Joseph A. McCartin
@josephamccartin.bsky.social
Labor historian; Exec. Dir. Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor & the Working Poor; President, Labor & Working Class History Assn (LAWCHA)
Not content with the pace at which he’s destroying the country, Trump shifted into a higher gear at the White House today, beginning physical demolition. Sadly, the other things he’s breaking will be even harder to restore than this historic house.
October 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Not content with the pace at which he’s destroying the country, Trump shifted into a higher gear at the White House today, beginning physical demolition. Sadly, the other things he’s breaking will be even harder to restore than this historic house.
This admin's Orwellian effort to rewrite history is ever clearer. Notices like this are going up at National Historic Sites urging people to report "any signs that are negative about either past or living Americans." Can we now say nothing "negative" about supporters of enslavement and segregation?
June 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This admin's Orwellian effort to rewrite history is ever clearer. Notices like this are going up at National Historic Sites urging people to report "any signs that are negative about either past or living Americans." Can we now say nothing "negative" about supporters of enslavement and segregation?
The @georgetownkilwp.bsky.social team turned out to celebrate the award @shawnfainuaw.bsky.social received from @laborheritage.bsky.social for his service to the labor movement and the cause of worker rights. He spoke movingly of our ability to move mountains when we stand in solidarity.
May 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The @georgetownkilwp.bsky.social team turned out to celebrate the award @shawnfainuaw.bsky.social received from @laborheritage.bsky.social for his service to the labor movement and the cause of worker rights. He spoke movingly of our ability to move mountains when we stand in solidarity.
...tonight's spectacle celebrates the opposite of heroism: a president advised by the world's richest man, who has disparaged & disrespected every federal worker in this country, sown chaos, cruelty, and anxiety throughout the federal workforce, & threatened our entire government with wreckage. 2/2
March 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
...tonight's spectacle celebrates the opposite of heroism: a president advised by the world's richest man, who has disparaged & disrespected every federal worker in this country, sown chaos, cruelty, and anxiety throughout the federal workforce, & threatened our entire government with wreckage. 2/2
On Jan. 26, 1982, Ronald Reagan started a SOTU tradition by honoring federal worker, Lenny Skutnik, who jumped into the icy Potomac 2 weeks earlier to pluck a survivor from the wreckage of Air Florida Flight 90. Every SOTU since has seen presidents honor such heroes. Tonight ... 1/2
March 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
On Jan. 26, 1982, Ronald Reagan started a SOTU tradition by honoring federal worker, Lenny Skutnik, who jumped into the icy Potomac 2 weeks earlier to pluck a survivor from the wreckage of Air Florida Flight 90. Every SOTU since has seen presidents honor such heroes. Tonight ... 1/2
I was happy to join recently with friends at theateralliance.com to mark the beginning of #LaborSpring --gatherings across the nation in defense of working people and unions at a time when both are threatened. Find out how to organize an event of your own here:
lwp.georgetown.edu/labor-spring/
lwp.georgetown.edu/labor-spring/
February 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I was happy to join recently with friends at theateralliance.com to mark the beginning of #LaborSpring --gatherings across the nation in defense of working people and unions at a time when both are threatened. Find out how to organize an event of your own here:
lwp.georgetown.edu/labor-spring/
lwp.georgetown.edu/labor-spring/
And of course it’s also not the first time a passenger plane ended up in the Potomac. That happened to Air Florida Flight 90 on January 13, 1982. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Flo...
January 30, 2025 at 6:06 AM
And of course it’s also not the first time a passenger plane ended up in the Potomac. That happened to Air Florida Flight 90 on January 13, 1982. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Flo...
Sadly, this isn’t the first time a training flight took down a plane on a landing approach. That happened on Sept 28, 1978, in San Diego, to Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific...
January 30, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Sadly, this isn’t the first time a training flight took down a plane on a landing approach. That happened on Sept 28, 1978, in San Diego, to Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific...
I’m inspired by this #LaborSpring event w @sbworkersunited.bsky.social at Georgetown. Nice work organizers!
February 23, 2024 at 12:01 AM
I’m inspired by this #LaborSpring event w @sbworkersunited.bsky.social at Georgetown. Nice work organizers!