“If you’re only seeing this in Democrat or Republican terms, if you’re only looking at the headlines and not the history behind these toxic disasters, then you are not gonna see the full picture here.

“While the Russian danger discourse might secure Europe’s employer classes a few more years of sitting atop Europe’s wealth and power distributions, it fails to address Europe’s long-term decline." - @profwolff.bsky.social

After a three-year strike, @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers returned to a newsroom facing new ownership and major cuts. Union leaders say the incoming owners slashed at least 40% of staff, and 80% of former strikers.

“The rest of the world is ready to go. They’re waiting for Americans. They’re looking at us and saying, ‘It’s time for you guys to wake up, because we don’t want our planet destroyed [by] your out-of-control government and military empire.” - @abbymartin.bsky.social

Amazing events in the store this week, starting Thursday with Chris Smalls and @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social talking about organizing Amazon, breaking the siege on Gaza, and fighting the billionaires. Get your ticket for this one now! withfriends.co/event/276185...

“All we’re asking for are adequate pay and adequate protections for all of our workers.” Sara Speller, Zoë Feder and Jacob Wolf of @@hgsuuaw.bsky.social talk with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social about why Harvard grad student workers are on strike.

“I will never regret going on strike.” After the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike, @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports former staffers are building PAPER, the Pittsburgh Alliance for People-Empowered Reporting, to preserve local journalism in the city.

It's been a long time coming, & it was such an honor to finally meet brother @thrasherxy.bsky.social in person & sit down in @therealnews.com studio for a powerful conversation about his new book, The Overseer Class (which everyone should read!). Interview dropping soon! ❤️✊🏽

5/21 I recorded four podcasts for launch week @thesullivansummer.bsky.social @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social @katelynburns.com @yourombudsmom.bsky.social @therealnews.com @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

37 leaked messages. The biggest scandal you're hearing nothing about. A shocking network pushing to undermine leftist leaders. And it implicates the Trump administration, Israel, Argentina's Javier Millei, and a load of right-wing Honduran officials. New episode of @undertheshadow.bsky.social

The popular revolt has mounted a broader challenge to neoliberalism, austerity, and US imperialism in Latin America.

The Israeli army is targeting Gaza’s remaining residential blocks that were left standing after the ceasefire, leaving even more Palestinians homeless. “Fear has become a permanent guest in our homes,” one resident told Mondoweiss.

“We are also doing this to demand freedom. We’re not treated like people. We’re treated like animals.”

“Right now our contract is a pay cut, and that is, not only is it unacceptable, it’s unlivable. When we say we’re fighting for a living wage, it is not a euphemism.” Graduate student workers at Harvard with @hgsuuaw.bsky.social speak with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is one of the oldest newspapers in the country. Now, former staffers say new ownership has gutted the newsroom and purged former strikers. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social asks, "What happens when a city loses the journalists who know it best?"

New: If Wikipedia breaks, the rest of the internet breaks. But now a series of layoffs at the nonprofit that supports the site has alarmed volunteer editors. Hundreds of them — responsible for millions of edits — are threatening to strike. Gift link: www.theverge.com/report/93944...

Delaware is home to more corporations than people. Human people, that is, as under longstanding state law and the US Supreme Court’s infamous 2010 ruling, corporations are people, too.

“Right now our contract is a pay cut, and that is, not only is it unacceptable, it’s unlivable. When we say we’re fighting for a living wage, it is not a euphemism.” Graduate student workers at Harvard with @hgsuuaw.bsky.social speak with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

Some 300 detainees launched a hunger and labor strike on Friday in protest of the conditions at the ICE jail.

“Facilities in affected areas are operating without basic protective supplies” due to cuts to USAID, one expert said.

Me on first day of book tour: As God as my witness, I will not travels with or acquire books on my journey! Me on the last day of book tour 😂 @redemmas.org @ajbauer.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org @intifadabatata.bsky.social @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

Boosting this Baltimore story — I spoke to security officers at Abacus and @32bjseiu.bsky.social back in January, and the stories they told me were deeply troubling. Everyone deserves healthcare.

Must-read here by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

White collar criminals violate American workers' legal rights with impunity to boost their profits. If there are no refs and no penalties, people get hurt, decent people lose, and cheaters prosper.

New from me @therealnews.com I speak w/ two workers who have been effectively fired & put under investigation by their employer after they & other non-union city & commercially contracted security officers went on strike in Baltimore last month. therealnews.com/they-were-go...

Exchanged book with my brother from another mother dr @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

What a treat visiting @therealnews.com in Baltimore

“They were going after everyone that went on strike… I was told by other officers, ‘Oh yeah, we’re going to get her. She going to be the first one.’”

New from me @therealnews.com I speak w/ two workers who have been effectively fired & put under investigation by their employer after they & other non-union city & commercially contracted security officers went on strike in Baltimore last month. therealnews.com/they-were-go...

Instead of a call for resentment-filled “unity” or traditional fronts, we can look to what former Black Panther, Black Liberation Army member, and political prisoner Russell Maroon Shoatz called “the mosaic:” by @williamcson.bsky.social

It is objectively good that Newsom asked for a federal emergency declaration for Orange County & Trump approved it. It is a national travesty that one was never signed for East P@lestine & so many other communities that begged for one, still need one, & never got one share.google/uXJcHgcVVfJC...

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

BALTIMORE/DMV FOLKS! We got a blockbuster event @redemmas.org this Saturday that you don’t want to miss! I'll be talking w/ the great @ahjohnson.bsky.social about his new book "How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza" @therealnews.com redemmas.org/events/adam-...

Hundreds of Starbucks stores have unionized. Workers have faced firings, store closures and a massive union-busting campaign. But @sbworkersunited.org is still organizing, and @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports, they're still fighting for a first contract.

Great. Cool. This is like 10 min from where my folks live. This country is a goddamn nightmare and i'm sick of it! Evacuations ordered after chemical tank leak in Garden Grove, Calif. : NPR share.google/2sPYkogjUoSk...

Independent journalist Dimitri Lascaris gained access to a closed-door business conference in Athens designed to deepen Israel’s ties to (and influence in) Greece. What he saw and filmed was “extraordinarily enlightening, if not utterly nauseating.”

“These are young people in their 20s who are taking this movement up & leading it themselves.” Director Mark Mori joined @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social to talk Baristas vs Billionaires, the new documentary on @sbworkersunited.org ongoing fight for a contract. inthesetimes.com/article/bari...

The DNC finally released its long-awaited autopsy of Kamala Harris’s failed presidential campaign, and it doesn’t mention Gaza. The Democratic leadership’s refusal to acknowledge the party’s shift on Israel could spell another defeat in 2028.

Getting on an airplane…see you soon at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social ! pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/49852

We need to come to terms with the fact that––increasingly––media properties are overt ideological playtoys largely indifferent to ratings and clicks: by @ahjohnson.bsky.social

Five years after Buffalo Starbucks workers made history, nearly 700 stores have unionized — and workers are still fighting for a first contract. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social talks with Mark Mori and Alec Baldwin about the new documentary, Baristas vs Billionaires.

The bill targets one of the central vehicles for unlimited outside spending, as progressives warn that billionaire money—and broader threats of voter intimidation—are putting democratic elections under strain.

In a speech described as “Orwellian,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio blamed Cuba’s suffering on the military-run company founded by Fidel Castro’s brother.

Since 2016, Trump, rightwing media, & the coal industry have obsessively painted him as a friend of coal miners & their families—& he has stabbed them in the back over & over again. I speak w/ the indomitable @kimkelly.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com @therealnews.com therealnews.com/kim-kelly-co...

“These journalists and these editorial boards—they need to be held accountable… I have fantasies of somebody holding my book at the Hague and calling out the media at the International Court of Justice.”

We need to get on top of this with laws that give us rights to our own images www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I think this kind of thing makes it sort of clear who the audience for this really is. No one actually cares about *actual coal miners*, because they're not a demographic that's going to swing an election. All of this Pro Coal stuff isn't really born out of an interest in the miner,

An explosion and days-long fire at Smitty’s Supply in Roseland, Louisiana, blanketed homes with smoke, soot and oily residue. Months later, residents say they still don’t know what’s in their soil, water or backyards. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports.

BALTIMORE/DMV FOLKS! We got a blockbuster event @redemmas.org this Saturday that you don’t want to miss! I'll be talking w/ the great @ahjohnson.bsky.social about his new book "How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza" @therealnews.com redemmas.org/events/adam-...