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“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” -Anne Frank’s Diary

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As usual, @corbintrent.bsky.social is on point: > Moments like this don’t come around often. The candidates are there. The coalition is forming.... Let’s back the fighters. open.substack.com/pub/americas...

I love everything about this.

I can’t help noticing that these two gangsters—as well as Renée Good’s murderer—have been with DHS for *years*. This isn’t a 47-days-of-training problem. This is an institutional problem. Abolish ICE! www.propublica.org/article/alex...

Hugo Chavez came to power in Venezuela in 1999, 14 years later in 2013 with Venezuela's GDP having more than tripled the USA boycotted Venezuela because all of S.America was going to go Socialist and throw US thieves out Don't talk of Socialist failure, it is Capitalist sabotage

Socialism built your roads, it built your rail, it built your healthcare, it built your power stations and power lines, it built your houses. Everything that works was built by socialism, everything that doesn't work is owned by capitalism.

We need get ICE out of Massachusetts. There are 3 key things we can do in Massachusetts to protect our neighbors from ICE. 1. Stop MA police, courts, prisons, and jails from helping ICE 2. End the surveillance state from targeting us 3. Hold ICE agents accountable for breaking state laws

@teamsters.bsky.social support for @sbworkersunited.org is really inspiring. It shows the power of worker solidarity, yes. But also Community.

a timely message from @ellecordova.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/igndc...

@markey.senate.gov Retire. Retire and give full-throated support to @pressley.house.gov . Preserve your legacy!

There is a good/great locally-owned coffee shop just around the corner. Avoid Starbucks stores and products until they agree to pay a living wage.

This morning, I was thinking about this amazing ad from 2016, and how back then there were still corporations willing to stand with us. www.ispot.tv/ad/AHYF/john...

“There’s a reason that fascists attack unions first. It’s because the opposite of fascism is solidarity.” -Corey Doctorow

@schumer.senate.gov I didn’t know one-dimensional chess was physically *possible*. Worst game night ever. And the Baileys fucking agree with me.

The US needs a Workers’ Party. The Snatching-Defeat-From-The-Jaws-Of-Victory Party is just not getting the job done. www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/p...

Socialism is not inevitable. Class consciousness does not arise spontaneously. We have been trained to accept insitutional hierarchies that are harming us. We need to educate and organize to tear back the veil.

“If [@markey.senate.gov] continues on his current trajectory, his legacy may very well be complicity in handing his seat over to a moderate Democrat who has shown a preference for capitulation to Republican framing...” nebeacon.substack.com/p/opinion-ma...

People complaining about Socialism always use Capitalism as the example.

“So to those who opposed Mamdani…stop pretending your loyalty is to working people when it has always been to wealthy donors. The rest of us are building a working class party worthy of its own FDR legacy—one that fights corporate greed rather than serving it.“

I'd respect Schumer more if he simply said, "Look, if I vote for & support Mamdani, then we lose immense funding from billionaire donors. I can't take that risk." That way, while still abject cowardice, at least his view is honest. As low as the bar is, I prefer an honest coward to a deceptive one.

youtu.be/v0yGTV3OsUM?... I’m trying to only put positive energy out into the world. But I can still find time to take a break to say: Fuck you @schumer.senate.gov . Fuck you too @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social .

The average American family has ~$6000 of their taxes go to corporate subsidies and ~$100 of their taxes go to SNAP for 42 million hungry Americans. Remember—we don't lack money to serve our neighbors in need, we lack the money needed to satisfy billionaire greed.

> AWS debuted a new sustainability campaign in November 2022 called “Water Positive”, with a commitment to “return more water than it uses” by 2030. Kudos to The Guardian for making it all the way through this article without using the phrase “taking the piss”. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Seriously. Does WaPo get dizzy from all that spinning?

More than 7M people took part in No Kings rallies across the nation today, making it the largest single-day protest in U.S. history and surpassing the June demonstration, which drew just over 5M. In only 4 months, millions more Americans have decided that they’ve had enough.

I’m a little tired of reading headlines today that juxtapose Israeli “hostages” with Palestinian “detainees”.

Don't sleep on Michelle Wu, one of this country's most quietly effective climate leaders, cruising to a second term in Boston. It's telling that business interests tried and failed to stop her and are pouting about it now Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

a Schumer or gillibrand sticker would be like loudly proclaiming your love for the color beige, except worse because beige is not actively harming anyone

To review: an apparent right wing civil war between white Christian nationalist Groypers and white Christian nationalist college campus activists results in the murder of a leader of the latter; and that will now spark a 1930s-style putsch against liberals by the fascists who run the country.

This is how it’s done. Take notes, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social 🤡

White Christian Taliban shit right here. Time to stop tiptoeing around it. These people are fanatics pursuing a Holy War. It’s a critical piece of the threat assessment that should inform our strategies. (Psst. They’re not just going to hand back power.)

If there were a “Department of War” it would obviously be very very small when we aren’t at war, right?

Will the Vice President take the oath of office in English or his native Russian?

It’s … … … the … … … guns.

TL;DR: Hurt people hurt people.

A bad week for the people of Gaza, Ukraine, DC, and…well…Earth. But if Gavin Newsom’s trolling improves Trump’s grammar and capitalization even a little, it’ll be a good week for 7th grade English teachers.