Erik Loomis
@erikloomis.bsky.social
Labor and environmental historian. Writer of books, teacher of American horrors, talker on labor movement. Beer, country music, and football are not just for the right wingers. Cats. The West. Music. Graves. Writes at https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/
This Day in Labor History: November 25, 1865. Mississippi created the first of the Black Codes. Designed to recreate slavery in all but name, this signified the South’s resistance to the freeing of their labor force and the lengths to which it would go to tie workers to a place under white control.
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 25, 1865. Mississippi created the first of the Black Codes. Designed to recreate slavery in all but name, this signified the South’s resistance to the freeing of their labor force and the lengths to which it would go to tie workers to a place under white control.
Davis should become the AD at Florida with this passion
mark davis just loves paying people not to work for him. he's on a legendary run
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Davis should become the AD at Florida with this passion
Congrats to the Giants for being the first team eliminated. Great job Mara family, helluva decade!
With the Rams win, the Arizona Cardinals have been eliminated from the NFC West.
The updated NFC playoff picture!
The updated NFC playoff picture!
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Congrats to the Giants for being the first team eliminated. Great job Mara family, helluva decade!
Sinema is one of the worst human beings of our time.
“‘We are in this magical, unique time,’ Sinema said of Trump’s health department, led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”
Kyrsten Sinema Is Ready for Her MAHA Turn
In a new interview, the one-time Democrat says the movement for psychedelic medicine should capitalize on the Trump administration.
www.politico.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Sinema is one of the worst human beings of our time.
The goal to turn Thanksgiving into mushy creamy white food continues unabated
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027...
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027...
Brussels Sprouts Buried in Cream Recipe
Brussels sprouts love fat, and here they get it in the best way: buried under cream that’s been reduced until thick, then sharpened with a swipe of lemon zest so it doesn’t all slump into heaviness Ch...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:35 AM
The goal to turn Thanksgiving into mushy creamy white food continues unabated
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027...
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027...
This Day in Labor History: November 23, 1891. A miner in Alaska named Patrick Whalen was injured in a mining accident. After a lower court awarded him financial compensation, the Supreme Court stepped in to make sure that injured workers would get nothing!!!!!!
SCOTUS ALWAYS HAS BEEN TERRIBLE!
SCOTUS ALWAYS HAS BEEN TERRIBLE!
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 23, 1891. A miner in Alaska named Patrick Whalen was injured in a mining accident. After a lower court awarded him financial compensation, the Supreme Court stepped in to make sure that injured workers would get nothing!!!!!!
SCOTUS ALWAYS HAS BEEN TERRIBLE!
SCOTUS ALWAYS HAS BEEN TERRIBLE!
It's still amazing to me that you can get every college football game being played but the NFL is still on this antiquated regional schedule
November 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
It's still amazing to me that you can get every college football game being played but the NFL is still on this antiquated regional schedule
I am not a big fan generally of comparing songwriters to other forms of writers and giving Dylan the Nobel Prize for Literature was one of the lamest attempts to appeal to pop culture ever, but James McMurtry may be America's greatest writer in any genre.
November 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I am not a big fan generally of comparing songwriters to other forms of writers and giving Dylan the Nobel Prize for Literature was one of the lamest attempts to appeal to pop culture ever, but James McMurtry may be America's greatest writer in any genre.
Incidentally, I have a chapter on Clara Lemlich in my new book, Organizing America. And if you like the labor history posts, you will like these stories of 20 great American organizers!
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November 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Incidentally, I have a chapter on Clara Lemlich in my new book, Organizing America. And if you like the labor history posts, you will like these stories of 20 great American organizers!
thenewpress.org/books/organi...
thenewpress.org/books/organi...
This Day in Labor History: November 22, 1909. Approximately 20,000 garment workers in New York City went on strike against the horrendous conditions of their sweatshops. This strike, known as the Uprising of the 20,000, was the largest strike led by women in American history to that time!!!
November 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 22, 1909. Approximately 20,000 garment workers in New York City went on strike against the horrendous conditions of their sweatshops. This strike, known as the Uprising of the 20,000, was the largest strike led by women in American history to that time!!!
Goddamn right--and in fact, it's a sign of Americans' anti-social behavior to use those fucking blinding lights.
"Let's kill someone so I can see a bit better in my oversized SUV"
Now that should be America's official slogan.
"Let's kill someone so I can see a bit better in my oversized SUV"
Now that should be America's official slogan.
I believe someone can run and win on “the headlights are too damn bright”
November 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Goddamn right--and in fact, it's a sign of Americans' anti-social behavior to use those fucking blinding lights.
"Let's kill someone so I can see a bit better in my oversized SUV"
Now that should be America's official slogan.
"Let's kill someone so I can see a bit better in my oversized SUV"
Now that should be America's official slogan.
Anyone who uses an automatic out of office reply when in fact they are checking their emails every day--which is basically every single person who uses one--really deserve time in the reeducation camps.
November 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Anyone who uses an automatic out of office reply when in fact they are checking their emails every day--which is basically every single person who uses one--really deserve time in the reeducation camps.
This Day in Labor History: November 21, 1896. Dock workers in Hamburg, Germany went on strike. One of the major working class struggles in German history, the conservative leadership of that nation went ballistic over the sheer existence of these workers striking.
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 21, 1896. Dock workers in Hamburg, Germany went on strike. One of the major working class struggles in German history, the conservative leadership of that nation went ballistic over the sheer existence of these workers striking.
This Day in Labor History: November 20, 1536. The conquistador Hernán Cortés buys a bunch of Mexican silver mines and acquires between 100 and 200 Native slaves. This moment is an excellent entry point to discuss the labor history of early Spanish colonization of the Americas.
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 20, 1536. The conquistador Hernán Cortés buys a bunch of Mexican silver mines and acquires between 100 and 200 Native slaves. This moment is an excellent entry point to discuss the labor history of early Spanish colonization of the Americas.
This Day in Labor History: November 19, 1915. Utah executed IWW organizer Joe Hill for a murder he almost certainly did not commit. But he was an Wobbly and dispensable to society, especially in Utah, a starkly conservative western state outraged by the sheer existence of these radicals!!!
November 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 19, 1915. Utah executed IWW organizer Joe Hill for a murder he almost certainly did not commit. But he was an Wobbly and dispensable to society, especially in Utah, a starkly conservative western state outraged by the sheer existence of these radicals!!!
"Working with Weinstein Brothers Worse Than Father's Kidnapping" really does sum up those scumbags
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Guillermo del Toro Says Working With Weinstein Brothers Was Worse Than Father’s Kidnapping
Guillermo del Toro discusses his father's kidnapping and the Weinstein Brothers.
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November 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
"Working with Weinstein Brothers Worse Than Father's Kidnapping" really does sum up those scumbags
screenrant.com/guillermo-de...
screenrant.com/guillermo-de...
In the World of Medicinal Marvels, I was extremely happy to learn at my annual physical today prostate testing is now a blood test instead of, uh, the other kind of test.
November 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
In the World of Medicinal Marvels, I was extremely happy to learn at my annual physical today prostate testing is now a blood test instead of, uh, the other kind of test.
This Day in Labor History: November 17, 1968. The New York State Education Commissioner reasserted control over the Ocean Hill-Brownsville schools in Brooklyn, ending the strike by teachers that started when African-American activists fired white teachers in their schools. Everyone looks bad here!
November 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 17, 1968. The New York State Education Commissioner reasserted control over the Ocean Hill-Brownsville schools in Brooklyn, ending the strike by teachers that started when African-American activists fired white teachers in their schools. Everyone looks bad here!
This Day in Labor History: November 15, 1975. Wages for Housework opened its storefront on 5th Avenue in Brooklyn. This date allows us to explore this fascinating intersection between the feminist movement and ideas of work, with many lessons for the present!!!
November 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 15, 1975. Wages for Housework opened its storefront on 5th Avenue in Brooklyn. This date allows us to explore this fascinating intersection between the feminist movement and ideas of work, with many lessons for the present!!!
I used to read The New Yorker fairly religiously, but I've stopped in recent years. So many endless long profiles of Trumpers. I'm sorry, Laura Loomer is not an interesting person. Just not valuable reading.
November 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I used to read The New Yorker fairly religiously, but I've stopped in recent years. So many endless long profiles of Trumpers. I'm sorry, Laura Loomer is not an interesting person. Just not valuable reading.
Oh outstanding our racist ethnic cleansing loving College Republicans is a fucking limey
He's apparently from England, which makes the fact he's calling ICE on immigrants simultaneously make more and less sense.
November 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Oh outstanding our racist ethnic cleansing loving College Republicans is a fucking limey
I haven't been to church by choice in 30 years, but quite obviously you can develop an absolutely righteous moral center for justice based on the Bible alone. I mean, just look at the history of American organizing.
If one gets their morality, their ethics, from the Bible, hells bells on a bicycle.
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I haven't been to church by choice in 30 years, but quite obviously you can develop an absolutely righteous moral center for justice based on the Bible alone. I mean, just look at the history of American organizing.
College Republicans seem to be the least moral people in the world.
Read the Bible you fake ass Christians
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Read the Bible you fake ass Christians
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Boston University Student Faces Backlash After He Called ICE on Workers
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
College Republicans seem to be the least moral people in the world.
Read the Bible you fake ass Christians
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Read the Bible you fake ass Christians
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Nuke the Beltway
November 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Nuke the Beltway
Can Larry Summers join them?
When Charles Murray gets around to joining James Watson in that great faculty lounge in the sky, it won't be a moment too soon.
"I'm an academic who published a racist piece of shit book that should have made me a laughingstock across the world but instead I get to bloviate in the Washington Post. Cue the incredulous reactions."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Can Larry Summers join them?