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People in Gaza are posting final messages.

The dangerous legal theory behind Trump’s power grabs There was no "unitary executive" until some dudes made the idea up to save Nixon.

The unitary executive theory is animating all of Trump's legal moves, becoming a catch-all defense for the idea that Trump is basically a king. Fittingly, the idea of an unaccountable president started with Nixon. But unlike in 1974, the Supreme Court is on board. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Jason Hickel - "We need a real progressive alternative – a democratic ecosocialist movement" In the run-up to his event at this year's Festival of Debate, economic anthropologist Jason Hickel speaks to Alice Flanagan about degrowth and his hopes for mass mobilisation across the globe.

"Liberal parties have failed and we need a real democratic socialist alternative that can advance the interests of working-class communities, environmentalists and other progressive forces with a shared vision for a better world."

nowthenmagazine.com/articles/jas...

NEXT WEEK (out tomorrow early for patreon): organizing against amazon w/ chris smalls and mars verrone

genuinely interested by cis folks’ answers to the “how did you end up being pro-trans rights” question because a lot of people seem to’ve started with “no opinion/awareness” & grew to “fully down” thanks to social media, schools, trans coworkers/students, & THOSE ARE THE PLACES THEY WANT US BANNED.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Buffalo have developed a nanoparticle-based vaccine candidate for H5N1 avian influenza (clade 2.3.4.4b) that achieved 100% PROTECTION in preclinical trials. The vaccine is under development for potential use in BOTH veterinary AND human medicine. 🧪🧵⬇️

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

More funding needed to support Ottawa's overdose prevention strategy: report Around 207 opioid-related deaths were reported in Ottawa in 2023, a nearly three-fold increase from 2019.

I couldn’t agree more with @ottawapublichealth.ca.

We can’t solve the overdose and addiction crisis in Centretown without significant investments in housing, addiction treatment, frontline harm reduction and health care.

ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

I wrote about why the Luddites were right and why the advent of AI means everyone should become one

Link in next tweet 👇

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

This is the useless garbage that Dems are working on while the entire country gets dismantled and the constitution gets shredded

I recommend not only disentangling yourself from Google products, (see my de-Google Your Life series on Patreon and Substack), but also think about leaving Meta, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft.

This is a gradual process that takes time.

South-South coordination is more crucial now than ever.

Trump is using tariffs to force global South governments to accept US demands (to cut their export prices, abolish their industrial policy frameworks, devalue their currencies, and accept reduced US payments on bonds). This will be devastating

New It Could Happen Here Mia talks with Coalition of Independent Unions organizer Mark Medina about ICE's kidnapping of Familias Unidas por la Justicia organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez, Lelo's work, and the April 12th rally at Portland City Hall to free him. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/how-ice-kidnapped-a-farmworker-union-272076655/

New It Could Happen Here

Mia talks with Coalition of Independent Unions organizer Mark Medina about ICE's kidnapping of Familias Unidas por la Justicia organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez, Lelo's work, and the April 12th rally at Portland City Hall to free him.

www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

Gaza medic killings: How a voice from beyond the grave destroyed Israel's lie As he lay dying, Rifaat Radwan recorded the slaughter of his colleagues, debunking the army's version of events

‘Radwan was gunned down and tossed in a pit, but his voice rose from the grave. His testimony survived the bullets, his story shattering the lie. He told the world what his killers tried to bury: that even mercy is now a crime.’

Video shows activists unveiling a massive banner with the names of Palestinians killed in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 2023, during a protest in Washington DC.

many things can be true:
- it is good to see masses of people activated
- this is a good organizing opportunity for those of us who are not liberal organizations that are working hand in hand with cops
- you should not trust a liberal organization that is working hand in hand with cops

“Sewing your own clothes to avoid tariffs” seems like a good idea until you realize it’s very expensive, takes a ton of time, and just about every component — from fabric and thread to sewing machines — are made abroad. I do think this is a great time to learn how to mend clothes, though!

can't normalize without normies. make your peace with this now

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

i have learned that way too many americans see the concept of 'freedom' simply as the potential to be rich and privileged, even if they aren't, & not things like freedom from dying from a preventable illness if you're poor, or being imprisoned for minor crimes, or persecuted by the police, etc

you have to be genuinely stupid as fuck to think american companies are going to respond to tariffs by building factories and moving manufacturing to the US. i don't know how else to say it. you have to be genuinely braindead

Canada’s secret weapon in U.S. trade war? Trump’s billionaire backers - CCPA Donald Trump’s first presidency was marked by an open-door policy for billionaires seeking favourable policies. His second term promises a deeper entrenchment of oligarchic power.

New from @policyalternatives.ca: Canada should be targeting American oligarchs—especially those with direct connection to the Trump administration—with economic sanctions. By Sondos Kataite #CanadaUSTradeWar
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Stop lying to yourself about strategic voting The other day, I saw my first Conservative placard.

My latest -- honest takes on strategic voting are few and far between, so here something to chew on.

the posts about "where are the lefty bureaucrats though, why can't they get it together" and the answer is: they were driven out. like this was known. there was a very aggressive, very successful, bipartisan push to get the deep lefties out of academia and out of the bureaucratic stuff too

Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.

People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.

People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.

People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.

People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.

A former French military base, Vauban is a thriving neighbourhood of 5,500 residents connected to Freiburg town centre by bus and light rail. Built in the late 1990s as a radical experiment in low-car living, it forgoes virtually all on-street parking in favour of active, green, and social spaces. 🧵

I think once people stop waiting for one person or one big galvanizing moment to "save us" and realize this is gonna take a lot of work from a lot of people for a long time we will maybe get somewhere.

The CDC Has Been Gutted Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.