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I have never gotten excited by #Eurovision. It never made a lot of sense to me. But #Canada is joining, so I am paying a bit of attention A number of countries are #boycotting because #Israel is still participating. For a contest that is supposed to unify, is it? www.euronews.com/2026/10/27/e...

The Plot to Enslave America. Harsh treatment of student borrowers both makes those currently in the labor pool more willing to submit to exploitation and future workers less likely to go to college (where they could compete with the aristocrat children of the elite). Big win for the oligarch class

You really just need to hang someone who does this

This is cannot be how the goverment operates

whenever the DSA ultras talk about losing credibility, they dont mean with voters or the working class — they mean among their friends in leninist parties

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I would agree that Petolta is basically the round in the clip

You’d think Murkowski would endorse her defensively lol

If Petolta wins I think there’s a decent chance Schumer gets Murkowski to defect

This will look like Murkowski being an I who caucuses with Dems

This will feel bad but be good, as with many things

If she does caucus, though, she'll probably keep her R rather than switching to I. That's how it generally works at the state level in AK (where it's common).

I mean fair, she’s just in sort of an unusual spot where she’s demonstrated she’s not really someone you can primary and she’s for her many flaws not a MAGA person: people forget she was a vote to impeach

Wasn’t Jackson the president of the Maine Senate?

I'm morbidly curious how far gone he can get before it's acknowledged. Think his heart reaches expiration first, but there's a chance that it's May 2028 and the president is capable of nothing save the occasional gurgling noise, while Scott Jennings gushes about his unique communication style.

Yes, watching so many people just pretend Trump isn’t incredibly demented at this point truly makes me feel like I’m living in some sort of fucked-up and incredibly overwrought satire.

Yeah, it’s the Emperor’s New Clothes but it’s on a three season deal from Netflix

If you think that today's voters are fickle, the 1890/1894 midterms are pretty bracing.

21 YEAR-OLD REPUBLICAN STAFFER: grok please give me a strategy to win the midterms in a +12 Dumocrat evironment GROK: In 1894 the traitor Dreyfus was correctly convicted of treason against the nation -

Dibs on comparing the 2026 midterms to the 1894 anti-robber baron midterms.

Oh great. He is doing the same swing around the circle thing as Andy Johnson. On which, see Grant's comment.

It's 2026

Holy shit it's the gag rule

The US Federal Government believes in you, though.

Yea guys the 2010 and 2014 Midterms infamously a good time for downballot Democrats. No need to worry

Record-breaking voter turnout among Palestinian citizens of Israel hits around 80 percent, early indications show.

Saturn you pretty

We should start a group called “Food But Also Bombs” and hand out BETTER food while giving lectures on liberal internationalism.

I know people who've looked into food pantries/food aid to the extent that's available, it's also through state-funded services exclusively. there is no anarchist food bank. there is no anarchist soup kitchen.

there are people in need all around here. somewhat famously. it's the neighborhood where CHAZ/CHOP happened and there's a massive population of unhoused people, plus all kinds of normal social problems. those issues are addressed, to the extent that they are, by state and city funded nonprofits

also, like, it just isn't true when people are like "anarchists are pillars of their community! they're important!" no, they're not! I live in an incredibly left-wing area of my city. there are no public services provided by anarchists here. there are no anarchist groups going around helping ppl.

it's the same thing with "it was leftists that got social progress by rioting/protesting" etc. it's all about their self image. they are de facto the exact same kind of guy as "sheepdog" dudes who conceal carry everywhere. they need their Service to the Common Person respected.

it's just a glaring piece of evidence that for leftists, their politics is a giant gaping ego wound that they need assuaged, they're doing it out of a desperate desire to be a Good Person and maybe The Goodest Person. it *infuriates* them to not have their valor respected, which is why I won't do it

I will never understand the psychological profile of leftists who demand that liberals, who they will never support, acknowledge that leftists are honorable. "You have to admit anarchists do important work in their communities!" no, i don't! you won't acknowledge anything liberalism does!

This clown car administration just debases itself anew every day.

I think Murk may have decided she’d rather be in the majority

There are approx 250k people living in the brown area, the city of Hebron in the W. Bank. Of them, 349 eligible to vote in the Israeli election, they got a polling site set up just for them, and they voted for the 2 most extreme right wing parties. The rest: Palestinians who have no right to vote.

The 349 voters (out of 700-800 or so Jews, inc children) live in a small tightly controlled area at the city center that Palestinians cannot enter. But their right to vote is not defined by location, which is why it isnt demarcated on the map. It is defined solely by being Israeli jewish citizens.

Democracy is all about hope. It takes hope to register to vote. It takes hope to cast your ballot. It takes hope to choose people who will make things better. Don't sit this election out.

The reason is that the entire Western left was deeply shaped by neo-Maoist movements in the 1960s and 1970s counterculture. It would be very misleading to say it's the only major influence (it's not) but the Baader-Meinhof Gang and Weather Underground were formative and can't yet be jettisoned.

W. E. B. du Bois, INfamously, DID that!

And I think it's obscured how much of this "anti-imperial"/"anti-colonial" idea comes straight from the 1950s Moscow line. So you get not only unconditional defense of, say, the current regime in Iran, but a complete erasure of the actual Iranian workers' movement

This is definitely true about the US. I'm in Europe where Maoism didn't take root anywhere near as deeply -- when I was organizing in the US for a couple of years it was really shocking how many Maoists there were -- but the shallow "anti-colonial"/"anti-imperial" analysis is everywhere.

appears to me that western enchantment with maoism came on the heels of disillusionment with the soviet project--khrushchev denouncing stalin then crushing the hungarian revolution being the final nails in the coffin

To confront the legacy of Mao thus opens one up to attacks from the still very much ascendant "anti-colonial" wing. It also can lead to accusations of redbaiting, because the GOP adores making bad-faith attacks against normal Democrats painting them as Communists.