Steven Brust

For years I had a problem with losing important floppies. Then I got smart.

I went out for some half-and-half yesterday. They had surgical scissors, gauze, sutures, body bags, even a bone saw. But no half-and-half. Twenty minutes wasted walking to and from the coroner store. I suppose I should have called first.

The assumption by Democratic Party loyalists that there is going to be an election--an honest election--in 2028 is dangerously misleading and works to disarm us before our enemies, but it is also, I have to admit, kind of adorable.

This was a hoot.

The SEP have well-established political differences with Piker’s reformist politics and his attempts to shepherd workers and youth into the Democratic Party, but we unequivocally oppose the Trump administration’s McCarthyite investigation into him... www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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Warm greetings to all on this day of international working class solidarity.

I love this guy so many times.

Medical researchers say that cancer is typically caused by a complex combination of factors. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats says it's mostly caused by the radiation from offshore windmill farms. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

On this day in 1775 the world's first abolition organization was founded in Pennsylvania.

Information that could save your life: European swallow: 11 m/s African swallow: 9.5 m/s Please note that these are *averages*. Should anyone ask, be certain to clarify if the individual wants average, or maximum.

The attack on Iran ordered by Donald Trump and his war-crazed cabal is a massive political crime, illegal under international law and in direct violation of the US Constitution. #Iran #NoWar www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

I strongly urge all of those who believe we should deny free speech rights to our enemies to google the Weimar Fallacy before you do any more damage to our fight against fascism.

I, like all other decent human beings, hate ICE with the passion of a thousand fiery suns. But I have to agree with Popehat on this. We cannot defend our right to free speech without also defending the rights of those who say things we find abhorrent.

It’s day 70 of the ICE occupation of MSP. ICE continues to terrorize our neighbors, there are still 2,000 agents here, even as the attention of the world has moved on. When we say ICE OUT, we mean ICE out everywhere.

Mark Twain, a strong supporter of the Russian Revolution of 1905. famously said of the Czarist regime, "If such a government cannot be overthrown otherwise than by dynamite, then thank God for dynamite." I wonder what he would have said of the US Government today.

#Minnesota #GeneralStrike #Minneapolis #TwinCities #ShutDownICE #JusticeForReneeGood #JusticeForAlexPretti #ICEOutStrike #MinnesotaStrong #AbolishICE #ICEOutOfMN #MinneapolisProtests #NoMoreICE #ICEoffOurStreets #StPaul #NicolletAvenue #ICEOutOfMinnesota #StopICE Sign up: wsws.org/generalstrike

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

I am so very proud of my Minnesota people right now. I wish I could be there with you. We need a political general strike, and I believe such a thing is far more realistic than perhaps many of you realize.

The people of MN give me far more hope than the largely feckless “opposition” leaders of our country or the deeply compromised and ineffectual media both-sidesing white nationalist totalitarianism.

The most well paid and rewarded part of the media establishment relies on this faux knowing perspective that seeks to find middle ground in an extreme moment and to tell the powerful they are never wrong.

There is a wonderful book by Adam Goodheart called _1861: The Civil War Awakening_. It describes in detail how a few incidents changed the general mood of the North from apathy to willingness to fight and die. We are seeing that same process unfold before us.

Should note: this is a free read on the BWG Roundtable web site.

Trump and Kennedy launch unhinged anti-science tirade in autism press conference Monday’s announcement reveals the administration’s willingness to terrorize pregnant women and families with autistic children to advance its broader anti-science agenda. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

If there is any individual whom #CharlieKirk most closely resembles, in terms of persona and political tactics, it is George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party in the 1960s. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Sheesh. Why are so many people confused about what socialism means? It's not that hard, just ask any right-winger. It means anything capitalism does that they can't defend.

"The fight against censorship is inseparable from the fight against the system that produces it."

I am eagerly looking forward to the opportunity to write the obituary.

The bulk of the party establishment opposes Mamdani not because it fears his mildly reformist program—on which he is already backtracking—but because his primary victory reflects a radicalization of broad masses.

After adjusting for inflation, the wages of sin is now a mild head-cold.

The first computer I used was an IBM 1620. The first computer I owned was an R2E XP3--solid steel case (built for CAM), and, check it out, A FIVE MEG HARD DRIVE!!!! Shown on the dust jacket of the hardcover of To Reign In Hell.

The inability or unwillingness to accept that both of these are true causes immense confusion, frustration, and demoralization among many who fight for a better world.

Human thought is deeply conservative; it will struggle to resist any change in beliefs, attitudes, and habits. Human thought is exceptionally volatile; under the pressure of events, it can overnight undergo fundamental changes in beliefs, attitudes, and habits.

"When an international financier is held up at gunpoint, Archie, he immediately hands over not only his cash, but his pants and his shoes. Because it does not occur to him that even a common thief would draw the line somewhere." -- Nero Wolfe

We’ve been asked to believe a lot of intensely stupid narratives throughout this genocide, but “it’s actually HAMAS who’s starving Gaza” has got to be the dumbest one yet.

I salute @kenwhite.bsky.social for his principled stand. So long as academia functions within a capitalist society, intellectual honesty and integrity will remain commodities for sale. The rare exceptions deserve our respect. The rest must be opposed on every front.

The leadership of Columbia University is contemptible Vichy scum. To its professors who stay: that’s who you choose to work for, the obeisance to totalitarianism you choose to promote? To students who stay: those are your values?

The worst thing about Millennials is they always making sweeping generalizations about people based on when they were born.

I'm so old, I remember when we'd talk about the weather to AVOID politics.

I just invented a term for when the author of a fantasy series has to reread books he wrote 45 years ago: Cringefest.

If you can't treat expensive equipment properly, you don't belong in the music business. Mic drop.

"We Leftists should stop arguing among ourselves" translates to "We all agree on how the fight has to be carried out," which is false, or "it doesn't matter what we do," which is preposterous, or "find the minimum we all agree on" which is opportunistic betrayal.

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

Deliberately starving a civilian population and then setting up aid sites as a death trap to massacre starving people trying to get food is too evil to wrap your mind around. If we saw a supervillain doing this in a movie we'd think it was dumb, because it wouldn't be believable.

I haven't reposted this in a while (or ever here) and maybe some people could use a chuckle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppeA...