The labor librarian
@laborlibrarian.bsky.social
Grew up in a UFW/IWW household. Now I’m a librarian (public to academic), union thug, and general roustabout.
Anonymous because I’m not tenured yet.
Pro-Palestinian, pro-trans, anti-racist, and not fit for human consumption.
Anonymous because I’m not tenured yet.
Pro-Palestinian, pro-trans, anti-racist, and not fit for human consumption.
Pinned
It’s Labor Day weekend and that means it’s a great time to teach kids about the context of the holiday. I’ve compiled a list of books for a variety of age ranges that talk about labor and unions. Feel free to add more!
#booksky #skybrariona #libraryunions #labor #unions
#booksky #skybrariona #libraryunions #labor #unions
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another Lizza article is circulating, which reminds me to tap the sign reminding you to please support independent, worker-run, billionaire and felch-free news outlets when and how you can. if you can spare some $, here's some w/NewsMatch, which will 2x your donation through the end of the year!
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51st.news
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
another Lizza article is circulating, which reminds me to tap the sign reminding you to please support independent, worker-run, billionaire and felch-free news outlets when and how you can. if you can spare some $, here's some w/NewsMatch, which will 2x your donation through the end of the year!
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The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
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people shitting on government workers should listen to this then go fuck themselves into the sun
go team NE Ohio Regional Sewer District
go team NE Ohio Regional Sewer District
this is not our customer service number. it’s just my voicemail inbox.
you’re welcome to call. i hope you do.
216-361-6772.
you’re welcome to call. i hope you do.
216-361-6772.
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 AM
people shitting on government workers should listen to this then go fuck themselves into the sun
go team NE Ohio Regional Sewer District
go team NE Ohio Regional Sewer District
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
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Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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With Black Friday approaching, there will inevitably be well-intentioned talk that these deals are only possible because workers are denied a livable wage.
Don't buy into this. It's not low prices vs. fair pay. It's the demand for ever-higher profits and shareholder returns that forces deprivation.
Don't buy into this. It's not low prices vs. fair pay. It's the demand for ever-higher profits and shareholder returns that forces deprivation.
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
With Black Friday approaching, there will inevitably be well-intentioned talk that these deals are only possible because workers are denied a livable wage.
Don't buy into this. It's not low prices vs. fair pay. It's the demand for ever-higher profits and shareholder returns that forces deprivation.
Don't buy into this. It's not low prices vs. fair pay. It's the demand for ever-higher profits and shareholder returns that forces deprivation.
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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...
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.
www.bloomberg.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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...
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Seattle is using stencils when neighbors go missing
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Seattle is using stencils when neighbors go missing
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Really enjoying ICE finding out North Carolina is an open carry state with a stand your ground law. My current favourite genre of TikTok videos is ICE agents in full camo in the woods being hunted by North Carolinians
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Really enjoying ICE finding out North Carolina is an open carry state with a stand your ground law. My current favourite genre of TikTok videos is ICE agents in full camo in the woods being hunted by North Carolinians
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Central District Friendsgiving Begins with Lease Acknowledgment of Previous Tenants: tinyurl.com/bbahuzn6
November 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Central District Friendsgiving Begins with Lease Acknowledgment of Previous Tenants: tinyurl.com/bbahuzn6
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Do you have pictures or video of Buffalo-area immigration raids? Here's a Wiki based in Europe that is collecting evidence.
bsky.app/profile/jonc...
bsky.app/profile/jonc...
Immigration accountability advocates today unveiled a sweeping new online “Wiki” built on the ICE List project, promising a central, searchable record tying individual immigration agents to raids, vehicles, local police partners, and the legal machinery behind U.S. immigration enforcement.
NEWS: ICE List Launches Wiki to Expose Enforcement Network
The Europe-based volunteer-built database links raids, agents, vehicles, and legal structures, aiming to break the cycle of official secrecy.
migrantinsider.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Do you have pictures or video of Buffalo-area immigration raids? Here's a Wiki based in Europe that is collecting evidence.
bsky.app/profile/jonc...
bsky.app/profile/jonc...
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a) these changes illustrate how the “smartness” in what’s framed as an individual smart or dumb choice (your major/grad degree) is determined by structural factors in how they’re rewarded, not their intrinsic value
b) the illustration’s especially stark when those structural factors change overnight
b) the illustration’s especially stark when those structural factors change overnight
The DoE has reclassified numerous health professional and other degrees, limiting access to federal student loan programs eligible for the higher OBBBA loan caps from thousands to a few hundred.
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY
November 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
a) these changes illustrate how the “smartness” in what’s framed as an individual smart or dumb choice (your major/grad degree) is determined by structural factors in how they’re rewarded, not their intrinsic value
b) the illustration’s especially stark when those structural factors change overnight
b) the illustration’s especially stark when those structural factors change overnight
Today the Amazon Transportation Operations Management Team drivers at the Amazon facility in Shepherdsville, KY officially requested recognition of their union, Teamsters Local 89. They are the first Amazon CDL drivers in the country to unionize.
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Today the Amazon Transportation Operations Management Team drivers at the Amazon facility in Shepherdsville, KY officially requested recognition of their union, Teamsters Local 89. They are the first Amazon CDL drivers in the country to unionize.
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Four UCLA undergrads were arrested on Tuesday while exercising their right to support @afscme3299.bsky.social’s picketed strike. We demand all charges be dropped.
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Four UCLA undergrads were arrested on Tuesday while exercising their right to support @afscme3299.bsky.social’s picketed strike. We demand all charges be dropped.
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actually sounding pretty fettered there, my guy
"The Barnes and Noble in York—where Fetterman was born and raised—had sold zero copies. The Barnes and Noble in Philadelphia had sold two copies. An independent store in Pittsburgh and an independent store in Philadelphia each told me they weren’t stocking Unfettered" defector.com/john-fetterm...
John Fetterman's Memoir Is As Low-Effort As His Senate Tenure | Defector
John Fetterman’s just-released memoir, Unfettered, argues that he’s turned a corner and has everything under control. Fetterman was a “stubborn asshole” (his words), he was clinically depressed, he wa...
defector.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
actually sounding pretty fettered there, my guy
Fully broke the intake nurse at my doctor’s office today because when she asked “are you sexually active?” I answered “well technically yeah but I also live here.”
November 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Fully broke the intake nurse at my doctor’s office today because when she asked “are you sexually active?” I answered “well technically yeah but I also live here.”
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Because they are forced to hide who they are publicly, I refuse to do so voluntarily.
I will be proud and loud about being trans every day for the rest of my life, because I do so not only for myself. I do so for every trans and gender nonconforming person who doesn't have the privilege of choice.
I will be proud and loud about being trans every day for the rest of my life, because I do so not only for myself. I do so for every trans and gender nonconforming person who doesn't have the privilege of choice.
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Because they are forced to hide who they are publicly, I refuse to do so voluntarily.
I will be proud and loud about being trans every day for the rest of my life, because I do so not only for myself. I do so for every trans and gender nonconforming person who doesn't have the privilege of choice.
I will be proud and loud about being trans every day for the rest of my life, because I do so not only for myself. I do so for every trans and gender nonconforming person who doesn't have the privilege of choice.
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The winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction is ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’ by Omar El Akkad. #NBAwards
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 AM
The winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction is ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’ by Omar El Akkad. #NBAwards
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Nothing like negotiating a union contract will make you realize your employer hates you and wouldn't care if you and your family died
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Nothing like negotiating a union contract will make you realize your employer hates you and wouldn't care if you and your family died
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Lol
The House has voted unanimously to repeal the provisions in the shutdown package which allow GOP Senators to sue the federal government and get as much as $1 million in damages - because the feds looked at their phone records in the Jan. 6 investigation.
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Lol
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if trump is as susceptible as people say (he is) then for one brief shining moment immediately after this meeting concludes and before he talks to anyone else donald trump will be a communist too
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
if trump is as susceptible as people say (he is) then for one brief shining moment immediately after this meeting concludes and before he talks to anyone else donald trump will be a communist too