Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein

more evidence the existence of the phrase "school lunch debt" is the best evidence of how sick our society is

This post has me thinking about how policing might not be a side issue distracting people on the left from economic populism, but really fundamental. The solution to safety is not policing but reducing poverty, funding schools, and expanding access to healthcare. That is, socialism.

Hopeful report in one sense on Sherrod Brown's chances, but also makes me wonder what exactly is the economic future of the Mahoning Valley in Ohio that will turn things around when electric manufacturing isnt delivering what steel once did@dankaufman70.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Oh, so confirmation that CIA flew him out. www.panamericandispatch.org/p/bolsonaro-...

Teacher Kolbe Ricks keeps a box of snacks in her classroom so kids aren't hungry. "The box, which she estimated had about $200 to $300 worth of snacks, was completely wiped out within the first nine weeks of school."

if you are thinking of buying into the rightward drift on policing for leftists, you'd do well to read this first equalityalec.substack.com/p/why-is-eve... @equalityalec.bsky.social

Take some time today to read @mfriedrichnyc.bsky.social excellent report on the privatization of NYCHA and the last unwinding of the New Deal era newrepublic.com/article/2163...

"They’re trying to use our own solidarity and close-knit community against us." New documentary about the Minnesota 15, solidarity, and how Trump is targeting unionists and community members in retaliation for mass opposition to ICE. Produced by @workdaymagazine.bsky.social and @therealnews.com

Man, Hegseth's Department of War is even more buffoonish than everything else. Kinda amazed how the US military didn't just have some basic war plans they could activate. Their lack of preparedness is astonishing. meidasnews.com/news/so-much...

This autopsy of how corporate ownership killed a magazine for political reasons really begs the question about whether it is possible to do journalism with corporate ownership. www.thenation.com/article/soci... @thenation.com

In honor of what would be Michel Foucault’s 100th birthday, be sure to read @lclaberge.bsky.social’s brilliant essay about her Foucauldian family—now out from behind the paywall.

It's really odd that anyone is surprised that Gen Z people express a certain hopelessness in their expectations for their lives when everyone older have been insisting that a better world (one with healthcare, say) is impossible and bleating about how doomed we all are.

We gotta get private equity out of healthcare now www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Pretty much right: "[B] usiness schools don’t just reflect our economic system — they actively manufacture its priorities and normalize its harms, training the future leaders who will design and defend the structures driving our overlapping global crises." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...

I'm not sure if this is a good business. The whole profit thing. www.reuters.com/business/ant...

Private equity-owned companies ruthlessly squeezing profit out of any sources they can? Say it ain't so. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

I loved this piece www.nplusonemag.com/issue-54/ess...

It's funny to me that this even has to be said

i think it is fun when people write things that are just totally in tension with easily observable reality. like, this is “charlie brown had hoes” levels of nonsense: “in his first term Trump largely respected the cultural consensus of the Obama years.” www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

forget the prediction markets stuff, THIS is probably the real big insider trading scandal we should be paying attention: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Economist Paulo Dos Santos had a very funny observation on twitter: "There are now nine recipients named 'Robert,' opening a three-point lead over 'James'. The name 'Michael' now goes up to three awards, closing in on the four wins for a 'Paul.' This is getting really exciting."

tell 'em

wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.

I've been using Edelweiss for years to find books to review and it is surreal to see my book in the listings! @harperbooks.bsky.social #tyrannyatwork

Teachers not only educate our kids but they free parents to work, almost single-handedly enabling our modern work of work. The fact they make up to a quarter less is shameful.

More than anything, without lists, Twitter is an impossible tool for news gathering and I really can't use it anymore for anything related to the work of journalism.

crazy

love to see it

Like many people who have worked in politics for decades, I am baffled and upset to see candidates who say they are going to try to make things better defeating candidates who say they are trying to make it more or less like it was in the years before things tipped over into Oaf-Style Fascism.

Excited to say book my "Tyranny at Work: Unfreedom and the American Workplace" is now officially due out spring 2027 and available for pre-order. bookshop.org/a/125307/978... #antiwork #unions #antimonopoly

Check out the new cover for my new book 'Tyranny at Work: Unfreedom and the American Workplace' due out April 2027 from Harper Books

i'll take shock theater if it means creating broad prosperity

Beyond it being exciting to see an important policy being made real in NYC, the other groundbreaking thing about Mamdani loudly and doggedly supporting universal childcare is that it's not coming from a woman or even a parent. It's being championed by a childless man.

Once upon a time, people with college degrees turned their noses up at unions. Today, the professional-managerial class has turned heel, embraced solidarity, and flocked to labor. Why? I wrote about Noam Scheiber's new book for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2087...

1/ As I reported my book, I noticed something that has completely changed American life: widespread chronic under-staffing. It leads to, among other things, deadly medication errors at pharmacies, flight delays, messy stores, and the crime wave. From me @prospect.org prospect.org/2026/03/19/u...

Great piece from @robinks.com on an underrated epidemic in modern America: understaffing. From nursing homes to retail, railroads to air traffic control, nobody hires enough people for the job anymore. prospect.org/2026/03/19/u...

Shorter Jason Furman: it used to be that the tech industry was dominated by only five companies. But AI has changed all that: now there's open competition from five whole companies!

This is AI-as-management

Part of the problem here is a long-standing issue of mine: The public gets a huge benefit from beat journalism—but the journalism industry does not, by and large, recognize beat journalism for its value or when it comes to awards and prizes. Those go to investigations and "one big thing" features.

I’m not going to get into this again but the defund the police critique remains complete bullshit yes we can was nonspecific lock her up doesn’t lay out why or for what make america great again couldn’t be less specific this critique is pure reactionary nonsense filtered through pundits

Ryszard Kapuscinski's recollections of being a 7 y/o in Poland 1939 as the Red Army was taking over and deporting people to prison camps (from his book "Imperium"). Scary flash backs to today: "In school, during breaks, or when we are returning home in a group, the talk is of deportations."

I don't really like the arguments that Zohran should be careful about opposing the NYPD because of what the NYPD did to BDB's daughter. This is all stuff that any mayoral candidate had to be aware of before taking the job. Anyone to the left of Bloomberg was going to have to take this fight

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."