Maximillian Alvarez

@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

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Editor in Chief of The Real News Network
Host of Working People & The Art of Class War
Author of The Work of Living
Dad to many cats

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the planet is on fire and people can’t afford air conditioning, surely this is the time to come up with a technology nobody asked for and nobody wants then dedicate all the electricity to maintaining it

New AI data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals. Read The Big Take ⬇️

AI Is Wreaking Havoc on Global Power Systemswww.bloomberg.com New artificial intelligence data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals.

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Listening to @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social righteously rant on any/every podcast he is on is self care. Or possibly a kink at this point. But it's still important.

To my knowledge, this week's @therealnews.com livestream featured the most extensive joint interview anywhere w/ striking UAW / SAG-AFTRA members. Everyone go watch Marcie Pedraza & Diany Rodriguez spit fire about class struggle & class solidarity among all workers: therealnews.com/were-all-wor...

🚨 New Art of Class War 🚨 Over 50k hotel workers w/ Culinary Workers Union Local 226 are ready to strike & shut down the Las Vegas strip for a fair contract while hotel-casinos rake in mega profits. I talk w/ Matthew Seevers, a bartender at the Bellagio: youtu.be/DyJ4VxvInPQ?...

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There is no one cooler in America right now than UAW President Shawn Fain. Possibly the world.

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This is so normal to do!! www.thecrimson.com/article/2023...

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Central California's Sikh-Oaxacan solidarity on an anti-caste discrimination bill. www.latimes.com/california/s...

In Fresno, Sikhs and Oaxacans unite to pass caste discrimination banwww.latimes.com People with roots in Mexico's Oaxaca state joined Sikhs' push for the ban after city and labor leaders in L.A. were caught on tape having a racist conversation.

🚨 New Working People 🚨 2010-2020 was an explosive decade of mass protests around the globe, but the societal changes that resulted were often the opposite of what protestors demanded. The great @vincentbevins.bsky.social & I discuss why: spotify.link/gVfDVfYgODb

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"An Amazon warehouse’s presence in a given county, NELP says, drives wages down, just like monopsony theory says it should." newrepublic.com/article/1760...

How Amazon Keeps Workers’ Pay Lownewrepublic.com New evidence that when Amazon comes to town, warehouse wages go down.

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"Right now I'm just sitting around waiting for another East Palestine to happen, because [nothing has changed &] I don't see anything on the horizon that gives me any hope" - Jeff Kurtz, retired railroad engineer, on yesterday's @therealnews.com livestream: www.youtube.com/live/wp5LQ2N...

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This looks like current film hiring practices. I got asked to do a shoot this month. I had a wedding on one of the days. Boom lost the entire job.

8. Hold their family hostage - Performance motivation

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"Hey I think I follow you on Twitter"

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two of my favorite people to follow on social media, @kimkelly.bsky.social and Adam Conover, sitting down and having a chat about unions for an hour. Great way to start the evening youtu.be/UvyMHf7Yg0Q?...

Why YOU Need a Union with Kim Kelly - Factually! - 228youtu.be While the ongoing WGA and SAG strikes have garnered significant public attention, those unions represent only a tiny fraction of the unionized workers in the...

Started yesterday w/ a TRNN livestream w/ striking Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalist Bob Batz Jr. & striking SAG-AFTRA actor Bethany Anne Lind, ended yesterday w/ an all-UAW Working People panel w/ autoworkers from all of the Big 3 automakers (Nicholas Livick, Marcie Pedraza, & Torice Sawyer) ❤️✊🏽

🚨 New Art of Class War 🚨 With UPS @teamsters.bsky.social ratifying their new contract, the eyes of labor are now on UAW negotiations w/ the Big 3 automakers, where workers could strike by mid-September. I talk w/ rank-and-filer Nick Livick: https://youtu.be/ZlaRiywW1pA?si=YmRZhZppal6uyrrs

The Fox News moderators asked everyone on the #GOPDebate stage who believes man-made climate change is real to raise their hands. No one raised their hands. DeSantis refused premise of the question, Ramaswamy said "the climate change agenda is a hoax," then everyone yelled.

Oh sweet Jesus the first question in the #GOPDebate was about the fucking Oliver Anthony song & they played a 15 second clip. Gonna be another fun year of watching the party that hates unions & loves tax cuts for the rich pretend to be the working-class whisperers

*touches earpiece* Being told it is, in fact, debate night in America, and the stars are out. It's a Rove-Conway double whammy, y'all. #GOPDebate

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For those who haven’t gotten it yet!

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God, let's go.

NYC mayor Eric Adams visits Jerusalem's Wailing Wall (bracelet close-up by @alexnpress.bsky.social)

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The new episode of Working People with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social is on WVU and will be of interest to all academics. https://workingpeople.libsyn.com/save-wvu-w-leslie-wilber-morgan-king-jessie-wilkerson

Working People: Save WVU (w/ Leslie Wilber, Morgan King, & Jessie Wilkerson)workingpeople.libsyn.com The world of higher education has been in shock this past week after West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee announced plans to dramatically cut academic programs and jobs in the coming year....

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🚨 New Working People: I talk w/ Ana Jakopič, a lawyer & union organizer in Slovenia, about the role unions played under Yugoslavian socialism & under capitalism, migrant worker struggles, the war in Ukraine, & more: https://open.spotify.com/episode/632KWKpcPq1UhHf0ZEABl5?si=32s_GtipQ6ieFefQYGLOUA

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We’re over 60% of the way to our goal but could use a push to keep our momentum going! People who spent years providing abortions, through attacks from anti-abortion legislators and activists, need help with necessities. We can’t just abandon them now https://www.gofundme.com/f/repro-worker-aid-fund

When a state bans abortion it is devastating for people who need abortions, but also for the workers whose clinics scale back or fully close. As union abortion workers, we’re coming together to have our comrades’ backs! Join us by donating and sharing https://www.gofundme.com/f/repro-worker-aid-fund

Repro Worker Aid Fund, organized by Repro Workerswww.gofundme.com We are union workers in the reproductive health, rights, and justice movement--we work at clinics… Repro Workers needs your support for Repro Worker Aid Fund

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Really appreciated this @streetsblognyc.bsky.social story. An entertaining read and just really good reporting. https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/08/11/wire-creator-and-nyc-camera-foe-david-simon-has-received-16-school-zone-speeding-tickets-in-his-beloved-baltimore

'Wire' Creator (and NYC Camera Foe) David Simon Has Received 16 School Zone Speeding Tickets in His ...nyc.streetsblog.org They say that those who can't, teach. But David Simon's record of recidivist reckless driving suggests that those who write about crime commit them, too.

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Show up for organizing workers. Join @sbworkersunited.bsky.social for a customer-led national day of action TOMORROW at a Starbucks near you! Find out more at SBWorkersUnited.org/customeraction.

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Some good reporting but journalists really have to stop accepting the premise these business owners “can’t find” workers. They can! They just can’t find any workers at their shitty wages! Say that! https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/jul/31/republicans-child-labor-bars-alcohol-service-age-wisconsin

‘I can’t believe we’re having this conversation’: the states pushing for 14-year-olds to ser...www.theguardian.com As Republican-led states roll back the alcohol service age so teens can serve hard drinks, they also put them in danger

🚨 New Art of Class War 🚨 Paul—a military veteran who's worked for Union Pacific for 17 yrs—has been an invaluable whistleblower, exposing how the railroads' greedy business practices have wrecked our supply chain & endangered us all. Paul was just fired: https://youtu.be/GdKe30tqSUM

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