Magazine-style graphic showing a large cardboard protest sign in a city street reading “PEOPLE OVER BILLIONAIRES” in white letters outlined in red, held above a crowd of demonstrators between tall buildings. Over the photo, bold text reads “The Rupture at Hand,” with the subhead: “Facing down a billionaire-backed authoritarian blitz, the Left isn’t waiting for Democratic elites to join step with the party’s base.” The byline reads “By Miles Kampf-Lassin,” and a small In These Times logo appears in the upper left.

"The Democratic establishment refuses to get on board with the type of bold demands animating its ardent core."

@milesklassin.bsky.social reports the center is not holding and the Left is moving forward.

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Black-and-white chest X-ray image with overlaid text promoting an In These Times article. The headline reads, “After Decades of Quiet Rumbling, an Epidemic Is Erupting Among California Stoneworkers.” Smaller text below says the engineered stone industry is worth nearly $30 billion, but workers at its core are falling sick and dying from silicosis, and many—most of them young immigrants—are suing manufacturers. Byline: Kayla Yup. In These Times logo at bottom.

"When Hernandez and his coworkers transform slabs of engineered stone into the puzzle pieces of counters and shower walls, countless nanosized silica particles are released — so small they can penetrate respirators and pass directly into the lungs."

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Promotional graphic reading “Democracy dies, first, in the workplace” over a photo of blue-and-white strike signs scattered on the ground against a brick-and-stone wall. Smaller text says it is a 2025 conversation between Maximillian Alvarez, Hamilton Nolan and Sara Nelson about how the decline of unions and the rise of inequality reveal the urgent need for a revitalized labor movement. Logos for Working People and In These Times appear at the bottom.

"Today, 10% of workers in America are union members. That's the last stop before single digits. And there's no stop after single digits. That's the last stop on the elevator. We are in a fucking crisis, man."

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Social graphic for an In These Times article showing a large gas tanker ship on the water beneath the headline, “We Need To Tax the Corporations Cashing In On the Iran War.” Subhead reads, “Across the political spectrum, Americans support taxing windfall profits—and billionaires—to help working people weather the affordability crisis.” Byline: Meghan Schneider and Cass DiPaola. In These Times logo at bottom.

"As the oil industry rakes in eye-popping profits, it gains more power to elect leaders who prioritize policies that ensure Americans remain reliant on fossil fuels."

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Black graphic with a large white quote reading, “Moments of extreme concentration of wealth, whirlwind technological development and kinetic foreign warfare create an opening to break from a decaying political system.” Below, the image credits Miles Kampf-Lassin, Senior Editor, with the In These Times logo. At bottom right is a black-and-white headshot of Miles Kampf-Lassin inside a bright red circle.

As Democratic leaders cling to centrism, labor, tenant and socialist movements are building power outside the party machinery.

@milesklassin.bsky.social on the rupture taking shape on the Left.

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May they rest long in the tombs they are building for themselves.

Get out there if you can, #BikeDC! I'm out sick but ringing my bell from afar in solidarity!

ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

Trump claimed "Operation Metro Surge" targeted the "worst of the worst." In reality, ICE ripped 70 kids away from their families, friends, and schools.

Our children deserve justice and accountability. That starts with abolishing ICE.

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Publishers Marketplace Deal Report LEVEL UP FOR ROMANCE! By Gita Jackson Imprint: Mira Aftermath co-owner Gita Jackson's LEVEL UP FOR ROMANCE!, a debut LitRPG romance in which an overworked game developer is transported to the cozy town featured in the farming simulator she's creating and falls for the town's snarky bartender-a character who wasn't even supposed to be romanceable -as she's forced to confront the fact that her career in the gaming industry wasn't what she thought it was going to be and figure out how to get back home, to Emma Cole at Mira, in an exclusive submission, by Alex Land at Mad Woman Literary Agency (world). Fiction: Romance April 21, 2026

Hello. I’m writing a novel. @editrixemma.bsky.social @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social

A "Little Free Library" filled with only Merriam-Webster Dictionaries

Happy National Library Week to whoever did this.

Patrick wyman holding a copy of Lost Worlds

It’s real! It’s really real! Preorder at the link in my bio right now, it’s good, I promise!

“we are deliberately killing the immunocompromised, disabled, and chronically ill”

I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks Like a Witch Hunt. MAGA has wanted to take down the SPLC for years. Now it has the DOJ to try.

MAGA has fantasized about criminalizing the SPLC for a decade—regardless of the org’s many flaws, the MAGA DOJ is corrupt and weaponized.

Me:

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A handsome white couple in wedding attire in a courthouse chapel, smiling widely

Just acted as witness to the marriage of two complete strangers at the courthouse because they met me outside and “had a good feeling about [me]”. All the best to David and Veronica in their life together

Opposing white supremacy is a crime in Trump’s America.

This feels a lot like southern states persecuting the NAACP during Jim Crow.

they all promise to be good IF we give them unchecked power.

When that second melody comes in (almost exactly two minutes in) it really feels like the proper 20th century is being born.

"100 million illegal aliens in our country" is TWICE the number of total immigrants. undocumented immigrants are ~14 million. The aim clearly is to get rid of non-whites, regardless of how long their families have been here. Native Americans, too!

Graphic titled Disabled people need mobility equality has pictures of different Disabled people using wheeled mobility aids, some of which are presently legal to use in some ways, and some of which are not presently legal in public spaces. The pictures are surrounding the words “Rights to pedestrian mobility” and “Rights to cycling and cycling-equivalent mobility”. From left and top to bottom in columns, a child using a powerchair, an adult using a powerchair with a pram attached, an adult using a mobility scooter towing two children in a cycle-type trailer, an adult using a manual wheelchair and long cane, an adult on a mobility scooter assisting a small child who is walking, an adult on a recumbent trike, an adult using a manual wheelchair with an e-assist handcycle attachment, an older child on a bicycle, an adult and child using a side-by-side tandem. At the bottom is hashtag MobilityJustice and the Wheels for Wellbeing logo.

You only have until the end of tomorrow to respond to the government's consultation into powered mobility aids.

You can use our 10 Key Asks to help advocate for fair mobility laws for all: wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/our-campaign...

Working people are fighting back — and WINNING YouTube video by Bernie Sanders

Working people are fighting back — and WINNING

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Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

Trump is too deranged to continue in office Republicans can no longer deny the depth of the president’s cognitive decline and should act for the good of the party

Why am I not reading columns (and editorials) like this in the U.S. press? Even our pundits are cowards. 1/2 www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

The Green New Deal has evolved. Now it's all about 'affordability.' A new "working class climate agenda" seeks to provide economic relief and tackle global warming at the same time.

Thrilled to be quoted in Grist, on Green Economic Populism:

"Fossil fuels are unreliable. They drive up your cost of living. They cause wars and people die. And if we make a green transition, that will make everyday life better for working people who are struggling."

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This is free to read version. as.ft.com/r/fe9a9b7f-5...

you know how certain parts of every job are kind of fun and subjective? what if we outsourced all those parts to a soulless gutless machine?

Let's sum up Trump's tariffs.

1) They were illegal and also corrupt and arbitrary.
2) They did real damage to economy, esp farmers, small business.
3) Lutnick cheerled them while his spawn prepared to $$.
4) Corps (& some small businesses) finally getting refunds.
5) Consumers will get squat.

‘Operation Zero Out’ Campaign Seeks to Clear Expensive Water Bills in Jackson, Mississippi Operation Zero Out: Jackson aims to provide relief to Jacksonians facing expensive—and at times inaccurate—water bills.

“ This is a process that we're fleshing out ‘cause it's only like two or three weeks old,” Brad Franklin said. “It took off faster than we could even imagine, so now we're trying to figure out how to meet the demand and also do it in an efficient and fair manner.”

A watchful D.C. resident sent me a photo of something we haven’t seen in years; water flowing down the cascading fountain at Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park. NPS started work on the long-dry fountain late last year, as part of a broader project to refurbish the park.