Adam Johnson presents "How to Sell a Genocide" in conversation w/ Maximillian Alvarez Johnson's analysis is a thorough indictment of US corporate media's role in enabling—and, at times, directly inciting—one of the most devastating campaigns of mass killing in modern memory.

Folks if you’re in the DC/Baltimore area I will be discussing my upcoming book with longtime friend of the pod and comrade @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social at Red Emma’s in Baltimore Saturday May 23. Join us!

A lack of democracy in the United Farm Workers gave Chavez immunity Frank Bardacke's history of the Farm Workers union opened many eyes to the reasons the UFW became a shadow of its former self.

Frank Bardacke’s history of the Farm Workers union opened many eyes to the reasons the UFW became a shadow of its former self.

Iran’s top diplomat says Trump team sabotaged talks with deal ‘inches away’ “Zero lessons earned,” said Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

“Zero lessons earned,” said Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

‘Hungary has chosen Europe’ as voters end 16 straight years of Orbán’s far-right rule “Europe has always chosen Hungary,” said the head of the European Union. “Together, we are stronger.”

“Europe has always chosen Hungary,” said the head of the European Union. “Together, we are stronger.”

Inside Israel’s Prison Regime "There is one law for Israeli Jews and there is another law for Palestinian Arabs."

“There is one law for Israeli Jews and there is another law for Palestinian Arabs.”

Trump is turning warehouses into ICE detention camps. Can Maryland stop him? “Everything about this has been done in a very lawless, secretive way” Sonia Kumar of ACLU Maryland tells us.

... to the broad coalition of local officials, faith leaders, & civil rights orgs who have filed an amicus curiae brief in the State of Maryland v. Noem lawsuit urging the US District Court of Maryland to halt DHS’s rushed plans for the Williamsport warehouse: therealnews.com/trump-is-tur...

Meet the data analysts exposing ICE's plans “If you understand what an organization like ICE is doing, and you can quantify it… you can resist effectively,” says Michael Wriston of Project Salt Box.

... to the data analysts @projectsaltbox.com who are exposing the secret plans of ICE and DHS...

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‘A black site concentration camp’: Residents fight ICE detention warehouse in rural Maryland “A warehouse is meant to be an economic hub… Turning it into a jail and housing humans inside is ... well, it's gross. It's wrong.”

But local efforts to expose, delay, and shut down the Trump administration’s heinous plans for this makeshift concentration camp are growing. At @therealnews.com, we are taking you to the front lines of that resistance. From grassroots protests by local residents...
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In the small town of Williamsport on the western border of Maryland, about an hour & a half from where I’m sitting in Baltimore, the Department of Homeland Security purchased a massive shipping warehouse for $102 million with plans to turn it into an ICE detention center...

I can tell you how ill-equipped they typically are to accommodate the basic human needs of the workers who are paid to toil inside them (air conditioning, water, bathrooms, etc.), let alone the needs of human beings our government wants to forcibly cage there...
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15 years ago, in the depths of the Great Recession, I was a low-wage worker pulling 12-hour shifts in warehouses like this in Southern California. I know firsthand how much pain, exploitation, & lawbreaking happens inside these hulking but plain-looking buildings 🧵...

As Mexico enacts universal healthcare, advocate says insurers’ ‘stranglehold’ is moving US in ‘opposite direction’ Medicare for All advocate Wendell Potter said it’s “both inspiring and frustrating” to see other nations advance their public healthcare systems while the US dismantles its own.

Medicare for All advocate Wendell Potter said it’s “both inspiring and frustrating” to see other nations advance their public healthcare systems while the US dismantles its own.

‘Shameful’: $4,049 of average US taxpayer’s bill last year went to war and weaponry “Our tax dollars are doing more to bomb children in Iran and other countries than to feed and educate children here.”

“Our tax dollars are doing more to bomb children in Iran and other countries than to feed and educate children here.”

Trump is turning warehouses into ICE detention camps. Can Maryland stop him? “Everything about this has been done in a very lawless, secretive way” Sonia Kumar of ACLU Maryland tells us.

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Trump is turning warehouses into ICE detention camps. Can Maryland stop him?

Never thought I'd be writing headlines like this when I got started in media, but here we are...

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Our mobile billboard is parked outside the DNC meeting in New Orleans today with clear and urgent messages to Democrats:

*72% of Democrats call it a "Genocide". You should too.
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Trump is turning warehouses into ICE detention camps. Can Maryland stop him? “Everything about this has been done in a very lawless, secretive way” Sonia Kumar of ACLU Maryland tells us.

“Everything about this has been done in a very lawless, secretive way” Sonia Kumar of @acluofmaryland.bsky.social tells us.

US-Israeli war on Iran is intensifying all of global capitalism’s problems This war is widening the deep systemic problems that were already present before February 28, says scholar Adam Hanieh.

This war is widening the deep systemic problems that were already present before February 28, says scholar Adam Hanieh.

‘A black site concentration camp’: Residents fight ICE detention warehouse in rural Maryland “A warehouse is meant to be an economic hub… Turning it into a jail and housing humans inside is ... well, it's gross. It's wrong.”

“A warehouse is meant to be an economic hub… Turning it into a jail and housing humans inside is … well, it’s gross. It’s wrong.”
@hagerstownrr.bsky.social @projectsaltbox.com

‘A black site concentration camp’: Residents fight ICE detention warehouse in rural Maryland “A warehouse is meant to be an economic hub… Turning it into a jail and housing humans inside is ... well, it's gross. It's wrong.”

“A warehouse is meant to be an economic hub… Turning it into a jail and housing humans inside is … well, it’s gross. It’s wrong.”
@hagerstownrr.bsky.social @projectsaltbox.com

‘A Black Site Concentration Camp’: ICE’s Big Plans for Small-Town Maryland YouTube video by The Real News Network

We love our partners Washington County Indivisible! Check out this great The Real News Network interview with HRR and WCI about our collective fight to stop this #ICE detention center from opening!

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‘A Black Site Concentration Camp’: ICE’s Big Plans for Small-Town Maryland YouTube video by The Real News Network

‘A black site concentration camp’: ICE’s big plans for small-town Maryland.

You need to watch this. My latest @therealnews.com
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The drug war in #Mexico has been an utter failure, fueling an epidemic of violence that has disappeared more than 100,000 people over the last 20 years. And Trump is now trying to turn up the heat even higher threatening US military action on the other side of the US southern border.

Baltimore security guards strike for respect, healthcare, and a union

Listen on the Working People podcast feed or @therealnews.com feed anywhere you listen to podcasts:
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Underpaid, uninsured, held at gunpoint: Baltimore security guards strike for a union “I'm just trying to get healthcare. I haven't had healthcare in years.”

Underpaid, uninsured, held at gunpoint: Baltimore security guards strike for a union

"I’m just trying to get healthcare,” Laura Dixon, a veteran security officer and Abacus Corporation employee, tells me. “I haven’t had healthcare in years.”

@therealnews.com

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Underpaid, uninsured, held at gunpoint: Baltimore security guards strike for a union “I'm just trying to get healthcare. I haven't had healthcare in years.”

“I’m just trying to get healthcare. I haven’t had healthcare in years.”

As U.S. and Iran agree to a temporary ceasefire, Israel launches ‘massacre’ in Lebanon, threatening entire deal Hours after Iran and the U.S. reached a two-week ceasefire agreement, Israel launched a massive bombing campaign across Lebanon, killing hundreds of people and threatening to derail the U.S.-Iranian c...

Hours after Iran and the U.S. reached a two-week ceasefire agreement, Israel launched a massive bombing campaign across Lebanon, killing hundreds of people and threatening to derail the U.S.-Iranian ceasefire before it even begins.

‘It could go nuclear’: Canadian journalist reports from Iran as Trump deadline approaches “[Iranians] don't want this war. They hate war. They desperately want peace, but they are not going to capitulate. They've made a collective decision that they will die if necessary to defend their co...

Hey, so if you're as freaked out as I am right now and trying to make sense of this senseless insanity, you need to hear what Dimitri Lascaris just told me in our conversation @therealnews.com

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Trump issues openly genocidal threat to wipe out ‘whole civilization’ of Iran “If any Iranians are killed pursuant to this threat,” said one expert, “President Trump will be guilty of genocide, as will those assisting him.”

“If any Iranians are killed pursuant to this threat,” said one expert, “President Trump will be guilty of genocide, as will those assisting him.”

Live at 9am ET April 8th!
Ralph Nader (@nader.org), Dennis Kucinich, & More: The Case for Impeaching Donald Trump

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I went on @therealnews.com to discuss Black anarchist history and US politics, among other things. It was great to have this exchange with former Black Panther elder Mansa Musa on ‘Rattling the Bars.’