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we understand completely

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938

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Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

These countries have had universal health care for their citizens, as shown below.

There are more after 1995

EPSTEIN: even today, after the release of the key Epstein-Maxwell emails in which Epstein says Trump knew about the "girls" but hasn't "barked" (presumably, talked), the NYT reports that the WH is intensely pressuring the House NOT to vote to release more? How much worse is what we have not seen?

What radicalised you?

My Dutch neighbour: "Just seeing liberalism prove time and time again to be utterly incapable of solving all the problems I care about. Once I started to learn history from Socialist sources, it became obvious that liberalism is just fascism with plausible deniability."

If we go on strike, our union of 12,000 workers are calling on customers to NOT BUY STARBUCKS.

Sign our pledge to not cross a picket line and we'll send you local calls to action - nocontractnocoffee.org

This is a doozy that got overlooked this week:

Americans’ 401(k)’s are “double what they were a year ago.” 🤡

@60minutes.bsky.social

You know you've been conditioned to live in a black & white paradigm when you have no ability to distinguish between

-Marxism
-Communism
-Socialism
-Democratic Socialism

If all those words scream in your brain BAD, but you can't describe their differences, you've been conditioned to feel this way

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Better things are possible. Still.

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

Meanwhile, they’re punching handcuffed, unarmed protesters in the head

*TW - extremely fucked up and hard to watch

It’s enraging the extent to which the corporate media is not relentlessly covering and showing this brutality.

Today’s Republican party.

Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo. At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25 Then beneath it TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!

I know how hard you worked for this.

Elon Endorses Cuomo, with pictures of Adnrew Cuomo and Elon Musk

Another big endorsement for Andrew Cuomo. And it only cost $959 million in tax breaks.

You will be called a far left radical no matter what, so you should just be a far left radical

Enjoy your time off! Wishing you peace and good health.

To add clarity to this:

Influencers in China that discuss topics such as medicine, law, education, or finance must prove they are qualified or certified to do so, in an aim to clamp down on misinformation.

Right now it impacts large influencer accounts (1m+ followers) + bans false advertising.

Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.

Welfare in the US began in 1935 in response to the Depression.

White families were given more aid than Black families, if the Black family got aid at all.

Historically, there have been more white people on welfare than anyone.

And soon, many who pushed for others to have less won’t have any.

China has electrified faster than almost any other country - electricity’s share of its energy use is up 10% in a decade.

Since 2019 it’s built 40% of global wind & solar, boosting their share in power generation by nearly 20% points.

Energy independence meets industrial strategy.

A collage of two headline screenshots highlighting the economic inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first headline, from Business Insider by Juliana Kaplan (January 25, 2021), reads: > “Workers lost $3.7 trillion in earnings during the pandemic. Women and Gen Z saw the biggest losses.” The second headline, from WION News (January 26, 2021), reads: > “World’s billionaires get richer by $3.9 trillion during the pandemic.” Both headlines together illustrate the direct transfer of wealth from workers to the capitalist ruling class — billionaires during the pandemic — showing that what the global working class lost, the ruling capitalist elite gained.

It’s almost like the capitalist ruling class are literally extracting surplus value from the workers. Gosh, how I wished more working class people were class conscious. 😭

Karl Marx referred to this as "surplus value" — the unpaid labour that workers create but never receive the full value for.

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "WHY WOULD WE LISTEN TO AN EXPERT INSTEAD OF A DUMB MOTHERFUCKER WHO TALKS REALLY LOUD"

US Government agencies have arrived on Bluesky. Here’s a blocklist.

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it.

ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.

Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.

(c/o Caroline Codsi)

World Leader Compares Trump to Hitler in Front of Entire U.N. American media has barely covered the scathing comments from Colombian President Gustavo Petro.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro called for criminal proceedings against Donald Trump, whom he compared to Adolph Hitler while speaking before the U.N. General Assembly this week.

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We're witnessing the culminating rot of shareholder capitalism in real time.

Some of the most powerful corporations in America have sided with an authoritarian regime in order to protect their short term profits — the fundamental rights of everyone else be damned.