So many reforms of capitalism and it ended up being like scurvy- all the old wounds open up. Reform won’t win.

Upholding #TikTok ban, Supreme Court attacks First Amendment ahead of Trump inauguration

“National security,” as defined by the American government, supersedes free speech.

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Washington Post cartoonist resigns after paper kills her scathing sketch depicting Bezos & other oligarchs bowing before #Trump

Corporate newspapers & media companies that previously postured as defenders of “democracy” are bending the knee before the aspiring dictator
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#Liberal government intervenes to outlaw Canada Post #strike

"We haven’t been on strike for four weeks, only to be thrown aside and forced back to work. It is antidemocratic and it is something I absolutely won’t stand for."-Postal Worker

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When one engages with middle class fake leftists like the DSA beware of them throwing a tanty

The type of people who think she’s said anything will also like horoscopes, Myers Briggs tests, motivational speakers, and chatgpt therapy… all of which are empty platitudes that can resonate with anyone but mean nothing and say nothing

This kind of mind numbing politicking is intended to mask the fascism. Why are they hand wringing over alcohol? Because the bourgeoisie doesn’t like Hegseth but don’t want to present anything that will indict all of them. Like calling Trump a felon when they’re all criminals.

#Thanksgiving in #America 2024: Social devastation for the working class, billions more for the oligarchs

The levels of oligarchic excess and parasitism in the #US are particularly grotesque...
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Public service announcement that Charles Booth's 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9' have been uploaded by LSE archive online to be viewed and reproduced freely. 🗃️ unsplash.com/collections/...

I’m concerned that people are criticizing Trump’s cabinet picks on their moral failings and not their fascist politics

Identity politics in the service of anticommunism

I really don’t like this argument that we should oppose Trump because the terror against migrants will cause prices to go up. Prices will go up because of capitalism- I defend immigrants right to live in the US with good pay and good jobs, not to continue to provide the highly exploited underclass.

🧵on the Democratic Party's collapse in support (except among the rich) & election of Trump. Trump's vote increased slightly (~74 million to ~76 million), but Dems vote total fell by nearly ~8 million, a historic collapse.
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Several OK superintendents are refusing to play the new video that their Dept of Ed mandated. In dismissing OK like this, we miss the fact that the entire state's teaching faculty went on strike in 2017 for better conditions and were shut down. OK and MA teachers must unite!

When did you leave the Democratic Party, and why? I left in 2011 after the war in Libya, but I was on my way out when the Obama admin "bailed out" the auto companies but only if they cut new workers wages in half, and continued the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. I became a socialist. #demexit

Jury awards $42 million to 3 Iraqis tortured in #AbuGhraib prison, holding #US military contractor responsible

Each described being beaten, deprived of sleep, isolated, stripped, shaved, subjected to extreme temperatures, sexually assaulted...

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NYC is on fire because Eric Adams took a hatchet to the Parks Department budget, firing 51 forestry specialists who remove the dead trees and invasive species most likely to ignite during dry periods.

Any #educators on here want to talk about Trump's plans for nuking equal education? See this article:

Wanted to share this excellent webinar- "The election debacle and the fight against dictatorship"