Gabe
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Researcher, UCLA. Member of UAW, local 4811.
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I was at ucla for the encampments. If you are concerned about antisemitism, this is extraordinarily dangerous. 1/
University of California announces settlement in litigation related to antisemitism on campus, makes significant contributions to organizations committed to fighting antisemitism
The University of California announced today (Tuesday, July 29) a settlement in Frankel v. Regents of the University of California, resolving claims against UC related to UCLA’s initial response to pr...
www.universityofcalifornia.edu
July 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I was at ucla for the encampments. If you are concerned about antisemitism, this is extraordinarily dangerous. 1/
I work in academia and am afraid of fascism, consider myself pretty clear eyed. This video makes me angry. These are the most privileged faculty on earth (all at Yale). Most of us don’t have jobs in Canada waiting for us. It’s the dressing the decision up as resistance that grates the hardest.
Petrova's story stands on its own. It is also, though, a sharp contrast from the loud scholars of authoritarianism that have made professional relocation outside the US (while returning to visit) their banner act of defiance www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Video: Opinion | We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.
The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I work in academia and am afraid of fascism, consider myself pretty clear eyed. This video makes me angry. These are the most privileged faculty on earth (all at Yale). Most of us don’t have jobs in Canada waiting for us. It’s the dressing the decision up as resistance that grates the hardest.
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“You can build all the dick rockets you want to go to Mars while you try to leave the rest of us on the burning Earth. We’re gonna take control. This is our world, and it’s our government, and it’s our money.”
— Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants president
— Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants president
February 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“You can build all the dick rockets you want to go to Mars while you try to leave the rest of us on the burning Earth. We’re gonna take control. This is our world, and it’s our government, and it’s our money.”
— Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants president
— Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants president
My work is funded by NIH grants. This doesn’t affect my salary, but it will strip the infrastructure necessary to actually run my projects, including putting together proposals for future grants. I don’t know how universities could survive this without amputating large parts of their institution.
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
My work is funded by NIH grants. This doesn’t affect my salary, but it will strip the infrastructure necessary to actually run my projects, including putting together proposals for future grants. I don’t know how universities could survive this without amputating large parts of their institution.
Sheinbaum should just rebrand Mexico as "The United States" in response to mess with Trump, especially since "Estados Unidos" is already in the country's full name.
What would be a good replacement name for America? Maybe like The Fuddrucker’s Republic?
The Mexican president has rebuked Google’s decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico on Google Maps and threatened official changes to Mexico's name for the U.S.
January 31, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Sheinbaum should just rebrand Mexico as "The United States" in response to mess with Trump, especially since "Estados Unidos" is already in the country's full name.
People who actually care about the working class are focused on building solidarity among a spectrum of identities without telling people to negate theirs. “Leave identity politics at the door” is just identity politics for people who see their own identities as the established norm.
November 20, 2024 at 12:59 AM
People who actually care about the working class are focused on building solidarity among a spectrum of identities without telling people to negate theirs. “Leave identity politics at the door” is just identity politics for people who see their own identities as the established norm.
Was one of the first million it seems.
September 17, 2024 at 3:30 AM
Was one of the first million it seems.
I wish the Democrats pushed this narrative: the Republicans are losers. They are weird freaks who hate democracy precisely because they’ve built a deranged fantasy world to insulate themselves from the reality that most voters would never in a million years buy what they are selling.
Here it is, at the New Republic:
newrepublic.com/article/1846...
newrepublic.com/article/1846...
August 14, 2024 at 10:23 PM
I wish the Democrats pushed this narrative: the Republicans are losers. They are weird freaks who hate democracy precisely because they’ve built a deranged fantasy world to insulate themselves from the reality that most voters would never in a million years buy what they are selling.
Whenever people say "Shawn Fain should run for office", I think about how much he can accomplish as UAW president - he has levers unavailable to members of congress.
United Auto Workers files federal labor charges against Trump, Musk
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
United Auto Workers files federal labor charges against Trump, Musk
The union accused former president Donald Trump and businessman Elon Musk of violating labor law during a conversation on X on Monday evening.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 13, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Whenever people say "Shawn Fain should run for office", I think about how much he can accomplish as UAW president - he has levers unavailable to members of congress.
Solidarity.
Here’s that excellent new ad from the United Auto Workers again, from the official UAW channel this time.
Fight For a Better Life
There is only one answer to the threat we face as a nation. The answer is solidarity.
www.youtube.com
August 12, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Solidarity.
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We did it, Joe.
University of California Workers Vote to Authorize Strike in Rebuke Over Protest Crackdowns
A union representing about 48,000 academic workers said that campus leaders mishandled pro-Palestinian demonstrations. The vote gives the union’s executive board the ability to call a strike at any ti...
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2024 at 3:43 AM
We did it, Joe.
My addition to the Seinfeld discourse this week.
Jessica Seinfeld and Bill Ackman Fund Pro-Israel Counterprotests at Colleges
The cookbook author put up cash for a controversial UCLA counterprotest, and the billionaire culture warrior funded a similar effort at GWU.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 3, 2024 at 11:58 PM
My addition to the Seinfeld discourse this week.
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yet another story where the mainstream brunchlord press has tripped over its own ass, and independent and student journalism is left to carry the load
NYPD Raids CUNY's City College, Violently Arrests Students, Then Hoists American Flag - Hell Gate
Hundreds of officers burst through the City College gates, clearing out a Gaza solidarity encampment.
hellgatenyc.com
May 1, 2024 at 2:17 PM
yet another story where the mainstream brunchlord press has tripped over its own ass, and independent and student journalism is left to carry the load
This is what democracy looks like.
Good point here: the new UAW -- free of corruption, with a directly-elected president, & fresh off a big bargaining victory that created spillover raises for nonunion autoworkers -- has more appeal than the UAW that lost past elections at VW.
www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/b...
www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/b...
VW Workers in Tennessee Start Vote on U.A.W., Testing Union Ambitions
The United Automobile Workers hopes contract gains at the Big Three carmakers will provide momentum in a broad effort to organize nonunion plants.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2024 at 4:26 PM
This is what democracy looks like.
A real shande far di Goyim here.
Joe Lieberman is why we don’t have Medicare at 55.
March 27, 2024 at 10:29 PM
A real shande far di Goyim here.
Love to see it. The progressive incumbent just crossed the 50% threshold she'd need to win the race outright (and avoid campaigning until November). She was at 44% or so on election night and has been steadily creeping up ever since (election night ballots are by mail and skew more conservative).
March 12, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Love to see it. The progressive incumbent just crossed the 50% threshold she'd need to win the race outright (and avoid campaigning until November). She was at 44% or so on election night and has been steadily creeping up ever since (election night ballots are by mail and skew more conservative).
Not being forced to sit in your personal car do to literally anything is what separates today's L.A. and an L.A. that will would be the best city in the country, if not world. Just miles and miles of flat, easy-riding land under abundant sunshine, stretched between the Pacific and snow capped peaks.
March 6, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Not being forced to sit in your personal car do to literally anything is what separates today's L.A. and an L.A. that will would be the best city in the country, if not world. Just miles and miles of flat, easy-riding land under abundant sunshine, stretched between the Pacific and snow capped peaks.
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You have 🧡 7 DAYS 🧡 to vote YES on Measure HLA!
February 27, 2024 at 10:52 PM
You have 🧡 7 DAYS 🧡 to vote YES on Measure HLA!
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AFL-CIO calling for a ceasefire
February 8, 2024 at 10:53 PM
AFL-CIO calling for a ceasefire
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"Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy."
A cigarette executive, as quoted by David Michaels in Doubt Is Their Product.
A cigarette executive, as quoted by David Michaels in Doubt Is Their Product.
February 7, 2024 at 7:21 PM
"Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy."
A cigarette executive, as quoted by David Michaels in Doubt Is Their Product.
A cigarette executive, as quoted by David Michaels in Doubt Is Their Product.
Glad they're doing this, but it's kinda darkly amusing that it's the county that houses a lot of companies that make our tech and also refuses to build dense housing.
Silicon Valley county (San Mateo) becomes first in U.S. to declare loneliness a health emergency www.nbcnews.com/health/menta...
Silicon Valley county becomes first in U.S. to declare loneliness a health emergency
A mountain of research has linked loneliness to an increased risk of dementia, depression, anxiety, heart disease, stroke and early death.
www.nbcnews.com
February 7, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Glad they're doing this, but it's kinda darkly amusing that it's the county that houses a lot of companies that make our tech and also refuses to build dense housing.
UAW 2865/5810, who represent UC academic employees, won e-bike discounts that the UC eventually decided to roll out to all UC faculty and staff. Now we just have to make LA safe enough to ride them, and this is a step in that direction.
We are so proud to be endorsed by UAW Region 6, a group that represents more than 100,000 active and retired UAW members!
Working families want safe streets. 💪
Working families want safe streets. 💪
January 30, 2024 at 10:02 PM
UAW 2865/5810, who represent UC academic employees, won e-bike discounts that the UC eventually decided to roll out to all UC faculty and staff. Now we just have to make LA safe enough to ride them, and this is a step in that direction.
UAW also committed to form a Divestment and Just Transition working group, investigating its potential economic ties to the conflict and explore how we can effect a just transition from war to peace for US workers. I'm proud to have voted for 1) direct elections of UAW leaders and 2) Shawn Fain.
December 1, 2023 at 9:16 PM
UAW also committed to form a Divestment and Just Transition working group, investigating its potential economic ties to the conflict and explore how we can effect a just transition from war to peace for US workers. I'm proud to have voted for 1) direct elections of UAW leaders and 2) Shawn Fain.