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UPDATE: More than 20 immigrants were detained yesterday, according to advocates working with some of the affected families. An ICE spokesperson said that “those arrested had executable final orders of removal by an immigration judge and had not complied with that order.”

I've introduced the Block the Bombs Act with 21 of my colleagues to withhold certain offensive weapons that are supplied by the U.S. to Israel and demand Israel’s compliance with U.S. and international law. Block the Bombs is the first step toward real oversight and

It’s not complicated: landlords know they can make a lot more money if Andrew Cuomo is in City Hall. That's why they're going all in.

This is a must read for tenant organizers as @kctenants’ wins here are extraordinary: - Tenants won’t have to pay ANY back rent from their time on strike(!) - Stabilized rents - No junk fees - Management formally recognized the union, will renegotiate when the contract ends

I recently wrote about the importance of just-cause eviction laws, but this is a powerful reminder that renters don’t have to wait on lawmakers to take action. The power to organize—and win—is already in our hands. inthesetimes.com/article/rent-s… Rebecca Burns In These Times

My latest: A Honduran mother & about 20 others arrested in Chicago were still at the ICE processing center in Broadview Friday AM. They had been sleeping on the floor & sitting around on the few chairs available, she told her lawyers. chicagotribune.com/2025/06/06/ice…

The important bit is that the expectation of massive waste was set by the past experience at tech companies.

It's publication day for Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing, available in paper & free .epub! It traces a century of struggle over Los Angeles' periphery, culminating in the use of policing to expel and repress Black tenants. Here's a look at its chapters:

"We should call out the hypocrisy of this rhetoric that they’re going after the ​'worst of the worst' criminals. They’re picking up folks who were literally just going about making their daily bread and terrorizing them in their place of work."

California AG Rob Bonta sues one of the state's largest landlords alleging widespread tenant exploitation and violations of housing and anti-discrimination laws. Firms linked to Mike Nijjar own more than 22k units and have long been on authorities' radar latimes.com/homeless-housi…

Wild story: a quality manager who warned about the shoddy construction of Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes was particularly concerned about the ones sent to Air India around a decade ago. That's when the Air India jet that crashed today was sent. From moe tkacik:

we calculated that if all permitted data centers come online, their collective energy use would consume more than what Poland used as a country in 2023: businessinsider.com/ai-data-center…

NEW: Since February, I've followed The NYS Tenant Bloc's campaign to win a rent freeze in NYC. Now, Zohran Mamdani is on the verge of a victory that would deliver one. Here's a first look into how organizers brought over 20,000 tenants into Mamdani's coalition. inthesetimes.com/article/zohran…

If Zohran Kwame Mamdani wins next week, a big part of the equation is b/c long-suffering NYC tenants & formations like The NYS Tenant Bloc have emerged as a serious political force and are getting behind Mamdani's pledge for a rent freeze. —— New piece by Thomas Birmingham inthesetimes.com/article/zohran…

Over 20,000 tenants have pledged to elect Zohran Mamdani for mayor. Give tenants something to vote for. And we’ll organize to elect you.

ICE took her mother in Chicago. Now a 6-year-old is left without a guardian or a legal path to reunite in Honduras. A story about the children left behind by deportations—and the lack of infrastructure to care for them in the U.S or for reunification. chicagotribune.com/2025/06/22/ice…

Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, an organizer with the Los Angeles-based Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, was picked up by men in an unmarked car last Wednesday, & nobody knows where she is. She made a phone call late Friday & the information she gave is chilling

It’s a beautiful day to organize your workplace😎 Excited to share that  journalists, program staff and operations workers at City Bureau are unionizing! Sign our petition and follow us on IG & Bl*s*y @/cbworkersguild Linktr.ee/cbworkersguild