"It was late morning on January 23, and the crowd — including striking workers and union members, some of whom work at the airport — stayed outside in subzero temperatures to cheer on the faith leaders. Supporters passed around hand warmers and snacks to help sustain the crowd."

"Our members are getting shot dead in the street. We’re losing. The members are losing because of his decision. What are we going to do about this decision that has put not just the Teamsters in harm’s way, but all of the working class in harm’s way?"

"I was living in Kuwait as a high school senior when Saddam Hussein invaded — the same Saddam the U.S. had armed and supported throughout the 1980s. Overnight, my life as a teenager vanished." Dena Al-Adeeb spent her life bearing witness to wars justified by lies. In Iran, she sees yet another.

In Jan, Black residents in TX reached out to me w/ a new fear: the invasion in Venezuela would lead to an oil disaster in their backyard Their fears became reality. As oil prices spike from the Iran war, this facility refining Venezuela oil exploded capitalbnews.org/port-arthur-...

Awdah Hathaleen spent his life defending his village in Palestine. He was killed by an Israeli settler on July 28, 2025, while documenting atrocities.

"FBI records obtained through a FOIA request contradict the government’s claim that antifa poses an existential threat to national security. And several defense attorneys involved in the Prairieland trial say the information should have been included in discovery."

Reminder: The politics of blame from J.D. Vance were never meant to help the working class.

"Christian Zionism is the backbone of U.S. and global support for Israel, with the most prominent U.S. Christian Zionist organization claiming a constituency 50% larger than the entire U.S. Jewish population."

"If you remember back when he first ran, he criticized [James] Hoffa for doing the exact same thing he's doing now. So you have to ask yourself, what makes a person say one thing and then do something totally different?"

Running Toward ICE: A record of resistance in Chicagoland. I did the writing and reporting for this comic, which was illustrated by the amazing @soljbrager.bsky.social. Most of this was reported last fall, and a lot has happened since, but I hope the lessons and stories are useful.

Heart Reacts episode 38 is up! we talk about Cesar Chavez, lonely men, and how to have an easier time making plans with your friends. www.patreon.com/posts/154296...

Spoke to Mariko Hirose, a lawyer from the Americans United for Separation of Church and State @americansunited.bsky.social, about the grim ongoing battle against Christian nationalism in our government. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/christian-...

CHICAGO! Left Media Under a Hostile Regime Join @sunraysunray.bsky.social, @bloomekatz.bsky.social, @mayaschenwar.bsky.social, and Damon Williams & Daniel Kisslinger for this discussion. Live from @haymarkethouse.bsky.social Tues, April 7 at 7 PM CT RSVP:

Minnesota sued the Trump administration, alleging federal agents withheld key evidence in the killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti and obstructed state investigators after the Department of Homeland Security shootings in Minneapolis. @thatchriswalker.bsky.social reports.

"Pete Hegseth is a modern-day Narcissus: preoccupied with image, extravagantly unqualified for his position yet extraordinarily self-assured, morally bankrupt, intellectually barren and as empty as a shattered amphora." @kimkelly.bsky.social reports. inthesetimes.com/article/amer...

“It’s a very logical, rational thing to do: Go scout places where ICE might raid, meet people, hand out resources and help others learn of other ways to get involved." Meet the people fighting ICE. inthesetimes.com/article/the-...

Pete Hegseth’s “Department of War” is about more than rebranding. @alfatau.bsky.social reports on a MAGA vision that collapses culture war, militarism and Christian nationalism into one. inthesetimes.com/article/secr...

"It’s vitally important that Israel be understood as a settler-colonial state because it would be impossible to understand the current conflict in Gaza without understanding its settler-colonial context." Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on the "seductive mythology that settler-colonial states cultivate"

really great piece by @shaneburley.bsky.social surveying the resistance against ICE in communities across the country inthesetimes.com/article/the-...

Did the DOJ rely on factual claims they knew were false in seeking and securing the Antifa convictions in Prarieland, Texas? It now seems that they did. inthesetimes.com/article/prai...

Important investigation of a terrifying step toward criminalizing resistance to American authoritarianism. inthesetimes.com/article/prai...

FOIA records obtained by @typeinvestigations.org and In These Times raise questions about evidence in the federal Prairieland trial, where prosecutors argued “antifa” was a terrorist enterprise. @adamfederman.bsky.social reports.

"There is no breath, no poem long enough to say the solidarity we, Black American people, feel ancestrally for our brothers and sisters in Palestine." Julia Wright, on "poetry enabling us as a death-bound people to breathe, whatever the pressure."

"To resist and build the world we want and need in this moment, our work must be deeply relational. Mutual care is not just a survival strategy, but also a direct route to community power building."

“We are going to have to actually put pressure on the Speaker,” said Jasmine Gripper, state director of the @nywfp.bsky.social.

As new technologies (not immigrants) replace human labor, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social reports, “machine breaking” as a tactic of rebellion, is taking on a renewed vitality. inthesetimes.com/article/capi...

Among everything else, Donald Trump didn’t just preside over a catastrophic pandemic response. @hamiltonnolan argues his personal refusal to treat COVID as a public health crisis made hundreds of thousands of deaths more likely. inthesetimes.com/article/dona...

This year marks 101 years since Malcolm X was born, and his sharp words on the reality of the American nightmare remain true today.

Now Rep. Ramirez is singing the catchiest of tunes. Let's share this little ditty everywhere. They dismantled the Dept. of Education, no reason you can't dissolve DHS in the same short period. Destruction is easy.

“The problem isn’t ‘training.’ the Department of Homeland Security was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez. inthesetimes.com/article/deli...

How organizers and everyday residents—now activists—are stopping ICE around the country. #NoKings inthesetimes.com/article/the-...

At first glance a General Strike sounds impossible — but a strategic look back at the coordinated strikes and militancy of the past two decades shows we might be much closer than we think.

The rapid growth of DSA in recent decades is part of a global phenomenon of voters and activists from the Left and Right who distrust the political establishment and traditional parties, and have formed what scholar Fabian Holt calls “movement parties.”

"AI could be powered by renewable energy that is non-polluting and works to reduce energy costs for us all." inthesetimes.com/article/arti...

What Reconstruction, the New Deal and the Rainbow Coalition can teach us about building the broadest possible front to fight the authoritarian Right. #NoKings inthesetimes.com/article/broa...

I’m honored to be reading as part of this Words as Lifelines series Sunday night at 6pm ET, along with @alandettlaff.com & @gretchensisson.bsky.social, talking adoption, family policing, repro justice & more, to benefit families in Gaza. Donate & join us if you can: form.jotform.com/joonae/lifel...

A conversation with @ceaweaver.bsky.social, the Zohran Mamdani-appointee on why she’s “very, very interested” in bringing collectively-bargained leases and renter-owned housing to New York City

Sean O’Brien took the Teamsters to the RNC and closer to MAGA politics. Now a rank-and-file-backed slate says it’s time for new leadership. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social talks with Richard Hooker Jr. and John Palmer of the Fearless slate. inthesetimes.com/article/team...

"As an Iraqi, I’ve spent my life fleeing, surviving, and bearing witness to wars justified by lies. In Iran, we’re seeing yet another." Dena Al-Adeeb writes of the war in Iran bringing horror, not liberation. inthesetimes.com/article/iran...

The case centered around a noise demonstration on July 4, 2025, in which roughly a dozen activists set off fireworks outside the Prairieland ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas, about a 45-minute drive south of Dallas.

"Julie Menin is undercutting Mamdani’s negotiating position by claiming new taxes are not necessary to deal with the city’s budget shortfall. Her office did not respond to repeated requests for comment." inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...

Looking for a history lesson this morning? We recommend this 2017 conversation @sarahljaffe.bsky.social had with historian @mark-bray.bsky.social about the origins of modern anti-fascist movements. inthesetimes.com/article/anti...

More than six months have passed since the murder of Awdah Hathaleen, an English teacher, activist and father; killed while filming Israeli settler Yinon Levi, sanctioned by the US for providing “material support for violent activities” in the West Bank. inthesetimes.com/article/awda...

"The children of New York are still struggling to have their basic needs met ... We should be embarrassed that 1 in 10 children in New York City are experiencing homelessness. We are at the brink of a crisis for working families and we have to do something immediately."

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Love, love, love @inthesetimes.com ! Thank you for posting. Subscribing again. Needed more than ever.

Important scoop here from @adamfederman.bsky.social. According to FBI documents, the federal govt doesn’t actually believe antifa is a threat to national security inthesetimes.com/article/prai...

I just subscribed to @inthesetimes.com, & I hope if you can, you will, too. Affordable: $15. Journalism is facing what the New Yorker has called an "extinction-level event," and left journalism even more so. Keep informed. Support the journalists who keep you informed. w1.buysub.com/pubs/IF/ITT/...