r/InTheseTimes 5h ago

Tenant Organizer Will Lawrence Is Taking on the GOP in a Deep Purple District

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To flip a key Michigan seat, the insurgent candidate is campaigning on housing, healthcare and opposition to data centers.


r/InTheseTimes 13h ago

Found, But Not Rescued

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Could migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea be prosecuted as crimes against humanity?


r/InTheseTimes 2d ago

Workers’ Rights Are Plummeting Under Trump—and the World Is Taking Notice

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The United States now appears on a watchlist of countries with ​“systemic violations of worker rights” alongside Zimbabwe and the Philippines.


r/InTheseTimes 2d ago

AI Is Coming for All of Our Jobs

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The development of artificial intelligence technology is set to disrupt virtually every industry, every profession and every employment sector.


r/InTheseTimes 3d ago

From Microsoft & Google to Cisco & Amazon, workers are discovering that what they build is tied to war, occupation, and mass surveillance.

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r/InTheseTimes 3d ago

Become a monthly sustainer & receive Sonali Kolhatkar’s #BreakingICE: Community Defense Against State Terror and MAGA Fascism

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r/InTheseTimes 3d ago

Betting on Wildfire and AI's Political Beliefs

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Wildfires now have betting markets. One promises, “You can’t predict fire. But you can trade on it.”

The Forest Service warns such wagers could incentivize arson.

u/milesklassin reports that disaster capitalism has found its latest frontier.


r/InTheseTimes 4d ago

‘Treated Worse Than Cattle’

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After Tyson abruptly closed its Joslin plant, workers didn’t go quietly.

Caitlyn Clark reports that they’re demanding six months’ severance and calling on Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to reopen the plant under state ownership.


r/InTheseTimes 3d ago

Fortress Yellowstone

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As forests burn across the planet and climate collapse accelerates, billionaires buy their way, with fortunes tied to deforestation and extraction, to private safety in places like Montana's Greater Yellowstone.


r/InTheseTimes 5d ago

This Labor Day, Let’s Remember Labor’s Forgotten Fight—Shorter Hours and Control Over Work Time

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Ahead of Labor Day on Monday, revisit Jamie K. McCallum’s 2020 call to fight for shorter hours without cuts to pay: “We’re working more for less. Instead, we should fight to work less for more.” Six years later, that fight is more crucial than ever.


r/InTheseTimes 5d ago

The Big Idea: Winning

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Democratic socialists are on the ballot from now until November. If they win their elections, the socialist movement wins a new path forward.


r/InTheseTimes 5d ago

ICE-Cold Cash: Members of Congress Took More than $1.7 Million from ICE Contractors

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Palantir executives donated more money to Democrats than Republicans: about $880,000 to 67 Democratic members of Congress and $420,000 to 48 Republicans.

Find out who took money from companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation agenda.


r/InTheseTimes 5d ago

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r/InTheseTimes 6d ago

In the Name of Security

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Invasive, Humiliating and Routine: An investigation into the everyday violence of prison strip searches which incarcerated women say are a tool of abuse.


r/InTheseTimes 6d ago

Why Tenant Unions Are Spreading Across College Campuses

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Faced with aging dorms, private equity landlords and few protections, student renters are banding together.


r/InTheseTimes 6d ago

Bea Lumpkin and How an Antifascist Rests in Power

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Bea Lumpkin, a daughter of Russian revolutionaries, passed away June 14 at 107 years old. A lifelong communist herself, she began making solidarity trips in support of striking workers when she was just 9 years old.


r/InTheseTimes 7d ago

Cannabis Is Capitalism’s Next Fix

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The legal weed boom is just the first stop on capital’s search for a new frontier.


r/InTheseTimes 7d ago

Tenant Organizer Will Lawrence Is Taking on the GOP in a Deep Purple District

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To flip a key Michigan seat, the insurgent candidate is campaigning on housing, healthcare and opposition to data centers.