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A publication committed to informing and advancing movements for social, economic, racial and environmental justice. Founded in 1976.
Trump’s cuts to the VA are pushing nurses & veterans into crisis.
Already stretched thin by years of understaffing, VA hospitals now face plans to eliminate 70,000 workers.
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports on how VA nurses are fighting back.
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Already stretched thin by years of understaffing, VA hospitals now face plans to eliminate 70,000 workers.
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports on how VA nurses are fighting back.
inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
Trump Cuts Leave VA Hospital Nurses and Veteran Patients in a Crisis
Already burdened by years of funding cuts and understaffing, registered nurses who work at Veterans Health Administration facilities across the country are facing a crisis as the impact of the Trump a...
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November 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Trump’s cuts to the VA are pushing nurses & veterans into crisis.
Already stretched thin by years of understaffing, VA hospitals now face plans to eliminate 70,000 workers.
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports on how VA nurses are fighting back.
inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
Already stretched thin by years of understaffing, VA hospitals now face plans to eliminate 70,000 workers.
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports on how VA nurses are fighting back.
inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
After two years of relentless atrocities in Gaza, Israel’s grip on the political narrative is slipping—and Mamdani’s victory shows how much the terrain has shifted for the Palestine movement.
Read Nashwa Bawab's viewpoint on what comes next.
Read Nashwa Bawab's viewpoint on what comes next.
Mamdani Won. Now What?
After two years of a genocide committed by the Israeli government in Gaza, Israel’s grip on the political narrative is slipping.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
After two years of relentless atrocities in Gaza, Israel’s grip on the political narrative is slipping—and Mamdani’s victory shows how much the terrain has shifted for the Palestine movement.
Read Nashwa Bawab's viewpoint on what comes next.
Read Nashwa Bawab's viewpoint on what comes next.
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Fascinating interview about someone I had never heard of (but should have! And am grateful for the introduction!)
Audley “Queen Mother” Moore was a civil rights icon, Pan Africanist and pioneer of the reparations movement.
Eleanor J. Bader on the new biography uncovering the legacy of a leader who shaped Black liberation for nearly a century.
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Eleanor J. Bader on the new biography uncovering the legacy of a leader who shaped Black liberation for nearly a century.
inthesetimes.com/article/quee...
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Fascinating interview about someone I had never heard of (but should have! And am grateful for the introduction!)
Audley “Queen Mother” Moore was a civil rights icon, Pan Africanist and pioneer of the reparations movement.
Eleanor J. Bader on the new biography uncovering the legacy of a leader who shaped Black liberation for nearly a century.
inthesetimes.com/article/quee...
Eleanor J. Bader on the new biography uncovering the legacy of a leader who shaped Black liberation for nearly a century.
inthesetimes.com/article/quee...
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Audley “Queen Mother” Moore was a civil rights icon, Pan Africanist and pioneer of the reparations movement.
Eleanor J. Bader on the new biography uncovering the legacy of a leader who shaped Black liberation for nearly a century.
inthesetimes.com/article/quee...
Eleanor J. Bader on the new biography uncovering the legacy of a leader who shaped Black liberation for nearly a century.
inthesetimes.com/article/quee...
In 2013, Whole Foods workers in Chicago staged a “Strikesgiving” walkout to demand Thanksgiving off.
A year later, they won: no more mandatory shifts, voluntary sign-ups, and double pay for those who work.
Proof that organizing works.
inthesetimes.com/article/want...
A year later, they won: no more mandatory shifts, voluntary sign-ups, and double pay for those who work.
Proof that organizing works.
inthesetimes.com/article/want...
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
In 2013, Whole Foods workers in Chicago staged a “Strikesgiving” walkout to demand Thanksgiving off.
A year later, they won: no more mandatory shifts, voluntary sign-ups, and double pay for those who work.
Proof that organizing works.
inthesetimes.com/article/want...
A year later, they won: no more mandatory shifts, voluntary sign-ups, and double pay for those who work.
Proof that organizing works.
inthesetimes.com/article/want...
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Christian nationalist movements like the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), which Succat Hallel is part of put Jewish conversion alongside support for Israel at the center of their End Times agenda. I wrote about NAR Christian Zionism with @fredclarkson.bsky.social for @inthesetimes.com
The New Face of Christian Zionism
A rapidly growing Christian Right movement has become a driving force behind unqualified U.S.—and global—support for Israel.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Christian nationalist movements like the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), which Succat Hallel is part of put Jewish conversion alongside support for Israel at the center of their End Times agenda. I wrote about NAR Christian Zionism with @fredclarkson.bsky.social for @inthesetimes.com
Poet and organizer aja monet on art as a commons, working-class solidarity, the legacy of the Maroons and why love must be the engine of resistance.
“Langston Hughes was a busboy. We all had to find a way to make a living.”
inthesetimes.com/article/art-...
“Langston Hughes was a busboy. We all had to find a way to make a living.”
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November 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Poet and organizer aja monet on art as a commons, working-class solidarity, the legacy of the Maroons and why love must be the engine of resistance.
“Langston Hughes was a busboy. We all had to find a way to make a living.”
inthesetimes.com/article/art-...
“Langston Hughes was a busboy. We all had to find a way to make a living.”
inthesetimes.com/article/art-...
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Power from the Past: Back in '78 organizers and legal advocates in Los Angeles blocked the deportation of over 100 workers rounded up to undermine unionization at a shoe factory. The strategy spread across activists networks to Chicago and other cities--an echo of the fight-back we're seeing today
In 1978, immigrant workers and unions stopped an immigration raid at the Sbicca shoe factory in East Los Angeles, setting a major legal precedent and showing how labor solidarity can defend against deportations.
Labor Solidarity Defends Against Deportations
In 1978, immigrants won a long fight with U.S. Border Patrol after a raid meant to union-bust.
inthesetimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Power from the Past: Back in '78 organizers and legal advocates in Los Angeles blocked the deportation of over 100 workers rounded up to undermine unionization at a shoe factory. The strategy spread across activists networks to Chicago and other cities--an echo of the fight-back we're seeing today
This Thanksgiving, remember the hands that harvest and pack our food.
In 2010, @meeshellchen.bsky.social wrote about how migrant women workers face exploitation, violence, and poverty while feeding the United States.
Unfortunately, not much has changed.
inthesetimes.com/article/this...
In 2010, @meeshellchen.bsky.social wrote about how migrant women workers face exploitation, violence, and poverty while feeding the United States.
Unfortunately, not much has changed.
inthesetimes.com/article/this...
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This Thanksgiving, remember the hands that harvest and pack our food.
In 2010, @meeshellchen.bsky.social wrote about how migrant women workers face exploitation, violence, and poverty while feeding the United States.
Unfortunately, not much has changed.
inthesetimes.com/article/this...
In 2010, @meeshellchen.bsky.social wrote about how migrant women workers face exploitation, violence, and poverty while feeding the United States.
Unfortunately, not much has changed.
inthesetimes.com/article/this...
Thanksgiving myths endure for a reason. This 2013 piece by John Eicher explores how the holiday became a tool of national unity and why debunking it misses the point.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Thanksgiving myths endure for a reason. This 2013 piece by John Eicher explores how the holiday became a tool of national unity and why debunking it misses the point.
inthesetimes.com/article/e-pl...
inthesetimes.com/article/e-pl...
NYC Under IKEA Law, Lead-Chugging Gladiators and Other Comics
December comics from Kirk Anderson, @tomtomorrow.bsky.social, and @jensorensen.bsky.social.
December comics from Kirk Anderson, @tomtomorrow.bsky.social, and @jensorensen.bsky.social.
NYC Under IKEA Law, Lead-Chugging Gladiators and Other Comics
December comics from Kirk Anderson, Tom Tomorrow, and Jen Sorensen.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
NYC Under IKEA Law, Lead-Chugging Gladiators and Other Comics
December comics from Kirk Anderson, @tomtomorrow.bsky.social, and @jensorensen.bsky.social.
December comics from Kirk Anderson, @tomtomorrow.bsky.social, and @jensorensen.bsky.social.
How are movement organizers resisting rising authoritarianism under the Trump administration?
At @localprogress.bsky.social's largest convening yet, over 500 local officials met in Chicago to strategize on defending communities and advancing progressive policy.
At @localprogress.bsky.social's largest convening yet, over 500 local officials met in Chicago to strategize on defending communities and advancing progressive policy.
How Movement Organizers In Office Are Responding to the Rise of Authoritarianism
Elected leaders with Local Progress discuss how they are moving progressive policy forward while defending against the assaults of the Trump administration.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
How are movement organizers resisting rising authoritarianism under the Trump administration?
At @localprogress.bsky.social's largest convening yet, over 500 local officials met in Chicago to strategize on defending communities and advancing progressive policy.
At @localprogress.bsky.social's largest convening yet, over 500 local officials met in Chicago to strategize on defending communities and advancing progressive policy.
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This article is a joint publication of @inthesetimes.com and @workdaymagazine.bsky.social. You can see the Workday version here.
Visible and Invisible: How ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago’s Working Class - Workday Magazine
This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and In These Times. When federal immigration agents thread through her Chicago neighborhood and circle above her home in a helicopter, Araceli h...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This article is a joint publication of @inthesetimes.com and @workdaymagazine.bsky.social. You can see the Workday version here.
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While ICE abductions, often in broad daylight, have provoked fear and outrage, the escalation is also unleashing a less visible form of economic treachery on Chicago’s immigrant working class: wage theft, lost income, work speedups, and economic slumps that spread through neighborhoods. My latest.
Visible and Invisible: How ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago’s Working Class
Fear, panic, hiding for days—this is the experience of families under assault by the Trump Administration
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November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
While ICE abductions, often in broad daylight, have provoked fear and outrage, the escalation is also unleashing a less visible form of economic treachery on Chicago’s immigrant working class: wage theft, lost income, work speedups, and economic slumps that spread through neighborhoods. My latest.
Chicago’s Operation Midway Blitz has led to a surge in ICE raids. Families are hiding for days, missing work and losing income. Wage theft complaints are up as workers face fear and exploitation.
@sarahlazare.bsky.social reports with @workdaymagazine.bsky.social
inthesetimes.com/article/undo...
@sarahlazare.bsky.social reports with @workdaymagazine.bsky.social
inthesetimes.com/article/undo...
Visible and Invisible: How ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago’s Working Class
Fear, panic, hiding for days—this is the experience of families under assault by the Trump Administration
inthesetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Chicago’s Operation Midway Blitz has led to a surge in ICE raids. Families are hiding for days, missing work and losing income. Wage theft complaints are up as workers face fear and exploitation.
@sarahlazare.bsky.social reports with @workdaymagazine.bsky.social
inthesetimes.com/article/undo...
@sarahlazare.bsky.social reports with @workdaymagazine.bsky.social
inthesetimes.com/article/undo...
A Chicago tribute concert to the late Lebanese composer Ziad Rahbani brought together SWANA musicians, dancers and community organizers to celebrate cultural preservation as a force for liberation.
Cultural Preservation as Resistance
A tribute concert for the late Lebanese artist Ziad Rahbani celebrates SWANA creativity and liberation.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
A Chicago tribute concert to the late Lebanese composer Ziad Rahbani brought together SWANA musicians, dancers and community organizers to celebrate cultural preservation as a force for liberation.
Already burdened by years of slashed funding and understaffing, registered nurses who work at Veterans Health Administration facilities across the country are facing a crisis.
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports on the effects of cuts to the federal workforce.
inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports on the effects of cuts to the federal workforce.
inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
Trump Cuts Leave VA Hospital Nurses and Veteran Patients in a Crisis
Already burdened by years of funding cuts and understaffing, registered nurses who work at Veterans Health Administration facilities across the country are facing a crisis as the impact of the Trump a...
inthesetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Already burdened by years of slashed funding and understaffing, registered nurses who work at Veterans Health Administration facilities across the country are facing a crisis.
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports on the effects of cuts to the federal workforce.
inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports on the effects of cuts to the federal workforce.
inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
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In 2022 & 2024 I went to Hazony's NatCon conference, a who's who of US & global far-right leaders. In 2022, the Jewish nationalists I spoke to insisted antisemitism wasn't a big problem in their movement. By fall 2024 they started changing their tune --> inthesetimes.com/article/demo...
The Right Is Increasingly Exploiting the Horror of Genocide
Right-wing operatives are channeling the genocide in Gaza into mainstream antisemitism.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
In 2022 & 2024 I went to Hazony's NatCon conference, a who's who of US & global far-right leaders. In 2022, the Jewish nationalists I spoke to insisted antisemitism wasn't a big problem in their movement. By fall 2024 they started changing their tune --> inthesetimes.com/article/demo...
In 1978, immigrant workers and unions stopped an immigration raid at the Sbicca shoe factory in East Los Angeles, setting a major legal precedent and showing how labor solidarity can defend against deportations.
Labor Solidarity Defends Against Deportations
In 1978, immigrants won a long fight with U.S. Border Patrol after a raid meant to union-bust.
inthesetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
In 1978, immigrant workers and unions stopped an immigration raid at the Sbicca shoe factory in East Los Angeles, setting a major legal precedent and showing how labor solidarity can defend against deportations.
A West African woman deported by the U.S. to Ghana has attempted suicide while in custody.
Dozens of migrants have been secretly transferred under a new third country deportation program with at least five African nations.
@adamlmahoney.bsky.social reports on the lack of protections for deportees.
Dozens of migrants have been secretly transferred under a new third country deportation program with at least five African nations.
@adamlmahoney.bsky.social reports on the lack of protections for deportees.
Deportee Attempts Suicide as U.S.–Ghana Transfer Deal Unravels
Secret third-country deportation agreements leave West African migrants in danger, with some sent back to countries where they fear torture or death, despite U.S. assurances.
inthesetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
A West African woman deported by the U.S. to Ghana has attempted suicide while in custody.
Dozens of migrants have been secretly transferred under a new third country deportation program with at least five African nations.
@adamlmahoney.bsky.social reports on the lack of protections for deportees.
Dozens of migrants have been secretly transferred under a new third country deportation program with at least five African nations.
@adamlmahoney.bsky.social reports on the lack of protections for deportees.
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Adding @prismreports.org and @inthesetimes.com as both publications do great work! 🔥
a good list of people who are better recipients of your money than ryan fucking lizza
i'll add @assignedmedia.org and @autonomynews.co and @lawdorknews.bsky.social
i'll add @assignedmedia.org and @autonomynews.co and @lawdorknews.bsky.social
My current list includes @marisakabas.bsky.social @katelynburns.com @swordsjew.bsky.social @flaminghydra.com @theflytrapmedia.com @hellgatenyc.com @thecity.nyc @19thnews.org and I’m sure I’m forgetting others! So many to choose from
November 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Adding @prismreports.org and @inthesetimes.com as both publications do great work! 🔥
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@jamellebouie.net has a great piece in NYT about Trump’s war of attrition. I made similar argument in @inthesetimes.com in February. inthesetimes.com/article/labo...
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 AM
@jamellebouie.net has a great piece in NYT about Trump’s war of attrition. I made similar argument in @inthesetimes.com in February. inthesetimes.com/article/labo...
An indefinite strike over unfair labor practices, chronic understaffing and low wages is still on with @sbworkersunited.org. It has been 12 days since the strike began, with actions in more than 25 cities.
The Working People Podcast with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social lays it all out.
The Working People Podcast with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social lays it all out.
Facing Unprecedented Labor Violations, Starbucks Workers Overwhelmingly Agree to Strike Indefinitely
Unfair wages, chronic understaffing and hundreds of ULPs have led to a Starbucks Workers United super-majority vote to strike.
inthesetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
An indefinite strike over unfair labor practices, chronic understaffing and low wages is still on with @sbworkersunited.org. It has been 12 days since the strike began, with actions in more than 25 cities.
The Working People Podcast with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social lays it all out.
The Working People Podcast with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social lays it all out.
VA nurses tell the Working People Podcast with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social that Trump admin cuts are pushing veteran healthcare into crisis by eliminating up to 70K jobs, worsening understaffing, & longer waits for care.
Trump Cuts Leave VA Hospital Nurses and Veteran Patients in a Crisis
Already burdened by years of funding cuts and understaffing, registered nurses who work at Veterans Health Administration facilities across the country are facing a crisis as the impact of the Trump a...
inthesetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
VA nurses tell the Working People Podcast with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social that Trump admin cuts are pushing veteran healthcare into crisis by eliminating up to 70K jobs, worsening understaffing, & longer waits for care.
Mamdani won the NYC mayoral race despite facing attacks from President Trump, conservative media, real estate interests, and national pro-Israel organizations during the campaign—evidence of a changed political environment for candidates supporting Palestinian rights.
Mamdani Won. Now What?
After two years of a genocide committed by the Israeli government in Gaza, Israel’s grip on the political narrative is slipping.
inthesetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Mamdani won the NYC mayoral race despite facing attacks from President Trump, conservative media, real estate interests, and national pro-Israel organizations during the campaign—evidence of a changed political environment for candidates supporting Palestinian rights.