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Our March issue is now available. Read Alberto Toscano on the 21st century caesars steering global authoritarianism, Lauren Markham's reporting about Greece’s illegal war on migrants and more: inthesetimes.com/magazine/kin... Cover art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social.

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"Save Our Services is 'a beacon call to the broader public. It’s a distress signal that we want people to come out with us.'”

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Hope begins when Democratic Party leadership gives way to the Left. Unions can make it happen.

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Home care workers keep our communities running, but too often, the industry fails them. In Colorado, a new worker-led board is pushing for better pay & conditions. More from Roosevelt Fellow @ositanwanevu.bsky.social via @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social‬ ⤵️ inthesetimes.com/article/work...

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good morning here is a piece from me about this week's worker actions against DOGE and Trump, what the point of all these cuts are anyway, and how you can join the fight inthesetimes.com/article/fede...

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Thousands of workers across the country hit the streets this week to declare their opposition to Trump and Musk who, under the guise of “efficiency,” are slashing and burning public services.

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Tommy Olsen, founder of the Aegean Boat Report, is being targeted by Greek authorities for documenting illegal pushbacks of refugees. As @laurenmarkham.bsky.social writes, it's part of the broader move to criminalize not only migrants but also aid workers as “a new layer of border defense."

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New from @ositanwanevu.bsky.social: Wages and benefits are meager for home health workers and aides. Colorado’s Direct Care Workforce Stabilization Board offers an experiment in building care worker power.

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I got a lot out of this @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social piece: 🔥 Until we have enforceable tenant protections, landlords will keep treating housing like an ATM. inthesetimes.com/article/mold...

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Democrats’ belated embrace of unions won’t be enough to break Trump’s political power. As @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social writes, the Party must commit to “class war as an animating force.”

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The Democratic Party says it wants to build itself around organized labor, at a time when it can offer labor nothing legislatively. Unions CAN use their influence in the party for something useful though: to install left wing leadership, before it's too late. inthesetimes.com/article/demo...

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"The traditions of the Left tell it that despots and kings are to be deposed, but also that kingship is worth abolishing, especially in its contemporary forms."

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"Affordable housing — which typically involves giving tax breaks to real estate developers — isn’t working so well." As @leftiecowboy.bsky.social explains, social housing offers a permanently affordable solution for working people.

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The Greek Coast Guard is infamous for illegal “pushbacks” keeping migrants from shore. A Norwegian man who exposes them on his blog could face years in prison.

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Our March issue is now available. Read Alberto Toscano on the 21st century caesars steering global authoritarianism, Lauren Markham's reporting about Greece’s illegal war on migrants and more: inthesetimes.com/magazine/kin... Cover art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social.

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"I Am Finally Free!": Indigenous Leader Leonard Peltier Released After Nearly 50 Years Imprisoned

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“I knew we could do better in the U.S. because I had seen better elsewhere—we don’t have to cut from whole cloth to build the world we need.” — @natashakimiz.bsky.social

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"Scanning the global landscape we can see not just the increasing prominence of authoritarian politics but the profusion of self-proclaimed men of destiny — a whole bestiary of 21st-century caesars." New @alfatau.bsky.social cover story @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

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Leonard Peltier’s release after almost 50 years in federal prison marks the culmination of a decadeslong campaign led by Indigenous activists. Tamar Sarai spoke with Nick Tilsen of @ndncollective.bsky.social celebrating the reality that “his liberation is our liberation.”

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The pathological personalization of power is at the core of the far Right’s rise. New from @alfatau.bsky.social: inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

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"Trump has started his second term...putting the interests of corporations and billionaires over those of working people," says EPI's Margaret Poydock. Check out her op-ed detailing the ways the Trump Admin is already trampling on workers’ rights below!

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This is tonight! Join @natashakimiz.bsky.social, @sarahlazare.bsky.social, @asha-rrs.bsky.social and @alexhan.bsky.social at 6:30pm! Details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/another-wo...

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"President Trump has delivered an immediate victory to Musk by ensuring the NLRB will not be able to enforce workers’ rights to a union, including those at Tesla and SpaceX."

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How to be oligarchically correct and other comics: https://inthesetimes.com/article/comics-cartoons-gamer-elon-musk-donald-trump-ai

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“They know they’re creating a crisis. It’s intentional. Our job is to make it unmanageable.”

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"One of the purposeful consequences of overwhelm is that we see ourselves as the people politics happens to as opposed to being active participants in doing politics or shaping our political reality."

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Federal workers are fighting to save public services—and "the idea that government can improve the lives of its citizens."

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Trump has wasted no time attacking workers' rights.

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Vital piece

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Reading about what's happening in DC can be paralyzing and panic-inducing. Dems not coming to the rescue, so the best way to stay sane and successfully fight the billionaire coup is to organize where we work and live. Fantastic and clear eyed piece from @lfelizleon.bsky.social

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Read this, on the urgent struggle of federal workers against the Trump-Musk wrecking crew (I have an interview with one of these organizers coming out at @jacobinmag.bsky.social this weekend, covering similar ground, this is the more comprehensive picture)

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"Like the abolitionists of the 19th century arrayed against the planter class, today we need to break the economic, ideological and political foundations of billionaire rule." @lfelizleon.bsky.social for @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/labo...

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I spoke to a whole bunch of federal employees who are organizing to stay on the job and challenge Musk's wrecking crew inthesetimes.com/article/fede...

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Federal workers are organizing to defend against Trump’s attacks—and are asking anyone who wants to save public services to fight back with them. New from @sarahljaffe.bsky.social.

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"Sexual liberation begins with sex education, sexual diversity and protecting sex workers."

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Weeks into Trump’s second term, one thing is clear: billionaires are being prioritized over working people.

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"Dating apps are the gig work of romance, where we are both worker and product."

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"One of the purposeful consequences of overwhelm is that we see ourselves as the people politics happens to as opposed to being active participants in doing politics or shaping our political reality." inthesetimes.com/article/bill...

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NEW — Chicago organizer @asha-rrs.bsky.social encourages you to reject the idea that there is nothing we can do in the face of billionaire government takeover. This piece is being republished in partnership with @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social. thetriibe.com/2025/02/in-t...

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Billionaire government takeover is made possible by overwhelming the public, media & institutions around us. We owe it to each other to face it all & resist anyway. my first in a new column w @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social, co-published w @thetriibe.com read if you like.

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"Let’s be people who are flexible enough to shed tactical dogma, step outside of issue silos and embrace moments of opportunity." — @asha-rrs.bsky.social

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Far-right billionaires are waging a war of attrition against the working class, overwhelming and exhausting the opposition. As @lfelizleon.bsky.social writes, the labor movement needs to embrace a strategy of addition, forging new and unlikely alliances across the working class.

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That time Elon Musk lied about being a gamer and other comics.

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Well worth a read from beginning to end. Empower yourselves.

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"To be Black and creative is to be an alchemist, transforming fragments of lived experience into temples of imagination."

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NEW: Early results from a special election in Seattle show that voters strongly passed a new tax on big business that would raise $53 million/year for publicly owned housing. This is a huge win in breaking the grip of private landlords. @rebeccaburns.bsky.social in @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social:

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Meet the traveling queer porn festival that promotes LGBTQ rights and safer practices for sex workers.

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Housing activists declared victory on Tuesday after unofficial election night totals showed nearly 58% of voters backed a new tax on big business to help build mixed-income, publicly owned housing.

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‼️ EPISODE 188! ‼️ In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “Our Fight Doesn’t End at Cease-Fire” by Nashwa Bawab in @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social.

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