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Vail Kohnert-Yount @vail.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

please, PLEASE can the timeline of praising law firms for their "courage" be over now that they can resume their regular business of making millions by protecting corporate power & profits at all costs, which is exactly what got us into this mess?? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/o...

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Opinion | Nine Law Firms Surrendered. Four Law Firms Won.

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 18/02/2026

Together with @vail.bsky.social and Aaron Eisenberg, Brandon Mancilla has been leading @uawregion9a.bsky.social in its excellent efforts to realign labor with the Left, esp. in NYC, so it's quite fitting that Brandon be appointed to this high-profile public position. Smart move, great politics.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Someone noted that there's a huge difference between "calling for" a general strike and *organizing* a general strike. Last Friday, Minnesota *organized* a general strike.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

the government is trying to disappear a man who can testify to torture committed at the direction and payment of the government

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Wow I can’t believe that a right wing-friendly billionaire failson is not getting traction in the Boston mayoral race

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Vail Kohnert-Yount @vail.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Got to tell the Massachusetts legislature one of my favorite union-busting anecdotes about the time a beloved Boston retailer hired an out-of-state professional bodybuilder to recite anti-union propaganda at a captive audience meeting for its warehouse workers (spoiler alert: it didn’t work 😂💪)

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Andrew Cuomo to join Harvard's Institute of Politics.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

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Vail Kohnert-Yount @vail.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Any union leader who endorses Andrew Cuomo, a known & unrepentant sexual harasser, will be telling members that your union doesn't care about their civil rights. Unions are supposed to fight sexual misconduct in the workplace, not endorse it.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Between this and the Columbia stuff I hope everyone understands that when you compromise with fascists the result is the same. The only difference in the end is, they got you to contribute to the project of your own annihilation

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Vail Kohnert-Yount @vail.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Everything sucks right now—except this Alabama roofer who told ICE agents "wanna arrest me? come get me, I'll wait" and waited 6 hours without water in the hot sun until ICE ~gave up and left~ because they were too chickenshit to climb up on a one-story roof www.tiktok.com/@jaxxchismet...

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Roofer in Alabama evades Immigration Agents #roofer #alabama #immigrant #immigration #roof #construction

TikTok video by Jaxx🇵🇷

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Vail Kohnert-Yount @vail.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

While people’s desire to defend DEI is well-intentioned, let’s be real: most corporate DEI “efforts” are just window dressing—which is especially harmful when they conceal these same corporations’ racialized exploitation of workers/consumers. If you want equity in your workplace, unionize.

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Vail Kohnert-Yount @vail.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

~two things can be true~ 1. The NLRB has never been the source of our power: workers are. 2. If the NLRB didn't matter, Republicans wouldn’t be trying so hard to fuck it up.

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Vail Kohnert-Yount @vail.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Looking forward to processing the dystopian hellscape for workers we now live in with @veenadubal.bsky.social & @daveyseligman.bsky.social this Friday!

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Vail Kohnert-Yount @vail.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I didn’t feel the Boston earthquake because I was in the basement of the Sheet Metal Workers Union hall—that’s how solid union constructed buildings are 💪

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Vail Kohnert-Yount @vail.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

huge football day for me as a hater (specifically of Ohio State & USC)

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Vail Kohnert-Yount @vail.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

There's no way Michigan was even in play without UAW—same for Nevada & Arizona without UNITE HERE. . Dems failing unions yet again by not acting on NLRB nominees is at their own peril. We'll still be here without you, but you won't survive without us.

Currently, the Board has a 2-1 Democratic majority. In June 2024, Biden renominated current Board Chair Lauren McFerran (whose term expires on Dec. 16, 2024) to a third term and nominated Joseph L. Ditelberg to fill the Board’s vacant Republican seat. The Senate, however, has not yet confirmed these nominations. If McFerran is confirmed for a third term, the Board will maintain a Democratic majority until at least August 2026, when Member David Prouty’s term expires. This extended majority could lead to the continuation and expansion of pro-labor policies and decisions. But if the nominees are not confirmed by the Senate prior to Trump taking office, they will likely be filled by Trump appointees and the Board will return to a Republican majority.

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