Maximillian Alvarez
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social
- Editor in Chief & Co-Executive Director, @therealnews.com
- Host, Working People podcast
- Author, The Work of Living
- Dad to many cats
- Host, Working People podcast
- Author, The Work of Living
- Dad to many cats
I was on the ground at the "No Kings" protest in Washington DC today searching for the "paid protestors," "agitators," "Hamas supporters," and "antifa terrorists" Republicans claimed would be filling the streets. What I found may shock you...
@therealnews.com
@50501movement.bsky.social
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@50501movement.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I was on the ground at the "No Kings" protest in Washington DC today searching for the "paid protestors," "agitators," "Hamas supporters," and "antifa terrorists" Republicans claimed would be filling the streets. What I found may shock you...
@therealnews.com
@50501movement.bsky.social
@therealnews.com
@50501movement.bsky.social
🚨 Defying Israel, more ships sail to Gaza after Global Sumud Flotilla captured.
I spoke with Mskwaasin Agnew, a Cree & Dene healthcare worker from the Salt River First Nation, who is sailing with the Freedom Flotilla on board the Conscience.
@freedomflotilla.bsky.social @therealnews.com
I spoke with Mskwaasin Agnew, a Cree & Dene healthcare worker from the Salt River First Nation, who is sailing with the Freedom Flotilla on board the Conscience.
@freedomflotilla.bsky.social @therealnews.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:33 AM
🚨 Defying Israel, more ships sail to Gaza after Global Sumud Flotilla captured.
I spoke with Mskwaasin Agnew, a Cree & Dene healthcare worker from the Salt River First Nation, who is sailing with the Freedom Flotilla on board the Conscience.
@freedomflotilla.bsky.social @therealnews.com
I spoke with Mskwaasin Agnew, a Cree & Dene healthcare worker from the Salt River First Nation, who is sailing with the Freedom Flotilla on board the Conscience.
@freedomflotilla.bsky.social @therealnews.com
🚨 The GOP shutdown is "government by extortion"
The shutdown "is being covered like a horse race. Who’s going to win? From our perspective, it’s a calamity" @tayagraham.bsky.social & Stephen Janis say @therealnews.com "Millions of people are right now on the verge of losing access to healthcare"
The shutdown "is being covered like a horse race. Who’s going to win? From our perspective, it’s a calamity" @tayagraham.bsky.social & Stephen Janis say @therealnews.com "Millions of people are right now on the verge of losing access to healthcare"
October 3, 2025 at 1:59 AM
🚨 The GOP shutdown is "government by extortion"
The shutdown "is being covered like a horse race. Who’s going to win? From our perspective, it’s a calamity" @tayagraham.bsky.social & Stephen Janis say @therealnews.com "Millions of people are right now on the verge of losing access to healthcare"
The shutdown "is being covered like a horse race. Who’s going to win? From our perspective, it’s a calamity" @tayagraham.bsky.social & Stephen Janis say @therealnews.com "Millions of people are right now on the verge of losing access to healthcare"
🚨 Carnival Cruise ship workers detained at the Port of Baltimore & deported with no due process
Workers were reportedly accused of possessing "child pornography" to justify their immediate deportation, but no charges were filed or evidence presented.
Here's my on-the-ground report @therealnews.com
Workers were reportedly accused of possessing "child pornography" to justify their immediate deportation, but no charges were filed or evidence presented.
Here's my on-the-ground report @therealnews.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
🚨 Carnival Cruise ship workers detained at the Port of Baltimore & deported with no due process
Workers were reportedly accused of possessing "child pornography" to justify their immediate deportation, but no charges were filed or evidence presented.
Here's my on-the-ground report @therealnews.com
Workers were reportedly accused of possessing "child pornography" to justify their immediate deportation, but no charges were filed or evidence presented.
Here's my on-the-ground report @therealnews.com
🚨 Gazans send messages to the Global Sumud Flotilla
Multiple vessels w/ the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social have been attacked this week. I reached out to Mohammed Abu Tawila & Abdul Rahman Mohammed in Gaza to ask what messages they have for flotilla members. Here's what they sent me @therealnews.com
Multiple vessels w/ the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social have been attacked this week. I reached out to Mohammed Abu Tawila & Abdul Rahman Mohammed in Gaza to ask what messages they have for flotilla members. Here's what they sent me @therealnews.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
🚨 Gazans send messages to the Global Sumud Flotilla
Multiple vessels w/ the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social have been attacked this week. I reached out to Mohammed Abu Tawila & Abdul Rahman Mohammed in Gaza to ask what messages they have for flotilla members. Here's what they sent me @therealnews.com
Multiple vessels w/ the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social have been attacked this week. I reached out to Mohammed Abu Tawila & Abdul Rahman Mohammed in Gaza to ask what messages they have for flotilla members. Here's what they sent me @therealnews.com
🚨 Federal whistleblowers reveal how Trump's HUD is abandoning vulnerable Americans
"The frank fact of the matter is that, right now, discrimination is not being prosecuted," they tell me. "Fair housing laws are not being enforced"
@therealnews.com @fedworkersunited.bsky.social @afge476.bsky.social
"The frank fact of the matter is that, right now, discrimination is not being prosecuted," they tell me. "Fair housing laws are not being enforced"
@therealnews.com @fedworkersunited.bsky.social @afge476.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
🚨 Federal whistleblowers reveal how Trump's HUD is abandoning vulnerable Americans
"The frank fact of the matter is that, right now, discrimination is not being prosecuted," they tell me. "Fair housing laws are not being enforced"
@therealnews.com @fedworkersunited.bsky.social @afge476.bsky.social
"The frank fact of the matter is that, right now, discrimination is not being prosecuted," they tell me. "Fair housing laws are not being enforced"
@therealnews.com @fedworkersunited.bsky.social @afge476.bsky.social
🚨 Why US military veterans are sailing to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla
"I served in Afghanistan in 2009," @vetsaboutface.bsky.social member Zue Jernstedt told me @therealnews.com "I feel like it's my duty now to stand up against imperialism, because I was a foot soldier of imperialism"
"I served in Afghanistan in 2009," @vetsaboutface.bsky.social member Zue Jernstedt told me @therealnews.com "I feel like it's my duty now to stand up against imperialism, because I was a foot soldier of imperialism"
September 13, 2025 at 12:52 AM
🚨 Why US military veterans are sailing to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla
"I served in Afghanistan in 2009," @vetsaboutface.bsky.social member Zue Jernstedt told me @therealnews.com "I feel like it's my duty now to stand up against imperialism, because I was a foot soldier of imperialism"
"I served in Afghanistan in 2009," @vetsaboutface.bsky.social member Zue Jernstedt told me @therealnews.com "I feel like it's my duty now to stand up against imperialism, because I was a foot soldier of imperialism"
🚨 Massive protest in DC demands: "End the militarized occupation of D.C."
Mansa Musa @rattlingthebars.bsky.social & @edgeofsports.bsky.social report from the ground from Saturday's “We are all D.C.” march for @therealnews.com
Mansa Musa @rattlingthebars.bsky.social & @edgeofsports.bsky.social report from the ground from Saturday's “We are all D.C.” march for @therealnews.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
🚨 Massive protest in DC demands: "End the militarized occupation of D.C."
Mansa Musa @rattlingthebars.bsky.social & @edgeofsports.bsky.social report from the ground from Saturday's “We are all D.C.” march for @therealnews.com
Mansa Musa @rattlingthebars.bsky.social & @edgeofsports.bsky.social report from the ground from Saturday's “We are all D.C.” march for @therealnews.com
🚨 "Donald Trump, let's be clear, your National Guard ain't welcome here!"
On Wednesday, dozens of Baltimore residents and community organizers marched downtown to protest President Trump's plans to send the National Guard into #Baltimore. I was on the ground for @therealnews.com
On Wednesday, dozens of Baltimore residents and community organizers marched downtown to protest President Trump's plans to send the National Guard into #Baltimore. I was on the ground for @therealnews.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
🚨 "Donald Trump, let's be clear, your National Guard ain't welcome here!"
On Wednesday, dozens of Baltimore residents and community organizers marched downtown to protest President Trump's plans to send the National Guard into #Baltimore. I was on the ground for @therealnews.com
On Wednesday, dozens of Baltimore residents and community organizers marched downtown to protest President Trump's plans to send the National Guard into #Baltimore. I was on the ground for @therealnews.com
🚨 Baltimore union members & residents march against oligarchy & MAGA fascism
"We will not go quietly into the night," Betty Schueler of UNITE HERE Local 7, told me. "We need to stand up & fight back. Otherwise, we're going to wake up & find that all our rights are gone" @therealnews.com
"We will not go quietly into the night," Betty Schueler of UNITE HERE Local 7, told me. "We need to stand up & fight back. Otherwise, we're going to wake up & find that all our rights are gone" @therealnews.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM
🚨 Baltimore union members & residents march against oligarchy & MAGA fascism
"We will not go quietly into the night," Betty Schueler of UNITE HERE Local 7, told me. "We need to stand up & fight back. Otherwise, we're going to wake up & find that all our rights are gone" @therealnews.com
"We will not go quietly into the night," Betty Schueler of UNITE HERE Local 7, told me. "We need to stand up & fight back. Otherwise, we're going to wake up & find that all our rights are gone" @therealnews.com
🚨 Clergy witness "horrific" ICE abductions at immigration courts.
Trump, Fox, & MAGA cheerleaders are lying that these people are "the worst of the worst." I went to the immigration courthouse in Santa Ana, CA, for @therealnews.com & learned the horrifying truth from those witnessing it firsthand
Trump, Fox, & MAGA cheerleaders are lying that these people are "the worst of the worst." I went to the immigration courthouse in Santa Ana, CA, for @therealnews.com & learned the horrifying truth from those witnessing it firsthand
September 1, 2025 at 2:26 AM
🚨 Clergy witness "horrific" ICE abductions at immigration courts.
Trump, Fox, & MAGA cheerleaders are lying that these people are "the worst of the worst." I went to the immigration courthouse in Santa Ana, CA, for @therealnews.com & learned the horrifying truth from those witnessing it firsthand
Trump, Fox, & MAGA cheerleaders are lying that these people are "the worst of the worst." I went to the immigration courthouse in Santa Ana, CA, for @therealnews.com & learned the horrifying truth from those witnessing it firsthand
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was detained by #ICE & separated from his family once again on Monday, after only being free for 2 days. Why is the Trump administration obsessed with punishing this man, whom they mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March? @edgeofsports.bsky.social explains @therealnews.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was detained by #ICE & separated from his family once again on Monday, after only being free for 2 days. Why is the Trump administration obsessed with punishing this man, whom they mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March? @edgeofsports.bsky.social explains @therealnews.com
"Join the Worker Intifada!" #Microsoft workers revolt over Big Tech's complicity in Israel's genocide.
I spoke to current Microsoft workers for @therealnews.com who are risking their jobs & safety to speak out—and who are calling on other workers across the tech industry to join them
I spoke to current Microsoft workers for @therealnews.com who are risking their jobs & safety to speak out—and who are calling on other workers across the tech industry to join them
August 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"Join the Worker Intifada!" #Microsoft workers revolt over Big Tech's complicity in Israel's genocide.
I spoke to current Microsoft workers for @therealnews.com who are risking their jobs & safety to speak out—and who are calling on other workers across the tech industry to join them
I spoke to current Microsoft workers for @therealnews.com who are risking their jobs & safety to speak out—and who are calling on other workers across the tech industry to join them
Here are the moments when we in Baltimore got to hear Kilmar Abrego Garcia speak in his own words—and when we learned form his attorney that Kilmar had once again been taken by ICE and separated from his family after reporting for his mandatory check-in at 8AM Monday. @therealnews.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Here are the moments when we in Baltimore got to hear Kilmar Abrego Garcia speak in his own words—and when we learned form his attorney that Kilmar had once again been taken by ICE and separated from his family after reporting for his mandatory check-in at 8AM Monday. @therealnews.com
DRONE FOLLOWS ME FROM MICROSOFT TO MY CAR.
After filming the Palestine encampment at Microsoft & interviews w/ No Azure for Apartheid members, I walked 4 blocks back to my car alone. While I was walking back, I caught a drone overhead following me (twice). Watch for yourself... @therealnews.com
After filming the Palestine encampment at Microsoft & interviews w/ No Azure for Apartheid members, I walked 4 blocks back to my car alone. While I was walking back, I caught a drone overhead following me (twice). Watch for yourself... @therealnews.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 AM
DRONE FOLLOWS ME FROM MICROSOFT TO MY CAR.
After filming the Palestine encampment at Microsoft & interviews w/ No Azure for Apartheid members, I walked 4 blocks back to my car alone. While I was walking back, I caught a drone overhead following me (twice). Watch for yourself... @therealnews.com
After filming the Palestine encampment at Microsoft & interviews w/ No Azure for Apartheid members, I walked 4 blocks back to my car alone. While I was walking back, I caught a drone overhead following me (twice). Watch for yourself... @therealnews.com
🚨 Microsoft workers launch #Palestine encampment at company's HQ in Redmond, WA
"I worked for three years on Azure, not knowing that my labor was being used to actively facilitate the murder of my people" - Hossam Nasr, No Azure for Apartheid, former tech worker fired by Microsoft @therealnews.com
"I worked for three years on Azure, not knowing that my labor was being used to actively facilitate the murder of my people" - Hossam Nasr, No Azure for Apartheid, former tech worker fired by Microsoft @therealnews.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
🚨 Microsoft workers launch #Palestine encampment at company's HQ in Redmond, WA
"I worked for three years on Azure, not knowing that my labor was being used to actively facilitate the murder of my people" - Hossam Nasr, No Azure for Apartheid, former tech worker fired by Microsoft @therealnews.com
"I worked for three years on Azure, not knowing that my labor was being used to actively facilitate the murder of my people" - Hossam Nasr, No Azure for Apartheid, former tech worker fired by Microsoft @therealnews.com
“It’s a bit of an obscenity that I’m asked so much to speak on this subject because I happen to be Jewish and because I happened, as an infant, to have survived the Holocaust" Dr. Gabor Maté says on The Marc Steiner Show @therealnews.com. "Why aren’t we listening to the Palestinians?”
August 18, 2025 at 3:38 AM
“It’s a bit of an obscenity that I’m asked so much to speak on this subject because I happen to be Jewish and because I happened, as an infant, to have survived the Holocaust" Dr. Gabor Maté says on The Marc Steiner Show @therealnews.com. "Why aren’t we listening to the Palestinians?”
'Crazy as hell!' 'Distraction from Epstein' - Residents respond to Trump's takeover of Washington, DC
Mansa Musa—host @rattlingthebars.bsky.social & a DC native—was on the ground @therealnews.com talking to residents & organizers this week about President Trump's takeover of the nation's capital
Mansa Musa—host @rattlingthebars.bsky.social & a DC native—was on the ground @therealnews.com talking to residents & organizers this week about President Trump's takeover of the nation's capital
August 18, 2025 at 3:34 AM
'Crazy as hell!' 'Distraction from Epstein' - Residents respond to Trump's takeover of Washington, DC
Mansa Musa—host @rattlingthebars.bsky.social & a DC native—was on the ground @therealnews.com talking to residents & organizers this week about President Trump's takeover of the nation's capital
Mansa Musa—host @rattlingthebars.bsky.social & a DC native—was on the ground @therealnews.com talking to residents & organizers this week about President Trump's takeover of the nation's capital