In These Times
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A publication committed to informing and advancing movements for social, economic, racial and environmental justice. Founded in 1976. https://inthesetimes.com/
Today in Brooklyn! This is going to be an incredible exhibit! Join our Artist-at-Large @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, alongise @thetolerantweft.bsky.social and Matt Rota for this group opening. 4-6 pm at 227 5th Ave — sponsored by The Puffin Foundation and @dissentmag.bsky.social
Since May, I've followed a building story in Kingston, NY, where tenants whose landlords overcharged them for years (totaling millions collectively) are organizing to win their rent money back. My latest for @inthesetimes.com, with potential national implications: inthesetimes.com/article/king...
Kingston’s Quiet Rent Revolution
Landlords have spent years ignoring a historic rent reduction. Now, tenants are organizing to get their money back.
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From the archive: Some environmentalists praised the Pentagon for taking climate change seriously. In this 2018 #ThrowbackThursday read, @katearonoff.bsky.social warned against handing climate policy to the institutions behind the war on terror.
Why Abolishing ICE Is Good Climate Policy
The war on terror has unleashed unspeakable cruelty. We must not rely on its institutions to fix the climate crisis.
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The siege on Cuba is one front in what @alfatau.bsky.social describes as a new U.S. strategy for the Americas. He examines the “Donroe Doctrine” and the pressure Washington exerts on countries that could help Cuba.
Cuba Under Siege
Trump’s fuel blockade shows that U.S. imperialism is a policy of extortion and cruelty.
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Undocumented immigrants paid an estimated $96.7 billion in U.S. taxes in 2022, including $6.4 billion into Medicare. Yet, Ramya Gosike reports, they cannot enroll in Medicare.
Immigrants Aren't Taking Away Our Healthcare—ICE Is
Millions of U.S. residents—including many immigrant families—are set to lose their healthcare under changes coming due to legislation passed under Republicans and the Trump administration. But ICE is…
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Amazon called the September 2nd Riverside, California walkout the work of “mostly outside organizers.” Night-shift worker Kain Kazsuk told @alexnpress.bsky.social: “It was all us, boots on the ground in the warehouse, talking to our coworkers.”
Amazon Workers Keep Walking Out
At a Riverside delivery station, workers have walked out three times since December as they organize without a recognized union.
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Honey, this wraparound cover for the new issue of @inthesetimes.com really knocks it out of the park! Was looking for the cover image credit before I realized, wait, of course it's @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, now Artist-at-Large at In These Times, looking forward to more of this trouble💥
At the beginning of the pandemic, more than 400 Amazon workers in Eastvale petitioned for safer conditions. In 2022, workers in San Bernardino walked out over pay and extreme heat. Now, @alexnpress.bsky.social reports that workers in nearby Riverside have staged three walkouts since December 2025.
Amazon Workers Keep Walking Out
At a Riverside delivery station, workers have walked out three times since December as they organize without a recognized union.
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Rosa María Carranza paid into Medicare for 24 years. Now she’s expected to lose coverage under a law Republicans passed and Trump signed. Ramya Gosike reports that 100,000 immigrants face the same loss.
Immigrants Aren't Taking Away Our Healthcare—ICE Is
Millions of U.S. residents—including many immigrant families—are set to lose their healthcare under changes coming due to legislation passed under Republicans and the Trump administration.
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Trump has threatened tariffs on countries that supply Cuba with oil. @alfatau.bsky.social examines how the U.S. uses its power beyond its own borders to block relief to the island.
Cuba Under Siege
Trump’s fuel blockade shows that U.S. imperialism is a policy of extortion and cruelty.
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Working-class voters and liberal college graduates both rank affordability first. Beyond that, their priorities diverge. “it’s time for us to have a reckoning around class,” writes Mindy Isser.
If You Want to Win Working-Class Votes, Run On Working-Class Issues
A new report lays out how to bridge the educational divide to bring non-college voters into the progressive fold.
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What happens to privacy when AI can help analyze every email, text, website visit and trip we take? @sanders.senate.gov argues that the rapid expansion of AI threatens to create the infrastructure for a mass surveillance state.
Bernie Sanders on Why Superintelligent AI Is an Existential Threat That Needs To Be Banned
The rapid development of AI is far outpacing regulation, and experts warn that all of humanity could be under threat. There's no doubt that we need to take a pause.
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More than 40 actions across the country in August targeted AI data centers, tech lobbying and surveillance. Stephanie Jordan and Mary Armas examine the protests alongside tech industry spending in the 2026 elections.
Elected Officials Are Facing a Reckoning Over Their Collusion with Big AI
Across the country, Americans from all stripes are calling on politicians to dump Big Tech.
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In 2025, Omer Shatz and colleagues submitted a second communication to the ICC: "European officials suspected of Crimes Against Humanity against ‘migrants’ on the Central Mediterranean route" www.crimesagainsthumanity.eu/en
EU Crimes Against Humanity
Exposing Crimes Against Humanity of European Officials
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In These Times@inthesetimes.com · last mo.The deaths of 25,000 asylum seekers and abuse of 150,000 survivors in Libyan detention are now at the center of a push for the ICC to investigate European leaders and Libyan suspects, @cathyotten.bsky.social reports, for crimes against humanity.
ICE-Cold Cash: Private Prison Companies and Executives Have Donated Millions to Members of Congress Representatives have taken cash from the companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts. @inthesetimes.com reported: inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...
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Groceries, housing and utilities topped both groups’ priorities in the Class Gaps Poll. Among working-class respondents, 10 of the top 12 priorities concerned costs, wages or jobs. Mindy Isser looks at what the findings mean for progressive politics.
If You Want to Win Working-Class Votes, Run On Working-Class Issues
A new report lays out how to bridge the educational divide to bring non-college voters into the progressive fold.
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There’s nothing like going to the mail, getting your subscribe monthly magazines and as you swift through you see your story on the cover of one of your favorite magazines @inthesetimes.com. Thank you so much to the editors of In These Times that helped me make this story shine.
In Lac-Mégantic, 47 people were killed. A decade later, East Palestine was poisoned by another catastrophic derailment. Residents of both towns tell @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social what happens after the cameras leave—and why communities have to organize.
Train Crashes Destroyed Their Towns. Will Yours Be Next?
Host Maximillian Alvarez sits down with a panel of community members from Lac-Mégantic, Quebec and East Palestine, Ohio to discuss life inside a sacrifice zone.
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Trump’s NSPM-7 builds on 25 years of surveillance, expanded terrorism laws and “preventative policing.” Tina Al-khersan and Azadeh Shahshahani examine how the War on Terror laid the groundwork for today’s crackdown on dissent.
How The War on Terror Continues To Terrorize Communities 25 Years Later
Twenty five years after the 9/11 attacks and the launch of the Global War on Terror, the U.S government continues to expand its tools of repression to further crush dissent.
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Candidates are winning support by disavowing Big Tech, criticizing AI and promising to stop data center growth, Stephanie Jordan and Mary Armas write. They point to Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan primary victory.
Elected Officials Are Facing a Reckoning Over Their Collusion with Big AI
Across the country, Americans from all stripes are calling on politicians to dump Big Tech.
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“...we have power, and we will use it.” After years of rent overcharges, Kingston tenants are organizing building by building to force landlords to return money they say they’re owed. @thomasbirm.bsky.social on Kingston’s quiet rent revolution.
Kingston’s Quiet Rent Revolution
Landlords have spent years ignoring a historic rent reduction. Now, tenants are organizing to get their money back.
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UPS Teamsters won a strong contract without walking out. But what was lost when the strike never came? Luis Feliz Leon writes that strikes do more than extract concessions: They teach workers militancy, camaraderie and their own power.
What Teamsters Class Solidarity Looks Like
Yael Bridge’s new documentary "Who Moves America" about the UPS contract fight offers a window into the the class culture of one of the country’s largest unions.
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More than 70% of Americans say tech companies have too much power. Fewer than 1 in 5 trust Big Tech with AI. Yet Silicon Valley’s billionaires want even more control. @milesklassin.bsky.social examines the authoritarian future they’re selling.
Tech Authoritarian Doomsayers
The Silicon Valley hyper-rich elite are aiming to undo democracy—and modern society—for their own profit. The only problem? There are far more of us than them.
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“The future of humanity cannot be left in the hands of a handful of Big Tech oligarchs.” Bernie Sanders makes the case for public control over AI, stronger regulation and a ban on artificial superintelligence.
Bernie Sanders on Why Superintelligent AI Is an Existential Threat That Needs To Be Banned
The rapid development of AI is far outpacing regulation, and experts warn that all of humanity could be under threat. There's no doubt that we need to take a pause.
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New from me. Baltimore currently has a moratorium on new data center development, but a proposed City Council bill has residents nervous (and PISSED) that the door is creaking open for data centers to come into the city—and that City Council views this as “inevitable" @therealnews.com
We're staking our economy on forcing a technology down people's throats that outputs misinformation as a matter of course. Someone asked me about my interview with Gil Duran. This is happened when I googled our names together. I have not interviewed Gil Duran. This path: civilizational death.
Once again the White House Correspondents Association, which had a celebratory dinner with this guy just months ago, looks like stupid craven fools. Good call idiots.
