Juliet Schor
@julietschor.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at Boston College, TED talk The Case for the Four Day Week, https://www.ted.com/talks/juliet_schor_the_case_for_a_4_day_work_week?subtitle=en
global research on #4DayWeek, author of After the Gig
Boston, MA Born November 9, 1955
global research on #4DayWeek, author of After the Gig
Boston, MA Born November 9, 1955
A whole new phase here…very bad
Everyone:
SecDef Hegseth: Ya know what...
Everyone:
SecDef Hegseth: It's an ancient Hindu symbol meaning good fortune.
SecDef Hegseth: Ya know what...
Everyone:
SecDef Hegseth: It's an ancient Hindu symbol meaning good fortune.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
November 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A whole new phase here…very bad
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For @diagrammes.bsky.social, I had a conversation with @naomioreskes.bsky.social on the history of denial from the Cold War to the present climate crisis, on agnotology, on Trump 2.0 and much more.
Link to full interview including many portraits and historical sketches (French and English) ⬇️
Link to full interview including many portraits and historical sketches (French and English) ⬇️
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
For @diagrammes.bsky.social, I had a conversation with @naomioreskes.bsky.social on the history of denial from the Cold War to the present climate crisis, on agnotology, on Trump 2.0 and much more.
Link to full interview including many portraits and historical sketches (French and English) ⬇️
Link to full interview including many portraits and historical sketches (French and English) ⬇️
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Between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, join us in hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com?utm_source=i...
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, join us in hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com?utm_source=i...
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I want to take a moment to thank the entire Elias Law Group team who worked on the Texas redistricting case as well as our fearless clients. The thirteen Black and Latino voters we represented stood up to challenge Texas's unprecedented mid-decade redistricting. We all ow them a debt of gratitude.
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I want to take a moment to thank the entire Elias Law Group team who worked on the Texas redistricting case as well as our fearless clients. The thirteen Black and Latino voters we represented stood up to challenge Texas's unprecedented mid-decade redistricting. We all ow them a debt of gratitude.
@AAUP is doing such great work. Proud to be a member. Congratulations @veenadubal.bsky.social
"Defendants are ENJOINED and/or STAYED from conditioning the grant or continuance of federal funding on the UC’s agreement to any measures that would violate the rights of Plaintiffs’ members under the First Amendment."
WE WON!!!
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
November 15, 2025 at 2:18 AM
@AAUP is doing such great work. Proud to be a member. Congratulations @veenadubal.bsky.social
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In @huffpost.com: The Trump backlash that's transforming the Democratic Party in red states, blue states, and everything in between -- driven by @runforsomething.net & the 75,000 people who've signed up with us in the last year. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
The Trump Backlash That's Flying Under The Radar
In the past year, nearly 75,000 people have signed up to run for local and state office through Run for Something. And its candidates are winning.
www.huffpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
In @huffpost.com: The Trump backlash that's transforming the Democratic Party in red states, blue states, and everything in between -- driven by @runforsomething.net & the 75,000 people who've signed up with us in the last year. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Let me fix that for you:
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Let me fix that for you:
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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Totally agree.
How on earth is there no movie about Oleg Gordievsky?
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Totally agree.
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A group of Senate Democrats — led by Elizabeth Warren — is pushing for an investigation into the Trump admin's use of federal agency websites and emails to post partisan messages blaming Democrats for the shutdown.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Democrats seek investigation into agency messages blaming them for the shutdown
Several federal departments and agencies posted partisan messages on their websites and in out-of-office emails during the shutdown. Democrats believe the posts violate federal law.
www.nbcnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
A group of Senate Democrats — led by Elizabeth Warren — is pushing for an investigation into the Trump admin's use of federal agency websites and emails to post partisan messages blaming Democrats for the shutdown.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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Want a party that actually fights back? That doesn't fold? Run for office. We’ll help you.
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Want a party that actually fights back? That doesn't fold? Run for office. We’ll help you.
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
Read the latest installment of @billmckibben.bsky.social's The Crucial Years. Invaluable every week; this one just about brought me to tears. But there is always an uplift too. Solar through the roof. (sorry for the terrible pun...) billmckibben.substack.com/p/whale-oil-...
Whale Oil and Wind
Energy transitions, graceful and otherwise
billmckibben.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Read the latest installment of @billmckibben.bsky.social's The Crucial Years. Invaluable every week; this one just about brought me to tears. But there is always an uplift too. Solar through the roof. (sorry for the terrible pun...) billmckibben.substack.com/p/whale-oil-...
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"Improved employee wellbeing as well as organizational productivity" --Juliet Schor presents findings of study on 4-day, 32-hour work week during presentation at Mass Amherst @umassamherst.bsky.social @julietschor.bsky.social
#letsworkfour #4DayWorkweek #FutureOfWork #JulietSchor #WorkFour
#letsworkfour #4DayWorkweek #FutureOfWork #JulietSchor #WorkFour
October 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
"Improved employee wellbeing as well as organizational productivity" --Juliet Schor presents findings of study on 4-day, 32-hour work week during presentation at Mass Amherst @umassamherst.bsky.social @julietschor.bsky.social
#letsworkfour #4DayWorkweek #FutureOfWork #JulietSchor #WorkFour
#letsworkfour #4DayWorkweek #FutureOfWork #JulietSchor #WorkFour
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Americans Are Overworked. Could AI Change That? By @julietschor.bsky.social
AI promises to help us get more done in less time. It’s an opportunity to reverse the trend of American overwork, but powerful structural factors stand in the way.
behavioralscientist.org/americans-ar...
AI promises to help us get more done in less time. It’s an opportunity to reverse the trend of American overwork, but powerful structural factors stand in the way.
behavioralscientist.org/americans-ar...
Americans Are Overworked. Could AI Change That? - by Juliet Schor - Behavioral Scientist
AI promises to help us get more done in less time. It’s an opportunity to reverse the trend of American overwork, but powerful structural factors stand in the way.
behavioralscientist.org
October 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Americans Are Overworked. Could AI Change That? By @julietschor.bsky.social
AI promises to help us get more done in less time. It’s an opportunity to reverse the trend of American overwork, but powerful structural factors stand in the way.
behavioralscientist.org/americans-ar...
AI promises to help us get more done in less time. It’s an opportunity to reverse the trend of American overwork, but powerful structural factors stand in the way.
behavioralscientist.org/americans-ar...
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WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime
October 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime
Amazing Boston! Love you.
October 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Amazing Boston! Love you.
Don’t fall for it
Reject it now or it’ll be even harder after that meeting
Reject it now or it’ll be even harder after that meeting
BREAKING: The White House has confirmed it's called the 5 institutions who haven't signed its compact to a meeting this afternoon. Insiders tell us it's "an effort to regain momentum by threatening institutions to sign" @knottkatherine.bsky.social has the scoop www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
White House to Meet with Universities Regarding Compact
The scheduled meeting follows increasingly forceful pushback to the wide-ranging proposal.
www.insidehighered.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Don’t fall for it
Reject it now or it’ll be even harder after that meeting
Reject it now or it’ll be even harder after that meeting
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Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go!
Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.
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Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.
/1
October 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go!
Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.
/1
Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.
/1
And then there were five…
Another domino falls @bakerdphd.bsky.social
L.A. Times:
University of Southern California Rejects Trump Education Compact Aimed at Shifting the University to the Right
University of Southern California Rejects Trump Education Compact Aimed at Shifting the University to the Right
October 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
And then there were five…
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Monday, Oct. 20 at 4pm ET: Juliet Schor presentation on the "Movement for a Four-Day Workweek" Join us: Mass Amherst, Gordon Hall. Free & open to the public.
#letsworkfour #4DayWorkweek #FutureOfWork #JulietSchor #WorkFour @umassamherst.bsky.social @sbs-umass.bsky.social @julietschor.bsky.social
#letsworkfour #4DayWorkweek #FutureOfWork #JulietSchor #WorkFour @umassamherst.bsky.social @sbs-umass.bsky.social @julietschor.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Monday, Oct. 20 at 4pm ET: Juliet Schor presentation on the "Movement for a Four-Day Workweek" Join us: Mass Amherst, Gordon Hall. Free & open to the public.
#letsworkfour #4DayWorkweek #FutureOfWork #JulietSchor #WorkFour @umassamherst.bsky.social @sbs-umass.bsky.social @julietschor.bsky.social
#letsworkfour #4DayWorkweek #FutureOfWork #JulietSchor #WorkFour @umassamherst.bsky.social @sbs-umass.bsky.social @julietschor.bsky.social
Keep it up! Good start.
Last week it was MIT. Yesterday, Brown said no. Today, UPenn has rejected the compact, making it 1/3 of the schools who were initially asked rejecting it.
Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment
With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.
www.thedp.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Keep it up! Good start.