was definitely interesting seeing the demand for "hard truths" about BLM and also the demand to carefully consider the "economic anxiety" behind MAGA overlap in time (and in some characters)

☕️“Starbucks is on the ropes,” says @sbworkersunited.org President Lynne Fox. If the company keeps stonewalling baristas, workers are ready to strike for the fair contract they’ve earned.

All right, let's do this. I have no inside info on @karenattiah.bsky.social's case. But I know Post employees are part of @postguild.bsky.social, and their contract allows the union to challenge "disciplinary action on the basis that is was taken without just cause." So what's just cause? 1/

Back in 1983, @sanders.senate.gov told you to subscribe to In These Times. Still solid advice—subscribe now and get the other side of the story: inthesetimes.com

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Congratulations Alessandra, and if anyone hasn't read this story read it now. We need to connect these dots to the dangers that some Americans are waking up to now for the first time.

Have been in contact with ppl across the country who face a confusing fog of takes on takes that warp reality. The disinformation war isn't a set of actions our opponents take, it's a set of overlapping smokescreens and funhouse mirrors that disorient us. We have to face what is actually happening.

A deeply important read.

Yet more recognition for Alessandra Bergamin's incredible @inthesetimes.com investigation "The Death Squads Hunting Environmental Defenders" from the Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards

They don’t have the power to do what they’re threatening on a grand scale. But they want us to think they do.

Exclusive 🚨 Mayoral front-runner @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social showed solidarity with striking workers in the Bronx on Monday, demanding fair wages and overtime pay. “After today, he really inspired me to vote for him,” a worker told @documentedny.bsky.social documentedny.com/2025/09/15/m...

NEW — “We are alarmed to hear that, weeks into Trump threatening Black and brown communities in Chicago with military invasion and weeks into calls from community leaders across the city opposing these threats, ICE agents have shot and killed a man in the suburbs.” thetriibe.com/2025/09/stat...

Pres. Lynne Fox @sbworkersunited.org having a Muhammad Ali moment. Says "Starbucks is on the Ropes" and they better get back to the bargaining table or there might be a float like a butterfly and sting like a strike sort of situation. Op-ed @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/star...

They don't lie because they are strong. They lie to cover their weakness.

shocked to find that those who are seeking the quickest route to an imagined end times apocalypse are the ones who are most likely to support violence, and those of us who just think we need society and the economy to be more fair are the least likely

They are not only continuing to attack, but their tactics are evolving. Our movements are figuring out how to shift in response, but legacy media is at best ten steps behind now.

Tenant power is victorious in NYC, @thomasbirm.bsky.social and @rebeccaburns.bsky.social reporting. "All told, real estate donors poured more than $6M into the campaign of former governor Andrew Cuomo (now running as an independent) — and were roundly rebuffed by voters."

BREAKING in Chicago: "ICE Abducts Man Suing Off-Duty Police for Abusing Day Laborers" by @sarahlazare.bsky.social & @bloomekatz.bsky.social “The Department of Homeland Security has become the department of state terror,” @ramirez.house.gov said Saturday.

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

"Trepidation, Defiance and Déjà Vu Mark Mexican Independence Day in Chicago" by Lilia Fernández, UIC history professor for @inthesetimes.com "Organizers and residents have been, and are, largely moving forward with a mix of trepidation and defiance." 📷 Steel Brooks inthesetimes.com/article/mexi...

Sally I am asking this seriously do you have an understanding of the English language and what different words mean

Becoming clear that the phrase "political violence" is useless as a descriptive for what is happening. I think we are in the beginning of an era of what I'd call "meme violence." Charlie Kirk's killing wasn't the first and certainly won't be the last.

Willian Gimenez was abducted by ICE yesterday in Chicago. He had been part of a lawsuit against off-duty police and Home Depot employees for abusing day laborers. Latino Union says he was targeted for advocating for his rights as a worker. @bloomekatz.bsky.social and I report.

NEW: Workers are supposed to start building the stage at Huntington Bank Stadium on Friday for the Sept. 20 Farm Aid 40 concert but “will not cross a picket line,” organizers said.

"He reviled, belittled, and demeaned large numbers of my fellow Americans, but he was quite cordial to me" sets my teeth on edge.

"I worked with a group of members to organize an immigrant defense training at our union hall, after persuading our officers to approve it. Here's how we did it": labornotes.org/2025/09/nort...

Rick understands the historical grounding and broad sweep of the US far right as well as anyone. And the first line here is perfect.

As likely the Night of the Long Knives as Horst Wessel. Think about what a snake pit MAGA is; also, all the accelerationists, the kind of people who conpsire to knock out power grids

In 2006, @chrislhayes.bsky.social warned WWII nostalgia after 9/11 paved the road to Baghdad. "The standard view of 9/11 is that it 'changed everything.' But in its rhetoric and symbolism, the WWII nostalgia laid the conceptual groundwork for what was to come." inthesetimes.com/article/the-...

Scoop 🚨 They Helped Rebuild After #September11, Now They Live in Fear of Deportation Undocumented clean-up workers at ground zero could gain citizenship with a bill from @aoc.bsky.social being reintroduced today My latest for @documentedny.bsky.social documentedny.com/2025/09/11/u...

I think I've soured on "years of lead" or "civil war" comparisons because both imply two broad groups meting out violence against each other with something resembling parity in intensity and coordination capacity. And that is not remotely what has been bubbling up in US society.

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

wait what

Don't shoot people. It's wrong and can also lead to a lot of bad things happening.

Charlie Kirk's shooting is horrifying and it's ok to say that out loud.

Claim no easy victories. This is an important response that we need to learn from, but also a retrenchment on their part that doesn't take away the real danger we face.

Video is circulating of federal agents, including HSI, entering a church in Cicero today (9/10). This was NOT an immigration enforcement operation. It was a criminal arrest of a US citizen, charged as part of an investigation into child sex crimes and tax crimes perpetrated by church leaders.

"Members see themselves as modern Crusaders, using the Crusader cross as their symbol - a reference to the medieval Christians who fought Muslims for control of Jerusalem."

You gotta do what Lilly says, I don't make the rules

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Extremely important interview, thanks to Kelly and Rory for this one.

Cuomo, Trump, Rahm. The other side understands coalitions, I'm hoping we do too.

If I were a Democrat in Congress I'd be introducing legislation to suspend the Supreme Court's upcoming term (it's happened before, in 1802). The suspension would be to give us time to figure out what to do with this dangerous, anti-democratic institution.

Also, side note: the "I love the smell" line comes immediately after Colonel Kilgore orders an airstrike on a village full of civilian women and children so they're out of his way so he can surf. Unintentional, but pretty fucking on the nose

LITERALLY THE MOST BASED THING EVER

To the extent anti-immigration attitudes are (or were) strong among the general public, they are not based on facts or a clear-eyed accounting of reality and cannot be sated or reversed by meeting them halfway on their own terms even if that were desirable

ok hear me out what if everything is a distraction from everything else because ALL THESE GUYS DO IS CRIMES

As Trump threatens to occupy Chicago, we’re standing shoulder to shoulder with our school communities. Educators will be leafleting at drop-off and pick-up with’Defend Your Rights’flyers. Wear your CTU red, join the Sidewalk Solidarity action, and show the world:One Chicago against Trump.

The Trump administration filed what appears to be an identical lawsuit against Chicago in January and lost, with a federal judge declaring these claims completely and obviously unconstitutional.