Matt Erickson

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I'm the guy who also is uninterestingly online at the other places.

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www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-patsy

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you have to be fairly oblivious to not notice the U.S. press has responded to the threat of authoritarianism by shifting the editorial overton window even further rightward

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i made this shareable version of my one sentence project 2025 summary so it can be easily shared across platforms. feel free to repost.

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Jane McAlevey died on Sunday at the age of fifty-nine. Sarah Jaffe writes on the legendary labor organizer and author, who inspired a generation of young people cut off from class politics to think about the still-central role of the workplace.

Raising Hell | Sarah Jaffethebaffler.com Jane McAlevey cared about making workers’ lives better in the here and now—not just in some far-off future.

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“Jane McAlevey’s biggest impact on newsroom unions was through her advocacy for open bargaining… Most unions aren’t this transparent in negotiations. But it’s mostly a no-brainer for skeptical journalists who expect accountability in all things, including from their own coworkers.”

Fix your union, fight for journalism, repair the worldopen.substack.com RIP Jane Frances McAlevey, 1964-2024.

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I’m gonna need all 370 of you who reposted above to share this: www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-wind...

Windmills blow away Trump's denial of Project 2025 involvementwww.thehandbasket.co A brief line in the 900+ page authoritarian guide reveals the Republican candidate's fingerprints.

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We're very saddened to hear about the passing of Jane McAlevey, a true legend in labor organizing. May her memory be a blessing. Her lessons certainly are.

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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •www.blackpast.org On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the D...

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Yes, Trump has been legally determined to be a rapist. Because too many people somehow don’t seem to know this. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carrollwww.washingtonpost.com What the jury found Donald Trump did to E. Jean Carroll was in fact rape, as commonly understood, even if it didn't fit New York law's narrow definition, says Judge Lewis A. Kaplan.

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John Roberts pretends not to know what Donald Trump will do with the immunity Roberts just gave him just like John Roberts pretended not to know what Republicans would do when John Roberts gutted the Voting Rights Act.

John Roberts must be the most neurotypical person in existence because the immunity ruling reads like someone who has never had a single “but what if…???” anxiety spiral in his life

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As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).

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Rest in Power Medgar Evers. Assassinated on June 12, 1963 outside of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by a member of the White Citizens' Council. When he first got to the hospital, they refused to admit him because he was Black. The airport in Jackson is now named after him.

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They want your despair. Withhold it.

Things are bad but all the more reason for optimism of the will and rejection of doomerism and nihilism. Only way out is through.

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i think donald trump should withdraw from the presidential race, for the good of the country

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In Williamsburg, community members from Indivisible are making waves in the fight for reproductive rights. Their recent rally at the courthouse sends a powerful message: our voices matter, and we won't stay silent. Join us in standing up for women's rights everywhere. www.13newsnow.com/ar...

Pro-Choice demonstrators hold rally outside of Williamsburg James City County Courthouse following Dobbs anniversarywww.13newsnow.com The protest falls on the two-year anniversary of the overturning of Roe v Wade.

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I think a lot of politicians and political reporters think "low info voter" is like someone who isn't following congressional budget negotiations when actual low-info voters are like "guy who thinks the president appoints the NFL commissioner and are mad at him for suspending a player on their team"

sports.yahoo.com/mlb-at-rickw...

MLB at Rickwood Field: Reggie Jackson recalls racist treatment in Alabama in stunning interviewsports.yahoo.com For three minutes, Mr. October laid out in stunning detail what it was like to be a Black player in Alabama in 1967.

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DC Statehood has entered the chat

If you saw the Senate in another country, you'd think it was a preposterously undemocratic institution leedrutman.substack.com/p/wither-the...

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It's worth paying attention to what Liz Kruger, the chair of the NYS Senate Finance Committee, has been saying. She's offered perhaps the most thorough evisceration of Hochul's decision of any elected official. Full text, 'cause it doesn't all fit in the alt: www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/pre...

I have never seen politicians in Albany look this pissed off at a press conference. Including every face in the background. The proposed payroll tax is what the governor wants to substitute for revenue from congestion pricing. I'm calling it: Hochul will back down. link: x.com/bern_hogan/s...

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People asking me questions about my "Reporting on My Official Legal and Ethical Entanglements Is Not Newsworthy and You're Fired If You Mention It" t-shirt that should have been answered by my shit

Seems bad

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#TIL that Sanora Babb's research on Dust Bowl camps was shared without her knowledge or permission, to John Steinbeck, whose novel The Grapes of Wrath made it to the shelves before her Whose Names Are Unknown . . . and as a result, hers was shelved and not published until *2004*.

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This day in 1863, Harriet Tubman commanded a regiment of about 150 Black Union soldiers called the “Second South Carolina Volunteers.” Tubman and Col. James Montgomery took gunboats along the Combahee River, rescued over 700 slaves, torched plantations, handing the Confederacy a humiliating defeat.

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"In the annals of modern American politics, few figures have displayed a penchant for vengeance as blatantly as Trump." I wrote this op-ed about how Trump and his supporters have reacted to his conviction and what is truly at stake. I hope you will read it: www.thedailybeast.com/revenge-what...

Revenge: What Trump and the GOP Want Most of Allwww.thedailybeast.com Trump’s supporters have reacted with fury to his conviction, calling for immediate vengeance to be visited on those they claim connived in his conviction.

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It's like convicting Al Capone of tax fraud if that tax fraud helped Capone swipe the 2016 election and the reproductive rights of anyone in America who can get pregnant. It's just like that.

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Anyway good luck to jurors, the judge, court staff, and prosecutors, and all their families, with not getting murdered, and thanks to FedSoc types for bringing us to the brink of fascism so you could weaken Chevron deference

Anyway the most recent former President of the United States has been found guilty of felonies and now there’s a substantial chance people are going to die because his followers are freaks and the so-called “mainstream” GOP will just shrug and blame woke or something.

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I'm still not over that this happened last year and it's had absolutely zero bearing on our political landscape and no one ever mentions it anymore