Aaron Goings
@aarongoings.bsky.social
Working class. Historian. Friend to animals. Sheinbaum-affiliated. My website: https://www.aarongoings.com
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Aaron Goings
@aarongoings.bsky.social
· Dec 13
Red Harbor
Brings to life Grays Harbor's fiery legacy of class conflictIn the early decades of the twentieth century, Grays Harbor was the Lumber Capital of the World. ...
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I wrote a new book called “Red Harbor.” See that sweet cover below
It’ll be released this summer—for once I won’t be in Finland or stuck inside during a pandemic. It’s available on pre-order from the UW Press—right now has a mighty fine sale (40% off, free shipping)
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
It’ll be released this summer—for once I won’t be in Finland or stuck inside during a pandemic. It’s available on pre-order from the UW Press—right now has a mighty fine sale (40% off, free shipping)
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
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It’s our favorite time of the year! The OU Press Holiday Sale is back and there's ❄️ snow ❄️ time like the present to get a few new books for everyone on your list this season. Shop now through January 5th, 2026 and save 40% on all orders. Free domestic shipping on orders over $75 www.oupress.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
It’s our favorite time of the year! The OU Press Holiday Sale is back and there's ❄️ snow ❄️ time like the present to get a few new books for everyone on your list this season. Shop now through January 5th, 2026 and save 40% on all orders. Free domestic shipping on orders over $75 www.oupress.com
Might be moving west—to the general Olympia area. We live on top of I5 and I won’t miss that—or the commute.
But I’ll need a barn of some sort because there’s so many neighborhood/feral/abandoned kitties who I’ll want to come along
But I’ll need a barn of some sort because there’s so many neighborhood/feral/abandoned kitties who I’ll want to come along
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Might be moving west—to the general Olympia area. We live on top of I5 and I won’t miss that—or the commute.
But I’ll need a barn of some sort because there’s so many neighborhood/feral/abandoned kitties who I’ll want to come along
But I’ll need a barn of some sort because there’s so many neighborhood/feral/abandoned kitties who I’ll want to come along
Look at those deals from the unionized @uwapress.uw.edu
You can get someone special a book for $12-18—or someone not special. Great deals
You can get someone special a book for $12-18—or someone not special. Great deals
📢 The annual UW Press Holiday Sale is here!
November 17, 2025–January 2, 2026, get 40% off and free domestic shipping on all books sitewide with promo code WINTER25 at checkout.
Start browsing: bit.ly/UWPressHolidaySale2025
November 17, 2025–January 2, 2026, get 40% off and free domestic shipping on all books sitewide with promo code WINTER25 at checkout.
Start browsing: bit.ly/UWPressHolidaySale2025
November 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Look at those deals from the unionized @uwapress.uw.edu
You can get someone special a book for $12-18—or someone not special. Great deals
You can get someone special a book for $12-18—or someone not special. Great deals
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Starbucks’ CEO makes 6,666x what the average @sbworkersunited.org barista does. It would take less than one day of sales to finalize a fair contract.
Baristas at Starbucks corporate stores nationwide are on strike to fight this corporate greed and get the fair contract they deserve.
Baristas at Starbucks corporate stores nationwide are on strike to fight this corporate greed and get the fair contract they deserve.
November 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Starbucks’ CEO makes 6,666x what the average @sbworkersunited.org barista does. It would take less than one day of sales to finalize a fair contract.
Baristas at Starbucks corporate stores nationwide are on strike to fight this corporate greed and get the fair contract they deserve.
Baristas at Starbucks corporate stores nationwide are on strike to fight this corporate greed and get the fair contract they deserve.
Thinking about book orders for next quarter and I just remembered all the great holiday deals that university presses like @uwapress.uw.edu roll out in November-December
Hardcover book for $16, paperback for $12–with free shipping? Hell yes, sign me up!
Hardcover book for $16, paperback for $12–with free shipping? Hell yes, sign me up!
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Thinking about book orders for next quarter and I just remembered all the great holiday deals that university presses like @uwapress.uw.edu roll out in November-December
Hardcover book for $16, paperback for $12–with free shipping? Hell yes, sign me up!
Hardcover book for $16, paperback for $12–with free shipping? Hell yes, sign me up!
I’m going to check it out. I like the looks of that guy on the cover
Thank you!!!
Thank you!!!
November 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I’m going to check it out. I like the looks of that guy on the cover
Thank you!!!
Thank you!!!
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Ms. Rachel (Rachel Griffin Accurso), the extremely popular children’s educator, said she unsubscribed from the The New York Times, “because of its biased and dehumanizing coverage of Palestinians and Palestine, and its failure to uphold journalistic integrity.”
Over 300 writers, scholars, public...
Over 300 writers, scholars, public...
November 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Ms. Rachel (Rachel Griffin Accurso), the extremely popular children’s educator, said she unsubscribed from the The New York Times, “because of its biased and dehumanizing coverage of Palestinians and Palestine, and its failure to uphold journalistic integrity.”
Over 300 writers, scholars, public...
Over 300 writers, scholars, public...
If you’re having a tough week you really do deserve to read Jeffrey St. Clair’s piece at CounterPunch about Dick Cheney. He really explains the monstrosity that died this week: @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social
www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/07/r...
www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/07/r...
Roaming Charges: The Evil Dead
The bipartisan whitewashing of Dick Cheney is as much of a perversion of US history as Trump's eliding any mention of the horrors of slavery, the internment of Japanese-Americans and the genocide agai...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If you’re having a tough week you really do deserve to read Jeffrey St. Clair’s piece at CounterPunch about Dick Cheney. He really explains the monstrosity that died this week: @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social
www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/07/r...
www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/07/r...
Did an interview with Feliks Banel for his show “Cascades of History” where we talk about my new book Red Harbor. Good stuff, good stuff
m.soundcloud.com/cascadeofhis...
m.soundcloud.com/cascadeofhis...
November 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Did an interview with Feliks Banel for his show “Cascades of History” where we talk about my new book Red Harbor. Good stuff, good stuff
m.soundcloud.com/cascadeofhis...
m.soundcloud.com/cascadeofhis...
lol. I was wondering if there was some sort of cute owl thing going on in Coquitlam/Burnaby/Vancouver, Surrey, etc
But yes, go Jays…
But yes, go Jays…
October 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
lol. I was wondering if there was some sort of cute owl thing going on in Coquitlam/Burnaby/Vancouver, Surrey, etc
But yes, go Jays…
But yes, go Jays…
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He did it again for the 5 year anniversary
October 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM
He did it again for the 5 year anniversary
Wobbly hoopers and track/fielders kicking around out there—and in all the other Finn towns
🙏 Kirsti.
🙏 Kirsti.
October 14, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Wobbly hoopers and track/fielders kicking around out there—and in all the other Finn towns
🙏 Kirsti.
🙏 Kirsti.
New brick addition to downtown—somewhere on the Harbor. 😂
September 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
New brick addition to downtown—somewhere on the Harbor. 😂
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Two (2) MA fellowships at Concordia in deindustrialization studies.
September 15, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Two (2) MA fellowships at Concordia in deindustrialization studies.
Big agree with this post—take a look at the gofundme below
And not the most important part of the story, but Tom Alter is a remarkable scholar—in a less repressive era/country, some fancy school would recruit him. I recommend buying/reading his work!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=47...
And not the most important part of the story, but Tom Alter is a remarkable scholar—in a less repressive era/country, some fancy school would recruit him. I recommend buying/reading his work!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=47...
September 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Big agree with this post—take a look at the gofundme below
And not the most important part of the story, but Tom Alter is a remarkable scholar—in a less repressive era/country, some fancy school would recruit him. I recommend buying/reading his work!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=47...
And not the most important part of the story, but Tom Alter is a remarkable scholar—in a less repressive era/country, some fancy school would recruit him. I recommend buying/reading his work!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=47...
Thank you so much for coming and for writing. It means a lot that you were able to come. And dang, what a cool bookstore! Good place for cat shirts. 🙏
September 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Thank you so much for coming and for writing. It means a lot that you were able to come. And dang, what a cool bookstore! Good place for cat shirts. 🙏
A university fired a tenured labor historian?
The terminated prof is author of one of the great books of this century. This sucks
glad this is getting the attention it deserves since it’s disgusting
The terminated prof is author of one of the great books of this century. This sucks
glad this is getting the attention it deserves since it’s disgusting
Texas State University announced Wednesday that it had fired associate history professor Thomas Alter for “controversial statements” at a conference that advocated “for inciting violence.”
September 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
A university fired a tenured labor historian?
The terminated prof is author of one of the great books of this century. This sucks
glad this is getting the attention it deserves since it’s disgusting
The terminated prof is author of one of the great books of this century. This sucks
glad this is getting the attention it deserves since it’s disgusting
There’s a good chance that I’ll be wearing this same shirt at the book launch.
or the cat shirt.
It’s a toss up
or the cat shirt.
It’s a toss up
Now on our blog: Aaron Goings @aarongoings.bsky.social shares how RED HARBOR uncovers the forgotten history of lumber workers in a bastion of labor radicalism.
The Radical Roots of the Pacific Northwest Labor Movement: Q&A with Aaron Goings, Author of “Red Harbor”
In his new book, Red Harbor: Radical Workers and Community Struggle in the Pacific Northwest, leading Pacific Northwest labor historian Aaron Goings brings to life the fiery legacy of class conflic…
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September 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
There’s a good chance that I’ll be wearing this same shirt at the book launch.
or the cat shirt.
It’s a toss up
or the cat shirt.
It’s a toss up
My latest—an interview in the @uwapress.uw.edu blog to commemorate the publication of my new book, “Red Harbor: Radical Unionism and Class Struggle in the Pacific Northwest”
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uwpressblog.com
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September 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
My latest—an interview in the @uwapress.uw.edu blog to commemorate the publication of my new book, “Red Harbor: Radical Unionism and Class Struggle in the Pacific Northwest”
uwpressblog.com
uwpressblog.com
read the bathroom graffiti while coming up with excuses to excuse myself, head home (in the US/Canada)
be buzzed, then drunk (in Finland)
be buzzed, then drunk (in Finland)
September 9, 2025 at 4:57 AM
read the bathroom graffiti while coming up with excuses to excuse myself, head home (in the US/Canada)
be buzzed, then drunk (in Finland)
be buzzed, then drunk (in Finland)
Thankeee, @dhprice.bsky.social for linking to my new Counterpunch article—The Far Right & the Further Right in Lumber Country.
2 sections of the American Right fighting for power.
2 sections of the American Right fighting for power.
America’s Far Right and the Further Right: the Klan and a Coup in 1920s Lumber Country - CounterPunch.org share.google/rlEwz3zIKDJx...
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September 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Thankeee, @dhprice.bsky.social for linking to my new Counterpunch article—The Far Right & the Further Right in Lumber Country.
2 sections of the American Right fighting for power.
2 sections of the American Right fighting for power.
Here’s a thing or two to do for (the other) Labor Day Weekend:
1) Get Kim Kelly’s book “Fight to Win: Heroes of American Labor” as a gift for the young readers in your life: www.kim-kelly.com/booksnmerch
2) Support Labor-Left journalism by subbing to Kim’s Patreon
www.patreon.com/kimkelly
1) Get Kim Kelly’s book “Fight to Win: Heroes of American Labor” as a gift for the young readers in your life: www.kim-kelly.com/booksnmerch
2) Support Labor-Left journalism by subbing to Kim’s Patreon
www.patreon.com/kimkelly
August 31, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Here’s a thing or two to do for (the other) Labor Day Weekend:
1) Get Kim Kelly’s book “Fight to Win: Heroes of American Labor” as a gift for the young readers in your life: www.kim-kelly.com/booksnmerch
2) Support Labor-Left journalism by subbing to Kim’s Patreon
www.patreon.com/kimkelly
1) Get Kim Kelly’s book “Fight to Win: Heroes of American Labor” as a gift for the young readers in your life: www.kim-kelly.com/booksnmerch
2) Support Labor-Left journalism by subbing to Kim’s Patreon
www.patreon.com/kimkelly
I wrote an article for Counterpunch about the Right in US History—specifically from a century ago. Features here include the KKK, a mayoral coup, businessmen vigilantes, and the Congressman whose name is atop the 1924 immigration restriction law—Albert Johnson
www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/29/a...
www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/29/a...
August 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I wrote an article for Counterpunch about the Right in US History—specifically from a century ago. Features here include the KKK, a mayoral coup, businessmen vigilantes, and the Congressman whose name is atop the 1924 immigration restriction law—Albert Johnson
www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/29/a...
www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/29/a...
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Pie Down Here w/ Robin D.G. Kelley
Featuring Robin D.G. Kelley listening back and reflecting upon old tapes of the interviews with sharecroppers he conducted in the 1980s while researching Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression. This is an episode of Signal Hill, a new aud
Featuring Robin D.G. Kelley listening back and reflecting upon old tapes of the interviews with sharecroppers he conducted in the 1980s while researching Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression. This is an episode of Signal Hill, a new aud
Pie Down Here w/ Robin D.G. Kelley
Featuring Robin D.G. Kelley listening back and reflecting upon old tapes of the interviews with sharecroppers he conducted in the 1980s while researching Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression. This is an episode of Signal Hill, a new audio magazine made by friends of The Dig. Produced by Conor Gillies and edited by Liza Yeager and Omar Etman. Listen to Dan's Dig interview with Robin Kelley on Hammer and Hoe thedigradio.com/podcast/hammer-and-hoe-with-robin-d-g-kelley Support signalhill.fm/support Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig
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August 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Pie Down Here w/ Robin D.G. Kelley
Featuring Robin D.G. Kelley listening back and reflecting upon old tapes of the interviews with sharecroppers he conducted in the 1980s while researching Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression. This is an episode of Signal Hill, a new aud
Featuring Robin D.G. Kelley listening back and reflecting upon old tapes of the interviews with sharecroppers he conducted in the 1980s while researching Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression. This is an episode of Signal Hill, a new aud