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Erik Strobl

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Organizing Director, SEIU 668 A terror since the public school era

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Don’t bring a union rep” is one of those sentences that always means your employer is going you treat you with respect and dignity
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Nick J Mascisaurus Rex Sr. @bridgemusicbunker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
deer hunting season is gonna go so hard this year
A Fripp Eno camo hat
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm just up at 5:30, thinking about how the sparkling piano that sends tingles through each of my vertebrae in Nick Drake's Northern Sky is played by the same guy who plays the frontal-lobe-disabling viola drone on the Velvet Underground's Heroin.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
www.reddit.com/r/videogames... "Is it worth playing blue prince while being stupid"
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
He’s lost the “wearing a sleeveless tee that says Suck Squeeze Bang Blow at the state fair” crowd, it’s Joever-Joever
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
if you're looking for the cause of declining good union manufacturing jobs over the last 50 years, domestic competition from right-to-work sunbelt states is a much bigger deal than foreign competition from free trade.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
IMO @stevesalaita.bsky.social does *really* well in a Chronicle interview that feels very gotcha ("Confessions of a Campus Radical"). Below, facing a question designed to make him 'endorse' violence, he carefully indexes who is allowed to commit violence (Israel) and who isn't ("Hamas").
Goldstein: Let’s zero in on October 7. Are you saying you wish that more pro-Palestinian voices would not disavow the kinds of violence we saw on that day? That to disavow such violence reflects a failure to understand what decolonization requires?

Salaita: Yes, and no. I want to choose my words carefully. What I object to most is how the demand to disavow violence does not exist for those on the pro-Israel side. They can discuss Israeli politics and policies and Palestinian society without having to disavow Israeli violence. The constant demand for disavowal speaks to a particular marginalization of Palestinian realities. It suggests a moral hierarchy in which Palestinians have to account for themselves in ways that the more powerful party does not.

Gutkin: Much of what became very controversial in campus politics was protests by students and faculty that seemed to endorse Hamas violence, to celebrate it with things like the Students for Justice in Palestine fliers featuring stylized images of hang gliders. That stuff incited a strong condemnatory response from critics who saw not just a failure to disavow violence but a kind of embrace of violence. Is that an example of the dynamic you’re talking about, in which the failure to disavow triggered a repressive response?

Salaita: What I want to focus on is how the pro-Palestine protesters are always being asked to account for themselves in ways that completely ignore their relationship with Israeli violence. Some of these students have seen the worst forms of violence. Some have experienced it firsthand. I don’t think it’s fair to saddle those students with a moral responsibility to distance themselves from violence that doesn’t exist for anybody else on campus.
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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Not even close. It's going to be bare knuckle politics for the foreseeable future.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 17/08/2026
Last week I had drove 4 hrs, shot 2723 shots over 7 hours with 2 cameras, hardly slept, then drove back to LA, had a dentist and doctor's appointment Worth it This is the Perseids Meteor Shower over the Milky Way in Mt Pinos with 100s of my newest friends 🌌 PDFs: drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fo...
A foreground of dozens of cars, including a camper right in the middle, and someone on the right side with their parking lights on, in front of a mountain and trees. above that is the milky way with air pollution which fades into a larger star field, that looks like old pictures of space. That star field was taken with a nikon lens from the 70s so it gives a different sense, and the milky way was taken with a new 20mm lens, 14 shots, merged. the retro sky is 2 shots. there are 14 meteors that mostly focus on the center of the picture, but these aren't where they were in the sky. I shot 8 to 10 different areas of the sky that night. All meteors but one were with my new camera and new lens.

The Milky Way has a flare on the stars due to moisture on my camera lens, which I kept given the chaos of the situation. It took me 50 minutes to capture 14 usable milky way pictures because so many people had car lights on. 60 second exposures on the milky way, tracked in move shoot move, 10-15 seconds on the meteors.

This took about 8 hours to edit.

Milky way light pollution processed in GraXpert, foreground stitched in lightroom, milky way stitched in Kolor Autopano Giga, saturated and recolored in lightroom; everything finalized in photoshop, including the meteors. In total 19 layers and about 33 final shots used of the original 2723.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Wage stagnation is a defining dynamic of the K-shaped economy, but millions of Americans work beneath the wage. How has culture in the age of service work, including reality tv and literature, crafted the myth that precarious labor is freedom? interccect.com/2026/08/11/f...
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Free Gigs
Wage stagnation is a defining dynamic of the K-shaped economy, but millions of Americans work beneath the wage – they pay for the privilege of working, work in tip-dependent industries (servi…
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 12/08/2026
many of u appear to be trying to play a sophisticated game of chess while your opponent is pointing a gun at you and also pulling the trigger on the gun pretty frequently and you're being shot by the gun a lot
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 11/08/2026
When I was adjusting (plus when I was between adjuncting and my current position!) — I was also working retail to make ends meet. So many academics proclaim class solidarity while ignoring the fact that there are *presently working class* thinkers in the office next door!
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I know a lot of you might have heard different but to me, the map is actually the territory. They're the same thing
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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Reading reviews of the hersheys chocolate tour and really loving the guys that say “it’s sad to say but this is all a marketing scheme to sell more chocolate”
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Molly Bloom laughed at my ideas and now I can’t read
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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
You see, workplace freedom is when your boss sets your working conditions unilaterally, and you don’t get a say at all.
Unions Are Coming for Your Uber Driver

Massachusetts imposes 'sectoral bargaining' on ride-share workers, who may find themselves governed by agreements they never signed up for.
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Third Summers Brother @hugetinymistake.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Pennsylvania Republicans hate workers. Their gubernatorial nominee is now backed by an anti-union group seeking to prevent workers from having more rights on and off the job. keystonenewsroom.com/news/electio...
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Stacy Garrity backed by national anti-union organization
While Gov. Josh Shapiro has campaigned on keeping Pennsylvania a union-friendly state, Stacy Garrity received an endorsement from an organization that supports right-to-work laws.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
i am trying to remember that all of this struggle to stop the democratic party from being dragged left is, on the bright side, because it is necessarily being dragged back to the left. like it or not this is a required corrective. and the hollering means dogs are getting hit
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"Higher Ed is a working-class issue. most college students aren't at elite private universities—they are studying at community colleges, balancing work Free College is public transportation, a guarantee that gets everyone to their destination." www.equityresearchcooperative.org/work?fbclid=...
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Work — Equity Research Cooperative
As a bridge between content experts, philanthropic funders, and organizations focused on equity, EqRC provides a third space for equity-first researchers to find consulting and grant opportunities tha...
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Erik Strobl @erikstrobl.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
they could solve this by using the grocery stores
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Erik Strobl @erikstrobl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
ok
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Erik Strobl @erikstrobl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“why would someone with anger issues,violent tendencies, and an axe to grind need to be humored and placated??”
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
We’re reaching President Rodney Dangerfield in Natural Born Killers levels we’ve never seen before.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
if, instead of organizing around rallies or campaigns, if the democrats ever wholeheartedly re-embraced the labor movement specifically and formal organizing like this around housing and similar material aspects of american life, my god just imagine
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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
william vollmann wrote a 3000 page novel about it and he...just...tweeted it out...
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Failgoat @failgoat.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
you guys should find the four most racist people in a diner in Grundle Heights, Ohio and ask them how they feel about it
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
political candidates should be tripping over themselves to run on this message (and we know why they aren't)
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Third Summers Brother @hugetinymistake.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Lol, the Galveston County Daily News dropped the comic strip Luann because a few readers called it "pornography" www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...
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Luann Sex Scene Too Much For Newspaper
“You thought it was a joke and so you laughed You laughed! You know you laughed. I heard you laugh! You laughed and laughed and laughed.” When I noted the week-long amorous adventure of Brad and Toni ...
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HR "Jane" Haldeman @janetherevelator.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It's popular to say that everyone should have to work a service job once in their lives, but I believe strongly that everyone should have to be a civil servant for a year. Like they should have to work the counter at traffic court or answer the hotline at DHHS or do street maintenance.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Got hit with what seemed like a tornado tonight. Barely got everyone inside in time before the deck we were standing on was pummeled with projectiles. I’ve never experienced a storm like this — especially with no warning. They’re trying to kill us. www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...
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How Trump’s Cuts to FEMA and NWS Are Leaving Communities Defenseless Against Extreme Weather Disasters
Federal agencies help Americans prepare for, survive, and recover from extreme weather disasters, but the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Weather Service, Corporation for Public Broadcasti...
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
maybe it’s a bad idea to teach your followers that any science that conflicts with doing exactly what they want to do is bullshit
It is a chaotic scene on the National Mall.
Several hundred people have refused to leave despite an order to evacuate because of severe inclement weather that is approaching. Some are even arguing with Secret Service agents. At one point, a crowd of people began running back toward the stage. An officer is sternly repeating the order over a bullhorn and the crowd is booing. Many have begun chanting "U.S.A., U.S.A." A federal law enforcement officer is trying to assure people that the event has not been canceled. Many are not convinced.
One man walking by blamed the situation on "liberals in the weather service," adding,
"I think this is baloney."
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
None of the economic program “moderates” say they want - fair wages, dignified retirement, affordable housing & healthcare - are possible w/o a socialist mvt. & the cultural things they want - strong borders & patriotic education- are not possible w/o fascism www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...
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Centrist Democrats Rebuke Party’s Left Wing: ‘We Are Capitalist, Not Socialist’
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“Wanna form a union?”
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Gaijin Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Ghanian poster for FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF (1986)
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Erik Strobl @erikstrobl.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
it’s time to run this country like a business
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I just can’t even
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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Ron Howard owes us a Hilbilly Elegy 2
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 15/06/2026
Maybe the dumbest bit that still seems to have purchase in American politics is “that really rich guy can’t be bought!” I assure you, his wealth is *proof* that he can be bought, despite a weird elite class of Americans who want you to believe they won their fortunes in single combat or something
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
watching the knicks game at a gay bar and everyone cheered for tracy morgan but booed for sydney sweeney
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Maria Montaño @themariamontano.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Happy Pride Pittsburgh!! It was an honor to serve as Grand Marshall for Pittsburgh Pride!
Selfie of Maria Montaño serving as Grand Marshal of the Pittsburgh Pride Parade. Wearing a floral dress, red cat-eye glasses, and a red Grand Marshal sash, she holds a bouquet of flowers while riding in the parade on a bright summer day. Crowds and fellow marchers can be seen celebrating Pride behind her.
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Erik Strobl @erikstrobl.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I’m publishing an academic book called "the idea of squares" and failing to write a definition of "squares" or sustaining any discussion of "squares" or entering "squares" in the index and you’re LAUGHING?!
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Erik Strobl @erikstrobl.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
$7 price tag at a yard sale?! Yeah, this neighborhood has gentrified, but fuck off
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Just had a reason to look up and share this perfect @bakoon.bsky.social post from a decade ago
Aug 19, 2025 Tweet: BAKOON
@BAKKOOONN
ahh yeah here he comes, big double d, r budd dwyer himself, looks like he brought a bag lunch, smart
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Failgoat @failgoat.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
“we had no choice but to vote for Trump—the liberals went too far and forced us to” is received wisdom for the MSM
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NBA @nba.com · 04/06/2026
Tracy Morgan
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Erik Strobl @erikstrobl.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
this sucks so much and I need it in my life
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Erik Strobl @erikstrobl.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Carol showed me fifty photos of her neighbor’s kid’s first communion, muttering the whole time: “just horrible. She looks like a foal in a wig. Awful, awful children”
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Hilarie Ashton @hilarieashton.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I do a lot of thinking and writing and teaching about American masculinity, and I think that Dan Castellaneta's performance as Homer Simpson is such a rich text in that and many other regards
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 30/05/2026
This is so much better than "eh, is what it is" or ACTUALLY RESPONDING IN A REAL COMPLEX WAY. my coworkers hate this. its their own fault for asking.
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