What is going on everyone? Here we are once again. Bonus bitch. I am joined once again by NATO Green and Professor Robin D.G. Kelly so excited because we didn't have a chance to get into talking about the bestomer vote and what happened in Alabama this week, there was so much excitement, I think, a lot, mostly on the internet, but a lot of excitement I think from young progressives and radicals and folks who have been

waiting and wanting for there to be a renewed union movement in this country

looking to Bessemer covering it heavily. union movement in this country,

looking to Bessemer, covering it heavily.

We talked to Kim Kelly, who was covering it,

journalist, talked to Ken Klippenstein,

who had been covering all of the Amazon shenanigans and all the

shit that they were pulling and like you know all their bullshit social media

strategy and I guess it worked because in the end, the union vote did fail and by quite a lot.

So let's see, about 738 voted in favor and 1,798 voted against and this is a warehouse with about 5,800 workers in total.

So yeah, I don't know Robin you said you wrote something recently sort of a quick response to the

the failed union vote and I know you had spoken a lot about it before but what was your

reaction and what what are you give us a sneak peek right right well I was of course

disappointed and I was one of those who actually had optimism that they would

actually win the vote but you said something really key.

You said a lot of excitement on the internet.

And, you know, I know we're going to talk about John,

about Jay McElley's article,

but so much of what we understood was from the internet.

And I was called to talk about the kind of historical background,

having written about Alabama.

But, you know, there's, I think,

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