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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 16h

"Finanshul" Advice for Geriatric Millennials and Other Comics from @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/comi...

"Finanshul" Advice for Geriatric Millennials and Other Comics

New comics by Brian McFadden, Jack Ohman, Jen Sorensen, and Tom Tomorrow

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Kathryn Joyce @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social · 16h

“Undermining this rule is extremely hard to characterize as in some way beneficial to investors and savers. Every time Trump has promised to protect the little guy, the little guy has been able to count on getting screwed.” Read @brycecovert.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com

Unleashing Retirement Scammers

The Trump administration may reopen a loophole that allows investment brokers to enrich themselves at clients' expense.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 17h

Gaza is facing its darkest phase: starvation, isolation, and relentless attacks. Families are losing everything, children are at extreme risk, and aid is blocked. We cannot look away.

Yousef Aljamal reports from July of this year.

This Is the Worst Phase of the Gaza Genocide

With aid deliveries being limited severely since March, Palestinians are facing extreme levels of starvation, isolation and murder by Israel.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 18h

Over the past two years of genocide in Gaza, In These Times has documented the hunger, isolation, and resilience of Palestinians—from children to political prisoners, poets to students.

Explore our curated collection of coverage here: inthesetimes.com

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 19h

For 2 years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, not one Palestinian voice has been featured on NBC, ABC or CNN’s Sunday shows.

@ahjohnson.bsky.social writes about how the U.S. media has debated Palestinians’ annihilation without letting a single Palestinian speak.

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In 2 Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest

In a microcosm of the U.S. coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, since Oct. 7, 2023, influential Sunday news shows have not seen fit to book any Palestinians.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 20h

Two years have passed since Israel began its total genocidal assault on Gaza.

As politicians rebrand mass starvation as a “humanitarian crisis,” @alfatau.bsky.social exposes how this language hides genocide, shielding them from accountability in Palestine.

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How to Hide a Genocide

Naming Gaza's mounting famine a humanitarian crisis rather than a facet of genocide allows Western powers to continue their unshakable alliance with Israel and their rejection of all efforts to hold i...

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adam mahoney (he/him) @adamlmahoney.bsky.social · 1d

Retirement in America today means gambling on disaster as more and more Americans are being forced to wipe out what little savings they have. I spoke with Altadena fire victims who now think they'll never have the chance to stop working. inthesetimes.com/article/clim...

Climate Change Puts A Generation’s Retirement On The Line

Early retirement withdrawals for hardship have tripled since 2020, as disasters strike and insurance fails–leaving workers on their own in old age.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

This is the 2nd anniversary of the start of a genocide that made Gaza the most dangerous place on earth for children— that has raised a mirror to the rot at the core of our world.

Never has it been clearer that none of us are free until Palestine is free.

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On Parenthood and Genocide

A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 21h

Since October 7, 2023, Gaza’s children & families have proven to be the most vulnerable.

In this 2024 piece, sociologist and new mother @hebagowayed.bsky.social wrote about the unbearable loss of Palestinian children—and the power of parental love as resistance.

On Parenthood and Genocide

A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 1d

Hamer’s call was not just to witness brutality, but to resist it.

Her fight for dignity, safety, and freedom lives on in those facing ICE violence today—and in every demand that this country live up to its promises.

#FannieLouHamer #Chicago

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“I Question America”: On Juneteenth, Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer’s Testimony About Racist Brutality

Hamer’s speech to the 1964 Democratic National Convention still rings true.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 1d

61 years later, we’re still forced to question America.

In Chicago, ICE agents—backed by federal funds and impunity—are unleashing violence on both activists and immigrant communities.

The tools of state terror may look different, but the targets remain the same.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 1d

Today would’ve been Fannie Lou Hamer’s birthday. In 1964, she asked a question that still echoes:

“Is this America… where our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings?”

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Fannie Lou Hamer addressing the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 1964. (United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division)

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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 1d

NEW: If the U.S. immigration enforcement apparatus were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world. This bloated force is raining violence on Chicago.

@sarahlazare.bsky.social and @lindsaykosh.bsky.social of @nationalpriorities.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com:

The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 1d

Early retirement withdrawals for hardship have tripled since 2020, as disasters strike and insurance fails–leaving workers on their own in old age.

inthesetimes.com/article/clim...

Climate Change Puts A Generation’s Retirement On The Line

Early retirement withdrawals for hardship have tripled since 2020, as disasters strike and insurance fails–leaving workers on their own in old age.

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 2d

“If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the United States were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world.“

- @sarahlazare.bsky.social & Lindsay Koshgarian, @inthesetimes.com

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The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 1d

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

What we’re seeing is the 13th largest army in the world unleashing violence in Chicago, writes @sarahlazare.bsky.social and @lindsaykosh.bsky.social

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The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 2d

Are YOU wearing your bone farmer memorial pin?

Read the latest from @mattielubchansky.com and others illustrating the absurdity of our present moment.

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Randy Fair @southerngayteacher.bsky.social · 3d

“as unions scrambled this year to put out a series of fires in the form of attacks against Social Security, immigrants, and labor rights, their members’ retirement dollars were helping to enrich the same man fanning the flames.”

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Financing Our Own Destruction

How workers’ pensions fuel attacks on the working class—and how to reclaim them for the common good.

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Katie Cannon @katiecannon.bsky.social · 2d

To paraphrase MLK: The legal right to sit at a lunch counter is necessary but insufficient. We need the economic right to buy a cup of coffee

Call this democracy. Or call it Democratic Socialism.

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The Forgotten Socialist History of Martin Luther King Jr.

King believed that a multiracial working-class movement was required to overcome the failings of capitalism.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 2d

In this searing piece, Yousef Aljamal bears witness to life under genocide in Gaza—where aid sites become “kill zones” & every call to family could be the last.

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Gaza’s Nightmare

Gaza is becoming a graveyard without the luxury of graves.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 3d

Hundreds faced down tear gas, pepper balls, and armored agents outside an ICE detention center near Chicago—and refused to back down.

“Even when they gas us, we shall not be moved.”

By @sarahlazare.bsky.social, photos by Isaac Silver.

“Even When They Gas Us": Hundreds Brave Tear Gas, Pepper Balls to Protest ICE

Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 3d

Jack Ohman illustrates the options of modern life under the biggest of businesses.

Read one of our latest comic collections:

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Cartoon of a businessman with a worker at a gravesite. The businessman smiles, gesturing at the hole, saying it's a "real estate investment" for "Bob's pension."

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 4d

“In some cases, we’re seeing fees that we don’t think should be charged at all, like pest control fees,” says Kuehnhoff. “Landlords have a duty to provide a pest-free environment already, so they shouldn’t be adding that to the rent.”

These Tenants Are Going on Strike Against ‘Rent Debt’

A new kind of tenants union is ramping up the pressure on corporate landlords.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 4d

"Since October 2023, every morning, when I wake up, I do something that is harmful to my mental health, but essential. I grab my phone and open social media groups I have from Gaza."

Yousef Aljamal writes about Israeli violence in Gaza.

Gaza’s Nightmare

Gaza is becoming a graveyard without the luxury of graves.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 4d

From utility “junk fees” to crushing debts, tenants are saying enough.

By refusing to pay, they’re turning rent debt into a political fight—and building power.

These Tenants Are Going on Strike Against ‘Rent Debt’

A new kind of tenants union is ramping up the pressure on corporate landlords.

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