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Jessica Stites

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Jessica Stites @jessicastites.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Excited to announce my first role as a freelance editor, at Waging Nonviolence! Their coverage of nonviolent organizing understands the assignment – to remind us of our collective power. WNV's spring fundraiser is down to the wire. Help launch my role here: wagingnonviolence.org/about/donate/
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
cuomo announced he's running third-party and mamdani responded by dropping a link to his own fundraising site in the replies lol
screenshot from X of corrupt sex pest andrew cuomo announcing he's gonna run for NYC mayor third-party, and zohran mamdani (who the democratic party should get behind but they seem to love losing, so) in the replies with a link to his own small-dollar fundraising site
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 25/06/2025
Private prison company Geo Group just opened the biggest immigrant detention center in the Midwest with 1,800 beds. Advocates say they've already identified one immigrant there who has working papers and was arrested anyway. inthesetimes.com/article/blac...
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A Massive ICE Prison Just Reopened in Michigan
Advocates are pushing for the release of a Senegalese immigrant whom they say was arrested in Detroit despite work papers. The GEO Group-run detention center has also sparked civil rights concerns in ...
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
You have been visited by the smiling Stock Dove. It grants you great wisdom and fortune. 📷 Justin Sneddon
Close-up of a Stock Dove, showing its soft grey feathers, glossy black eye, and a hint of iridescent green and purple on the neck. Its slight upturned beak and gentle expression give the impression of a serene - and mysteriously knowing - smile, set against a softly blurred green background.
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Jessica Stites @jessicastites.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
"If we don’t use this opportunity to build lasting power, then we’re just blowing off steam," @ufcwforward.bsky.social told reporter @lfelizleon.bsky.social Luis reported on protests in six cities and what's next after the 5 million strong nationwide mobilization inthesetimes.com/article/no-k...
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“No Kings” Seeded a Mass Movement Against Trump, Backed by Labor
This weekend’s protests rallied millions in defense of immigrant workers and against authoritarianism. Now what?
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Jessica Stites @jessicastites.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
SEIU was already stepping up for immigrants, but the Los Angeles raids and David Huerta's arrest propelled it to the forefront of the fight against authoritarianism. read @lfelizleon.bsky.social for @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/davi...
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Trump Has Put a Target on SEIU, and the Labor Movement Is Fighting Back
The arrest of labor leader David Huerta in Los Angeles has put unions on the leading edge of resistance to mounting authoritarianism.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The University of Michigan spent $800,000 hiring private investigators--one of whom FAKED A DISABILITY--to surveil anti-genocide protesting students. I'm speechless. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Students say they have frequently identified undercover investigators and confronted them. In two bizarre interactions captured by one student on video, a man who had been trailing the student faked disabilities, and noisily – and falsely – accused a student of attempting to rob him.

The undercover investigators appear to work for Detroit-based City Shield, a private security group, and some of their evidence was used by Michigan prosecutors to charge and jail students, according to a Guardian review of police records, university spending records and video collected in legal discovery. Most charges were later dropped. Public spending records from the U-M board of regents, the school’s governing body, show the university paid at least $800,000 between June 2023 and September 2024 to City Shield’s parent company, Ameri-Shield.
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33rd Ward Working Families @33rdwardworking.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🧵1/2: We demand the immediate release of Gladis Yolanda Chavez Pineda (A 208-276-014), a long-time Chicago resident, loving mother and grandmother, and a dedicated community leader, who was unjustly detained during a routine ISAP check-in on June 4, 2025. ocadchi.salsalabs.org/freegladis
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Jessica Stites @jessicastites.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Tenants with @KCTenants just won an 8-month strike -- and showed that labor tactics work on landlords. reporting by @rebeccaburns.bsky.social for @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/rent...
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Striking Tenants Withhold Rent for 247 Days and Win
A victory in Kansas City suggests that the tactics of organized labor can work for tenants.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 05/06/2025
Our June issue is out now! Read about Trump’s overreach of power and the people working to fight his right-wing agenda in stories by Adam Federman, Sarah Lazare and Alberto Toscano. Find it here: inthesetimes.com/magazine/rul...
Latest cover of In These Times magazine showing law-enforcement agents approaching a home. A photo of an ICE agent is depicted above the home and is overlayed on top of a shadow vector of Donald Trump. The title story is "Rule of Terror" by Adam Federman.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
URGENT: This morning in Western NY, federal immigration agents stopped a bus of farm workers from Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms. They had a list of names, including UFW worker leaders who have been organizing to unionize their workplace. Those workers were detained.
Emergency Rally
Tonight May 2, 2025 @ 6:30pm
Join the U.F.W. to demand the release of detained farm worker leaders being held at Buffalo Federal
I.C.E. Detention Center
4250 Federal Dr, Batavia, NY 14020
With any inquiries contact ny@ufw.org
SISE PUEDEProtesta de Emergencia
Hoy, 2 de Mayo, 2025 @ 6:30pm
Únase con la U.FW. para exigir la liberación de los líderes de trabajadores agrícolas detenidos en el Centro de Detención de
I.C.E. Federal de Buffalo
4250 Federal Dr, Batavia, NY 14020
Contacte al Coordinadorx
Organizadorx de Nueva York
Con preguntas:
Ny@ufw.org
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Jessica Stites @jessicastites.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Last I checked two people shouting at 1 person is not a "shouting match" If your brain hurts from the media both-sides-ism about Vance/Trump/Zelensky & you keep rewatching the video like "is anyone seeing this?", this annotation from @thebulletin.org is therapeutic thebulletin.org/2025/03/trum...
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Trump’s Oval Office outburst with Zelensky, annotated
A real-time guide for watching the White House face-off between Volodomyr Zelensky, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
No, the Pentagon budget is not actually being slashed. It's being reshuffled to finance some alarming Trump priorities, including: border militarization, "Iron Dome" for America, and militarization against China. @stephensemler.bsky.social and I analyze the latest. inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
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The Myth of Pentagon Budget Cuts
As Trump and Musk slash social spending, military spending is set to soar.
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Stephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The DOGE/GOP budget plan: Defund Medicaid and SNAP to overfund the Pentagon My latest, with @sarahlazare.bsky.social for @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social: inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
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The Myth of Pentagon Budget Cuts
As Trump and Musk slash social spending, military spending is set to soar.
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Jessica Stites @jessicastites.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The intimidation is the point -- just like in the 30s Honored to work on this beautiful piece by @malcriada.bsky.social which reminds us too of the power of sticking up for our neighbors
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My Family Was Almost “Repatriated” to Mexico in the 1930s. I See It Happening Again.
The pressure to “self-deport,” driven by Trump’s threats and rising white nationalism, echoes a dark chapter of U.S. history.
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Jessica Stites @jessicastites.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
New life goal: move to a resident owned housing co-op in a mansion in Montana inthesetimes.com/article/amer...
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Jessica Stites @jessicastites.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Labor organizers are some of the most underrecognized people out there. They're doing the grunt work, often without sleep, of building worker power -- sometimes organizing their own workplaces without pay. Help us celebrate them.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 13/01/2025
"Left Out: The Missing Election Narratives" is a collaboration between The Forge, @convergencemag.com, & @therealnews.com. Together, we tell the unreported stories of the election, featuring the voices of organizers, voters, and cultural workers. Read them here: inthesetimes.com/left-out
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A collaboration featuring essays, reporting and conversations by and with organizers, writers and cultural workers across the country.
Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
"...if we campaign on everything, we campaign on nothing. In the coming years, we need to pursue a ruthlessly focused politics that highlights issues that will best build a popular base for the Left." @sunraysunray.bsky.social for @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/soci...
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The Path for Socialism Is Focus
The Left should reject identity politics in favor of an oppositional economic platform and credible, progressive policy solutions.
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Jessica Stites @jessicastites.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Really important read by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social Come for the Twitter hate, stay for the astute analysis of how to find solidarity in fractured times
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Jessica Stites @jessicastites.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
If the situation were reversed and narcotraffickers were ravaging the U.S. to feed an enormous Mexican drug market ... Trump would be blaming Mexico yes?
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Jessica Stites @jessicastites.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I still find Buy Nothing Day to be the most relaxing holiday
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