alexfinley.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

If you're heading to a protest tomorrow, it's important to know your rights. Consult this information from the ACLU. Be peaceful. Be safe. Be careful. Be strong.

submitted 1 hour ago • 61 comments

-chefs can use ready meals to save time on cooking -zoos can use stuffed toys to save money on animals -bars can serve piss and cut out the middle man

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Don't be so angry about the Mexican flags. It's heritage, not hate.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

CNN’s Jason Carroll was zip-tied and escorted away—for reporting the news. But they claimed he wasn’t under arrest? Why are they shooting rubber bullets at and silencing journalists? We still have a First Amendment.

submitted 3 days ago • 2043 comments

SEIU California President David Huerta has apparently been charged with a federal crime--conspiracy to impede an officer. This is a felony that carries a sentence of six years in federal prison.

submitted 4 days ago • 221 comments

Corporate profits have hit record highs. CEOs are paid 290x as much as a typical worker. We're subsidizing huge corporations that pay lousy wages through food stamps and Medicaid. But instead of cracking down on corporate greed, Republicans want to punish the working poor.

submitted 10 days ago • 54 comments

DOGE is now reviewing every NIH grant that goes out, I reported last week. That review is AI-driven and is screening for DEI, trans health, China, vaccine hesitancy, and the institutions to whom Trump has blocked funding, @hannahnatanson.bsky.social reports. Gift link: wapo.st/3HhnPSt

submitted 11 days ago • 38 comments

My view from lying like a lizard on the porch after the sun reappeared in Pittsburgh after 40 days.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Asking homeowners for permission would kill the break-in industry

submitted 18 days ago • 23 comments

1/ We’ve been sounding the alarm for months and now the Congressional Budget Office has confirmed it. This budget would gut Medicaid and SNAP, saddle states with new costs, and do real harm to working people. Let’s break it down 🧵

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

From Aug. 1 to Dec. 13, 2024, an algorithm canceled at least 70 Louisiana prisoners’ parole hearings, deeming them ineligible. One prisoner said he felt “betrayed.” “People in jail have … lost hope in being able to do anything to reduce their time.” With @veritenews.org ‬

submitted 24 days ago • 19 comments

Just stating what should be obvious, but won’t be to the industries embracing AI: the solution here is not to train the bots to refer only to real things. It is for us to agree that nobody should want vacant advice from a non-sentient language generator.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Lawmakers slipped a provision into the budget deal that blocks states from regulating AI for 10 years. That means no worker safeguards, no limits on surveillance, and no accountability for tech companies. It’s reckless and puts lives & livelihoods at risk.

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

Rarely does an academic conference give me hope for the world, but this was no ordinary conference!

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Georgia forcing the family of a brain dead Black woman to pay for her to remain on life support so the state can gestate her fetus is why we need pro-birth accountability laws that force a state to pay for all costs attending a forced birth. www.11alive.com/article/news...

submitted 29 days ago • 80 comments

Good lord just what the hell is up today. A potential ban on any regulation for AI for the next 10 years? This includes good bills like AB 412 of legislation protecting folks from Deepfakes! Wtf?! Call your congressmen and women asap to tell them to take this down! www.404media.co/republicans-...

submitted 32 days ago • 89 comments

Join LAWCHA in Chicago! Let me know if you’re attending and want to meet up!

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Guess investing in baristas IS important... if only SOMEONE had ideas that could, say, be put into a union contract......... oh wait

submitted 42 days ago • 186 comments

Penn State is still moving forward w/ plans to shut down one or more (up to 12) of its smaller campuses, including the one where I teach just outside of Pittsburgh. This is an open letter to the Board, asking the university to re-consider its decision. Please sign and share:

submitted 42 days ago • 5 comments

Increase in productivity since 1979: 86% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 31% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

submitted 43 days ago • 173 comments

Happy May Day!

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

IWW Summer starts now

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

If you're in Pittsburgh, please come out and hear Dr. Mccoy's talk today!

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Labor history event in Pittsburgh today! @austinmccoy.bsky.social

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

submitted 51 days ago • 726 comments

FUCK. THIS. All of this.

submitted 52 days ago • 1188 comments

A little bit of happy - some lovely student reflections from a workshop I did at Ohio University

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

If I see another article about birth rates that refuses to grapple with the way having children systematically disadvantages women I swear to god. There is no mystery. Stop pretending there is. We’ve got to do away with credulity for nonsense.

submitted 53 days ago • 67 comments

"Since the 19th century, US government actions have led to drastic changes in international trade and finance," @nelsonhist.bsky.social writes in #AHAPerspectives. "And in all four cases, the result was not recessions but depressions." 🗃️

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

“There is a way for universities to fight back…They must abandon all the concerns — rankings, donors, campus amenities — that preoccupy and distract them, and focus on their core mission: the production and dissemination of knowledge.”

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Are you a history professor who has been pressured to alter your curriculum — particularly regarding the history of Black & African American people in the United States? We would love to talk to you. Send us a DM!

submitted 63 days ago • 3 comments

Look, I’ve been in higher ed for close to 30 years. One thing I’ve learned is that thinking your sacrifice will be rewarded is a losing game. If you don’t stick up for yourself, your colleagues, your students, your department, your college, and your mission, you will be strangled to death.

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US

submitted 64 days ago • 308 comments

A fantasy of the perfect slave

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

If the ruling class is going to run roughshod over the labor laws and worker protections we won in the 1930s, then sure, we can go back to how things were before then. But they won’t like what happens 🧨 theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy...

submitted 67 days ago • 10 comments

Favorite #handsoff sign so far

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Full bus ride downtown to #handsoff Pittsburgh 🚌

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

We join @humanitiesall to condemn actions taken by the federal govt against the National Endowment for the Humanities. https://bit.ly/4i69BkJ Cuts to the NEH will ripple through the entire scholarly ecosystem, harm communities in every state & contribute to destroying our shared cultural heritage.

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

In this commentary, I argue that student-based teaching evaluations are problematic bc ✳️ systematic biases (e.g., racism, sexism) ✳️ poor construct validity ✳️ undermine standards and learning We should evaluate teaching as seriously as we do research. Or don't do teaching evaluations.

submitted 72 days ago • 8 comments

Parallel map for NEH funding to states. NB that 40% of NEH funding goes directly to the state humanities councils, which do critical community work and which benefits people --culturally and economically-- all across the country. www.neh.gov/impact/states

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

“‘Would you want your doctors not to be revisionists?’ Any field of study must innovate to maintain relevance. The assumption that there is a standard, agreed-upon truth about the country’s past is a fantasy.” Vital perspective from @dblight.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks the reminder, Athens.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Southeastern Ohio friends, would love to see you Tuesday!

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

submitted 76 days ago • 667 comments

Abortion bans kill women.

submitted 80 days ago • 101 comments

I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now.

submitted 78 days ago • 87 comments