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At Middlebury College, admin introduces deep budget cuts -- faculty vote (94%!) to walkout in protest ✊ Cuts include: 🔪 faculty/staff housing 🔪health insurance 🔪retirement (All while increasing undergraduate enrollment (i.e., speedup)) www.addisonindependent.com/2025/05/05/c...

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Mass's Fair Share Amendment is one of the most successful policies I've seen in the recent past (it increases funding for child care, ed, health, transit by taxing millionaires) But more millionaires is still a huge policy failure www.boston.com/news/local-n...

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I guess I'm actually proud to be so bad at social media that I did this whole thread to promote my article but forgot to post a link. Anyway, the article is open access, and you can find it here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

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Apply for the LaborTech Annual Awards, deadline June 1 2025. Welcoming submissions for monographs, graduate student papers and social justice awards which invite tech workers, labor organisers, activists, designers and others! @labortech.bsky.social labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards

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To what extent can tech workers mobilize as part of the broader working class? This is the question I take up in my new paper "Solidarity across the platform: mobilizing high-wage and low-wage workers in the tech sector" -- just out in Work in the Global Economy 1/n

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seatbelts

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New paper in HRMJ: Unions help make remote work more fair - based on research in the US, Canada, and Germany: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Here we go: every single @thedigradio.bsky.social guest on Bluesky go.bsky.app/4T6xwZf

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For SASE members who may be interested: MPIfG is accepting apps for its Visiting Researchers Program (Winter 2025/26). 2–12 mo stays in Cologne for researchers in econ soc & political econ. Apply by April 30 → sase.org/career-oppor... #AcademicJobs #SASE

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Today, in Istanbul’s Maltepe district, over 2.2 million citizens, according to organizers—took to the streets, demanding democracy, justice, and freedom in the face of Erdoğan’s increasingly authoritarian rule.

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Pretty soon we will all be talking about CoreWeave the same way we were all talking about Countrywide Financial back in 2008. on.ft.com/426yoOG

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Everyone everywhere should be protesting the egregious violation of the rule of law in the administration's detention of Mahmoud Khalil. Especially if you are faculty and Jewish -- since this is being done in our name -- please consider signing this open letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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We’re beyond thrilled to launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy If you’re a fellow political economist annoyed by all-male rooms & gendered comments— join us & share! 🗓️ 22-25 Sept, 2025 in Cologne 🚨 Apply by 25 Apr, 2025 www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025...

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are they coming to save us apnews.com/article/cali...

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Hands off our healthcare, our research, our jobs. Nationwide day of action, February 19th www.labor4highered.org

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Find comrades as hard core as the pigeons out there eating the rock salt off my driveway

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in 2017 when Trump first took office, Tech workers pushed bosses to speak out against him. 2025 is different; bosses are quick to fire and tamp down revolts. what it means to #resist inside Big Tech is more subtle now w/ @kateconger.com @sheeraf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/t...

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Come for the Dank Gramsci shoutout, stay for the "complex unity structured in dominance"

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Find me an occupation with better propaganda than paleontology

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Please spread the word! 👇 We are happy to announce that the next conference of the political economy section of the German Political Science association will take place @uni-mainz in September 2025. Join us to discuss "Political Economy Transformation in Hard Times" Submission deadline February 15

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Very happy for this article with @tomduterme.bsky.social to be out in the world. It's also the most straightforward title I've ever written: it does what it says on the tin!! Hope it will offer useful clarity for anyone reading or writing about these concepts.

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Important to point out there were at least 10k people protesting www.mdr.de/nachrichten/...

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2025, a good year to highlight a political truth: when we fight, we win. We saved our forest/water supply! Mayor Macksey: "given the public outcry regarding the impact the project could have on the Bellows Pipe Trail, I have decided to not move forward with the plan.” www.wamc.org/news/2024-12...

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"(Tusk)"

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