Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 39mI swear...if the Dems tax policy their way "out" of the media crisis, we're all dead. Ultimately, we need stricter FCC rules about ownership concentration; forcing a fire-sale while we convert 50% of broadcast licenses to non-commercial. And prosecute obvious bribery & antitrust cases. 150
Reposted by Shaun RichmanBebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 11hjust really spelling out that the primary use case of AI is largely to spread and perpetuate disinformation at scale, huh? 28120
Reposted by Shaun RichmanEvelyn Waughluigi @mattressisland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Gov Hochul, you can make SUNY Ithaca happen if you have the will to do what must be done 41749
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 29/09/2026Just got rejected by a publisher that strung me along for an entire year. I'm kicking myself for thinking they could be a good home to a book that is anything but strictly reverential about "the Prophet." 210
Reposted by Shaun RichmanGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026If/when the "Bari fired" scoop comes, it'll be from @status.news—to whom nearly everyone at CBS News as been leaking for months—and not some content farm with "likely" in quotes in the hed, which is never sourced to anyone in the "article." I know we want it, friends, but let's stick with reality.💛 333545
Reposted by Shaun Richman🍜 give me pho 🍜 @budapestmission.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I was on both sides of this absurdity. had to file labor charges when our station forced mandatory overtime on a day we had specifically requested a regular workday in order to hold a union rally. also had a carrier who, without fail, filed charges every 6 months for failure to represent 153
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 25/09/2026Back in the 1990s, the Young People's Socialist League put out buttons that read "Socialism Is Fun." Glad @ericblanc.bsky.social is bringing fun back to the movement. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Young Democrats Are Putting the Party Back in Politics. It’s Working.Fun, free events communicate a larger goal: that everyday people should be able to afford a joyful life. 020
Reposted by Shaun RichmanChris Maisano @cgmaisano.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Want to know how NYC’s hotel workers built their union? Read @shaunrichman.org’s book and listen to our conversation on the latest episode of @cunyslu.bsky.social’s Reinventing Solidarity on.soundcloud.com/XhY6C7Rg88C9...soundcloud.comEpisode 71 - How New York's Hotel Workers Built Their Union with Shaun RichmanThe Hotel Trades Council (HTC) has won a remarkable level of economic security for its 40,000 members. Shaun Richman joins New Labor Forum Editor Chris Maisano to talk about how New York's hotel worke 043
Reposted by Shaun RichmanShaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 22/09/2026Why is the city insisting on a wage policy that exacerbates income inequality? The reasons are historical, and increasingly outdated. From me in @nydailynews.com (gift link).nydailynews.comMamdani’s labor policy worsens inequalityWalking my kids to their first day of school brought the unwelcome news that PS 45, on Staten Island, is down to two crossing guards. We used to have (and still need) four. This is a system-wide probl... 023
Reposted by Shaun Richmandgorganize (he/him) @dgorganize.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Always important insights from @shaunrichman.org. In a new interview, he talks sectoral organizing, syndicalist philosophy and tactics in achieving a unionized hotel industry, whipsawing holdout employers and much more 🎙️: @cgmaisano.bsky.social @cunyslu.bsky.social soundcloud.com/cunyslu/epis...soundcloud.comEpisode 71 - How New York's Hotel Workers Built Their Union with Shaun RichmanThe Hotel Trades Council (HTC) has won a remarkable level of economic security for its 40,000 members. Shaun Richman joins New Labor Forum Editor Chris Maisano to talk about how New York's hotel worke 022
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 22/09/2026This is fun. I've now published exactly as many pieces in the @nydailynews.com as I have in @jacobinmag.bsky.social. Nine each. 000
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 22/09/2026Why is the city insisting on a wage policy that exacerbates income inequality? The reasons are historical, and increasingly outdated. From me in @nydailynews.com (gift link).nydailynews.comMamdani’s labor policy worsens inequalityWalking my kids to their first day of school brought the unwelcome news that PS 45, on Staten Island, is down to two crossing guards. We used to have (and still need) four. This is a system-wide probl... 023
Reposted by Shaun RichmanThe Labor Radio Podcast Network @laborradionet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Episode 71 - How New York's Hotel Workers Built Their Union with Shaun Richman The Hotel Trades Council (HTC) has won a remarkable level of economic security for its 40,000 members. Shaun Richman joins New Labor Forum Editor Chris Maisano to talk about how New York's hotel workers built their unisoundcloud.comEpisode 71 - How New York's Hotel Workers Built Their Union with Shaun RichmanThe Hotel Trades Council (HTC) has won a remarkable level of economic security for its 40,000 members. Shaun Richman joins New Labor Forum Editor Chris Maisano to talk about how New York's hotel workers built their union on the latest episode of Reinventing Solidarity. 033
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 21/09/2026Is the reason "died in his sleep" polls so low because people want a worse fate for him? Cuz, on behalf of democracy and the survival of the human race, I'd take it. 230
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 21/09/2026I discussed "We Always Had a Union" with Chris Maisano for The Murphy Institute at CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies' podcast, "Reinventing Solidarity." soundcloud.com/cunyslu/epis...soundcloud.comEpisode 71 - How New York's Hotel Workers Built Their Union with Shaun RichmanThe Hotel Trades Council (HTC) has won a remarkable level of economic security for its 40,000 members. Shaun Richman joins New Labor Forum Editor Chris Maisano to talk about how New York's hotel worke 010
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 18/09/2026Alienated JUST their employees, you say? Customers, we learned to love the grimy text screens, random glitches and total lack of human interaction? 171
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 16/09/2026<s>Oh joy. They combined a rebus with a tribute to Utah. </s> 010
Reposted by Shaun RichmanI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026The Republican Party is chock full of open race scientists and Hitler apologists, so naturally our political press is laser focused on reckoning with “wokeness” and trans kids playing sports. 262570561
Reposted by Shaun RichmanMinovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Hell no to revisionist sentimentality about 9/11 bringing Americans closer together. Living through that time sucked and we've never escaped the ugly aftermath. 4733218
Reposted by Shaun RichmanUnions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV @solongdentalplan.com · 11/09/2026We have a cover! “So Long, Dental Plan!” Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV, coming April 2027 from @sunypress.bsky.social. 0176
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 10/09/2026It's like a religion to these people: "Some set of A.I.-enabled devices and processes would surely allow a hotel maid to clean more rooms faster with less hassle and physical strain." Motorized carts and more efficient vacuum cleaners relieve physical strain, not some mystical spreadsheet. 291
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 08/09/2026This is an under-appreciated aspect on how the National Labor Relations Act worked in its first 11 years, as well. Corporations just assumed they had to respect federal law. It's all too quaint to us now. 112022
Reposted by Shaun RichmanColin Dickey @colindickey.com · 07/09/2026Very funny to me when these bookclub scammers just plug my responses into ChatGPT and come up with the most obsequious responses 471809230
Reposted by Shaun RichmanTrevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I can’t wait for the 18 part series in the Atlantic about “The Crisis at Business Schools” which will detail of every instance of academic fraud at the nation’s top business schools, the coverups, lack of accountability, and their implications for business ethics and academic standards at B schools. 524957
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 05/09/2026A quarter century ago, the TV networks spent the entire day of Tuesday, September 11, replaying the planes crashing into the buildings, the collapses and the Jerry Bruckheimer's fully-realized "let's blow up NYC" Hollywood fantasy of people running from the disaster clouds. 1/ 1134
Reposted by Shaun RichmanDavid Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 03/09/2026‘Learn the skills employer want right now’ is a sucker’s game. ‘Learn how to learn the things *you* and employers will want, whatever that turns out to be,’ is the way. 04413
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 31/08/2026Tegan and Sara (Old 97's) Moldy Peaches (Matthew Sweet) Bobby Bare Jr. (Old 97's) Fred Armisen (Mekons) The Hold Steady (Replacements) Radio 4 (Gang of Four) Murray Hill (Sleater-Kinney) Little Richard (Chuck Berry) Lisa Germano (eels) Cracker (Camper Van Beethoven) 200
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 31/08/2026The DCCC's recruitment (or seeding) of military veterans as centrist candidates gets more gross by the year. It's like they watched "Starship Troopers," and thought, "what a great idea: military service as a prerequisite for citizenship!" 110
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 28/08/2026True. One could have fear-mongered about the first two or three postdoc units to unionize. At this point, I would wager 20% or more of the nation's postdocs are covered by a collective bargaining unit. The fears have been effectively disproved by real world EXPERIENCE. 1153
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 28/08/2026I organized postdocs at Rutgers and NJIT (successfully) and Stoney Brook (unsuccessfully). This reminds me of all the conversations that Professors would start about the auto industry, which I would shut down with a wry look and gesture across the lab: "Are we making cars here?" 150
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 25/08/2026My youngest had a 1st grade project to make a sculpture of someone she admired. My wife helped her make this Papier-mâché Dolly. 040
Reposted by Shaun RichmanAlyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I'm now burrowing in on CPUSA history for a paragraph, with help from @shaunrichman.org! It's HOT here today (heat wave!) so I've been working inside all day. At some point when it cools down I will take a break from writing & take a walk, which is healthy + SUPER for #AmWriting! 121
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 24/08/2026@drsepinwall.bsky.social This book, or at least chapters 7-9, will be useful. Author was somehow both a protege of John Commons and a CP fellow traveler. Narrative is performative anti-CP, but his facts are 98% reliable. 450
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 22/08/2026I think that this winds up being one of the first battles. He threatened to kill them last time. New members can say that's a hostile work environment and that he's not welcome. SOTU wasn't even in-person until the 1940s. No pomp, send a letter. 120
Reposted by Shaun RichmanDrafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 20/08/2026We're taking pitches for freelance book reviews! Find all the details here: www.draftingthepast.com/pitch-us/draftingthepast.comPitch UsIf you want to write a book review, want us to review your book, or want to be a guest on the podcast, please follow the guidelines below. 12217
Reposted by Shaun RichmanLindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The guy trying to run a Red Scare is sucking up to a communist dictator. 2286
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 18/08/2026Aw, now I feel bad. I recently kept "Lonesome Dove" two weeks past its due date. theonion.com/do-you-have-...theonion.com‘Do You Have Any Idea Who I Am?’ Jalen Brunson Shouts At Librarian Refusing To Move Him Up ‘Lonesome Dove’ WaitlistNEW YORK—Slamming both hands on the circulation desk after learning he was 17th in line for Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Western novel, Knicks star Jalen Brunson reportedly shouted, “Do you... 290
Reposted by Shaun Richmanjesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 17/08/2026apparently columbia house went bankrupt 10 years ago but pivoted to DVDs & are only just now officially going out of business, in case anybody is in the mood to rerun their columbia house nostalgia threads from 2015 twitter. 86315
Reposted by Shaun RichmanDerek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Fuck AIPAC but they’re not the only bad guy. When I post about a Democrat sucking, and y’all go right to AIPAC, it’s really testing the antisemitism fence and I’m tired of having to parse that shit. Centrist Dems suck for more than one reason, and if you go right to Jews, you’re not helping. 14855121
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 14/08/2026DSA used to have a couple dozen Vice Chairs who were accomplished people capable of being spokespersons for the socialist idea. Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornell West, Ed Asner, etc. All the noobs who took over post-2016 abolished it in favor of a leadership best known by their Twitter handles. 1120
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 14/08/2026We need a visual aesthetic for AI haters. Flyers and other graphics that make smart and bold use of white space. A way of virtue signaling that a human made this to appeal to snobby fellow humans. Is this a conversation that's taking place in design spaces? 120
Reposted by Shaun RichmanDan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Illinois taxpayers ponied up $27M for a charter school building. 11 years later, the school is closed, and its bankrupt operator is trying to pawn off the building to a developer - for $11M chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...chicago.suntimes.comFormer charter operator Aspira declares bankruptcy, could keep profit from sale of taxpayer-funded buildingAspira Inc. of Illinois got $27 million from the state to build a modern school just 11 years ago. Now the nonprofit has declared bankruptcy and wants to sell the building for $11 million — and pocket... 0101
Reposted by Shaun RichmanBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 13/08/2026Download the merlin app and ID birds and enjoy the world around you. Slow down. It rules. It's great for your mental health and might even lead you to exercise more! 1525047
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 10/08/2026I was discussing with my wife our staycation plans for the week between the end of summer camp and the start of the school year. We're both taking off from work. 120
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 08/08/2026Jeff Bezos, Pamela Paul, David Graeber and Me (Or, If You Hate SEO, "Book Reviews") shaunrichman.com/2026/08/08/j...shaunrichman.comJeff Bezos, Pamela Paul, David Graeber and Me (Or, If You Hate SEO, “Book Reviews”)I like books. I like writing them. I like reading them. I like reviewing them. That puts me in strange company. Each year, a record number of books get published, something on the order of four or … 120
Reposted by Shaun RichmanDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026They're creating a new books website 👀👀 1146
Reposted by Shaun RichmanWill Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The article should mention that none of this would have been possible without support of Laborers’ International Union of North America Minnesota & North Dakota, which supported the project and ensured it was built by union workers. Learn more about this here awf.labortools.com/listen/minne...awf.labortools.comMinnesota’s largest solar plant will be built with 100% union laborThe AWF Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. Kevin Pranis of LiUNA Minnesota and North Dakota joined us on today’s show. 2450142