Eric Dirnbach
@ericdirnbach.bsky.social
Labor Movement Researcher, Activist, Campaigner, Organizer, Educator, Writer & Socialist, Philly born, NYC now.
https://ericdirnbach.medium.com
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I had a great time interviewing Dave Kamper about his new book, Who’s Got the Power: The Resurgence of American Unions!
#UnionYes #LaborHistory
@dskamper.bsky.social
www.podbean.com/ea/pb-4f93w-...
#UnionYes #LaborHistory
@dskamper.bsky.social
www.podbean.com/ea/pb-4f93w-...
Maybe I'll become a roundabout guy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/c...
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Cutting Emissions, the Roundabout Way, in New Hampshire
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Maybe I'll become a roundabout guy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/c...
On the other hand, it would be better if he spent all his time on this nonsense.
December 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
On the other hand, it would be better if he spent all his time on this nonsense.
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Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Published Oct. w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Published Oct. w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social
Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...
www.propublica.org
December 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Published Oct. w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Published Oct. w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social
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Why Republican scandals and misdeeds get a pass www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Why Republican scandals and misdeeds get a pass
President Donald Trump has been neck-deep in a series of scandals and outrages that would have ended the career of a Democratic commander in chief, or at minimum caused them a lot of political ...
www.dailykos.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Why Republican scandals and misdeeds get a pass www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Hallmark holiday film idea. Big city girl visits small home town where her high school boyfriend has been on strike at the huge local factory. He's a Strike Captain. She joins the Strike Solidarity Committee. They organize hundreds of supporters to block the plant gates to keep out scabs...
December 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Hallmark holiday film idea. Big city girl visits small home town where her high school boyfriend has been on strike at the huge local factory. He's a Strike Captain. She joins the Strike Solidarity Committee. They organize hundreds of supporters to block the plant gates to keep out scabs...
Labor Notes is essential reading about the US labor movement, please join me in donating!
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December 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Labor Notes is essential reading about the US labor movement, please join me in donating!
labornotes.org/donate
labornotes.org/donate
Pretending to fight imaginary problems is core MAGA.
Indiana State Senator wishes you a Merry Christmas by… posting images of himself assaulting Santa Claus.
Are the fascists okay?
Are the fascists okay?
December 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Pretending to fight imaginary problems is core MAGA.
"Democrats have a golden opportunity to be the anti-corruption party, but the House caucus is not seizing it."
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House Democrats Squander the Opportunity of Trumpian Corruption - The American Prospect
Democrats have a golden opportunity to be the anti-corruption party, but the House caucus is not seizing it.
prospect.org
December 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"Democrats have a golden opportunity to be the anti-corruption party, but the House caucus is not seizing it."
prospect.org/2025/12/23/h...
prospect.org/2025/12/23/h...
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The Labor Research and Action Network 2026 Conference Call for Proposals!
www.lranetwork.org/news/lran-20...
www.lranetwork.org/news/lran-20...
LRAN 2026 Conference Call for Proposals
Labor Research and Action Network 2026 National Conference, Reconstruct Labor: Reviving the Labor Movement to Meet the New Demands of the 21st Century, will be held May 14-16th 2026, Atlanta, GA
www.lranetwork.org
December 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The Labor Research and Action Network 2026 Conference Call for Proposals!
www.lranetwork.org/news/lran-20...
www.lranetwork.org/news/lran-20...
She's doing the job she was hired for.
"By pulling a “60 Minutes” segment, the new editor-in-chief is torching the network’s credibility to protect the Ellison family’s interests."
theintercept.com/2025/12/22/b...
"By pulling a “60 Minutes” segment, the new editor-in-chief is torching the network’s credibility to protect the Ellison family’s interests."
theintercept.com/2025/12/22/b...
Bari Weiss Is Doing Exactly What She Was Installed at CBS to Do
Cutting one “60 Minutes” segment is a small price to be paid to keep Trump happy and shape the future of American media.
theintercept.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
She's doing the job she was hired for.
"By pulling a “60 Minutes” segment, the new editor-in-chief is torching the network’s credibility to protect the Ellison family’s interests."
theintercept.com/2025/12/22/b...
"By pulling a “60 Minutes” segment, the new editor-in-chief is torching the network’s credibility to protect the Ellison family’s interests."
theintercept.com/2025/12/22/b...
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"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
December 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
MAGA and employers would like more workers to die on the job, there's no other way to spin this.
www.levernews.com/osha-wants-s...
www.levernews.com/osha-wants-s...
Regulators Want Spectacle To Trump Safety Protections
Echoing a young Brett Kavanaugh, Trump workplace regulators say jobs in entertainment, sports, and other fields are too dangerous to be covered by safety protections.
www.levernews.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
MAGA and employers would like more workers to die on the job, there's no other way to spin this.
www.levernews.com/osha-wants-s...
www.levernews.com/osha-wants-s...
"Congestion pricing is working as planned, with a significant drop in pollution and traffic declining by 11% in the tolled zone."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
New York's Congestion Pricing Is Working. Five Charts Show How
Nearly a year ago, New York City embarked on a controversial program to toll drivers entering some of Manhattan’s busiest streets. The goal of the congestion pricing plan, the first of its kind in the...
www.bloomberg.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"Congestion pricing is working as planned, with a significant drop in pollution and traffic declining by 11% in the tolled zone."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reposted by Eric Dirnbach
I had a great time interviewing Dave Kamper about his new book, Who’s Got the Power: The Resurgence of American Unions!
#UnionYes #LaborHistory
@dskamper.bsky.social
www.podbean.com/ea/pb-4f93w-...
#UnionYes #LaborHistory
@dskamper.bsky.social
www.podbean.com/ea/pb-4f93w-...
December 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I had a great time interviewing Dave Kamper about his new book, Who’s Got the Power: The Resurgence of American Unions!
#UnionYes #LaborHistory
@dskamper.bsky.social
www.podbean.com/ea/pb-4f93w-...
#UnionYes #LaborHistory
@dskamper.bsky.social
www.podbean.com/ea/pb-4f93w-...
I had a great time interviewing Dave Kamper about his new book, Who’s Got the Power: The Resurgence of American Unions!
#UnionYes #LaborHistory
@dskamper.bsky.social
www.podbean.com/ea/pb-4f93w-...
#UnionYes #LaborHistory
@dskamper.bsky.social
www.podbean.com/ea/pb-4f93w-...
December 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I had a great time interviewing Dave Kamper about his new book, Who’s Got the Power: The Resurgence of American Unions!
#UnionYes #LaborHistory
@dskamper.bsky.social
www.podbean.com/ea/pb-4f93w-...
#UnionYes #LaborHistory
@dskamper.bsky.social
www.podbean.com/ea/pb-4f93w-...
Trump shook his Idiot Magic 8 Ball Policy Generator, and it came up on wind again.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Trump shook his Idiot Magic 8 Ball Policy Generator, and it came up on wind again.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
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They were never defending freedom of speech. They were defending a right to monologue. The former cannot coexist with the latter.
December 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
They were never defending freedom of speech. They were defending a right to monologue. The former cannot coexist with the latter.
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It’s so funny the person who started “The Free Press” is now in charge of state TV.
Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.
December 22, 2025 at 5:08 AM
It’s so funny the person who started “The Free Press” is now in charge of state TV.
At this point I'm like primary every Dem elected official, always, even the good ones. They should defend their record, and if they're good they'll get reelected.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...
‘They’re attacking their own’: DC Democrats irked by surge of left-wing challengers with House majority on the line | CNN Politics
When Rep. Dan Goldman first ran for Congress in 2022, he was cheered on the left as the party’s top lawyer during President Donald Trump’s first impeachment.
www.cnn.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
At this point I'm like primary every Dem elected official, always, even the good ones. They should defend their record, and if they're good they'll get reelected.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...
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We need one of these about every ten miles or so along the entire 50,000 miles of the US interstate highway system news.yahoo.com/news/article...
North America's largest wildlife overpass opens over busy, remote road
About 100,000 vehicles travel in the remote area each day, the Colorado Department of Transportation said.
news.yahoo.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
We need one of these about every ten miles or so along the entire 50,000 miles of the US interstate highway system news.yahoo.com/news/article...
They can set up porta-potties all over the country and put on them "Donald JOHN Trump"
There's going to be a "De-Trumpification" program when he's gone like Germany had to de-nazify all the buildings
December 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
They can set up porta-potties all over the country and put on them "Donald JOHN Trump"
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Wow! The Radical transparency is overwhelming!
December 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Wow! The Radical transparency is overwhelming!
Haha, that sure helped.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
December 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Haha, that sure helped.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
A great holiday gift!
STEFANIK DROPS OUT: Leaving Congress — and won’t run for Gov
Bulletin from the Times-Union: www.timesunion.com/churchill/ar...
Bulletin from the Times-Union: www.timesunion.com/churchill/ar...
Churchill: Stefanik says she won't run for governor — or Congress
“In a traditionally blue state like New York, you sort of have to have all the stars aligned politically,” Rep. Elise Stefanik said, citing a primary challenge and other concerns.
www.timesunion.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A great holiday gift!