🚨 New @therealnews.com: I speak w/ a panel of grad student workers & union members from Columbia University & the University of Michigan about the chilling new reality on their campuses & what it’s like to live, learn, & work there today @swcolumbia.bsky.social therealnews.com/campus-life-...

As the federal government continues its top-down assault on higher education, universities are internally building repression and surveillance machines that mirror the Trump administration.

The mainstream media said voters wouldn’t go for Mamdani and they said “socialism won’t sell.” But on the streets of New York, people were done listening to conventional wisdom.

On November 4, 1780, Indigenous Incan leader Tupac Amaru II led a months-long uprising against Spanish rule in present day Peru. It would inspire thousands more to rise up across South America. Latest episode of #StoriesOfResistance from @undertheshadow.bsky.social

“We were out there 45 days under the snow, under the rain… we [said], ‘We are going on hunger strike, because we want our life back. Zohran Mamdani was with us.’”

🚨 New @therealnews.com: The last time I spoke w/ Yellow Cab driver-owner & NY Taxi Workers Alliance member Mouhamadou Aliyu in 2021, he was on a hunger strike & at the end of his rope. The next time I saw him, he was in a campaign ad with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Watch: youtu.be/17J_OC1XQ8g?...

“In 2024 alone, 277 people died in Alabama prisons” Dakarai Larriett, US Senate candidate in Alabama, says. “Building mega-prisons, naming one after governor Kay Ivy, is not the solution.”

Before voting ends in the New York City mayoral race, TRNN is on the ground talking to voters about who they voted for and why. One theme has emerged: New Yorkers want real change, and they want it now.

On the train to NYC, camera in hand. Let's go 💪🏽📷🎤 Watch @therealnews.com for updates...

🚨 New @therealnews.com: I spoke with former English teacher Mohamed Abu Tawila from Gaza to get an on-the-ground account of life for Palestinians after the shaky implementation of the ceasefire began on Oct. 10... therealnews.com/life-after-g...

Despite Islamophobia against him and far right attacks, Zohran Mamdani leads the polls ahead of the NYC mayoral election. His working class platform of change has inspired tens of thousands to join his campaign. Latest episode #StoriesOfResistance @undertheshadow.bsky.social

“When the ceasefire began, I felt a mix of disbelief and emptiness. After two years of genocide, silence felt strange, almost frightening.”

Republicans are anticipating that vast structural changes in how American democracy works, or doesn’t, will ultimately keep them in power regardless of how they legislate.

Approximately 460 patients and their companions were killed in a horrific massacre at a hospital in el-Fasher, Sudan, on Tuesday, the UN reports, amid a takeover of the North Darfur capital by Rapid Support Forces this week.

It's us! Thank you @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social, Mark, and Real News Network. Share!

Poet, actor, and playwright Liza Jessie Peterson is bringing her one-woman play “The Peculiar Patriot,” which has been performed in over 30 prisons across the country, to Baltimore Center Stage. The Philly native believes it’s the right place and the right time for this story.

🚨 New @therealnews.com: Workers replaced by AI have a dire warning for the world. Marc Steiner & I teamed up for this crossover episode on how the AI boom is shaping the economy & the impact it is already having on working people’s lives, livelihoods, and jobs. therealnews.com/workers-repl...

The lone Democratic commissioner on the FCC called the new order “an egregious transfer of wealth from families in incredibly vulnerable situations to greedy monopoly companies that seek to squeeze every penny out of them.”

After months of pressure from #NoAzureForApartheid, Microsoft has cut off parts of its tech used by Israel for surveillance and targeting in Gaza. Direct action works. Read @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social’s full report: inthesetimes.com/article/micr...

“We’re shutting down government to keep people sick.”

“Basically, the most evil billionaires in Silicon Valley want to consume everything before it’s too late, and then kick the tires and leave us all to drown…”

In the latest Rattling the Bars, Natalie Cadena of @gravelandgrit.bsky.social discusses the coalition—farmers, teachers, Indigenous groups, and local sheriff—working to stop an Arkansas mega-prison. Plus, Bolts’ @laurengill.bsky.social challenges the myth that rural prisons boost local economies.

“Border Patrol are the aggro cowboys compared to ICE,” said one immigrants’ rights advocate. “Now they’re going to be the ones running the show.”

Microsoft suspends the use of parts of its proprietary software by Israel Defense Forces, after months of escalation by organizers & activists. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports on the incredible, historic development in this worker-led revolt. inthesetimes.com/article/micr...

ICE is doing its dirty work, detaining thousands of people a day without criminal records. And doing it without a warrant. But people are standing up. And the resistance is growing. Latest episode #StoriesOfResistance @undertheshadow.bsky.social

“75% of [Franklin County] voted for Sarah Huckabee Sanders. And I have people who are telling me, ‘I never really thought about incarceration before,’” but now “‘I’m finding out more about how incarceration works, [and] I’m really starting to question the way that the state locks so many people up.”

“We already experienced displacement. We can’t do it again. We’re staying here. Whatever happens, happens. Even if they crush us under their tanks.”

“When you see some of the tactics people are using now to try and monitor these ICE arrests… it’s similar to what we did when we were in SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee).”

The latest target in MAGA’s campaign against higher education details the proceedings against him and the collective organizing effort behind him. The latest Working People Podcast with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports on the newest version of McCarthyism. inthesetimes.com/article/texa...

Must-read here by the venerable @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

This is not normal

New @therealnews.com This is not a "normal" government shutdown. A lot is happening in/to the government while parts are shut down. I spoke w/ 3 furloughed federal workers @fedworkersunited.bsky.social & asked them the ?s we all have about what the hell is going on therealnews.com/this-governm...

Taya Graham and Stephen Janis have been on Capitol Hill covering the current federal government shutdown. They break down why the current impasse is like no other, and who is really calling the shots.

“We swore an oath when we took these positions to defend the Constitution and to provide these services to the American people… what’s going to happen to your everyday American when they don’t have Social Security or food assistance or Medicare?” @fedworkersunited.bsky.social

“Don’t be afraid to fight back when you think that you’ve been wronged by the prison system because it’s so important that more of us are doing this so that they’re held accountable just like they expect our loved ones to be held accountable.”

“ICE was always going to be Trump’s private military to deploy domestically against Americans,” said one critic.

Argentina’s libertarian president, Javier Milei, is the lucky winner of $40 billion that Donald Trump managed to conjure from thin air. Less lucky are the Americans who rely on the government programs Trump has gutted to be able to “save” that sum.

A lot has been said ABOUT No Kings protestors. I spoke with lots of them directly when I was on the ground in DC this Saturday for @therealnews.com so you can hear them in their own words here: youtu.be/9wlpP1-Pqz0?...

At the “No Kings” protests on Saturday, TRNN was on the ground looking for the “paid protestors,” “agitators,” “Hamas supporters,” and “antifa terrorists” Republicans claimed would be filling the streets in what they called a “Hate America” rally. Here’s what we actually saw…

The leftist Colombian president retorted that “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters.”

“We felt that there was a need for this organization because we didn’t see anywhere to go where someone could understand and could feel our pain with the loss of our children”

October 18 marks the 6-yr anniversary of Chile’s massive protests. Police shot at people’s heads, causing hundreds of eye injuries. Some of the victims found each other and began to sew their lives back together w/ music. Latest episode #StoriesOfResistance @undertheshadow.bsky.social

I was on the ground at the "No Kings" protest in Washington DC today searching for the "paid protestors," "agitators," "Hamas supporters," and "antifa terrorists" Republicans claimed would be filling the streets. What I found may shock you... @therealnews.com @50501movement.bsky.social

Are Democrats not an opposition party—or do they just agree with what Trump is doing? by @ahjohnson.bsky.social

A fabulous conversation w/ @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social and @therealnews.com from our strike line! We talk about the issues our healthcare workers are fighting for: fair pay, safe staffing, and a better future for care. It's time that Kaiser comes to the table with solutions. #onevoiceonefuture

The strike began on Tuesday, Oct. 14, and spans hundreds of medical centers and offices in California, Oregon, and Hawaii. Calling in from the picket line, we speak with striking Registered Nurse First Assistant Nick Eng of @ofnhp.bsky.social

On George Floyd’s birthday, Tuesday, October 14th, the Coalition of Concerned Mothers and families of police violence victims rallied in D.C. to demand justice and accountability.

🚨 New @therealnews.com: 31,000 Kaiser Permanente workers are ON STRIKE. Calling in from the picket line in Portland, OR, Registered Nurse First Assistant & Executive Secretary of @ofnhp.bsky.social Nick Eng speaks w/ me about what healthcare workers are fighting for youtu.be/A67nL_D0Oy4?...

The results are in! The Marc Steiner Show and Stories of Resistance with host @undertheshadow.bsky.social, have each won Gold in the 2025 Signal Awards.

Republicans are already smearing the protesters, but their intimidation tactics are out of touch with reality.