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Jim Has Fun@jimhasfun.wnyrpg.com · 19h ago

This week's @rubenbolling.bsky.social strip is a hoot, very funny. I got it in my email inbox just now because I'm special. A special little guy in a special kind of hive.

At a time when US violence and belligerence toward Iran keeps reaching terrifying new heights, this call to action from dockworkers is so concrete, so needed. These are the same unions that pulled off dockworker strikes in solidarity with Palestinians, so they mean it when they put out these calls.

absolutely must read

In These Times@inthesetimes.com · 46m ago

Democratic socialists want to “stack the deck” toward working people: make unions easier to organize, protect workers during economic transitions and give labor more power over the conditions under which people work. inthesetimes.com/article/demo...

Democratic socialists want to “stack the deck” toward working people: make unions easier to organize, protect workers during economic transitions and give labor more power over the conditions under which people work. inthesetimes.com/article/demo...

What a Democratic Socialist Economic Agenda Looks Like

As democratic socialism returns to the U.S. public eye, socialists need to make clear how their vision differs from the liberalism most Americans are familiar with. Here are five crucial distinctive…

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Abdul El-Sayed is narrowly ahead after a primary flooded with nearly $30 million in AIPAC-linked spending for Haley Stevens. The race remains uncalled. @dannypostel.bsky.social reports on the money, coalitions and party struggle behind the vote.

Abdul El-Sayed Is In a Fight to Transform the Democratic Party

The Michigan Senate primary between El-Sayed and Haley Stevens is shaping up to be a proxy war in the struggle between the party’s progressive and centrist wings.

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When Eli Day profiled Donavan McKinney last year, his campaign was still taking shape. Now the former union organizer could defeat one of the wealthiest members of Congress.

The Next Fight in the Democratic Party

Justice Democrats, the organization that backed Squad members like AOC and Ilhan Omar, has endorsed their first candidate for the 2026 cycle—Donavan McKinney.

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The chart keeps rising: airline profits on one axis, human suffering on the other. @jensorensen.bsky.social illustrates the truth about modern-day air travel: for the executives flying private, everything is working exactly as intended. inthesetimes.com/article/airl...

#ncpol

In These Times@inthesetimes.com · 23h ago

AI data centers could raise electric rates in Northern Virginia by 25% by 2030. Nationwide, data centers are already helping push power bills up faster than the cost of living.

AI data centers could raise electric rates in Northern Virginia by 25% by 2030. Nationwide, data centers are already helping push power bills up faster than the cost of living.

Poor Communities Are Paying the Price for "Free" AI Tools

AI data centers produce massive noise pollution, use huge amounts of water and keep us hooked on fossil fuels.

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Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary between Abdul El-Sayed & Haley Stevens has become a national test of whether the progressive or centrist wing will shape what comes next. @dannypostel.bsky.social examines the money, political alliances and communities influencing today’s vote.

Abdul El-Sayed Is In a Fight to Transform the Democratic Party

The Michigan Senate primary between El-Sayed and Haley Stevens is shaping up to be a proxy war in the struggle between the party’s progressive and centrist wings.

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In contrast to the Chinese model, our US AI companies will increasingly become more embedded in our government both functionally, and also subsidized by US taxpayers China runs its AI sector backed by State Owned Enterprises US AI companies run our AI sector backed by Enterprise Owned State

In These Times@inthesetimes.com · 2d ago

Silicon Valley’s mythology is built around innovation. Its material foundation includes military contracts, surveillance systems and tools for identifying targets. @sarahlazare.bsky.social traces that history and the worker organizing challenging it from within.

The July 31 joint statement read, in part, "Public resources must be used to meet people's social needs, not to finance war." Just imagine.

In These Times@inthesetimes.com · 2d ago

Palestinian trade unionists have long called on workers worldwide to refuse arms shipments to Israel. Dockworkers answered—from Belgium and Sweden to Italy. Now unions in six countries are organizing for October 30.

What happens when productivity rises, but workers don’t get more time back? Drawing on @julietschor.bsky.social’s decades of research, Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon examine the renewed push for a 32-hour work week—and the labor power it would take to make it widespread.

A 4-Day Work Week Sounds Great. How Do We Get One?

Workers deserve far more time off the job. But getting to a shorter work week will require a labor movement that can wield power to extract such demands.

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Palestinian trade unionists have long called on workers worldwide to refuse arms shipments to Israel. Dockworkers answered—from Belgium and Sweden to Italy. Now unions in six countries are organizing for October 30.

Dockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes and Protests Against War and Genocide

Unions representing workers at 40 ports in Europe and the Mediterranean are calling for an international day of action on October 30.

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Silicon Valley’s mythology is built around innovation. Its material foundation includes military contracts, surveillance systems and tools for identifying targets. @sarahlazare.bsky.social traces that history and the worker organizing challenging it from within.

AI’s Rise is Being Fueled by the Sprawling U.S. Military State

Can an increasingly precarious tech workforce be a site of antiwar resistance?

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“Labor needs to keep organizing at Amazon.” For @randwilson.bsky.social and Peter Olney, that means building workplace committees, finding ways to disrupt operations and combining worker organizing with pressure on Amazon from the outside.

What Amazon Organizers Can Learn From the Fight for 15

Organizers at Amazon can take lessons from the Fight for 15’s success at building pressure through a broad public campaign—and from its failure to really build an organization of, by, and for workers.

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AIPAC and affiliated groups have spent nearly $30 million supporting Haley Stevens—their largest investment ever in a single race. @dannypostel.bsky.social reports that her campaign has outspent Abdul El-Sayed’s 12 to 1.

Abdul El-Sayed Is In a Fight to Transform the Democratic Party

The Michigan Senate primary between El-Sayed and Haley Stevens is shaping up to be a proxy war in the struggle between the party’s progressive and centrist wings.

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As forests burn across the planet and climate collapse accelerates, the ultra-rich are buying their way into the places still left standing. In Montana, billionaires are carving out private refuges in Greater Yellowstone with fortunes tied to deforestation and extraction.

Fortress Yellowstone

The ultra-rich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological sacrifice zones around the world

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"The most efficient tool of censorship yet developed” is how @aiww.bsky.social describes AI. In this interview with @nickhilden.bsky.social, he discusses how surveillance, data and capital are reshaping freedom and dissent.

Ai Weiwei on the “Catastrophic Status Quo” of Censorship

A conversation with the renowned artist on life in exile and his new book

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I read this great article today in the March 2026 print edition of In These Times @inthesetimes.com by Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social and I wanted to share it, and also urge you to consider subscribing to In These Times magazine. inthesetimes.com/article/mlk-...

AIPAC and allied groups have spent nearly $30 million backing Haley Stevens, while her campaign has outspent Abdul El-Sayed 12 to 1. @dannypostel.bsky.social reports on the money, coalitions and stakes in Michigan’s Senate primary.

Abdul El-Sayed Is In a Fight to Transform the Democratic Party

The Michigan Senate primary between El-Sayed and Haley Stevens is shaping up to be a proxy war in the struggle between the party’s progressive and centrist wings.

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“Not a single nail will leave.” @sarahlazare.bsky.social reports that Genoa dockworkers made that promise as the Global Sumud Flotilla sailed for Gaza—then helped turn it into port blockades and general strikes against war on Iran and genocide in Gaza.

Dockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes and Protests Against War and Genocide

Unions representing workers at 40 ports in Europe and the Mediterranean are calling for an international day of action on October 30.

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Americans are still working long hours, with no federal guarantee of paid vacation, sick days or parental leave. Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon revisit the long fight for shorter hours—and why a 32-hour week will require organized labor with the power to win it.

A 4-Day Work Week Sounds Great. How Do We Get One?

Workers deserve far more time off the job. But getting to a shorter work week will require a labor movement that can wield power to extract such demands.

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Crypto investors are calling their own industry an “unlicensed casino.” Meanwhile, AI-generated fiction is becoming training material for more AI. @milesklassin.bsky.social checks in on the strange machinery of late capitalism.

Zombie Coins, Ghost Chains and Other Slop

Some of the latest developments in late capitalism, from a human perspective—never an AI hallucination.

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“They're doing this with the active assistance of the U.S. and financial assistance from, up until very recently, institutions like the UAW.” @uaw.org delegates voted to divest $400K in Israel bonds—a historic first. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social talks with the workers who helped make it happen.

United Auto Workers Divests From Israel

At the 39th Constitutional Convention, delegates voted to divest $400,000 worth of bonds in historic first.

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Trump launches a war, possibly ends it, demands a Nobel Peace Prize and prepares to get back to terrorizing immigrants. @tomtomorrow.bsky.social follows the self-proclaimed dealmaker’s logic to its bleak conclusion. inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

"What’s for dinner tonight?" "Chart." Alex Hood takes aim at the experts who confuse rising markets with a functioning economy. inthesetimes.com/article/itt-...

Dockworkers unions in six countries are calling for a big escalation on Oct 30 to protest war and militarization. They're urging strikes, protests, refusal to handle arms, demanding an end to US-Israeli war on Iran, genocide of Palestinians. They're urging dockworkers around the world to take part.

Dockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes and Protests Against War and Genocide - Workday Magazine

This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and In These Times. Dockworkers unions in France, Greece, Basque Country, Turkey, Morocco, and Italy are calling an international day of action ...

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