AngryOldMarxist
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International Brotherhood of Angry Old Marxists
***No Kings, No Bankers, No Billionaires***
If you’re not the 1% you’re one of us.
Don’t be distracted by differences.
International Brotherhood of Angry Old Marxists
***No Kings, No Bankers, No Billionaires***
If you’re not the 1% you’re one of us.
Don’t be distracted by differences.
Pinned
If not now, when? Throw sand in the gears, brothers and sisters. There are a thousand ways to resist.
Veteran Chicago reporter Mark Jacob challenges journalists to stop normalizing Trump’s authoritarian power grab, tell the whole story:
“When the crisis is constantly getting worse, why do the media cover it with the same monotonous, muffled drumbeat? Are they ever going to set off the fire alarms?”
“When the crisis is constantly getting worse, why do the media cover it with the same monotonous, muffled drumbeat? Are they ever going to set off the fire alarms?”
How news coverage eases us into tyranny
When the media act like things are normal, they don’t reassure us – they gaslight us
www.stopthepresses.news
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Veteran Chicago reporter Mark Jacob challenges journalists to stop normalizing Trump’s authoritarian power grab, tell the whole story:
“When the crisis is constantly getting worse, why do the media cover it with the same monotonous, muffled drumbeat? Are they ever going to set off the fire alarms?”
“When the crisis is constantly getting worse, why do the media cover it with the same monotonous, muffled drumbeat? Are they ever going to set off the fire alarms?”
Janet Mills is itching to take on Trump, as well as light a fire under do-nothing senate Dems like Schumer: “I never really understood why Schumer succeeded [Harry] Reid. Reid was a scrapper, a street fighter, he understood politics at a visceral level. Schumer is a number two man, a second banana.”
Maine Governor Breaks With Both Senators On Shutdown
This is an interesting development. Maine Governor Janet Mills, a Democrat who is poised to run against Republican incumbent Senator Susan Collins, is not buying into the shutdown solution spearheaded...
politizoom.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Janet Mills is itching to take on Trump, as well as light a fire under do-nothing senate Dems like Schumer: “I never really understood why Schumer succeeded [Harry] Reid. Reid was a scrapper, a street fighter, he understood politics at a visceral level. Schumer is a number two man, a second banana.”
Trump pushes coal in order to line the pockets of billionaires who traffic in dirty energy, but he cuts the policies and regulations meant to protect the miners who actually dig coal out of the ground, leaving them to deal with black lung and other health crises after the rich have gotten richer.
Deep in Trump country, coal miners with black lung say government is suffocating the 'working man'
Lisa Emery, a respiratory therapist, is deeply concerned about West Virginia coal miners suffering from black lung disease.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Trump pushes coal in order to line the pockets of billionaires who traffic in dirty energy, but he cuts the policies and regulations meant to protect the miners who actually dig coal out of the ground, leaving them to deal with black lung and other health crises after the rich have gotten richer.
Conservative representatives with ties to the FBI and the Justice Department have spilled that the true details of the Epstein files are “worse” for Trump than previously reported.
The other shoe is about to drop.
The other shoe is about to drop.
DOJ Admits to Republicans That Epstein Files Are Even Worse for Trump
Details in the files are reportedly even more damning for Donald Trump than previously indicated—and it was already bad.
newrepublic.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Conservative representatives with ties to the FBI and the Justice Department have spilled that the true details of the Epstein files are “worse” for Trump than previously reported.
The other shoe is about to drop.
The other shoe is about to drop.
As election results revealed a massive Democratic tsunami sweeping the nation, Donald Trump picked up his gold phone and tweeted that it didn’t matter because “TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT.”
But of course he was: These historic results are a referendum on his failed presidency.
But of course he was: These historic results are a referendum on his failed presidency.
Trump Humiliation Worsens as Fresh Info Reveals Scale of GOP Losses
The results showed that Democrats don’t have to choose between attacking Trump and highlighting the economy. In fact, they are often inseparable.
newrepublic.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
As election results revealed a massive Democratic tsunami sweeping the nation, Donald Trump picked up his gold phone and tweeted that it didn’t matter because “TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT.”
But of course he was: These historic results are a referendum on his failed presidency.
But of course he was: These historic results are a referendum on his failed presidency.
“A few GOP house members say they’ve heard from FBI/DOJ contacts that the Epstein files (with copies in different agencies) are worse than Michael Wolff’s description of Epstein photos showing Trump with half naked teenage girls.”
Murder will out, Shakespeare says. So, apparently, will molestation.
Murder will out, Shakespeare says. So, apparently, will molestation.
Panic Spreading Through GOP After DOJ Reveals Epstein Files Are More Damaging For Trump Than They Thought: Report
Panic is reportedly spreading among Republicans as whispers grow louder about what’s hidden in the unreleased Jeffrey Epstein files — and just how bad they could be for Donald Trump.
dailyboulder.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“A few GOP house members say they’ve heard from FBI/DOJ contacts that the Epstein files (with copies in different agencies) are worse than Michael Wolff’s description of Epstein photos showing Trump with half naked teenage girls.”
Murder will out, Shakespeare says. So, apparently, will molestation.
Murder will out, Shakespeare says. So, apparently, will molestation.
Human beings should never have to feel this kind of fear. Donald Trump, motivated only by his own greed and infantile insecurity, has turned the power and authority of the United States into a weapon of terror. He is welding that weapon against us and our neighbors and he is doing it in our name.
Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.”
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
November 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Human beings should never have to feel this kind of fear. Donald Trump, motivated only by his own greed and infantile insecurity, has turned the power and authority of the United States into a weapon of terror. He is welding that weapon against us and our neighbors and he is doing it in our name.
The compassion and egalitarian love espoused by Pope Francis and now Pope Leo XIV are more necessary than ever as counterweights to the Trump regime’s weaponization of religion in the service of hate.
#LiberationTheology
#LiberationTheology
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The compassion and egalitarian love espoused by Pope Francis and now Pope Leo XIV are more necessary than ever as counterweights to the Trump regime’s weaponization of religion in the service of hate.
#LiberationTheology
#LiberationTheology
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"If there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power." #ZohranMamdani #PrayForAmerica #RememberThePoor
November 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"If there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power." #ZohranMamdani #PrayForAmerica #RememberThePoor
Asked about his pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, Trump said, “I don’t know who he is.” Asked about Zhao’s apparent role in boosting a crypto coin benefitting the Trump family, he responded, “I know nothing about it, because I’m too busy doing the other thing.”
Either lying or impaired.
Either lying or impaired.
'I don't want to embarrass you': CBS buries damning Trump clip
In his interview with “60 Minutes” that aired on Sunday, President Donald Trump gloated over CBS’ decision to bribe him and praised the news division’s new right-wing leader—but the network did not ai...
www.dailykos.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Asked about his pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, Trump said, “I don’t know who he is.” Asked about Zhao’s apparent role in boosting a crypto coin benefitting the Trump family, he responded, “I know nothing about it, because I’m too busy doing the other thing.”
Either lying or impaired.
Either lying or impaired.
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“The future will only remember what is preserved today, and the choice is between standing by as stories are diluted or destroyed—or fighting for the record.”
Librarians and archivists take a stand to preserve history and halt our spiral into a post-fact nightmare.
Librarians and archivists take a stand to preserve history and halt our spiral into a post-fact nightmare.
The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance | Common Dreams
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts.
www.commondreams.org
November 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“The future will only remember what is preserved today, and the choice is between standing by as stories are diluted or destroyed—or fighting for the record.”
Librarians and archivists take a stand to preserve history and halt our spiral into a post-fact nightmare.
Librarians and archivists take a stand to preserve history and halt our spiral into a post-fact nightmare.
October 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM
REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
Imagine how embarrassing it would be not to have been on Nixon’s enemies list, not to have had the books you wrote burned by the Nazis, not to have been arrested for resistance in Vichy France, not to have worked to undermine Quisling.
Act accordingly.
Act accordingly.
October 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Imagine how embarrassing it would be not to have been on Nixon’s enemies list, not to have had the books you wrote burned by the Nazis, not to have been arrested for resistance in Vichy France, not to have worked to undermine Quisling.
Act accordingly.
Act accordingly.
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The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, once National Security Adviser Mike Waltz who accidentally added a journalist to a Signal Chat, is now being called out for being a liar.
This regime continues to embarrass the U.S. on the world stage, they deserve to be called out every single time!!! 💥
This regime continues to embarrass the U.S. on the world stage, they deserve to be called out every single time!!! 💥
October 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, once National Security Adviser Mike Waltz who accidentally added a journalist to a Signal Chat, is now being called out for being a liar.
This regime continues to embarrass the U.S. on the world stage, they deserve to be called out every single time!!! 💥
This regime continues to embarrass the U.S. on the world stage, they deserve to be called out every single time!!! 💥
Breaking News: Scientists discover minute evidence of vestigial spines in a handful of senate Republicans.
Bipartisan senate group, including four Republicans, votes to end the national emergency Trump used to declare global “reciprocal” tariffs.
Bipartisan senate group, including four Republicans, votes to end the national emergency Trump used to declare global “reciprocal” tariffs.
Senate rejects Trump's global tariffs, the final vote in a series of rebukes
Once again, four Republicans joined with Democrats to approve a resolution condemning a signature part of the president's agenda.
www.politico.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Breaking News: Scientists discover minute evidence of vestigial spines in a handful of senate Republicans.
Bipartisan senate group, including four Republicans, votes to end the national emergency Trump used to declare global “reciprocal” tariffs.
Bipartisan senate group, including four Republicans, votes to end the national emergency Trump used to declare global “reciprocal” tariffs.
Mike Johnson warns that Mamdani’s candidacy is part of a “socialist uprising.” A usual Johnson is stretching the truth, but we can hope!
Mainstream democrats should take a lesson from Mamdani’s campaign. Voters rejecting Trumpism aren’t just looking for slightly less vulgar corporate capitalism.
Mainstream democrats should take a lesson from Mamdani’s campaign. Voters rejecting Trumpism aren’t just looking for slightly less vulgar corporate capitalism.
Poll Shows 25-Point Mamdani Lead Over Cuomo as Frantic GOP Fearmongers Over ‘Socialist Uprising’ | Common Dreams
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson warns of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's "socialist uprising" and accuses Dems of embracing Marxism.
www.commondreams.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Mike Johnson warns that Mamdani’s candidacy is part of a “socialist uprising.” A usual Johnson is stretching the truth, but we can hope!
Mainstream democrats should take a lesson from Mamdani’s campaign. Voters rejecting Trumpism aren’t just looking for slightly less vulgar corporate capitalism.
Mainstream democrats should take a lesson from Mamdani’s campaign. Voters rejecting Trumpism aren’t just looking for slightly less vulgar corporate capitalism.
“[A]ll who seek to protect their neighbors from Trump’s jackboot thugs should wear his antifa smear as a badge of honor. Because fascism is indeed what we face, and resisting it is the urgent challenge of this moment.”
Facing fascism
As lawless gangs of ICE agents terrorize city neighborhoods, it’s getting harder to maintain that the United States is a...
www.christiancentury.org
October 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
“[A]ll who seek to protect their neighbors from Trump’s jackboot thugs should wear his antifa smear as a badge of honor. Because fascism is indeed what we face, and resisting it is the urgent challenge of this moment.”
Lifelong conservative thinker George Will warns that “Congress is now composed almost entirely of two cohorts: those who do nothing but genuflect to their party's president, and those who do nothing but caterwaul about him.” It’s time for both to wake up and take a stand for the Constitution.
George Will rips 'anti-constitutional' Trump’s 'unapologetic unilateralism'
In order to make way for a new ballroom, President Donald Trump ordered the demolition of a building that existed for 123 years: the White House East Wing, which was unveiled in 1902 during Republican...
www.alternet.org
October 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Lifelong conservative thinker George Will warns that “Congress is now composed almost entirely of two cohorts: those who do nothing but genuflect to their party's president, and those who do nothing but caterwaul about him.” It’s time for both to wake up and take a stand for the Constitution.
Wondering why Trump is cutting off SNAP food assistance during his shutdown? Fiorello La Guardia had the answer.
October 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Wondering why Trump is cutting off SNAP food assistance during his shutdown? Fiorello La Guardia had the answer.
Zohran Mamdani reminds us of Fiorello La Guardia’s dictum that “You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.” A government that helps its citizens in their times of struggle fosters democracy.
October 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Zohran Mamdani reminds us of Fiorello La Guardia’s dictum that “You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.” A government that helps its citizens in their times of struggle fosters democracy.
Trump’s “peace plan” for Gaza had no plan and was never about peace. It was a ploy to buy time for Netanyahu to rebuild Israeli support for his genocidal assault on the Palestinian people. And to distract attention from Trump’s entanglement with Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.
Tell me more about this Trump ceasefire and peace deal, please.
Why do our American taxpayer dollars continue to support Israel's occupation and war crimes?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
Why do our American taxpayer dollars continue to support Israel's occupation and war crimes?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill at Least 100, Local Health Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Trump’s “peace plan” for Gaza had no plan and was never about peace. It was a ploy to buy time for Netanyahu to rebuild Israeli support for his genocidal assault on the Palestinian people. And to distract attention from Trump’s entanglement with Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.
Trump’s “peace plan” for Gaza was a scam from the start. Distraction from Epstein at home, while giving Netanyahu a boost with the hostage swap and time to rearm to continue his genocide against Palestinians. Trump has never brought peace to anything. Ever.
Netanyahu Blows Up Ceasefire, Ordering 'Powerful Strikes' on Gaza | Common Dreams
Israel accused Hamas of breaking the US-brokered ceasefire in a manner in which no one was physically harmed. Gaza officials say Israel has violated the truce 125 times, killing or wounding hundreds o...
www.commondreams.org
October 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Trump’s “peace plan” for Gaza was a scam from the start. Distraction from Epstein at home, while giving Netanyahu a boost with the hostage swap and time to rearm to continue his genocide against Palestinians. Trump has never brought peace to anything. Ever.