Maria DiPasquale

One of my favorite lines teased in the season 5 trailer is from my friend Abir: “teen dramas, like especially television teen shows, they allow you to kind of love everyone. Like when it’s done well, there’s no like, bad people. Everyone is just human.”

A chill in the air and your favorite podcast about political moments on tv teen dramas is returning with a new season soon!

A TechEquity/AWU graphic with a photo of Kirn Gill III and the following text: “There are low paid people who are not even treated as humans - just little more than employee ID numbers - out there making the 1 billion dollar, trillion dollar Al systems that are supposed to lead our entire society and civilization into the future. -Kirn Gill II Search Quality Rater working on Google products at Telus.”

🚨NEW RESEARCH🚨

AWU teamed up with @techequity.bsky.social & @cwaunion.bsky.social to produce a report - Ghost Workers in the AI Machine: U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech’s Exploitation - documenting the working conditions of the workers behind the AI boom.
cwa-union.org/ghost-worker...

I had the pleasure of being a part of this. It is refreshing to talk to people who see you, when you work in an industry designed to be invisible. Amazing work @techequity.bsky.social, @cwaunion.bsky.social and @alphabetworkersunion.org .

If you want to know what’s really going on with AI, talk to data workers. I’m so grateful for all I’ve learned from the U.S. AI supply chain workers who talked to us about data work.

Check out a new report with @alphabetworkersunion.org & @cwaunion.bsky.social: cwa-union.org/ghost-worker...

YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Trailers American Sweatshop Exclusive Trailer (2025)

Don’t try this at home; organize a union instead! Join AWU and @brainstormmedia.bsky.social for a virtual screening of #AmericanSweatshop on Mon 9/29 at 8 PM ET followed by a panel discussion featuring creatives behind the film and AWU members who handle trust and safety content.

love this from @jennyhunter.bsky.social! excited to both be contributing to @solongdentalplan.com, a forthcoming book about depictions of unions and class struggle on television! (I had the pleasure of peer reviewing Jenny’s chapter and y’all are in for a treat!)

if you’re waiting to speak to me about the beach confession scene in this week’s #TheSummerITurnedPretty episode, STAY IN LINE!

A selfie of maria at citi field wearing a blue and orange Mets tshirt and a blue hat with an embroidered vanilla with rainbow sprinkles soft serve in a Mets helmet cup as served at CITI field

Leveled up my status as a Mets wife today by finally acquiring the ultimate Mets girlie accessory 🫡🍦

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✨MOVIE SPECIAL OUT NOW✨ Welcome back to #LeftistTeenDrama's series of special episodes covering political moments in teen movies! Maria is joined by twins and self-professed “camp freaks” Kelly and MG Gilbert to break down all the class conflict inherent to the plot of Camp Rock!

Zohran should propose “Cuomo’s Law”, a law that bars sex offenders from being mayor of New York City

They murdered somebody during one of their raids.

They actually did it.

sexism is alive and well in the labor movement! always fun to be reminded, right!

Today's endorsement by the hundreds of unions and more than a million workers of @nyclabor.bsky.social is a profound honor and a responsibility to deliver for working people. I will strive to live up to it each and every day as your Mayor.

No Rent Freeze as Board Approves Hikes Up To 4.5% The vote came after Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral nomination in part on his promise to install a board that will freeze the rent next year for stabilized apartments.

In his final year as Mayor, Eric Adams and his hand-picked Rent Guidelines Board delivered one last blow to struggling rent-stabilized tenants.

New Yorkers are desperate for city government that lowers costs instead of raising rents. Change is coming.

Zohran Mamdani received more first-round votes (432,305) than Andrew Cuomo received total votes after ranked choice voting (428,530).

That means more people ranked Zohran first than ranked Cuomo anywhere on their ballot (without ranking Zohran above him).

the revolution will not be dropshipped!

ℹ️ this user cannot go on instagram without seeing ads for zohran merch

Check in with your trans friends and family today. We are feeling the weight of a country trying to do everything it can to erase us from existence.

This ruling will harm the most vulnerable members of our community - many will not survive.

Trans people have and will always exist.

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is now here calling for the release of Lander (his fellow mayoral candidate)

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant.

This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

BREAKING | Comptroller Brad Lander arrested at ICE court hearing | amNewYork City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested and accosted by masked federal agents at immigration court in Lower Manhattan.

Brad Lander--comptroller of the city of New York, and one of the leading mayoral candidates--has just been arrested by masked federal thugs. @bradlander.bsky.social
www.amny.com/news/brad-la...

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🧵Today, Alphabet announced it will offer voluntary exit packages (VEPs) to Googlers across multiple product areas (PAs). This is a win for the Googlers For Job Security campaign – and only deepens our resolve to continue fighting for a Google where every worker has a say.

Gaza freedom flotilla the Madleen has been intercepted and its crew now in custody, kidnapped by the Israelis. We demand their immediate release!

The United Farm Workers condemns the violence against our comrade David Huerta, the President of SEIU California and SEIU-USWW, who was injured and detained while exercising his constitutional rights during an ICE raid in Los Angeles. Now more than ever, it is urgent for all working people in the United States to defend the immigrant workers who contribute so much to our country. An attack against one worker is an attack on all workers -- union and solidarity are our response. Si se puede.

The United Farm Workers, along with the entire labor movement, stands in strong solidarity with our comrade, labor leader David Huerta. We demand his immediate release and condemn indiscriminate sweeps targeting working class immigrants.

an infographic with a hot pink graph paper background, an image of Sister, SIster characters Tia Landry and Tamera Campbell during a plotline in which they work as scabs in a grocery store during a strike; alongside NYC Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and the following yellow text: “Hot Girls For Zohran Talk Policy Tia Landry and Tamera Campbell Sister, Sister City-Owned Grocery Stores.” The Leftist Teen Drama logo is on the bottom right hand corner.

✨Hot Girls are ranking @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #1 for NYC Mayor – and we’re not ranking Andrew Cuomo AT ALL. 💅

Hot Girl 4 Zohran Tia Landry and Tamera Campbell are supporting Zohran Mamdani because of his policy proposal to open city-owned grocery stores!

Carrie on Sex and the City saying “shall we get more coffee or shall we get guns and kill ourselves?”

when that “your con edison bill is ready” email hits the inbox in the warmer months

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✨Hot Girls are ranking @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #1 for NYC Mayor – and we’re not ranking Andrew Cuomo AT ALL. 💅

Hot Girl For Zohran Brooke Davis is supporting Zohran Mamdani because of his proposal for a $30/hour minimum wage by 2030!

Our new ad is now live.

Freeze the rent.

We recently held a union election at Hearst Connecticut Media, and we learned minutes ago that…

WE WON!!!

By an overwhelming vote of 68-17, our members voted to unionize as part of @newsguild.org.

It’s a great day for journalism in CT!

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