Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for over 100 days. Now, he faces deportation —for just doing his job. The same energy that defended Jimmy Kimmel should be used to defend Guevara, a journalist who is not facing any charges. Watch @seth-stern.bsky.social on @meidastouch.com for more.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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This dystopian ICE recruitment ad targeting Chicago cops is running right now.

1/ In June, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won the Democratic mayoral primary in New York City, defeating real estate-backed candidates. He is now the party’s nominee. @thomasbirm.bsky.social @rebeccaburns.bsky.social reporting.

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

In our latest, @reallandsend.bsky.social & @city.bsky.social speak with @rebeccaburns.bsky.social about how Trump’s threats to invade cities to combat “endemic vagrancy” echo the policies of the Cicero Institute, a right wing think tank run by a co-founder of Palantir www.patreon.com/posts/137338...

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man? Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

The push to criminalize homelessness isn't only about politics—it's a billionaire-backed campaign. In 2024, @rebeccaburns.bsky.social exposed the shadowy group working behind the scenes to evict unhoused people and deploy the National Guard.

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

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"We should call out the hypocrisy of this rhetoric that they’re going after the ​'worst of the worst' criminals. They’re picking up folks who were literally just going about making their daily bread and terrorizing them in their place of work."

TIL that Diego Luna was a Zapatista??? BRO

oh crazy, it is as if protests have consistently hurt trump since 2017

I recently wrote about the importance of just-cause eviction laws, but this is a powerful reminder that renters don’t have to wait on lawmakers to take action. The power to organize—and win—is already in our hands. @rebeccaburns.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/rent...

Kansas City tenants are declaring victory after an 8-month rent strike. The investor who bought their building was ousted, and they have a signed agreement with the new landlord capping rents + guarantees repairs. Some rare good news here for @inthesetimes.com. inthesetimes.com/article/rent...

Tenants with @KCTenants just won an 8-month strike -- and showed that labor tactics work on landlords. reporting by @rebeccaburns.bsky.social for @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/rent...

🚨New issue alert! With some genuinely clarifying reads from @sarahlazare.bsky.social, Adam Federman and others

🧵1/2: We demand the immediate release of Gladis Yolanda Chavez Pineda (A 208-276-014), a long-time Chicago resident, loving mother and grandmother, and a dedicated community leader, who was unjustly detained during a routine ISAP check-in on June 4, 2025. ocadchi.salsalabs.org/freegladis

President Trump’s mass deportation plans appear to have accelerated in May, with ICE flying more removal flights than in any other month since he took office, according to public flight data collected by an immigration advocate. nyti.ms/4kspfrT

New @tylerhaupert.bsky.social @keenanclimate.com study finds that nonbank fintech mortgage lenders do not account for climate risk as much as traditional lenders. Nonbanks also send the most mortgages to Fannie/Freddie. Can't imagine anything that could go wrong there. HT @scrawford.bsky.social

"While individual stories often can be read as failures of personal responsibility, 'a birth cohort is by definition a structural explanation,' Mr. Culhane said. 'Something happened to these people as a group that continues to generate homelessness.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...

Ahora en español para @inthesetimes.com: Cómo los inquilinos de dos vecindarios de Chicago se encontraron—y pelearon juntos—cuando el mismo inversionista intentó desplazarlos. inthesetimes.com/article/span...

Lots of great details in this new piece from @rebeccaburns.bsky.social including how much profit-seeking landlords are gambling that they can buy buildings, quickly remove the tenants, & flip or refinance it. + how all that makes them vulnerable to rent strikes. inthesetimes.com/article/chic...

“If you’re going to provide someone with housing and then take it away, it should be your responsibility to ensure that they can find a new safe place to live.” Via: @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/art...

@inthesetimes.com recently wrote about the circumstances that led to the formation of Fuerzas Inquilinos de Broadway y Cuyler and BSTA, and their alliance against their common landlord.

Inside a Chicago rent strike: new from me for @inthesetimes.com.

Our April issue is out now! Find essential writing from @jehadabusalim.bsky.social on Gaza's declaration of life, @tobitac.bsky.social on Trump's old-school imperial bullying, Eve L. Ewing on fighting for the schools we need and more: inthesetimes.com/magazine/it-...

“Apartheid, military occupation, & genocide are incompatible with a free press.” In Dec. 2023, a collective of journalists & media workers co-wrote an op-ed mourning & honoring the media workers killed by the Israeli military. “We are raising our voices to honor the dead & fight for the living.”

"Everything is being crushed: the lives of innocent people, their dignity, and their hopes for a better future." From Hossam Shabat’s final article before Israel killed him in an air strike.

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

Latest update: The attorneys for Colorado activist Jeanette Vizguerra are going toe to toe with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the legalities of her case after her detainment by federal law enforcement this week.

On Monday, longtime immigrant rights leader Jeanette Vizguerra was arrested by ICE and is being held at the for-profit GEO Group Detention Center in Aurora, CO. Supporters of Vizguerra, including her children, are rallying at the facility right now: www.youtube.com/live/HnIuj9n...

In a letter dictated over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana, Mahmoud Khalil said that his arrest "was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine." "It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom."

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BREAKING: the U.S. District Court in D.C. has found that Trump’s firing of former NLRB Chair Gwynne A. Wilcox’s firing was unlawful, and ruled that she must be immediately reinstated to serve out the rest of her term as a board member. She was appointed and confirmed to a 5-year term in 2023.

Chicago landlord ordered to pay $80,000 for threatening to call ICE on tenants

NEW: Early results from a special election in Seattle show that voters strongly passed a new tax on big business that would raise $53 million/year for publicly owned housing. This is a huge win in breaking the grip of private landlords. @rebeccaburns.bsky.social in @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social:

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

On an earnings call, the CEO of Palantir talked openly about killing “enemies,” then added, “I’m sure you’re enjoying this as much as I am!” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

BREAKING: As far-right billionaire Elon Musk targets the Department of Labor, unions launch protests ahead of scheduled meeting and file a lawsuit to block DOGE from accessing internal systems, @kimkelly.bsky.social reports. inthesetimes.com/article/elon...

Some background on Elon Musk's track record as an employer. Above average on treachery and anti-worker animus. workdaymagazine.org/political-ph...

Last night, Kim broke the news that DOGE is planning a "kickoff" meeting at DOL today. Once that info got out, a coalition of labor groups filed suit this AM to try to block their access, while unions planned a rally outside the building. Critical demonstration of the role of independent media!

I spoke with political philosopher Elizabeth Anderson about how being a corporate boss is training ground for authoritarian rule.

Foreign investors are buying pieces of rental homes for $50. What could possibly go wrong? For tenants? Everything. Ignored repairs, unresponsive management, eviction letters, you name it. And yes, it’s happening here in Detroit. outliermedia.org/crypto-real-...

Filipino tech workers launched a coalition to lobby for protections as AI is deployed. The AI tools raise new risks, and the firing of a worker who spoke to Rest of World signals a “code of silence” around the impact of AI on the workplace, the group said restofworld.org/2025/code-ai...