Maximillian Alvarez

@maximillianalvarez

Editor in Chief & Co-Executive Director, @therealnews.com Host, Working People podcast Author, The Work of Living Dad to many cats

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Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· 11d

Friends, familia. I want to share some wild/incredible news: After 9 seasons and nearly 400 episodes, the original Working People podcast feed I started has crossed 1 million downloads! I'm honestly kind of speechless (for once). There's so much I want to say but for now I'll just say this...

Screenshot of podcast metrics page showing Working People reaching 1,000,228 All Time Downloads

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· 27d

NYC folks! Can't wait to hang with y'all tomorrow! Join us at Chilo's bar on July 16 at 6pm for a live bar debate with me, @edgeofsports.bsky.social & @julesboykoff.bsky.social about loving sports in an age of authoritarians. Gonna be a BLAST! And we'll raffle off signed books and TRNN swag!

Photo of Max holding a REAL NEWS NETWORK sign. Text on screen reads:

TRNN IN NYC!
CHILO'S BAR
JULY 16 6-8PM

LIVE BAR DEBATE W/ ME, DAVE ZIRIN, & JULES BOYKOFF!!

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Jul 4

As the United States of America limps its way across the 250-year mark, I’m asking myself the same question you’re probably asking yourself this July 4 weekend. "What, exactly, are we supposed to be celebrating right now?"... 🧵

Members of the National Guard walk past a banner with President Donald Trump hanging on the Department of Justice, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Jun 29

🚨New: I sit down w/ TN State Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social @netrootsnation.bsky.social to talk about fighting data centers, billionaires, & MAGA Republicans gerrymandering his district—the only majority-Black district in the state—out of existence @therealnews.com therealnews.com/maga-elimina...

Photo of Max (left) speaking with Tennessee State Rep Justin Pearson (right) at Netroots for TRNN.

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Jun 27

Now that my book American Sacrifice is officially in progress, the reading/research list is coming along nicely. Please share any/all article, book, documentary, etc. recs! 🤓❤️✊🏽

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Jun 22

I am excited to announce that I am working on a new book with @haymarketbooks.org and @inthesetimes.com, tentatively titled "AMERICAN SACRIFICE: Working People Talk About Fighting for Their Lives—and Our Future—in America's Sacrifice Zones"...

Non-official book cover for Maximillian Alvarez's new book project:

AMERICAN SACRIFICE:
Working people talk about fighting for their lives—and our future—in America's sacrifice zones

Coming soon...

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Jun 10

🚨 BREAKING: Sources w/ Graduate Employees' Organization 3550 at @umich.edu have informed me that "This morning around 7am, the FBI executed arrest warrants at several locations across several states targeting pro-Palestine activism in southeast Michigan. The situation is evolving." @therealnews.com

BREAKING: Sources with Graduate Employees' Organization 3550 have informed me that "This morning around 7am, the FBI executed arrest warrants at several locations across several states targeting pro-Palestine activism in southeast Michigan."

The union added:
"The situation is evolving and additional asks will roll out. Please show up to the Federal Court Building (231 W Lafayette) in Detroit at 12pm for a rally if you are able to. Please publicize this call."

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· May 6

"They want islands, we just want healthcare..." I spoke with Baltimore musician Shango Supreme and others in the middle of the Baltimore May Day march against billionaires and authoritarianism @therealnews.com

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· May 5

BREAKING: Union longshore workers in the Port of Tacoma, WA, are sounding the alarm about an urgent threat of jobs lost on the ports to AI/automation. I spoke with Zack Pattin & Brian Skiffington of @ilwulocal23.bsky.social while they were at the port for @therealnews.com @ilwu.bsky.social

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· May 1

🚨 May 1: Unions, community orgs plan nationwide ‘ECONOMIC BLACKOUT’ against billionaires and authoritarianism. For @therealnews.com I spoke with labor organizers who are all involved in organizing May Day events this week from Philadelphia to Chicago to Iowa... What are YOU doing this May Day?

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Apr 4

Baltimore/DMV folks! Come down to @redemmas.org today for END PAPERS: A Mini Book Fest on Capitalism & the Climate Crisis 🔥 The lineup is incredible, the conversations will be electric! I will be on stage speaking w/ the great @jmhattem.bsky.social about climate change & mass displacement/migration

Poster for END PAPERS: A MINI-BOOK FEST ON CAPITALISM AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS

SATURDAY, APRIL 4

12PM - 9PM

RED EMMA’S

3128 GREENMOUNT AVE, BALTIMORE

Promo poster for Julian Hattem book event on Saturday, April 4th (6:30pm) at Red Emma’s.

Julian Hattem presents
SHELTER FROM THE STORM: HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS CREARING A NEW ERA OF MIGRATION

IN CONVERSATION WITH MAXIMILLIAN ALVAREZ

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Apr 1

78-year-old Texas shrimper is on HUNGER STRIKE against Dow Chemical I spoke to Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation fisherwoman & lifelong resident of Seadrift, TX, who has been on a hunger strike to stop Dow Chemical - Union Carbide's pollution of the Texas Gulf Coast @therealnews.com

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Mar 18

🚨 Sean O’Brien Sold Workers & Unions Out to Trump. These Teamsters Are Running to Oust Him. "As a labor leader, [O’Brien] should be disqualified... Donald Trump has done nothing to help the working class, only the people in the Epstein class," Richard Hooker Jr. tells me @therealnews.com

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Mar 14

🎧 Want news by/for/about the working class? If you're tired of corporate media propaganda & online food fights, if you want stories about issues affecting working-class people—FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE THEMSELVES—this is what we're doing at Working People weekly @therealnews.com

Screenshot of Spotify page for Working People episode "'ICE got me': The urgent fight to free Ludovic Mbock"

38-year-old regional video gaming champion Ludovic Mbock, who came to the US legally from Cameroon, was snatched by ICE while applying for his yearly work permit—as he’s done for 20 years. He has since been detained for three weeks and moved to facilities in Louisiana and Georgia, and his freedom depends on a critical bond hearing this week. In this urgent episode of Working People, we speak with Diane Sohna, Ludovic’s sister, and Nikhil Delahaye, a close friend of Ludovic’s and a fellow gamer.

Screenshot of Spotify page for Working People episode "Sean O’Brien sold workers and unions out to Trump—these Teamsters are running to oust him"

As general president of the union, Sean O’Brien has operated with a “Teamsters vs. Everybody” mentality, especially when it comes to dealing with President Trump and embracing the MAGA right. But now, 14 months into the second Trump administration, the labor movement and the entire working class—Teamsters members included—is under attack. In this episode of Working People, we speak with veteran Teamsters Richard Hooker Jr. and John Palmer, who are running to oust O’Brien from leadership in the upcoming union election.

Screenshot of Spotify page for Working People episode "Tech workers protest Microsoft’s ties to ICE terror and Israel's war crimes"

In just six months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) more than tripled the amount of data stored on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform,The Guardian reports, “at the same time that its arsenal of surveillance technology ballooned.” This week, tech workers with the No Azure for Apartheid (NOAA) campaign staged a protest and informational picket at Microsoft’s global headquarters in Redmond, WA, demanding that Microsoft cancel all contracts that provide technological support for Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and ICE’s campaign of terror in the US. We speak with Ibtihal, a former software engineer at Microsoft and an organizer with the NOAA campaign.

Screenshot of Spotify page for Working People episode "America’s toxic future looks like East Palestine, OH, today"

Feb. 3, 2026 marked the three-year anniversary of the Norfolk Southern train derailment and chemical disaster in East Palestine, OH—one of the worst industrial disasters in US history. Over the last three years, residents have been exploited and abandoned by Norfolk Southern, the government, opportunistic politicians, sensationalist media outlets, and self-serving attorneys, but we have not forgotten them. On the three-year anniversary of the day that changed their small-town lives forever, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez was on the ground in East Palestine speaking with residents about their lives and needs today. Here is what they said...

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Mar 12

🚨 “The government has kidnapped one of my friends.” I spoke to loved ones of 38-year-old regional video gaming champion Ludovic Mbock, who came to the US legally from Cameroon & was snatched by ICE in Baltimore while applying for his yearly work permit—as he’s done for 20 years. @therealnews.com

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Mar 10

🚨 Corporate media's biggest lies about Iran @ahjohnson.bsky.social of @citationspod.bsky.social breaks it down on @therealnews.com Watch the full conversation here: youtu.be/HzE7vbFztbA?...

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Mar 5

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Feb 28

🚨 HERE'S ICE'S GIANT WAREHOUSE/CONCENTRATION CAMP IN WESTERN MARYLAND I went to the massive warehouse near Hagerstown, MD, that DHS purchased for over $100million to turn into an ICE concentration camp... @therealnews.com @projectsaltbox.bsky.social @austinkocher.com

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Feb 28

The US/Israel have dragged us into an obscenely dangerous war w/ Iran. Trump said "Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime"—Do Americans feel "defended" by the fact that one of the sites bombed this morning was reportedly a girls school?

Screenshot of Al Jazeera report:
Iran’s semiofficial Tasnim News Agency reported that explosions also occurred in Tehran’s northern Seyyed Khandan area. Other Iranian media reported attacks nationwide, including in the western Ilam province, while Israel’s military confirmed carrying out attacks in western Iran.

An Israeli strike hit an elementary girl’s school in Minab, a city in the Hormozgan province of southern Iran, killing at least 40 people, according to according to the state-run IRNA news agency..

Iran’s Foreign Ministry said the attacks targeted a range of military and defence sites, as well as civilian infrastructure, in various cities

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Feb 26

🚨 HOW CLOSE ARE WE TO A US-IRAN WAR? WAY TOO CLOSE... "No doubt about it, we are on the brink of something potentially very bad happening, & the number of sane people in this administration is so tiny” Jeremy Scahill @dropsitenews.com tells me. Listen to our full convo on @therealnews.com podcast

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Feb 17

I asked the workers this very question! We always try to end any piece by answering the ? "What can I/we do about it?" Here are two partial answers from two of the guests. Full transcript: therealnews.com/strike-kaise...

"They’re not projecting our voices as much. They’re starting to a little bit. But I feel like because of our administration, we obviously know we don’t have the support of our federal government, but it’s going to take just the ordinary citizens rising up. That’s how any change happens. So ordinary people speaking up saying, “This isn’t right. Kaiser, please take better care of our healthcare providers so they can take better care of us.” I think that’s what’s really going to be the catalyst for change. And I have seen a shift in our country, not just on political stuff, but there has been a shift of more people, ordinary people saying, “Hey, what I see is not right.” And they’re speaking up, people that never spoke up before. So I think that’s what it’s going to take."

"They’re not dealing in truth or dealing in half truth and misinformation. So the only way that I see to counteract what they’re doing is to keep the stories out there. And if the stories aren’t being covered, we need to cover them ourselves. We need to share them ourselves. So having a platform like yours, having a platform on any kind of social media, it keeps the story alive and moving and that’s what we need because I’ve run across people who said, “Oh, I’m so glad y’all got past that from our October strike. They think everything is over and that was in the past. I got congratulated that the strike was over, that we got what we needed, and that’s far from the truth.” And the reason that they think that is because it died down and it wasn’t in the news anymore, if it was even being covered completely to begin with.

So I think hitting Kaiser where they can’t protect themselves in their reputation, because yeah, they can pretend nothing’s wrong, but pretending only lasts for so long and it’s going to start affecting them when people start pulling their memberships and go somewhere else."

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Feb 16

🚨 Healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente is sitting on $67 BILLION in reserves (as reported by @matthewccook5.bsky.social in the Center for Media & Democracy & American Prospect). But the company says the 31,000 workers on strike only care about money & the strike is all about wages... @therealnews.com

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Feb 15

🚨 MASSIVE STRIKE AT KAISER PERMANENTE: Workers say this "is not the same Kaiser" they once knew. "This is no longer a place to get your care. This is now an investment firm that dabbles in hospitals." For my podcast Working People / @therealnews.com I spoke with 3 striking Kaiser workers...

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Jan 31

🚨 HUNDREDS OF BALTIMOREANS BRAVE THE FREEZING COLD TO LEARN HOW TO FIGHT ICE Hundreds gathered in front of City Hall for a rally—organized by the Baltimore Rapid Response Network—to learn how to defend themselves & their community against ICE. I'm on the ground for @therealnews.com

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Jan 30

🚨 HAPPENING NOW: BALTIMORE JOINS NATIONAL STRIKE AGAINST ICE TERROR & TRUMP AUTHORITARIANISM I'm on the ground for @therealnews.com. More coverage coming...

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Jan 28

BALTIMORE/DMV FOLKS! Come down to @therealnews.com tomorrow for the Baltimore premiere of @abbymartin.bsky.social's vital new documentary EARTH'S GREATEST ENEMY, followed by a conversation w/ Abby, @dharna.bsky.social & me, then audience Q&A. Tell everyone you know! You don't want to miss this!

Promotional flier with photos of Abby Martin, Dharna Noor, and Maximillian Alvarez. Text reads:
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IN CONVERSATION WITH DHARNA NOOR & MAXIMILLIAN ALVAREZ

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5:30-9PM
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Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Jan 23

🚨 MINNESOTA CALLS FOR MASS STRIKE: FRIDAY, JAN 23. “NO WORK, NO SCHOOL, NO SHOPPING" For @therealnews.com, I spoke w/ union organizers in the Twin Cities—Daniel Troccoli, Janette Corcelius, & @classhuggle.bsky.social —about Friday's mass strike & how people in/outside of Minnesota can participate

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Jan 19

🚨 SOS FROM MINNESOTA: "WE'RE BEING INVADED... NOBODY SEEMS TO BE SAFE" "Everyone's scared to go to work," Todd Dahlstrom of Minnesota AFL-CIO tells @therealnews.com. "They're scared to send their kids to school. They're afraid to go to lunch..." Please watch & help amplify!

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Jan 15

🚨 People continue to take to the streets all across Iran as state forces massacre protestors & the US is reportedly preparing for military strikes. I spoke w/ award-winning Iranian-Canadian journalist @smohyeddin.bsky.social about what we do & don’t know... @therealnews.com

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez· Jan 10

🚨 "ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE!": BALTIMORE MARCHES AGAINST ICE TERROR & TRUMP AUTHORITARIANISM Hundreds of Baltimore residents marched through the streets of downtown on Jan. 8, joining nationwide protests following the ICE shooting & killing of US citizen Renee Nicole Good @therealnews.com