One of the lessons I learned as a union negotiator is that any argument (practical, legal, theoretical, moral, etc.) is ultimately irrelevant because it’s actually all about power. Liberals, almost by definition, will never understand that
EXCLUSIVE: Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people? theintercept.com/2026/06/10/t...
Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking
If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people?
theintercept.com
Pelley interview is crazy on multiple levels. He claims he and 60-mins staff were in favor of, excited by, Ellison taking over. Either he’s lying or people in mainstream media are more delusional and out of touch than I thought
Having to adjust my teaching to the realization that some high school students have not only never heard of the Great Depression but have no idea that the term “depression” has an economic connotation
I can report, based on my ghoul of a colleague, that zionists are losing their minds over Kristof’s NYT op-ed
Maybe stating the obvious but I don’t hear politicians or any prominent media voices explaining how dramatically all this shit is going to shape society for a long time to come. Just unceasing immiseration of everyone who isn’t rich for the foreseeable future
They didn’t just double tap. They hunted her like an animal. First they sent her death threats. They struck her, then followed her to where she tried to take shelter & struck her there. They struck the rescue workers who came for her & only after hours, after she died, did they allow retrieval
Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 3mo agoKhalil was killed and her colleague injured in what Lebanese officials are calling a 'double-tap' strike by Israel https://aje.news/5nsarp
Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi...
As Trumps fantasy about a Venezuela repeat in Iran collapses, the only compensatory recourse is for the US to totally decimate the country.
This is simply the face of power, which is to say, of capital, today. “We can’t provide any social benefits, only fight wars”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoTrump: "The US can't take of daycare. That has to be up to a state. We're fighting wars. Medicaid, Medicare -- they can do it on a state basis. We have to take care of one thing: military protection. But all these little scams that have taken place, you have to let states take care of them."
19 years old Royer Perez-Jimenez is one of the youngest people to die in an ICE camp. His arrest was unnecessarily violent and forceful. He’s shoved to the ground while officers kneel on his back as he struggles to communicate. A few weeks later, he was dead. Abolish ICE
Body Cam Video Shows Rough Arrest of Teen Who Died in Florida ICE Custody
The 19-year-old told police he speaks Tzotzil, an indigenous language from Mexico.
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I’m not sure “corruption” is even a helpful paradigm anymore. What we’re seeing is a new relationship between of financial capitalism and imperialism.
CNBC@cnbc.com · 5mo agoVolume in stock and oil futures surged minutes before Trump’s market-turning post
I still regularly think about how in November 2011 the federal government (fbi, dhs, doj,…) coordinated with financial institutions and local authorities to crush the Occupy movement across the country, even if no one else does
Jesse Felder@jessefelder.com · 5mo ago‘While state and federal prosecutors have sent record numbers of people to prison for violent crimes and property- and drug-related offenses, the US retreated from prosecuting and punishing white-collar crime, despite a tsunami of elite-level wrongdoing.’ www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
I came across this "critique" of degrowth today in Catalyst magazine, by two prominent writers. I was struck by how wildly incorrect it is.
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
Brief operational term of art 🧵 to help better define what we're experiencing. What we're experiencing is state terror. I've seen a lot of terms thrown around for what the Trump admin is doing w/ICE, CBP, & other federal law enforcement (LE). The now largely out of use term is state terror. 1/
They are gifting ICE agents cigars, which when lit, explode in the agents face
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo agoTricia McLaughlin: "They are pouring cold water on the ground so that our ICE law enforcement vehicles will slide, crash, and potentially kill them"
Please don’t tell me these guys aren’t the same as the old Republican Party.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo agoVance: "If you're in Mpls, and you have a person who came to the US impoverished two months ago and all of the sudden they're driving a Mercedes or a Lamborghini, it is your job as a public official to ask how did that person get so rich so quickly when they're also collecting a welfare check."
If you can’t condemn the US imperialist attack on Venezuela without also criticizing Maduro you’re part of the problem
We must pass Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s War Powers Resolution that asserts Congress' authorities, and Trump must be impeached. 2/2
Cesaire’s “boomerang theory” of colonialism is in some ways more applicable today than it was in the 1950s
To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids
Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.
abcnews.go.com
One of the reasons they're having trouble concocting a Left Wing Terrorism epidemic is basically nobody in this country has ever met a left wing person. You might as well say we're being invaded by the smurfs
It really seems like so many of the most educated people have somehow never heard of fascism
Opinion | Barnard President: Charlie Kirk Challenged College Students. We Need More Like Him.
nytimes.com
Must-read of the day from Maximilian Alvarez; reads like a sequel to @astra.bsky.social and Naomi Klein’s “end-times fascism” piece (which it explicitly references) therealnews.com/uaw-what-goo...
What good is a union in Hell?
“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 its...
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“What happens if you build more housing, and institutional investors are buying up 20% of the new stock?” Ocampo said. “It’s like a never-ending cycle.”
David Sirota@davidsirota.com · last yr.You know how the Abundance Guys only talk about zoning laws and pretend corporate power has nothing to do with the affordable housing crisis in places like California? Here’s how you know they’re trying to trick you into not seeing the whole problem.
It’s pretty obvious that the entire point of the Democratic Party, in the eyes of those who run it at least, is to prevent the left from ever attaining power
Israeli soldiers and officers have said they were ordered to shoot at unarmed civilians waiting for food in Gaza.
Israeli Soldiers Killed At Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month
The U.S.-backed system for food aid in Gaza is a “tactical intervention in humanitarian wrapping,” per an Israeli professor.
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