Janet Lauritsen
@jlstl.bsky.social
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Flying soon? Prepare for delays. As I tell
@cnn.com air traffic controllers were an "understaffed and overworked group of employees" before the shutdown. Now add a lack of a paycheck with no end to the shutdown in sight.
@cnn.com air traffic controllers were an "understaffed and overworked group of employees" before the shutdown. Now add a lack of a paycheck with no end to the shutdown in sight.
Air traffic control staffing problems spiked over the weekend, raising concerns about growing disruption | CNN
Air traffic controller staffing shortages worsened over the weekend as the nation’s government shutdown hit its fourth week, leading to delays and anxiety, and experts say it won’t get better until ai...
www.cnn.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Flying soon? Prepare for delays. As I tell
@cnn.com air traffic controllers were an "understaffed and overworked group of employees" before the shutdown. Now add a lack of a paycheck with no end to the shutdown in sight.
@cnn.com air traffic controllers were an "understaffed and overworked group of employees" before the shutdown. Now add a lack of a paycheck with no end to the shutdown in sight.
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The GOP reached out to union workers in 2024 and won many of their votes. But Trump's labor policies have largely continued the party's historically anti-union stance #LaborDay buff.ly/Oreb5Vc
Trump administration has proven no friend to organized labor, from attacking federal unions to paralyzing the National Labor Relations Board
Donald Trump isn’t the first GOP president to have courted segments of the labor movement, dividing a key Democratic constituency, only to take actions that make unions weaker.
theconversation.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:48 AM
The GOP reached out to union workers in 2024 and won many of their votes. But Trump's labor policies have largely continued the party's historically anti-union stance #LaborDay buff.ly/Oreb5Vc
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Not great that people like Micah Beckwith are in positions of power but don’t understand how our constitution works, and are arrogant in their ignorance.
August 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Not great that people like Micah Beckwith are in positions of power but don’t understand how our constitution works, and are arrogant in their ignorance.
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Uncharacteristic about both last year's and this year's Boeing strike is the workers are out ahead of the union, voting down proposals the union urged them to accept. More of my thoughts @Marketplace www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...
Boeing defense workers strike for third day
The walkout comes during the aerospace giant’s “turnaround year.”
www.marketplace.org
August 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Uncharacteristic about both last year's and this year's Boeing strike is the workers are out ahead of the union, voting down proposals the union urged them to accept. More of my thoughts @Marketplace www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...
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I’m currently building a dataset on police forces around the globe. No other country has a force quite like ICE (w/ broad enforcement powers, tactical gear, immigration focus); the most apt comparisons are to secret police in authoritarian regimes rather than border/immigration forces elsewhere.
@adamprz.bsky.social on ICE's authorities & operating procedures: "The comparativist in me wants to think about other police forces in history which had such broad and ill-defined powers. But such comparisons are too frightening."
WEEK 19
WEEK 19
adamprzeworski.substack.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I’m currently building a dataset on police forces around the globe. No other country has a force quite like ICE (w/ broad enforcement powers, tactical gear, immigration focus); the most apt comparisons are to secret police in authoritarian regimes rather than border/immigration forces elsewhere.
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Senator Ossoff speaking the truth. We need real action
June 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Senator Ossoff speaking the truth. We need real action
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"Trumpism can be seen as a giant attempt to amputate the highest aspirations of the human spirit and to reduce us to our most primitive, atavistic tendencies."
May 30, 2025 at 3:05 AM
"Trumpism can be seen as a giant attempt to amputate the highest aspirations of the human spirit and to reduce us to our most primitive, atavistic tendencies."
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While eating cats and dogs
May 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
While eating cats and dogs
First research, now data. The Trump administration is proposing to reclassify many positions in the federal government including statisticians. The Friends of BLS has made it easy to voice your concerns to your elected representatives www.friendsofbls.org/email-template-1
May 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
First research, now data. The Trump administration is proposing to reclassify many positions in the federal government including statisticians. The Friends of BLS has made it easy to voice your concerns to your elected representatives www.friendsofbls.org/email-template-1
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The gambit being carried out by Trump, Vought & Musk amounts to a kind of bet that 21st century Americans lack a sense of state—of every day connection to the federal government.
But as constituents flood town halls with complaints, and friends lose jobs, that bet looks less likely to pay off.
But as constituents flood town halls with complaints, and friends lose jobs, that bet looks less likely to pay off.
Michael Lewis’s Paean to Federal Workers Hits Differently Under DOGE
While Elon Musk paints federal bureaucrats as inefficient or worse, Lewis and other literary essayists shine a light on the quiet heroes of the civil service.
newrepublic.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The gambit being carried out by Trump, Vought & Musk amounts to a kind of bet that 21st century Americans lack a sense of state—of every day connection to the federal government.
But as constituents flood town halls with complaints, and friends lose jobs, that bet looks less likely to pay off.
But as constituents flood town halls with complaints, and friends lose jobs, that bet looks less likely to pay off.
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"Organized labor has taken a leading role in challenging the Trump administration’s downsizing agenda in court."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/b...
Unions Form Pro Bono Legal Network for Federal Workers Targeted by Trump
Organized labor has taken a leading role in challenging the Trump administration’s downsizing agenda in court. A new service will offer more individualized representation.
www.nytimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"Organized labor has taken a leading role in challenging the Trump administration’s downsizing agenda in court."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/b...
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Part of the immense and urgent collective action challenge in civil society is to muster a climate that reverses this logic of the capitulators: i.e. precisely IF the crisis proves temporary and the country manages to survive it, those who bent the knee will suffer real lasting reputational damage.
March 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Part of the immense and urgent collective action challenge in civil society is to muster a climate that reverses this logic of the capitulators: i.e. precisely IF the crisis proves temporary and the country manages to survive it, those who bent the knee will suffer real lasting reputational damage.
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Essential @daschloz.bsky.social and @samrosenfeld.bsky.social piece on Schumerism, the groups, the DNC, and Democratic dealignment in politics and policy.
What Are the Democrats Thinking? | Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld
Wracked since November by a crisis of confidence, Democrats have repeatedly defaulted to autopilot in ways that embody this ethos. In Congress, that means deference to seniority and aversion to percei...
www.nplusonemag.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Essential @daschloz.bsky.social and @samrosenfeld.bsky.social piece on Schumerism, the groups, the DNC, and Democratic dealignment in politics and policy.
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It was a real pleasure discussing the present, past, and possible future of the labor movement on the Inequality Podcast - and to hear @dschneider.bsky.social talking schedule unpredictability. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/18Nf...
The Age of Unpredictable and Precarious Work, featuring Jake Rosenfeld and Daniel Schneider
The Inequality Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It was a real pleasure discussing the present, past, and possible future of the labor movement on the Inequality Podcast - and to hear @dschneider.bsky.social talking schedule unpredictability. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/18Nf...