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used to be that the democrats were the old fashioned back slappin mobbed up retail corruption criminals and republicans were the agency blob natsec state CIA criminals and at some point in the last 20 years they switched and anyway I think thats where everything went wrong

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

From a piece I wrote for the Guardian in 2012 about how the US sent innocent people to Syria to be tortured by the Assad regime as part of their ‘war on terror’ rendition program: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 76 days ago • 71 comments

One of only a few remaining legible images from JB Daniel's "Labor Paste", a neighborhood-wide installation featuring wheat-pasted photos of Pullman factory workers and labor activists. Daniel hoped to prompt critical inquiry about whose stories would be told by the new Pullman National Monument.

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

The right are confused why their own audiences aren't clutching pearls alongside them. It's that monsters who make millions profiting off human misery don't deserve your empathy. Their murderous evil systems shouldn't exist

submitted 77 days ago • 89 comments

people in the media are always like "this country is too divided. we need to come together and find common ground" and then when that happened this week they all started sobbing and saying "nooo not like that!!"

submitted 77 days ago • 45 comments

The thing about right wingers is most of them don't actually like the capitalist system they're supporting that's why right wing leaders so often lean on cultural issues and racism and misogyny

submitted 78 days ago • 97 comments

we had to fight for an eight hour workday, for the five-day work week, for EVERYTHING. the default state of capitalism is literally working someone to death for free.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Not a single Lib can say with a straight face they don't know exactly what they're going to bat for when they defend the CEO of an American Healthcare company. This is from 1997 ffs.

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

The sunrise in Gaza: Israeli tanks are now shelling central Gaza, Deir al-Balah’s eastern outskirts.

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in new report:

submitted 80 days ago • 254 comments

Northern Gaza is being ethnically cleansed. This is Beit Lahia today after evacuation orders from the IDF.

submitted 80 days ago • 15 comments

400+ years after the "First Thanksgiving" most Americans have no idea that the Wampanoag people are still here. My tribe, the Aquinnah Wampanoag, is on Martha's Vineyard and we're still fighting for our land and rights. We’re also doing some cool stuff. 🧵👇 if you’d like to learn more & support us

submitted 86 days ago • 66 comments

#Gaza last night!

submitted 86 days ago • 9 comments

BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row. “Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.

submitted 86 days ago • 216 comments

About 50 Million bison were purposely murdered in order to starve Indigenous people to steal the land. Starvation as a tactic to steal land and commit genocide is well documented here. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 and may your olive groves flourish again for your children in a land that knows freedom.

submitted 86 days ago • 14 comments

This video from Bourdain spoke to me this morning because I really do just want people to see Palestinians as full and complete people because then I know they’ll fight for them too.

submitted 87 days ago • 14 comments

A topic not mentioned a single time during this 90+ minute conversation with the people who ran the Kamala Harris campaign: Gaza. The fact that they and their candidate backed a genocide merited not even one thought.

submitted 88 days ago • 26 comments

Note for the upcoming holiday season,,, some of us are on a sobriety journey and mocktails or non-alcoholic beer options make a big difference 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

submitted 88 days ago • 903 comments

for over a year, US media has helped the WH distance itself from the horrors of Gaza by employing 3, largely fictitious reporting genres. I and my pseudonymous co-author detailed these 3 genres and how they helped successfully take pressure off the Biden admin www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 89 days ago • 16 comments

A real telling thing is when someone frames the left's causes and concerns as being "edgy" or "cool" or "larping" or "pure" or whatever. Not only do you not believe in a better world yourself you can't even imagine someone else believing in it. A kind of Hell if you ask me.

submitted 89 days ago • 44 comments

'The readiness to repudiate identity politics & group them under “bad woke” is less about policy and more about the fact that social justice never really found a home amongst liberals, who were happy to capture its energy but not its demands.' The week's column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 89 days ago • 92 comments

The average cis person will take the "bathroom attacks are a distraction" as confirmation that any and all attacks on trans folks or discussions of our experiences in politics are a distraction. That's where the messaging falls short.

submitted 90 days ago • 18 comments

I’m sorry, I didn’t catch that. What was the nature of the crime you were referring to, again?

submitted 90 days ago • 20 comments

“By cutting off food, cutting off energy, cutting off water, that means the killing of all people in Gaza,” Butmeh said. For her, the destruction in Gaza is deeply tied to the flow of fossil fuels. She and others have been calling for a fuel embargo on Israel.

submitted 91 days ago • 3 comments

Zionists: “The ICC is anti-semitic” 94 year old Polish Jew and Nazi death camp survivor Theodor Meron was among the key advisor’s of international law experts that advised the Judges to issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant. The advisory report resulted in those warrants being granted.

submitted 91 days ago • 5 comments

if i were the Hague i wouldn't be worried because we haven't won a war we've started in ages

submitted 91 days ago • 3 comments

The Democrats abandoned Palestine, and every other issue Progressives care about, in favor of Dick Cheney. This brilliant move gained you roughly 7 Conservative votes and cost you over 10,000,000 Progressive votes, which handed the government to the GOP.

submitted 91 days ago • 12 comments

It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety

submitted 93 days ago • 327 comments

A soviet poster from 1926 that denounces child beatings/spankings as punishment.

submitted 94 days ago • 10 comments

That’s right

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

My Dad’s Fourth Rule of Being Irish was: “You’re Irish, and because you’re Irish, you ought to know, better than anyone else, that just because the law says something’s right, that doesn’t mean it is. And if the government tells you to do something wrong, don’t you do it. You change the government.”

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Second part of this excellent report. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

i wish more liberals understood that the only thing that matters for positive change is power. when you get it you use it. unhesitatingly, overwhelmingly. if you arent building power or have it, you are entirely ignorable by those with it. as they say money talks and shit walks, well, thats power

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

It’s difficult to overstate what a huge deal this is. Perhaps, dare we hope, justice is finally coming for the people of Gaza. A first, historic step.

submitted 93 days ago • 246 comments

This is a pathetic response, but to be expected from someone who is an accomplice to genocide

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

bathroom stuff is fundamentally about trans people being able to exist with dignity in public spaces and capitulating on that is kinda hm

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Weird i was told that voting for democrats despite the genocide was crucial to protect lgbt rights

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

"I'll stop supporting Israel if they abandon a two state solution" Dude, Israel abandoned the two state solution decades ago. For at least 30 years, *official Israeli government policy* has been that Israel owns the West Bank and Gaza. Where do you think all those settlements came from?

submitted 95 days ago • 16 comments

on TDOR kamala harris is using her huge platform to wish joe biden a happy birthday and the first trans person elected to congress is giving into a bathroom law with zero resistance these are the people we're supposed to vote for to save us huh

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

it disgusts me the national democratic party barely pushes back at this attempt from the right to wind back LGBTQ rights decades after claiming to be the party of LGBTQ rights

submitted 94 days ago • 599 comments

There is a very simple reason why the UK government refuses to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza. If they did, they would be admitting their own complicity in one of the greatest crimes of our time. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

submitted 94 days ago • 71 comments

We're about a decade in to this weird narrative where apparently centrists will always be driven right by us on the left but are somehow magically never driven left by the far-right.

submitted 95 days ago • 113 comments

Appalling. Remote controlled drones being used to hover over, look at, and then cynically shoot children ranks amongst the sickest cowardice ever. Best not highlight who is doing it though, hey BBC?

submitted 99 days ago • 99 comments