AndyT in Detroit

I did this last week and it was fun!

I had fun doing tie-dyeing with my union siblings

It’s me!

So let’s take away the chairs for all White House offices. And Congress. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Vote NO on Michigan Midterm Proposition1 to stop a Constitutional Convention from messing with women’s reproductive rights, voting rights, environmental protections and more. Vote NO on Prop 1 in the Michigan Midterm Election 2026. @votingaccessforall.bsky.social @notpoliticians.bsky.social

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

We know AI isn’t even a little bit sentient because it is a computer program. That question is not more complicated. Computer programs are not the basic building blocks of sentience. It’s not the kind of thing we have to wait to see what happens first before we can really say one way or the other

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

AI companies’ best case scenario is putting us all out of work. Union workers deserve high paying jobs they can count on, not six month contracts building data centers for corporations’ unemployment machines.

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

Disintegration Loops for my 9-11 remembrance: youtu.be/qYOr8TlnqsY?...

trump's feds are going after the grad student union at U of M and it appears to just be about cracking down on pro-palestine activism www.michigandaily.com/news/news-br...

Police use reverse warrants to demand the identity of everyone who used a search engine to look up a particular word or phrase — without any evidence they've done anything wrong. Delaware's ban on these dragnets should be celebrated and replicated across the country.

Don't forget: Starbucks is boycotted. The company has received hundreds of NLRB rulings against it and still has 550 cases pending. Corporate is refusing to finalize a fair contract. Meanwhile, their CEO makes $14,900/hr. Baristas are asking for $17. No contract? No coffee.

Same. This was a craven act of capitulation that should be embarrassing for everyone involved.

The workers who operate JTRAN buses in Jackson, Mississippi get thousands of people to work and home to their families. After more than a month of solidarity while on strike, they won a new contract. Congrats to our @atucomms.bsky.social Local 1208 union family! ✊

I love my future senator!

Why are we supposed to be impressed that a robot beat Bolt's running record? There are millions of machines that can go faster than any human alive. There's so many of these machines, the traffic they cause frequently keeps them from moving at all. Where's the "reverse climate change" machine?

15,903 "illegal ballots" became 185, and they still haven’t shown that those 185 people cast any ballots. Gifted article: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...

Mike Rogers is a liar who claims El-Sayed wants to get rid of “fireworks, football, and the Fourth of July” so I really can’t take his claims that Abdul is a “fringe extremist” seriously. 🙄

“Michigan’s most well-paid educators have continued to be in the state’s most populous districts, while educators in more rural or isolated areas are paid far less despite similar student-to-teacher ratios.” MI also ranks 45th in terms of starting pay 🤦‍♂️

Accurate

WASHINGTON (AP) — Angie Nixon wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Florida special primary election.

On the left: Oliver North, convicted for his role in illegally selling missiles to Iran during the Reagan administration. On the right: Fox News “military analyst” Oliver North, who thinks Iran shouldn’t have missiles. Same guy. Same Oliver North.

This!

Yikes! Ben-Gvir is such a monster

"These are my politics—the girl in the Biggie t-shirt at the King’s Theater socialist rally. The rest of America can come along with us." @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social covers it better than I could.

Good

NEW: The Right to Record Act was just introduced in Congress, which would allow people to sue federal agents who violate our First Amendment right to record their actions in public. This bill is essential to protecting our ability to hold our government accountable.

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This. This is why ppl hate this app.

Cool

This

Here's One Cool Trick to start an electrical fire.

O M G 🤦‍♂️

This

Here’s to unions! ✊ #solidarity #UnionStrong

if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things

de Chirico is one of my favs!

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The DOW is so low, Bondi should be able to investigate Epstein’s friends AND Kristi Noem.

Delicious ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/jury-finds...

Join us in nominating the next Board of Regents at UofM!

Over the past decade, workers have reshaped their unions from the inside out. Reform caucuses are the engine of that renewal. Change doesn’t just drop in from above. It starts on the shop floor. Learn more about starting a reform caucus in your union: labornotes.org/caucuspacket

In doing a lot of work on my family tree with my mom in the two years leading up to her death I learned that most of my Irish ancestry is actually Scotch Irish (Scottish & English settlers after the ethnic cleansing of Northern Ireland) so only a sliver of my ancestry is actually Irish ☘️ 💔🇬🇧👎

I just downloaded the Wikipedia App!