🚨 BREAKING! 🚨 AIPAC is *rushing* to the defense of "Out-of-Touch Tim" Kennedy (@reptimkennedy.bsky.social) because Tim's constituents are outraged over his AIPAC-paid junket to Israel and his refusal to cosponsor HR 3565, the "Block the Bombs" Act 🧵

As tenants get organized, they’re increasingly using a wider range of tools to stay in their homes. Renters are demanding change by holding rent strikes and pressuring lawmakers — and they’re winning. truthout.org/articles/ris...

Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are worth a combined $1.343 trillion. We are truly living under an oligarchy dominated by billionaire power. 1/2

“This is a bottom-up, multiracial, working-class movement that’s directly countering the catastrophe of the U.S. housing system and the power of landlords with the collective power of tenants.” My latest roundtable for @truthout.org with four tenant union organizers. truthout.org/articles/ris...

“This is a bottom-up, multiracial, working-class movement that’s directly countering the catastrophe of the U.S. housing system and the power of landlords with the collective power of tenants.” We need an abundance of tenant unions, rent control, and social housing.

New roundtable for @truthout.org with three affiliates of the Tenant Union Federation (Bozeman MT, Minneapolis MN, Louisville KY) about about the importance of collective tenant organizing, challenges that tenant unions face, advice they have to share + more.

Tenant union organizers from Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, and New York share hopeful news from the growing movement.

The Buffalo News published our letter criticizing @reptimkennedy.bsky.social's recent AIPAC trip to Israel, his disappointing stance toward the genocide in Gaza, and reiterating our demand that he join the now 46 other House Dems cosponsoring HR3565, the Block The Bombs Act.

NEW: Former UN official @craigmokhiber.bsky.social questioned Out-of-Touch Tim @reptimkennedy.bsky.social at a recent Niagara Falls town hall about the genocide in Gaza and Kennedy's recent AIPAC trip to Israel. (Out-of-Touch Tim's non-response filled with AIPAC talking points in the quote tweet).

On August 19, @reptimkennedy.bsky.social was at a town hall in Niagara Falls NY. Former UN official @craigmokhiber.bsky.social questioned him about the genocide in Gaza and Kennedy's recent AIPAC-backed trip to Israel. We did some fact- and tone-checking of Kennedy's response.

I wrote this piece for @mapthepower.bsky.social mapping out some of the major billionaire oligarchs and consumer-facing corporations profiting from and enabling ICE's deportation machine.

NEW: Billionaire oligarchs and corporations are profiting from and enabling ICE's deportation machine. From Peter Thiel’s Palantir to Jeff Bezos’s Amazon, from GEO Group to Avelo Airlines, from Bank of America to AT&T. Read the primer here: littlesis.org/news/the-bil...

"Big banks across the world are substantially increasing their financing of the fossil fuel industry, including for the industry’s expansion during a time of intensifying climate crisis, all while pulling back from previously stated climate commitments." For @truthout.org.

A new report found that the 65 biggest banks globally committed a whopping $869 billion to companies conducting business in fossil fuels in 2024, representing a huge $162 billion increase from 2023, all while pulling back from previously stated climate commitments.

"If tax and spending bills are political and ethical documents, then this mega-bill is clear in its values: it is an acceleration of the corporate elite’s long class war against poor and working-class people that contains new levels of cruelty." ✍️ @derekseidman.bsky.social

From California to New England, medical residents are unionizing for better pay, safer conditions, and justice for patients. Check out @derekseidman.bsky.social's piece for @truthout.org, now featured on @poweratwork.bsky.social: poweratwork.us/medical-resi...

Unpaid ad l. Very useful @derekseidman.bsky.social piece with specifics of who, how billionaires won big in Trump's omnibus give away to the ruling class, at our expense: littlesis.org/news/a-big-b...

"As Private Equity Comes for the Utility Sector, Minnesota Is a Test Case." My latest for @truthout.org. truthout.org/articles/as-...

NEW: Private equity 💰 Fossil fuels ⛽️ Weapons companies ✈️ And more. Read about five of the billionaire blocs - and some notable billionaires within them - that won big from the "Big Beautiful" budget bill. littlesis.org/news/a-big-b...

"Unionization has been the way for residents to fight back against this exploitation and ensure a fair and just workplace. That’s why residents across the nation, without any geographical bias, are unionizing." Check out my @truthout.org roundtable w/ medical residents on their booming union mvmt!

When I talked about a family friend held in ICE detention in Louisiana last year, and I'd talk about how he wasn't fed, people would say "that's not possible" and I get angrier about it every day. That was under Biden, and it has only gotten much, much worse.

“Without immediate intervention, the last remaining reporters in Gaza are going to die.”

The people who keep us alive deserve a #union truthout.org/articles/und...

Medical residents have been unionizing en masse over the past few years. I did this roundtable interview with union residents from CIR/SEIU in LA and @uapd.bsky.social in Buffalo so readers could learn more about why they've been organizing. For @truthout.org. truthout.org/articles/und...

Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years. “There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”

This new policy basically means all immigrants have no due process rights and can be detained indefinitely. Once again like the student detentions and like CECOT, the Trump administration is using immigration detention, which both parties built up, as a testing ground for its authoritarianism...

The Trump admin is finalizing an executive order that would pave the way for 401(k)s to be invested in private equity. The move would be a big win for the industry, which has lobbied to get their hands on the $12.5 trillion held in 401(k)s. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Big update: after extensive public hearings, a Minnesota judge recommended that regulators DENY the private equity (BlackRock/GIP) takeover of Allete, northern MN's electric utility. www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/r... A win for organizers. Read my @truthout.org story below for background.

Opponents worry that the deal would impose private equity control over their utility, threatening affordability and transparency, and leave ratepayers and regulators at the mercy of far-off financial profiteers.

BlackRock, through its subsidiary GIP, is trying to acquire and take private a Minnesota electric utility. My @truthout.org story on how this fits into BlackRock's private infra turn + why many in the community are opposing a private equity takeover of their utility. truthout.org/articles/why...

Two superhopeful things: 1) A mass movement campaign with tens of thousands of volunteers can defeat billionaire donors and a slandering corporate media. 2) Antisemitism-baiting is losing its effectiveness. Standing against occupation and genocide is winning politics.

Trump’s strikes add to the long history of the U.S. and Israel using brutal force to bend people, states, and international institutions to their will. Now, this war with Iran is showing the full bankruptcy of a world order that allows Israel and the U.S. to subjugate others using death and deceit.

This is a story I wrote for @truthout.org about some tireless organizers who are going after the big insurers behind the LNG (methane) export buildout in southwest Louisiana. "Victory looks like we are no longer dependent on fossil fuels here and that there’s another economy here." -Roishetta Ozane

Local organizers and climate groups have been fighting Trump’s expansion of “methane export facilities” across the Gulf Coast which they say will intensify climate chaos and environmental racism.

"I see grad workers really embracing radical change, not just incremental reforms. People desire a better world and know the current failings of our systems." I spoke with graduate workers from UC Santa Cruz, UMich and Johns Hopkins for this new @truthout.org roundtable on the grad labor movement.

Hundreds out in front of the corporate headquarters of Delaware North to support workers on #MayDay! 🥖 🌹 #SolidarityForever #WeGotUs

BIG UPDATE: A few days ago I wrote for @truthout.org about unionizing Buffalo Hyatt workers and the egregious union busting they've faced at Doug Jemal's hotel. The NLRB has now issued a rare order compelling the hotel to recognize and bargain with the union. Story: buffalonews.com/news/local/b...

NEW: Unionizing hotel workers at the Buffalo Hyatt, pitted against one of the city's most powerful developers, say they've faced egregious union busting. Buffalo prides itself as a "union town," but this doesn't stretch into hotels - yet. My latest for @truthout.org.

"Our educators are ready to protect and defend and wrap our arms around the immigrant community." How United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) educators are mobilizing their union to protect immigrant students and communities in LA. Read the interview at @truthout.org.

“We believe he was targeted,” says the political director of Familias Unidas Por La Justicia, the farmworker union that Alfredo Juarez helped to create.

Our union stands in solidarity with Rumeysa Ozturk. #FreeRumeysa #4the1st

Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez is one of the most compelling organizers in the labor movement. One of the very moving parts of my interview with Edgar Franks, Lelo's comrade and political director of his union, for @truthout.org.

"We believe his detention is politically motivated bc of his organizing in the farmworker and immigrant community" Interview w Edgar Franks, political director of farmworker union Familias Unidas, on the detention of organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez. For @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/wit...

The same universities overseeing a wave of repression against students have also welcomed in the architects of the war crime that was the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq - and they're now also welcoming in key US enablers of the Gaza genocide. My latest for @truthout.org.

As Gaza’s genocidaires receive plum positions at universities, they’re joining a cohort of experienced warmongers.

Today is the 22nd anniversary of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. Key architects of that war crime now hold cozy university gigs, and they are being joined by top US enablers of Israel's genocidal assault on Palestinians. For @truthout.org. truthout.org/articles/war...

NEW: Billionaire power was on full display at CERAWeek, the annual "Super Bowl of energy" gathering that performs key functions for fossil fuel industry power. But climate activists challenged the conference and its reckless promotion of fossil fuels. littlesis.org/news/cerawee...