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Texas Domestic Workers Face Trump Attack on Minimum Wage Advocates warn a proposed rule by the Department of Labor will deepen the country’s “crisis of care.”

Quoted www.texasobserver.org/texas-domest....

Wonderful piece!!!

Save Our History: Matewan, Memory, and the State Historical Society of Iowa | LAWCHA I know you’re busy, dear labor history colleagues, so I’m going to put this ask right at the top even though it messes up the flow of my essay a little:

Nate Holdren revisits Matewan and memory at a recent screening at the Iowa Labor History Society. Read about it at LaborOnline.

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Sign the Petition: Protect Immigrants & Caregivers!

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Over 1,000 garment workers are demanding @Nike give them the recognition and pay they deserve. We stand with them. #SeeUsNike

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They are trying to prevent research on racial equity and universities are just like we’ll just stop doing research on racial equity instead of calling this out for the existential threat to academic freedom that it is.

UDW Executive Director, Doug Moore added:

"I urge all of our followers on social media, especially unions and other social justice organizations to do the same. Stop feeding the beast that trying to kill you off!"

UC received $2.6 billion from NIH 2023-24.

So, basically, the equivalent of announcing a nearly $1 billion cut to the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social's budget.

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Just added my name to this @histpeace.bsky.social petition urging the @historians.org Council to rescind its veto of the scholasticide resolution. Please consider doing the same. www.historiansforpeace.org/2025/02/08/p...

As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education.
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The Case for Letting Malibu Burn - Longreads Many of California's native ecosystems evolved to burn. Modern fire suppression creates fuels that lead to catastrophic fires. So why do people insist on rebuilding in the firebelt?

Mike Davis in 1998: "Two kinds of Californians will continue to live with fire: those who can afford (with indirect public subsidies) to rebuild and those who can’t afford to live anywhere else." longreads.com/2018/12/04/t...

A graphic featuring a red basketball with "THE PRESIDENT'S $2.2 TRILLION DEFICIT" printed in white text, next to a quote from "The Deficit Hawk Takeover: How Austerity Politics Constrained Democratic Policymaking" by David Stein, about Democratic deficit hawks and government priorities, with the Roosevelt Institute logo at the bottom left.

Obsessing over the deficit has curtailed progressive priorities for decades.

@davidstein.bsky.social explores the rise of the deficit-hawk paradigm, arguing that it must go for us to achieve a high-care, low-carbon future: rooseveltinstitute.org/public...

USC so anti union it is trying to misclassify 85% of all faculty, ALL of whom are lecturers, as "managerial employees and/ or supervisors."

It also argues that "the @nlrbgov.bsky.social structure is unconstitutional."

Arise Chicago is distributing an immigrant worker toolkit that has all sorts of useful information, including this infographic about what to do if ICE shows up at your workplace. assets.nationbuilder.com/arisechicago...

Doubling union density is the best and fastest way to defeat Trumpism

The way that university officials have begun to treat “peaceful” and “disruptive” as antonyms, when they in fact are not antonyms, is the kind of violence to language that one expects of authoritarians

Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg The RFC joins Rosenberg sons Michael and Robert Meeropol in calling on President Biden to exonerate their mother, Ethel Rosenberg, following the release of formerly classifie...

Subject: I just signed -- will you?

I just signed this petition asking President Biden to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg. Please join me and add your name.

www.rfc.org/exonerate-ethel

A note on AI usage A note on AI usage I genuinely want you to succeed in this class. One of my very favorite things about my job as a professor is when students are succeeding and I feel like I helped. I want you to suc...

hey bluesky, in case anyone's interested, I wrote this for my students about why I don't want them to use anything AI in my classes. It interrupts the course calendar part of the syllabus, coming immediately after the first day there's a writing assignment assigned.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Duluth’s snowplow drivers, others in large union authorize strike, citing ‘crushing’ workloads Nearly 500 members of AFSCME Local 66, which includes snowplow drivers and water line maintenance workers, could strike in mid-January.

This is not a good time of year for a city on Lake Superior to insult its snowplow drivers.

Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today by Seventy years of reporting capture the ebb and flow of American labor power in this robust collection of articles from Dissent, ...

Our collection will not be officially out until February 2025 but Publisher's Weekly seems to like it: www.publishersweekly.com/9781620978818

And we found copies of our latest books at Chaucer’s, the independent bookstore mentioned by Nelson!

Grateful this thanksgiving for the workers who grow and harvest our food. Pssst: many are immigrants!

Globalism, Sovereignty, and Resistance — History & Political Economy Project Jennifer Mittelstadt and Quinn Slobodian in conversation

For@hpe-project.bsky.social's first blog, @quinnslobodian.com & I discuss how “globalism” has been understood by scholars & far-right activists, how concerns about “sovereignty” stoked grassroots opposition to the UN, & what all this means for Trump’s 2nd term.
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Project 2025 Medicaid Lifetime Cap Proposal Threatens Health Care Coverage for up to 18.5 Million Americans If enacted, lifetime Medicaid caps would strip benefits from low-income populations, particularly in states that have not expanded Medicaid.

Stripping people of their Medicaid benefits would leave many low-income enrollees, especially those in nonexpansion states, without any affordable coverage options, forcing them to forgo essential medical care and undermining their ability to work.

YouTube video by UMassHistory What Are the Humanities For? Academic Thought After the Neoliberal University

Chris Newfield on "What are the Humanities For? Academic Thought after the Neoliberal Era."

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How Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell Does History “I didn’t know my quirky obsession could be a job in its own right.”

"I call myself a public historian or a fashion historian, because most people know what that means. But in my head I’m a dress historian, because not all dress is fashion." 🗃️

115 years ago today, thousands of garment workers, mostly women, went on a strike known as the "uprising of the 20,000." These women fought for both "Bread and Roses"-for their right to enjoy life. That strike not only turned women into a political power but also the ILGWU into a powerful union. 🗃️

Can you find me now?

Also, Dems: Let's (pretend to) speak to the 8% of workers who work on an assembly line rather than the 80% who work in services.