Ari Bloomekatz
@bloomekatz.bsky.social
executive editor at In These Times
"Zohran Mamdani’s victory—a socialist, Muslim one—feels like a celebration of my New York."
Mamdani wins & the first piece we're publishing to mark the historic election is from Columnist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social
inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...
Mamdani wins & the first piece we're publishing to mark the historic election is from Columnist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social
inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...
Zohran Mamdani Wins and It Is a Celebration of My New York
Mamdani will be New York City's first Muslim, socialist mayor. But his victory does—and should—mean much more.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
"Zohran Mamdani’s victory—a socialist, Muslim one—feels like a celebration of my New York."
Mamdani wins & the first piece we're publishing to mark the historic election is from Columnist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social
inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...
Mamdani wins & the first piece we're publishing to mark the historic election is from Columnist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social
inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...
From Minneapolis to Seattle to New York, the 10 races across the country we're watching closely today—and that you should, too! inthesetimes.com/article/10-r...
10 Races to Watch This Election Day
From New York to Texas, here are some of the most important decisions voters are making today.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
From Minneapolis to Seattle to New York, the 10 races across the country we're watching closely today—and that you should, too! inthesetimes.com/article/10-r...
It's highly likely I'm biased, but I think we have the best obituary of Dick Cheney anywhere, and it's all in one frame. From the incredible, 2x Pulitzer-Prize finalist @mattbors.bsky.social, who we're lucky to have as our @inthesetimes.com Comics Editor
November 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
It's highly likely I'm biased, but I think we have the best obituary of Dick Cheney anywhere, and it's all in one frame. From the incredible, 2x Pulitzer-Prize finalist @mattbors.bsky.social, who we're lucky to have as our @inthesetimes.com Comics Editor
This is a beautiful piece about Mamdani and working people by Luis Feliz Leon @inthesetimes.com. inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...
Zohran Mamdani on the Night Shift for Mayor
As Election Day nears, the Democratic mayoral candidate returns to his base among New York City’s multiracial working class.
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November 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This is a beautiful piece about Mamdani and working people by Luis Feliz Leon @inthesetimes.com. inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...
Pres. Lynne Fox @sbworkersunited.org having a Muhammad Ali moment. Says "Starbucks is on the Ropes" and they better get back to the bargaining table or there might be a float like a butterfly and sting like a strike sort of situation. Op-ed @inthesetimes.com
inthesetimes.com/article/star...
inthesetimes.com/article/star...
“Starbucks Is on the Ropes,” Says SBWU President Lynne Fox, Who Is Eyeing a Strike
"Investors should know that if Starbucks continues to stonewall and fight with union baristas, they aren’t afraid to do what it takes to win the fair contract that they’ve earned," Fox writes. "This i...
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September 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Pres. Lynne Fox @sbworkersunited.org having a Muhammad Ali moment. Says "Starbucks is on the Ropes" and they better get back to the bargaining table or there might be a float like a butterfly and sting like a strike sort of situation. Op-ed @inthesetimes.com
inthesetimes.com/article/star...
inthesetimes.com/article/star...
"Trepidation, Defiance and Déjà Vu Mark Mexican Independence Day in Chicago" by Lilia Fernández, UIC history professor for @inthesetimes.com
"Organizers and residents have been, and are, largely moving forward with a mix of trepidation and defiance."
📷 Steel Brooks
inthesetimes.com/article/mexi...
"Organizers and residents have been, and are, largely moving forward with a mix of trepidation and defiance."
📷 Steel Brooks
inthesetimes.com/article/mexi...
Trepidation, Defiance and Déjà Vu Mark Mexican Independence Day in Chicago
“The important thing is that they’ve held it, they’re not intimidated, and we’re showing who we are and celebrating our history, our culture and our traditions."
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September 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"Trepidation, Defiance and Déjà Vu Mark Mexican Independence Day in Chicago" by Lilia Fernández, UIC history professor for @inthesetimes.com
"Organizers and residents have been, and are, largely moving forward with a mix of trepidation and defiance."
📷 Steel Brooks
inthesetimes.com/article/mexi...
"Organizers and residents have been, and are, largely moving forward with a mix of trepidation and defiance."
📷 Steel Brooks
inthesetimes.com/article/mexi...
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5/ In the primary, Mamdani won 7 of the 10 districts with the most rent-stabilized units. Turnout in majority-renter districts rose 7.5% on average, signaling the growing political power of tenants.
The Real Estate Pity Party
Tenant power helped carry Zohran Mamdani to victory—and the landlord lobby is none too pleased.
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September 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
5/ In the primary, Mamdani won 7 of the 10 districts with the most rent-stabilized units. Turnout in majority-renter districts rose 7.5% on average, signaling the growing political power of tenants.
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The World's Greatest Bait Shop, in Chicago's Montrose Harbor, joins the resistance.
September 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The World's Greatest Bait Shop, in Chicago's Montrose Harbor, joins the resistance.
“Yes, be brilliant. Be brilliant in your area.” — from my interview with @coribush.bsky.social at the @jvp.bsky.social national meeting
inthesetimes.com/article/be-b...
inthesetimes.com/article/be-b...
"Be Brilliant in Your Area"
An interview with Cori Bush
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July 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
“Yes, be brilliant. Be brilliant in your area.” — from my interview with @coribush.bsky.social at the @jvp.bsky.social national meeting
inthesetimes.com/article/be-b...
inthesetimes.com/article/be-b...
You don't want to miss this @inthesetimes.com roundtable w/student leaders organizing against the genocide. They're facing intense repression & they're taking hits, but they're not slowing down. Here they discuss how to sustain a movement under relentless repression
inthesetimes.com/article/pale...
inthesetimes.com/article/pale...
The Student Movement for Palestine Continues, Despite Crackdowns
Students organizing to free Palestine discuss how to sustain a movement under relentless repression
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July 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
You don't want to miss this @inthesetimes.com roundtable w/student leaders organizing against the genocide. They're facing intense repression & they're taking hits, but they're not slowing down. Here they discuss how to sustain a movement under relentless repression
inthesetimes.com/article/pale...
inthesetimes.com/article/pale...
Reposted by Ari Bloomekatz
Today, we’re announcing our new agreement with @thenwu.bsky.social.
Freelance contributors are essential to the quality and success of In These Times and independent media.
Find the full agreement here: inthesetimes.com/article/itt-...
Freelance contributors are essential to the quality and success of In These Times and independent media.
Find the full agreement here: inthesetimes.com/article/itt-...
May 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Today, we’re announcing our new agreement with @thenwu.bsky.social.
Freelance contributors are essential to the quality and success of In These Times and independent media.
Find the full agreement here: inthesetimes.com/article/itt-...
Freelance contributors are essential to the quality and success of In These Times and independent media.
Find the full agreement here: inthesetimes.com/article/itt-...
When the @actioninhighered.bsky.social did their "Day of Action" last year, they had something like 60 campuses involved, which was impressive.
Tomorrow, they've got more than 170 campuses from across the country throwing down.
Check out the map here: www.dayofactionforhighered.org#map
Tomorrow, they've got more than 170 campuses from across the country throwing down.
Check out the map here: www.dayofactionforhighered.org#map
A National Day of Action for Higher Ed
On April 17, higher ed unions, AAUP chapters, and student organizations across the U.S. are coming together to fight back against the coordinated assault on teaching and learning, and to mobilize for ...
www.dayofactionforhighered.org
April 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
When the @actioninhighered.bsky.social did their "Day of Action" last year, they had something like 60 campuses involved, which was impressive.
Tomorrow, they've got more than 170 campuses from across the country throwing down.
Check out the map here: www.dayofactionforhighered.org#map
Tomorrow, they've got more than 170 campuses from across the country throwing down.
Check out the map here: www.dayofactionforhighered.org#map
Reposted by Ari Bloomekatz
Our March issue is now available.
Read Alberto Toscano on the 21st century caesars steering global authoritarianism, Lauren Markham's reporting about Greece’s illegal war on migrants and more: inthesetimes.com/magazine/kin...
Cover art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social.
Read Alberto Toscano on the 21st century caesars steering global authoritarianism, Lauren Markham's reporting about Greece’s illegal war on migrants and more: inthesetimes.com/magazine/kin...
Cover art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social.
February 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Our March issue is now available.
Read Alberto Toscano on the 21st century caesars steering global authoritarianism, Lauren Markham's reporting about Greece’s illegal war on migrants and more: inthesetimes.com/magazine/kin...
Cover art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social.
Read Alberto Toscano on the 21st century caesars steering global authoritarianism, Lauren Markham's reporting about Greece’s illegal war on migrants and more: inthesetimes.com/magazine/kin...
Cover art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social.
Reposted by Ari Bloomekatz
Thank you @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social for hosting my first reflections on this day.
@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social:
Has the fire ceased?
After 467 days, will Gazan skies carry clouds & sun rather than bombs & death?
Will history rewrite itself? Will those who stood silent claim to have been there all along by our sides? Will our memories be enough of a witness?
Has the fire ceased?
Has the fire ceased?
After 467 days, will Gazan skies carry clouds & sun rather than bombs & death?
Will history rewrite itself? Will those who stood silent claim to have been there all along by our sides? Will our memories be enough of a witness?
Has the fire ceased?
Has the Fire Ceased?
We will not stop until Palestine is free.
inthesetimes.com
January 16, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Thank you @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social for hosting my first reflections on this day.
@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social:
Has the fire ceased?
After 467 days, will Gazan skies carry clouds & sun rather than bombs & death?
Will history rewrite itself? Will those who stood silent claim to have been there all along by our sides? Will our memories be enough of a witness?
Has the fire ceased?
Has the fire ceased?
After 467 days, will Gazan skies carry clouds & sun rather than bombs & death?
Will history rewrite itself? Will those who stood silent claim to have been there all along by our sides? Will our memories be enough of a witness?
Has the fire ceased?
Has the Fire Ceased?
We will not stop until Palestine is free.
inthesetimes.com
January 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social:
Has the fire ceased?
After 467 days, will Gazan skies carry clouds & sun rather than bombs & death?
Will history rewrite itself? Will those who stood silent claim to have been there all along by our sides? Will our memories be enough of a witness?
Has the fire ceased?
Has the fire ceased?
After 467 days, will Gazan skies carry clouds & sun rather than bombs & death?
Will history rewrite itself? Will those who stood silent claim to have been there all along by our sides? Will our memories be enough of a witness?
Has the fire ceased?
If you don't know much about Marilyn Sneiderman's impact on the labor movement—and even if you do—I urge you to read this piece from @sarahljaffe.bsky.social in @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social. Sneiderman just retired, but her transformational impact is ongoing. A great read.
“You Have To Shake Up the Status Quo”: Marilyn Sneiderman’s Struggle To Transform Labor
“Marilyn stands out as a leader who not only recruited disruptors but spent a lot of her time and effort trying to figure out how to defend and maintain the space for disruptors.”
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January 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If you don't know much about Marilyn Sneiderman's impact on the labor movement—and even if you do—I urge you to read this piece from @sarahljaffe.bsky.social in @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social. Sneiderman just retired, but her transformational impact is ongoing. A great read.
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Wrote one more time about Adeel Mangi, and about the Democratic senators whose craven embrace of a vile Islamophobic smear campaign should follow them around for the rest of their political careers inthesetimes.com/article/adee...
January 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Wrote one more time about Adeel Mangi, and about the Democratic senators whose craven embrace of a vile Islamophobic smear campaign should follow them around for the rest of their political careers inthesetimes.com/article/adee...
Hard disagree! In my opinion, the best books are part of the effort of ushering in a new world to come, which means that the "book" as object itself is just part of what should be a larger organizing vehicle. Publishers never allocate $ to marketing, should be $ for organizing. Book project > Book
Not a fan of the "book project." It's a book! You are researching and writing a book! Picture it into being. Use the @alexanderchee.bsky.social hack to peruse bookstores, find your section & seek out which two authors your name on your book's spine will appear between. See the book, not a project!
December 11, 2024 at 5:39 AM
Hard disagree! In my opinion, the best books are part of the effort of ushering in a new world to come, which means that the "book" as object itself is just part of what should be a larger organizing vehicle. Publishers never allocate $ to marketing, should be $ for organizing. Book project > Book
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Nikki Giovanni
(1943-2024)
(1943-2024)
December 11, 2024 at 4:51 AM
Nikki Giovanni
(1943-2024)
(1943-2024)
This was from the first time I met and interviewed Nikki Giovanni. It was after the shootings at Virginia Tech. In that interview, and each time we met after (often at Eso Won), she was somehow one of the most compassionate and savage people I’ve ever crossed paths with. 💔
December 10, 2024 at 6:08 AM
This was from the first time I met and interviewed Nikki Giovanni. It was after the shootings at Virginia Tech. In that interview, and each time we met after (often at Eso Won), she was somehow one of the most compassionate and savage people I’ve ever crossed paths with. 💔
French antifa activists printed out Alberto Toscano's work in @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social (edited by @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social), translated it and are passing it out at demos.
That's how we do conversions.
That's how we do conversions.
December 9, 2024 at 5:15 AM
French antifa activists printed out Alberto Toscano's work in @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social (edited by @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social), translated it and are passing it out at demos.
That's how we do conversions.
That's how we do conversions.
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“Let it be a tale”
Refaat Alareer was murdered a year ago today, but he continues to inspire so many around the world.
We are proud to be one of the first publications to print (w/permission) “If I Must Die,” alongside an Arabic translation @sinanantoon.bsky.social
inthesetimes.com/article/refa...
Refaat Alareer was murdered a year ago today, but he continues to inspire so many around the world.
We are proud to be one of the first publications to print (w/permission) “If I Must Die,” alongside an Arabic translation @sinanantoon.bsky.social
inthesetimes.com/article/refa...
"If I Must Die," A Poem by Refaat Alareer
A poem written before the author's death in an airstrike by the Israeli military.
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December 6, 2024 at 11:03 PM
“Let it be a tale”
Refaat Alareer was murdered a year ago today, but he continues to inspire so many around the world.
We are proud to be one of the first publications to print (w/permission) “If I Must Die,” alongside an Arabic translation @sinanantoon.bsky.social
inthesetimes.com/article/refa...
Refaat Alareer was murdered a year ago today, but he continues to inspire so many around the world.
We are proud to be one of the first publications to print (w/permission) “If I Must Die,” alongside an Arabic translation @sinanantoon.bsky.social
inthesetimes.com/article/refa...
Yoon declared martial law & attempted a coup. South Koreans took the streets, parliament overturned it & tomorrow Yoon could be impeached.
Cathi Choi explains the history & authoritarian context underpinning the moment. @WomenCrossDMZ
@inthesetimesmag
inthesetimes.com/article/yoon...
Cathi Choi explains the history & authoritarian context underpinning the moment. @WomenCrossDMZ
@inthesetimesmag
inthesetimes.com/article/yoon...
After Failed Coup, South Korea's President Could Be Impeached Tomorrow
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law earlier this week. In response, a mass movement of South Koreans took to the streets to call for his resignation.
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December 6, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Yoon declared martial law & attempted a coup. South Koreans took the streets, parliament overturned it & tomorrow Yoon could be impeached.
Cathi Choi explains the history & authoritarian context underpinning the moment. @WomenCrossDMZ
@inthesetimesmag
inthesetimes.com/article/yoon...
Cathi Choi explains the history & authoritarian context underpinning the moment. @WomenCrossDMZ
@inthesetimesmag
inthesetimes.com/article/yoon...
“The Trump Administration will drive everyday Americans dramatically deeper in debt. But we can fight back.”—Jason Wozniak of the Debt Collective with a scorching op-Ed in @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
How to Beat the “King” of Debt at His Own Game
The Trump Administration will drive everyday Americans dramatically deeper in debt. But we can fight back.
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November 27, 2024 at 6:29 PM
“The Trump Administration will drive everyday Americans dramatically deeper in debt. But we can fight back.”—Jason Wozniak of the Debt Collective with a scorching op-Ed in @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/trum...