The “arrest first and ask questions later” reality forces families to spend immense energy on safety planning, rights rehearsals, and preparing for potential detentions, fraying the very foundation of community well-being.

“People were screaming in the streets, because after two years of bombings and destruction and loss, finally they will sign the ceasefire,” said one aid worker. “I hope they can maintain this deal.”

I wrote about the Bari Weiss take over of CBS News as part of a broader trend away from the pretense of liberal institutionalism into a genuinely post-reality tabloidism, marked by AI slop, unsophisticated Trumpian-Likudite propaganda and consolidation of traditional and social media.

My podcast #StoriesOfResistance is a finalist for a Signal Award. You can check it out, vote & support here! @therealnews.com therealnews.com/were-finalis...

The tabloid-ification of CBS News is a marked escalation in our trend towards AI-driven confectionary reality: by @ahjohnson.bsky.social

For years The Marc Steiner Show has lifted up voices of Palestinians and Israelis fighting against the violence of Occupation. And that vital work has earned us a spot as a 2025 finalist for a prestigious Signal Award, but we need your vote to win! Vote today: vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...

“Illinois will not let the Trump administration continue on their authoritarian march without resisting,” vowed Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker.

“There is this very specific criteria for what makes something genocide, and it doesn’t have to look anything like the Holocaust.”

For over four months, journalists have been bearing witness to America’s cruel and unusual treatment of immigrants and Trump’s militarized war against them. There seems to be no end in sight.

The lawmakers warned that allowing ICE to use spyware “threatens Americans’ freedom of movement and freedom of speech.”

🚨 Defying Israel, more ships sail to Gaza after Global Sumud Flotilla captured.  I spoke with Mskwaasin Agnew, a Cree & Dene healthcare worker from the Salt River First Nation, who is sailing with the Freedom Flotilla on board the Conscience. @freedomflotilla.bsky.social @therealnews.com

We take you inside the horrifying halls of the NY immigration courts you've been seeing on the news. But you've never seen and heard this... Please watch and get everyone you can to watch. "ICED out of America" by Michael Nigro @therealnews.com youtu.be/AF-k7Mq5Xqs?...

New @therealnews.com More ships are sailing to Gaza after the Global Sumud Flotilla was captured last week. I spoke w/ Mskwaasin Agnew, a Cree & Dene healthcare worker from the Salt River First Nation, who is sailing on the Conscience @freedomflotillafr.bsky.social therealnews.com/defying-isra...

“I’m here as an act of global Indigenous solidarity, and there are many, many people, many Indigenous nations across Turtle Island, that support the Palestinian people and their liberation struggle.”

“You are not provided any joy, any stimulation—you got to find that yourself… I didn’t understand what weeks and months of silence can do to someone’s psyche. That can tear people apart if you’re not conscious of what’s happening to you.”

Marches have erupted in recent days in defense of Palestine and the passengers kidnapped by Israel from the @GlobalSumud Flotilla. They demand an end to the violence in Gaza & an end to their countries’ complicity in the genocide. Latest episode #StoriesOfResistance @undertheshadow.bsky.social

NEW: Last week, Microsoft cut off services for the Israeli military after the Guardian exposed that they were being used for mass surveillance of Palestinians. This historic win shows the joint power of good journalism and movement pressure. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social in @thenation.com:

“We’re under siege,” said one witness. “We’re being invaded by our own military.”

In Ecuador, the country's largest Indigenous movement Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, has been in the streets against president Daniel Noboa. They have faced repression. But they have vowed to continue. Latest episode #StoriesOfResistance @undertheshadow.bsky.social #Ecuador

🚨 New @therealnews.com I spoke w/ 3 fired Microsoft tech workers about the company's monumental decision to cut off access to Israel's elite spy unit—& about the critical role workers are playing in pressuring Microsoft to end its complicity in Israel’s war crimes. therealnews.com/microsoft-ca...

Read our latest piece by Odette Auger on Peehee Mu’huh, sacred land at risk from a mine now under construction bit.ly/ThackerPass. Watch & share the film by @ricochetmedia.bsky.social, @therealnews.com and indiginews.com. Get the Mag in your mailbox. bit.ly/WS-store #IndigenousRights #ThackerPass

🚨 The GOP shutdown is "government by extortion" The shutdown "is being covered like a horse race. Who’s going to win? From our perspective, it’s a calamity" @tayagraham.bsky.social & Stephen Janis say @therealnews.com "Millions of people are right now on the verge of losing access to healthcare"

“This decision only cuts off a few services to a single military unit, [so] we will not stop organizing. We will not stop protesting until all of our demands are met, which includes cutting off all Azure services and contracts with the Israeli government and military.”

“The mainstream media covers this like a horse race, [but] it is calamitous for the working class, what’s about to transpire on Capitol Hill”

“We’ve heard that there’ll be a floating prison, basically, for us this time, since this is the biggest flotilla in history…”

More mass federal layoffs, healthcare, the Epstein files... What's really behind the GOP government shutdown, and how will it affect YOU? @therealnews.com Inequality Watchdogs @tayagraham.bsky.social & Stephen Janjs join me in the studio break it all down youtu.be/4kw51v7rJVw?...

Tech workers in the most corporate, nerdy, non-union, Northface-wearing-ass environment you can imagine have been putting their jobs, safety, and even immigration status on the line to try to stop a genocide, writes @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

One week after HUD whistleblowers Paul Osadebe and Palmer Keenan filed their official complaints, the Trump administration fired them in “a stunning act of illegal retaliation.”

New from me @thenation.com How Microsoft Workers Helped Halt a Major Contract With the Israeli Military share.google/0F0tIgElubDf...

🚨 New @therealnews.com I spoke with the two HUD whistleblowers who were illegally fired yesterday: Paul Osadebe & Palmer Heenan, attorneys, @afge476.bsky.social & @fedworkersunited.bsky.social members. youtu.be/XTHsh0nscKo?...

One critic expressed astonishment that Hegseth “summoned all the US generals from around the globe at great expense to fat shame them.”

Calling in from the Mediterranean Sea, Iara Modarelli and Leila Hegazy speak with TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez about the current status of the Global Sumud Flotilla and the critical days ahead.

Kenya has now joined a disturbing global trend. Similar tactics have been used in the U.S., U.K., and Germany to suppress grassroots movements, including pro-Palestinian and climate activism.

Press release from @fedworkersunited.bsky.social : "In a stunning act of illegal retaliation... HUD has fired two of the four civil rights attorneys who blew the whistle on illegal discrimination, political interference, and the dismantling of fair housing protections" mailchi.mp/federalunion...

🚨 BREAKING: The two H.U.D. whistleblowers & @fedworkersunited.bsky.social members I interviewed last week @therealnews.com, Paul Osadebe & Palmer Heenan, have been fired in a clear act of retaliation. Followup interview coming soon... Other media: please reach out & talk to these whistleblowers!

“Most people think, ‘If you’re under US Marshal jurisdiction, you must have committed some horrible crime.’” Wanda Bertram of @prisonpolicy.org tells us. “But there’s a lot of people there who are just undocumented, and their cases are becoming criminalized.”

“By targeting beliefs and protest activity, the directive positions dissent itself as a potential crime,” one news organization said.

Federal agents detained one resident while he was on his way to dialysis treatment, according to the complaint.

Harriet Tubman is an icon for freedom. She first fled slavery with two brothers in September 1849. But it was not enough to be free. She would return again and again, to help others flee to freedom. Latest episode #StoriesOfResistance @undertheshadow.bsky.social #HarrietTubman

“Every time I speak to other moms, they say: ‘My child wasn’t like this before the war.’”

Like, JFC, you can’t get much more on the nose with this shit. The state makes it clear that people's right to know what they're being potentially poisoned by is secondary to the profit-driven business "needs" of private corporations. Just like East Palestine, OH, Conyers, GA, & so many other places

"Corporations and the government are turning the USA into one giant ‘sacrifice zone’" My 2025 Izzy Award speech at the Park Center for Independent Media @therealnews.com therealnews.com/corporations...

When I say working people are being sacrificed at the altar of profit, this is what it looks like... "EPA withholds list of chemicals in Smitty's Supply fire, citing 'confidential business information'" www.wbrz.com/news/epa-wit...

We've been notified that two of our podcasts, The Marc Steiner Show and Stories of Resistance, are finalists for the prestigious Signal Awards! But we don’t just want to be nominated—we want to win this thing! So we need you to go to the Signal Award voting portals and vote for Marc and Mike to win.

🚨 Carnival Cruise ship workers detained at the Port of Baltimore & deported with no due process Workers were reportedly accused of possessing "child pornography" to justify their immediate deportation, but no charges were filed or evidence presented. Here's my on-the-ground report @therealnews.com

Extraordinary interview from @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social of @therealnews.com with HUD whistleblowers. Trump administration has effectively shut down fair housing attorneys, making sure they can’t speak to anyone in order to enforce the law against housing discrimination.

As a government shutdown looms, Republicans need Democratic votes to pass funding legislation. But will Democrats finally use their leverage to save critical healthcare subsidies, or will they blink like they did in the past?

"We are pushing for the state to not only close prisons permanently and not reopen or sell them, but then to try and transform the conditions of the prison...detoxify the land, give it back to the local communities...give it back to put it into a program for reparations..."

They’re funded by real estate and Silicon Valley and—in a total inversion of reality—keep taking credit for Mamdani’s primary win: by @ahjohnson.bsky.social

Host @marcsteiner is also in the running for a Signal Award for best episode host, for his incredible reporting on the situation in Gaza. You can vote for him, as well, here: vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting... @therealnews.com