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People are stopping “King Trump's Private Army” ICE, across the United States, with rapid response, community defense, solidarity and care.

@shaneburley.bsky.social reports.

inthesetimes.com/article/the-new-antifascist-consensus-ice-rapid-response-community-defense
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"The issue isn’t that workers don’t trust unions — 70% of Americans approve of them, the highest approval rating in over 50 years. It’s that they don’t trust politicians."

inthesetimes.com/article/voters-trust-union-candidates-labor-democrats
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"Many of these tax-the-rich measures are championed by labor-community coalitions also preparing for mass actions on May Day as they make the case that austerity and authoritarianism are two sides of the same coin."

@rebeccaburns.bsky.social reports

inthesetimes.com/article/slogan-inside-labors-new-strategy-tax-the-rich
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Must read, comrades.
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"Even if all war spending were to stop immediately, interest payments on the $2 trillion of existing war debt would rise to over $2 trillion by 2030 and to $6.5 trillion by 2050."
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We are honored that @ottavias.bsky.social's investigation with @inthesetimes.com into Texas boarding homes was awarded second place from the John Bartlow Martin Awards for Public Interest Magazine Journalism @medillschool.bsky.social: www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2026/calmatters-reporter-honored-for-investigation-into-criminal-justice-system.html
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Thrilled that @ottavias.bsky.social's investigation on TX boarding homes @inthesetimes.com & @typeinvestigations.org won 2nd place in @medillschool.bsky.social's John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Mag. Journalism. This project was years in the making & its recognition is so well deserved.
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"His gift for bringing people together is his most precious quality. In a Palestinian movement that can sometimes fracture along the edges of ego & disagreement, Salah is the bridge."

Dr. Hatem Bazian on ICE’s abduction of the beloved Salah Sarsour.

inthesetimes.com/article/salah-sarsour-a-pillar-taken-a-community-that-will-not-yield
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"We need not look to the lowest rungs of U.S. society to see that wars of belligerence are wrong, but perhaps, if we do look there, we can find the beginnings of a working-class coalition that can push back against imperialism, in that estuary where self-interest meets solidarity."
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Two proposals—one in California, one in Congress—could finally tax the ultra-rich.

Conor Lynch writes, the alternative is an ever-more-powerful billionaire class that threatens democracy itself.
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Workers in the US are obviously not the primary victims of US imperialism, but they are abandoned and fleeced by the same war state that kills countless people abroad. From blood banks to food pantries, a snapshot of a country whose raison d’etre is increasingly open sadism and violence. My latest.
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“A warehouse is meant to be an economic hub… Turning it into a jail and housing humans inside is … well, it’s gross. It’s wrong.”
@hagerstownrr.bsky.social @projectsaltbox.com
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While millions struggle to eat, Washington keeps pouring billions into war. @sarahlazare.bsky.social traces the connection between permanent militarism, gutted social programs and working-class precarity in the U.S.

inthesetimes.com/article/permanent-war-state-iran-workers-struggle
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“We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS,” Rep. Delia C. Ramirez. went on, referring to her and Rep. Yvette Clarke’s Melt ICE Act to effectively bar the Department of Homeland Security from being able to detain immigrants.
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idence from the defense,” said Texas attorney George Lobb, who is representing one defendant in the state’s case.
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We need a different labor movement

We need a full reckoning

inthesetimes.com/article/cesar-chavez-revelations-show-its-time-for-truth-and-reconciliation-in-the-labor-movement by @ana-exaflcio.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com
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“If antifascism is the use of direct interventions in the fight against the far right, the struggle against ICE is what that justice movement looks like when the far right gains state power.”
@shaneburley.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com #AbolishICE
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"As a first step, unions should release current and former staff members from every NDA that covers sexual harassment, assault, or related conduct."

@ana-exaflcio.bsky.social on how, "Unions as a movement must move toward real accountability."
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"The issue isn’t that workers don’t trust unions — 70% of Americans approve of them, the highest approval rating in over 50 years. It’s that they don’t trust politicians."

Jake Triola reports.

inthesetimes.com/article/voters-trust-union-candidates-labor-democrats
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Dr. Hatem Bazian, co-founder of @ampalestine.bsky.social, reports on ICE’s abduction of a beloved community member who played a major role in the local Palestine movement—and how he may have been wrongly targeted because of it.

inthesetimes.com/article/salah-sarsour-a-pillar-taken-a-community-that-will-not-yield
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Nurses teachers aunties and WNBA ballers leading the way #1u
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"The Mundurukú used to fish and do laundry and swim here, Manoel tells me, until deforestation for soy plantations dewatered it. Runoff from the soy and corn fields has poisoned what water is left, he says. Most of the fish are gone."

inthesetimes.com/article/yellowstone-billionaires-conservation-montana-deforest-amazon
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"We all agreed to the top portion that was a unified wages, pension, health care and return to work program."

A conversation with a lead organizer at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital during the pivotal weeks of the @nynurses historic 41-day strike.

inthesetimes.com/article/how-nyc-nurses-won-after-their-longest-strike-in-the-citys-history
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The major protests rally millions in defense of immigrant workers and against authoritarianism. Now what?
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A rank-and-file-led slate of candidates is challenging O’Brien’s MAGA-happy leadership of one of the country’s biggest unions.
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Jesse Meisenhelter, who organizes with the group Minneapolis Families for Public Schools, explains that some of the current organizing efforts began forming before Trump’s inauguration — with potlucks.

inthesetimes.com/article/the-new-antifascist-consensus-ice-rapid-response-community-defense
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"Dropping corporate cases en masse, as the Trump administration is doing, is a green light for corporate lawlessness."
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JD Vance’s politics of blame were never meant to help the working class.
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The array of attacks on democracy and workers’ rights present an opportunity to expand labor’s power—if unions are willing to seize it.
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