#inthesetimes — Public Fediverse posts

25 years ago, I interviewed #ChiefLookingHorse about World Peace and Prayer Day, and was inspired to organize a solidarity event in #PortlandME (in conjunction with #PeaceActionMaine) where we made art, spoke truth, played music, and fed the #Unhoused. It took a lot of work to organize, but I'm glad it happened. It's was all about #BuildingCommunity and #MutualAid, and that's what's needed #InTheseTimes!

#WorldPeaceAndPrayerDay: The Power of Spirit

Article by @bsnorrell.blogspot.com , Censored News, noon, June 21, 2026

#MathóPahá (Bear Butte) South Dakota -- "Chief #ArvolLookingHorse, Chief began by saying the riders are coming from Green Grass and then they will proceed to the Little Big Horn.

" '#MotherEarth is sick, and we are sick, because we nourish from Mother Earth' Chief Looking Horse said.

"With a message of hope, Chief Looking Horse said his people are a people of peace and today, more than ever, the youths are singing their songs and on the ride from Green Grass.

"As World Peace and Prayer Day began, now in its thirtieth year, Chief Looking Horse said, 'Pipestone is the Blood of our People,'

"We need peace in this world more than ever."

"As World Peace and Prayer Day begins today, an elder from #Alaska speaks on the impact of a typhoon at #HooperBay. She spoke on the power of prayer, and efforts to recover. 'Their homes are totally destroyed.' Now, the federal government is depriving them of their funds."

"#Paiute #JoshDini and youth honor #MyronDewey, Paiute, and his efforts at #StandingRock. They are sharing what is happening at #ThackerPass, the #LithiumMining in Nevada.

"On the ride, now from Green Grass in South Dakota, Josh said they are able to share what is happening in Nevada and that Thacker Pass is a place of massacres.

"#Datacenters are being pushed without consultation with the tribe. The data centers are taking the land and water, even now in a #drought, the data centers are coming for the water, Josh said.

"Dr. #ValeriahBigEagle, #Nakota / #HunkpatiDakota, speaks on the power of prayer and protection of the land and water. At Sacred #Pesla, two drill rigs were stopped from going in. An injunction, and preliminary injunction was filed to stop the drilling for graphite. Then, 'they started drilling around the clock.' On May 8, the permit was rescinded.

"There were drones and helicopters overhead, but the occupation went forward with prayer, she said. The protectors had their own drone as well, for security. Big Eagle said it was an honor to be a part of this.

" 'The only weapons we had were our prayers,' she said, describing the lock downs to equipment to halt the drilling.

" 'When we are in #solidarity and #unity, we can make things happen,' she said, speaking on ongoing efforts to protect the Sacred #BlackHills."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/06/live-now-world-peace-and-prayer-day.html

#ArvolLookingHorse #WorldPeaceAndPrayerDay #SummerSolstice #ProtectTheSacred #DefendMotherEarth #StandWithStandingRock #NoDatacenters #NoMining #RespectTheSacred #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife

If the #USGreens stop being the cult of #JillStein, I *might* consider re-joining them. But for now, I'm a card carrying #DemocraticSocialist! The #Maine #DSA has done more to help Mainers (#MutualAid, food distribution, resource assistance), while the Maine Green Independent Party seems to be primarily focused on elections. Sorry, Maine Greens -- we need boots on the ground #InTheseTimes!

This from the latest issue of #InTheseTimes (I didn't receive mine in the mail this month. I guess the gubmint must have grabbed it for evidence.)

#DSA #DemocraticSocialism #JenSorensen #Cartoons #RemoteWork #CEOsSuck #Hypocrisy #NoBosses #NoCEOs

So, this explains a lot...

NASA Says Strange Red Dots in Sky Are an Unknown Class of Object That Looks Like a Huge #EvilEye

https://futurism.com/space/little-red-dot-evil-eye

#EyeOfSauron #CosmicEvil #InTheseTimes #LOTR

So, I see that a few of #WMPG's podcasts and shows are on the #InternetArchive. I've been downloading some of their more political shows to upload as a record of these times...

#InTheseTimes #USPol #Archiving #PreservingHistory #Authoritarianism #Resistance

So, this is a timely topic! From the latest issue of #InTheseTimes! The connection between Amazon Deforestation and CEO land grabs in the Western United States -- bought with blood money!

Fortress Yellowstone

The #UltraRich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact #ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological #SacrificeZones around the world

by Joseph Bullington, April 6, 2026

Excerpt: "Some of these ultra-rich ranch owners celebrate the natural beauty of their land and are ardent conservationists when it comes to the Yellowstone ecosystem. In digging into their business dealings, however, I found that most of these landowners accumulated their wealth through industries that help drive the destruction of nature elsewhere. Their ranks include private equity investors, oil and gas billionaires and real estate developers. "

[...]

"Now, instead of forests full of fruits and animals and mandioca clearings, industrial soy plantations press in on #Açaizal like a closing fist. There is no escape from the onslaught of #monoculture. Manoel shows me where rows of broken cornstalks run right up against the edge of the community’s soccer field, which the soy farmers also want to plow. The soybeans and corn, like those in the United States, are genetically engineered to withstand the #herbicides and #pesticides the farmers dump on them to beat back weeds and pests, but the chemicals drift, says Manoel, making it impossible to grow fruits and vegetables and #mandioca nearby. The streams run low and full of poison."

Read more:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/yellowstone-billionaires-conservation-montana-deforest-amazon

#Billionaires #UberRich #CEOs #AmazonDeforestation #BigAg #SoybeanProduction #IndustralSoybeans #PoisoningTheAmazon #GMOs #Monoculture #Deforestation #Cargill #HomeDepot #SoyPlantations #SaveTheForest #SaveTheRainforest #Earth4All #DSA #DemocraticSocialism #ReadItBeforeItsBanned #TaxTheRich #NoTaxHavens #EatTheRich #YeetTheRich #BigCorporations

Of course, I need to have a bag to carry my books around in when I travel. And, of course, some magazines to peruse (with cartoons)! Some good reading #InTheseTimes!

#AmReading #AntiImperialism #Antifascism #Anarchist #Bookstodon #BookBag #BannedBooks #ReadWithPride #ICEOut #ICEOutForGood #Resistance #ReadingForResistance

#FBI records obtained by #TypeInvestigations and #InTheseTimes through a Freedom of Information Act request contradict the government’s claim that “AntiFa” poses an existential threat to national security. And several defense attorneys involved in the trial say the information should have been included in discovery.

https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2026/03/26/exclusive-fbi-files-counter-government-argument-in-texas-antifa-trial/

https://inthesetimes.com/article/prairieland-antifa-trial-protest-repression-fbi

#AntiFa #Dallas #FortWorth #ICEout #PrairieLands #Texas

Another cartoon I came across this morning... This one from #JenSorensen (whose work also appears in #InTheseTimes).

#TradWives #SAVEAct #PoliticalCartoons #VoterID #Cartoons #USPol #VoterDisenfranchisement

More comics from #InTheseTimes (sorry, there doesn't seem to be AltText associated with the images. Bummer!).

https://inthesetimes.com/article/comics-retirement-corporations-investment-trump

#Socialist #Cartoons #PoliticalCartoons #DemocraticSocialist #SocialistPublication #ReadItWhileItsStillLegal

Spent my morning reading the latest issue of #InTheseTimes -- my favorite #Socialist magazine (in print since 1983). Sharing this gem from #KendraWells.

#USPol #PoliticalCartoons #ManBaby #Tantrump #TheEmperorHasNoClothes #TheEmperorHasNoDiaper

Why are people blowing whistles during #BorderPatrol raids in #NorthCarolina? What to know

By Renee Umsted, November 18, 2025

#InTheseTimes also mentioned these #AntiICE #whistles in the latest issue...

"How to use whistles during ICE raids

Two types of whistle blows indicate different spottings.

- Blowing whistles in short bursts alerts people that agents are in the area.
- Blowing whistles in a long blast alerts people that agents are detaining someone.

In response to the whistles, bystanders can either move to safety or, to help spread awareness of agents in the area, head toward the sound and form a crowd."

Read more:
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article312962296.html

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/8IiUU

#ResistICE #ICESucks #WhistlesAgainstICE

Look what arrived in today's mail! More #Socialist propaganda with cover art by @mattbors !

#NotBannedYet #DemocraticSocialists #InTheseTimes #Resistance #ResistICE

Proud owner of a number of #Anarchist books -- starting with #AbbieHoffman's #StealThisBook and #PrairieFire - The politics of revolutionary anti-imperialism (#WeatherUnderground, 1974). Also a proud subscriber to #InTheseTimes 'zine, and frequent #Antifa stickerer! I've never hid what I believe in -- I'm not about to start now! #Resist!

The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an #Anarchist #Zine

#DanielSanchez is facing federal charges for what #FreeSpeech advocates say is a clear attack on the #FirstAmendment.

by Seth Stern, November 23 2025

Excerpt: "Federal prosecutors have filed a new indictment in response to a July 4 noise demonstration outside the #PrairielandICE #DetentionFacility in #AlvaradoTX, during which a police officer was shot.

"There are numerous problems with the indictment, but perhaps the most glaring is its inclusion of charges against a Dallas #artist who wasn’t even at the protest. Daniel 'Des' Sanchez is accused of transporting a box that contained '#Antifa materials' after the incident, supposedly to conceal evidence against his wife, Maricela Rueda, who was there.

"But the boxed materials aren’t Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs, or whatever #MAGA officials claim 'Antifa' uses to wage its imaginary war on America. As prosecutors laid out in the July criminal complaint that led to the indictment, they were zines and pamphlets. Some contain controversial ideas — one was titled '#InsurrectionaryAnarchy' — but they’re fully constitutionally protected free speech. The case demonstrates the administration’s intensifying efforts to criminalize left-wing #activists after Donald Trump announced in September that he was designating 'Antifa' as a 'major terrorist organization' — a legal designation that doesn’t exist for domestic groups — following the killing of Charlie Kirk.

"Sanchez was first indicted in October on charges of 'corruptly concealing a document or record' as a standalone case, but the new indictment merges his charges with those against the other defendants, likely in hopes of burying the First Amendment problems with the case against him under prosecutors’ claims about the alleged shooting.

"It’s an escalation of a familiar tactic. In 2023, Georgia prosecutors listed #ZineDistribution as part of the #conspiracy charges against 61 #StopCopCity protesters in a sprawling #RICO indictment that didn’t bother to explain how each individual defendant was involved in any actual crime. I wrote back then about my concern that this wasn’t just sloppy overreach, but also a blueprint for censorship. Those fears have now been validated by Sanchez’s prosecution solely for possessing similar literature."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/23/prairieland-ice-antifa-zines-criminalize-protest-journalism/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/KEoxE

#AntiFascism #Resistance #Antifa #Movements #USPol
#WorldPol #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship #Disobey
#Resistance #CharacteristicsOfFascism

Interview about Starbucks Workers Union Strikes https://inthesetimes.com/article/starbucks-workers-united-union-red-cup-rebellion-strike-picket

#Baristas #inTheseTimes #LabourMovement #Organize #Pickets #RedCup #Solidarity #Starbucks #strikes #SWU #unions

https://inthesetimes.com/article/starbucks-workers-united-strike-unfair-labor-boycott

#InTheseTimes #labourMovement #Organize #Solidarity #Starbucks #Strikes #unions #SWU

https://inthesetimes.com/article/palestine-cartoon-anthology-interview-artists-comics

#Art #Cartoons #illustration #InTheseTimes #Palestine #Solidarity

https://inthesetimes.com/article/dropkick-murphys-ken-casey-wants-you-to-wake-the-f-ck-up

#AntiFa #CelticPunk #DropkickMurphys #InTheseTimes
#KimKelly #NoKings #Resist

#ZohranMamdani on this month's cover of #InTheseTimes! Here's one of the articles from the August/September issue...

Zohran Mamdani's Win Is the Beginning of the End of the Old Democratic Party

Mamdani’s NYC primary victory shows that the old tricks of the political establishment are dying out—and something new is being born.

by Hamilton Nolan, June 25, 2025

Excerpt: "What, exactly, is the scary socialism of Zohran Mamdani that all of the #billionaires are screaming about from their high towers? #FreeBuses. #LowerRents. #PublicChildcare. Higher minimum wage. #SocialWorkers for homeless people instead of cops. Better grocery stores. Ahh! No! Not… not… all of these common sense ideas that the vast majority of NYC residents would be happy for! Anything but that!

"There is a limit to the political effectiveness of #RichMen who have servants telling regular people that their lives cannot be better. We may have reached that limit. The threat of the rich is that they will flee the city. The flaw in their leverage is that almost nobody likes them anyhow.

"Zohran’s campaign was distinguished by its determination to treat voters as adults. When accused of ​'defunding the police,' Mamdani took the time to explain that he wants to create a department of mental health experts and social workers to take work off the NYPD’s plate. When accused of #antisemitism, he took the time to forthrightly distinguish that smear from valid criticism of the massacre in #Gaza. He was, often, more adult than the political press covering him, which is trained to treat dishonest attack lines as sporting challenges rather than as things to be dismissed. The youngest candidate in this race acted with the most maturity. The oldest, #AndrewCuomo, ran with the traditional playbook of treating voters like ignorant children — and failed.

"Old people with old ideas do not stay in power forever. Old lies and old tricks do not work forever. Time moves slowly — excruciatingly slowly, if you are always paying attention — but it does sweep away the old husks and bring new things, eventually. #Socialists want more people to have decent lives. Zohran Mamdani is proof that that message cannot be mischaracterized forever and ever. We will look back on this primary win as the start of something new. If America is going to have one lone opposition party to #fascism, that party does not have to suck. The establishment is too deeply rooted to move. So we will run them over."

https://inthesetimes.com/article/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-cuomo-democratic-party

#USPol #MamdaniForMayor
#DemocraticSocialists
#DINOs #CuomoSucks #TaxTheRichFeedThePoor #DSA

#Project2025 Is Dead. Long Live Project 2025.

#Trump, #Vance and the #hateful horizons of “#TradFuturism.”

by Sarah Riccardi-Swartz July 31, 2024
Published in #InTheseTimes

Excerpt: "When news came several weeks ago that Trump had chosen Ohio Sen. #JDVance as his running mate for the 2024 presidential election, my X (formerly Twitter) feed was abuzz with commentary about the selection. Out of the various comments, criticism and praise heaped upon the Hillbilly Elegy author and onetime ​'#NeverTrumper' was the assessment of #DarrellScott, pastor of a Cleveland Heights, Ohio, church ministry and one of Trump’s former spiritual advisors.

" 'JD Vance is not only the pick for today, but also for the future,' Scott proclaimed. ​'He will be the presumptive nominee for President in 2028, and will keep the #MAGA movement going, retaining Trump as an advisor/​consigleri [sic]. Rubio, Haley, Burgum, Carson, etc wouldn’t.'

"Scott’s emphasis on MAGA’s future vitality caught my eye as a prime example of a phenomenon I call trad futurism, with the Trump campaign’s selection of Vance serving as part of a world-building project aimed at creating a future for the United States that is not founded on the principles of democracy and freedom but rather on #Identitarian politics and the policing of people and bodies that don’t conform to so-called #TraditionalValues.
Trad futurism is a moral project that unites ideologically disparate #RightWing groups to craft a world in opposition to secular progressive democracy.

"What is trad futurism? Trad is shorthand for #traditionalist / #​traditionalism. Recently, there has been broad discussion of far-right groups like ​'trad wives' on TikTok or ​'#RadTrad' young Catholics. Trad futurism is part of that conversation, but it’s not just about a return to the simple life or a Latin Mass. Rather it’s a moral project that unites ideologically disparate right-wing groups to craft a world in opposition to secular progressive #democracy.

"Right-wing writer #RodDreher’s 2017 book #TheBenedictOption, which urged Christians to withdraw from a corrupted world into cloistered purist communities of the faithful, is one type of trad future: small and local. But some trad futurist projects are far more expansive, aimed at creating a ​'#moral' future for America, in which laws and social policies reflect the ​'traditional values' of conservative Christianity. Throughout the United States, various groups of traditionalists are doing their part to build that world.

"#ChristianNationalists position their values as American values. Institutions, including the massive #Heritage Foundation and countless otherconservative lobbying groups, are courting right-wing leaders and crafting manifestos for their ideal vision of the country’s future."

Read more:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/project-2025-trump-vance-traditionalist-republican

#USPol #Gilead #TradWives #MakeAmericaHateAgain #ChristianNationalism #ChristoFascism

#InTheseTimes #ChicagoPublicSchools #GreenSchools

Good work by good people

https://inthesetimes.com/article/green-economic-populism-climate-social-housing-chicago

So, slightly annoyed that #TomTomorrow isn't using alt-text on his cartoons. I want to post them, but it will have to be when I have the energy to write. Was glad to see #TheModernWorld appearing on the #InTheseTimes website though!

https://inthesetimes.com/article/49-06-comics-chuck-schumer-art-trump-2025

#Cartoons #DSA

Loving this “You’re Wrong About” podcast about listeners’ stories of joy and resilience #InTheseTimes

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/youre-wrong-about/id1380008439?i=1000700936833

#TonightsListening

Center in your inner landscape #anaisnin #innerworld #centering #inthesetimes #thoughts #mind

A high school classmate just retired, moved from Bend, OR to just outside Tucson AZ. Last Thursday, just an hour after poll results were announced, he posted he selling his new home and moving to Mexico until Trump is gone. He thinks 4 years... He is more concerned about his BMW he must leave behind because of Mexico immigration laws. .. than his 3 daughters and 5 grandchildren who will be left behind. #Trump #Oregon #Arizona #Mexico #Immigration #Boomer #InTheseTimes #Diaspora

https://inthesetimes.com/article/anti-zionist-israel-gaza-jewish-institutions

#InTheseTimes

U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs of #AntiZionists

by @Shane_Burley 1 October 2024

#FreePalestineNOW 🇵🇸

#ZionismIsNOTJewishness

https://inthesetimes.com/article/alabama-slavery-prison-labor-incarcerated-company-exploit-capitalism-lawsuit

#InTheseTimes

Lawsuit: #Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole in order to Lease Their Labor to #Meatpackers, #McDonalds

by #KimKelly 19 April 2024

You get no parole if you're still profitable.

#USAShitShow #convictleasing

from #InTheseTimes
"And Now They Want Our Votes"

Eman Abdelhadi’s speech from the “Bodies Outside of Unjust Laws” demonstration on Aug. 18 in #Chicago.

by #EmanAbdelhadi
August 19, 2024

[*Fantastic* speech - must read]

https://inthesetimes.com/article/harris-votes-abdelhadi-dnc

#Uncommitted
#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#RejectAIPAC #BDS
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA

#EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#PalestinianLivesMatter
#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#IsraelWarCrimes #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #USElection #KamalaHarris #DemocraticParty #Biden
#media #news #press @palestine @israel

"For many library workers, the material consequences of unchecked capitalism are the stuff of everyday life."

🔗 https://inthesetimes.com/article/public-libraries-are-commons-in-america

#Libraries #PublicLibraries #LibraryWorkers #InTheseTimes #EmilyDrabinski #Socialism #InvestInLibraries #FreedomToRead