Carson Leigh Brown

And the great learning from our libraries "will be delivered to you by an army of overworked, underpaid, too-often verbally abused library staff, who deserve so much better from Britain, from their government, from the executives of the British Library, and from all of us."

We’re hiring a Campaign Lead! | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA The NewsGuild is hiring a campaign lead to channel the energy of our members, community supporters and policy stakeholders into winning legislative initiatives.

Looking for a new gig as an organizer at a dynamic union?
I left the US to move to Dakar and my job is hiring my replacement! Apply apply apply! newsguild.org/were-hiring-...

A yellow bridge in front of a city background with three banners reading "POST-GAZETTE STRIKERS WILL WIN".

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.

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🚨BREAKING: STRIKERS WIN!

The order affirms what we’ve said all along: The PG’s lawless union-busting cannot stand. We made sure it didn’t. We’re taking back what they stole from us. We won this strike.

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...

Nearly a 1,000 people have signed the
@condeunion.bsky.social and @newyorkerunion.bsky.social
petition to reinstate the Fired Four and reverse the suspensions. JOIN US in standing up for workers' rights and tell Conde Nast that union-busting is DISGUSTING actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I found "I agreed to an interview. I did this because, in ways you might think I’d have outgrown by now, I’m a fucking idiot," to be particularly relatable

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.

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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

🔊 Listen Now: Amid settler attacks, Palestinians are trying to save their traditional olive and date harvests All Things Considered on NPR One | 7:15

Amid settler attacks, Palestinians are trying to save their traditional olive and date harvests one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5592...

I go to a 6 am gym class and on my way back there were folks already lined up outside our local food pantry. Four people who looked in their 70s — among them a man listening to the radio about the Mets. They pushed carts ahead of them.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

New York Times headline reads: Trump Hotel Workers Campaign for a Union, Over the Boss's Objections

New York Times headline reads: Trump Moves to Strip More Federal Workers of Union Protections.

But his assertion that diversity weakens unions ignores two things. First, labor unions have a long history of multiethnic coalitions. Second, it was the capitalists and political elites who tried to *exploit* ethnic divisions to maintain power. There is only one person here trying to stop unions:

Dad, may he rest in peace, always said Mario was a gift to NY + he should have been president “but America wasn’t ready for an Italian president.” Watching his son capitalize on this racist BS makes my stomach turn. There’s no shame in losing a race run well, but there’s tons in whatever this is.

Check out @workingclasshistory.com It's time for lessons to be learnt brothers and sisters

A reminder-there are really great books about magic that center Black & Brown & queer characters where profits don't go to tearing down trans community=The Marvellers @dhonielle.bsky.social; Nic Blake @angiethomas.bsky.social ; The Vanquishers-Kaylynn Bayron; Amari & The Night Brothers-B.B. Alston

Gee, I can’t imagine why…

I used to have a dad with whom I could have a complex, joyful, loving, rage inducing, frustrating, all encompassing, delightful, ridiculous pattern-repeating relationship, and now all I get is photos of him on a patio in Brooklyn the one and only time I got to drink too many martinis with him.

that’s funny, because it’s cringe and also because she’s never ‘done the news’ once in her career. she’s coasted on the opinion pages since she started working, which really explains a lot about her whole deal

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Italy only has just under 60 million people!

The Daily News and its journalists serve an essential function in our city. Given the assaults on free speech, democracy, and truth, now is a critical moment for newspapers to invest in their workers and staff.

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English 🇱🇧 How Beirut's Commodore Hotel became a safe haven for the world's media | War Hotels

Reading Mahmoud Darwish's Memory For Forgetfulness, about Israel's 1982 shelling of Beirut, which is extremely vivid and one of those pieces that changes your relationship to the written word, but searching for accompaniments anyway. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yIC...

White House Officials Vow Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups
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Open authoritarianism. Happening right in front of us.

Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

How to Canonize a White Supremacist On the brutal murder of Charlie Kirk, the certain blowback, and this country’s raging gun problem.

In this week’s newsletter I have thoughts on Ezra’s Klein value judgements about the “right way” to do politics.

Signal Ohio workers just walked off the job! Send an email to their management: actionnetwork.org/letters/one-...

More than a week has passed since we announced the formation of the Signal Ohio News Workers Guild. Since then, Signal Ohio enlisted Jackson Lewis, a law firm with an anti-union reputation, to try to intimidate us. They are saying we are 3 unions.

Send a letter! actionnetwork.org/letters/one-...

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Fellow union members and other supporters join PG strikers at a Block house rally - Pittsburgh Union Progress Dozens of fellow union members and staffers from across the country joined local supporters and striking journalists outside the Shadyside home of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette publisher John Block Tuesday ...

We went to @post-gazette.com publisher John Block’s house yesterday and we were NOT alone. The Block Communications Inc. co-owner, who’s on the record wanting to fire his own lawyers, however, chose to hide from his workers, Pittsburgh & our @cwaunion.bsky.social family.