Paul Palinkas
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The “renovation” of the White House is inseparable from the reconstruction of the state along dictatorial lines.
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Trump builds himself a Versailles on the Potomac
The seat of the American presidency, the White House, is being physically transformed into the architectural embodiment of oligarchic rule.
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October 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The “renovation” of the White House is inseparable from the reconstruction of the state along dictatorial lines.
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What is unfolding is not a temporary aberration or a passing episode. There will be no “return to normal.” With the Trump administration, the US ruling class is breaking with constitutional forms of rule.
What is to be done? How can Trump’s coup be defeated?
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What is to be done? How can Trump’s coup be defeated?
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No Kings, No Nazi Führers! Mobilize the working class against Trump’s dictatorship!
The October 18 demonstrations express deep hostility to the Trump administration’s efforts to set up a fascistic dictatorship, but what is lacking, and what is most critical, is a clear program and co...
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October 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM
What is unfolding is not a temporary aberration or a passing episode. There will be no “return to normal.” With the Trump administration, the US ruling class is breaking with constitutional forms of rule.
What is to be done? How can Trump’s coup be defeated?
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
What is to be done? How can Trump’s coup be defeated?
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i want computer to make movie for me. i want computer to talk to me. i want computer to take my job. i want to fuck computer. i want computer to mock and devalue the very spark of ingenuity and creativity that makes us human
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
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October 15, 2025 at 4:33 AM
i want computer to make movie for me. i want computer to talk to me. i want computer to take my job. i want to fuck computer. i want computer to mock and devalue the very spark of ingenuity and creativity that makes us human
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"a test"? you mean...a violation?
October 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"a test"? you mean...a violation?
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This #CollegeRadioDay, stations worldwide are celebrating student radio’s past & future. Discover 9,000+ artifacts—station flyers, playlists & more—in the College Radio Collection, part of the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications at Internet Archive. 📻 ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/03/h...
October 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This #CollegeRadioDay, stations worldwide are celebrating student radio’s past & future. Discover 9,000+ artifacts—station flyers, playlists & more—in the College Radio Collection, part of the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications at Internet Archive. 📻 ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/03/h...
Trump must be taken at his word. His invocation of “the enemy within” is a declaration of war on the American people, above all the working class.
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Trump declares war on American cities and the “enemy within”
Speaking before hundreds of generals and admirals assembled at a Marine Corps base outside Washington DC, President Donald Trump laid out a plan for establishing a presidential dictatorship in America...
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October 1, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Trump must be taken at his word. His invocation of “the enemy within” is a declaration of war on the American people, above all the working class.
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Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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Charlie Kirk: The Horst Wessel of the MAGA movement
The denunciations of “political violence” by Trump and the GOP reek of hypocrisy. These are the same forces that orchestrated the January 6 coup, celebrated vigilante killers like Kyle Rittenhouse...
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The denunciations of “political violence” by Trump and the GOP reek of hypocrisy. These are the same forces that orchestrated the January 6 coup, celebrated vigilante killers like Kyle Rittenhouse...
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Charlie Kirk: The Horst Wessel of the MAGA movement
Once again emulating the propaganda tactics of Hitler and Goebbels, the Trump administration is portraying Kirk as a political martyr, an American version of the German Nazi Horst Wessel.
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September 12, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Charlie Kirk: The Horst Wessel of the MAGA movement
The denunciations of “political violence” by Trump and the GOP reek of hypocrisy. These are the same forces that orchestrated the January 6 coup, celebrated vigilante killers like Kyle Rittenhouse...
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The denunciations of “political violence” by Trump and the GOP reek of hypocrisy. These are the same forces that orchestrated the January 6 coup, celebrated vigilante killers like Kyle Rittenhouse...
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What political reasons would lead the administration and the ruling class to feel that it is necessary to deploy soldiers in American cities to counter “civil unrest”?
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The corporate-financial interests behind Trump’s executive orders to deploy the National Guard in US cities
Trump’s program speaks for a ruling class determined to reverse the entire course of modern American history, tearing up every social advance won through struggle since the Civil War.
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August 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
What political reasons would lead the administration and the ruling class to feel that it is necessary to deploy soldiers in American cities to counter “civil unrest”?
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The year is 2025 and there are still ice cream and pizza establishments that don’t have lactaid
August 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The year is 2025 and there are still ice cream and pizza establishments that don’t have lactaid
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Two weeks ago, CPJ reported on Anas Al-Sharif getting threats from the IDF to cease reporting. He didn’t, and now he’s dead.
He’s not the only journalist getting threats from the IDF. We partnered with @theintercept.com to document this horrific practice.
He’s not the only journalist getting threats from the IDF. We partnered with @theintercept.com to document this horrific practice.
August 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Two weeks ago, CPJ reported on Anas Al-Sharif getting threats from the IDF to cease reporting. He didn’t, and now he’s dead.
He’s not the only journalist getting threats from the IDF. We partnered with @theintercept.com to document this horrific practice.
He’s not the only journalist getting threats from the IDF. We partnered with @theintercept.com to document this horrific practice.
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Sometimes, nothing is injured but the man who is thus annihilated
August 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Sometimes, nothing is injured but the man who is thus annihilated
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the deli counter guy is the rock star of the grocery store
August 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
the deli counter guy is the rock star of the grocery store
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My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good
April 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good
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Trump’s attempts to assert absolute control over academic and cultural life reflect a ruling class that has reached an impasse. It is at war with science, culture and all progressive thought. Above all, it is at war with the working class.
July 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Trump’s attempts to assert absolute control over academic and cultural life reflect a ruling class that has reached an impasse. It is at war with science, culture and all progressive thought. Above all, it is at war with the working class.
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In a sane world, every newspaper would run on A1 tomorrow:
“IDF THREAT: IF JOURNALISTS PHOTOGRAPH GAZA, WE WILL STARVE GAZA”
“IDF THREAT: IF JOURNALISTS PHOTOGRAPH GAZA, WE WILL STARVE GAZA”
Journalists covering the aid air drops say they have been warned by Israel not to film Gaza from the air or the air drops will stop. (Do they not want us to see the scale of the damage?)
“International journalists have not been allowed inside Gaza.”
“International journalists have not been allowed inside Gaza.”
July 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
In a sane world, every newspaper would run on A1 tomorrow:
“IDF THREAT: IF JOURNALISTS PHOTOGRAPH GAZA, WE WILL STARVE GAZA”
“IDF THREAT: IF JOURNALISTS PHOTOGRAPH GAZA, WE WILL STARVE GAZA”
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"Marx sketched the whole broad outline of American capitalism as it is today in advance of its development. In return for that, American capitalism in all its main features is the crowning proof of Marxism." —James P. Cannon www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
From Karl Marx to the Fourth of July
We are posting today for the benefit of our readers an article authored by James P. Cannon, published in The Militanton July 16, 1951. Cannon (1890-1974) was a founding member of the Trotskyist moveme...
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July 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"Marx sketched the whole broad outline of American capitalism as it is today in advance of its development. In return for that, American capitalism in all its main features is the crowning proof of Marxism." —James P. Cannon www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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California Democrats lead unanimous attack on free speech with AB 715
The truth is that fascism cannot be fought by those who enable it. The Democratic Party is not a bulwark against authoritarianism—it is one of its main facilitators.
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The truth is that fascism cannot be fought by those who enable it. The Democratic Party is not a bulwark against authoritarianism—it is one of its main facilitators.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
California Democrats lead unanimous attack on free speech with AB 715
California’s AB 715, approved unanimously in the Assembly by Democrats and Republicans, is a draconian assault on free speech and political dissent disguised as anti-discrimination law, targeting oppo...
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July 3, 2025 at 4:48 AM
California Democrats lead unanimous attack on free speech with AB 715
The truth is that fascism cannot be fought by those who enable it. The Democratic Party is not a bulwark against authoritarianism—it is one of its main facilitators.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The truth is that fascism cannot be fought by those who enable it. The Democratic Party is not a bulwark against authoritarianism—it is one of its main facilitators.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia describes being tortured in the El Salvador mega prison, where Trump sent him without due process — admittedly by mistake.
As un-American as it gets. And others are still there.
As un-American as it gets. And others are still there.
July 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia describes being tortured in the El Salvador mega prison, where Trump sent him without due process — admittedly by mistake.
As un-American as it gets. And others are still there.
As un-American as it gets. And others are still there.
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Today, Palestinian photojournalist Ismail Abuhatab was killed along with 19 other Palestinians, most of them journalists, artists, and social media activists, in an Israeli airstrike on al-Baqa Cafe on the beach in western Gaza.
June 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Today, Palestinian photojournalist Ismail Abuhatab was killed along with 19 other Palestinians, most of them journalists, artists, and social media activists, in an Israeli airstrike on al-Baqa Cafe on the beach in western Gaza.
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New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
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June 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
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What the heck is this Apple? Just straight up pushing ads to my phone now?
June 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
What the heck is this Apple? Just straight up pushing ads to my phone now?
The ICFI and its affiliated Socialist Equality Parties call for mass opposition to the Trump administration’s plans to launch a direct war against Iran. We call for protests, demonstrations and walkouts to oppose this act of imperialist aggression.
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Stop the war against Iran!
American imperialism and its Israeli proxy continue to escalate their illegal, unprovoked war of aggression against Iran, with US nuclear-capable B-52s and aircraft carrier battle groups readying to l...
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June 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The ICFI and its affiliated Socialist Equality Parties call for mass opposition to the Trump administration’s plans to launch a direct war against Iran. We call for protests, demonstrations and walkouts to oppose this act of imperialist aggression.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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The World Socialist Web Site, the International Committee of the Fourth International and its affiliated Socialist Equality Parties stand unequivocally for the defeat of US imperialism and its Israeli proxy.
June 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The World Socialist Web Site, the International Committee of the Fourth International and its affiliated Socialist Equality Parties stand unequivocally for the defeat of US imperialism and its Israeli proxy.
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ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A.
After realizing he’s American, they just slink away.
Their only explanation: “Why were you running?”
Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.
After realizing he’s American, they just slink away.
Their only explanation: “Why were you running?”
Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.
June 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A.
After realizing he’s American, they just slink away.
Their only explanation: “Why were you running?”
Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.
After realizing he’s American, they just slink away.
Their only explanation: “Why were you running?”
Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.