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Carson Leigh Brown
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Organizing @newsguild.org and @cwaunion.bsky.social
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jortsthecat.bsky.social
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
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)
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
carsonleigh.bsky.social
Fingerprinting appointments are part of the green card process, too, by the way.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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unionelections.bsky.social
NEW: 88 Ski Patrollers for Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Wyoming are unionizing with @cwaunion.bsky.social.
Pictured is a field of red with text and a picture. The text is on the left side and reads "Employer: Jackson Hole Mountain Resort Unit Size: 88 Employees; Filed: November 20, 2025; Location: Teton Village, Wyoming; Industry/positions: Leisure and Hospitality safety. FT and PT Ski Patrollers." On the bottom there is text that reads "Made by @UnionsElections; @unionelections.bsky.social. Logo property of UAW." On the right side is the logo of UAW.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
carsonleigh.bsky.social
the owner of an irish pub i frequented in the south of france gave me the typical, joyous "a good irish name!" response to finding out my last name before his smile dropped and the blood drained out of his face :) love that man
owasow.bsky.social Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 1d
“Experimental data from largest online survey of Irish Americans reveal learning about African Americans with Irish ancestry reduces prejudice among white Irish Americans who identify with Irish American identity, and effects are mostly driven by Republicans…” www.jasmineenglish.net/uploads/1/4/...
Title page) Title page with centered serif text reading “Close Race: Harnessing Multiracialism to Reduce Racial Prejudice*”. Below is the author name “Jasmine English†” and below that the date “October 31, 2025”, all centered with white background. Screenshot of the paper’s abstract in serif font. The text explains that multiracial populations are the fastest growing in the U.S., and the paper examines how learning about African Americans with Irish ancestry influences racial attitudes among white Irish Americans. It reports experimental findings showing that such information reduces racial prejudice, especially among Republicans and those with higher baseline prejudice, and suggests multiracialism may reduce perceived racial distance. Figure 1: Racial Resentment) Coefficient plot titled “Treatment Effects: Racial Resentment.” The x-axis is Coefficient Estimate with a dashed vertical zero line. Four rows correspond to Treat, TreatLinked, TreatClose, and Treat*Important. The interaction terms show larger negative estimates (around −0.05 to −0.18) than in Figure 2, indicating stronger reductions in racial resentment. Model estimates are color-coded and labeled in a legend at bottom left. Table 7: Reduced Racial Essentialism “I was actually very surprised, it’s a much larger percentage than I realized. I guess I’ve been raised that white people are much more likely to be Irish.” “I was really surprised. I honestly had no idea and just thought, like me, Irish is basically white.” “I am surprised, as I think of typical Irish Americans to be very white.” “I was surprised - I had no idea. Usually when I think “Irish” I think of very fair skin, red hair, and blue eyes (like my mom)” “I was surprised! The term African American makes me think their lineage would be purely African, but I suppose no one really has ancestry tied to one place and one place only.” “I was surprised as I believed that Irish people were overwhelmingly White. It makes me more course to know about how such a high percentage of African Americans came to have Irish ancestry.” “That is surprising to me. I always picture people with more fair skin being Irish.” “I was surprised, but once I thought about it made sense. Eventually all of us will have a little bit of all ancestries in us.” Notes: Open-ended responses that illustrate a shift away from racial essentialism among treated respondents.
November 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
carsonleigh.bsky.social
unfathomable
c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 1d
Fresh back from a taxpayer-funded trip to Israel and Uzbekistan, Mayor Adams already has plans to visit New Orleans next week to get an award for “his leadership in fighting antisemitism" by a group that honored him for the same thing in Tel Aviv last week.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/24/a...
NYC Mayor Adams heading to New Orleans for award from same group that honored him in Israel
Fresh back from a trip to Israel and Uzbekistan, Mayor Eric Adams already has plans to hit the road again next week, when he will visit New Orleans to be honored for “his leadership in fighti…
www.nydailynews.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
carsonleigh.bsky.social
an oldie but goodie www.teenvogue.com/story/what-t...

(relatedly, teen vogue's recent anti-union firings will make this type of work more difficult)
November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Reposted by Carson Leigh Brown
adamserwer.bsky.social
Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
larryglickman.bsky.social Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 2d
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
One immediate winner to emerge from the encounter has been Jack Posobiec, a far-right podcaster and activists who was recently credentialed as a member of the White House press pool. As Mr. Trump and Mr. Mamdani fielded questions from reporters, Mr. Posobiec, pressed the mayor-elect on his campaign policy proposals, asking whether Mr. Mamdani intended to increase property taxes for “white people” in New York City.
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
carsonleigh.bsky.social
I remember going to the Last Look in 2018! So so so excited to go back! amsterdamnews.com/news/2025/11...
The Studio Museum, Harlem's gem, is back and brighter than ever
The Studio Museum in Harlem is back, bigger and bolder than ever.
amsterdamnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
carsonleigh.bsky.social
And the great learning from our libraries "will be delivered to you by an army of overworked, underpaid, too-often verbally abused library staff, who deserve so much better from Britain, from their government, from the executives of the British Library, and from all of us."
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13d
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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pghguild.com
BREAKING: We won!

Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.

pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
A yellow bridge in front of a city background with three banners reading "POST-GAZETTE STRIKERS WILL WIN".
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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newsguild.org
🚨BREAKING: STRIKERS WIN!

The order affirms what we’ve said all along: The PG’s lawless union-busting cannot stand. We made sure it didn’t. We’re taking back what they stole from us. We won this strike.
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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nyguild.bsky.social
Nearly a 1,000 people have signed the
@condeunion.bsky.social and @newyorkerunion.bsky.social
petition to reinstate the Fired Four and reverse the suspensions. JOIN US in standing up for workers' rights and tell Conde Nast that union-busting is DISGUSTING actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Tell Condé bosses to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions and end the union-busting
On Nov. 5, 2025 in an egregious attempt at union-busting, Condé Nast management illegally terminated four union members – Alma Avalle, Jake Lahut, Jasper Lo and Ben Dewey – for participating in federa...
actionnetwork.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
carsonleigh.bsky.social
I found "I agreed to an interview. I did this because, in ways you might think I’d have outgrown by now, I’m a fucking idiot," to be particularly relatable
bakerdphd.bsky.social Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17d
I mean, c'mon, that's prose honey
Screenshot of article that reads: Because what this sort of reporting ultimately means is that if you have enough money to get somebody, anybody, to produce a white paper for you, which you can then put on some think-tank stationery? Then, my friend, you are ready to enter into the rushing current of elite reportage. For no matter how unhinged the position you’ve taken, or paid someone marginally credentialed to sketch out on your behalf—“Can Woman Think?: We Investigate,” “Is the Negro a Man: A Reconsideration”—that opinion will, by virtue of such provenance, possess all needed evidentiary gravity for the Times. And then some. Screenshot of the article which reads: It’s not that those things don’t matter: they absolutely goddamn do, and will keep on mattering, and I wouldn’t go on with the whole tedious business of teaching if I thought otherwise. It’s just that they never mattered much to the Times and they are, to appearances, mattering less and less by the day. I should remember that, and so should you.
November 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Reposted by Carson Leigh Brown
bakerdphd.bsky.social
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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lexmcmenamin.com
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
carsonleigh.bsky.social
Amid settler attacks, Palestinians are trying to save their traditional olive and date harvests one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5592...
🔊 Listen Now: Amid settler attacks, Palestinians are trying to save their traditional olive and date harvests
All Things Considered on NPR One | 7:15
one.npr.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Reposted by Carson Leigh Brown
hebagowayed.bsky.social
I go to a 6 am gym class and on my way back there were folks already lined up outside our local food pantry. Four people who looked in their 70s — among them a man listening to the radio about the Mets. They pushed carts ahead of them.
hebagowayed.bsky.social Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 26d
I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.
October 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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bookshop.org
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Reposted by Carson Leigh Brown
dieworkwear.bsky.social
But his assertion that diversity weakens unions ignores two things. First, labor unions have a long history of multiethnic coalitions. Second, it was the capitalists and political elites who tried to *exploit* ethnic divisions to maintain power. There is only one person here trying to stop unions:
New York Times headline reads: Trump Hotel Workers Campaign for a Union, Over the Boss's Objections New York Times headline reads: Trump Moves to Strip More Federal Workers of Union Protections.
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
carsonleigh.bsky.social
Dad, may he rest in peace, always said Mario was a gift to NY + he should have been president “but America wasn’t ready for an Italian president.” Watching his son capitalize on this racist BS makes my stomach turn. There’s no shame in losing a race run well, but there’s tons in whatever this is.
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 27d
So here's Andrew Cuomo reacting to Maria Bartiromo wondering if Mamdani will "change the look of New York" and have Muslim women "completely covered up," telling her that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture" because he has "dual citizenship" and "he's a citizen of Uganda."
October 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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diskdoktor.bsky.social
Check out @workingclasshistory.com It's time for lessons to be learnt brothers and sisters
workingclasshistory.com Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 28d
Did you know that you can browse thousands of our stories on our free, interactive, online Map? We've got stories of people's history of resistance and rebellion from over 200 countries and dependencies. Check them out at map.workingclasshistory.com/
October 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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drsubini.blacksky.app
A reminder-there are really great books about magic that center Black & Brown & queer characters where profits don't go to tearing down trans community=The Marvellers @dhonielle.bsky.social; Nic Blake @angiethomas.bsky.social ; The Vanquishers-Kaylynn Bayron; Amari & The Night Brothers-B.B. Alston
elierlick.bsky.social Eli Erlick @elierlick.bsky.social · Oct 25
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
October 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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logicallyjc.bsky.social
Gee, I can’t imagine why…
October 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
carsonleigh.bsky.social
I used to have a dad with whom I could have a complex, joyful, loving, rage inducing, frustrating, all encompassing, delightful, ridiculous pattern-repeating relationship, and now all I get is photos of him on a patio in Brooklyn the one and only time I got to drink too many martinis with him.
October 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM