Yeah we need each other! And we feel a lot of the same pressures at work.

I think many of us frankly don't understand the job. Every so often there's a hullabaloo about an academic or two getting interviewed and not quoted and...that's the life of a source!

Many such cases

Ask a period historian about how Debt covers their period!

Which causes me, the guy who knows a little about jobs, to ask myself "well if this is how the master approached the field I know something about, I wonder if that's carried over into things I know less about like kings or debt."

To his credit, he raised the alarm and publicly denounced the colleague in charge, after other people had tried quieter means to no avail. Heart in the right place. But the whole episode was indicative not just of a deeply felt theory of change but a real lack of curiosity in how things work.

fine critiques of 'bullshit jobs' out there but you get the gist from knowing Graeber started a journal (with a Māori name) for other elite rebel white guys that quickly became a viper pit that burned through students because there were no rules and procedures--which are for chicks-- besides NDAs

Omg you people can just pay a lady on Craigslist to insult you, stop doing it in public!!!!

The man behind Olly Robbins is Dave Penman, General Secretary of the FDA, the trade union representing senior civil servants.

The message here? Join a union and have your union rep with you when you need them!

what

I really think it explains much of why white women professionals are so radicalized rn. I think your point, which I take in part to be about political education, still stands: they are a class in themselves but not yet for themselves.

RFK killed Marilyn

University workers are the biggest growth sector in American labor and we win every union election with saddam hussein numbers

Not a direct translation but I think you can draw a pretty straight line from stressed out moms pulling a quadruple shift at home during the Panasonic to the Indivisible class pushing the Dems left at the state and federal level. That's who seals the deal on, eg, major school funding reform in MD

Lori Chavez-Deremer is resigning and since I am one of a handful of people directly responsible for setting into motion a series of events that led to her becoming Labor Secretary, I am feeling good about her total collapse and sad flight home to Clackamas County.

Everyone at the party dropping their keys in the leopard's mouth

Pioneers in unethical nonmonogamy

Ugh yet another blow to the first poly administration

Imagine if the press that Hegseth is insulting took this sort of stuff as seriously as they took Ilhan Omar saying AIPAC influences elections by spending money

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Would be totally fine as USTR or Commerce (even if id hate it and it'd be a demotion for him)

Ding ding ding

Knowing absolutely nothing about what's going on inside famous luxury phone designer Apple, I would say that replacing the supply chain impresario with the hardware guy is a pretty good indicator of where their priorities lay for the next few years: making money on things that aren't the iPhone

We don't have the freikorps problem because even if you fired every single cop and every single CBP + ICE agent, you still wouldn't get to the insane proportion of the population that was the former. The problem is simply what it always was: Jim Crow jobs, widely distributed, given carte blanche

Fortunately this problem will disappear with Trump himself and we won't have to worry about it anymore 🤗

It's going to be even worse the next time they appoint Peter Mandelson

As with the case led by UCLA workers, it is important to emphasize that our leaders are NOT the ones leading on this. It's the faculty and staff directly affected by the administration who are doing the work to fight it.

Many thanks to all the brave folks whose stories drive this lawsuit. We do not think it should be illegal to study or support racial or ethnic minorities and we don't think that's particularly controversial BUT HERE WE ARE

Broad Coalition Files Suit to Stop Latest Unlawful Move in Trump-Vance Administration Crusade Against Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Executive Order Targets Essential Federal Contractors with Unconstitutional Threats

My union @uam-umd.bsky.social did such a good job beating our bosses in the statehouse this year that we figured we'd go ahead and beat the White House too.

With allies from across higher ed and the good people at @democracyforward.org we're suing to stop the latest illegal anti-DEI order.

N.Y.C. Doormen and Building Owners Reach an Agreement to Avert a Strike

Congrats to the workers, including those at my housing coop!
"The deal would provide pay raises and maintain free health insurance for about 34,000 apartment building workers."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/n...