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Leftist Teen Drama Podcast @leftistteendrama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is also the subject of a chapter I wrote for the book @solongdentalplan.com, forthcoming April 2027 from SUNY Press.

White text on a black background: “"Your [Organizing] Matters. It's What Got Me Here." One Tree Hill's Brooke Davis as a Role Model for Millennial Union Workers
By Maria DiPasquale”

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Leftist Teen Drama Podcast @leftistteendrama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s One Tree Hill’s golden birthday — 23 years old on September 23! As loyal listeners of #LeftistTeenDrama know, the workplace organizing plotline in Season 2, Episode 12 inspired this podcast!

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Eric Dirnbach @ericdirnbach.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

YES, great cover, can't wait for this to come out!

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Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV @solongdentalplan.com · 11/09/2026

We have a cover! “So Long, Dental Plan!” Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV, coming April 2027 from @sunypress.bsky.social.

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Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV @solongdentalplan.com · 08/09/2026

Fran Fine and Homer Simpson featured prominently in our forthcoming book on "Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV."

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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Next year the labor-in-TV-shows book “So Long, Dental Plan!” will come out, including my chapter about the teachers strike in House of Cards! Great 🧵 below, all the chapters will be awesome

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Leftist Teen Drama Podcast @leftistteendrama.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Friend of the pod slash recurring guest on #LeftistTeenDrama Kelly Diaz is also featured in @solongdentalplan.com, digging into a plotline we cover on the pod: the food workers strike on THE SEX LIVES OF COLLEGE GIRLS! Keep an eye out for the book coming Spring 2027 ✊

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Leftist Teen Drama Podcast @leftistteendrama.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

!!! I'm so excited that we have an April 2027 release date for @solongdentalplan.com, the book i was so honored to contribute a chapter to about the organizing plotline on ONE TREE HILL that inspired the pod! Make sure you're following for updates about preorder info when it becomes available! ✊

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David A. Banks @davidabanks.online · 06/08/2026

This is gonna be a banger!

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Eric Dirnbach @ericdirnbach.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Great book coming out next year on depictions of unions and labor in TV shows!

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Andy Hodder @hodderandy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Really pleased to be part of this amazing book project! Out next year…

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I would buy this for the title alone but the chapters also look great.

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Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV @solongdentalplan.com · 06/08/2026

Just realized we should start talking about the chapters and authors in "So Long, Dental Plan!"

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Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV @solongdentalplan.com · 05/08/2026

We're excited to announce that "So Long, Dental Plan" Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV is scheduled to be published in April 2027 by SUNY Press. Pre-orders will begin around X-Mass time.

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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"The Boss Needs You..." prints are restocked in all sizes! I have t-shirts, tank tops, and stickers too. willburrows.art/shop Also - I have an 18"x24" copy with a 1/4" tear at the top edge that I'll sell for 25% off. The tear would be completely concealed if you plan to frame it.

A comic book-style digital drawing of Miles O'Brien organizing Rom and Leeta in Quark's Bar over Guinness and snail juice. It says "The boss needs you, you don't need them! Labor is entitled to all it creates."

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Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV @solongdentalplan.com · 28/07/2026

Anecdotally, we found that the era of Peak TV (RIP) opened more opportunities for TV creatives to work in plots about unions vs. bosses.

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 23/06/2026

Me, having just turned in @solongdentalplan.com to @sunypress.bsky.social.

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Kermit The Frog Anxious

ALT: Kermit The Frog Anxious

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Matthew Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons image

Two images from the Simpsons power plant strike. In the first, Lisa plays the guitar as picketers stand around, with the lyrics, “So we'll march day and night,
By the big cooling tower.”

In the second, the strikers all hold hands in a circle, and they sing,
“They have the plant
But we have the power.”

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Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV @solongdentalplan.com · 04/06/2026

Oddly, the little TV book (which will have multiple indexed references to the Mafia, mob, organized crime, etc.) will have TWO indexed references to "Godfather Part II" (but none for the original "Godfather").

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Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV @solongdentalplan.com · 04/06/2026

This little book about TV shows somehow will have two index entries for Gary Hart. (None mention Monkey Business.)

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 03/06/2026

One author notes that Larry Summers "still rants about collectivist economics on social media and unquestionably wherever he appears in his well-paid private talks." Amended to note that our boy doesn't get out much anymore.

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 03/06/2026

One author referred to an elementary school picture book on Cesar Chavez as a formative influence. Changed to "Delano grape boycott."

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 03/06/2026

I'm doing post-peer review edits on @solongdentalplan.com. Two edits to reflect the passing of a year; one fun, one grim. 1/3

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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I also told him I thought his book would make a good TV show. This was on my mind b/c Shaun and I met working on So Long Dental Plan (@solongdentalplan.com), the upcoming book he edited about stories about unions in scripted TV. Keep an eye out for it, nerds of labor and TV! 3/3

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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

We talked about the Trump administration's use of deportation to chill its perceived ideological enemies, and how that would sound familiar to Michael J. Obermeier, the union president who was arrested, convicted of lying about his Communist party membership, and deported during the Cold War. 2/3

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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

It was great to interview @shaunrichman.org about We Always Had a Union, his page-turner history of the New York hotel workers' union! 1/3

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Fred Jacob @fredbjacob.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I can’t wait to read the other contributions! Who doesn’t like tv and labor?

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Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV @solongdentalplan.com · 17/02/2026

We got back our first peer reviews of the "SLDP" manuscript. Utterly delighted how much the readers enjoyed it. More to come!

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LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Up first is the Arts & Media essay "The Cost of Compliance" by @rachaelvm454.bsky.social which analyzes Apple TV+’s Severance as a critique of how corporate culture strip workers of autonomy and identity while masking exploitation behind the language of purpose and growth. doi.org/10.1215/1547...

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 20/01/2026

I've wanted to do this @draftingthepast.bsky.social segment for a really long time. I approached "We Always Had a Union" as a journalist, trying to solve a murder mystery and, yes, find the FBI's rats while telling the hotelworkers' story. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

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Episode 84: Shaun Richman Wants to Know Who the Rats Were

Kate Carpenter interviews labor historian and former union organizer Shaun Richman about his new book We Always Had a Union.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

50% *off* titles. It would help if I got the most important part right. Here, I'll make up for it with some other cool titles / covers -- all browsable here here here: sunypress.edu/Subjects

THE CAMPUS CRISIS TOOLKIT: STRATEGIES AND SOLIDARITY FOR THE REST OF US

NEW RAPE STUDIES: HUMANISTIC INTERVENTIONS

VICTORIAN GASLIGHTING: GENEALOGY OF AN INJUSTICE

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

icymi @sunypress.bsky.social is having a holiday sale!! 50% titles pub'd from 2020-2026 with code SHDAYS25 through Dec 31. that includes preorders! here's but the smallest smattering of all on offer sunypress.edu/Subjects

PRIETA IS DREAMING: A CUENTOS NOVELA by Gloria E. Anzaldúa

A HISTORY OF TRANSGENDER MEDICINE IN THE US: FROM MARGINS TO MAINSTREAM

BLACK FEMINIST WRITING: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PUBLISHING ACADEMIC BOOKS

BROKEN RECORD: GENDERED ABUSE IN ACADEMIA

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Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV @solongdentalplan.com · 03/11/2025

Good news, everybody! The completed manuscript for "So Long Dental Plan" has been submitted to the editors at @sunypress.bsky.social. Here are our chapter titles and authors.

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Noah Gibson @noahgibson.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Were SpongeBob & Squidward in a union for their strike? It is your first amendment right to strike or protest against your oppressors. I hope you grow up and realize you have a boot in your mouth.

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Promised Consort Raquel @raquelinere.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

how the fuck were we watching SpongeBob as kids and not more union minded as a nation?

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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

DS9 scene. Rom is a Ferengi hero who has a large bald head and giant ears and lobes that sort of connect to make a unibrow and a ribbed pine cone looking nose. He's wearing a jacket that looks like those lick and stick backsplash tiles you can get at Lowe's. He's pictured here standing in a corridor, talking to someone and holding/reading a PADD. Closed caption reads, "Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains."

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Miles O'Brien fan club assemble.

The image features Chief Miles O'Brien, a character from the Star Trek universe, specifically Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The quote, "He was more than a hero. He was a union man," is a popular meme referencing Chief O'Brien's character and his background.

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Maria DiPasquale @mariadip.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

love this from @jennyhunter.bsky.social! excited to both be contributing to @solongdentalplan.com, a forthcoming book about depictions of unions and class struggle on television! (I had the pleasure of peer reviewing Jenny’s chapter and y’all are in for a treat!)

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 25/08/2025

Hey, are you a freelance writer with a fairly comprehensive knowledge of #SouthPark (including the more recent seasons)? I'm searching for someone atm, so if that describes you, please email me at lizmiller at consequence dot net with three links to samples and a little info about yourself. Thanks!

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a sign that says collect underpants phase 1 phase 2 phase 3 and collect underpants profit

Alt: a sign that says collect underpants phase 1 phase 2 phase 3 and collect underpants profit

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Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV @solongdentalplan.com · 13/08/2025

Did not know there was a strike episode of the "Mary Tyler Moore Show!" Disappointing that nobody proposed a chapter on it. Maybe next book?

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 24/07/2025

Oof. My youth mourns the loss of Hulk Hogan. He’s on the Mt. Rushmore of 1980s pop culture iconography (in between Mr. T and Pee Wee Herman). Unlike Pee Wee, whose memory is pure joy, Terry Bollea was obviously more complicated. @solongdentalplan.com will have a chapter in wrestling.

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 21/07/2025

This will be a chapter in @solongdentalplan.com!

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Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV @solongdentalplan.com · 18/07/2025

TFW Microsoft's non-consensual A.I. thinks your editorial meeting is a dental appointment.

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

ding ding ding! I don't think there's a conspiracy necessarily but I also think the execs with decision-making power don't wanna give everyday folks any big ideas!

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Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 09/07/2025

I'm now editing So Long, Dental Plan." I love this section, which inadvertently explains exactly why there are no stories like this now.

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amber davis @adavisnix.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Cannot wait for this—both as a researcher and as the partner of an organizer whom I lure into watching things by saying “There are labor/union themes…”

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