Erik Loomis
@erikloomis.bsky.social
Labor and environmental historian. Writer of books, teacher of American horrors, talker on labor movement. Beer, country music, and football are not just for the right wingers. Cats. The West. Music. Graves. Writes at https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/
This Day in Labor History: February 6, 1919. The Seattle General Strike began. Let's talk about this much mentioned but little understood event. Let's also talk about general strikes a bit, which are very misunderstood, even by activists, and why we don't have them today in their classic form.
February 6, 2026 at 2:27 PM
This Day in Labor History: February 6, 1919. The Seattle General Strike began. Let's talk about this much mentioned but little understood event. Let's also talk about general strikes a bit, which are very misunderstood, even by activists, and why we don't have them today in their classic form.
She's angling for 3,000 Meet the Press appearances like McCain and Lieberman had
over the next 3 years, be ready for seeing a lot of coverage of Republican lawmakers, business leaders, university leaders who did absolutely nothing to stall Trump (on the contrary) — about how *actually* they were wringing their hands all along. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
February 5, 2026 at 9:46 PM
She's angling for 3,000 Meet the Press appearances like McCain and Lieberman had
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Even the non-incriminating stuff is so creepy.
February 2, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Even the non-incriminating stuff is so creepy.
This Day in Labor History: February 3, 1908. The Supreme Court decided the case of Loewe v. Lawlor. In it, it declared that unions violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by calling for a secondary boycott in solidarity with a strike. The Supreme Court--always terrible for the working class!!
February 3, 2026 at 2:41 PM
This Day in Labor History: February 3, 1908. The Supreme Court decided the case of Loewe v. Lawlor. In it, it declared that unions violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by calling for a secondary boycott in solidarity with a strike. The Supreme Court--always terrible for the working class!!
This Day in Labor History: February 2, 1848. The United States and Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the war the U.S. launched against Mexico to steal land and extend slavery. Let's talk about how this also led to the widespread theft of the land grants from New Mexicans!!!
February 2, 2026 at 1:49 PM
This Day in Labor History: February 2, 1848. The United States and Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the war the U.S. launched against Mexico to steal land and extend slavery. Let's talk about how this also led to the widespread theft of the land grants from New Mexicans!!!
I'm just confused by a curb without snow that never ever will melt piled up on it and onto the street
We need hard curb protection on Delridge Way SW like yesterday
February 1, 2026 at 12:15 AM
I'm just confused by a curb without snow that never ever will melt piled up on it and onto the street
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We need hard curb protection on Delridge Way SW like yesterday
January 31, 2026 at 10:11 PM
We need hard curb protection on Delridge Way SW like yesterday
This Day in Labor History: January 29, 2009. President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Act. Let's talk about this key if narrow law to fight gender discrimination on the job!!
January 29, 2026 at 1:15 PM
This Day in Labor History: January 29, 2009. President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Act. Let's talk about this key if narrow law to fight gender discrimination on the job!!
This Day in Labor History: January 28, 1932. Wisconsin governor Philip LaFollette signed his state’s pioneering unemployment compensation legislation, making that state the first in the nation to create such a law. This was not a great law, but it was a start to help the unemployed!
January 28, 2026 at 1:35 PM
This Day in Labor History: January 28, 1932. Wisconsin governor Philip LaFollette signed his state’s pioneering unemployment compensation legislation, making that state the first in the nation to create such a law. This was not a great law, but it was a start to help the unemployed!
‘Latinas for Trump’ Co-Founder Warns Immigration Will Cost G.O.P. the Midterms
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January 27, 2026 at 6:54 PM
That was a great Super Bowl, too bad there's some other game to play in 2 weeks
January 26, 2026 at 2:56 AM
That was a great Super Bowl, too bad there's some other game to play in 2 weeks
Nice of Boomer Esiason to use the death of his own mother when he was a baby to shill for life insurance
January 26, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Nice of Boomer Esiason to use the death of his own mother when he was a baby to shill for life insurance
This Day in Labor History: January 25, 1941. A. Philip Randolph, head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the most important civil rights leader of the World War II era, called for a March on Washington to protest discrimination in defense industry work. Let's talk about it!!!
January 25, 2026 at 1:08 PM
This Day in Labor History: January 25, 1941. A. Philip Randolph, head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the most important civil rights leader of the World War II era, called for a March on Washington to protest discrimination in defense industry work. Let's talk about it!!!
There are people who get really, really excited about snow.
I am not one of those people.
I am not one of those people.
January 25, 2026 at 1:04 PM
There are people who get really, really excited about snow.
I am not one of those people.
I am not one of those people.
This Day in Labor History: January 24, 1848. James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, near modern Sacramento. Let's talk about the California gold rush and the racialized and gendered labor that resulted as 300,000 people rushed there for gold!
January 24, 2026 at 2:26 PM
This Day in Labor History: January 24, 1848. James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, near modern Sacramento. Let's talk about the California gold rush and the racialized and gendered labor that resulted as 300,000 people rushed there for gold!
This Day in Labor History: January 22, 1905. The first Russian Revolution began when the military fired on striking workers in St. Petersburg. The revolution failed, as most revolutions do, but it laid the groundwork for the conditions in 1917 being right for a successful revolution!!!
January 22, 2026 at 1:22 PM
This Day in Labor History: January 22, 1905. The first Russian Revolution began when the military fired on striking workers in St. Petersburg. The revolution failed, as most revolutions do, but it laid the groundwork for the conditions in 1917 being right for a successful revolution!!!
This Day in Labor History: January 20, 1920. Filipino sugar workers on Oahu, Hawaii, went on strike to demand higher pay. Japanese workers joined and this multiracial strike led to victory for workers and, even rarer, a cross-racial strike with significant solidarity that helped create that victory!
January 20, 2026 at 2:10 PM
This Day in Labor History: January 20, 1920. Filipino sugar workers on Oahu, Hawaii, went on strike to demand higher pay. Japanese workers joined and this multiracial strike led to victory for workers and, even rarer, a cross-racial strike with significant solidarity that helped create that victory!
This Day in Labor History: January 19, 1915. Armed thugs hired by the Williams & Clark fertilizer plant in Roosevelt, New Jersey (now known as Carteret) killed two striking workers. Let's talk about this little known killing of strikers with state approval!!!
January 19, 2026 at 1:18 PM
This Day in Labor History: January 19, 1915. Armed thugs hired by the Williams & Clark fertilizer plant in Roosevelt, New Jersey (now known as Carteret) killed two striking workers. Let's talk about this little known killing of strikers with state approval!!!
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fwiw these are unionized hotels and their local sent a formal request to employers not to accept ICE bookings or allow ICE to use their facilities www.facebook.com/share/p/1aV9...
ICE agents at a hotel in St. Paul woke up this morning to news that they’re getting kicked out of their hotel today at noon.
January 18, 2026 at 5:26 PM
fwiw these are unionized hotels and their local sent a formal request to employers not to accept ICE bookings or allow ICE to use their facilities www.facebook.com/share/p/1aV9...
This Day in Labor History: January 18, 1913. Teachers in New York City held the first meeting of what would become the Teachers League in New York. This would spur the creation of the American Federation of Teachers a few years later and moved forward American teacher unionism significantly!!!
January 18, 2026 at 4:08 PM
This Day in Labor History: January 18, 1913. Teachers in New York City held the first meeting of what would become the Teachers League in New York. This would spur the creation of the American Federation of Teachers a few years later and moved forward American teacher unionism significantly!!!
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. This is so good.
The case against Graeberism and for Mamdanism dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
January 12, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. This is so good.
How many rural Republicans in Oklahoma, West Virginia, or Idaho a) know what this means and b) are voting for Republicans because Democrats supposedly oppose this?
Like Democrats don't know how to talk to rural Americans. Like right to repair.
January 12, 2026 at 4:08 PM
How many rural Republicans in Oklahoma, West Virginia, or Idaho a) know what this means and b) are voting for Republicans because Democrats supposedly oppose this?
What possible time and effort do Senate Republicans have to spend if Democrats impeach Trump. The first two times they did....nothing. They just refused to vote on it.
January 12, 2026 at 4:07 PM
What possible time and effort do Senate Republicans have to spend if Democrats impeach Trump. The first two times they did....nothing. They just refused to vote on it.
100% correct
And political theatre we tried twice to no effect
What would the point be of a third, utterly pointless, impeachment without a big Senate majority?
And political theatre we tried twice to no effect
What would the point be of a third, utterly pointless, impeachment without a big Senate majority?
Impeaching him would be purely a symbolic gesture; there is zero chance that he would be removed from office through impeachment. There's a better chance he'd be removed via the 25th amendment, and there's still zero chance of that. Impeaching him would purely be political theatre.
January 12, 2026 at 4:04 PM
100% correct
And political theatre we tried twice to no effect
What would the point be of a third, utterly pointless, impeachment without a big Senate majority?
And political theatre we tried twice to no effect
What would the point be of a third, utterly pointless, impeachment without a big Senate majority?