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‘Rebel Ridge’, maybe?
Oh hell yeah, it's Labor Day Weekend so we're posting the ILWGU song. Look at that 80s style and hair! ICONIC.
The day my husband let me talk AT him about grunion runs and Over-the-Line is when I knew.* *A lie but now I’m in this too lfg
Guess I’ll plan sabotage and subterfuge without my Hobonichi Techo in ‘26.
Just had a deep pang of grief, feeling the absence of the Bodega Boys take on Winnie Greco’s sour cream and onion bribery bag
I’ll tell you this. A favorite campus dining spot closed last semester, with almost no notice. It’s been replaced by a fully automated kiosk. The kids are pissed. Asking all the right questions about labor and human contact and sociality. Some of the kids are alright.
Still there, still dope and still hilarious off the mic.
There's an episode of the Nod where their producer gets to meet LeVar Burton and it's deeper than awe. He didn't just teach generation of kids to love books he taught a generation it's OK to be curious about the world
I know the NBC execs were! Anytime anyone stunts on Frasier I’m just so happy. It’s why Cam Winston eps are perfect.
Cheers and altar lord help me
The Cheer’s waitress who left Frasier at the alter and shows up in an episode MADE for haters (I’m a hater).
Exactly. And the higher-than-expected percentage that are deaths by suicide.
At least ‘News Radio’ knew to keep Joe Rogan off the mic.
That’s a load-bearing ‘Clueless’ watch.
Goths when someone complains about Halloween creep youtu.be/KFPI9b9N6CQ
Labor organizers in the South and young unionized workers everywhere.
The stories and outfits alone. But then you also get a lesson on the 16ths in Michael McDonald’s “I Keep Forgetting”. Gold. m.youtube.com/watch?v=YMza...
Highly recommend the ep of The Roundtable with Toto’s Steve Porcaro and David Paich (they talk ‘Human Nature’, Cheryl Lynn, Don Henley, Prince and more). NB: This can lead to watching 80s Star Licks tutorials and developing Joe, Steve and Jeff Porcaro impersonations that please no one.
Also my high school!
Side effects include washed-out visuals, drowsiness, looking confused in local business.
Two striking DC33 workers, one of whom is pregnant, were the victims of a hit-and-run last week when a drunk driver drove into their picket line. Tyree Ford, a sanitation worker and father of four, sustained serious injuries and is still in critical condition. www.gofundme.com/f/tyree-ford...
SFHs with relatively large lots and lawns at that.
And immediately start looking for a new, amenable soup-maker to “rescue.”
And without a union. But across the street from a union shop full of loudmouths.
I’m listening …
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A man my aunt insists on calling “Mississippi Masala’s Son” and who spits? This ain’t the right bait.
The elfin gasps they will gasp.
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I’m deadass.
Do they like dads, squares and money?
Just need $200M to make this* happen. Staples, Bowery Kitchen Supply—I’m looking at you. * Screenings, a free meal initiative and a social housing pilot program
Using this slight in my pitch for raucous midnight screenings of ‘Michael Clayton’. Thrown baguettes. Choreo to the U North music. “Y-You don’t want the money?” breakdowns. Flip phones. Tilda wigs. Horses.
Some people are saying tomorrow would also be great. Grand, even. Noble.
Cannot wait for this—both as a researcher and as the partner of an organizer whom I lure into watching things by saying “There are labor/union themes…”
"Los Angeles is a city of immigrants. It is also a city of unions. And in California, those two constituencies have essentially melded into one." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/b...
It’s so jovial and warm. And welcoming! It’s not barking in your face or shoulder checking your spirit like [oh no signal lost]
youtu.be/Q49vjFN6Fsw
600 election victories. I’ve been trying to let that sink in all day. Workers have chosen the union SIX HUNDRED times in the last 3.5 years. That’s about one election win every other day. Truly incredible.
She’s being represented by the law firm of one of my former classmates which absolutely tracks. (There’s also video of her Truth performance on YT and it’s … something.)
I’m so proud of Ben. Working with Ben & Jerry’s has only ever made me proud. And it keeps making me proud.
SBWU is not getting as much coverage as it did at first, but they are role models in many ways: Continuing to organize under a hostile government, backing up their demands with strikes. This is what labor power is gonna look like as the NLRB gets gutted. It can be done.
Justice for Jheri and prayers up to my comrades with “Must Be the Money” stuck in their heads now.
"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met." Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time time.com/collections/...
They’re both right and I miss her.
Had I not been listening to The Dream podcast while checking my email a few weeks ago … There was a pitch juuuust cynical and knowing enough to be almost flattering.
Even if that were true, I don’t see feigned frugality getting in the way of an opp for cruelty and control. But I certainly hope they don’t.
I could see select access to “safe” food and medicine also being used to encourage state-preferred behaviors (e.g. marriage, childbirth, snitching, enhanced voluntary surveillance, joining the military, working in certain sectors, clapping on the 1 and 3 etc.)
Charles Burnett’s "Killer of Sheep" at Film Forum: a natural, non-melodramatic portrayal of life in the Black neighborhood of Watts (LA) in 1971. Captures the vibe and tribulations of poor inner-city life perfectly. Hard to believe this was a student film. Check it out. filmforum.org/film/killer-...
I’m going to break myself trying to find this lowly worm hat.
Oh damn — WIP or is it out?
When Prodigy said “there’s a war going on outside no man is safe” he was talking about spring.
And still with the “limousine”s. “Subway socialist” “Subaru socialist” — it’s not ‘89, James.
Single White Female Gone Girl Misery The Color Purple The Hand That Rocks the Craddle I’m mainly thinking about works that are used to shorthand assessments of individual women offscreen because it feels like a lil’ indicator.
Few days earlier and he could have made this announcement on the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Thorough!!
Thank god The Pitt’s editors are a bit less sadistic and signpost so you can look away. Like, “That Arm” in S1 of The Knick is pure jumpscare. No warning, no mercy and no Dr. Robby to help you recover. Just Clive Owen sweatin.’ (And it was perfect.)
Hamilton was also occupied in 1996 in protest of the lack of ethnic studies offerings and (I think) a unified dept. There were arrests, a little encampment, a hunger strike and an action at Low Library.
The only good news I’ll read this week. Bless Soderbergh’s “Below Deck” watching ass.
Rand Paul has introduced a National Right to Work Act. The bill is an attack on organized labor and workers across the country. It would make it harder for workers to unionize, win good contracts, and maintain their unions.
KILLER OF SHEEP ON CRITERION. OUT MAY 27. It was an honor to be a consulting producer on this release. I am grateful to be of service to Charles Burnett. I am thankful for my former colleagues at @criterion.bsky.social + @milestonefilms.bsky.social. more info: www.criterion.com/films/34233-...
Exactly when you’d want a chill Mohammed to show up.
While also saying things the Jackal might say??
BREAKING: Starbucks Workers United is going on strike. Tomorrow unionized Starbucks workers are walking out in multiple key cities. And @sbworkersunited.org's rolling strike will grow in the coming days. 537 stores and 10,000+ workers are in the union and could potentially strike.
