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Just realized we should start talking about the chapters and authors in "So Long, Dental Plan!"

First up, we have an article by @erikloomis.bsky.social: The Simpsons and the Working Class: Clintonian Liberalism Meets American Popular Culture.

Next, in "A Workers’ State Without Workers?" @davidabanks.online looks at that beloved episode of Star Trek DS9 where the boys from the Federation of Planets help the Quark's workers form a union. Come for the reminder that Worf's a strikebreaker, stay for the speculation that USSR inspired Trek.

.@fredbjacob.bsky.social offers a delightful take on the episode where Nanny Fran Fine refused to cross a picket line for Mr. Sheffield. "The Nanny as Labor Activist: Fran Fine, Fran Drescher, and Working-Class Solidarity."

In "Pushing Agitators Out of Airlocks: The Class Politics of Battlestar Galactica" @benburgis.bsky.social argues the ostensibly pro-union episode where mechanics go on strike squeezed the workers into a Obama-esque meritocratic framework.

In "Krusty Krab Unfair: Labor in Kids’ Shows Matters," Alina Sipp-Alpers argues that a 25 year old cartoon episode had an inordinate influence on the left-leaning Millennial generation, and that left-leaning creative types should take children's entertainment much more seriously.

We get some @leftistteendrama.bsky.social and more crustacean-based unionism from @mariadip.bsky.social in “'Your [Organizing] Matters. It’s What Got Me Here.' One Tree Hill’s Brooke Davis as a Role Model for Millennial Union Workers."