Ross Dispenza
@rdispenza.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🌹labor law and policy guy. current: friendly local bureaucrat. former: nlrb attorney
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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
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Political and corporate spokespeople now regularly treat a request for comment from the mainstream media as an opportunity to drop a free ad into the middle of the story. Bad faith non-responses should just be discarded, with a note that they declined to respond to the substance of the question.
WH spokesperson Abigail Jackson said "60 Minutes should spend their time and energy amplifying the stories of Angel Parents, whose innocent American children have tragically been murdered by vicious illegal aliens that President Trump are removing from the country."
December 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Political and corporate spokespeople now regularly treat a request for comment from the mainstream media as an opportunity to drop a free ad into the middle of the story. Bad faith non-responses should just be discarded, with a note that they declined to respond to the substance of the question.
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Another new a16z idea: giving letters of medical necessity to anybody so they can commit tax fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
December 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Another new a16z idea: giving letters of medical necessity to anybody so they can commit tax fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
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voted to repeal people’s healthcare and blew off the consequences. now the only thing you’ll be blowing is the grim reaper
December 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
voted to repeal people’s healthcare and blew off the consequences. now the only thing you’ll be blowing is the grim reaper
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One of the single worst people of this era of politics. I will never forget this man crying on the floor of the Senate about how hard it was to vote for Brett Kavanaugh (which he was a Yes for). Sickening in a way the MAGA hardcore somehow could not be.
Former Republican Sen. Ben Sasse announced that he’s been diagnosed with “metastasized, stage 4 pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. https://cnn.it/45hqdBB
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
One of the single worst people of this era of politics. I will never forget this man crying on the floor of the Senate about how hard it was to vote for Brett Kavanaugh (which he was a Yes for). Sickening in a way the MAGA hardcore somehow could not be.
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The University of Oklahoma has stripped the graduate student who gave a failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky of instructional duties, calling their grading in this case “arbitrary.”
This is a disgraceful capitulation by a university to those who seek to destroy it.
This is a disgraceful capitulation by a university to those who seek to destroy it.
December 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The University of Oklahoma has stripped the graduate student who gave a failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky of instructional duties, calling their grading in this case “arbitrary.”
This is a disgraceful capitulation by a university to those who seek to destroy it.
This is a disgraceful capitulation by a university to those who seek to destroy it.
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if you walk into a voting booth in a dem primary and vote for someone who talks about bipartisanship you are part of the problem in this country sorry
December 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
if you walk into a voting booth in a dem primary and vote for someone who talks about bipartisanship you are part of the problem in this country sorry
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This sucks so fucking bad, are you kidding me
The U.S. The Supreme Court granted the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's motion on Dec. 22 to stay an appellate court injunction ordering the newspaper to reinstate the former strikers’ health care and return to bargaining for a new union contract.
U.S. Supreme Court hands Pittsburgh Post-Gazette temporary victory in strike case
The Supreme Court granted the Post-Gazette's emergency stay of the 3rd Circuit injunction ordering the newspaper to restore the status quo and resume bargaining. Whether the union workers go back on s...
www.wesa.fm
December 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
This sucks so fucking bad, are you kidding me
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incredible that these guys make more money than they could ever dream to spend and THEN decide that the most important thing in life is spreading their genetic material as widely as possible. buddy you talked yourself into having the same life goal as ragweed
December 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
incredible that these guys make more money than they could ever dream to spend and THEN decide that the most important thing in life is spreading their genetic material as widely as possible. buddy you talked yourself into having the same life goal as ragweed
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Sorry guys. If you had actually been “our own” instead of getting friendly with our enemies trying to kill our neighbors and our families, maybe you wouldn’t be getting attacked now, food for thought.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...
‘They’re attacking their own’: DC Democrats irked by surge of left-wing challengers with House majority on the line | CNN Politics
When Rep. Dan Goldman first ran for Congress in 2022, he was cheered on the left as the party’s top lawyer during President Donald Trump’s first impeachment.
www.cnn.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Sorry guys. If you had actually been “our own” instead of getting friendly with our enemies trying to kill our neighbors and our families, maybe you wouldn’t be getting attacked now, food for thought.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...
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“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of
The Alarmingly Racist History of the Supreme Court’s Canceled 1947 Christmas Party
The Court held its first-ever office Christmas party in 1946. The following year, the clerks suggested inviting Black employees. It did not go over well.
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of
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It’s important to contextualize just how much less safe American drivers are than everywhere else in the world, and it’s getting worse!
December 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It’s important to contextualize just how much less safe American drivers are than everywhere else in the world, and it’s getting worse!
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Here in Delaware we have a statue of Thomas Garrett, a white man found guilty of obstructing the recapture of fugitives from slavery – ordered to pay damages to the point of ruin for it.
We don't, to my knowledge, have any statues celebrating the judges or jury members who found him guilty.
We don't, to my knowledge, have any statues celebrating the judges or jury members who found him guilty.
December 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Here in Delaware we have a statue of Thomas Garrett, a white man found guilty of obstructing the recapture of fugitives from slavery – ordered to pay damages to the point of ruin for it.
We don't, to my knowledge, have any statues celebrating the judges or jury members who found him guilty.
We don't, to my knowledge, have any statues celebrating the judges or jury members who found him guilty.
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he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post
December 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post
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It's so jarring to see how truly out of touch executives and upper management are, not just with what the public wants and expects, but with what their organizations actually even do
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 7:31 PM
It's so jarring to see how truly out of touch executives and upper management are, not just with what the public wants and expects, but with what their organizations actually even do
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If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
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No matter how you slice it, US police officers are safer on the job and paid waaaaay more than other countries' police despite doing a…less than stellar job
The question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little and such poor police work?
The question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little and such poor police work?
December 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
No matter how you slice it, US police officers are safer on the job and paid waaaaay more than other countries' police despite doing a…less than stellar job
The question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little and such poor police work?
The question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little and such poor police work?
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if a job is eliminated to "streamline" work in my department, I should make no mistake: that job is now my job too. "inefficiency" is fiscal sleight-of-hand meaning more work per person for less pay per person.
redundancy is pluralism is resilience
December 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
if a job is eliminated to "streamline" work in my department, I should make no mistake: that job is now my job too. "inefficiency" is fiscal sleight-of-hand meaning more work per person for less pay per person.
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We don’t need our estranged children anymore. We can be our own children! It’s time for estranged parents to adopt each other
Welcome to the pissed-off parent pushback: After years of therapists and others encouraging adult children to cut ties with families they deem harmful or “toxic,” estranged parents are speaking out on.wsj.com/4s49U52
These Moms Are Done Being ‘Doormats’ for Their Estranged Children
Parents publicly blast their adult offspring for cutting them off, drawing tens of thousands of online followers.
on.wsj.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
We don’t need our estranged children anymore. We can be our own children! It’s time for estranged parents to adopt each other
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Checking out a Federalist Society panel where EEOC chair Andrea Lucas is discussing the evils of "sex rejecting procedures and gender mutilation," in case you're wondering how things are going at an org committed to "fair, serious, and open debate about the need to enhance individual freedom"
December 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Checking out a Federalist Society panel where EEOC chair Andrea Lucas is discussing the evils of "sex rejecting procedures and gender mutilation," in case you're wondering how things are going at an org committed to "fair, serious, and open debate about the need to enhance individual freedom"
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In general when a field becomes less male and more female it's because the salary and hiring prospects have declined
One problem with this take is the number of high profile white millennial men in the media...
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
December 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
In general when a field becomes less male and more female it's because the salary and hiring prospects have declined
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One of the things that you see at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina is a Jim Crow era Coke machine that was designed to fit into a segregated bus station. One machine two sides.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”
December 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
One of the things that you see at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina is a Jim Crow era Coke machine that was designed to fit into a segregated bus station. One machine two sides.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.