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desert 🪽 from Wisco. editorial @inthesetimes.com | was politics @lookoutnews.bsky.social, forever @teenvogue.com *tgantz.36 on Signal📍Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Myaami

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An Evening with TPM & Texas Observer The Josh Marshall Podcast featuring Kate Riga heads to Austin, Texas to check in with our friends at Texas Observer.

We also hope to use membership funding to expand what we're able to do! We want to bring on more freelancers + columnists to share original reporting + analysis. We're hoping to do more in-person events, like our upcoming pod recording in Austin with the Observer

www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...

10.03.2026 18:42 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Graphic ad for In These Times internships. At top, white text on black reads: “Deadline: March 15! Apply for a summer internship with us!” Left side shows an In These Times magazine cover with a burning, graffiti-tagged car surrounded by thick smoke and flames. Right side reads: “As fascists and billionaires ransack the journalism industry, there’s never been a better time to join an award-winning, nonprofit, progressive outlet.” Bottom text: “inthesetimes.com/internships,” with a white line underneath.

Graphic ad for In These Times internships. At top, white text on black reads: “Deadline: March 15! Apply for a summer internship with us!” Left side shows an In These Times magazine cover with a burning, graffiti-tagged car surrounded by thick smoke and flames. Right side reads: “As fascists and billionaires ransack the journalism industry, there’s never been a better time to join an award-winning, nonprofit, progressive outlet.” Bottom text: “inthesetimes.com/internships,” with a white line underneath.

As fascists and billionaires ransack the journalism industry, there's never been a better time to join an award-winning, nonprofit, progressive outlet.

Open to early-career journalists and students.

Deadline is March 15!

Details: inthesetimes.com/internships

02.03.2026 23:42 👍 43 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0
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Betting Against Increased Taxes, DraftKings Is Spending Big on Illinois State Races The sports gambling industry is pouring more than a million dollars into local Illinois races in a gambit to evade regulations and higher taxes.

DraftKings wants your legislature.

@matthewccook5.bsky.social reports a DraftKings-backed super PAC is pouring $1.2M into Illinois Democratic primaries, backing candidates who’ll block tighter rules and higher taxes after the state’s per-bet tax cut into profits.

04.03.2026 18:23 👍 44 🔁 33 💬 1 📌 10
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Abolish ICE Means Abolish the Police w/ Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie (03/09/26) | The Death Panel Get more from The Death Panel on Patreon

In our latest, Mariame Kaba @prisonculture.bsky.social & Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social on how to understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, and why to abolish ICE we must abolish the police

www.patreon.com/posts/152641...

09.03.2026 21:09 👍 121 🔁 58 💬 2 📌 1
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The infuriating history of the law that doomed abortion rights The men behind the Hyde Amendment saw it as their ticket to paradise.

The infuriating history of the law that doomed abortion rights

09.03.2026 14:30 👍 92 🔁 37 💬 4 📌 1
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The moms risking arrest to protect gender-affirming care for trans youth The government wants to ban the care nationwide. Hospitals are shutting down treatment. Parents just want it all to stop.

Larissa, a therapist from D.C., recently spent 12 hours in a jail cell with five other people. There was no running water, since the sink wasn’t working. They were all fed once: a baloney sandwich per person.

She was there for her trans patients. They're being hurt by this administration, she said.

09.03.2026 14:23 👍 639 🔁 258 💬 1 📌 4
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During State of the Union, Trump Promoted More Deportations. One Couple’s Story Highlights the Human Toll. As immigration took center stage, a Phoenix woman’s trip to the nation’s capital spotlighted her detained partner’s declining health and broader criticisms about LGBTQ+ safety in custody.

She did not attend the state of the union, tho Sonia traveled to DC with Rep @repyassansari.bsky.social to advocate for the release of her partner, Yari, detained for a year by ICE, despite suffering from Leukemia.

www.lookoutnews.org/during-state...

25.02.2026 16:22 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Immigrant Rights Groups Immigrant Rights & Mutual Aid Groups by State This list was compiled from Fair Immigration Reform Movement membership, Win Without War immigration and mutual aid resources, National Network for Immigr...

Immigrant Rights Groups by State. List by @jayapal.house.gov - docs.google.com/document/d/1...

25.01.2026 19:43 👍 262 🔁 243 💬 1 📌 0
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Mitski review – pop meets performance art in a masterful spectacle The Shed, New York CityAt a six-night residency, the singer creates an immersive world filled with wry humor and big emotions

i know people on here don't rly care about culture coverage but sharing because I'm proud I did it: reviewed Mitski's new residency at NYC's The Shed @us.theguardian.com

seeing her perform for the ninth time in 9 years (!), I feel confident saying that Mitski is in her triumphant era.

05.03.2026 21:25 👍 439 🔁 65 💬 11 📌 7
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Taxpayer dollars flood pregnancy centers. Oversight hasn't followed. • Stateline Editor’s note: This is the first report in an ongoing series. The patient came in with a belly full of blood, Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung recalled. Her pregnancy was ectopic, no longer viable, and could h...

@statesnewsroom.com conducted a 50-state investigation examining state and federal budgets, as well as the tax records of hundreds of crisis pregnancy centers around the country, finding that while the magnitude of public funding for them is growing, oversight is not.

stateline.org/2026/03/04/r...

04.03.2026 14:19 👍 22 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 5

Ty both for your work!!

04.03.2026 00:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ICE arrests tripled in Arizona last fiscal year as street operations surged - AZ Luminaria This story is published in partnership with CALÓ News, a nonprofit, community-centered newsroom uplifting Latinos in Arizona and California. Immigration arrests in Arizona more than tripled in Fiscal ...

Immigration enforcement in Arizona last year took a sharp upturn after the election of Donald Trump, with a boom in street level arrests

@raphaeldelaghetto.bsky.social and I take a look at the numbers

azluminaria.org/2026/03/03/i...

03.03.2026 22:09 👍 27 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 0
Internships If you have a strong interest in progressive politics, independent publishing and journalism, we encourage you to apply for an editorial internship with In These Times.

There's still time to apply for a summer internship
@inthesetimes.com!

As fascists and billionaires ransack the journalism industry, there's never been a better time to join an award-winning, nonprofit, progressive outlet.

Deadline is March 15!

Details: inthesetimes.com/internships

02.03.2026 17:14 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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A victory in Denver and a warning in Miami as Palantir relocates HQ Colorado organizers celebrated the surveillance giant’s move after more than a year of protests, while Miami immigrant communities organized their own pushback

A researcher with the American Friends Service Committee and the national “Purge Palantir” campaign said the next phase is about scaling, helping communities identify where Palantir is embedded through political relationships, and sharing tactics that can be adapted locally.

01.03.2026 04:57 👍 157 🔁 68 💬 1 📌 2
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Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

Amid what detainees say is a clampdown in Dilley, TX, including seizures of kids' drawings and crayons, Christian Hinojosa stuffed letters in her jacket to hide them from guards. She told @micarosenberg.bsky.social and me her story. We published the letters today.

www.propublica.org/article/dill...

26.02.2026 21:58 👍 202 🔁 107 💬 0 📌 8
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Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

Nurul Amin Shah Alam's violent arrest, by police who saw his walking stick as a weapon—and who, like the Border Patrol officers who dumped him, apparently made no attempt to reckon with his disability or his mental state—set off events that ended in his death. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

25.02.2026 22:57 👍 592 🔁 322 💬 5 📌 36
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How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

28.02.2026 00:12 👍 5222 🔁 2188 💬 94 📌 107
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EEOC Issues Federal Sector Appellate Decision Recognizing the Ability of Federal Agencies to Designate Intimate Spaces in Federal Workplaces by Sex WASHINGTON – The U.S.

The EEOC just reversed its own position, which it held for over a decade, that Title VII not only protects trans workers from discrimination but specifically that banning a trans worker from using a bathroom aligned with their gender identity is against the law www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeo...

27.02.2026 17:52 👍 84 🔁 63 💬 1 📌 16
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The Poetics of Malcolm X On the poetry that influenced the Civil Rights trailblazer and the art he inspired.

“I’m a real bug for poetry,” Malcolm wrote in prison. “When you think back over all of our past lives, only poetry could best fit into the vast emptiness created by man.” I explore the poetic sensibility of Malcolm X for @inthesetimes.com: inthesetimes.com/article/poet...

27.02.2026 02:42 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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How Brothel Workers in Nevada Just Made Labor History The courtesans at Sheri’s Ranch were staring down a horrifying new contract. So they did what workers everywhere do: They got organized.

When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast.

They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

26.02.2026 18:27 👍 6869 🔁 1857 💬 80 📌 175

Tim Walz isn't declaring an eviction moratorium in Minnesota, so many families affected by ICE are at risk of eviction in a few days. Please donate to the rent funds at keepMNhoused.com if you have some scratch.

23.02.2026 23:44 👍 581 🔁 569 💬 5 📌 7
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She’s raised almost $20m to help Minnesota – she thinks you can do it too Ashley Fairbanks launched Stand with Minnesota as ICE raids rocked her home town – now donations are pouring in, and families’ rent is being paid

Ashley Fairbanks @ziibiing.com launched Stand With Minnesota standwithminnesota.com, a mutual aid repository supporting residents under ICE's siege, in early Jan. in the weeks since, it's facilitated covering people's rents and flown folks detained back home from Texas.

she can help you do it, too.

24.02.2026 16:02 👍 1004 🔁 386 💬 8 📌 15
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Donate to March Rent Assistance for Central Neighborhood Families, organized by Central Neighborhood Care and Resistance The neighbors of Central Minneapolis have stood strong for mo… Central Neighborhood Care and Resistance needs your support for March Rent Assistance for Central Neighborhood Families

Friends! The ICE siege of Minneapolis is not over, and YOU can help keep 200 families safe and housed for another month!

These are trusted folks who have already helped 10% of all Central Minneapolis households pay rent. Please pitch in: gofund.me/d4acb0e6c

20.02.2026 15:22 👍 148 🔁 131 💬 2 📌 2
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This Tennessee Prison Is Leaving LGBTQ People Unhoused Behind Bars The South Central Correctional Center leaves LGBTQ people defenseless, so they’re organizing to fight for their safety.

In this country, even being in prison doesn't guarantee someone a bed to sleep in or a meal.

In gang-controlled areas of this prison in TN, it’s common practice to demand “rent” from any unaffiliated people. This violence is encouraged by guards.

truthout.org/articles/thi...

16.02.2026 23:10 👍 12 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 1
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The Staggering Costs of Trump’s War on Public Service The administration’s steep cuts to public service jobs and research opportunities are saving Americans very little money—but they’re having a detrimental impact on society.

wrote about the decline in people seeking careers in public service for @newrepublic.com -- a detrimental trend that existed before this administration but it is almost certainly going to accelerate during it.

newrepublic.com/article/2066...

23.02.2026 15:57 👍 99 🔁 35 💬 1 📌 4
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Inside the First-Ever Young Worker March on Washington Federal workers who led the first-ever young workers march on Washington want to see young workers rise up across the U.S. and demand more from their employers and government.

Inside the first-ever Young Worker March on Washington: young federal workers are organizing for higher wages, affordable care/housing, union rights, and a future they can actually live in.

Amie Stager reports, in partnership with @workdaymagazine.bsky.social

23.02.2026 19:43 👍 35 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 1

if only there could’ve been a way for them to have learned this a year before the election. like the voters and youth organizing groups who said that would happen without a change in Gaza policy back in November 2023

23.02.2026 01:21 👍 202 🔁 35 💬 1 📌 0
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Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us The outcome of a court case could decide whether the Trump administration can criminalize simply possessing political literature.

In plain language, Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada is facing up to 20 years behind bars for allegedly moving a box of anarchist zines from his parents’ house to another residence in his hometown of Dallas.

22.02.2026 01:24 👍 186 🔁 108 💬 6 📌 10

"The raids at the family detention site an hour southwest of San Antonio are in response to a ProPublica article published Feb. 9, which features the letters and drawings of children inside, according to Manriquez.” #AbuseofPowerWatch

19.02.2026 16:20 👍 20 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 3