John Baumann

The bit about how Democrats don’t wield power is key, hopefully Mamdani can show how an opposition can do it.

Three panel comic. Panel 1: two actors in motion capture bodysuits in front of a green screen. One says angrily, “it was you… you sold him the drugs…” Panel 2: the director and cameraman watch excitedly. The director says, “this is gonna be amazing.” Panel 3: two friends watching the movie, which is showing two dopey looking pink and yellow aliens fighting in front of a raging fire. One friend says, “what the hell is this?”

I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.

After the shooting, an angry crowd gathered and screamed profanities at federal officers, calling them "cowards" and telling them to go home. One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling them: "Boo hoo." Agents elsewhere shoved a yelling protester into a car.

“better training” www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

AP notification: Breaking News A Texas jury acquits a Uvalde schools officer on charges he failed in duty to confront the gunman in the Robb Elementary attack.

Police do not have a legal responsibility to protect the public. This was established in Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005). Given this, and the tremendous harm they do every day, what possible argument could one give for not abolishing the institution of policing entirely?

Everything Jeffries does from now until he is no longer in leadership must be understood in the context that NYC-DSA, at the height of its power and momentum, could have run the first credible challenger of his career and chose not to.

Part of de st croixs class struggle in the ancient greek world where he talks about how the plebes in rome just had a bunch of political "heroes" from the upper class

Sounds familiar

It kicks off in part 2 and croix is particularly good when he gets into the romans

The N, 3 boroughs, 2 bridges a splendid voyage

If Ai could replace workers in all industries it already would have. The wage represion possibilities of the tech are exhausted, and while significant they are not worth the cost of the techs maintenance. But the class sector it did help is trying desperately to make the rest fund and sustain it

"You're not ready for how much the rest of the world hates Americans" I live here man I'm extremely used to the concept of hating Americans

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I’m going to keep hammering this point: the excesses of ICE we see now are entirely contiguous with our system of policing more broadly, and the reason that almost no politician wants to threaten real consequences for ICE agents is because it opens the door to making the same demands of the cops

It’s good though, one theme of salience to today is how the status of an underclass ( forcibly settled Germanic tribes) can wind up being applied to classes “above” ( existing “free” tenants become serfs)

Reading de ste croix’s “Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World” and it seems to all be about land tenancy, I want to hear about the struggle

Do they even have to leave Queens?

astronaut meme: wait, it's all bureaucratic collectivism? Always has been

Photo of 1969 “Dragon Wagon” model car kit

The bones of Santa have been leaking liquid for 1,700 years.

Halfway in: oh no, watch out Trotsky

Strange clouds looking like someone had quickly brushed them on the sky, with the moon behind them

Odd clouds-with the moon behind… within a minute it had just turned into short lines

Woke 2 is distinctively an ideology of Trump II, when we no longer need to go looking for some hidden enemy, no longer need to work to uncover the infiltrators and the enemies hiding their power level

the enemy is out in the light and screaming about how much they hate us, there is no mystery there

In the 21st century we have finally achieved all the conditions for a militia of the PMC as outlined in Jaurès’s L’Armée Nouvelle

Reading Deutscher’s bio of Trotsky and man, it is as good as everyone says it is

"The distorting and confounding of all human and natural qualities, the fraternization of impossibilities – the divine power of money – lies in its character as men’s estranged, alienating and self-disposing species-nature. Money is the alienated ability of mankind."
-Marx, The Power of Money 1844

Money is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good.. I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless? .. he can buy clever people for himself, and is he who has power over the clever not more clever than the clever?
-Marx

Trying to stop saying "I don't agree with them on everything" about people whose work I am referencing because I literally do not agree with anyone on everything, including the past version of my self that ended one second ago

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