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Liberal institutions knew how to take a side on Ukraine. They knew how to speak the language of anti-racism after George Floyd. When Palestinians were being killed in Gaza, many suddenly found “neutrality.” @ahjohnson.bsky.social & @thrasherxy.bsky.social in conversation about complicity.
The Elite 'OK' to Police Our Every Thought and MoveAdam Johnson joins Steven Thrasher to deconstruct the functions of liberalism, a theme deeply explored in each of their new books.inthesetimes.comAngelique Estes says she was neglected, sedated and held against her will in an unlicensed Texas boarding home. @ottavias.bsky.social’s investigation won a 2026 American Society of Journalists and Authors Writing Award and placed second for the 2026 John Bartlow Martin Award.
Nowhere to Go: Inside the Texas Boarding Home System Where Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation are WidespreadAs the United States faces the largest healthcare cuts in its history, Texas presents a frightening vision of the future of long-term care.inthesetimes.com
#BDS #StopArmingIsrael #FreePalestine #AbolishZionism #DismantleWhiteness
In These Times“Workers are being killed and murdered everyday by Israel.” @uaw.org member Navruz Baum spoke about why rank-and-file workers pushed their union to divest from Israel, ultimately voting to sell $400,000 in Israel bonds. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social on the vote & the organizing behind it.
“Workers are being killed and murdered everyday by Israel.” @uaw.org member Navruz Baum spoke about why rank-and-file workers pushed their union to divest from Israel, ultimately voting to sell $400,000 in Israel bonds. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social on the vote & the organizing behind it.
United Auto Workers Divests From IsraelAt the 39th Constitutional Convention, delegates voted to divest $400,000 worth of bonds in historic first.inthesetimes.comNYC is moving ahead with city-run grocery stores, with Mayor Mamdani announcing today that a core basket of staples will be priced 30% below typical retail prices. Back in December, @leftiecowboy.bsky.social looked at the idea—and where it’s already been tried.
The Big Idea: Municipal-Owned Grocery StoresWith rising grocery prices and increasingly sparse options, more places are considering municipal-owned grocery stores to create equitable access to food.inthesetimes.com
Trump "digs coal", not coal miners.
In These TimesThough the Trump administration says it “digs coal,” @kimkelly.bsky.social reports that it has delayed a silica dust rule, gutted a mine safety review agency, and left coal miners facing greater risk of injury, disease, and death. inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
Texas boarding homes can cost far less than nursing homes, but many operate with limited oversight while housing people with extensive medical needs. @ottavias.bsky.social examines how residents are exposed to neglect, abuse and financial exploitation.
Nowhere to Go: Inside the Texas Boarding Home System Where Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation are WidespreadAs the United States faces the largest healthcare cuts in its history, Texas presents a frightening vision of the future of long-term care.inthesetimes.comThis piece was written in 2018, after Parkland. Eight years and countless mass shootings later, its central argument still stands: The obstacle to gun reform is never simply the Second Amendment. It is money, power and an industry built on selling guns.
It’s Never Been About the Second Amendment. It’s About Corporate Profits.Our bought-and-paid-for politicians only hold the Constitution sacred when it aligns with corporate interests—like gun sales.inthesetimes.comWritten in February 2025, @petergelderloos.bsky.social’s warning that the mainstream climate framework enriches corporations without stopping the crisis hits differently as wildfires burn across Canada and Europe.
Betrayed by Green Capitalism, Here’s How We Can Build a Livable FutureThe mainstream climate framework is utterly failing to solve the climate crisis. What could a real solution look like?inthesetimes.comAbolition asks us to think about harm, how we prevent it and what we owe one another after harm occurs. Calvin John Smiley looks at prison labor and argues that unions can help turn those ideas into collective action.
Julio Foolio, Unions and “Sweat Equity”How incarceration and labor are bound together.inthesetimes.comArts and culture contribute $1.2 trillion to the U.S. economy and employ nearly 5.4 million people. You wouldn’t know it from the way the federal government funds them. @leftiecowboy.bsky.social on what it would mean to treat art as a public good.
The Big Idea: Publicly Funded ArtArt is how we make sense of ourselves. But the U.S. government, unlike many other countries, is investing in it less and less.inthesetimes.com“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 15Organizers 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.inthesetimes.comICE’s abuse of immigrants is not a series of isolated incidents, @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social writes. It is policy. He examines two fatal shootings in six days, the explanations offered by DHS and a wider pattern of violence without accountability.
ICE Is Conducting a Reign of TerrorICE’s indiscriminate violence conveys that nonwhite immigrants, lawful or otherwise, have no place in Trump’s America.inthesetimes.comLorenzo Salgado Araujo was a construction worker and father of three. Johan Sebastian Guerrero worked as a cleaner and delivery driver and had a three-year-old daughter. ICE killed both men within six days. Neither was its intended target.
ICE Is Conducting a Reign of TerrorICE’s indiscriminate violence conveys that nonwhite immigrants, lawful or otherwise, have no place in Trump’s America.inthesetimes.comTrump’s disastrous performance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was a spectacle of grievances, insults and threats, much of it met with silence. This piece was written last year, but its warning still stands: Don’t let the spectacle obscure the exercise of power.
Trump's Manufactured Crisis and the Urgency of Strategic NonviolenceThe challenge for movements now is not just to oppose Trump’s naked power grab, but to refuse to play the role he’s cast us in.inthesetimes.comTrump is rolling out another sweeping round of tariffs, with new levies on imports from 60 economies. Last year, @toddntucker.com explained why tariffs can be useful when they’re targeted, and why Trump’s approach is likely to hurt workers instead.
How Sweeping Tariffs Came to Be and Why It MattersTargeted tariffs could be an important part of an industrial policy tool kit—but Trump's sweeping tariff policy will harm workers, not help them.inthesetimes.com