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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 25/09/2026
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Screenshot of “Menopause in a Prison Cell” by Kwaneta Harris, dated November 12, 2024. The subheading reads, “More women than ever are experiencing menopause behind bars—and facing barriers to care.” Below, a woman in a white shirt sits with her wrists handcuffed, resting her head on one hand and looking toward the camera.
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Thomas Birmingham @thomasbirm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Since May, I've followed a building story in Kingston, NY, where tenants whose landlords overcharged them for years (totaling millions collectively) are organizing to win their rent money back. My latest for @inthesetimes.com, with potential national implications: inthesetimes.com/article/king...
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Kingston’s Quiet Rent Revolution
Landlords have spent years ignoring a historic rent reduction. Now, tenants are organizing to get their money back.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 24/09/2026
From the archive: Some environmentalists praised the Pentagon for taking climate change seriously. In this 2018 #ThrowbackThursday read, @katearonoff.bsky.social warned against handing climate policy to the institutions behind the war on terror.
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Why Abolishing ICE Is Good Climate Policy
The war on terror has unleashed unspeakable cruelty. We must not rely on its institutions to fix the climate crisis.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 24/09/2026
The siege on Cuba is one front in what @alfatau.bsky.social describes as a new U.S. strategy for the Americas. He examines the “Donroe Doctrine” and the pressure Washington exerts on countries that could help Cuba.
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Cuba Under Siege
Trump’s fuel blockade shows that U.S. imperialism is a policy of extortion and cruelty.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 24/09/2026
Undocumented immigrants paid an estimated $96.7 billion in U.S. taxes in 2022, including $6.4 billion into Medicare. Yet, Ramya Gosike reports, they cannot enroll in Medicare.
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Immigrants Aren't Taking Away Our Healthcare—ICE Is
Millions of U.S. residents—including many immigrant families—are set to lose their healthcare under changes coming due to legislation passed under Republicans and the Trump administration. But ICE is…
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 24/09/2026
Amazon called the September 2nd Riverside, California walkout the work of “mostly outside organizers.” Night-shift worker Kain Kazsuk told @alexnpress.bsky.social: “It was all us, boots on the ground in the warehouse, talking to our coworkers.”
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Amazon Workers Keep Walking Out
At a Riverside delivery station, workers have walked out three times since December as they organize without a recognized union.
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Sasha Fury @sashafury.myatproto.social · 24/09/2026
Americans had healthcare?
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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Honey, this wraparound cover for the new issue of @inthesetimes.com really knocks it out of the park! Was looking for the cover image credit before I realized, wait, of course it's @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, now Artist-at-Large at In These Times, looking forward to more of this trouble💥
"Garden of Earthly Delights" after Bosch, in muddy war ravaged hues, all the ghouls of the current administration are cavorting in the muck of the destroyed National Mall, drowning in guns and construction cranes in the reflecting pool and the surrounding landmarks
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 23/09/2026
At the beginning of the pandemic, more than 400 Amazon workers in Eastvale petitioned for safer conditions. In 2022, workers in San Bernardino walked out over pay and extreme heat. Now, @alexnpress.bsky.social reports that workers in nearby Riverside have staged three walkouts since December 2025.
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Amazon Workers Keep Walking Out
At a Riverside delivery station, workers have walked out three times since December as they organize without a recognized union.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 23/09/2026
Rosa María Carranza paid into Medicare for 24 years. Now she’s expected to lose coverage under a law Republicans passed and Trump signed. Ramya Gosike reports that 100,000 immigrants face the same loss.
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Immigrants Aren't Taking Away Our Healthcare—ICE Is
Millions of U.S. residents—including many immigrant families—are set to lose their healthcare under changes coming due to legislation passed under Republicans and the Trump administration.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 23/09/2026
Trump has threatened tariffs on countries that supply Cuba with oil. @alfatau.bsky.social examines how the U.S. uses its power beyond its own borders to block relief to the island.
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Cuba Under Siege
Trump’s fuel blockade shows that U.S. imperialism is a policy of extortion and cruelty.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 23/09/2026
Working-class voters and liberal college graduates both rank affordability first. Beyond that, their priorities diverge. “it’s time for us to have a reckoning around class,” writes Mindy Isser.
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If You Want to Win Working-Class Votes, Run On Working-Class Issues
A new report lays out how to bridge the educational divide to bring non-college voters into the progressive fold.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 23/09/2026
What happens to privacy when AI can help analyze every email, text, website visit and trip we take? @sanders.senate.gov argues that the rapid expansion of AI threatens to create the infrastructure for a mass surveillance state.
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Bernie Sanders on Why Superintelligent AI Is an Existential Threat That Needs To Be Banned
The rapid development of AI is far outpacing regulation, and experts warn that all of humanity could be under threat. There's no doubt that we need to take a pause.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 23/09/2026
More than 40 actions across the country in August targeted AI data centers, tech lobbying and surveillance. Stephanie Jordan and Mary Armas examine the protests alongside tech industry spending in the 2026 elections.
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Elected Officials Are Facing a Reckoning Over Their Collusion with Big AI
Across the country, Americans from all stripes are calling on politicians to dump Big Tech.
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Cathy Otten @cathyotten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In 2025, Omer Shatz and colleagues submitted a second communication to the ICC: "European officials suspected of Crimes Against Humanity against ‘migrants’ on the Central Mediterranean route" www.crimesagainsthumanity.eu/en
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EU Crimes Against Humanity
Exposing Crimes Against Humanity of European Officials
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICE-Cold Cash: Private Prison Companies and Executives Have Donated Millions to Members of Congress Representatives have taken cash from the companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts. @inthesetimes.com reported: inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...
ICE-Cold Cash: Private Prison Companies and Executives Have Donated Millions to Members of Congress
Find out if your representatives have taken cash from the companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 23/09/2026
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 22/09/2026
Groceries, housing and utilities topped both groups’ priorities in the Class Gaps Poll. Among working-class respondents, 10 of the top 12 priorities concerned costs, wages or jobs. Mindy Isser looks at what the findings mean for progressive politics.
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If You Want to Win Working-Class Votes, Run On Working-Class Issues
A new report lays out how to bridge the educational divide to bring non-college voters into the progressive fold.
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Khawla Nakua @khawlanakua.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There’s nothing like going to the mail, getting your subscribe monthly magazines and as you swift through you see your story on the cover of one of your favorite magazines @inthesetimes.com. Thank you so much to the editors of In These Times that helped me make this story shine.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 21/09/2026
In Lac-Mégantic, 47 people were killed. A decade later, East Palestine was poisoned by another catastrophic derailment. Residents of both towns tell @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social what happens after the cameras leave—and why communities have to organize.
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Train Crashes Destroyed Their Towns. Will Yours Be Next?
Host Maximillian Alvarez sits down with a panel of community members from Lac-Mégantic, Quebec and East Palestine, Ohio to discuss life inside a sacrifice zone.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 21/09/2026
Trump’s NSPM-7 builds on 25 years of surveillance, expanded terrorism laws and “preventative policing.” Tina Al-khersan and Azadeh Shahshahani examine how the War on Terror laid the groundwork for today’s crackdown on dissent.
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How The War on Terror Continues To Terrorize Communities 25 Years Later
Twenty five years after the 9/11 attacks and the launch of the Global War on Terror, the U.S government continues to expand its tools of repression to further crush dissent.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 21/09/2026
Candidates are winning support by disavowing Big Tech, criticizing AI and promising to stop data center growth, Stephanie Jordan and Mary Armas write. They point to Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan primary victory.
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Elected Officials Are Facing a Reckoning Over Their Collusion with Big AI
Across the country, Americans from all stripes are calling on politicians to dump Big Tech.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 21/09/2026
“...we have power, and we will use it.” After years of rent overcharges, Kingston tenants are organizing building by building to force landlords to return money they say they’re owed. @thomasbirm.bsky.social on Kingston’s quiet rent revolution.
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Kingston’s Quiet Rent Revolution
Landlords have spent years ignoring a historic rent reduction. Now, tenants are organizing to get their money back.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 21/09/2026
UPS Teamsters won a strong contract without walking out. But what was lost when the strike never came? Luis Feliz Leon writes that strikes do more than extract concessions: They teach workers militancy, camaraderie and their own power.
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What Teamsters Class Solidarity Looks Like
Yael Bridge’s new documentary "Who Moves America" about the UPS contract fight offers a window into the the class culture of one of the country’s largest unions.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 21/09/2026
More than 70% of Americans say tech companies have too much power. Fewer than 1 in 5 trust Big Tech with AI. Yet Silicon Valley’s billionaires want even more control. @milesklassin.bsky.social examines the authoritarian future they’re selling.
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Tech Authoritarian Doomsayers
The Silicon Valley hyper-rich elite are aiming to undo democracy—and modern society—for their own profit. The only problem? There are far more of us than them.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 21/09/2026
“The future of humanity cannot be left in the hands of a handful of Big Tech oligarchs.” Bernie Sanders makes the case for public control over AI, stronger regulation and a ban on artificial superintelligence.
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Bernie Sanders on Why Superintelligent AI Is an Existential Threat That Needs To Be Banned
The rapid development of AI is far outpacing regulation, and experts warn that all of humanity could be under threat. There's no doubt that we need to take a pause.
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Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
New from me. Baltimore currently has a moratorium on new data center development, but a proposed City Council bill has residents nervous (and PISSED) that the door is creaking open for data centers to come into the city—and that City Council views this as “inevitable" @therealnews.com
TRNN thumbail image of Baltimore City Planning Commision hearing with text saying BALTIMORE RESIDENTS SAY: "NO DATA CENTERS!"
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We're staking our economy on forcing a technology down people's throats that outputs misinformation as a matter of course. Someone asked me about my interview with Gil Duran. This is happened when I googled our names together. I have not interviewed Gil Duran. This path: civilizational death.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Once again the White House Correspondents Association, which had a celebratory dinner with this guy just months ago, looks like stupid craven fools. Good call idiots.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 18/09/2026
Some families of #september11 victims opposed war from the start. Jeremy Varon tells Mark Engler how their voices, alongside those of veterans and active duty soldiers, helped challenge the case for war.
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25 Years After 9/11, How Do We Build a Movement To Stop Forever Wars?
As Trump wages an unpopular war with Iran, historian Jeremy Varon discusses what we can learn from the movement that turned the tide against the Iraq War.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 18/09/2026
On 9/11, @hebagowayed.bsky.social was a high school freshman in Alabama who wore a hijab. Her father had her brought home from school, then told her about Japanese internment camps. She recalls that conversation 25 years later.
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9/11/2001: I Was a Freshman in Alabama, I Wore a Hijab
Twenty-five years after Sept. 11, 2001, Gowayed writes that "the hate feels louder than it has ever been, more entitled and more brazen. I’m terrified of what the coming decades will bring."
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 18/09/2026
The backlash against AI data centers is crossing party lines—and landing in the middle of an election year. Democratic and Republican candidates face growing pressure while Trump continues to back expansion.
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Elected Officials Are Facing a Reckoning Over Their Collusion with Big AI
Across the country, Americans from all stripes are calling on politicians to dump Big Tech.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 18/09/2026
“Part of what happened when people got out there with the practice pickets was they started to feel a sense of their own power.” Luis Feliz Leon on how preparing to strike changed what UPS Teamsters believed they could do together.
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What Teamsters Class Solidarity Looks Like
Yael Bridge’s new documentary "Who Moves America" about the UPS contract fight offers a window into the the class culture of one of the country’s largest unions.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 18/09/2026
Tech billionaires are spending millions to crush wealth taxes, deregulate AI and crypto, and elect politicians who will hand them more power. @milesklassin.bsky.social explains why: Democracy remains the biggest obstacle to their plans.
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Tech Authoritarian Doomsayers
The Silicon Valley hyper-rich elite are aiming to undo democracy—and modern society—for their own profit. The only problem? There are far more of us than them.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 18/09/2026
The AI race isn’t only threatening jobs. Civil libertarians warn it is eviscerating privacy by turning our emails, texts, web activity and movements into fuel for a mass surveillance state. @sanders.senate.gov says it’s time to hit the brakes.
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Bernie Sanders on Why Superintelligent AI Is an Existential Threat That Needs To Be Banned
The rapid development of AI is far outpacing regulation, and experts warn that all of humanity could be under threat. There's no doubt that we need to take a pause.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 18/09/2026
When you’re racing toward a cliff, @sanders.senate.gov states, you don’t ease up on the gas—you hit the brakes. He makes the case for binding global safety rules, a pause on advanced AI development and a ban on superintelligence.
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Bernie Sanders on Why Superintelligent AI Is an Existential Threat That Needs To Be Banned
The rapid development of AI is far outpacing regulation, and experts warn that all of humanity could be under threat. There's no doubt that we need to take a pause.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 17/09/2026
#ThrowbackThursday: “Public outcry and agitation must continue.” In this 2014 article, Flint Taylor traced decades of failed prosecutions for racist police violence—and the movements that forced those cases into public view.
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A Short History of Killer Cops Let Off the Hook
The U.S. has a long history of allowing police to walk free after vicious racist violence.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 17/09/2026
“The successes of past movements prove that these obstacles are not insurmountable.” On Occupy Wall Street’s 15th anniversary, revisit @nealmeyer.bsky.social’s 2013 argument for seeing the movement not as an isolated failure, but as part of the Left’s long struggle.
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A Historical Perspective on Occupy
Why Occupy is a continuation of the Left's struggle.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Stop looking to score token DC bipartisanship points." Yep.
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Alex Press @alexnpress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New one on how Amazon maps union risk across its warehouses.
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Amazon’s Organizing Map
The company knows which warehouses it’s worried about. Unions might want to take a look.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 16/09/2026
The only prediction about the AI crisis I feel confident making is that the crisis will involve the one thing that every American crisis involves: oligarchs and politicians attempting to rob the poor, while corporate media depicts that as the only prudent course of action.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
CLASS WAR NOW www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/capital-is...
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Capital Is Organizing the World to Its Advantage and Everything Else Is a Sideshow
Capitalism or humanity, but not both.
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🟠 This week's Klassik Tom the Dancing Bug - "JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF BITTER, BITTER IRONY" - www.gocomics.com/tomthedancin...
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 16/09/2026
Union members: This one’s for you. Sign up for 10 free issues of In These Times and get independent reporting on politics, labor and the movement for workers’ rights. No credit card required: inthesetimes.com/union
Repeated blue panels show a black silhouetted hand holding a single rose; the center panel reads FREE 10-ISSUE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO IN THESE TIMES FOR UNION MEMBERS and includes the URL inthesetimes.com/union
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 16/09/2026
“The rank-and-file pushed their leadership because this was a thing that made sense to them.” Ahead of Occupy Wall Street’s 15th anniversary tomorrow, revisit @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social’s 2015 account of how labor linked arms with Occupy.
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The Untold Story of When Labor Linked Arms With Occupy Wall Street
Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 16/09/2026
Tomorrow marks 15 years since Occupy Wall Street began. In this 2013 essay, @nealmeyer.bsky.social argued that Occupy wasn't a break from history but a continuation of the Left’s long struggle—and that movements need organizations to sustain them.
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A Historical Perspective on Occupy
Why Occupy is a continuation of the Left's struggle.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 16/09/2026
Tomorrow marks 15 years since Occupy Wall Street began. In this 2016 essay, @jessemyerson.bsky.social argued that Occupy’s legacy was larger than the “99%”: It built networks, spaces and organizing models that later movements could use.
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Occupy Didn’t Just “Change the Conversation.” It Laid a Foundation for a New Era of Radical Protest
Five years later, it’s worth looking more closely at what Occupy built.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 16/09/2026
Legal weed is booming, but legalization alone won’t undo the War on Drugs. Cannabis remains federally controlled, past convictions still carry consequences and billionaires are positioning themselves to dominate the market. @kojokoram.bsky.social asks: Who gets to write the terms of the drug peace?
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Cannabis Is Capitalism’s Next Fix
The legal weed boom is just the first stop on capital’s search for a new frontier.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 16/09/2026
Palestinian rights were pushed to the political fringe for decades. In 2024, Sandra Tamari and Saqib Bhatti wrote: No more. Now Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour—and every other opener and Sheeran’s backing band have followed him out, in solidarity.
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Supporting Palestinian Rights Used To Be Considered Far Left. Now It’s Mainstream.
It’s clear that the Democratic base has moved on supporting Palestinian rights. Leadership needs to catch up.
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