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Maximillian Alvarez

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- Editor in Chief & Co-Executive Director, @therealnews.com - Host, Working People podcast - Author, The Work of Living - Dad to many cats

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The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers went on strike for over three years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched “a cooperative news organiz...therealnews.com
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Former @post-gazette.com workers went on strike for 3+ years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social “owned and democratically run by its workers and members.” therealnews.com/worker-owned...

Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers went on strike for over three years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched “a cooperative news organiz...therealnews.com
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BREAKING: Community marches into 7-11 where 74-year-old elder was brutally beaten in Baltimore. I was there on the ground for @therealnews.com therealnews.com/baltimore-co...

Community marches into 7-11 where 74-year-old was brutally beaten in BaltimoreA local elder and Black Panther veteran was attacked and brutally beaten by six teenagers at the same 7-11 in Baltimore where Victorious Swift was murdered in 2017. Now, the community is rising up to ...therealnews.com

BREAKING: Community marches into 7-11 where 74-year-old elder was brutally beaten in Baltimore. I was there on the ground for @therealnews.com therealnews.com/baltimore-co...

Community marches into 7-11 where 74-year-old was brutally beaten in BaltimoreA local elder and Black Panther veteran was attacked and brutally beaten by six teenagers at the same 7-11 in Baltimore where Victorious Swift was murdered in 2017. Now, the community is rising up to ...therealnews.com
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Centrists in Congress (anonymously) threatening to leave this Democratic Party. James Carville calling for a schism. Top Dems refusing to endorse Dem primary winners. Pouty (also anonymous) pro-Israel donors in MI calling for a donor strike—I wrote about the emerging centrist Uncommitted Movement.

A new, centrist Uncommitted Movement has emergedExcept this time it’s in support of genocide, rather than trying to stop one.therealnews.com
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“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.com
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I think a lot about that tweet about how Republicans don't think 'committing crimes' is something you do, they think 'a criminal' is something you are. Feels like the driver of these policies, along with the fascist dream of solving every problem by 'getting tough'.

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Cash bail, mandatory minimums, incarcerating children as adults—the Trump-led GOP is destroying decades of criminal justice reforms for “tough on crime” policies that are not only cruel but objectively don’t work. @rattlingthebars.bsky.social therealnews.com/republicans-...

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"One that said the right to free expression must be balanced with the other rights in the country and the country’s democratic system. The [US] doesn’t agree. And the Trump administration has been pushing to bend Brazil toward its definition..." @therealnews.com therealnews.com/brazils-batt...

Brazil’s battle against fake news and the US war to undermine it | Ep. 6Few countries in the world have fought disinformation as actively as Brazil. Now, the United States is pushing to roll it back in the name of US-style “free speech.”therealnews.com
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Cash bail, mandatory minimums, incarcerating children as adults—the Trump-led GOP is destroying decades of criminal justice reforms for “tough on crime” policies that are not only cruel but objectively don’t work. @rattlingthebars.bsky.social therealnews.com/republicans-...

Republicans’ ‘dumb on crime’ crusade in Washington, DC, is coming to your state nextCash bail, mandatory minimums, incarcerating children as adults—the Trump-led GOP is destroying decades of criminal justice reforms for “tough on crime” policies that are not only cruel but objectivel...therealnews.com
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NEW: I sit down with @abdulelsayed.bsky.social to talk about his campaign to represent Michigan in the US Senate, the civil war within the Democratic Party, & about fighting corporate oligarchy & MAGA fascism at the same time. @therealnews.com therealnews.com/abdul-el-say...

Abdul El-Sayed believes a new Democratic Party is possible“The majority of Democrats out there are so far away from the party elders who hold all the power. And I think we have an opportunity as a party to molt: out with the old, in with what the people unde...therealnews.com

NEW: I sit down with @abdulelsayed.bsky.social to talk about his campaign to represent Michigan in the US Senate, the civil war within the Democratic Party, & about fighting corporate oligarchy & MAGA fascism at the same time. @therealnews.com therealnews.com/abdul-el-say...

Abdul El-Sayed believes a new Democratic Party is possible“The majority of Democrats out there are so far away from the party elders who hold all the power. And I think we have an opportunity as a party to molt: out with the old, in with what the people unde...therealnews.com
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“The majority of Democrats out there are so far away from the party elders who hold all the power. And I think we have an opportunity as a party to molt: out with the old, in with what the people underneath the party really want.” - Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social

Abdul El-Sayed believes a new Democratic Party is possible“The majority of Democrats out there are so far away from the party elders who hold all the power. And I think we have an opportunity as a party to molt: out with the old, in with what the people unde...therealnews.com
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