Erik Strobl
@erikstrobl.bsky.social
Organizing Director, SEIU 668. A terror since the public school era
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this reminds me of a friend who thought he was middle class so he donated his car to a charity that helps poor people and a month later, he saw his car at his neighbor's house
November 29, 2025 at 6:31 AM
this reminds me of a friend who thought he was middle class so he donated his car to a charity that helps poor people and a month later, he saw his car at his neighbor's house
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Never enough money to pay a living wage, always enough money to stoke power.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Never enough money to pay a living wage, always enough money to stoke power.
as usual, I won’t start drinking until the Lions start losing. Not feeling great
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
as usual, I won’t start drinking until the Lions start losing. Not feeling great
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Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
suspended pending promotion
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
suspended pending promotion
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“Hovering over all proposed solutions was the prospect of faculty unionization.… A lot of tenure-track faculty are now where graduate students were a few decades go.”
@cnewf.bsky.social reflects on his recent tour of U.S. universities
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/line...
@cnewf.bsky.social reflects on his recent tour of U.S. universities
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/line...
Liner Note 42. Since Your Power is the Story Then Never Interrupt It
Indiana University on November 6, 2025 Critiquing universities is one thing and rebuilding them is another. Getting from the first to...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
“Hovering over all proposed solutions was the prospect of faculty unionization.… A lot of tenure-track faculty are now where graduate students were a few decades go.”
@cnewf.bsky.social reflects on his recent tour of U.S. universities
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/line...
@cnewf.bsky.social reflects on his recent tour of U.S. universities
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/line...
this is exactly what you do when you’re not a pedophile
President Trump is making a last-ditch push to dissuade House Republicans from supporting a measure this week to release files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump Plays Hardball With GOP Lawmakers as Epstein Vote Approaches
Marjorie Taylor Greene says president is publicly targeting her to discourage other Republicans from supporting the measure.
on.wsj.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:38 AM
this is exactly what you do when you’re not a pedophile
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I find this pretty striking - we're not even offered the standard "here's why Mamdani's victory is actually trouble for the left" kind of gymnastics, the strategy really seems to be to hope no one notices
it is wild that Labour is doing exactly what the reactionary centrists recommend and is absolutely destroying its base of support as a result, and yet reactionary centrists in the US are just utterly silent about the complete failure of their program.
November 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I find this pretty striking - we're not even offered the standard "here's why Mamdani's victory is actually trouble for the left" kind of gymnastics, the strategy really seems to be to hope no one notices
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the Democratic Party should have 2 major goals for the next time it holds power: (1) completely rebuild the destroyed federal government capacity, and (2) crush the GOP, which enabled so much corruption and immiseration. destroy their funding, jail their leaders, make it so a new party has to emerge
November 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
the Democratic Party should have 2 major goals for the next time it holds power: (1) completely rebuild the destroyed federal government capacity, and (2) crush the GOP, which enabled so much corruption and immiseration. destroy their funding, jail their leaders, make it so a new party has to emerge
that’s why @wussymusic.bsky.social improved it
"Teenage Wasteland" is maybe the best two-word phrase in rock history and frickin Pete Townshend had to name the song "Baba O'Riley"
November 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
that’s why @wussymusic.bsky.social improved it
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The president is implicated in the crimes of his friend, the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and the Republican Party is protecting him
Nancy Mace is expected to pull her support for the petition to release the Epstein Files, the day before Adelita Grijalva is sworn in.
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The president is implicated in the crimes of his friend, the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and the Republican Party is protecting him
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The Third Circuit ruled in favor of @pghguild.com and said the Post-Gazette bargained in bad faith by offering contracts that took away key reasons for being in the union. The union is declaring victory after 3 years on strike, as the court ordered the paper to roll back changes it made in 2020.
3rd Circ. Rules Post-Gazette Bargained In Bad Faith - Law360
The Third Circuit on Monday affirmed that the publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had been bargaining with its unions in bad faith and should not have unilaterally imposed a new contract on newsr...
www.law360.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The Third Circuit ruled in favor of @pghguild.com and said the Post-Gazette bargained in bad faith by offering contracts that took away key reasons for being in the union. The union is declaring victory after 3 years on strike, as the court ordered the paper to roll back changes it made in 2020.
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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...
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...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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...
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...
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A serious answer to this question would involve nothing short of social revolution and wholesale reorganization of American society so we just laugh uneasily and pretend they’re serious people with a normal moral compass
As a Brit. Can anyone explain to me why every Sunday thr Republicans are given air time to spew bullshit live on TV without any push back?
November 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
A serious answer to this question would involve nothing short of social revolution and wholesale reorganization of American society so we just laugh uneasily and pretend they’re serious people with a normal moral compass
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In the eyes of the establishment, there’s literally nothing Mamdani can do to prove he’s not an antisemite, and literally nothing the openly fascist trump regime can do to prove they are, up to and including intentionally dressing like literal, historical Nazis
November 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
In the eyes of the establishment, there’s literally nothing Mamdani can do to prove he’s not an antisemite, and literally nothing the openly fascist trump regime can do to prove they are, up to and including intentionally dressing like literal, historical Nazis
“London Dungeon” is the scariest Misfits song because it’s about being stuck in Britain for an undetermined length of time
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“London Dungeon” is the scariest Misfits song because it’s about being stuck in Britain for an undetermined length of time
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"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"
Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
October 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"
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SEIU 668 President Steve Catanese has an eye patch.
October 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
SEIU 668 President Steve Catanese has an eye patch.
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a while ago @annakornbluh.bsky.social asked what living philosophers were from & educated in the Midwest & that got me thinking about how unis like DePaul, NWern, Loyola, Purdue, Miami, SIU-Carbondale, Marquette have long histories of grad programs emphasizing pluralist 'minor' traditions.
October 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
a while ago @annakornbluh.bsky.social asked what living philosophers were from & educated in the Midwest & that got me thinking about how unis like DePaul, NWern, Loyola, Purdue, Miami, SIU-Carbondale, Marquette have long histories of grad programs emphasizing pluralist 'minor' traditions.
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Remember Pennsylvanians to vote YES to retain our three state supreme court justices
Don't forget down ballot and retain Dubow and Wojick on the other courts as well
Don't forget down ballot and retain Dubow and Wojick on the other courts as well
October 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Remember Pennsylvanians to vote YES to retain our three state supreme court justices
Don't forget down ballot and retain Dubow and Wojick on the other courts as well
Don't forget down ballot and retain Dubow and Wojick on the other courts as well
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trump: [video of porn star blasting milk enema on his face]
news: trump responds to no kings rally with proposal for irrigation reform
news: trump responds to no kings rally with proposal for irrigation reform
October 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
trump: [video of porn star blasting milk enema on his face]
news: trump responds to no kings rally with proposal for irrigation reform
news: trump responds to no kings rally with proposal for irrigation reform
