Maximillian Alvarez

Baltimore

Editor in Chief at The Real News

Host at Working People Podcast

Journalist at Freelance

Editor in Chief @TheRealNews / Cat Dad, Sleepy / Host @WorkingPod / author of The Work of Living (@orbooks)

Articles

‘A tremendous chilling effect’: Columbia students describe dystopian reality on campus amid Trump attacks

1 week ago | therealnews.com | Maximillian Alvarez

One year ago, Columbia University became ground zero for the student-led Gaza solidarity encampment movement that spread to campuses across the country and around the world.
Federally funded researchers warn DOGE cuts will be fatal

1 week ago | progressivehub.net | Maximillian Alvarez

On April 8, national ‘Kill the Cuts’ rallies mobilized unions across the country to protest the Trump administration’s DOGE-fueled cuts to life-saving research, healthcare, and education programs. By Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News NetworkOn Tuesday, April 8, unions, unionized federal workers, and their supporters around the country mobilized for a national “Kill the Cuts” day of action to protest the Trump administration’s cuts to life-saving research, healthcare, and education programs.
Inside Trump's assault on universities

1 week ago | therealnews.com | Maximillian Alvarez

International students are being abducted and disappeared by ICE in broad daylight. Life-saving research projects across the academy are being halted or thrown into disarray by seismic cuts to federal grants. Dozens of universities are under federal investigation for their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs, their allowance of trans athletes to compete in college sports, and their tolerance of constitutionally protected Palestine solidarity protests.
Federally funded researchers warn DOGE cuts will be fatal

2 weeks ago | therealnews.com | Maximillian Alvarez

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What's really behind Trump's war on federal unions?

3 weeks ago | therealnews.com | Maximillian Alvarez

Last week, President Trump escalated his administration’s war on the federal workforce and workers’ rights when he signed an executive order to end collective bargaining with federal labor unions across the government. The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents 150,000 government employees, has sued the Trump administration over the executive order.
‘It’s Elon Versus Everyone’: A Dire Warning From Fired Federal Workers

4 weeks ago | inthesetimes.com | Maximillian Alvarez

Maximillian Alvarez March 27, 2025 In this urgent episode of Working People, we focus on the Trump-Musk administration’s all-out assault on federal workers and its takeover and reordering of our entire system of government. “At least 20,000 federal workers have so far been fired by the Trump administration,” Ed Pilkington and Chris Stein report in The Guardian, “most of them recent hires on probationary periods who lack employment protections.
The internet that could have been was ruined by billionaires

1 month ago | therealnews.com | Maximillian Alvarez

The rise of the internet and personal computing once inspired utopian visions of how technology could improve society. These days, that kind optimism is sorely lacking from the conversation. The internet has gone from a sprawling web of thousands of websites and subcultures to an increasingly homogenized and monopolized space dominated financially and politically by a handful of billionaires, whose reach now extends into the federal government.
The internet that could have been was ruined by billionaires

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Maximillian Alvarez

3 hours agoClimate activists hauled away after gatecrashing Kemi Badenoch conference speechClimate protesters were wrestled away by attendees after interrupting Kemi Badenoch while she delivered a speech at an event in honour of Margaret Thatcher.
What the Labor Movement Can Learn from the Great Depression

1 month ago | inthesetimes.com | Maximillian Alvarez

“During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the U.S. economy almost completely collapsed,” historian Dana Frank writes in her new book, What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? “By 1933 a third of all those who’d had jobs were unemployed; another third were scraping by with lesser work.
Georgia Residents Left Behind After Toxic BioLab Fire

1 month ago | inthesetimes.com | Maximillian Alvarez

“In late September,” Timothy Pratt writes in Capital & Main, “a massive billow of smoke from a chemical fire spread over metro Atlanta, lingering for weeks and prompting national news coverage.