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David A. Banks

@davidabanks.online
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Author of The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America. Delegate to the Troy Area Labor Council for UUP / AFT- Local 2190. Officer for Contingents, UUP Albany Chapter.

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Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV @solongdentalplan.com · 28/09/2026
Solidarity with @seiu1199nw.bsky.social
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David A. Banks @davidabanks.online · 29/09/2026
Now is a great time to be watching battlestar galactica
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pen, watercolor, black & white charcoal pencil.

Another featured piece from the Spooky Pants book.

A man in a sweater stands with his hands on his hips looking out of a large window with the curtains open. Things aren’t looking good outside, reader. A massive winged demon is emerging from the clouds as dozens of little ghosts and bone demons rip through the sky. On the ground below we see townsfolk running through the grass. Our man in the window is in no mood for this. He lets us know, “Oh, I am in no mood for this.” His dog looks out the window as well, wagging its tail. 

Fantasia (1940) inspired drawing. I think I could’ve gone a little heavier with the chaos outside but we’ll try again with fresh drawings this October. I like how the clouds turned out. Trying to balance my sloppy lines with more detail can be tricky but I think we achieved a good result.
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Frog Every Day @frogeveryday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Michele the frog
Michele the frog
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hell yeah. Hell yeah brother. Here we go. Hit me with this content. Hell yeah. I can feel it.
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The idea that Heinlein's Starship Troopers were fascists is a lazy Leftist smear
Just because you don't like an idea doesn't mean it's Nazi
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David A. Banks @davidabanks.online · 09/09/2026
I have a book chapter coming out next year about this episode! solongdentalplan.com
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Coming April 2027 from SUNY Press - So Long, Dental Plan!
“So Long, Dental Plan!” Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV Edited by Shaun Richman We’re excited to announce that “So Long, Dental Plan” Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggl...
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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 26/08/2026
Teachers were paid less than other college graduates in every state, with relative teacher pay gaps ranging from 10.4% in Rhode Island to 40.7% in Colorado. 👉 The teacher pay penalty was at least 25% in 25 states. Visit the report for an interactive map (Figure D) to see your state's gap. 3/4
The teacher weekly wage penalty is at least 25% in 25 states
Regression-adjusted estimates by state, pooled CPS data for 2020–2025

Notes: Figure shows state-specific regression-adjusted weekly wage penalties for public school teachers (elementary, middle, and secondary) relative to their college-educated, nonteaching peers. See Allegretto and Mishel 2019, Appendix A, for more details on data and methodology.

Source: Author’s analysis of Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Group data accessed via the EPI Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 2026.6.10 (EPI 2026a),  https://microdata.epi.org.
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David A. Banks @davidabanks.online · 18/08/2026
Hate to do this but my dept lost a remote adjunct and need someone to last-minute cover an online undergrad intro-level course titled “China: People and Places.” Pays $6k. DMs are open. Please share.
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stellz @piss.beauty · 10/08/2026
which way, fair ferengi clothed daughter or faggy son
moogie from star trek ds9Rom from star trek ds9
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David A. Banks @davidabanks.online · 06/08/2026
This is gonna be a banger!
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David A. Banks @davidabanks.online · 04/08/2026
I would say “stop falling for this!” but I think what is actually happening is oil majors and governments trying desperately to keep prices within a range that doesn’t obliterate the global economy. Seems like they’re delaying the inevitable though.
from the FT:

Middle East war
Oil falls after Bessent says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz is imminent
Brent drops 4% and US stocks hit record high as Iranian and Omani negotiators agree on temporary shipping arrangement
UPDATED
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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Hey man, maybe just make the sandwiches and take a pic of them.
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
At long last, my much anticipated art newsletter post on sci-fi frogs is here! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/frogs/ Artists credits: Terry Oakes, Dave Trampier, Hajime Sorayama, and Eddie Jones.
A humanoid frog god wearing a robe holds a crystal ball containing the faces of two people.Frogs with bat-like wings are flying in a light blue sky.A metallic frog-shaped fishing lure splashes in green water.A large purple alien frog sits on a rock, looking up at a teal spaceship emitting a beam of light in a red sky.
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David A. Banks @davidabanks.online · 16/07/2026
I am now automatically and completely negatively polarized against anything named after something in the Lord of the Rings www.wired.com/story/reflec...
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The US Approves Launch of Mirror Satellite That Can Reflect Sunlight and Illuminate the Earth at Night
The FCC authorized Reflect Orbital to launch the mirror satellite Eärendil-1. “For optical astronomy, this poses an existential threat,” the European Southern Observatory said.
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No Gods No Mayors Podcast @nogodsnomayors.com · 07/07/2026
On the bonus feed, we're examining the hellmouth that John Hickenlooper opened in Denver with @davidabanks.online: nogodsnomayors.com
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David A. Banks @davidabanks.online · 22/03/2026
I really tried to like this site but it just doesn’t provide the info it needs to. People on here are more concerned with media personalities’ reputations than the actual content of news (I.e. the most consequential geopolitical events of this century)
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David A. Banks @davidabanks.online · 06/03/2026
Me at work trying to use web services, to the tune of Bush's Machinehead: Login, logout, login, logout, login, logout
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
New in Academe: "The Underclass Is in Session" by David Banks: www.aaup.org/issue/winter... @davidabanks.online
We must break out of the frame that presents tenure as something recently lost that must be restored. Instead, let’s just look at academic labor as it is right now, for better or worse.
—David Banks, “The Underclass Is in Session”
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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Starting to think these weren’t really applied with the consideration required by law
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David A. Banks @davidabanks.online · 29/01/2026
This is by no means a criticism but... man. I used to go to The Verge for escapist tech reviews. Now everything is AI garbage or something to protect yourself from the gestapo.
The Verge front page is a "best gas masks: on tear gas and what it means when the government  uses it on civilians." by Sarah Jeong
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David A. Banks @davidabanks.online · 28/01/2026
The Turk Oz is coming for the Armenians!
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David A. Banks @davidabanks.online · 27/01/2026
"co-working is once again one of the fastest-growing segments of the office market. Economic uncertainty and the rise of artificial intelligence are compelling more companies to embrace flexibility for their workspace." www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
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New Breed of Shared Offices Is Bringing Co-Working Market Back to Life
Big companies such as Pfizer and Amazon are taking co-working space, helping spark a resurgence in shared offices.
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Air Budd Dwyer @airbudddwyer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
can you imagine being the federal agent assigned to bluesky, just getting scolded by deep space nine experts while all your buddies get like challenge coins
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Alex Han @alexhan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
It's worth noting that the killer this morning was not a freshly minted ICE officer but a veteran Border Patrol agent who has theoretically been through years of "training."
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
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David A. Banks @davidabanks.online · 21/01/2026
Shocked Pikachu face to indicate that this isn’t surprising at all.
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David A. Banks @davidabanks.online · 17/01/2026
Correcting how I do the dishes is neoliberalism
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C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This is her real job and she's very good at it
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David A. Banks @davidabanks.online · 15/01/2026
At my parents’ house and found a 20-year-old newspaper. How things have changed!
Newspaper with the headline “House gets tough on sex offenders”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump adm...
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Drawing of a Republican Politician saying “I want everyone to die” and a Dem Politician saying “I don’t, but that’s cool. How can I help?”
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
BREAKING: Nearly 15,000 New York City nurses are now on strike at Mount Sinai, Montefiore, and New York Presbyterian. It's the largest nurses' strike in NYC history.
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David A. Banks @davidabanks.online · 08/01/2026
lol drill baby drill! (WSJ)
Trump has repeatedly raised the prospect of lowering oil prices to $50 a barrel, his preferred level, two senior administration officials said.But oil prices are already low, with the U.S. benchmark hovering around $56 a barrel Wednesday, and Trump has struggled to persuade U.S. oil-and-gas producers to crank out more crude and help him accomplish his political goals.
Many companies see $50 a barrel as a threshold below which it becomes
unprofitable to drill, and a sustained period of low oil prices could decimate the U.S. shale industry, which has been a key backer of the president.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 05/01/2026
Feel like it shld be front page, 34-sized font headline news that the person who gave ~$250 million to Trump campaign and then was co-president for a few months, dismantling agencies and stealing Americans' data, built an AI tool that is being used for child porn. This Sept. piece is instructive
How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image
Mr. Musk said he wanted xAI’s chatbot to be “politically neutral.” His actions say otherwise.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/technology/elon-musk-grok-conservative-chatbot.html?searchResultPosition=1
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/01/2026
The New York Times has just confirmed that 40 civilians died in President Trump's invasion. This is the aftermath in one area
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Seth Harp: 'The unit that abducted President Nicolas Maduro was Delta Force, an organization filled with cokeheads and pervaded by drug trafficking. You can bet that the only narcotics involved were the ones that they were on.'
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ᴋɪɴɢᴘɪɴ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ɪɴᴋᴘᴇɴ @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 03/01/2026
Mamdani been mayor for five minutes & is pulling up on slumlords, tearing up flooring himself, disgusted, and took the whole media with him. He is HIM 😭
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David A. Banks @davidabanks.online · 31/12/2025
My 2025 resolution was to stop procrastinating so I think I’m gonna work on that today.
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Meechy Dorko @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 31/12/2025
i am losing my mind over this listing that staged a condemned philly trap house with AI
trashed living room with stairwell and the ceiling is caving in but there's a pristine white couch and ottomans with blue throw pillows and matching rug

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6327-Wheeler-St-Philadelphia-PA-19142/10403865_zpid/?dining room of same with the caving in ceiling directly above a dining table and full service for 8upstairs bedroom with crumbling walls and debris all over the bare subfloor but a pristine while bed and fabric headboard and shelves and art on the wallsanother bedroom, water stained ceiling and drywall peeling off but a kids bedroom with again pristine white sheets and art on the walls and toys. apparently they got the electric turned back on too
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David A. Banks @davidabanks.online · 27/12/2025
You know you're going to get a straight-shooting, thorough review of a product if the website looks like absolute ass.
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David A. Banks @davidabanks.online · 22/12/2025
My wife just called Geese “something Rasputin would listen to.”
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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The top 20% of income earners are responsible for more than half of the spending on new vehicles.
US: Share of consumer spend by income quartileted on
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Frog Every Day @frogeveryday.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Timothy the frog
Timothy the frog
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sascha benjamin cohen @saschaben.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
”Colleges and universities are in the middle of a massive reorganization of long-term labor investments away from providing a well-rounded education and toward market-based vocational training.” Concluding that like other fields, academia is better served by union power than the lure of tenure.
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David A. Banks @davidabanks.online · 17/12/2025
I think it might be time to think about Harvard as a bad place where bad things happen, instead of a good place where good things happen.
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