◈ Ophelia Exodus ◈

I think we’re seeing a reorganisation of the Australian right, which could emerge in a full-blown MAGA version after this election

“If I see the Gospel in a sociological way only, yes, I am a communist, and so too is Jesus.”

- Pope Francis

Coloured photo: Black background with rainbow rings, a rainbow-styled “Māori” and pride fist. Text reads: “We stand with our takatāpui whānau.”

Appreciate the pātai. Te Pāti Māori won’t let Aotearoa import UK/US-style hate.

We reject attacks on trans, non-binary and takatāpui whānau. That’s not who we are.

Our Te Tiriti commitment means protecting mana, inclusion, and whānau safety.

Whakapapa over wedges. Manaakitanga over fear. Always.

Activists raise concerns over police obtaining CCTV footage of meeting at university | The Spinoff The evidence led to two people being taken into custody for breach of bail conditions.

If only police were putting half the effort into monitoring the local far-right that they are putting into this peace group

thespinoff.co.nz/society/14-0...

🧵Masked ICE thugs attempted to abduct the school nurse at Cooke Elementary School, located in the densely populated Adams Morgan section of DC. Workers at the school intervened, demanding a warrant and holding up their phones and ICE scurried off without making their arrest.

While the left might screech about dismantling the giant robot we’ve built to shred immigrants, I am both proud of the improvements my fellow centrists and I have made to its immigrant-shredding capabilities and secure in the knowledge that nobody will ever flip the big switch that lets it shred me

Kingdom Of The Biters | Defector The summer after I got married, one of my bosses bit me on the arm. I had a lot of jobs that summer, and a lot of bosses; at the time, I was recreating the sort of interchangeable, poorly paid jobs I’...

I wrote about the goblins in charge, an old boss who bit me on the arm, and the use and abuse of contempt. defector.com/kingdom-of-t...

Read the NYPD’s Mangione report the media won't publish Post-Luigi, the "extremist" threat is you

I just published a new Luigi Mangione document the press is withholding, an NYPD intel report warning of “disdain for corporate greed" and the "online reactions to the shooting"

it is truly a blessing to watch the conservative America First guys come to the slackjawed realization that yes the their tech oligarch overlords view them as an expendable resource in the capitalist death machine to the same extent as everyone else

RB Robert Bradford 12 hours ago The article says that in the "healthcare" industry, many are grappling with the loss of a colleague. No, these folks are in the insurance industry. They don't provide healthcare. They just help ration it for a fee. Reply • d140 • Share ... TJ Tibor Jablonicky 11 hours ago Yes, I deliberately call it health insurance industry as opposed to health care industry because there is no care involved. The American health insurance industry is the most inhumane and outright malicious thing this country has produced. Right after the military-industrial complex! (Edited) Reply • d21 • Share DR Dexter Rose 12 hours ago 24/7 Reply • d9 • Share → 3 replies United Healthcare has a staff of 60 Tele-Nurses and one can be reached → Show 2 more replies TJ thomas johnason 14 hours ago Only a matter of time until violence made its way to the c-suite. Mass layoffs and outsourcing. Not justifying what happened here but l've had 2 co-workers lose their houses so an exec could get a big bonus and watch the CEC brag on CNBC about opex cuts.

if you're at all familiar with what the wall street journal comments section is generally like, this is the writers' room of Der Sturmer singing La Marseillaise

New podcast out for all! Both parts of our double episode about direct action illegal coalminers in Pennsylvania during the great depression are out now, with recordings of miners themselves. Listen and subscribe on Spotify or Apple or go to our website: workingclasshistory.com/podca...

one of the things that the South Korean crisis has brought into sharp focus is how American elites are cowards.

this country yearns for the years of lead

Read a post by a nurse who said UHC would routinely deny coverage for a seizure med for infants & children, insisting they try & "fail" UHC's preferred med 1st. So these babies would have seizures sometimes for months until UHC agreed they failed their med & covered the one the doc prescribed.

When news finally broke about the DOJ investigation, the company lost almost $25 billion in value. But CEO Brian Thompson had already cashed out

Obviously the worst people in the country are psyched for another Trump term, but the extent to which people are pissed off in the present—I'm thinking about the wild response to that health insurance CEO getting shot, but also overall—is something I'm trying to see as promising.

not only is it not worth mourning the murder of a piece of shit who profited from a firehose of human misery, if it made the other healthcare execs think even a little about the consequences of their actions it will 100% absolutely have saved lives

To be fair Sam Altman does represent the most iconic American figure: a guy who lies constantly who never faces any accountability for his actions, enriching himself in the most obvious, chaotic, needlessly destructive and craven ways available

Lol. One week after the Economist published this chart showing the dude can't stop tweeting in the middle of the night, Elon removes time stamps from tweets.

Why Won’t Democrats Defend Their Legacy On Labor? | Revolving Door Project It’s December; the lame-duck period continues to wind down and Democrats are at risk of squandering their little time left in power.

NEW NEWSLETTER: Democrats have the chance to secure a majority at the NLRB and continue their popular defense of workers' rights. But with less than two weeks left on Chairwoman Lauren McFerran’s term, time is running out. Where’s the sense of urgency? therevolvingdoorproject.org/why-wont-dem...

United Health just deleted this page from their website lol

my favorite thing about the UHC CEO getting shot dead is the number of posts reading something like "are we sure the bullets inside of him weren't a preexisting condition?" it's funny every time

I mean ACAB, cops outta Trades Hall etc etc, but ethics aside, by every conceivable metric (militancy, density, efficacy, combativeness with bosses, support for members’ self-basic interest etc) the SDA are several levels below police unions imo lmao

6 hours under martial law in Seoul On the ground from the protests outside the National Assembly building

6 hours under martial law: a drunk scene report from Seoul www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...

Val Kilmer @valkilmer I once tickled Lou Reed. I regretted it for the longest while as he spoke to me few times after that dinner. But I'm glad now. He needed it.

post-coup clarity