Bruce Pietrykowski

The Auto Industry’s Lead Recycling Program is Poisoning People We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology.

this is incredible reporting www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Finding My Grandmother’s Ma’amoul Cookie in Brooklyn: A Story of Palestinian Survival Complete erasure will never be possible – because Palestinians endure. And we will remember. Not just in body, but in memory, in story, in taste.

Zeteo is honored to announce our award from the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalist Association (AMEJA) award for best culture & lifestyle reporting, written by Nadine Apelian Dobbs.

Read Nadine's now award-winning story here:
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

“In its choice of too many uninspiring candidates...rejecting all traces of radicalism, not to estrange any of its supporters and esp financial patrons, the DDP...sacrificed principles, magnetism, verve and strength for ambiguity, mediocrity, dilatoriness and decline.” 5/5

“Democrats who impatiently criticized ‘the idleness and lack of imagination’ of their party were often in evidence, but they usually succeeded in aggravating the indecision and imprecision of their colleagues.” 4/5

“The Democratic party is not fighting. It takes pleasure in its comfortable existence and believes it can hold back its collapse by subscribing to the law of inertia.” Walter Rathenau 3/5

“The powerful grip of moneyed interests on the party successfully cordoned off radicalism within the DDP on social and economic questions.” 2/5

Just re-read Modris Eksteins Limits of Reason on the demise of the liberal, democratic press and German Democratic Party (DDP) in the years leading up to Nazism. The resemblance to today’s events is downright chilling. Some examples esp relevant today: 1/5

Also, at a deeper level I think people are generally suspicious of economists’ adoration of ‘efficiency’ at the expense of economic and social justice.

A controversial study suggests anti-overdose med naloxone increases reckless opioid use A new study argues that increased access to anti-overdose drug naloxone access makes people use opioids more recklessly. The Narcan study has sparked controversy, and many believe the authors' approac...

I hear you. It’s one example that I think illustrates why NC economists are dangerous. Here’s a news story on it www.cnbc.com/2018/03/14/s...

Not a PR problem. A paradigm problem…most economists are neoclassical and they say shit like Narcan is bad cuz it incentivizes people to overdose.

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%.

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

I am of the belief that there are white people who repeatedly disrespect Black people with pedigree to remind us of our "place" in the social hierarchy.

This is @profkori.bsky.social "Know Your Place" theory.

Is the Right Looking for a Reichstag Fire? | Historian Thomas Zimmer joins Susan Demas We're no longer a democracy, but not yet a dictatorship. Welcome to purgatory, or what political scientists call "competitive authoritarianism."

I had a great conversation with @lincolnsquare.media about where we are today: About political violence and the Right’s desire for escalation.

But also about how we got here: About the recent history of the GOP and the rise of Trumpism. And, finally, about where America might go from here:

This morning, I discuss in PN how a viral op-ed by Governor Lisa Cook and I about bigotry against Black women in #economics has come full circle for Cook and how recent attacks show what #TheDoubleTax, the compounded cost of racism and sexism, costs us all. #blacksky

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*me checking to see if my advisors are on the list*

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Great gig for disability justice grant writing work

Agreed, the reported 9.9% unemployment rate was a tipoff.

On Organizing time to level up / an early draft of a playbook

The only thing that will stop Trump is a grassroots movement using diverse tactics.

(not just protests! We need boycotts, strikes, slowdowns, guerrilla art, disruptions, gumming the works from the inside, etc) from a cross-section of society.

It’s on us.

A few skeets here with resources: 1/x

“…for every dollar a grandmother in Iowa donates believing she's saving democracy, 98 cents goes to consultants and operational costs. Just pennies reach actual campaigns.”

300,000 New Yorkers Could Lose Food-Stamp Benefits After Trump’s Cuts

From behind the deli counter, he produced a pie chart..." Always trust the deli guy w/a pie chart to know more about the economy than the econ prof. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/n...

A Big, Bipartisan Betrayal Democrats are using Trump’s apocalyptic bill as a campaign gimmick — and ignoring their role in its cruelty.

A Big, Bipartisan Betrayal www.levernews.com/a-big-bipart...

She ended her speech by saying, “As a first step, we should reduce reliance on gross domestic product as a measure of success and encourage dialogue and debate about how best to produce a sustainable future.”

I think a lot of people are foolishing resisting experimenting with AI out of the misguided sense that if we all just ignore it then it will go away, but we need to keep in mind our bosses aren't ignoring it.

They're furiously trying to automate our jobs away as we speak.

Don’t learn AI because it can replace you. Learn AI because, whether it works or not, your boss is trying to replace you with it anyway.

The more you understand the flaws, the better your chances of fighting back.

Great news! Teaching well is hard, rewarding work. Congratulations!

“To remake this country, to reimagine this country and to reclaim this country!”

"...the mouse doctor deserves to spend more time with his family."