Gregory Butler
@gregoryabutler.bsky.social
EXCEPT NOT REALLY
just another person who sells my labor power for wages
Radical Union Guy ("all power to the working class")
workerist not leftist
"dissecting union struggles, Syrian politics & snake-loving jobs with a sharp, no-nonsense edge"
just another person who sells my labor power for wages
Radical Union Guy ("all power to the working class")
workerist not leftist
"dissecting union struggles, Syrian politics & snake-loving jobs with a sharp, no-nonsense edge"
Pinned
DISUNITED BROTHERHOODS: ...race, racketeering and the fall of the New York construction unions
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DISUNITED BROTHERHOODS ...race, racketeering and the fall of the New York construction unions by Gregory A Butler
DISUNITED BROTHERHOODS ...race, racketeering and the fall of the New York construction unions by Gregory A Butler
Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States in 2025 truthout.org/articles/ant...
Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States in 2025
In Texas, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, and beyond, grassroots resistance to ICE is growing.
truthout.org
January 3, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States in 2025 truthout.org/articles/ant...
Since When Is It Radical to Reclaim New York for New Yorkers? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/o...
Opinion | Since When Is It Radical to Reclaim New York for New Yorkers?
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Since When Is It Radical to Reclaim New York for New Yorkers? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/o...
Mamdani Called Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
Mamdani Called Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Mamdani Called Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
Meet Mamdani’s Biden Expats prospect.org/2026/01/01/m...
Meet Mamdani’s Biden Expats - The American Prospect
Several former members of the Biden administration, including a cabinet official, are going to work for New York City’s new mayor. Here’s what they have planned.
prospect.org
January 3, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Meet Mamdani’s Biden Expats prospect.org/2026/01/01/m...
THE WORKERIST MANIFESTO: ...AND RUMORS OF WARS - deportations, tariffs and the sea lanes of the South China Sea - a world war may be coming, can we stop it before it starts?
workerist.blogspot.com/2025/02/and-...
workerist.blogspot.com/2025/02/and-...
...AND RUMORS OF WARS - deportations, tariffs and the sea lanes of the South China Sea - a world war may be coming, can we stop it before it starts?
…AND RUMORS OF WARS – deportations tariffs and the sea lanes of the South China Sea – a world war may be coming, can we can stop it before...
workerist.blogspot.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:34 PM
THE WORKERIST MANIFESTO: ...AND RUMORS OF WARS - deportations, tariffs and the sea lanes of the South China Sea - a world war may be coming, can we stop it before it starts?
workerist.blogspot.com/2025/02/and-...
workerist.blogspot.com/2025/02/and-...
The Narco-Terrorist Elite - Marco Rubio's family ties to drug trafficking
prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...
prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...
The Narco-Terrorist Elite - The American Prospect
Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?
prospect.org
January 3, 2026 at 7:50 PM
The Narco-Terrorist Elite - Marco Rubio's family ties to drug trafficking
prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...
prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...
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The U.S. Senate has confirmed Trump's picks for the National Labor Relations Board. The NLRB's new top prosecutor comes from a law firm whose clients include notorious union-busters. nwlaborpress.org/2025/12/u-s-...
U.S. Senate confirms Trump picks for NLRB
Trump’s pick for NLRB top prosecutor is a partner at a law firm whose clients include notorious union-busters.
nwlaborpress.org
January 1, 2026 at 8:08 PM
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Trump's picks for the National Labor Relations Board. The NLRB's new top prosecutor comes from a law firm whose clients include notorious union-busters. nwlaborpress.org/2025/12/u-s-...
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Mamdani: We will transform City Hall from one of "no" to one of "how"
"I was elected as a democratic socialist and will govern as a democratic socialist"
"I was elected as a democratic socialist and will govern as a democratic socialist"
January 1, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Mamdani: We will transform City Hall from one of "no" to one of "how"
"I was elected as a democratic socialist and will govern as a democratic socialist"
"I was elected as a democratic socialist and will govern as a democratic socialist"
Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States in 2025 truthout.org/articles/ant...
Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States in 2025
In Texas, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, and beyond, grassroots resistance to ICE is growing.
truthout.org
January 2, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States in 2025 truthout.org/articles/ant...
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Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
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This is a brilliant line that should make a lot of folks…in both parties…very uncomfortable. Yes.
Good.
Good.
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:18 PM
This is a brilliant line that should make a lot of folks…in both parties…very uncomfortable. Yes.
Good.
Good.
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Zohran Mamdani is planning two inaugurations: a private ceremony at the old City Hall subway stop at midnight, and a public inauguration Thursday afternoon.
gothamist.com/news/nyc-may...
gothamist.com/news/nyc-may...
NYC Mayor Adams plans to attend incoming Mayor Mamdani's inauguration
“He made it clear that he would like for me to attend, and I would like to be there,” Adams told WABC.
gothamist.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Zohran Mamdani is planning two inaugurations: a private ceremony at the old City Hall subway stop at midnight, and a public inauguration Thursday afternoon.
gothamist.com/news/nyc-may...
gothamist.com/news/nyc-may...
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New Year, a new mayor and possibly a slate of new taxes for corporations and New York City’s top earners. gothamist.com/news/mamdani...
Mamdani wants to change the tax code. Here’s what that could look like.
The incoming mayor has proposed increasing taxes on large companies and on New Yorkers earning over $1 million.
gothamist.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM
New Year, a new mayor and possibly a slate of new taxes for corporations and New York City’s top earners. gothamist.com/news/mamdani...
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani vows to govern NYC ‘audaciously’ in inauguration speech https://gothamist.com/news/mayor-zohran-mamdani-vows-to-govern-nyc-audaciously-in-inauguration-speech
Mayor Zohran Mamdani vows to govern NYC ‘audaciously’ in inauguration speech
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, Rama Duwaji.
The ceremony at City Hall established Mamdani at the vanguard of a movement led by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. [ more › ]
gothamist.com
January 1, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Mayor Zohran Mamdani vows to govern NYC ‘audaciously’ in inauguration speech https://gothamist.com/news/mayor-zohran-mamdani-vows-to-govern-nyc-audaciously-in-inauguration-speech
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2025 IN LABOR: As reported in the Northwest Labor Press, the year's biggest developments for the labor movement in Oregon and Southwest Washington. nwlaborpress.org/2025/12/2025...
2025 in labor
As reported in the Northwest Labor Press, here are the biggest developments for the labor movement in Oregon and Southwest Washington in 2025.
nwlaborpress.org
December 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
2025 IN LABOR: As reported in the Northwest Labor Press, the year's biggest developments for the labor movement in Oregon and Southwest Washington. nwlaborpress.org/2025/12/2025...
Eric Adams Takes His Place in History of Corruption-Scarred Mayors www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/24/e...
Eric Adams Takes His Place in History of Corruption-Scarred Mayors
From Tammany Hall to Jimmy Walker to Koch, Bloomberg and de Blasio, New York City’s leaders have had to confront corruption in their midst.
www.thecity.nyc
January 1, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Eric Adams Takes His Place in History of Corruption-Scarred Mayors www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/24/e...
Eric Adams Reigned Over a Run of Scandal Not Seen Since Boss Tweed www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/24/e...
Eric Adams Reigned Over a Run of Scandal Not Seen Since Boss Tweed
The mayor’s corruption indictment capped a string of criminal charges, FBI raids and abrupt resignations that destroyed his popularity and took down his crony-laden palace guard.
www.thecity.nyc
January 1, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Eric Adams Reigned Over a Run of Scandal Not Seen Since Boss Tweed www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/24/e...
Explosive Audit Urges Dissolving Insolvent City Employee Health Fund www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/30/l...
Explosive Audit Urges Dissolving Insolvent City Employee Health Fund
The review by Comptroller Brad Lander finds the joint city and municipal union fund owes billions to the city following contract deals that aimed to save money on health care.
www.thecity.nyc
December 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Explosive Audit Urges Dissolving Insolvent City Employee Health Fund www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/30/l...
"Idiocracy's" curdled politics: The beloved dystopian comedy is really a celebration of eugenics - Salon
www.salon.com/2016/03/05/i...
www.salon.com/2016/03/05/i...
"Idiocracy's" curdled politics: The beloved dystopian comedy is really a celebration of eugenics - Salon.com
Trump has triggered a wave of nostalgia for the mid-aughts cult classic. Few remember just how noxious it really is
www.salon.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"Idiocracy's" curdled politics: The beloved dystopian comedy is really a celebration of eugenics - Salon
www.salon.com/2016/03/05/i...
www.salon.com/2016/03/05/i...
I was today years old when I learned on Reddit that Mexican employers are required to pay their workers a Christmas bonus (the Mexican worker who made that post was stunned to find out that this is not the case in America)
December 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I was today years old when I learned on Reddit that Mexican employers are required to pay their workers a Christmas bonus (the Mexican worker who made that post was stunned to find out that this is not the case in America)
the New York snowstorm, last night
December 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
the New York snowstorm, last night
Tried to watch Dave Chapelle's "comedy" special yesterday - but there was no comedy, just a rich old man braying about how he's gentrifying Yellow Springs Ohio, and spewing propaganda on behalf of the Saudi Arabian dictatorship
don't bother watching that garbage
don't bother watching that garbage
December 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Tried to watch Dave Chapelle's "comedy" special yesterday - but there was no comedy, just a rich old man braying about how he's gentrifying Yellow Springs Ohio, and spewing propaganda on behalf of the Saudi Arabian dictatorship
don't bother watching that garbage
don't bother watching that garbage