"It's important I Remember" "Memory is a willed creation."

“Nowhere in the world are crusades for liberation disconnected from one another.” Poems from Cortney Lamar Charleston’s new collection, "It’s Important I Remember" turn to "the archives for narratives of Black American resistance and resilience that provide instruction for our current struggle."

The Trump administration is hacking to pieces the agency tasked with handling legal disputes around mine worker safety. “Every day of delay is another death sentence for our communities,” said Rebecca Shelton, Director of Policy for @appcitizenslaw.bsky.social. @kimkelly.bsky.social reports.

Private prison PACs donated approximately $675,000 to members of Congress, and private prison executives donated close to $380,000. #abolishICE

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“Even before Trump, claims of U.S. leadership on global climate action have too often been hollow.” Basav Sen writes on the Santa Marta conference—and what real climate leadership could look like.

I will never forgive the Teamsters’ O’Brien

This is an inevitable result of anticommunism btw.

What happens when far-right movements try to appeal to workers while targeting the institutions workers use to organize? @billfletcherjr.bsky.social writes on unions, nationalism and the push for an explicitly antifascist labor movement.

In "It’s Important I Remember," Cortney Lamar Charleston turns to archives of Black resistance and looks beyond U.S. borders—to Japan, South Africa and Palestine—to trace the connections between empire, policing and liberation.

Today is Nakba Day. For Palestinians, the Nakba is not only a history of 1948 displacement. It is an ongoing reality of occupation, besiegement, settlement expansion and dispossession.

The Trump administration is digging coal miners’ graves.

The Trump administration has sent billions in taxpayer dollars to corporations carrying out its mass deportation agenda. Many of those same companies have also donated to sitting members of Congress. Copublished with @theappeal.org

The Trump administration says it “digs coal.” Meanwhile, it has delayed a silica dust rule, gutted a mine safety review agency and left coal miners facing greater risk of injury, disease and death. @kimkelly.bsky.social reports: inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

“If the FBI already concluded years ago that there was no criminal concern to DFW Antifa, why didn’t that come up during the federal trial?” @adamfederman.bsky.social reports on the FOIA files now raising questions about the Prairieland case. inthesetimes.com/article/prai...

At New York City’s May Day rally, Laborers in neon orange union shirts danced to Michael Jackson, picked up Knights of Labor tees and gathered under a slogan older than all of us: “An injury to one is an injury to all.”

Angelique Estes says she was held against her will in an unlicensed Texas boarding home. Her story is part of a much larger investigation into a long-term care system where vulnerable residents can be left with nowhere else to go.

In rural Kentucky apartments, tenants were living with broken AC, spreading mold and toilets that didn’t work. HUD wasn’t stepping in. So they organized, kept records, went to court, and forced their out-of-state landlord to the bargaining table.

A Christian Right legal group’s model policies are showing up in Pennsylvania school districts—even where boards have not publicly acknowledged working with the group. @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social reports on how the Independence Law Center’s anti-LGBTQ policies took root across the state.

Another forever war is being sold as inevitable. @neginowl.bsky.social writes on why it isn’t, why despair can’t be the endpoint and what accountability could look like right now.

Republicans just do not give a fuck about anyone.

On May Day, the Trump admin fired a mine safety commissioner & closed the Pittsburgh office of the agency that handles mine safety disputes. @kimkelly.bsky.social reports on what that could mean for coal miners already facing black lung, silica dust & dangerous work: inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

Are your representatives in the database? Search here: inthesetimes.com/article/immi...

*Executives at ICE’s biggest contractors donated over $1.7 million to 168 members of Congress across 2022, 2024, 2026 election cycles. Palantir alone accounted for over $1.3 million. Palantir executives donated roughly twice as much to Democrats as to Republicans* inthesetimes.com/article/immi...

Lots of TX folks on this list inthesetimes.com/article/immi...

Executives at ICE’s biggest contractors donated more than $1.7 million to 168 members of Congress over the 3 most recent election cycles. Find out if your representatives are among them with our new searchable database built in partnership with @inthesetimes.com theappeal.org/congress-ice...

You can check to see if your member of congress is accepting donations from ICE profiteers here: inthesetimes.com/article/immi...

PSA: @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social has accepted donations from ICE contractors. Maybe the Democratic Party is confused...we said "ABOLISH ICE." not "accept donations from ICE profiteers."

My favorite role is Mother. And it’s strengthened my resolve to fight. The children are ours. All of them. From Harlem to Palestine. inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

A sign in Davis, West Virginia reads: “No data center complex in Tucker County.” It’s one local fight in a much bigger story about AI, energy demand, water, noise and who gets sacrificed for Big Tech growth.

Ugh, Jake Auchincloss is the only one in Massachusetts. ::grits teeth:: glad he’s not my district but damn.

Sen. Ruben Gallego blowing the other Arizona Congressional members out of the water here with $35,200 in donations from ICE contractors (all from Palantir). Rep. Juan Ciscomani is next with $12,007 in donations from Palantir and private prison companies CoreCivic and GEO Group.

“The trade union movement is in a fight for its very existence.” @billfletcherjr.bsky.social traces how unions have responded to the growth of neofascist politics—and why he argues labor cannot treat the current moment as politics as usual.

In "It’s Important I Remember" Cortney Lamar Charleston turns to archives of Black resistance and looks beyond U.S. borders—to Japan, South Africa and Palestine—to trace the connections between empire, policing and liberation.

lookie loo, gabe amo taking money from palantir.

Seattle, look at this database and see all the money flowing from Palantir execs to our Adam Smith. One of ICE’s biggest contractors, part of the machine terrorizing our communities and disappearing our neighbors for profit. Yuck. Why does anyone support him? He has shown us who he is.

when you hit the Hakeem Jeffries section

Lauren Underwood???? Excuse me!!!!!!

Understand this it’s not about immigration at all it’s about private prison industrial complex

it’s wild how cheaply fascism can be purchased for

Most of the roughly 60,000 people detained by ICE are held in for-profit immigration jails. Private prison PACs donated about $675,000 to members of Congress, while private prison executives gave nearly $380,000.

AI regulation is already happening at the state level—from Colorado’s protections against algorithmic discrimination to California’s transparency rules for frontier AI models. A Trump executive order could put those laws in jeopardy.

"So as long as I am alive, I’m going to keep trying every day"

My millennial retirement dream is to open a radical bookstore/bar/community space.

"Palantir CEO Alexander Karp outspent the other executives, donating a total of about $465,000 ... Palantir executives donated more money to Democrats than Republicans. They donated a total of about $880,000 to 67 Democratic members of Congress and about $420,000 to 48 Republicans."

@ethanscorey.bsky.social and I created a database of every congress member who has received money from ICE’s top contractors, either through company PACs or executives. Published with @theappeal.org and @inthesetimes.com.

@shaheen.senate.gov not a great look for you, please refuse all future funds what a conflict of interest in these times to do anything else

Executives at ICE’s biggest contractors donated $1.7M+ to 168 members of Congress during 2022, 2024 & 2026 election cycles, according to an investigation by @elizabethweill.bsky.social & @ethanscorey.bsky.social copublished w/ @theappeal.org. Search the database: inthesetimes.com/article/immi...

Hope is generated through action.” Abolitionist organizer and author @prisonculture.bsky.social offers a letter to young organizers living through crisis, despair and uncertainty — and argues for hope as a daily discipline.

Large language models aren’t thinking machines, Bender and Hanna argue. They’re “souped-up autocomplete” built on massive data extraction, hidden labor and huge energy demands.