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Child Amputees, Aid Massacres, Mass Starvation—the Israeli War Crimes NYT Covers Less than Mamdani and 'Globalize the Intifada' Theoretical, third order, speculative violence must be condemned while actual, real world mass violence, that actually exists in reality, is seen as normal and unworthy of sustained coverage.

In the past month NYT has published 32 articles that mention Mamdani and “globalize the intifada", 13 that mention Israel's fake "aid" agency that's killed 800+, 5 on Israel's starvation campaign and two that mention, in passing, child amputees in Gaza. I argue this is makes no sense and is depraved

🚨 “ICE out of Dena!”: CA community FIGHTS BACK against ICE terror

After weeks of seeing their families & neighbors terrorized by Trump’s ICE raids, residents of Pasadena, CA, are organizing on their own for community self-defense, reclaiming public space, & refusing to live in fear @therealnews.com

Time to Grow The 51st Help us hire Christina and Martin Full-Time!

Would you believe us if we said ONE reporter was bringing you all of this news? Well ... friggin believe it 🤯 @maustermuhle.bsky.social is a force on the local politics beat, and we're raising money to hire him full-time. givebutter.com/SsQ8CG

* makes no sense
* at best, it means the opposite of what she intends
* is extremely ill advised legally for myriad reasons

i had a lot of fun in grad school

Then image is a fake penguin classic cover of Karl Marx’s capital volume 1, except the main cover image is of A young black kid wearing a red collared shirt crouches over with fists clenched in rage. The title at the top says “why the fuck everything cost money”

Bruh @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social someone suggested your series on Capital bc we are reading it in our reading group, and this is the first thing I saw. I’m over here weak 😂

As Ruth Wilson Gilmore noted, "[Karl] Marx observed that tax struggle is the oldest form of class struggle."

Given the "Big Beautiful Bill," it might be useful for some of us to become more familiar with tax policy.

Here's a thread about U.S. tax policy and politics.

Gaza Health Ministry Says Israeli Military Killed 32 Near Aid Site The latest deaths add to U.N. figures showing that more than 670 Palestinians have been killed since May near sites built under a new Israel-backed aid system.

Israeli soldiers opened fire near a food distribution site in southern Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 32 people, Gazan health authorities said. The UN said this past week that more than 670 Palestinians had been killed in similar episodes near aid sites.

Pedro Porro is good for your health

Allentown grandfather’s family was told he died in ICE custody. Then they learned he’s alive — in a hospital in Guatemala, they say Family of Allentown grandfather Luis Leon, 82, said they were headed to a Guatemala hospital to reunite with him after he was taken into custody at a Philadelphia immigration office and disappeared…

Allentown grandfather who was granted political asylum in 1987 after surviving torture at the hands of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime was disappeared by ICE. The family was then told he died. Now they learned that he's actually alive, was deported, and is in a hospital in Guatemala.

feeling good about Vušković

Is that the first clean sheet we’ve kept in two years?

i dunno this *or* where my earbuds are

Kudus looks fantastic

Bergvall looking a little lackadaisical

Trump is using the threat of antitrust enforcement to suborn Zuckerberg. Twitter was bought by Musk to turn into a pro-regime network. TikTok will be sold to a regime ally. Ellison is doing the regime’s bidding to get Viacom.

It’s all the same playbook—and the oligarchs are on board.

she made this joke offhandedly but a lot of truth is said in jest

every damn day

We’re in it for the long-haul, babes. Focusing on electoral politics every four years isn’t enough. Protests are important but they have to be promises (as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says). If the environment is your thing, get local. Find an existing group and a friendly legislator and pitch in.

Bernie "I am once again" meme, captioned "I am once again asking where my earbud case is"

me and @abigailhiggins.bsky.social every day

Everyone who thought the anti-woke anti-DEI rhetoric was a pathway toward refocusing on class struggle gets a fell-for-it award

Like at least when we went through this rodeo with data science and machine learning people understood you had to design and train the models on the actual data and problem you were trying to solve. But now I don’t even know wtf people think they’re doing.

Yes, that’s the actual Nazis in second place on 24%, who are looking to shave a few percent off the right wing Union in first place. They are absolutely on pace to do that by 2029, but you wouldn’t know that from the lack of urgency in much of German public life.

This is what they meant by “anti racism/feminism/wokeness is Marxist”. Their fight is simply for a rigid hierarchical structure of society

hey you guys remember when the white house photoshopped gang tats on a pic of an innocent man?

anyway, memories

Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels sign declaration of principles for a permanent ceasefire in the east Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels have signed a declaration in Qatar to end decades of conflict in eastern Congo.

BREAKING: Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels signed a declaration of principles in Qatar to end a decades long fighting in eastern Congo that commits them to a permanent ceasefire and a comprehensive peace agreement to be signed in one month.

I did the math on why the Commanders current transportation plan is going to completely fail without new investments in transit

A new sign of trouble at Bari Weiss's University of Austin—Larry Summers resigns from advisory board over the university's direction.

Andry Hernández Romero, the innocent make-up artist imprisoned without trial for 4 months in El Salvador by the Trump admin, is FREE.

He was wrongfully accused of being a gang member because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, and illegally sent to El Salvador without due process.

excellent