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50501 needs to think about whether they are anti-fascist or not because they keep doing these fascist things. This is from 2 months ago

submitted 17 minutes ago • 5 comments

The armed, yellow-vested "peacekeepers" at the Utah 50501 protest in Salt Lake City opened fire into a crowd, hitting two people: A Sāmoan fashion designer with two young kids, who died. A second-generation Venezuelan immigrant and antiracist protester who was legally carrying. Cops charged HIM.

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

submitted 7 hours ago • 176 comments

If Mamdani wins this primary, the institutional/organizational forces trying to defeat him in a general election will be enormous, likely including the city’s billionaires, major news orgs, prominent black leaders and many Dem politicians. That’s what happened to India Walton in Buffalo in 2021.

submitted 7 hours ago • 36 comments

I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.

submitted 4 hours ago • 19 comments

just want to point out that the smartest people at all these schools keep somehow being pro pal

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Yes. Similarly, Elizabeth Warren staffers in 2021 getting a few jobs that would have normally went to ex-Obama/Clinton aides and Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates getting more acclaim than their white counterparts for a few years caused elite panics and endless "wokeness" pieces.

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

If a white man accomplished what Stacy Abrams did in Georgia—actually turning a red state purple & being directly responsible for the election of two democratic senators—they would be handed the keys to everything. It says everything that DEMs turned their backs on her.

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.

submitted 6 hours ago • 103 comments

The stupidest people are in charge because we couldn’t prosecute a political crime because it would look too political.

submitted 22 hours ago • 369 comments

ezra klein and his wife are fascist plants

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

I hadn't seen this take on the authoritarian response to the LA protests anywhere else, so I wrote it myself. New Racket. theracket.news/p/the-imperi...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

I count 49 news headlines on the NYT mobile app home page right now, not including opinion, sports or cooking. None of them are about the massive protests yesterday.

submitted 1 day ago • 292 comments

When my Jewish friend is accused of being a self hating Jew and a fake Jew simply because she opposes the genocide in Gaza and speaks out against warmongering toward Iran, it becomes painfully clear that these accusations have nothing to do with protecting Jews or fighting hatred. They are about

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

'What we’re witnessing in Los Angeles is what Hannah Arendt called “the boomerang effect of imperialism upon the homeland”—the methods of empire being played out on American soil.' theracket.news/p/the-imperi... @katz.theracket.news

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

the media didn't like biden and wanted to hurt him so they promoted the "truck caravans" as a major story to try to do that. by contrast, they like trump and want to help him (like they helped him win the election) and so bury or minimize coverage of anti-Trump protests

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I don't think we will be able to successfully work the refs - the refs have been bought off already - but calling attention to this is valuable in convincing people on our side to look around and reevaluate who in the corporate media they can trust

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

scholar of partisan violence/Latin American Dirty Wars here: there is nothing to distinguish this from how people were taken in Argentina, Guatemala, Chile, etc, except that it's all on camera

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

““I just want to say, ‘Hey, these are regular people. I’m a mom. I live in Sandy and I was peacefully protesting the politics that I think are inhuman,’” she said. “... Let’s not let fear rule us. I’ll be at the next protest.””

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

"defund the police" was so obviously correct. I really don't care if it doesn't poll well. it's like telling me that I should stop saying I like vaccines if they stopped polling well.

submitted 2 days ago • 84 comments

fuck yes

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

imperial boomerang as a washed out merc

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I mean if you're trying to radicalize centrists this is a good method I guess

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

They’re trying to stop you from showing up. They want you to stay home. If your state says it’s safe to go, you should protest. Meet people, march, make posters, organize, have fun, be seen. Don’t let the bastards win.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

hell yeah

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

So the suspected republican assassin in the murder of a state legislator here in Minnesota and the attempted murder of another ran his own private security firm, and multiple members of his family were police. Someday people will accept that what those of us on the academic side are saying is true

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Los Angeles. Just wow.

submitted 2 days ago • 278 comments

Countries with women leaders tend to be better run, but not because women are better leaders. Women can be trash too. Countries with women leaders tend to be better run, because if your country is too sexist to elect women about 1/2 the time, then it's not selecting leaders on talent.🤷🏿‍♂️

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

"Call 911 if you see a cop" is real product of the moment, isn't it?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

It's hard to understate how important Representative & former Speaker Hortman was to Minnesota politics - she was probably the most prominent woman politician & integral to the recent budget deal. She was also incredibly kind and a real person - Kiernan sold her girl scout cookies. It's horrifying.

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

On the way to today’s No Kings rallies! Come protest with us in Evanston (until 12) and Des Plaines (1-3). See you there.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

CNN not allowed to tell their readers that both of the "politically targeted" lawmakers were Democrats.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.

submitted 2 days ago • 93 comments

THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN SCREAMING ABOUT. ANY PSYCHO CAN GO COSPLAY A COP RIGHT NOW BECAUSE OF WHAT THE BROWNSHIRTS IN ICE ARE DOING, WITH TACIT APPROVAL FROM THIS ADMINISTRATION. SICKENING AND TERRIFYING.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

Republicans are dressing as cops and assassinating members of congress and democrats are insisting protesters limit themselves to holding parades, giving their routes to the cops, and sitting on the ground passively to be brutalized by said cops.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

It’s time to vote 🗳️ findmypollsite.vote.nyc

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

These are assassinations to flip control of the Minnesota House (was 67-67) and Senate (was 34-33).

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

submitted 3 days ago • 192 comments

The "I'll lower costs and get us out of endless wars" candidate is now presiding over surging costs and brand new wars.

submitted 3 days ago • 749 comments