Austin
@tenantfromhell.bsky.social
Microscope whisperer at UCSF. Organizing @rpsp-uaw.bsky.social
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@tenantfromhell.bsky.social
· Sep 3
Not to brag but we just won our union election with the most YES votes cast in a single union election this year 💅💪
7,000+ UC staff now have a union and are heading to the bargaining table with over 40k other UC research workers.
7,000+ UC staff now have a union and are heading to the bargaining table with over 40k other UC research workers.
By calling for the abolishment of slavery, progressive Democrats are squandering a clear opportunity to secure meaningful reform of the treatment of enslaved people
January 14, 2026 at 6:06 AM
By calling for the abolishment of slavery, progressive Democrats are squandering a clear opportunity to secure meaningful reform of the treatment of enslaved people
UAW members remain goated
Trump yells “fuck you” and flips off an auto worker in Michigan who yelled “pedophile protector” www.tmz.com/2026/01/13/t...
January 13, 2026 at 10:04 PM
UAW members remain goated
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NEW: Dem Gluesenkamp Perez spoke out 14 minutes after Charlie Kirk got shot. She hasn't said a word about Renee Nicole Good, the two people shot near her district, or anyone else killed by ICE who won't get a congressional resolution.
www.theburnerseattle.com/post/democra...
www.theburnerseattle.com/post/democra...
Democrat Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez Spoke Out Minutes After Charlie Kirk Shooting, But Still Silent A Week After ICE Execution
U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has been completely silent after the state-sanctioned execution of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis sent shock waves through the nation. Even when Border Patrol agent...
www.theburnerseattle.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:18 PM
NEW: Dem Gluesenkamp Perez spoke out 14 minutes after Charlie Kirk got shot. She hasn't said a word about Renee Nicole Good, the two people shot near her district, or anyone else killed by ICE who won't get a congressional resolution.
www.theburnerseattle.com/post/democra...
www.theburnerseattle.com/post/democra...
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Government accounts just post like this now and that’s how policy is made
January 12, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Government accounts just post like this now and that’s how policy is made
Cats out of the bag, @rpsp-uaw.bsky.social is voting to authorize a strike alongside @uaw4811.bsky.social and SSAP-UAW next month 👀
January 12, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Cats out of the bag, @rpsp-uaw.bsky.social is voting to authorize a strike alongside @uaw4811.bsky.social and SSAP-UAW next month 👀
Wrapped up 3 days of bargaining. Got 4 TAs including the first grievable articles on protections from discrimination and abuse in the workplace in any staff contract at the UC. Grateful to be part of a truly worker led union 🙏
Headed to the @uawregion6.bsky.social office for 3 days of bargaining, which also happens to be the number of ULP charges we just filed 😜
January 10, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Wrapped up 3 days of bargaining. Got 4 TAs including the first grievable articles on protections from discrimination and abuse in the workplace in any staff contract at the UC. Grateful to be part of a truly worker led union 🙏
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Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles.
It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
Advocates want legal action after man shot and killed by off-duty ICE agent in Northridge
Advocates argue that the off-duty ICE agent wasn't trained for the situation and should have called police and waited for them to arrive.
abc7.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:04 AM
Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles.
It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
I call him tony doodoopill
January 7, 2026 at 2:14 AM
I call him tony doodoopill
Headed to the @uawregion6.bsky.social office for 3 days of bargaining, which also happens to be the number of ULP charges we just filed 😜
January 6, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Headed to the @uawregion6.bsky.social office for 3 days of bargaining, which also happens to be the number of ULP charges we just filed 😜
We had chattel slavery and have participated in many genocides (including a couple of ongoing ones) and wiped out multiple cities with atomic bombs. Jan 6th was not even in the top 100 most shameful days in US history lmao
All Americans, and the entire world, must remember. Robert Reich: The most shameful day in American history open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
The most shameful day in American history
We will never forget, and we will not let the nation or the world forget.
open.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:27 PM
We had chattel slavery and have participated in many genocides (including a couple of ongoing ones) and wiped out multiple cities with atomic bombs. Jan 6th was not even in the top 100 most shameful days in US history lmao
I'd say it's forgetting how to organize in real life (Zohran is the exception) but the website thing is bad too
The progressive movement’s failure to organize an effective boycott of X is one of the most profound strategic failures of the past decade.
Wrote about an obvious and yet profoundly underappreciated aspect of the AI boom: its total narrative capture by Elon Musk's X nymag.com/intelligence...
January 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM
I'd say it's forgetting how to organize in real life (Zohran is the exception) but the website thing is bad too
Love this exchange I had yesterday with a Democrat Defender
January 4, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Love this exchange I had yesterday with a Democrat Defender
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Trump and his administration are spending billions on a regime change operation that 70% of Americans oppose. UAW 4811 members oppose this betrayal of the public interest and call on our members of Congress to do the same. www.uaw4811.org/updates/uaw-...
UAW 4811 Statement on Trump’s Attack on Venezuela — UAW 4811
The Trump administration’s bombing of Caracas and its abduction of Venezuela’s head of state are indefensible acts that will benefit only the billionaire class and expand their xenophobic, anti-immigr...
www.uaw4811.org
January 4, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Trump and his administration are spending billions on a regime change operation that 70% of Americans oppose. UAW 4811 members oppose this betrayal of the public interest and call on our members of Congress to do the same. www.uaw4811.org/updates/uaw-...
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theyre going to destroy every country that ever dared to fight their way out from under the thumb of the united states and all you mealy mouthed fucking losers are gonna stare at your shoes saying “I don’t like how they went about it but these guys were no angels”
Marco Rubio on Cuba during the press conference: "If I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I'd be concerned ... at least a little bit"
January 3, 2026 at 6:36 PM
theyre going to destroy every country that ever dared to fight their way out from under the thumb of the united states and all you mealy mouthed fucking losers are gonna stare at your shoes saying “I don’t like how they went about it but these guys were no angels”
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if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
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Leftists need to avoid falling into the trap of litigating whether various cases of "fraud, waste, and abuse" in the government actually happened or not. Two things are true:
1) Fraud, waste and abuse happen sometimes
2) This is just an argument for better governance, not for less governance.
1) Fraud, waste and abuse happen sometimes
2) This is just an argument for better governance, not for less governance.
January 1, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Leftists need to avoid falling into the trap of litigating whether various cases of "fraud, waste, and abuse" in the government actually happened or not. Two things are true:
1) Fraud, waste and abuse happen sometimes
2) This is just an argument for better governance, not for less governance.
1) Fraud, waste and abuse happen sometimes
2) This is just an argument for better governance, not for less governance.
Coked up zaddy shaking his cup of ice like a maraca at the Yo La Tengo show
December 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Coked up zaddy shaking his cup of ice like a maraca at the Yo La Tengo show
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Man, the economic vibes are putrid
December 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Man, the economic vibes are putrid
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We already have to do this in something called "graduate school." bsky.app/profile/ianb...
December 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
We already have to do this in something called "graduate school." bsky.app/profile/ianb...
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Will absolutely not continue supporting propublica if they go down this path
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Will absolutely not continue supporting propublica if they go down this path
After graduating college in 2011 I worked at Target for a few months and instead of orientation or training, we had to sit through anti-union propaganda videos. I will never forgive Eisenhower for this
This Day in Labor History: December 17, 1953. The National Labor Relations Board ruled in the Livingston Shirt Corporation Case that companies could force workers to sit through anti-union meetings. Let's talk about this horrible ruling and how Eisenhower sucked!
December 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
After graduating college in 2011 I worked at Target for a few months and instead of orientation or training, we had to sit through anti-union propaganda videos. I will never forgive Eisenhower for this
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*tearfully looking up at a portrait of the guy who illegally sold weapons to Iran and used to profits to fund right-wing death squads in Nicaragua*
The presidency once served as a reminder of our common humanity. Ronald Reagan described its purpose as building "a nation composed of good and decent people."
December 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM
*tearfully looking up at a portrait of the guy who illegally sold weapons to Iran and used to profits to fund right-wing death squads in Nicaragua*
He's faculty at UCSF and whines constantly about nobody being in the office. Every time I do a walkthrough in his building for my union, he's never there.
Who Is: Vinay Prasad
A thread about how the FDA’s head of biologics became its biggest internal threat. Vinay Prasad, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, is known not for effective leadership, but for quietly dismantling the scientific systems he was chosen to protect.
A thread about how the FDA’s head of biologics became its biggest internal threat. Vinay Prasad, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, is known not for effective leadership, but for quietly dismantling the scientific systems he was chosen to protect.
December 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
He's faculty at UCSF and whines constantly about nobody being in the office. Every time I do a walkthrough in his building for my union, he's never there.