Dave Kamper

This, but unironically.

Yeah. Mamdani is clearly interested in governance, and is trying to make it easier to implement his agenda. That's something the Left just doesn't do very often in the US, so it can look like something else.

This doesn't mean he was right to visit Trump; it just means it's understandable.

At 10 over 75? Non-zero chance his 'trial' is a note read aloud next to a burn pit.

You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?

There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.

Smart analysis.

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...

If younger voters are going to resemble 20th-century voters more than other generational cohorts, that may throw a lot of conventional contemporary understanding of electoral politics out the window.

Sometimes changed election outcomes are a product of differential turnout rather than voters changing their preferences, but through the 20th century it's pretty clear lots of voters changed their minds. The swings from 1928 to 1936, from 1964 to 1972 -- those involved lots of voters moving.

For most of the 20th century, there was a huge section of the electorate who was willing to vote for either party.

The 21st century has been marked by deeper polarization and less voter shifting.

But the polling on younger voters hints they might be reverting more towards 20th-century behaviors.

Begging my fellow lefties to understand "Left politician gets elected in a complicated political environment and makes decisions with a goal of delivering effective governance," is not the same thing as "Left politician sells out the Left."

They may, at times, be the same. But not automatically.

Friendly reminder that striking workers are asking you not to patronize ANY Starbucks store.

If you're traveling this week, your airport definitely has other options. Zero reason to even think about crossing a picket line!

These are fighters. They are what we need.

Minnesotans, I think we know only one of our candidates to replace Sen. Tina Smith would be part of this club, and that’s @peggyflanagan.bsky.social, and that’s why I’m supporting her.

Have the same tree

Not my lane but surely it also matters that you were unconscious when you got it?

TFW you’re watching a random episode of MacGyver and fucking G. GORDON LIDDY is a guest star.

Parks Service Union Movement Spreads to Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree Employees in dozens of park units are organizing to fight attempts by the Trump administration to downsize the agency.

Scoop: Park Service staff at 24 parks and offices are petitioning to unionize. Federal employees at a dozen including Grand Canyon filed for an election today, following staff at a dozen others including Joshua Tree who recently did same www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

good work guys you picked a fight in which Dems can stand up out of their permanent defensive crouch and go “our guy is a fucking astronaut and you’re an alcoholic tv host”

Outstanding.

Oh holy crap. Cannot unsee.

I'm gonna need that brand name

Absolutely should be going this hard all the time at Hegseth, Homan, Noem, Miller, and all the rest. Call them out clearly and loudly and in strong moral terms.

Capital offense.

Gonna run for dictator on the platform of "every grocery store needs to stock items in the same place as every other grocery store."

...some challenges for pre-contract units. Most unions don't really let pre-contract units govern themselves fully.

But I bet @erikloomis.bsky.social knows more than I do.

Such a good question! I'm not 100% sure I know, since some unions still do ask for dues before a contract, but my guess is 1959's Landrum-Griffin Act played a role. The Union Members Bill of Rights contained in the Act, by giving all members a right to run for office and vote, must have created...

🚨‼️: This morning, Pittsburgh strikers are back at work!

@pghguild.com

Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...

Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

Yes. Abughazaleh is a good example of a candidate far better known in the wider progressive world than in their own district. That disconnect can be fatal to a campaign if they forget that all politics is local. But perhaps the indictment and the publicity it brings will change those dynamics.

A cute little peanut of a torbie cat is looking right at the camera from a close distance.

Laverne update

It's an important point for dudes like us to be aware of. I used to think it was kind of snotty for PhDs to call themselves Dr but I've come to understand how important it is for many.

I haven’t had a VCR, DVD, or Blu Ray in ten years. Do they make ones now where I can project from the Blu Ray to the TV, without needing to plug it in via HDMI or something? Thinking about getting one but don’t want it to clutter the space around the TV.