Rocketelle

If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money.

And if they can talk you into believing anyone else is to blame, they will keep picking your pockets and purchasing themselves politicians and getting away with it.

MINNESOTA Rep. @angiecraigmn.bsky.social : “They are still racially profiling… Dems need to hold the line. The senate needs to hold the line. I will not forgive anyone who doesn’t stand their ground at this moment in time, and I don’t think the 🇺🇸 people will either.”

(From @atrupar.com

REP. @aoc.bsky.social : “It’s important to remember there’s more of us than them — every one of us can be sand in the gears of an injustice.”

9/ WTF?! 27 states have already agreed to use the SAVE system—which links to an SSA database mishandled by DOGE— to purge their voter rolls. (So the security of the 2026 election will be compromised even if the Save Anerica Act doesn’t pass.) www.texastribune.org/2026/02/13/s...)

Capitalism, Democracy, and Du Bois’s <em>Two</em> Proletariats [epq-quote align="align-right"]"What can be more radical or liberating than freedom and justice for all?"[/epq-quote] As an ideal, liberal democracy has great appeal. What can be more radical or liber...

W.E.B. Du Bois said, the "black proletariat is not part of the white proletariat."

"Capitalism, Democracy, and Du Bois’s Two Proletariats" by J. Phillip Thompson.

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It's strange how W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction gets read by some as a Marxist book. It informed his thinking and teaching but Du Bois said that sociologically, Marxism didn't apply to the United States as much as it would to other countries because of how racism resulted in two proletariats.

“She’s not from here.”

If you think there’s NOTHING in our heritage (or in any nation’s) to be unapologetic about, you’re a fool. A dangerous fool.

Calling HR meme with Marco Rubio and JD Vance both saying "Europe should be more racist" but to different effect

This year at the Munich Security Conference vs. Last year at the Munich Security Conference

A racist tweet by Elon Musk: For a country to survive, there has to be a common culture. Nobody dies to defend a "multicultural economic zone!" American culture, with its English-Scootts-Irish origin, is great and worth fighting for. Some may not realize it, but that's why people come here.

My English-Scots-Irish ancestors didn't die for multiculturalism; they killed for it. Killed Confederates who said shit exactly like this.

The governor who refuses to ban caste discrimination now fundraising for the former mayor who set into motion "Cop City". 10/10 no notes, good job everybody

Well well well

GINA CHRIST: “My name is Gina Christ. And I live in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. I was on my way to work. There’s people all around my car. I have both hands up on either side of my face — you cannot hear me. An ICE agent breaks my driver’s side window, glass, reaches in, opens my door, pulls me out of the door, tells me to get on the ground, zip-ties me — and now gas, flashbangs, pepper spray. There was no need. They detoured to grab me. They could have continued to drive. Their cars were past my car. They passed my car, jumped out of their cars, apprehended me, and kept going. Once I was detained, it was very like, ‘Do you have water? Are you comfortable? How’s the heat?’ It was a very schizophrenic experience. I mean, this is insane. This isn’t anything that could minutely be referred to as a couple of bad apples.”

ALIYA RAHMAN: “My name is Aliya Rahman. I was born in Northern Wisconsin, grew up in Bangladesh. I now live in Minneapolis. I came upon a traffic jam that I pretty quickly realized was ICE. I was told: ‘Move. I will break your effing window.’ And I couldn’t get a clear answer to where they wanted me to move to. Very quickly, I was pulled out of that car. I fell twice — once right outside the car, and once behind the car face down. I am disabled. I am autistic. I have a brain injury. And when I hit that ground face first, I just experienced shooting pain through my neck, through my head. My vision became blurry. What happened to me in detention was far worse than what happened to me on camera. What happened to me in detention was a complete stripping of my rights. Nobody knew I was there. I wasn’t told where I was going. I wasn’t given a phone call. And I’m going unconscious and I’m wondering — is this it? They call us bodies. Is this it for me? Am I going to die? I want to live in a country where people who are enforcing the law treat people humanely.”

GEORGE RETES: “My name is George Retes. I was born and raised here in Ventura, California. I’m 26 years old and I am an Iraq combat veteran. I was going to work like normal. I show up. ICE is there. There’s kind of like a roadblock. I get out. I identify myself — that I’m a U.S. citizen, that I’m just trying to get to work. I’m trying to leave. I’m getting ready to leave and they surround my car, start banging on it, start shouting these contradictory orders. Even though I was giving them no reason, they still felt the need to — one agent knelt on my back and another agent knelt on my neck. And during that time, I’m just pleading with them that I couldn’t breathe. I was in isolation. I was in basically this concrete cell. I was stripped naked in like a hospital gown. And they leave the lights on 24/7. They just came out and they said that I was violent and that I assaulted agents. Why lie when it’s on video of everything that happened? Why lie?”

PBS News Hour: U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated.

Watch the segment here www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgC...

I'm clipping transcripts of the citizens speaking in this thread 1/3

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

the Black Panthers were right

Sadly, ICE learned what not to do in Minnesota… they have not left… but are spreading out in disguise tricking and nabbing people before we can respond. We need a new plan….

Again and again, guardrails are a scam

It really is crap. I’m an unaffiliated voter and appreciate being able to vote in primaries, but there are options that aren’t this top two system.

Crowded Democratic field in California governor's race might provide a rare opening for the GOP How many Democrats are too many? In the race for California governor, so many Democratic candidates have crowded into the contest that party insiders have become fearful of a historic calamity in the....

It’s not really a matter of campaign quality, its a numbers issue. The two candidates with the most votes in the open primary make it to the ballot. With the crowded Dem field, those votes may be split to where no Dem makes it on the ballot in the Fall. www.timesunion.com/news/politic...

At the Munich Security Conference this weekend, I told a hard truth. There is no ceasefire in Gaza. The assault continues. Palestinians continue to die. And Trump is issuing glossy brochures about fake future Gaza real estate deals instead of working to end the war.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Newsom also isn’t drawing any attention to the fact that California could be under the control of a MAGA governor at the end of his term, since we have an open primary and too many Dem candidates splitting the vote. He’s no leader for the people.

Thomas Massie Is No American Hero Rep. Thomas Massie has gained a following thanks to his pursuit of transparency with the Epstein files, but his track record reveals a strong alignment with Vladimir Putin.

📄 NEW: Thomas Massie has gained a following for his dogged pursuit of Epstein transparency, but few have examined his longstanding alignment with Russia's policy agenda, and why Putin is a big winner in this exposure operation.
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medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday

Neoiberals say "no" to everything we ask, then get uppity when we push back and won't vote for them.

What the fuck do any of you bring to the table?

We're the only ones proposing actual ideas to move the country forward. Y'all sitting on your thumbs and saying "Oh how horrible this all is!"

We're not playing purity politics. We're not even looking for a perfect candidate. We are asking for one that says "Yes" to fuckin SOMETHING. Not gives excuses about how it's "not the right time" or "we have to take baby steps" or "that would scare away [voters who won't vote for them anyway".

Neoliberals wanna argue that it's us socialists/communists playing "Purity Politics". Yet it's neoliberals saying if we don't unconditionally comply with them we deserve to die. They argue we want a perfect candidate. Let's look at what we've asked for:

Wall Street banks are reluctant pessimists when speaking to the public, even in the worst of times. They're usually the last folks, for instance, to predict or concede a recession. During an economic boom with the stock market continually making record highs? You won't find a more fervent group of optimists anywhere. In late 1999, investment bank Lehman Brothers published a thick research report titled Beyond 2000, which brimmed with confidence about the decade ahead. Founded in 1847, Lehman was originally a cotton trader and broker. But by the turn of the century, the firm was bringing private companies to market, including such eventual corporate American mainstays as Sears Roebuck, F. W. Woolworth, Studebaker, and B. F. Goodrich. And at the turn of the next century, Lehman felt confident it was in the middle of another Industrial Revolution, perhaps even more powerful than the first. In Beyond 2000, Lehman didn't just predict the good times would keep on rolling; it forecast acceleration into another postwar Up Wing golden age. Ihe firm predicted the technology boom would continue 61

His evidence that the good times could’ve lasted forever is that Lehman Brothers wrote a report in 1999 suggesting the dotcom boom could go on for another decade.

Ah yes, Lehman Brothers, a financial institution that famously never miscalculated a major financial bubble. Ah, well, nevertheless.

25 Years of WIRED Predictions: Why the Future Never Arrives To write the history of how our culture thinks about tomorrow, one obsessed academic read every issue of WIRED in chronological order. Here are his findings.

(For those who don’t know: I read the entire WIRED back catalog in 2018 and wrote about it for their 25th anniversary issue. I have read the whole back catalog a second time and have a book coming out on all the things the techno-optimists persistently get wrong.)

www.wired.com/story/wired2...