wow. greater Illinois is really happening.

not attending G20? I guess they are really just embracing the Chinese Century huh

9 million people die every year from starvation in capitalism as we speak

that is 25k people each day.

Those numbers will not decrease with climate change

Now that Bolsonaro's legal issues are heating up I kind of want to write something about how the Democrats followed the path of Lula, Trump would be in jail and not president-elect

Again, I'll point to UIUC and the Salita case.

My students learn about this in one of my courses because it shows how influential a very wealthy donor can be - and how they can influence the BoT and upper admins.

Let them do it once and they'll forever believe they can affect other behavior.

It seems the summer COVID surge has become the fall COVID surge. Get your updated booster if you haven't already!
biobot.io/data/

New episode of the Learning & Labor podcast talks about an underlooked progressive figure in US and Illinois history: John Altgeld. Now commemorated across Illinois, Altgeld was hated by the elite during his lifetime for his defense of workers. Check it out here:
open.spotify.com/episode/3Tuf...

better alternative: the house never has a speaker and never approves any additional funding for genocide

Cultivating socialist culture is really important for the development of our movement. I was lucky to attend a great example of that this past summer, with Dutch youth socialist organization ROOD's socialist summer camp.

Read my report back in YDSA's The Activst:
y.dsausa.org/the-activist...

it seems like bluesky is more likely as a true twitter replacement than threads, tbh. threads theoretically more people on there but it doesn't seem like anyone really uses it and my feed is still very corporate and clean rather than showing posters I like.

The University of Illinois and wasn't just founded on stolen indigenous lands.

The Morrill Act of 1862 which created UIUC - and other land grant institutions - was predicated on theft of millions of acres of native land.

Check out Learning & Labor Episode 1: to learn more: spotify.link/Aa0CbZJYEDb

i'm excited to announce a project i've been working on for a while: the Learning & Labor Podcast! Its going to explore the history and politics of UIUC.

This quick introductory episode goes over the basics of the plans for the podcast. spotify.link/RH5ZRGkkyDb

bluesky is surprisingly usable tbh compared to threads there's actually interesting posts in my feed

I love that Bob Menendez's corruption involved literal bars of gold, that's such a fun throwback

it's so crazy they have the number of posts as like a main metric of your profile here

so this is exactly the same as what twitter was but just with fewer people?

IMPEACH DONALD TRUMP!