Ruminations | September 2026.
"Literary innovation feels like a pipe dream when your biggest competitor is an AI slop machine that plagiarizes your favorite author and churns out bullshit for the cost of a Netflix subscription."
Nearly 1,000 Mount Nittany Workers Launch 5-Day Strike for Quality Patient Care and Good Jobs
Workers at Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College, PA hit the picket lines Monday in order to pressure management to get back to bargaining in good faith.
Award-winning independent journalist, Mel Buer
Reflections on industry recognition, journalism, and if it matters in the first place.
VIDEO: Caravan Travels to SoCal ICE Facility in Support of Hunger Strikers
A coalition group of advocates and allies rallied in solidarity outside the Adelanto ICE Processing Facility just outside Victorville, CA.
Hospital workers allege retaliation in struggle over outsourcing of union jobs
More than 50 longtime union workers employed at Dameron Hospital in Stockton, CA are fighting to keep their jobs after they were served notice of termination in February.
The Union Bug: Ep. 006
Boycotting as a Tactic: The REI Boycott w/Ashley Hamilton
Writer's Guild Staff Union reaches tentative agreement with WGA
The new TA, if ratified, will bring to a close a nearly 3 month long strike
PHOTO/VIDEO: A Tale of Two May Days
Federal agents and LAPD crashed multiple May Day protests in DTLA on May 1, 2026.
The Union Bug: Ep. 005
In the New Age of Robber Barons: The UP-NS Merger w/Ron Kaminkow
The Union Bug: Ep. 004
Lessons in Solidarity from an Amazon Organizer
The Worker's Wire #1
Welcome to the relaunch of my regular labor digest.
The Union Bug: Ep. 003
In conversation with Daniel Gross about his forthcoming book, "Unions of Our Own: 8 Building Blocks to Change Work...and the World"