Next weekend in Chicago! After the Labor Notes conference, come through @inthesetimesmag for an afterparty with music, comedy, and a veritable murderer's row of labor journalists. secure.actblue.com/donate/inthe...
Rebecca Burns
Earlier this week, Aala Abdullahi and I published a story about the impact of rapid transfers on people that ICE has locked away in detention facilities. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/06/01/i...
EXCLUSIVE: Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking
If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people?
theintercept.com/2026/06/10/t...
Today, @rebeccaburns.bsky.social reports Washington State passed a millionaire’s tax—and at least eight others will consider new taxes on the ultra-wealthy this year, as organizers set their sights on state legislatures.
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In Bozeman, MT, trailer park tenants unionized in 12 days.
Now, facing an 11% rent hike and an anonymous investor, @rebeccaburns.bsky.social reports, they launched a rent strike — reviving a forgotten history of tenant collective bargaining in the state.
Under Trump, the U.S. increasingly sends immigrants all over the nation with little warning, leaving families and attorneys unsure where they are.
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RESULT: Community organizer Miguel Alvelo-Rivera has ousted state Representative Jaime Andrade in the Democratic primary.
This is the Chicago-based HD40, & Andrade has been a longtime target of the Chicago left.
