David Kusnet

MAGA's "Mission to Moscow": Trump's toady-for-hire Steve Witkoff calls Putin "a humanitarian."

This is what Netanyahu has wrought - the settlers are lawless and rascist. As a Jew I am ashamed. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...

Marco Rubio gave a speech in Athens invoking ancient Greek civilization. But executions as public spectacles recall the late Roman Empire, as do gladiator matches on the South Lawn of the White House. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...

@epi.org is the indispensable think tank that examines the economy from the vantage point of working Americans, not the wealthy & well-connected. At 40, always ahead of the times on globalization & its discontents, stagnant wages & skyrocketing living costs. prospect.org/2026/10/02/h...

JD Vance says Angie Nixon 'doesn't belong in America' because she's a socialist. Someone should tell him about A. Philip Randolph -- American hero, labor & civil rights leader, socialist, and a preacher's kid from Jacksonville, FL. floridaphoenix.com/2026/10/01/i...

Old enough to remember when we were told MAGA was "populist."

Eric Schmitt's humiliation was a "Have you no decency?" moment where, after he bullied a witness, the blustery Senator's pants fell down. From "gotcha" to self-own.

The "body language" is "the tell." Who's taken seriously & who isn't.

25 years later, we remember the 62 @seiu.org members, among others, whose lives were taken on September 11. They were workers, parents, neighbors, friends and union siblings. We remember their courage, their sacrifice, and their service. Today, we hold them and their families close.💜

9/11: Phrase "first responder" first was widely used. Covid: we talked about "essential workers." These phrases honor working Americans. 3rd calamity -- 2008-09 financial crisis: Working Americans were screwed. Populism Left & Right didn't just happen.

If you want to understand why Abdul El-Sayed is leading Haley Stevens in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary, visit the home pages on their websites. El-Sayed speaks to voters angry at a rigged economy & corrupt politics. Haley could be campaigning in another year.

"Americans are dying in a war no one wants. And nobody can afford anything."

To those who say NYC's Mayor should not attend 9/11 commemoration -- remembering Bill Clinton's remarks at Vietnam Memorial: "Some have suggested that it is wrong for me to be here with you today... I ask you at this monument: Can any American be out of place?"

For Democrats in 2026, there's nothing riskier than "playing it safe." www.vox.com/america-actu...

When Donald Trump sneers at his predecessors, it's always "Barack Hussein Obama" but never "Joseph Robinette Biden."

Lillian Roberts was the last of the founding generation that built NYC public service unions. Now labor needs to renew the insurgent spirit that fueled mass unionization in NYC government, education & healthcare in the 1950s & 60s. www.nydailynews.com/2026/07/15/a...

Donald Trump is a good judge of bad character.

Remembering the labor giant John Sweeney, future president of @SEIU & @AFLCIO, led NYC's building service workers on strike as the city prepared for the Bicentennial in 1976. Right to strike for a better life is a fundamental freedom. www.nytimes.com/1976/05/04/a...

How Democrats can "Speak American" about patriotism on July 4 -- and every day.

The US has a long and tragic history of Anti-Chinese racial discrimination ‼️

"AIPAC absolutely deserves to be criticized, sidelined, and rejected for its decades of negative influence on American foreign policy… But informed criticism of AIPAC is different from casting it as the primary evil influence in American politics."

Favorite Jerry Wurf quote, from the @nytimes.com "I would have thought it the end of the world Just to become a business agent for a union, but to become an international president, gee whiz.” Gee whiz? “Yeah, gee whiz, goddamn it!” #LaborHistory @reutherlibrary.bsky.social @afscme.bsky.social

Lincoln's cabinet: Team of Rivals Trump's cabinet: Team of Toadies www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Goodbye www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/w...

50% of American workers say they want to join unions, but 10% of workers are IN unions. Where’s the disconnect, you might wonder? The game is rigged. www.epi.org/publication/...

"Democracy dies in sycophancy." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/b...

This is not cool. Yes labor is important. But you can’t misrepresent. McDuffie allies are lying about his endorsements. Not a single labor union has endorsed McDuffie. Union members are united behind Janeese Lewis George for DC Mayor including our affiliate @wtu www.dclabor.org/news/develop...

I called for an investment bank, 1,000 trade schools & tech institutes, a care economy, & capital for places left out. I call it economic patriotism. The problem in America is too few people in too few places control too much of our nation's wealth.

Meta never met a tax loophole it didn't like. itep.org/meta-tax-bre...

Quoted in great article by Kevin Lynch & Paul Deegan about Canadian PM Mark Carney's first year. Carney's great speech at Davos was part of successful strategy to Trump-proof Canada's economy, politics, & global role.

Donald Trump is attacking a Pope who can address Americans in American English. www.ncronline.org/opinion/pope...

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The president gutted public diplomacy tools like VOA’s Persian Service, then raced to repair them—kind of like alienating our allies, then begging them to help, @markoskounalakis.com writes.

On the 250th year anniversary of our Declaration of Independence against a king, we have a president who wants his signature on our currency & his name stamped on our institutions. We didn't trade one crown for another. Join the No Kings marches this weekend.

Thinking Donald Trump's signature should appear on the Three-Dollar Bill.

The farm workers' movement was always about more than one leader. www.nytimes.com/1998/11/01/b...

Some of America’s biggest companies rely on public benefits to subsidize their employees. Why aren’t they defending their workers against cuts? @anne-s-kim.bsky.social unpacks.

What workers across the country are asking for isn’t complicated. It’s consistent. It’s human. It’s urgent. I keep hearing the same three things, over and over again: Money. Power. Respect. Unions are how we win all three. aprilverrett.substack.com/p/the-fight-...

This is Suez 1956 without an Eisenhower to stop it.

Trump's SOTU: Phony economic populism sandwiched between happy-talk, hucksterism & hate-mongering. #SOTU

Canadians should listen to the State of the Union address for President Trump's tendency to treat longstanding friends as treacherous "frenemies." So should people in other countries PM Carney calls "middle powers." ca.news.yahoo.com/david-kusnet...

Could former NYC Mayor and political free agent Eric Adams be the next US Ambassador to Israel? Remembering former Mayors Wagner & O'Dwyer became ambassadors, & Rudy Giuliani wanted to be Secretary of State. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/w...

"Black immigrants, estimated at 4,685,000 people in 2024, are a highly diverse population" now they are divided with "equal shares for those born in Latin America and the Caribbean and those born in Africa." www.migrationpolicy.org/research/bla...

The house plants we buy should never be grown with labor abuse and exploitation. 🌱 Please sign this pledge to show your support for human rights in the houseplant industry: actionnetwork.org/forms/housep...

Even princes are not above the law. Rep. Thomas Massie & I forced the release of an email showing former prince Andrew allegedly shared state information with Epstein. On Feb 9th, I called on King Charles to investigate & answer questions. www.nbcnews.com/world/united...

Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition wasn’t just a campaign—it was a blueprint for beating the authoritarian Right: multiracial, working-class unity, organized locally + nationally, built to outlast one election.