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Low wages, high prices, and corporate monopolies: Come hear @sarahlazare.bsky.social, @annlarson.bsky.social, and grocery workers talk about how supermarkets put some of society's biggest problems on full display. Hosted by @inthesetimes.com and @workdaymagazine.bsky.social.

Everything Has Protein Now -- a new comic from @gemmacorrell.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/prot...

"They're trying to starve us out to make us succumb to their demands,” said one BP worker who talked to @sarahlazare.bsky.social for this piece. In the midst of a months-long lockout, the oil giant is seeking to force union members to pay back unemployment claims. inthesetimes.com/article/bp-o...

"It is no coincidence" writes @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social in this new piece, "that decades of successful attacks on the funding models of public education, the free press and labor unions have made it easy for the oligarchy to consolidate its own power." Read more: inthesetimes.com/article/thre...

Will we one day look back at America’s giant pickup trucks as a gauche fad that made our streets uglier, roads deadlier and our world worse? @jensorensen.bsky.social explores in this new comic.

On the latest episode of our Working People poscast alongside @therealnews.com, host @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social sits down with a panel of Toledo, Ohio residents to discuss the morning of the industrial disaster and life since. inthesetimes.com/article/tole...

Members of @uaw.org overwhelmingly backed another term for its president Shawn Fain and his United UAW slate of union candidates, showing support for his vision of a fighting labor movement. More from @labornotes.bsky.social: inthesetimes.com/article/uaw-...

Today in Brooklyn! This is going to be an incredible exhibit! Join our Artist-at-Large @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, alongise @thetolerantweft.bsky.social and Matt Rota for this group opening. 4-6 pm at 227 5th Ave — sponsored by The Puffin Foundation and @dissentmag.bsky.social

You can read it here: inthesetimes.com/article/pris...

Since May, I've followed a building story in Kingston, NY, where tenants whose landlords overcharged them for years (totaling millions collectively) are organizing to win their rent money back. My latest for @inthesetimes.com, with potential national implications: inthesetimes.com/article/king...

From the archive: Some environmentalists praised the Pentagon for taking climate change seriously. In this 2018 #ThrowbackThursday read, @katearonoff.bsky.social warned against handing climate policy to the institutions behind the war on terror.

The siege on Cuba is one front in what @alfatau.bsky.social describes as a new U.S. strategy for the Americas. He examines the “Donroe Doctrine” and the pressure Washington exerts on countries that could help Cuba.

Undocumented immigrants paid an estimated $96.7 billion in U.S. taxes in 2022, including $6.4 billion into Medicare. Yet, Ramya Gosike reports, they cannot enroll in Medicare.

Amazon called the September 2nd Riverside, California walkout the work of “mostly outside organizers.” Night-shift worker Kain Kazsuk told @alexnpress.bsky.social: “It was all us, boots on the ground in the warehouse, talking to our coworkers.”

Honey, this wraparound cover for the new issue of @inthesetimes.com really knocks it out of the park! Was looking for the cover image credit before I realized, wait, of course it's @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, now Artist-at-Large at In These Times, looking forward to more of this trouble💥

At the beginning of the pandemic, more than 400 Amazon workers in Eastvale petitioned for safer conditions. In 2022, workers in San Bernardino walked out over pay and extreme heat. Now, @alexnpress.bsky.social reports that workers in nearby Riverside have staged three walkouts since December 2025.

Rosa María Carranza paid into Medicare for 24 years. Now she’s expected to lose coverage under a law Republicans passed and Trump signed. Ramya Gosike reports that 100,000 immigrants face the same loss.

Trump has threatened tariffs on countries that supply Cuba with oil. @alfatau.bsky.social examines how the U.S. uses its power beyond its own borders to block relief to the island.

Working-class voters and liberal college graduates both rank affordability first. Beyond that, their priorities diverge. “it’s time for us to have a reckoning around class,” writes Mindy Isser.

What happens to privacy when AI can help analyze every email, text, website visit and trip we take? @sanders.senate.gov argues that the rapid expansion of AI threatens to create the infrastructure for a mass surveillance state.

More than 40 actions across the country in August targeted AI data centers, tech lobbying and surveillance. Stephanie Jordan and Mary Armas examine the protests alongside tech industry spending in the 2026 elections.

In 2025, Omer Shatz and colleagues submitted a second communication to the ICC: "European officials suspected of Crimes Against Humanity against ‘migrants’ on the Central Mediterranean route" www.crimesagainsthumanity.eu/en

ICE-Cold Cash: Private Prison Companies and Executives Have Donated Millions to Members of Congress Representatives have taken cash from the companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts. @inthesetimes.com reported: inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

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Groceries, housing and utilities topped both groups’ priorities in the Class Gaps Poll. Among working-class respondents, 10 of the top 12 priorities concerned costs, wages or jobs. Mindy Isser looks at what the findings mean for progressive politics.

There’s nothing like going to the mail, getting your subscribe monthly magazines and as you swift through you see your story on the cover of one of your favorite magazines @inthesetimes.com. Thank you so much to the editors of In These Times that helped me make this story shine.

In Lac-Mégantic, 47 people were killed. A decade later, East Palestine was poisoned by another catastrophic derailment. Residents of both towns tell @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social what happens after the cameras leave—and why communities have to organize.

Trump’s NSPM-7 builds on 25 years of surveillance, expanded terrorism laws and “preventative policing.” Tina Al-khersan and Azadeh Shahshahani examine how the War on Terror laid the groundwork for today’s crackdown on dissent.

Candidates are winning support by disavowing Big Tech, criticizing AI and promising to stop data center growth, Stephanie Jordan and Mary Armas write. They point to Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan primary victory.

“...we have power, and we will use it.” After years of rent overcharges, Kingston tenants are organizing building by building to force landlords to return money they say they’re owed. @thomasbirm.bsky.social on Kingston’s quiet rent revolution.

UPS Teamsters won a strong contract without walking out. But what was lost when the strike never came? Luis Feliz Leon writes that strikes do more than extract concessions: They teach workers militancy, camaraderie and their own power.

More than 70% of Americans say tech companies have too much power. Fewer than 1 in 5 trust Big Tech with AI. Yet Silicon Valley’s billionaires want even more control. @milesklassin.bsky.social examines the authoritarian future they’re selling.

“The future of humanity cannot be left in the hands of a handful of Big Tech oligarchs.” Bernie Sanders makes the case for public control over AI, stronger regulation and a ban on artificial superintelligence.

New from me. Baltimore currently has a moratorium on new data center development, but a proposed City Council bill has residents nervous (and PISSED) that the door is creaking open for data centers to come into the city—and that City Council views this as “inevitable" @therealnews.com

We're staking our economy on forcing a technology down people's throats that outputs misinformation as a matter of course. Someone asked me about my interview with Gil Duran. This is happened when I googled our names together. I have not interviewed Gil Duran. This path: civilizational death.

Once again the White House Correspondents Association, which had a celebratory dinner with this guy just months ago, looks like stupid craven fools. Good call idiots.

Some families of #september11 victims opposed war from the start. Jeremy Varon tells Mark Engler how their voices, alongside those of veterans and active duty soldiers, helped challenge the case for war.

On 9/11, @hebagowayed.bsky.social was a high school freshman in Alabama who wore a hijab. Her father had her brought home from school, then told her about Japanese internment camps. She recalls that conversation 25 years later.

The backlash against AI data centers is crossing party lines—and landing in the middle of an election year. Democratic and Republican candidates face growing pressure while Trump continues to back expansion.

“Part of what happened when people got out there with the practice pickets was they started to feel a sense of their own power.” Luis Feliz Leon on how preparing to strike changed what UPS Teamsters believed they could do together.

Tech billionaires are spending millions to crush wealth taxes, deregulate AI and crypto, and elect politicians who will hand them more power. @milesklassin.bsky.social explains why: Democracy remains the biggest obstacle to their plans.

The AI race isn’t only threatening jobs. Civil libertarians warn it is eviscerating privacy by turning our emails, texts, web activity and movements into fuel for a mass surveillance state. @sanders.senate.gov says it’s time to hit the brakes.

When you’re racing toward a cliff, @sanders.senate.gov states, you don’t ease up on the gas—you hit the brakes. He makes the case for binding global safety rules, a pause on advanced AI development and a ban on superintelligence.

#ThrowbackThursday: “Public outcry and agitation must continue.” In this 2014 article, Flint Taylor traced decades of failed prosecutions for racist police violence—and the movements that forced those cases into public view.

“The successes of past movements prove that these obstacles are not insurmountable.” On Occupy Wall Street’s 15th anniversary, revisit @nealmeyer.bsky.social’s 2013 argument for seeing the movement not as an isolated failure, but as part of the Left’s long struggle.

"Stop looking to score token DC bipartisanship points." Yep.

New one on how Amazon maps union risk across its warehouses.

The only prediction about the AI crisis I feel confident making is that the crisis will involve the one thing that every American crisis involves: oligarchs and politicians attempting to rob the poor, while corporate media depicts that as the only prudent course of action.