Michael Coats

Supreme Court poised to empower Trump to fire independent regulators without cause In oral arguments Monday in the case <em>Trump v Slaughter</em>, Chief Justice John Roberts and the conservative majority signaled their willingness to grant Trump power to fire agency heads and board...

Supreme Court poised to empower Trump to fire independent regulators without cause

The case heard Monday has far-reaching consequences for the management of the capitalist state. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

NBC confirms Hegseth ordered murder of all boat passengers and crew in September 2 strike On Saturday, NBC reported that Secretary of War “Pete Hegseth ordered the US military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people” on a motorboat traveling between Venezuela and Trinidad, contradicting the admin...

Law professor Rebecca Ingber told the New York Times, “the focus on the 2nd strike and … the talk of ‘war crimes’ feeds into the administration’s false wartime framing and veils the fact that the entire boat-strikes campaign is murder, full stop.” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

THREAD. There are alarming developments in Canada recently. Some politicians are apparently doing their best impression of Trump's Executive Orders on cash bail--they want to determine who is in a cage and who is free with their family based on who pays up-front cash.

Immigration thugs deploy to Minnesota as 19 people kidnapped and a US citizen sexually assaulted After the racist in the White House branded Somali people as “garbage,” his immigration agents deployed in force to Minneapolis, targeting the largest Somali community outside Africa.

Immigration thugs deploy to Minnesota as 19 people kidnapped and a US citizen sexually assaulted

After the racist in the White House branded Somali people as “garbage,” his immigration agents deployed in force to Minneapolis targeting the Somali community www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

First concert in awhile. Think warm thoughts for me!
And come see us Saturday at 7 at Marysville Historical Society down on Armar Road! Love to see you there!
#marysvillecommunityband

Holiday jobs massacre: Mobilize the working class to defend the right to a job! The normal platitudes about “love and good cheer” are being overshadowed by massive inequality.

The corporations’ plans to lay workers off during the holidays do not result from a cyclical downturn or blind economic forces. Rather, they reflect a policy of class warfare, an attempt to transfer more wealth to the rich. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The art is stunning but the details she pulls from J’s novel to explain her artistic choices really put this video into the must watch category. I think the look on Elen’s face and the three hands reaching for her are a really powerful symbol of the novel. Let me know what you think!

YouTube video by The Bookistrator Spindle and Dagger - Welsh Historical Fiction

OK, just one more thing. Jillian wrote a wonderful novel a few years back called Spindle and Dagger. Lots to unpack and if you haven’t yet read it, do so soon! But here’s the cool news. A wonderful artist, Amber the Bookistrator, just posted this incredible video.

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I hope you’re all having a better morning than me. But to be fair, doc has been outstanding and the folks here at the VA Hospital are wonderful.

Good luck to all our math students on their finals tomorrow. Here’s some donuts to keep your spirits up as you study today. Wish I could be there.
#math #donuts

YouTube video by United States Marine Band HOLST Suite in F for Military Band, No. 2: 4. Fantasia on the "Dargason" - "The President's Own"

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Recording! Man, it’s good to be back.
#marysvillecommunityband #trombone

We thought it might be fun to get out our throwback jerseys as all our teams are in the playoff picture as of today. Recognize all the players here? Comment below! I’ll post the back picture later…

Trump’s Caribbean murders and the legacy of Nuremberg The Trump administration's series of murders in the Caribbean is the consummation of decades of murder, torture and aggressive war by US imperialism, all illegal under the precedent set by the 1945 Nu...

Trump’s Caribbean murders and the legacy of Nuremberg

The naked criminality of the Trump government has raised almost of necessity the issue of war crimes and international law.

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The Wang Fuk Court Fire in Hong Kong: A crime of global capitalism The catastrophes of Wang Fuk Court and Grenfell Tower are spectacular and tragic eruptions of the miserable, and entirely preventable, world housing crisis. They are not mere excesses, nor failures of...

Around 300 people were incinerated in their homes at Grenfell Tower and Wang Fuk Court. How many millions more die of disease in the squalor of shantytowns and slums of the world? www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Seattle mayor-elect Katie Wilson signals willingness to meet with fascist Trump Wilson made no attempt to expose or condemn the criminality of the Trump administration, including the ongoing US-NATO backed war against Russia in Ukraine and the preparation for war against Venezuel...

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Seattle mayor-elect Katie Wilson signals willingness to meet with fascist Trump

Kshama Sawant runs for Congress posing as an independent socialist Kshama Sawant’s congressional campaign is an effort to channel workers’ growing opposition to the existing system back into Democratic Party reformism and away from the revolutionary fight against dic...

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Kshama Sawant runs for Congress posing as an independent socialist

Death toll in Hong Kong fire rises to 94, hundreds still missing It is increasingly likely that the conflagration was caused by corruption and cost cutting measures, including the use of illegal highly flammable materials.

At least 94 people have died in the Hong Kong apartment complex fire. The fire took place in a working-class neighborhood, and the victims are disproportionately the elderly and the very young. Repeated safety warnings were ignored. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.

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Trump administration plans to deploy 500 more National Guard soldiers following D.C. shooting Following the shooting of two West Virginia National Guard soldiers blocks from the White House, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that Trump had ordered more troops deployed to the capital.

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Trump administration plans to deploy 500 more National Guard soldiers following D.C. shooting

Walkouts spread as students protest ICE and Border Patrol raids in North Carolina and Oregon Student walkouts in North Carolina and Oregon reveal growing opposition to ICE raids and the assault on immigrant workers.

In North Carolina, students continue to walk out in protest of mass ICE raids that have swept up immigrants and citizens alike. These mobilizations must be directed toward the formation of rank-and-file committees to organize resistance. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The Labor Party in England is now proposing to get rid of almost all jury trials in England to make the criminal punishment bureaucracy more efficient. This should be a warning for us all. Neoliberals are walking us into the waiting arms of authoritarians.

What do the Democrats know about Trump’s plans for dictatorship and war crimes? A video statement released last week by six Democratic senators and representatives urges armed forces personnel not obey illegal orders. Trump has declared they should be tried and executed.

All of the Democrats, however, shied away from identifying a specific military order from Trump that they believed to be unlawful, with Slotkin even saying that no such orders had yet been given, and that her warning was preemptive.

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Mamdani intervenes to quash primary challenge to Hakeem Jeffries Three weeks after the election, Mamdani is moving at a breakneck pace to support the political establishment he vowed to challenge.

Mamdani intervenes to quash primary challenge to Hakeem Jeffries

Both Trump and the Democratic Party establishment are using the DSA and Mamdani, not the other way around.

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I miss arcades.

Can you name all four ghosts? I mean, from memory, without help?
#pacman #ties

The Mamdani-Trump Pact and the bankrupt politics of the upper middle class pseudo-left The immediate political consequence of Mamdani’s visit will be to confuse and disorient the very people who brought him to office.

Jacobin is using pop psychology in a desperate attempt to prettify Mamdani’s meeting with Trump. Mamdani claims that he and Trump have a “shared analysis” of the situation. What analysis could a self-professed socialist have with a fascist? www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

A graphic displaying all book covers for kidlit author J. Anderson Coats. The background of the graphic is a white snowflake-style crystal pattern; inside there is a white square to make the covers stand out. The covers are in a three-by-three grid, for a total of nine covers. They are, from left to right: The Unexpected Lives of Ordinary Girls (a white girl with a long braid, carrying a messenger bag, looks up at an arched gateway leading to a city street) The Loss of the Burying Ground (two girls stand back to back; below them is a three-masted sailing ship; there is water splashing up on both sides of the girls) A Season Most Unfair (a white girl stirs a kettle in front of a medieval-style house while a boy looks on, seeming worried) Spindle and Dagger (a medieval teen girl in a red dress is holding a dagger point-down while a skirmish is happening behind her) The Green Children of Woolpit (two green children look sketchy and suspicious at the bottom of a pit while a white girl looks down at them from the pit edge) R is for Rebel (a white girl with short hair stands on a rooftop holding a flag while other girls surround her; they are looking down at a gathered army) The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming (a white girl in a blue dress walks up a pier into a town; there are seagulls flying around her) The Wicked and the Just (a town with houses crowded together against a pinkish sunset sky) Alt text has been abbreviated to fit the space. For a more detailed version of each book cover, please see subsequent posts in this thread. :)

It's gifting season for many folks, and we all know books make excellent presents! If you plan to gift one of my books to someone (or yourself!), I'm happy to send a signed bookplate and swag if you email me a mailing address. Here’s a thread to match my books with the reader on your list: 1/

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Trump calls for the execution of Democratic Party legislators

Build Rank-and-File Committees & organize a #GeneralStrike against the #capitalistsystem #IWARFC WSWS.org

New T-shirt Friday!

Also my holiday package from Nürnberg arrived yesterday, after significant delays due to tariff inspections. Grr. Sharing with my coworkers today!
#temperature #lebkuchen