🚧📚 Workers and Learners: Building the Future of the Labor Movement ✊✨
Join us for an online conversation on how workers and students are shaping what’s next for labor!
Event Info:
🗓 Wednesday, 03/18/2026
⏰ 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM
💻 Online via Zoom
These stats are just so extreme tho. The rah rah role can't be worth that much. Surely something else is coming to square this circle, eg trading Jalen Carter???
Learn more about the book, plus oodles of interviews and op-eds, over at www.somebody-book.com
... are riddled with shame that they never got around to buying the hard copy
... are sitting on unused book credits
... are still wondering how to use that holiday gift card
... or use all their regular reading brainpower on harder stuff, like Das Kapital and Heated Rivalry
This one's for everyone who...
... told us they loved that joke in the intro about Michael's bar mitzvah but then never mention the book to us again
... told us the font is too small (dude: you are in your 40s. Time to accept you need reading glasses. It's not a big deal and it happens to everyone!)
Learn more about John’s wonderful work (most recently on Marty Supreme!) on his IMDB page! www.imdb.com/name/nm15776...
Prefer more of a preview before diving into the full 9-hour, 2-minute, 46-second experience? Here are the first 5 minutes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtO1...
@michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
@libraryjournal.bsky.social called it a “must-read for anyone interested in escaping the demoralizing effects of pessimism, in favor of defining their own role in fighting for social change.”
Find it on Spotify, Audible, or wherever you get your audiobooks!
www.somebody-book.com
You asked -- We answered!
Somebody Should Do Something is an audiobook! 🎧
Sit back and enjoy the dulcet tones of John Keating in 14, story-packed chapters about people making social change. 📘
How it starts: www.youtube.com/shorts/shz5r...
Inzlicht also says: "The talk was vintage Lee: hyperbolic, over the top, a little crazy. But behind the bombast were deep and uncomfortable truths too"
Lee's reply on Substack is pretty epic. A performatively contradictory rant declaring "EITHER I'M NOT RANTING OR RANTING IS JUST WHAT'S REQUIRED"
Had to sign up for the free trial to read Mickey Inzlicht's Substack to get his take on the session, which was positive about the speakers, including Conway, Anne Wilson, Nathan Honeycutt, and Lee Jussim...
www.speakandregret.michaelinzlicht.com/p/three-days...
Screenshot of Luke Conway's talk at SPSP this year, featuring 3 response boxes. Box 1, Problem Denial, states "How dare you suggest we DON'T believe in the scientific method?" Box 2, Progressive Attack, states "How dare you suggest we SHOULD believe in the scientific method?" Response Box 3, "Logical Incompatibility" combines the two claims, and suggests that one cannot coherently endorse both Response 1 and Response 2
Sounds like was quite the spicy session at @spspnews.bsky.social! "Is SPSP a healthy organization?"
Luke Conway's talk here: theapologeticprofessor.substack.com/p/the-scient...
Compelling pres, but hard to hear indictments of others as incoherent when the indictment itself is fallacious (~4:45)
Wonderful work by CPP's MediaVision, Jonathan Kwok, and everyone who helped bring it to life!
@calpolypomona.bsky.social
🔵 Faculty panelists from across the humanities, performing arts, and social sciences, including Karen Tellez-Chaires, Hyungjin Gill, and Laura Epperson
🔵 Student panelists including Philosopher Connor Ruiz, Archaeologist Nicole Sarabia, and Musician Michael Martinez!
youtu.be/wRoTNN31k0U?...
Hosted by Philosophy Major Ali Varela, with guests...
🔵 Dean Camille Johnson
🔵 Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Student Success, Brianne Dávila
🔵 Academic Advisor Isidoro Espinoza Barajas...
Check out the launch of the *Why Choose CLASS?* Podcast!
6 episodes on what makes CPP's College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences a transformational place to learn and lead!
youtu.be/vQ-VP-vjdGQ?...
We are getting there!
Come to beautiful MoLI to chat about social change!
Registration here buff.ly/mvyj9dY @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social
Cutting-edge research from CPP faculty and students, plus contributors from the broader Southern California region. An excellent opportunity to connect across disciplines, support student scholarship, and engage in conversations about environmental ethics, sustainability, and the humanities.
Free Lunch Will be Provided
📅 Friday, March 13, 2026
🕘 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
📍 Student Services Building (Building 121),
Rooms 1963 & 1967–1969, Cal Poly Pomona
Free registration is open for the 2026 Environmental Humanities Symposium, hosted by the Environmental Humanities Initiative together with CCEP!
Keynoted by Javiera Barandiaran, who will speak about her brand new book *Living Minerals* for @mitpress.bsky.social
Register: shorturl.at/NauHZ
"Somebody Should Do Something -- CSU Edition"
Full video here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0DI...
Systems are made of people (and people are made of systems!)
#socialchange #futurethinking #positivechange #tippingpoints
@dryan149.bsky.social @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/shorts/4bWcQ...
This is a hilarious and good catch.
But you know who you sound like right now, right?
"You know you can't control destiny? Destiny is a predetermined set of events, therefore if it's predetermined, you can't control it."
(I assume you were in the room for this one!)
(these are classroom policies though, not university-wide, but same basic logic applies)
haven't tried Vic's strategy yet but seems worth a try: dailynous.com/2025/08/26/y...
but basically I think it's the end of the world and we're fucked, because there's never going to be a new normal that we can adjust to, other than doing everything analog in class
www.cnet.com/tech/service...
Check out the full video here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Ic...
Of course I didn't make it to the picket line on Wednesday, the day we got gorgeous sun and a visit from CPP's Mariachi Band!
www.instagram.com/p/DU7W-IEAna_/
Bonus! Photo with @fionamacpa.bsky.social, CA's State Treasurer who is now running for Lieutenant Governor!
Looks like I forgot to skeet about this last week but:
Fair Pay for the CSU Teamsters!
Here's a good explainer from my university's newspaper
thepolypost.com/news/2026/02...
@teamsterslocal2010.bsky.social @cfaunited.bsky.social
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a ring is a good guy with a ring...
youtube.com/shorts/T1lXu...
