Connie Miksits @GoLeft2024

The problem with this insurgent wave of Democratic candidates is that without bases to mobilize into mass movements against the ruling class, they are effectively useless. Currently, these candidates are not using mass movements to build power but instead working within the hierarchy of the Democratic Party — a party that is beholden to corporate donors with a vested interest in maintaining U.S. imperialism and working class austerity.

Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" fund, claimed to be for Gaza reconstruction, is empty! Where did its billions of dollars go? youtube.com/watch?v=iSHR_t…

@MajorityReport To date TMR has not mentioned Mamdani's endorsement of Jeffries for house speaker should Dems take the House. Insofar as they can't credibly defend it they are just going to ignore it. "Left is Best" but TMR isn't on it!

@Mike_from_PA Emma Vigeland is a chronic fangirl (Kamala, Platner) and in her star-struck softball interview she made no mention of AOC's lie at the DNC. I suspect her access interview was conditioned on her not addressing it.

I welcome the stance taken by the UK government on Israel’s occupation and its illegality. A much-needed beginning, even if it does not yet reverse all policies undermining Palestinian self-determination. May the UK government and people hold firm. The pressure will be fierce.

Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband

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The UK will stand up for what is right.

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@jacobin “It’s easier to be pissed off on the internet than actually build community and power around a just cause,” AOC said. “It’s not enough to be right. We need to be right and WIN.” The problem is that by the time they win, they're no longer right.

The retreat into satirical attacks on Trump and his supporters fuels the solidification of fascism. Watch Eunice Wong's reading of my column, 'The Joke Is on Us' on YouTube now: youtube.com/watch?v=GJoNBA…

It is as much a part of the Trump regime's authoritarian strategy to ignore rules as it is to erase history. Until they suffer consequences they will continue to do so.

Truthout @truthout

a week ago

Indigenous leaders say the US government's decision to close 3 National Archives sites was made without tribal consultation. truthout.org/articles/3-nat…

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🇬🇧 Britain is preparing what Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband calls a “broad reset” of relations with Israel, with the government promising a more active approach to supporting Palestinians, The Guardian reports. ➤ Beyond the illegal settlement trade ban to be announced Tuesday, Miliband is expected to reassert Palestinian rights and international law, and use firmer language on Israel’s restrictions on aid into Gaza. ➤ The measures will be framed around rulings from the ICJ and ICC, as both institutions come under attack from Washington. ➤ The reset has been accelerated by Israel’s E1 settlement project, rising settler violence in the West Bank, and the failure of Trump’s Board of Peace, after six months, to secure either Hamas’s disarmament or an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, The Guardian said. x.com/clashreport/st…

For as long as I can remember, @SusanSarandon has been using her voice to fight on the right side of history. It’s absolutely rare to see a celebrity risk it all with such compassion and integrity, especially in times when no one else in Hollywood dared to speak up.

Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish

a week ago

Speaking at the Venice Film Festival, Oscar-winning actor Susan Sarandon says she continues to lose out on work for speaking out against Israel’s war in Gaza, despite a broader shift in public opinion in the US.

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@franifio

So glad Hakeem Jeffries met with this man. Real leadership.

Scott Robertson @sarobertson_

a week ago

Jared Kushner: "Gaza has not worked for a very, very long time. It was basically built by NGOs and terrorists, and it's been a dystopian place for a long time."

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Chuck Schumer essentially admitted that the party will sabotage the candidacies of Democratic challengers to the establishment. So if any of them lose I will reject the establishment narrative that they were too left and I will blame Schumer and all the other AIPAC Dems.

The US is a barbaric capitalist dystopia. A court just ruled that people do NOT have a right to clean water, or to truthful information from the government. This came after the city of Jackson, Mississippi misled residents into drinking what it knew was lead-contaminated water.

Why do the ultra-wealthy feel driven to transfer a poor kid's peanut butter money to their own pockets via tax cuts for the already obscenely rich? Greed doesn't explain this. Sadism does. Hate them hard for their monstrous cruelty! wsws.org/en/articles/20…

This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect. "Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage. You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail. Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates. Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you. And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again. And you're calling Greenland poorly run? Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no. 'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years. And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess. So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."

A weasely ruling means that Jackson residents will continue to be poisoned by the city's water while officials who lied to them have qualified immunity. The mayor said he's pleased. wjtv.com/news/local-new…

@RonChusid Important to know. Thank you!

@RonChusid So the drop box ballots aren't collected by postal workers? I didn't realize that because I assumed that all mail-in ballots had to be postmarked.