I heard about 25 years ago. Group of phone company line workers were going to vote on a union. Almost all men, middle aged. Company hired squad of gorgeous “employee satisfaction specialists” to ride the trucks with the guys all day showering them with attention.

Absolutely many men believe that.

It was all the senators giving Thomas advice on how to seduce women. Phil Hartman as Ted Kennedy was exquisite. Franken (eep) as Paul Simon asking how to get a date.

Last truly satirical SNL political bit I remember was the Clarence Thomas hearings one back in the early nineties.

I mean, Michelle cheated on John with Denny, so John wrote a song about it that became one of their biggest hits, and then John suspends Michelle for cheating on him with someone else and yet he keeps wearing that ridiculous hat.

Fleetwood Mac person born before 1975 is properly defined as a Mamas and the Papas person.

Though I was very tempted to over your love of the inferior jelly, grape.

Harder and harder to avoid the conclusion

These all look super interesting

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Bizarre to suggest that voter perceptions of the economy can be traced to the world-shattering, millions-killing, economy-crashing pandemic that laid bare the myriad ways our social fabric is weaker than we all imagined and how the powerful don't really care about the rest of us.

Couldn't be that.

Nice! Thanks!

Labor nerds: @rickperlstein.bsky.social’s Before the Storm mentions an @aflcio.org pamphlet or manual called “How to Win” that was around in the early 1960s. Anyone know where one might find it?

Attn @uawarchivist.bsky.social

Covid was the most financially secure I have ever been in my career

And, with $600/week in unemployment benefits, we more or less had a universal basic income.

And thanks to (shudder) Ivanka, we effectively had paid leave.

And an eviction moratorium.

*takes a deep breath*

I hope one lesson people learn from #RapeAcademy situation is that access to consensual sex doesn't matter to a rapist because they WANT the nonconsent part.

So please stop suggesting these predators should just go see sex workers as some sort of solution to rape.

Ike, JFK, and Nixon all made their campaign managers Attorney General. They understood the job was political.

I'm so sorry. The greatest gift you can give your pet is the gift of peace, because it hurts so much to say goodbye but it was right for them.

St Paul peeps: it is staggeringly beautiful out and the Saints game starts soon. Park is empty. Tons of seats. Come on out!

About 50/50

A single guardrail has held, Norm. Many, many others have fallen.

Really think "we'll do Endless Mideast War better than the Republicans" is not the position the Dems want to take.

And that's exactly the leader I plan to be in Congress!