Carson Leigh Brown

How to stay safe and not have a heart attack while shoveling this weekend.

About 100 people a year die from heart attacks brought on by shoveling snow. Thousands more wind up in the emergency department with chest and back pain and other problems.

"And in Paris, Mayor Anne Hidalgo has over the last decade prioritized banning cars from the city center and expanding pedestrian space. Last year, Parisian voters passed a referendum to close an additional 500 streets to traffic — and remove 10% of the city’s parking spaces."

Happy National Squirrel Day! This American Red Squirrel, also known as a Pine Squirrel, perched on this branch for a moment before launching off. These squirrels are territorial, often chasing away much larger squirrels.

Horror pon horror.

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Thousands of nurses in three hospital systems in New York City went on strike Monday after negotiations through the weekend failed to yield breakthroughs in their contract disputes. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4bvuYLH 

OUT: Speculating about our first contract/IN: Actually negotiating it OUT: Confusion/ IN: Transparency OUT: Not talking to our coworkers/ IN: Talking to all of our coworkers, all of the time OUT: The Meriden office elevator (still, somehow)/ IN: Reporting in the communities we cover OUT: Leaving journalism for better-paying jobs to afford life/ IN: Journalists being paid a living wage OUT: Getting called ‘negative’ for trying to improve our working conditions/ IN: Demanding answers and pushing for a contract anyway OUT: Regular shirts on Thursdays/ IN: Red NewsGuild of NY shirts on Thursdays

We’re ready to bring fairness and transparency to Hearst CT and negotiate our first contact with Hearst Newspapers in 2026. It’ll ensure better journalism for our readers and better working conditions for all our colleagues, including our members and managers. Let’s get bargaining!!

The Senegalese paradox How Senegal rose to become one of the most fertile grounds in African football, and why this success still struggles to transform the local football economy.

How Senegal rose to become one of the most fertile grounds in African football, and why this success still struggles to transform the local football economy. africasacountry.com/2025/12/the-...

NYC reaches $38.9 million settlement with Starbucks over worker rights violations Starbucks will pay $35.5M to 15,000 NYC workers after violating the Fair Workweek Law with over 500,000 infractions.

Mayor Eric Adams’ administration announced a major settlement in a case against Starbucks, which alleged that the company flagrantly violated the city’s Fair Workweek Law.

PITTSBURGH'S Public Source Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh journalists return to their jobs at the Post-Gazette after three years on strike After a court ruling in their favor, long-striking journalists declared victory and returned to a pivotal Southwestern Pennsylvania newsroom. They return as union organizing continues throughout the region. Stephanie Strasburg November 24, 2025

Natalie Duleba, local secretary of the guild, hugs Jon Schleuss, president of the NewsGuild Communications of America, as she hands him the mic. "The first day of this strike, our folks went over across the street and they sat down at a table, and they started talking about that they were going to take care of each other," said Schleuss, acknowledging the guild could not have known how long the path back to work would be. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/Pittsburgh's Public Source)

This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

Pictured is a field of red with text and a picture. The text is on the left side and reads "Employer: Jackson Hole Mountain Resort Unit Size: 88 Employees; Filed: November 20, 2025; Location: Teton Village, Wyoming; Industry/positions: Leisure and Hospitality safety. FT and PT Ski Patrollers." On the bottom there is text that reads "Made by @UnionsElections; @unionelections.bsky.social. Logo property of UAW." On the right side is the logo of UAW.

NEW: 88 Ski Patrollers for Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Wyoming are unionizing with @cwaunion.bsky.social.

the owner of an irish pub i frequented in the south of france gave me the typical, joyous "a good irish name!" response to finding out my last name before his smile dropped and the blood drained out of his face :) love that man

unfathomable

an oldie but goodie www.teenvogue.com/story/what-t...

(relatedly, teen vogue's recent anti-union firings will make this type of work more difficult)

The Studio Museum, Harlem's gem, is back and brighter than ever The Studio Museum in Harlem is back, bigger and bolder than ever.

I remember going to the Last Look in 2018! So so so excited to go back! amsterdamnews.com/news/2025/11...

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."

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.

pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...

🚨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 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.

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

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.