@lfelizleon.bsky.social
Journalist. Staff writer at Labor Notes. Solidarity! Contact: lfelizleon@gmail.com. Substack:
https://open.substack.com/pub/lowerfrequencies
https://open.substack.com/pub/lowerfrequencies
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"It said on Sunday that there would be two days of mourning on January 5 and 6 in honour of those killed and said funeral arrangements would be announced."
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Cuba says 32 Cubans killed during US raids on Venezuela
Havana declares two days of mourning for the Cubans killed in US's raid to capture Nicolas Maduro.
www.aljazeera.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:58 AM
"It said on Sunday that there would be two days of mourning on January 5 and 6 in honour of those killed and said funeral arrangements would be announced."
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
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Opposing these attacks is not an endorsement of Maduro’s corrupt and authoritarian rule; it is a matter of democratic states upholding the right to national sovereignty and respect for international law. open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
January 4, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Opposing these attacks is not an endorsement of Maduro’s corrupt and authoritarian rule; it is a matter of democratic states upholding the right to national sovereignty and respect for international law. open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
Donald Trump has illegally invaded the sovereign country of Venezuela and kidnapped its president. What’s behind the imperial designs behind the U.S. intervention? Here are some tentative thoughts.
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Only the Venezuelan People Shall Rule. No Blood for Oil!
Donald Trump has illegally invaded Venezuela and kidnapped its president and his wife.
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January 3, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Donald Trump has illegally invaded the sovereign country of Venezuela and kidnapped its president. What’s behind the imperial designs behind the U.S. intervention? Here are some tentative thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
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The rogue government of the United States under Donald Trump’s leadership has illegally invaded the sovereign country of Venezuela and kidnapped its president. In addition to Panama & Grenada, I’d add the Dominican Republic as another historical example. prospect.org/2021/01/15/c...
Chickens Coming Home to Roost: Far Right Storms U.S. Capitol - The American Prospect
The Capitol Riot recalls right-wing counterinsurgencies the U.S. has sponsored in the Dominican Republic and around the world.
prospect.org
January 3, 2026 at 6:44 PM
The rogue government of the United States under Donald Trump’s leadership has illegally invaded the sovereign country of Venezuela and kidnapped its president. In addition to Panama & Grenada, I’d add the Dominican Republic as another historical example. prospect.org/2021/01/15/c...
U.S. imperialism speaks without pieties to democracy or any liberal pretense whatsoever. It’s a raw billionaire power grab as part of a global imperial rivalry dynamic in the face of economic stagnation. This isn’t the old liberal imperialism of the Bush/Obama years.
January 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
U.S. imperialism speaks without pieties to democracy or any liberal pretense whatsoever. It’s a raw billionaire power grab as part of a global imperial rivalry dynamic in the face of economic stagnation. This isn’t the old liberal imperialism of the Bush/Obama years.
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Please, CBS, don’t quote any experts on Venezuela, or the War Powers Resolution, or the history of regime change.
We want a conversation — with Real Americans! No fancy-pants professors who’ve spent 2/3 of their lives studying this stuff.
We want a conversation — with Real Americans! No fancy-pants professors who’ve spent 2/3 of their lives studying this stuff.
January 3, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Please, CBS, don’t quote any experts on Venezuela, or the War Powers Resolution, or the history of regime change.
We want a conversation — with Real Americans! No fancy-pants professors who’ve spent 2/3 of their lives studying this stuff.
We want a conversation — with Real Americans! No fancy-pants professors who’ve spent 2/3 of their lives studying this stuff.
On the AI freakout, here’s a long article about what’s what. Punchline: My biggest worry is the expansion of militarism via tech monopoly.
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open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
Intelligent War Machinery
Here's a digressive essay reviewing three recent books about the tech sector's oligarchs.
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January 2, 2026 at 5:45 PM
On the AI freakout, here’s a long article about what’s what. Punchline: My biggest worry is the expansion of militarism via tech monopoly.
open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
Zohran Mamdani has liberated me from the language prison of middle-class civility.
“For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty,” said Mamdani in his inaugural address.
“For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty,” said Mamdani in his inaugural address.
Read Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address. open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
January 2, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Zohran Mamdani has liberated me from the language prison of middle-class civility.
“For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty,” said Mamdani in his inaugural address.
“For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty,” said Mamdani in his inaugural address.
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The consultants were always wrong, and 2025 proved it: no district is too big to canvass. Canvassing wins championships.
In 2026, the prize is childcare for all by taxing the rich. Friends, this year let's hit the ground running. ourtime.nyc/act/events
In 2026, the prize is childcare for all by taxing the rich. Friends, this year let's hit the ground running. ourtime.nyc/act/events
👥 [who] You, me, and hundreds more
🚪 [what] Tax the rich field op
👶🏽 [why] For universal childcare
🗓️ [when] Sat, Jan 10 @ 12-3pm
✍🏽 [how] ourtime.nyc/act/events
Organized by @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social + @socialists.nyc
🚪 [what] Tax the rich field op
👶🏽 [why] For universal childcare
🗓️ [when] Sat, Jan 10 @ 12-3pm
✍🏽 [how] ourtime.nyc/act/events
Organized by @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social + @socialists.nyc
![Screenshot of the "Events" page from Our Time's website (ourtime [dot] nyc).
On the left is a column of text in a color scheme resembling that used by the Zohran for NYC campaign; this column of text lists, by neighborhood, the specific canvassing events planned for Sunday, January 10, 2026.
On the right is a map of New York City in light gray, with balloon-shaped icons in blue denoting the locations of the canvassing events; there are 15 such icons visible, with the greatest number clustered in Brooklyn but at least one in each borough.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qjwdvmjdkvtjffx6ju2j4fy5/bafkreiezfbzxm7xnqafhnr3actc7yugbl5ccca2w6hdjzx2pnkxqngviwu@jpeg)
January 1, 2026 at 4:23 PM
The consultants were always wrong, and 2025 proved it: no district is too big to canvass. Canvassing wins championships.
In 2026, the prize is childcare for all by taxing the rich. Friends, this year let's hit the ground running. ourtime.nyc/act/events
In 2026, the prize is childcare for all by taxing the rich. Friends, this year let's hit the ground running. ourtime.nyc/act/events
Read Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address. open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
January 1, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Read Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address. open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
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Zohran Mamdani's campaign cut across ethnic and racial divides not by ignoring those differences but by building a unified political platform wrapped around good public services and a strong labor movement, @lfelizleon.bsky.social reported in November labornotes.org/2025/11/zohr... 1/5
Zohran Mamdani: New York's Working Class Elects a Movement Mayor
Zohran Kwame Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist and the Democratic nominee, will be New York City’s next mayor, after trouncing former Governor Andrew Cuomo in a primary and general election double whamm...
labornotes.org
January 1, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Zohran Mamdani's campaign cut across ethnic and racial divides not by ignoring those differences but by building a unified political platform wrapped around good public services and a strong labor movement, @lfelizleon.bsky.social reported in November labornotes.org/2025/11/zohr... 1/5
Zuccotti Park 2026: 40,000 people line up alongside barricades to celebrate NYC’s democratic socialist mayor. For those of us who participated in Occupy Wall Street, today marks a turning point in the millennial left. It’s too early to say what it will mean, but it’s significant.
January 1, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Zuccotti Park 2026: 40,000 people line up alongside barricades to celebrate NYC’s democratic socialist mayor. For those of us who participated in Occupy Wall Street, today marks a turning point in the millennial left. It’s too early to say what it will mean, but it’s significant.
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As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
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"Militancy without politics isn't enough." lowerfrequencies.substack.com/p/the-teamst... by @lfelizleon.bsky.social
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December 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"Militancy without politics isn't enough." lowerfrequencies.substack.com/p/the-teamst... by @lfelizleon.bsky.social
“No human being deserves this,” Mr. Bello said in Spanish. “We endured so much hunger and cold.”
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Another Front in the Trump Immigration Crackdown: Import Warehouses
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 3:46 AM
“No human being deserves this,” Mr. Bello said in Spanish. “We endured so much hunger and cold.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/n...
Long review about three recent books on Big Tech in the poor person’s London Review of Books. Link below!
December 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Long review about three recent books on Big Tech in the poor person’s London Review of Books. Link below!
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What do a "Charlie Brown Christmas," "Love Actually," "Little Women" and many of your other holiday faves have in common? We at the Labor Notes pod have played them backwards to decipher their coded organizing messages labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/all-holida...
December 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
What do a "Charlie Brown Christmas," "Love Actually," "Little Women" and many of your other holiday faves have in common? We at the Labor Notes pod have played them backwards to decipher their coded organizing messages labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/all-holida...
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"[T]he demands labor partisans must exact from our opponents will not be solely confined to the economic realm. There will need to be political demands. No one benefits from pretending otherwise. And TDU [Teamsters for a Democratic Union] can play an important role in showing how it can be done."
Why Teamsters President Sean O’Brien’s embrace of authoritarian politics threatens workers far beyond the Teamsters and what it will take to rebuild class solidarity?
open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
The Teamsters Have a MAGA Problem. Here’s Why.
Militancy without politics isn't enough. We need a social reconstruction of class and politics with unions at the center.
open.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"[T]he demands labor partisans must exact from our opponents will not be solely confined to the economic realm. There will need to be political demands. No one benefits from pretending otherwise. And TDU [Teamsters for a Democratic Union] can play an important role in showing how it can be done."
Why Teamsters President Sean O’Brien’s embrace of authoritarian politics threatens workers far beyond the Teamsters and what it will take to rebuild class solidarity?
open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
The Teamsters Have a MAGA Problem. Here’s Why.
Militancy without politics isn't enough. We need a social reconstruction of class and politics with unions at the center.
open.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Why Teamsters President Sean O’Brien’s embrace of authoritarian politics threatens workers far beyond the Teamsters and what it will take to rebuild class solidarity?
open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
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#OtD 25 Dec 1831 enslaved people in Jamaica went on strike to demand emancipation. They would start an armed revolt that eventually forced the British Empire to outlaw slavery in its territory. Learn more in CLR James' great book on global Black struggle: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...
December 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
#OtD 25 Dec 1831 enslaved people in Jamaica went on strike to demand emancipation. They would start an armed revolt that eventually forced the British Empire to outlaw slavery in its territory. Learn more in CLR James' great book on global Black struggle: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...
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The reason building a domestic electric car manufacturing network made sense is because it could nurture a technology cluster and give battery producers a built-in local market. Destroying it has implications for everything else that uses batteries.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/c...
The Pentagon and A.I. Giants Have a Weakness. Both Need China’s Batteries, Badly.
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The reason building a domestic electric car manufacturing network made sense is because it could nurture a technology cluster and give battery producers a built-in local market. Destroying it has implications for everything else that uses batteries.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/c...
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@lfelizleon.bsky.social: “When union leaders like O’Brien signal that immigrant workers are expendable, it erodes the power of the entire working class.” lowerfrequencies.substack.com/p/the-teamst...
The Teamsters Have a MAGA Problem. Here’s Why.
Militancy without politics isn't enough. We need a social reconstruction of class and politics with unions at the center.
lowerfrequencies.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
@lfelizleon.bsky.social: “When union leaders like O’Brien signal that immigrant workers are expendable, it erodes the power of the entire working class.” lowerfrequencies.substack.com/p/the-teamst...