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Northeastern Law @nusl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A major new ProPublica investigation into sports betting apps’ “responsible gaming” practices references the symposium hosted by the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern Law. #NUSLPride www.propublica.org/article/draf...

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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.

Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...

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Ryan Quinn @ryanquinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ask your doctor if turning off the lights and turning up Dwight Yoakam is right for you.

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Ryan Quinn @ryanquinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just brought my kids to see Coyote v Acme and it’s great except kind of unrealistic about litigation. The movie vastly underplays the amount of dynamite used in trying a typical civil case.

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Our nurses are the backbone of Massachusetts, and they deserve fair pay and good conditions. They fight tirelessly for us—we need to fight tirelessly for their rights. I stand with the Brigham Nurses and the Massachusetts Nurses Association and I urge all parties to come to the bargaining table.

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Ryan Quinn @ryanquinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I threw a fist into the air while listening on the subway when @nikobowie.bsky.social raised the history of Congress eliminating court jurisdiction to enjoin certain labor disputes. There is good history in labor law to draw from if we are going to constrain the courts. Can't wait to read the book!

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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah so profs are gonna have to unionize like yesterday

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 02/04/2026

“It is a striking indication of the social and cultural decay inherent in the final stages of capitalism, when elaborate scientific methods begin to be used, no longer to promote, but to eliminate intelligence from among the workers, because intelligent workers become Communists.” R. P. Dutt (1934)

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Ryan Quinn @ryanquinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not going to gawk at western mass communities that I am not a part of, but it's beautiful how people go to great lengths to create community with very difficult people. The Globe's closing quote: "we just hope that there’s more repair than conflict...that’s the price you pay to be in community."

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026

EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.

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Ryan Quinn @ryanquinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

hell yeah! who are we doing labor law to next?

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Ryan Quinn @ryanquinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"'We live in Massachusetts, where we have created health programs that were the model for our national system now,' [Quinn] said. '[W]e’re...in Boston where we have the best research hospitals in the world…it’s unconscionable that people who work [here can't] get that high-quality level of care.'”

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Union representing Northeastern security guards rallies for health benefits - The Huntington News

More than 125 demonstrators gathered outside Ruggles Station Sept. 15 to support unionized unarmed security officers working without a contract.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

and all these celebs are promoting the gambling to kids and teens, no matter how hard they try to deny it

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

youre not gonna lose your job to magic beans, you'll lose your job to someone who traded their cow for magic beans

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Ryan Quinn @ryanquinn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Where’s the write-up for people who are politically homeless because they have anarchist tendencies the more rigorous marxists reject? Why is it always center-right weirdos who get features?

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A minimum population size for local government in general would solve literally hundreds of problems. Lots of cities should be annexed or disincorporated.

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Ryan Quinn @ryanquinn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Apropos of nothing in the news, there’s a fascinating old MA SJC case about when Vanessa Redgrave sued the Boston Symphony Orchestra for firing her after third parties protested her position on Palestine and Israel. www.masscasesarchive.com/masscases.co...

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REDGRAVE vs. BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC., 399 Mass. 93

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Amy Kapczynski @akapczynski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this is going to be so great. what are ppl cooking up??

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.

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Ryan Quinn @ryanquinn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Took a printmaking class and made some labor art.

Three images of Scabby the Rat laid out horizontally. On the left, my second print after I figured out how to use enough ink. In the center,my first print, which had some faint lines. On the right, a carved block facing opposite the prints.

Scabby is a terrifying standing rat with black eyes (like a doll’s eyes), sharp teeth and claws, and an enormous scabby patch on her stomach.

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Ryan Quinn @ryanquinn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I love how so many jukeboxes are time capsules of whatever time period the place stopped adding in new music. I’m guessing 2004 here?

A remote Seeburg jukebox selector unit with listings for Velvet Revolver, Lesley Gore, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Manfred Mann, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Hoobastank, Kenny Chesney, Lee Ann Womack, Maroon 5, Lonestar, anr Clay Aiken.

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 06/09/2026

The reason we spend so much money being awful to unhoused people is the system needs a visible reminder of what landlords and bosses are threatening you with.

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 03/09/2026

An easy way to migrate away from 1Password is to delete every account and throw all your computers in a deep hole in the earth. 🌈⭐️

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One of those things you were pretty sure was true but now you have causal quantiative evidence in the American Economic Review: business schools trained CEOs to pay workers less in pursuit of maximizing shareholder value www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Students who nod and smile during lecture when we try to make a point? Heroes

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Ryan Quinn @ryanquinn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The obvious explanation is wealth, but don’t sleep on “percentage of the town on septic systems instead of city sewer” as a predictive factor here.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So disappointed. The most common refrain I heard in my district was that people wished we had Ranked Choice Voting in this primary.

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Ryan Quinn @ryanquinn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As a kid, I used to spend a lot of time with a radio that had AM, FM, and shortwave. “Paint it Black” came on a NH station one day. I had no idea who it was, but I couldn’t believe the sound. I thought the DJ said it was “Blood, Sweat, and Tears,” which slowed my finding the Stones by a few weeks.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

It’s not suicide it is social murder. It is the result of policy that is explicitly designed to Inflict maximum pain & make a class of people feel as life isn’t worth living.

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Ryan Quinn @ryanquinn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Me, reading this in the Wagner Act's legislative history: "This bill in laying the foundation for syndicalism would…put industry under the control of the employees. This bill not only lays a…foundation for this radical type of socialism, but…puts in action the necessary forces to bring it about."

Sickos yes meme. A man in a shirt labelled "sickos" stands outside a window at night saying "Yes...Ha Ha Ha...Yes!"

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Ryan Quinn @ryanquinn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

There’s a candidate in the democratic primary for US rep in my district running an ad where the voiceover says that “in Washington…he helped raise the minimum wage” over an image of Joe Biden, and did I somehow miss Joe Biden raising the minimum wage or is it still $7.25 an hour?

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Ryan Quinn @ryanquinn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Having finished summer grading and fall syllabi, I refurbished this drill today. Nothing big: new power cord and strain relief, new brushes, and a general clean-up. I decided to paint the Milwaukee logo on the cast aluminum, which I think the company should have done from the start. Looks flash now.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Greetings, non-Jews in academia! As we start another semester, here's your regularly scheduled reminder that the Jewish High Holy Days are coming up. If you wouldn't schedule an important meeting or exam on Christmas or Easter, don't schedule one on Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur.

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Ryan Quinn @ryanquinn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Good point: there is a wide range of ethical ways to say "you would be breaking the law by doing X" without telling the union they can't do X.* *assuming state legal ethics rules apply to attorneys' legal advice to advice to workers covered by the NLRA, a premise I do not necessarily accept.

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Ryan Quinn @ryanquinn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Seth Moulton is my rep, and as far as I can tell he has two deeply-held stances: (1) we should do more to support veterans; (2) Seth Moulton should have more power.

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This reinstatement happened for one reason: a union contract. She was brought back against managements wishes because she won the highest level of the grievance procedure, arbitration. This is how you can take the power back from people like Jeff Bezos: form a union.

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Ryan Quinn @ryanquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Counterpoint: union lawyers are the heroes of every story, even the ones they aren't in. (Dr. HellDude is right. Most of the time, you have an extremely narrow set of approaches available to you as a union lawyer in an arbitration. You can do the job well or poorly, but you aren't deciding things).

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Ryan Quinn @ryanquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The “Social Security is a Ponzi scheme” guys now see the implication of that claim: fraud.The problem with Ponzi wasn’t that he paid senior investors with new investments; the problem was all the fraud! Anyway, only children and tech execs have a poor enough understanding of SS to think it’s fraud.

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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

get in, we're making pascal's wager stupider

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 25/08/2026

America’s unions are proud to endorse @sbworkersunited.org’s boycott of stand-alone corporate Starbucks stores. Workers are fed up with unchecked corporate greed, and we’re standing with them in their fight for a fair contract. No contract? NO COFFEE! ✊ www.boycottstarbucks.net

Boycott Starbucks. No Contract? No coffee. Period. BoycottStarbucks.net

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 25/08/2026

calling it: the IWW revival is upon us

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