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Prediction markets are not just attracting everyday users hoping to make money. They are also drawing in high-frequency ...
06/18/2026

Prediction markets are not just attracting everyday users hoping to make money. They are also drawing in high-frequency trading firms, crypto funds and institutional investors.

That matters because the people with the most data, capital and automation are positioned to dominate these platforms.

Hadas Thier reports that on Polymarket, most profits went to accounts that appeared to be automated bots. Everyone else lost $131 million in aggregate.

The gambling economy has a familiar rule: The house always wins.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/prediction-markets-kalshi-polymarket-inflation-silicon-valley-capitalism

From the warehouse floor at Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport, UPS worker Talia Rose can see the FedEx planes across the...
06/18/2026

From the warehouse floor at Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport, UPS worker Talia Rose can see the FedEx planes across the tarmac.

After learning that military cargo bound for Israel had been moving through the publicly owned airport, Rose joined the Oakland People’s Arms Embargo, a coalition of more than 30 organizations calling on city officials to stop what organizers describe as “killer military cargo” from flying out of Oakland.

Alex Press reports on the workers, organizers and local officials confronting the role of civilian infrastructure in global war logistics.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/logistics-workers-public-airports-world-goods-weapons-oakland

As AvalonBay and Equity Residential move toward a $69 billion merger, tenants and housing organizers are already fightin...
06/17/2026

As AvalonBay and Equity Residential move toward a $69 billion merger, tenants and housing organizers are already fighting the practices that could become even harder to challenge under a mega-landlord.

The Debt Collective has helped launch a tool for tenants to dispute rent debt tied to corporate landlords. The L.A. Tenants Union has been organizing with Equity Residential tenants against junk fees, aggressive evictions and opaque utility charges.

At Virgil Square Apartments in L.A., more than 40 households launched a “RUBS strike,” refusing to pay utility fees they say function like hidden rent hikes.

Rebecca Burns reports that a combination of AvalonBay and Equity Residential would place close to 200,000 apartments in the hands of a single company.

Read this piece now, co-published with The American Prospect.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/real-estate-monopoly-equity-residential-avalon-bay

Earlier this month, Minnesota’s labor movement was honored at the AFL-CIO convention in Minneapolis for its organizing a...
06/17/2026

Earlier this month, Minnesota’s labor movement was honored at the AFL-CIO convention in Minneapolis for its organizing against ICE.

That organizing included worker assemblies at the United Labor Centre, rapid response networks, food distribution and a January shutdown under the banner “No Work, No School, No Shopping.”

Sarah Lazare and Amy Livingston, reporting for Workday Magazine and In These Times, write that Minnesota trade unionists are among 15 people swept up in federal indictments.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/sweeping-federal-indictments-of-ice-observers-net-minnesota-unionists

Today, federal prosecutors indicted 15 Minnesota activists in connection with protests against ICE, alleging ties to “an...
06/16/2026

Today, federal prosecutors indicted 15 Minnesota activists in connection with protests against ICE, alleging ties to “antifa” and charging them with conspiracy to impede federal officers.

That indictment lands in the exact terrain Alberto Toscano maps in “Antifa Everywhere”: a revived war-on-terror framework aimed not only at alleged acts of violence, but at turning dissent, antifascism and solidarity with targeted communities into the basis for sweeping criminalization.

We have already seen top officials and right-wing media try to brand people like Renee Good and Alex Pretti “domestic terrorists.” Now, federal prosecutors are leaning on the same “antifa” panic to turn an anti-ICE protest into a conspiracy case.

Toscano’s piece helps explain the larger strategy: make opposition to raids, deportations and authoritarianism appear suspect, then use that suspicion to chill organizing before people even step into the streets.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/antifa-everywhere-war-on-terror-cve-material-support-laws-hlf5-terrorism

Journalist Adam Federman warns that the federal charges against anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota echo the “Prairieland m...
06/16/2026

Journalist Adam Federman warns that the federal charges against anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota echo the “Prairieland model”: define a loose coalition of activists as “Antifa,” argue that Antifa is a terrorist organization, then pursue conspiracy charges.

As the Trump administration escalates its attacks on immigrants and protest movements, this is a framework to watch closely.

Read his reporting on the Prairieland "antifa" trial: https://inthesetimes.com/article/prairieland-antifa-trial-protest-repression-fbi

In Michigan, residents fighting a proposed data center are organizing through working groups, monthly meetings, food, ch...
06/16/2026

In Michigan, residents fighting a proposed data center are organizing through working groups, monthly meetings, food, child care and a spokescouncil-style structure.

No one is in charge. Everyone is finding a way to help stop it.

Across the country, communities are mobilizing against the rapid expansion of data centers, raising concerns about water use, rising utility bills, noise pollution, environmental destruction and Big Tech’s growing power.

Paul Messersmith-Glavin looks at the unlikely coalitions forming in these fights, from Indigenous organizers and union members to anarchists and rural Trump voters.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/data-centers-resistance-labor-trump

Even amid talk of a possible end to the war, Phyllis Bennis argues we cannot skip over the central fact: this war was ne...
06/16/2026

Even amid talk of a possible end to the war, Phyllis Bennis argues we cannot skip over the central fact: this war was never legal.

The U.S.-Iran war has already killed thousands, displaced millions and put people across the region at risk. It has also deepened the erosion of the rule of law, both at home and internationally.

Bennis writes that this matters not only for Iran, but for every future war that could be launched without accountability.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/iran-war-united-states-israel-trump-illegal

“Do we need a new jail? How big should it be?"That was the logic built into Fulton County’s $1.2 million jail feasibilit...
06/15/2026

“Do we need a new jail? How big should it be?"

That was the logic built into Fulton County’s $1.2 million jail feasibility study, which treated new jail construction less like an open question than a foregone conclusion.

The consultants recommended a facility for over 5,000 people, even as organizers argued that the county’s crisis was not caused by a lack of beds. Community Over Cages and its allies pointed instead to case backlogs, restrictive bail amounts, arrests for minor offenses, underused diversion programs and mismanagement inside the sheriff’s office.

October Krausch, Priscilla Grim and Micah Herskind report on how one coalition helped defeat a $2 billion mega-jail proposal in Fulton County, and why the fight is continuing as officials push a new 1,800-bed “special purpose facility.”

Illustrations by artist Margaret Vail Palmquist

https://inthesetimes.com/article/no-new-beds-organizers-resist-another-fulton-county-jail

The “cloud” is not weightless. AI runs on data centers, electricity, water, raw materials and the labor of workers whose...
06/15/2026

The “cloud” is not weightless. AI runs on data centers, electricity, water, raw materials and the labor of workers whose existence tech companies often work hard to hide.

Sarah Jaffe’s 2024 conversation with Craig Gent and James Muldoon cuts through the mythology of artificial intelligence and looks at the supply chains, colonial histories and workplace struggles behind so-called smart technology.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/ai-labor-silicon-valley-technology-workers

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