amber davis
@adavisnix.bsky.social
Currently: On deadline! | Formerly: Stylus, Vox, Gimlet, TNS, Cal
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Hello! I am excited to finally announce the details of my new podcast. Introducing The Union Bug—a podcast by workers, for workers. Premiering Jan 2.
Introducing The Union Bug, a new podcast
The Union Bug is a podcast by workers, for workers. Premiering January 2.
www.wordsaboutwork.news
December 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Hello! I am excited to finally announce the details of my new podcast. Introducing The Union Bug—a podcast by workers, for workers. Premiering Jan 2.
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Good blog: longhaulmag.com/barboncino-w...
The Rise and Fall of Barboncino Workers United | Long-Haul Mag
FALL 2025 ISSUE 04
longhaulmag.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Good blog: longhaulmag.com/barboncino-w...
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Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
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Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.
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Inbox: The independent union at Blue Bottle Coffee, @bbiunion.bsky.social, is on strike. “As of today, we have gone out on the picket line to combat Blue Bottle's bad faith bargaining and ensure fair wages and protections for baristas.”
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Inbox: The independent union at Blue Bottle Coffee, @bbiunion.bsky.social, is on strike. “As of today, we have gone out on the picket line to combat Blue Bottle's bad faith bargaining and ensure fair wages and protections for baristas.”
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Jimmy Cliff did one of the very very early Tiny Desks in 2010, when the whole thing was still really getting figured out. youtu.be/QYtIT6J7G10?...
Jimmy Cliff: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert From The Archives
YouTube video by NPR Music
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Jimmy Cliff did one of the very very early Tiny Desks in 2010, when the whole thing was still really getting figured out. youtu.be/QYtIT6J7G10?...
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My Transition Co-chair Lina Khan and First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan joined Starbucks workers on the picket line today because making NYC affordable means an end to unfair labor practices and a living wage for our workers. We are their partners in the fight to live in this city with dignity.
November 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
My Transition Co-chair Lina Khan and First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan joined Starbucks workers on the picket line today because making NYC affordable means an end to unfair labor practices and a living wage for our workers. We are their partners in the fight to live in this city with dignity.
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THIS IS INCREDIBLY INSPIRING!
Please watch and share as Starbucks baristas demonstrate outside the company's biggest distribution hub.
They're on DAY 7 of their strike. Baristas and their allies are protesting Starbucks’ serious and unresolved unfair labor practices.
REPOST IF YOU SUPPORT THEM
Please watch and share as Starbucks baristas demonstrate outside the company's biggest distribution hub.
They're on DAY 7 of their strike. Baristas and their allies are protesting Starbucks’ serious and unresolved unfair labor practices.
REPOST IF YOU SUPPORT THEM
November 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
THIS IS INCREDIBLY INSPIRING!
Please watch and share as Starbucks baristas demonstrate outside the company's biggest distribution hub.
They're on DAY 7 of their strike. Baristas and their allies are protesting Starbucks’ serious and unresolved unfair labor practices.
REPOST IF YOU SUPPORT THEM
Please watch and share as Starbucks baristas demonstrate outside the company's biggest distribution hub.
They're on DAY 7 of their strike. Baristas and their allies are protesting Starbucks’ serious and unresolved unfair labor practices.
REPOST IF YOU SUPPORT THEM
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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The Polka Dot Dress—made famous by an unknown New Yorker who stood up to ICE marching through the city—is now up for AUCTION to benefit New York Immigrant Coalition’s Emergency Justice Fund.
Auction starts TODAY.
More: Nyic.me/auction
Auction starts TODAY.
More: Nyic.me/auction
November 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The Polka Dot Dress—made famous by an unknown New Yorker who stood up to ICE marching through the city—is now up for AUCTION to benefit New York Immigrant Coalition’s Emergency Justice Fund.
Auction starts TODAY.
More: Nyic.me/auction
Auction starts TODAY.
More: Nyic.me/auction
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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This remains my favorite Twilight Zone ep. Oddly enough helped me process the loss of a relative when I was a kid. I had “what you thought would go out like an explosion is like a whisper" written on my bedroom wall for a long time. I hope this ep still helps people process.
Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today
September 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This remains my favorite Twilight Zone ep. Oddly enough helped me process the loss of a relative when I was a kid. I had “what you thought would go out like an explosion is like a whisper" written on my bedroom wall for a long time. I hope this ep still helps people process.
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just saying again that the specifics of how/why this strategy worked are worthy of study from people trying similar campaigns. read about it in @hammerandhope.bsky.social (link below)
You know us already: no stale politics formulas, all guerilla strategy that moves the city. It's how while Cuomo & Co. spent $89 a vote, we spent just $1.19. It's how we made hating Cuomo a citywide phenomena with 1/350th his funds. And it's how we'll beat their SuperPACs again.
September 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
just saying again that the specifics of how/why this strategy worked are worthy of study from people trying similar campaigns. read about it in @hammerandhope.bsky.social (link below)
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I would like to make another pitch that you support @hammerandhope.bsky.social by donating and becoming a member. They provide ESSENTIAL analysis to help us better understand the moment we are in. I am a donor/member: hammerandhope.org/membership
Hammer & Hope
A magazine of Black politics and culture
hammerandhope.org
September 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I would like to make another pitch that you support @hammerandhope.bsky.social by donating and becoming a member. They provide ESSENTIAL analysis to help us better understand the moment we are in. I am a donor/member: hammerandhope.org/membership
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Oh hell yeah, it's Labor Day Weekend so we're posting the ILWGU song. Look at that 80s style and hair! ICONIC.
August 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Oh hell yeah, it's Labor Day Weekend so we're posting the ILWGU song. Look at that 80s style and hair! ICONIC.
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Just had a deep pang of grief, feeling the absence of the Bodega Boys take on Winnie Greco’s sour cream and onion bribery bag
August 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Just had a deep pang of grief, feeling the absence of the Bodega Boys take on Winnie Greco’s sour cream and onion bribery bag
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I’ll tell you this. A favorite campus dining spot closed last semester, with almost no notice. It’s been replaced by a fully automated kiosk. The kids are pissed. Asking all the right questions about labor and human contact and sociality.
Some of the kids are alright.
Some of the kids are alright.
August 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I’ll tell you this. A favorite campus dining spot closed last semester, with almost no notice. It’s been replaced by a fully automated kiosk. The kids are pissed. Asking all the right questions about labor and human contact and sociality.
Some of the kids are alright.
Some of the kids are alright.
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Two striking DC33 workers, one of whom is pregnant, were the victims of a hit-and-run last week when a drunk driver drove into their picket line.
Tyree Ford, a sanitation worker and father of four, sustained serious injuries and is still in critical condition.
www.gofundme.com/f/tyree-ford...
Tyree Ford, a sanitation worker and father of four, sustained serious injuries and is still in critical condition.
www.gofundme.com/f/tyree-ford...
Donate to Tyree Ford, Philadelphia’s DC33, organized by Crystal Purnell-bolden
Greetings, my name is Crystal Purnell-bolden, one of the siblings of Tyree Ford… Crystal Purnell-bolden needs your support for Tyree Ford, Philadelphia’s DC33
www.gofundme.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Two striking DC33 workers, one of whom is pregnant, were the victims of a hit-and-run last week when a drunk driver drove into their picket line.
Tyree Ford, a sanitation worker and father of four, sustained serious injuries and is still in critical condition.
www.gofundme.com/f/tyree-ford...
Tyree Ford, a sanitation worker and father of four, sustained serious injuries and is still in critical condition.
www.gofundme.com/f/tyree-ford...
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July 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🌟Pitch callout🌟 @rewirenewsgroup.com is now accepting pitches for reported stories, personal essays, and timely explainers on reproductive rights, sexual health, LGBTQ+ issues, science news, and more. Please use our pitch portal! More details below: rewirenewsgroup.com/about-us/wri...
