geraldmcgrew
@geraldmcgrew.bsky.social
Socialist who believes we must defeat fascism, that neoliberal capitalism is no longer viable even by capitalist standards, and that we must consolidate green social democracy – all while building movement strong/large enough to achieve true socialism ASAP
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*Capitalism is failing us. Instead of bringing a decent life it generates an outrageous gap between the rich and the rest; unaffordable housing, healthcare & education; racial & gender inequality; climate disaster. Economist David Kotz argues it's time we built a new socialism for the 21st century*
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An important article on how the US., under both Republican and Democratic administrations, continued to support the corrupt, repressive Honduran strongman Hernández. He was finally sentenced to decades in jail for cocaine trafficking, only to be pardoned by Trump. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s pardon of an ex-Honduran president is shocking. So is the history of US support for him | Dana Frank
Obama, Trump, and Biden stood by their man in Tegucigalpa for the eight vicious, destructive years he was in power
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
An important article on how the US., under both Republican and Democratic administrations, continued to support the corrupt, repressive Honduran strongman Hernández. He was finally sentenced to decades in jail for cocaine trafficking, only to be pardoned by Trump. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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#WolffBites: Trump in his own words: "the most anti-war president in history." In fact, Trump bombed 9 nations, more than any other president ever.
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-b...
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-b...
US Launches Christmas Strikes on Nigeria—the 9th Country Bombed by Trump | Common Dreams
Trump—who calls himself "the most anti-war president in history"—has now bombed more countries than any president in history.
www.commondreams.org
December 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
#WolffBites: Trump in his own words: "the most anti-war president in history." In fact, Trump bombed 9 nations, more than any other president ever.
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-b...
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-b...
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What makes the current moment especially dangerous is how openly this agenda is being articulated—and these ideas are being laundered through think tanks, legal strategies, and policy roadmaps designed for immediate implementation. trib.al/VIsWxCg
The Right-Wing Campaign to Bring Back Gender Segregation in Schools
The people who brought you “Project 2025” sure seem to be ramping up an attack on equality in higher ed.
trib.al
December 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
What makes the current moment especially dangerous is how openly this agenda is being articulated—and these ideas are being laundered through think tanks, legal strategies, and policy roadmaps designed for immediate implementation. trib.al/VIsWxCg
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Trump officials have used Charlie Kirk’s murder as an excuse for doubling down on their own brand of McCarthyism. What is behind this grisly, carnivalesque display of self-entitlement and grievance?
Phantom Threat | Hannah Gais
With enough conspiratorial flair, just about anyone can be a fire-breathing radical.
thebaffler.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Trump officials have used Charlie Kirk’s murder as an excuse for doubling down on their own brand of McCarthyism. What is behind this grisly, carnivalesque display of self-entitlement and grievance?
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Washington Post goes full out Trumpian, comes out against healthcare and for global warming deanbaker22.substack.com/p/washington...
Washington Post’s Trumpian Ideology Boils Over
It comes out strongly against healthcare and for global warming
deanbaker22.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Washington Post goes full out Trumpian, comes out against healthcare and for global warming deanbaker22.substack.com/p/washington...
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“Separate” has never been equal because separation exists solely to justify unequal power. trib.al/soPCg6j
December 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“Separate” has never been equal because separation exists solely to justify unequal power. trib.al/soPCg6j
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Fascinating new book about how urban planning and speculation vaporized a poor neighborhood in Baltimore.
www.thebanner.com/economy/high...
www.thebanner.com/economy/high...
How a ‘ghost highway’ destroyed a prosperous Black neighborhood
“Road to Nowhere,” a new book by historian Emily Lieb, sheds light on what happened to Rosemont, a neighborhood in West Baltimore that was set to be demolished for a highway.
www.thebanner.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Fascinating new book about how urban planning and speculation vaporized a poor neighborhood in Baltimore.
www.thebanner.com/economy/high...
www.thebanner.com/economy/high...
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Private cities are why they want Greenland.
These will be the places fascists run to when they lose power. If you haven’t heard of the company Praxis or the other venture capital firms owned by people like Thiel & Altman, look into them! They want corporate dystopias like Night City to be reality.
These will be the places fascists run to when they lose power. If you haven’t heard of the company Praxis or the other venture capital firms owned by people like Thiel & Altman, look into them! They want corporate dystopias like Night City to be reality.
December 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Private cities are why they want Greenland.
These will be the places fascists run to when they lose power. If you haven’t heard of the company Praxis or the other venture capital firms owned by people like Thiel & Altman, look into them! They want corporate dystopias like Night City to be reality.
These will be the places fascists run to when they lose power. If you haven’t heard of the company Praxis or the other venture capital firms owned by people like Thiel & Altman, look into them! They want corporate dystopias like Night City to be reality.
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"That is why the hunger strikers call for resistance, not mere words or gestures of solidarity."
Bodies as Barricades
As the Prisoners for Palestine hunger strike enters its 48th day, the eight political prisoners in British jails are now at risk of death.
buff.ly
December 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"That is why the hunger strikers call for resistance, not mere words or gestures of solidarity."
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ICE’s occupation in Memphis, the largest Black-majority city in the country, has reshaped daily life, keeping kids out of school and parents from work, turning grocery shopping into a mission that risks one’s family being torn apart.
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
ICE’s occupation in Memphis, the largest Black-majority city in the country, has reshaped daily life, keeping kids out of school and parents from work, turning grocery shopping into a mission that risks one’s family being torn apart.
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In the first Trump administration, cruelty was the point. Now, it is the norm.
A year of hell for immigrants
In the first Trump administration, cruelty was the point. Now, it is the norm.
www.motherjones.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
In the first Trump administration, cruelty was the point. Now, it is the norm.
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Trump has now bombed more countries than any president in US history.
US Bombs Nigeria on Christmas Day in Trump’s Latest Military Escalation
Trump has now bombed more countries than any president in US history.
truthout.org
December 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Trump has now bombed more countries than any president in US history.
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Donald the Dove and FIFA Peace Prize recipient
Trump has now bombed more countries than any president in US history.
US Bombs Nigeria on Christmas Day in Trump’s Latest Military Escalation
Trump has now bombed more countries than any president in US history.
truthout.org
December 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Donald the Dove and FIFA Peace Prize recipient
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For ICE to do this on Christmas Eve—especially as part of an administration that postures as godly—is particularly cruel. trib.al/loxXKOw
December 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
For ICE to do this on Christmas Eve—especially as part of an administration that postures as godly—is particularly cruel. trib.al/loxXKOw
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Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
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The lecturer in question is our colleague in children’s literature studies. She is a brilliant scholar and from all accounts a gifted teacher.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The lecturer in question is our colleague in children’s literature studies. She is a brilliant scholar and from all accounts a gifted teacher.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
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the universities are often willing to pay $1 mn to get rid of someone. Juries should make it more expensive
The lecturer in question is our colleague in children’s literature studies. She is a brilliant scholar and from all accounts a gifted teacher.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
December 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
the universities are often willing to pay $1 mn to get rid of someone. Juries should make it more expensive
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By treating constituent problems as urgent and solvable, Zohran Mamdani is answering a strangely radical question: What if everyday government services actually worked?
“It’s really important to us that there are fewer barriers for New Yorkers to get what they need from the government."
“It’s really important to us that there are fewer barriers for New Yorkers to get what they need from the government."
NYC's socialist mayor has a radical proposal: making government do its job
Rent freezes and free buses can come later. But what if landlords obeyed the law and transit ran on time?
www.motherjones.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
By treating constituent problems as urgent and solvable, Zohran Mamdani is answering a strangely radical question: What if everyday government services actually worked?
“It’s really important to us that there are fewer barriers for New Yorkers to get what they need from the government."
“It’s really important to us that there are fewer barriers for New Yorkers to get what they need from the government."
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Trump is running with his incorrect claims of Christian genocide in Nigeria, much like he ran with the absurd claims of white genocide in South Africa—and *both* Christian and Muslims in Nigeria will suffer the consequences. trib.al/x79wx6M
December 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Trump is running with his incorrect claims of Christian genocide in Nigeria, much like he ran with the absurd claims of white genocide in South Africa—and *both* Christian and Muslims in Nigeria will suffer the consequences. trib.al/x79wx6M
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Unfortunately, Instacart’s predatory pricing is just one small piece of a much larger–and rapidly growing–economy of extraction, says @lindsayowens.bsky.social of @groundwork.bsky.social.
Instacart, Stop Using American Shoppers as Lab Rats During an Affordability Crisis
The grocery delivery app is conducting large-scale, hidden pricing experiments on unsuspecting shoppers to determine just how much money they can extract from customers on the groceries they buy to feed their families.
www.commondreams.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Unfortunately, Instacart’s predatory pricing is just one small piece of a much larger–and rapidly growing–economy of extraction, says @lindsayowens.bsky.social of @groundwork.bsky.social.
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Looking back on 2025, staff writer @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social writes about the “60,000 immigrants languishing in Trump’s immigration concentration camps,” and the private prison contractors profiting off their detention: trib.al/8kwNarw
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Staff writer Whitney Wimbish’s Best of 2025
trib.al
December 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Looking back on 2025, staff writer @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social writes about the “60,000 immigrants languishing in Trump’s immigration concentration camps,” and the private prison contractors profiting off their detention: trib.al/8kwNarw
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Revolutions in Reverse is a book from David Graeber about politics, violence and art.
If you are searching for a book to read for 2026 that will make you think about different possibilities for this world - make you think about alternatives to capitalism, this might be a good pick.
If you are searching for a book to read for 2026 that will make you think about different possibilities for this world - make you think about alternatives to capitalism, this might be a good pick.
December 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Revolutions in Reverse is a book from David Graeber about politics, violence and art.
If you are searching for a book to read for 2026 that will make you think about different possibilities for this world - make you think about alternatives to capitalism, this might be a good pick.
If you are searching for a book to read for 2026 that will make you think about different possibilities for this world - make you think about alternatives to capitalism, this might be a good pick.
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A great example of how the @nytimes.com centers white Americans and Trump supporters in its anecdotal political coverage. You never see stories like this about Black Democrats whose cities are cracked in Republican gerrymandering to give them Republican elected officials.
They Wanted a Conservative State. They Might Get a Democratic Representative Instead.
The passage of Proposition 50, which redrew California’s congressional map, means that all of the state’s conservative north is likely to be represented by Democrats.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...
The passage of Proposition 50, which redrew California’s congressional map, means that all of the state’s conservative north is likely to be represented by Democrats.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...
They Wanted a Conservative State. They Might Get a Democratic Representative Instead.
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
A great example of how the @nytimes.com centers white Americans and Trump supporters in its anecdotal political coverage. You never see stories like this about Black Democrats whose cities are cracked in Republican gerrymandering to give them Republican elected officials.
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an unspoken truth is that “conservative” is coded “white” which is why the media reports on them like their grievances are the only ones coming from “real america”
A great example of how the @nytimes.com centers white Americans and Trump supporters in its anecdotal political coverage. You never see stories like this about Black Democrats whose cities are cracked in Republican gerrymandering to give them Republican elected officials.
They Wanted a Conservative State. They Might Get a Democratic Representative Instead.
The passage of Proposition 50, which redrew California’s congressional map, means that all of the state’s conservative north is likely to be represented by Democrats.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...
The passage of Proposition 50, which redrew California’s congressional map, means that all of the state’s conservative north is likely to be represented by Democrats.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...
December 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
an unspoken truth is that “conservative” is coded “white” which is why the media reports on them like their grievances are the only ones coming from “real america”