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Shannan Clark
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Historian of labor, media, and cities. Teacher and trade unionist. Author of The Making of the American Creative Class: http://tinyurl.com/yc98a2xn. Vote in NY-10, heart in MO-1, paycheck in NJ-11. Also in https://scholarsforanewdealforhighered.org
Signed, a pedestrian extremist lifestyle advocate.
If you roll through a stop sign in your car while you're texting on your phone and nearly cream me while I'm in a crosswalk with right-of-way, expect a torrent of verbal abuse and a double freebird salute. No fucking apologies for existing outside of a car.
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
If you roll through a stop sign in your car while you're texting on your phone and nearly cream me while I'm in a crosswalk with right-of-way, expect a torrent of verbal abuse and a double freebird salute. No fucking apologies for existing outside of a car.
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Parochial when he needed to be, in victory Mamdani was borderless, gesturing to so many of the countries whose emigrants populated New York City. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Debs, Nehru, Mamdani | J. K. Mehta, José Sanchez, Nikil Saval, Colin Vanderburg
“I am a democratic socialist.” These words were really spoken by an American politician on live TV, just hours after being elected to govern a city with a population greater than that of all but twelv...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Now available from my colleagues at @medgareverscollege.bsky.social! The Negro World Newspaper Collection, 1923-1925. Check out this fantastic digital collection here:

dcmny.org/do/004b7e44-...
dcmny.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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“You all know how grateful I am to all of you and to everyone’s families,” he said. “The sacrifices you’ve made. You’ve gone above and beyond what anyone could ever ask for. So, I just want to say cheers to the strikers. Cheers to the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh."
'This is everyone’s win': Striking PG workers celebrate a big victory - Pittsburgh Union Progress
Monday started out as one of those cold, dreary Pittsburgh Mondays that you have to plod through as if it were sticky and slick with mud. The previous night’s Steelers’ game, a loss, made it worse. Yi...
www.unionprogress.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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I've said it before, and I will say it again.

We need courageous leaders that put working families at the center of all they do.

8 democrats caving to empty promises is an indefensible leadership failure

For the sake of our country, Schumer needs to resign.
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Studs’ Place: The Lost Sitcom That Put Working-Class Life on TV. Our latest blog post by scholar and guest author Jason J. Nebergall offers an analysis of how Studs Terkel's radical, working-class ethos was translated into the emerging television medium. Read more at: https://loom.ly/JDD26kA
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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The different between the right and centrists is that the right gleefully kills millions of people and centrists present mass murder as a technical solution, like they added up all the numbers and carried a zero and oops, sorry, millions have to die.
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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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...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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UNITE HERE Local 1 is offering a Hospitality Union Organizing Apprenticeship to be based in Chicago, IL. Details can be found at: unionjobs.com/listing.php?... #1u #UnionStrong @unitehere.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Thinking tonight about all of the people (including some very dear to me) who receive their access to healthcare through ACA insurance plans, and how totally royally fucking screwed they are now.
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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I guess regular working class people are supposed to sympathize with the people who cave the second they might have to work weekends
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Man, fuck this loser shit:
www.appropriations.senate.gov
November 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Sign on to demand that Condé Nast executives reinstate the four @condeunion.bsky.social members they illegally fired last week:
Tell Condé bosses to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions and end the union-busting
On Nov. 5, 2025 in an egregious attempt at union-busting, Condé Nast management illegally terminated four union members – Alma Avalle, Jake Lahut, Jasper Lo and Ben Dewey – for participating in federa...
actionnetwork.org
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The fabulous public schools that made me what I am are running a food distribution for students and their families in the district that are being hurt by the fascists' cruel suspension of SNAP benefits. Please consider contributing to this or other drives to keep people fed.
UCEF | SDUC Community Food Drive
The School District of University City will host a Community Food Drive to help ensure that all families have access to essential food resources during the upcoming holiday season. Donations will go d...
ucityeducationfoundation.app.neoncrm.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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This will pain many Democrats who have consistently been in favor of these government contracts, BUT, my personal opinion is we should end any government contracts for surveillance/tech companies that were willing to carry out and assist in clearly and publicly illegal actions by these agencies.
If the political opposition doesn’t put these ICE & CBP institutional criminals in prison, annihilate their budgets, purge the datasets and repeal their authorities, this will keep happening. And that opposition will reveal itself as a false, controlled opposition that is no less predatory on people
November 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Damn we are ruled by completely irredeemable sociopaths:
Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical, it speaks to how far we have drifted from democracy‘s core promises. Markets will not beat back the far right. An antifascist economics might. Mamdani provides a playbook for democrats around the world.

My latest
Zohran Mamdani shows how Democrats can defeat authoritarians like Trump | Isabella Weber
Democrats have two choices: fight to make life affordable again for ordinary people or watch voters embrace authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It's like lotto: ya gotta be in it to win it.
We’re hiring!

Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.

Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The details about conditions at the Broadview facility in this thread are absolutely horrifying. The agents who are perpetrating these crimes must be brought to justice.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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🚨 New @therealnews.com:

I speak w/ a panel of grad student workers & union members from Columbia University & the University of Michigan about the chilling new reality on their campuses & what it’s like to live, learn, & work there today
@swcolumbia.bsky.social

therealnews.com/campus-life-...
Campus life is unrecognizable in the Trump era: ‘There’s so many cops everywhere’
As the federal government continues its top-down assault on higher education, universities are internally building repression and surveillance machines that mirror the Trump administration.
therealnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact
November 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Hundreds of St. Louis community members rallied in solidarity with Kaldi’s workers forming their union with UNITE HERE Local 74 💪 It’s time for management to voluntarily recognize the union too!

#StandUpKaldis #MOworkers #1u #UnionsForAll
November 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM