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Shaun Richman

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Labor guy in higher ed. Author, "Tell The Bosses We're Coming" (Monthly Review, 2020) & "We Always Had a Union" (U. of Illinois, 2025). Contributing writer: In These Times, Jacobin, American Prospect.

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · Apr 22

My new book, "We Always Had a Union: The New York Hotel Workers’ Union, 1912-1953," is OUT NOW.

It's a sweeping history of one sustained early 20th century union effort, through craft unionism, the IWW, the Communist Party, gangster corruption, industry-wide bargaining, Cold War backlash & more.

We Always Had a Union

www.press.uillinois.edu

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 10h

One party systems, historically, have not been good things.

Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 16h

Fossilized Northeast Democratic machines running sclerotic candidates is going to be the death of America

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 16h

"NJ Governor's Race: Sherrill 50%, Ciattarelli 44%, Quinnipiac University New Jersey Poll Finds; Ciattarelli Holds Edge On Enthusiasm" -- poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 15h

She is a horrendously bad candidate. Just a total unforced error by the NJ machine.

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 15h

This one really got me recently.

Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 19h

Oh, good. I was worried.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 20h

Nvidia is paying OpenAI to buy Nvidia chips. The money is going out of one pocket and into another.
This "vendor financing" is what has analysts concerned about AI reaching bubble territory. Bryan McMahon explains what's going on.
prospect.org/power/2025-1...

The AI Ouroboros

Nvidia and other companies are paying startups to buy their products.

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 22h

I'm on board for Team Shame.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 23h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 22h

We should discuss on Thursday.

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 1d

You will make a much stronger PhD after ten years of living and writing and investigating than you ever would have at 22. Grad school is wasted on 22-year-old kids.

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 1d

JFC. Read the context. The reporters were already being escorted from the room. The female reporter tried to get one last question in. Trump was a pig, but there wasn't exactly an opportunity to take issue with it when most of the reporters had already been escorted out of the room.

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 2d

Unlike Senators and other legislators (who can blame the other chamber, the executive, the wrath of Khan, what-have-you), you really can judge a governor-with-ambitions by his vetoes. It would be law if he didn't personally block it.

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 2d

Thinking of an old Jello Biafra lyric: "Just put Rambo back inside your pants."

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 3d

It's a general trend of opposition to fees and barriers. Also, increased competition between Masters programs for students.

Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 3d

Neither of my Masters degrees, or my PhD required any kind of entrance exam.

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 4d

No remake. It's perfect. A sequel? I may be working on the book that could be cribbed for the script.

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 4d

Uh, you're supposed to do a reading group on my book. Remember?

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 4d

This is literally a joke from the old "Murphy Brown" TV show, when she stole the T off Trump Tower.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d

They know they won't be in power forever. So, they're breaking as much as they can right now, in the hope that whoever follows them won't be able to put it all back together.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 5d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 5d

Wasn't there a good one about getting short-listed for a prestigious prize?

(Condolences, of course.)

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 6d

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&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code

A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 7d

They'd be dating by now.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 7d

We are in a civil war.

Some people recognize it and some don't, but we have a federal government sending troops explicitly to "Democratic-run" cities, arresting opposition local politicians, and threatening to arrest mayors and governors who don't bend the knee.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 8d

"We?"

Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 8d

All that leprechaun-eating by our electeds really contributed to a bad reputation.