Bruce Pietrykowski
@brucepietrykowski.bsky.social
Emeritus Econ Professor, research: labor, gender, political economics, community economies, participatory research, adult education, local currency
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Always enjoyed this youtu.be/-sKrwsHweGc?...
Hey Ya, Charlie Brown! (Remaster).
YouTube video by TheVideoRelaxant
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Always enjoyed this youtu.be/-sKrwsHweGc?...
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hi i bet you need to hear Hüsker Dü performing the Mary Tyler Moore song live in 1985 today
Love Is All Around
YouTube video by Husker Du - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
hi i bet you need to hear Hüsker Dü performing the Mary Tyler Moore song live in 1985 today
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This is amazing. Colorized pictures from queer/trans history.
We’ve always existed and will not be erased. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
We’ve always existed and will not be erased. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Gorgeous colorizations of trans history images,
and a lot of incredible stories, including many lesser-known to many (A Zapatista colonel, a "transvestite pass" issued in 1928, the Scottish nobleman who the courts ruled should inherit his baronetcy in the 60s... for example...)
and a lot of incredible stories, including many lesser-known to many (A Zapatista colonel, a "transvestite pass" issued in 1928, the Scottish nobleman who the courts ruled should inherit his baronetcy in the 60s... for example...)
Coloring the Past - Eli Erlick
Using recent breakthroughs in photo editing techniques, Eli colorizes, restores, and digitizes photos from queer and trans history. The following images are originally from 1897-1973.
elierlick.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This is amazing. Colorized pictures from queer/trans history.
We’ve always existed and will not be erased. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
We’ve always existed and will not be erased. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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this is incredible reporting www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Auto Industry’s Lead Recycling Program is Poisoning People
We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
this is incredible reporting www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Zeteo is honored to announce our award from the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalist Association (AMEJA) award for best culture & lifestyle reporting, written by Nadine Apelian Dobbs.
Read Nadine's now award-winning story here:
zeteo.com/p/finding-my...
Read Nadine's now award-winning story here:
zeteo.com/p/finding-my...
Finding My Grandmother’s Ma’amoul Cookie in Brooklyn: A Story of Palestinian Survival
Complete erasure will never be possible – because Palestinians endure. And we will remember. Not just in body, but in memory, in story, in taste.
zeteo.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Zeteo is honored to announce our award from the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalist Association (AMEJA) award for best culture & lifestyle reporting, written by Nadine Apelian Dobbs.
Read Nadine's now award-winning story here:
zeteo.com/p/finding-my...
Read Nadine's now award-winning story here:
zeteo.com/p/finding-my...
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
Just re-read Modris Eksteins Limits of Reason on the demise of the liberal, democratic press and German Democratic Party (DDP) in the years leading up to Nazism. The resemblance to today’s events is downright chilling. Some examples esp relevant today: 1/5
November 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Just re-read Modris Eksteins Limits of Reason on the demise of the liberal, democratic press and German Democratic Party (DDP) in the years leading up to Nazism. The resemblance to today’s events is downright chilling. Some examples esp relevant today: 1/5
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I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
October 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
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CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%.
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
September 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%.
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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I am of the belief that there are white people who repeatedly disrespect Black people with pedigree to remind us of our "place" in the social hierarchy.
This is @profkori.bsky.social "Know Your Place" theory.
This is @profkori.bsky.social "Know Your Place" theory.
September 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I am of the belief that there are white people who repeatedly disrespect Black people with pedigree to remind us of our "place" in the social hierarchy.
This is @profkori.bsky.social "Know Your Place" theory.
This is @profkori.bsky.social "Know Your Place" theory.
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I had a great conversation with @lincolnsquare.media about where we are today: About political violence and the Right’s desire for escalation.
But also about how we got here: About the recent history of the GOP and the rise of Trumpism. And, finally, about where America might go from here:
But also about how we got here: About the recent history of the GOP and the rise of Trumpism. And, finally, about where America might go from here:
Is the Right Looking for a Reichstag Fire? | Historian Thomas Zimmer joins Susan Demas
We're no longer a democracy, but not yet a dictatorship. Welcome to purgatory, or what political scientists call "competitive authoritarianism."
www.lincolnsquare.media
September 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I had a great conversation with @lincolnsquare.media about where we are today: About political violence and the Right’s desire for escalation.
But also about how we got here: About the recent history of the GOP and the rise of Trumpism. And, finally, about where America might go from here:
But also about how we got here: About the recent history of the GOP and the rise of Trumpism. And, finally, about where America might go from here:
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This morning, I discuss in PN how a viral op-ed by Governor Lisa Cook and I about bigotry against Black women in #economics has come full circle for Cook and how recent attacks show what #TheDoubleTax, the compounded cost of racism and sexism, costs us all. #blacksky
Pre-order: annagifty.com
Pre-order: annagifty.com
New in PN: @itsafronomics.bsky.social on why Trump's attack on Lisa Cook is an attack on Black women & Black economists
"In a time where there are attempts to erase the contributions of Black people & more specifically Black women from the history books, her leadership is needed now more than ever"
"In a time where there are attempts to erase the contributions of Black people & more specifically Black women from the history books, her leadership is needed now more than ever"
Trump's attack on Lisa Cook is an attack on Black women
We all stand to lose if he gets away with it.
www.publicnotice.co
September 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This morning, I discuss in PN how a viral op-ed by Governor Lisa Cook and I about bigotry against Black women in #economics has come full circle for Cook and how recent attacks show what #TheDoubleTax, the compounded cost of racism and sexism, costs us all. #blacksky
Pre-order: annagifty.com
Pre-order: annagifty.com
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*me checking to see if my advisors are on the list*
Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process.
There's still time to sign! And please share.
#EconSky
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
There's still time to sign! And please share.
#EconSky
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Open letter
Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...
docs.google.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
*me checking to see if my advisors are on the list*
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Great gig for disability justice grant writing work
Grantwriter (Contractor) - New Disabled South
Title: Grantwriter (Contractor)Compensation: $55 an hour; 20-25 hours weekly One year contract Location: Virtual with roots in/connections to any of the following states: AL, AR, FL, GA...
apply.workable.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Great gig for disability justice grant writing work
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The only thing that will stop Trump is a grassroots movement using diverse tactics.
(not just protests! We need boycotts, strikes, slowdowns, guerrilla art, disruptions, gumming the works from the inside, etc) from a cross-section of society.
It’s on us.
A few skeets here with resources: 1/x
(not just protests! We need boycotts, strikes, slowdowns, guerrilla art, disruptions, gumming the works from the inside, etc) from a cross-section of society.
It’s on us.
A few skeets here with resources: 1/x
On Organizing
time to level up / an early draft of a playbook
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The only thing that will stop Trump is a grassroots movement using diverse tactics.
(not just protests! We need boycotts, strikes, slowdowns, guerrilla art, disruptions, gumming the works from the inside, etc) from a cross-section of society.
It’s on us.
A few skeets here with resources: 1/x
(not just protests! We need boycotts, strikes, slowdowns, guerrilla art, disruptions, gumming the works from the inside, etc) from a cross-section of society.
It’s on us.
A few skeets here with resources: 1/x
“…for every dollar a grandmother in Iowa donates believing she's saving democracy, 98 cents goes to consultants and operational costs. Just pennies reach actual campaigns.”
The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine
How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.
open.substack.com
August 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
“…for every dollar a grandmother in Iowa donates believing she's saving democracy, 98 cents goes to consultants and operational costs. Just pennies reach actual campaigns.”
From behind the deli counter, he produced a pie chart..." Always trust the deli guy w/a pie chart to know more about the economy than the econ prof. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/n...
300,000 New Yorkers Could Lose Food-Stamp Benefits After Trump’s Cuts
www.nytimes.com
July 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
From behind the deli counter, he produced a pie chart..." Always trust the deli guy w/a pie chart to know more about the economy than the econ prof. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/n...
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A Big, Bipartisan Betrayal www.levernews.com/a-big-bipart...
A Big, Bipartisan Betrayal
Democrats are using Trump’s apocalyptic bill as a campaign gimmick — and ignoring their role in its cruelty.
www.levernews.com
July 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
A Big, Bipartisan Betrayal www.levernews.com/a-big-bipart...
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I think a lot of people are foolishing resisting experimenting with AI out of the misguided sense that if we all just ignore it then it will go away, but we need to keep in mind our bosses aren't ignoring it.
They're furiously trying to automate our jobs away as we speak.
They're furiously trying to automate our jobs away as we speak.
June 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I think a lot of people are foolishing resisting experimenting with AI out of the misguided sense that if we all just ignore it then it will go away, but we need to keep in mind our bosses aren't ignoring it.
They're furiously trying to automate our jobs away as we speak.
They're furiously trying to automate our jobs away as we speak.
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Don’t learn AI because it can replace you. Learn AI because, whether it works or not, your boss is trying to replace you with it anyway.
The more you understand the flaws, the better your chances of fighting back.
The more you understand the flaws, the better your chances of fighting back.
June 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Don’t learn AI because it can replace you. Learn AI because, whether it works or not, your boss is trying to replace you with it anyway.
The more you understand the flaws, the better your chances of fighting back.
The more you understand the flaws, the better your chances of fighting back.
“To remake this country, to reimagine this country and to reclaim this country!”
June 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“To remake this country, to reimagine this country and to reclaim this country!”
"...the mouse doctor deserves to spend more time with his family."
June 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"...the mouse doctor deserves to spend more time with his family."
“This hollowing out is not just about governance in the abstract, it has material consequences for which research questions get asked, which datasets get produced, which knowledge gets produced, and which perspectives shape our understanding of pressing societal challenges.”
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
“This hollowing out is not just about governance in the abstract, it has material consequences for which research questions get asked, which datasets get produced, which knowledge gets produced, and which perspectives shape our understanding of pressing societal challenges.”