"But the goal was never just to win an election. It was to build a united bloc and a new political identity—to get tenants to understand themselves not as struggling individuals but as a powerful class with the ability to change the conditions of their lives." convergencemag.com/articles/sur...

Baristas at the very first Starbucks in Seattle are organizing their union. Here's how one worker answers the age-old question "if your job is that bad, why don't you just work somewhere else?"

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds 77% of Americans blame Trump for rising gas prices — including 55% of Republicans and 82% of independents.

The @vetsaboutface.bsky.social protest on the Hill today:

A new analysis finds that tech giant Palantir Technologies paid $0 in federal income taxes last year, despite raking in hundreds of millions in taxpayer money to build out a mass network to surveil Americans in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security.

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

The Missouri Workers Center conducted its second ICE Off Workshop in #KansasCity for service industry employees on 23 March 2026 at the Westport Presbyterian Church.

"No to war... and free Palestine" Javier Bardem

74-year-old woman at pure barre telling me i've gotten stronger

🗣️NO ICE IN OUR STREETS! #MOworkers in Kansas City are joining the nationwide Day of Truth and Freedom, right as our siblings in Minnesota launch their historic general strike 💪

“I reject the lie that deporting my neighbor is how I win better pay and working conditions. We’re fighting for a country where families stay together without living in terror, so we’re ALL better off!”

i have come to the view that there is an extent to which elites are projecting the salience of bigotry on the broad public. *they* are preoccupied with this stuff and so they imagine the public must be obsessed with it.

neither here nor there but a secret third place

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

Happy benito day to those who celebrate today.ucsd.edu/story/how-ba...

This is exactly the type of organizing we love to see! From warehouse safety to data center regulations @moworkers.org is pushing back against big tech in the name of shared prosperity for everyone in MO.

get his ass @clippy

Larry Summers complaining to Epstein that his kids admire Bernie Sanders too much

Another great piece from @alexnpress.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/01/minn...

🚨🎯 BREAKING: Target calls cops on singing Minnesotans, but allows ICE agents who bully, assault, and abduct customers & employees to roam their parking lots & aisles. 📣 Minnesotans are standing up at Target stores across the state today. #ICEOutNow 🔗 Learn more at www.iceoutnowmn.com/

Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.

Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.

This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.

Folks, I don't know whether the dems will make good use of this in 2 weeks. But this is an amazing move in terms of the possibilities it opens up. They can now block DHS funding forever with no collateral damage

With temperatures hovering near zero and windchills approaching minus 20 degrees, Spain Bady was ordered to leave his cell at Algoa Correctional Center on Saturday morning and clear snow from prison walkways. (@missouriindependent.com)

ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

"French writes 'In the normative state, your life almost never depends on immediate and unconditional compliance with police commands.' The imagined audience here is telling." @victorerikray.bsky.social's important reminder that while things are escalated to a frightening level, none of this is new

New: The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously struck down a state law deployed by Republicans to fight abortion access, a sweeping ruling that wrestles power away from top statewide officials. #moleg #mogov www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

This hit so fucking hard today.

A write-up of yesterday's protest + general strike that'll make you feel something www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/hate-has-t...

No words “As the Michigan-based attorney walked toward his car…he heard what sounded like “100s of children” shouting, with voices he described as "high-pitched" and "urgent.”…he could see children streaming from dormitory areas behind a chain-link fence and chanting “Libertad." shorturl.at/yOXfh

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

to say that public opinion matters isn’t to say that everything will stop immediately. what it means is that the administration’s strategic options narrow considerably and their odds of meeting meaningful institutional resistance goes up.

JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The DHS defense of Pretti's killing focuses on the existence of the gun. But look at everything that happened before the agents discovered the gun. DHS agents escalated: macing and mercilessly beat Pretti as he tried to protect two people being assaulted. None of that was remotely acceptable.

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Missouri is known as the show-me state. This week tested that reputation. We rallied, over a thousand strong, at the state Capitol on Wednesday to show our corrupt politicians in Jeff City that working people refuse to be silenced or divided.

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

🧊❌BREAKING 🧊❌ 500 #MOworkers and community allies from across St. Louis just rallied to demand ICE OUT of our city! Solidarity with our siblings in Minnesota during their bold general strike to fight back ✊🏿✊🏼✊🏽

not too shabby

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I know my mom is upset with me bc she told me she had to end our call to "go listen to Trump"

This past Sunday, from 8am to 8pm, New Yorkers from every corner of our city traveled to the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria to share their dreams, their worries, the change they want to see across New York. It was an honor listening to each of them.

Lower-income people are less likely to vote than higher-income people, across racial groups - and that gap has been growing. That’s a real problem for the future of US democracy. It’s not apathy or ignorance - for many, it’s a sense that politics is not for or about them. In a report out in Jan +

Just announced in @publisherslunch.bsky.social: Rutgers University Press will publish @jonathansmucker.bsky.social's THE MANY VS. THE FEW: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO POPULISM, a vital conceptual roadmap for a path forward in the high-stakes, bottom-vs.-top contest already well underway in America.

An important addendum to "look for the helpers" is "and then join them."