Ryan Quinn
@ryanquinn.bsky.social
Former union organizer, current assistant teaching professor of labor and employment law at @nusl.bsky.social. Co-founder, Organization of Workplace Lawyers (OWL). America’s least-beloved singing cowboy in Salvation Alley String Band. he/him
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Ryan Quinn
@ryanquinn.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Familiars Union Local 785: The folks who brought you the Vampire Weekend.
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This really struck me. If Uber were legally acknowledged as an employer, then it would be the biggest employer in the world, with over 9,000,000 employees globally. Think about how many taxes, wages, and protections are being lost b/c of their intransigence.
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This really struck me. If Uber were legally acknowledged as an employer, then it would be the biggest employer in the world, with over 9,000,000 employees globally. Think about how many taxes, wages, and protections are being lost b/c of their intransigence.
Teaching an undergraduate class on intellectual property this week, so naturally we have to begin with a realist interrogation of "property" as a legal concept. Robert Hale and Morris Cohen were really cooking in the '20's.
November 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Teaching an undergraduate class on intellectual property this week, so naturally we have to begin with a realist interrogation of "property" as a legal concept. Robert Hale and Morris Cohen were really cooking in the '20's.
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
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We gotta build a Workers Party the Democratic Party is beyond reform
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
We gotta build a Workers Party the Democratic Party is beyond reform
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The latest move by @baltimoresun.bsky.social in its crusade to silence its union employees: a directive that bans any desk signage with messaging about collective bargaining, calling them “divisive.”
We’ve shown solidarity this way for decades. This is textbook union busting.
We’ve shown solidarity this way for decades. This is textbook union busting.
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The latest move by @baltimoresun.bsky.social in its crusade to silence its union employees: a directive that bans any desk signage with messaging about collective bargaining, calling them “divisive.”
We’ve shown solidarity this way for decades. This is textbook union busting.
We’ve shown solidarity this way for decades. This is textbook union busting.
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BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
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You heard the mayor! 👇
November 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
You heard the mayor! 👇
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Generously sponsored by Fisher Phillips and Morgan, Brown & Joy, NUSL’s annual Labor and Employment Program provides a unique opportunity to hear from fellow grads, all of whom are recognized experts in the field of labor and employment law. Join us December 3!
law.northeastern.edu/event/annual...
law.northeastern.edu/event/annual...
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Generously sponsored by Fisher Phillips and Morgan, Brown & Joy, NUSL’s annual Labor and Employment Program provides a unique opportunity to hear from fellow grads, all of whom are recognized experts in the field of labor and employment law. Join us December 3!
law.northeastern.edu/event/annual...
law.northeastern.edu/event/annual...
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Why does the House, the larger of the two legislative bodies, not simply eat the Senate
November 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Why does the House, the larger of the two legislative bodies, not simply eat the Senate
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I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.
November 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.
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Adm. Ackbar: “how did you know his next turn would be to starboard?”
Yoda: “know? a break I needed, hmm? fifty/fifty chance I had.”
Yoda: “know? a break I needed, hmm? fifty/fifty chance I had.”
what star wars really need is a HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER style submarine thriller
November 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Adm. Ackbar: “how did you know his next turn would be to starboard?”
Yoda: “know? a break I needed, hmm? fifty/fifty chance I had.”
Yoda: “know? a break I needed, hmm? fifty/fifty chance I had.”
Big Appliance doesn’t want you to know this, but you can cook anything at 350 degrees F. All the other knobs and buttons on your stove are useless, like the fins on a ‘57 Chevy.
November 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Big Appliance doesn’t want you to know this, but you can cook anything at 350 degrees F. All the other knobs and buttons on your stove are useless, like the fins on a ‘57 Chevy.
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I want to talk about this. This administration wants a world where hungry people can't eat. So they are willing to work for it. They'll crush any norm, trample any rule that says they can't.
We have to be willing to fight as hard to feed hungry people as they are to starve them. It's that simple.
We have to be willing to fight as hard to feed hungry people as they are to starve them. It's that simple.
I’m just saying, but if I had just gotten completely shellacked on Tuesday, I wouldn’t be asking SCOTUS to let me starve millions of people 3 days later.
November 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I want to talk about this. This administration wants a world where hungry people can't eat. So they are willing to work for it. They'll crush any norm, trample any rule that says they can't.
We have to be willing to fight as hard to feed hungry people as they are to starve them. It's that simple.
We have to be willing to fight as hard to feed hungry people as they are to starve them. It's that simple.
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congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
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Nice of @nytimes.com to make clear that, whenever its dull conservative columnists complain about the evils of "feminism" or "liberal feminism," they of course mean "women."
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Nice of @nytimes.com to make clear that, whenever its dull conservative columnists complain about the evils of "feminism" or "liberal feminism," they of course mean "women."
With apologies to Marx and Engels, the tariff oral arguments were a good reminder that,“[t]he [judiciary] of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.” The Court may save Trump from himself, in service to business interests within their coalition.
The only thing that the Supreme Court majority is calculating is whether they'd be helping Trump politically by preventing him from continuing chaotic tariff policy that's pretty obviously fucking up the economy.
November 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
With apologies to Marx and Engels, the tariff oral arguments were a good reminder that,“[t]he [judiciary] of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.” The Court may save Trump from himself, in service to business interests within their coalition.
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grok, do soldiers historically remain reliable if they go hungry?
Army closes only dining facility on Kansas base due to government shutdown trib.al/5WGvUOq
Army closes only dining facility on Kansas base due to government shutdown
The only dining facility for junior troops at the Army’s Fort Leavenworth in Kansas has been closed due to funding issues.
trib.al
November 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
grok, do soldiers historically remain reliable if they go hungry?
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ACLU of MA has filed a brief with the SJC in support of the constitutional right to counsel.
The Court should declare the current compensation scheme for bar advocates unconstitutional, and establish an immediate, temporary rate to address this violation until the Legislature develops a solution.
The Court should declare the current compensation scheme for bar advocates unconstitutional, and establish an immediate, temporary rate to address this violation until the Legislature develops a solution.
November 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
ACLU of MA has filed a brief with the SJC in support of the constitutional right to counsel.
The Court should declare the current compensation scheme for bar advocates unconstitutional, and establish an immediate, temporary rate to address this violation until the Legislature develops a solution.
The Court should declare the current compensation scheme for bar advocates unconstitutional, and establish an immediate, temporary rate to address this violation until the Legislature develops a solution.
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100%. I teach this theory in Labor Law during a class when we focus on arguable constitutional protections for strikes, and I think it's absolutely correct.
one of my spicy takes, for example, is that limits on strikes are unconstitutional under the 13th Amendment, because if we have a right to be free from forced labor, we must necessarily have a right to stop working and negotiate the conditions of our labor
I been saying I don't think Republicans are uniquely capable of creative legal thinking
personally I would like to see more 'if you wanna act funny, I can act hilarious'-type legal arguments in furtherance of good things
personally I would like to see more 'if you wanna act funny, I can act hilarious'-type legal arguments in furtherance of good things
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
100%. I teach this theory in Labor Law during a class when we focus on arguable constitutional protections for strikes, and I think it's absolutely correct.
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They were careless people... they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
November 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
They were careless people... they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
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Today, Veryl Pow and Mohini Mookim describe their approach to prefigurative lawyering at the Sustainable Economies Law Center.
By striving to embody the values we wish to see in a liberated future, they argue, we can build a new world in the carcass of the old.
By striving to embody the values we wish to see in a liberated future, they argue, we can build a new world in the carcass of the old.
From Movement Lawyering to Prefigurative Lawyering: Living Out Liberatory Values Now
As the far right consolidates power at the federal level, many progressive lawyers are turning to state policy or crafting rebuilding plans for after the storm. Yet this moment also offers a chance to...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Today, Veryl Pow and Mohini Mookim describe their approach to prefigurative lawyering at the Sustainable Economies Law Center.
By striving to embody the values we wish to see in a liberated future, they argue, we can build a new world in the carcass of the old.
By striving to embody the values we wish to see in a liberated future, they argue, we can build a new world in the carcass of the old.
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Hale, “Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-Coercive State” (1923)
October 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Hale, “Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-Coercive State” (1923)