YouTube video by DiEM25 Yanis Varoufakis: Europe Has Become a War Project | Explosive EU Parliament Speech

“The EU is now a War Project – a project that will either land us in permanent war, or bankrupt us further. Or both.”
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‘Saying Trump is dangerous is not enough’: Bernie Sanders on Biden, billionaires – and why the Democrats failed The senator and twice Democratic presidential hopeful is on tour with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez trying to build a new progressive movement. He reveals why he thinks Republicans are scared to speak up a...

“What they say is, ‘The status quo is working pretty good, and we will tinker around the edges’, and that is not a message that resonates with working people”

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The Valley’s homeless population went up again. It may get even worse The annual Point in Time count found 9,734 unhoused people in the Valley, and a dramatic spike in those without any shelter.

Tempe changed the rules it uses to approve cooling centers, denying approval to several that operated last year and therefore giving unhoused residents fewer places to seek refuge from the heat. This summer is forecasted to be hotter than normal

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Millions of legal immigrants’ lives upended after social security freeze Program halted suddenly, leaving legal immigrants unable to work due to lack of US social security number

Authoritarianism march is on..
Millions of legal immigrants may be left unable to work after the US Social Security Administration quietly instituted a rule change to stop automatically issuing them social security numbers
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With clear data and charts..
Economic opportunity remains far out of reach for many low- and middle-income (LMI) Americans, with little to no improvement in wages or the ability to achieve a minimal quality of life for most since 2001

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Trump officials open up millions of acres in Alaska to drilling and mining Doug Burgum says Biden order that banned drilling in 23m-acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska will be reversed

So much for nature …
Millions of acres of Alaska wilderness will lose federal protections and be exposed to drilling and mining in the Trump administration’s latest move to prioritize energy production over the shielding of the US’s open spaces
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You Only Get What You're Organized to Take: Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty

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How to fight back against Trump? Look to poor people’s movements | Rev Dr Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back Anti-poverty activism has provided a model for transformational power, based on four strategic principles

..no shortcuts to building the kind of popular power necessary to shift from defense to offense. The task is a generational one, requiring even greater discipline, sacrifice, perseverance and patience. .. the past offers clues.
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YouTube video by CBS 8 San Diego Federal immigration agents raid San Diego restaurants

ICE in full tactical gear raid San Diego restaurants—throw flashbang grenades into crowd.

Agents "They handcuffed everybody. The first ten minutes, they don’t give any explanation."

Customers surrounded the agents—calling them fascists
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Yassamin Ansari shares Arizona migrant detainees' stories U.S. Rep. Yassamin Ansari said she heard “sickening” stories from detainees during a surprise visit to an Arizona immigration detention center.

Protecting human rights? NOT
“They were so eager to speak with us and share sickening stories about things like lack of access to basics like food and water or essential medical care when they are in crisis,” Ansari said.
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Trump has no plan for who will grow US food: ‘There is just flat out nobody to work’ Farms rely on seasonal workers and undocumented immigrants, but the Republican’s plans to fill the gap would ‘legalize oppression’, advocates say

If mass deportations go forward as promised, growers and ranchers will be even more desperate for these workers. Undocumented workers compose about 40% of the agricultural workforce

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No water deal in sight as legislative session drags on. Hobbs said she'll take action on her own Talks have stalled and frustration has mounted as both sides try to find a solution to conserve water that's increasingly becoming more scarce amid a prolonged drought.

Water, water..everywhere.
Nor a drop to drink

Meanwhile, underground water supplies continue to shrink to the point that some wells in rural areas have gone dry. Residents are faced with the choice of drilling deeper, hauling water or moving
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How to Fight Trump Without Caving to Corporatists Campaigns and candidates should be subordinated to progressive social movements, not the other way around. That’s how we win. Change doesn’t come from the top.

..elected Democrats consider social movements subordinate to their electoral work.
Campaigns and candidates should be subordinated to progressive social movements, not the other way around.

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Metro Atlanta has highest rate of corporate home ownership, says Georgia State researcher U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff gave updates on an investigation into corporate home ownership rates across Georgia — a practice experts say has made it harder for individuals to buy affordable housing.

Financialization in real estate ..
Corporate landlords are buying up more of the state’s single-family homes
Blackstone, Progress Residential, and Amherst Holdings — use hundreds of different names and addresses to obscure their ownership.
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Masks, hoods, refuse to identify ... seen this before.

“My client has no criminal history; he entered the U.S. through the CBP program,” .. when federal agents grabbed him from the court.

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Aestheticization of politics - Wikipedia

Fascism and aestheticization of politics ..sense of a spectacle in which it allows the masses to express themselves without seeing their rights recognized, and without affecting the relations of ownership which the proletarian masses aim to eliminate.

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The trouble with AI art isn’t just lack of originality. It’s something far bigger | Eric Reinhart When artwork is invented by a machine, it loses its most important power: to help people connect. In an already lonely era, that is particularly dangerous

The illusion of creativity and democracy..
AI ventures, like those of other tech billionaires, aim not at expanding human creativity but enclosing it within profit-driven, automated systems designed to concentrate power.
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Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity: “The bottom 60% of U.S. households don’t make enough money to afford a “minimal quality of life.”
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23: Number of Fox News personalities now in the Trump administration. The latest is Jeanine Pirro, the former NYC prosecutor, whose former producer at Fox called a “reckless maniac” who “should never be on live TV.”

So far, the Trump administration has lost every habeas case brought before a federal court, which is why they want to eliminate habeas corpus.

YouTube video by CBS Boston Boy left alone on sidewalk after ICE arrest in Waltham

Child abuse as government policy: Another video of an ICE raid in Worcester, Mass., shows ICE agents arresting a man and leaving behind a 12-year-old boy standing on the sidewalk.

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Most police in Massachusetts are prohibited from assisting ICE. But last Thursday, local cops in Worcester, Mass. pushed a 16-year-old girl to the ground , as ICE agents handcuffed her mother and took her away to a detention center..https://youtu.be/FexwcsjBE4U

Roaming Charges: Sturm und Drang Warnings As a parable from the past to help us come to grips with our perilous present, you could do worse than screen Storm Warning, the 1951 noir that may be the most unlikely Klan movie ever made. It featur...

“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
– Goethe

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1,000 Measles Cases in the US, But Few Solutions From RFK Jr. Three people have died so far in the US, the highest number of yearly deaths since 1992.

For only the second time in three decades, the number of measles cases in the United States has surpassed 1,000 in a calendar year, with no sign of new cases slowing down any time soon.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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Tempe drops charge against man it cited for feeding the homeless After a year of ramped-up enforcement against the unhoused and people who help them, is Tempe changing its tune?

A win for democracy/compassion over anger and corruption.
"The City of Tempe dropped a criminal charge it brought against a local activist ..
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A family thing ...

After his father was elected president, Donald Trump Jr. made a career move that seemed a bit odd. He became a partner in a small investment startup called 1789 Capital.
Its portfolio has begun to blossom.

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Newsom calls on California cities to ban homeless encampments ‘without delay’ Governor announces new ordinance to address ‘persistent’ camps as he intensifies crackdown on worsening crisis

No matter the affiliation…same.
Newsom has escalated efforts to force local governments into action since the 2024 supreme court decision, warning counties that he could withhold state support if they did not do more sweeps.

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Trump might claim China tariff victory – but this is Capitulation Day | Heather Stewart The president’s retreat suggests he might negotiate elsewhere, but leaves corrosive uncertainty in its wake

Dealing with a bully….
In other words, the president has caved. He may have been swayed by market wobbles but it seems more plausible that dire warnings from retailers about empty shelves – backed up by data showing shipments into US ports collapsing

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Americans putting life on hold amid economic anxiety under Trump, poll shows Harris poll for Guardian finds people reconsidering major life events such as having children or buying a home

All that winning .....

Americans are reconsidering major life events including marriage, having children and buying a home amid economic anxiety in the opening months of the Trump presidency.

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Legislature approves warning signs for hotels that host homeless people | Arizona Capitol Times A bill requiring hotels serving homeless people to display signs alerting the general public passed the Legislature on May 6.

The war on the poor continues ..

AZ House Bill 2803 would call for hotels to post signs, notifying visitors that the business caters to homeless people, recommends that guests lock their doors and report concerns to local law enforcement.
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