Dave Kamper
@dskamper.bsky.social
Avuncular unionist, uxorious husband, labor historian, cat guy. "Who's Got the Power?: The Resurgence of American Unions" coming in 2025 from New Press. Lives in Minnesota. Posts are personal. The cat in the profile pic is Laverne, aka Peanut.
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Dave Kamper
@dskamper.bsky.social
· Aug 23
Omigodomigodomigod it’s a real book and everything.
On sale October 14th!
On sale October 14th!
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Also I just wanna say that the idea that me too was a walk in the park and it could happen to anyone at random...
Literally go fuck yourself.
Literally go fuck yourself.
November 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Also I just wanna say that the idea that me too was a walk in the park and it could happen to anyone at random...
Literally go fuck yourself.
Literally go fuck yourself.
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#MeToo was a necessary and overdue reckoning. Sexual violence against women and girls continues to be rampant. So we still need to talk about it. Women will not forget. And we’re not going back to silence and shame.
It's in the fucking name. That it happens to so many of us that it's never just the one person who is harmed.
It's me, too.
It's me, too.
November 17, 2025 at 4:17 AM
#MeToo was a necessary and overdue reckoning. Sexual violence against women and girls continues to be rampant. So we still need to talk about it. Women will not forget. And we’re not going back to silence and shame.
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Larry Summers still teaches at Harvard. Imagine what it feels like to be a woman walking into this guy's classroom after reading those Epstein emails.
From this Crimson story: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
From this Crimson story: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Larry Summers still teaches at Harvard. Imagine what it feels like to be a woman walking into this guy's classroom after reading those Epstein emails.
From this Crimson story: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
From this Crimson story: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Please consider signing this petition to restore Indiana University's Labor Studies Department.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/la...
actionnetwork.org/petitions/la...
Labor Studies is Vital for Working Hoosiers
In 2025, Indiana passed HEA/HB1001, a budget law requiring public colleges to seek approval for continuing low-enrollment degree programs. In response, universities—including multiple Indiana Universi...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Please consider signing this petition to restore Indiana University's Labor Studies Department.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/la...
actionnetwork.org/petitions/la...
Yeah, pretty fucking sick. Is @americanprogress.bsky.social still thrilled they have him writing policy papers for them?
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Yeah, pretty fucking sick. Is @americanprogress.bsky.social still thrilled they have him writing policy papers for them?
Shameless plug: Occupy gets serious attention as an antecedent to the labor upsurge of the 2020s in my new book. thenewpress.org/books/whos-g...
November 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Shameless plug: Occupy gets serious attention as an antecedent to the labor upsurge of the 2020s in my new book. thenewpress.org/books/whos-g...
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Pulled under by what again? What exactly was the root cause? What was the basic issue?
November 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Pulled under by what again? What exactly was the root cause? What was the basic issue?
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📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
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Keep coming back to Summers’ annoyance that this female mentee he’s trying to sleep with “takes her presentation very seriously.” To men like this—to a lot of men—women’s intellectual or professional ambition is an irritating presumption that they condescend to tolerate.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Keep coming back to Summers’ annoyance that this female mentee he’s trying to sleep with “takes her presentation very seriously.” To men like this—to a lot of men—women’s intellectual or professional ambition is an irritating presumption that they condescend to tolerate.
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I don’t think women’s professional ambitions should be limited by how tactfully or gamely they respond to men’s sexual entitlement.
November 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I don’t think women’s professional ambitions should be limited by how tactfully or gamely they respond to men’s sexual entitlement.
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@americanprogress.bsky.social needs to cut ties with this creep immediately, and publicly say why they’re doing it.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
@americanprogress.bsky.social needs to cut ties with this creep immediately, and publicly say why they’re doing it.
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If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
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The lady who banged her subject, the Looney Tunes presidential candidate, and the nepobaby of Carl Bernstein and Nora Ephron both have journalism jobs with health insurance and I do not
I am a significantly better reporter and loved having health insurance
I am a significantly better reporter and loved having health insurance
November 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The lady who banged her subject, the Looney Tunes presidential candidate, and the nepobaby of Carl Bernstein and Nora Ephron both have journalism jobs with health insurance and I do not
I am a significantly better reporter and loved having health insurance
I am a significantly better reporter and loved having health insurance
@americanprogress.bsky.social needs to cut ties with this creep immediately, and publicly say why they’re doing it.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
@americanprogress.bsky.social needs to cut ties with this creep immediately, and publicly say why they’re doing it.
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In keeping with the theme of the University of Minnesota walking out of negotiations: yesterday the graduate labor union at the U filed a petition with the state to finally get the University to follow the law. Explainer below, tl;dr press release here: umnglu.org/wp-content/u...
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November 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
In keeping with the theme of the University of Minnesota walking out of negotiations: yesterday the graduate labor union at the U filed a petition with the state to finally get the University to follow the law. Explainer below, tl;dr press release here: umnglu.org/wp-content/u...
This shell game has gotten worse and worse in higher education. They assign job duties to a title that, three decades ago, didn’t have job duties, and try to pretend they’re not ducking labor law. Shameful.
The work fellows and RAs do is often identical. Faculty certainly don't treat us differently or even keep track of who is what. I am a graduate fellow but have seamlessly changed semester to semester from fellow to RA and back. I do the same things no matter which title I happen to have.
November 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This shell game has gotten worse and worse in higher education. They assign job duties to a title that, three decades ago, didn’t have job duties, and try to pretend they’re not ducking labor law. Shameful.
Yes! We’re Minnesota. We’re supposed to be setting the national standard for civic life and good governance. The university is violating the public trust.
This is a labor rights thing, but EVEN IF YOU DON'T SUPPORT GRAD UNIONS, THIS MATTERS. The U is BREAKING THE LAW.
This law says that graduate fellows are in the same union bargaining unit as teaching (TAs) and research assistants (RAs).
This law says that graduate fellows are in the same union bargaining unit as teaching (TAs) and research assistants (RAs).
November 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Yes! We’re Minnesota. We’re supposed to be setting the national standard for civic life and good governance. The university is violating the public trust.
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They’re auctioning something called a Buttocks Basket and Joanne said it was for when you get your ass handed to you and reader that’s why I married her.
We're watching a live online auction and it desperately needs a chat function
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
They’re auctioning something called a Buttocks Basket and Joanne said it was for when you get your ass handed to you and reader that’s why I married her.
They’re auctioning something called a Buttocks Basket and Joanne said it was for when you get your ass handed to you and reader that’s why I married her.
We're watching a live online auction and it desperately needs a chat function
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
They’re auctioning something called a Buttocks Basket and Joanne said it was for when you get your ass handed to you and reader that’s why I married her.
We're watching a live online auction and it desperately needs a chat function
November 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
We're watching a live online auction and it desperately needs a chat function
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can’t really express the level of contempt i have for what is just a form of solipsism. “the things that annoy me are the only things that exist and also the worst things imaginable”
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
can’t really express the level of contempt i have for what is just a form of solipsism. “the things that annoy me are the only things that exist and also the worst things imaginable”
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Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It.
www.thenation.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
Attn @possumeveryhour.io
Jeff the Neighborhood Opossum update: really has a problem with the camera.
November 15, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Attn @possumeveryhour.io