Maximillian Alvarez
@maximillian_alv
Editor in Chief @TheRealNews / Cat Dad, Sleepy / Host @WorkingPod / author of The Work of Living (@orbooks)
Gonna be leaving this shithole site for good after the election. Would love to stay in touch with all the great folks I've connected with here over the years. Find me @ IG: instagram.com/maximillian.al… BSKY: bsky.app/profile/maximi… @TheRealNews YT Channel: youtube.com/@therealnews?s…
“Brothers, sisters, siblings, we stand here now on the precipice of oblivion…This isn’t just about fighting for better wages and working conditions…This is about who is willing to fight for life itself?” @maximillian_alv @ @NOLSW2320 national convention therealnews.com/uaw-what-good-…
"Supporting AMAZON is supporting GENOCIDE": @Shut_downAmazon speaks w/ @maximillian_alv from on board the @GazaFFlotilla about how workers' fight against @amazon is connected to the fight to stop Israel's genocidal slaughter in Gaza and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
🚨 SUSPECTED SABOTAGE OF THE HANDALA HOURS BEFORE LAUNCH TO GAZA Urgent Call for Accountability and Safe Passage Just hours before departure, the #Handala faced two alarming incidents: a rope wrapped around the propeller and a delivery labeled as water that contained a…
@maximillian_alv left @NOLSW2320 members with a warning cry: what good is a CBA or the NLRA if oligarchs have stolen the futures from the working class? much gratitude for the powerful words, max❗️
At our #NOLSW2025NJC, we were inspired and mobilized by @maximillian_alv calling on us to defend the working class and combat fascism not just our workplaces but also in our communities and world. We must enact the final words of Joe Hill, and our theme, “DON’T MOURN, ORGANIZE!”
At our #NOLSW2025NJC, we were inspired and mobilized by @maximillian_alv calling on us to defend the working class and combat fascism not just our workplaces but also in our communities and world. We must enact the final words of Joe Hill, and our theme, “DON’T MOURN, ORGANIZE!”
Gratitude to @StrikeDebt members and allies (esp ADAPT) who worked to stop this lethal bill. I wish I could say we'll live to fight another day, but the truth is not everyone will survive this monstrosity. We need to keep organizing to ensure as many folks as possible make it.
“I personally feel in such a desperate state about all of this that I said, ‘I don’t care if I get arrested.’ I mean, what else are we going to do?” - Lorraine Chavez of the @StrikeDebt on the #BigBeautifulBill therealnews.com/kill-the-bill-…
🚨 BREAKING: Over 9k City workers STRIKE in #philadelphia at midnight, July 1. "There’s something wrong when a lot of our men and women are essentially the working poor inside this city," @AFSCME District Council 33 president Greg Boulware tells @maximillian_alv
"Stop bombing Iran now!" Earlier today, Baltimoreans staged a demonstration at Druid Hill Park, where the #Afram festival was taking place, to protest the @realDonaldTrump administration’s illegal bombing of Iran. "They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor"…
"In some ways, "Next Year in Jerusalem" is an anti-Zionist phrase..." Yup, I said what I said 🤷♀️ Listen for more. Interview I did with @TheRealNews, about Zionism, Palestine, growing up Hasidic, intersectionality, LGBTQ and trans rights, and more: therealnews.com/transgender-ra…
“Queer people know what it means to struggle against the government, know what it means to struggle against the status quo. And, most importantly, we’re not as easily controlled…” - @AbbyChavaStein therealnews.com/transgender-ra…
[Breaking in Chicago]: 6 members of @JVPChicago started an indefinite hunger strike, demanding food be let into Gaza & public officials use any power they can to make it happen. @inthesetimesmag columnist @emanabdelhadi was asked to speak. She said... inthesetimes.com/article/hunger…
“Is The Finish Line in Sight for the Country's Longest Ongoing Strike?” by @maximillian_alv for @inthesetimesmag is one of the items included on this week's #PowerAtWork Weekly Download — subscribe, and have it delivered to your inbox: poweratwork.us/theweeklydownl…
Dr. Sarah Lalonde, Dr. Rizwan Minhas, and I joined The Marc Steiner Show to discuss the genocide in Gaza and what we all witnessed first-hand as medical volunteers in Gaza. Via @TheRealNews therealnews.com/doctors-return…
“We need people to call their congressmen, tell them this is not right, fully fund the VA… Those veterans stood on the line for us, and it’s time for us to stand on the line for them.” - Irma Westmoreland of @NationalNurses therealnews.com/trump-cuts-lea…
🎙 New @TheRealNews: I speak w/ 2 VA hospital nurses & @NationalNurses reps about the chaos Trump's cuts to the federal workforce & attacks on federal worker unions are causing for them & the veteran patients they care for Listen on the TRNN pod feed therealnews.com/trump-cuts-lea…
BREAKING: French dock workers in Fos-sur-Mer refused today to load machine gun ammo destined for Israel's army
🚨"The occurrence of a cancer-cluster in EP is not net zero" New Biden admin emails show that while they gave the “all clear” message to East Palestine, OH residents after the Norfolk Southern derailment, privately they discussed serious health risks. statuscoupsubstack.com/p/the-biden-co…
I wrote about Jake Tapper’s book tour and how the Biden Declining Coverup is the platonic Jake Tapper story: 4 years late, offends no traditional centers of power, and—above all—allows Tapper to mug about Speaking Truth to Power without actually speaking truth to anyone in power.
After ignoring the story—and parroting the government’s line on Gaza genocide for 20 months—Tapper is bloviating about Speaking Truth to Power: by @adamjohnsonCHI therealnews.com/jake-tappers-b…
12 million people have been displaced by the civil war in Sudan, and the UN reports that half of the population is facing acute hunger. How can the global working class stand in solidarity with the Sudanese people and their struggle for liberation? therealnews.com/sudan-is-being…