“Workers are fighting to be able to afford the same food that they produce for the rest of the country, to be able to buy beef at the grocery store and not have to buy Top Ramen.”

Just minutes before US President Donald Trump momentarily boosted the stock market—and sent oil prices tumbling—with his disputed Monday announcement of peace talks with Iran, unknown traders loaded up on positions that allowed them to profit from the resulting movement in equities and commodities.

Really appreciate brothers @davidgriscom.bsky.social & @mattlech.bsky.social having me on Left Reckoning for an important discussion about East Palestine & the reality that corporations & the government are turning working-class communities into toxic sacrifice zones www.youtube.com/live/KHuMwa8...

The comments marked the second time in just two months that Bannon has floated having ICE illegally monitor US elections.

Critics slammed the Trump administration on Monday after it announced a deal to pay almost $1 billion to a French energy company to cancel its plans to construct wind farms across the eastern US.

a new YouGov poll shows 25% of Americans falsely believe Iran possesses nuclear weapons and 45% believe the also false claim Iran has an active nuclear weapons program. So I examined why this misinformation is so widespread––namely sleazy, innuendo-laden Iran coverage by US media.

Today is the 50th anniversary of the 1976 coup that sank Argentina into a military dictatorship. People are marching for the Day for Memory, Truth & Justice honoring the victims of the military dictatorship. A bonus episode of #StoriesOfResistance from @undertheshadow.bsky.social

The Democratic Party has chosen again and again to abandon working people and cling to corporate power, militarism, and a feckless, out-of-touch leadership class, @normansolomon.bsky.social of @rootsaction.org says. And we’re all paying the price.

70% of Americans are fundamentally wrong about Iran’s “nuclear program.” This is not an accident: by @ahjohnson.bsky.social

If you weren't able to make it to our talk at @redemmas.org last month, here's a clip from @therealnews.com covering some of it!

“She was very much ahead of her time… this is a formerly enslaved Black woman who was speaking with an unfettered, unrestrained radicalism.” - @williamcson.bsky.social

“If you understand what an organization like ICE is doing, and you can quantify it… you can resist effectively,” says Michael Wriston of @projectsaltbox.com

“As the president becomes more unpopular, his actions will become more extreme, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to be any more successful, @ariberman.bsky.social of Mother Jones tells us.

“The vast majority of Americans, Europeans, Iranians, of people in the Global South, who now see increases in the price of food because fertilizers are going up, because oil is going up, because natural gas is going up—the workers of the world are united in being the losers of this war.”

🚨 New @therealnews.com Start the Steal? Inside Trump's Effort to Rig the Midterms I ask @ariberman.bsky.social of @motherjones.com your questions about the SAVE Act, MAGA Republicans' efforts to upend voting rights & rig the midterms, and what can be done to stop them. youtu.be/RyzLpB0t1Nw

One foreign policy expert noted that fears of a “mass exodus” of refugees come “as the US starves Cuba of energy and food.”

Our Advocacy and Partnerships Co-Chair @joannasilver73.bsky.social spoke with @therealnews.com about Break the Bonds legislation in the Maryland General Assembly ⬇️

Just wrapped an interview with Kara Swisher for On with Kara Swisher incl @ximenabustillo.bsky.social and @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social. Watch for the episode next week and huge shout out to The Real News Network for letting me use their studio today! @therealnews.com @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

Federal immigration agents are required to allow parents to “make alternative care arrangements” for their children before they’re detained.

🚨 New from me @therealnews.com I speak w/ Diane Wilson—a fourth-generation fisherwoman who became a global folk hero for taking on a multibillion $ corporation polluting the bays along her beloved Texas Gulf Coast. Diane is now on a hunger strike against Dow Chemical therealnews.com/fisherwoman-...

Israeli officials told US diplomats that the Iranian government is “not cracking” in a State Department cable.

These robots, known as “quadrupeds,” are being used to patrol the sprawling energy-sucking complexes, which are increasingly being met with protest around the country.

“We’re saying, ‘Oh, pretty please, will you save the bays? Will you not pollute us today?’… I think we’re way too polite and way too well-behaved. And that’s why I advocate being an unreasonable woman.”

🚨 Sean O’Brien Sold Workers & Unions Out to Trump. These Teamsters Are Running to Oust Him. "As a labor leader, [O’Brien] should be disqualified... Donald Trump has done nothing to help the working class, only the people in the Epstein class," Richard Hooker Jr. tells me @therealnews.com

There is a tremendous premium in intellectual circles on making the AI bubble problem more complicated than it is.

“It’s a very dire situation in Cuba right now… [Trump] has made every aspect of life in Cuba much more difficult,” Medea Benjamin of @codepink.bsky.social tells us.

In 1840s Mexico, the Irish watched violence by US soldiers. So they defected. Hundreds joined the Mexican army. They were known as the Saint Patrick’s Brigade. As many as 800 people would join. They are still honored today across #Mexico. @therealnews.com #StPatricks therealnews.com/stories-of-r...

#HappyStPatricksDay! As we celebrate, let's not forget to honor the brave Irish soldiers who left the US side & joined the Mexican army in the mid 1800s to fight against the US invading army. Parades in #Mexico today for #StPatricks & the Battallion. #StoriesOfResistance episode @therealnews.com

A senior Israeli official told Axios the military is “going to do what we did in Gaza.”

A strike in Colorado shows what happens when thousands of workers confront one of the most concentrated industries in the American economy.

Distinguished professor Dylan Rodriguez — @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social — speaks with former political prisoner and Black Panther Mansa Musa about “the horrifying truth” behind the prison industrial complex — and the politics that “dilute the power of radical movements trying to dismantle it”

“We have a moral responsibility to join the Cuban people—people of conscience around the world, but especially Black people and people of African descent—because when [Africa] called [Cuba] came.”

“A case like this helps the government kind of see how far they can go in criminalizing constitutionally protected protest,” one legal advocate said.

🚨 "People are fleeing the state": Kansas is not safe for trans people Journalist & LGBTQ+ policy analyst @erininthemorning.com speaks w/ @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social about Kansas' new extreme anti-trans law & the explosion of anti-trans policies around the country.

🚨 "People are fleeing the state": Kansas is not safe for trans people Journalist & LGBTQ+ policy analyst @erininthemorning.com speaks w/ @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social about Kansas' new extreme anti-trans law & the explosion of anti-trans policies around the country.

An important update and a rare piece of GOOD news! Ludovic Mbock has been released on bond! "After a very long journey, Ludovic is finally back home in his apartment and was able to get a good night's rest for the first time in a very long time #FreeLud" @aeriqui.bsky.social

“As more revelations come out in the Epstein files and as the chaos gets unleashed in the world by this current administration, it feels like they continue to stamp the ‘trans hate’ button harder and harder.” - @erininthemorning.com

Check us out, subscribe to the Working People podcast feed or @therealnews.com feed anywhere you get your podcasts... Read episode transcripts and show notes at @therealnews.com and @inthesetimes.com

🎧 Want news by/for/about the working class? If you're tired of corporate media propaganda & online food fights, if you want stories about issues affecting working-class people—FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE THEMSELVES—this is what we're doing at Working People weekly @therealnews.com

"They're using the term cartels very loosely. In the case of the Cartel de los Soles—the pretext used to invade Venezuela—there's no evidence it's an organized drug trafficking group, but designating it an FTO made Maduro a military target," Alex Main to @therealnews.com 

The new tool compiles information about ICE facilities and offices, resource providers, and news and updates sourced from the larger community

🚨 Kansas is not safe for trans people. For @therealnews.com I speak w/ @erininthemorning.com about a new law that invalidated trans Kansans' drivers licenses overnight & empowers individuals to be private bounty hunters & sue trans people using the "wrong" bathroom therealnews.com/people-are-f...

“As more revelations come out in the Epstein files and as the chaos gets unleashed in the world by this current administration, it feels like they continue to stamp the ‘trans hate’ button harder and harder.” - @erininthemorning.com

Truly and genuinely appreciate the coverage and hoping for the best as we move into tomorrow, an extremely crucial day! #FreeLud now and always

Listen to our full conversation on @therealnews.com podcast feed or the Working People podcast feed anywhere you listen to podcasts. Full transcript and show notes here: therealnews.com/ice-snatches...

🚨 “The government has kidnapped one of my friends.” I spoke to loved ones of 38-year-old regional video gaming champion Ludovic Mbock, who came to the US legally from Cameroon & was snatched by ICE in Baltimore while applying for his yearly work permit—as he’s done for 20 years. @therealnews.com

"I'm pissed at the fact that everybody thinks we're doing fine, and that everything in East Palestine is good. It's not. We are still fighting the same battle we were fighting three years ago." @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports on anger in Ohio. inthesetimes.com/article/east...

Trump rolled out a new phase in his plan for Latin America last weekend. He met with allies and launched a new right-wing alliance with the goal of attacking so-called cartels. And they are already taking action in Ecuador. @undertheshadow.bsky.social @nacla-report.bsky.social @ceprdc.bsky.social

Florida public schools will force students to take a Heritage Foundation-backed class on the “evils of communism.”

#FREELUD BOOST REQUEST the official organizers and lud's family spoke with @therealnews.com on a podcast organizers are asking this story be boosted to increase awareness and visibility for lud's bond hearing tomorrow source: therealnews.com/ice-snatches...