The air quality in Chicago is unbreathable due to climate change induced wildfires and the heat is unbearable due to climate change induced El Niño. The future is here

Just received the most low-rent HUAC investigation ever in my inbox lol

Lindsey Graham did have that rare, alabaster South Carolina gift of saying the quiet part out loud “this court is for Africa and thugs like Putin. It is not for democracies like Israel and the United States."

This is classic imperialism - the US has seized billions in VZ assets and is refusing to release the money even as the country is in ruins

This is what passes for NPR discussion on higher education: does anyone have a better idea to lower costs than to cut funding and shut down whole programs? “Nope.” Haha It is literally within living memory that public universities were free of charge and fully funded by state

What made the 2nd Red Scare so effective was not only the power of new state security apparatuses such as the FBI, it was that liberals went along with it in the sincere belief that communism was a threat to *them, and their ability to claim representation of a multi-racial working class…

Used to be one got called either a communist or a nostalgist - or both, my favorite, a communist nostalgist - for saying the same thing: that there is going to be a major liberal re-alignment on Palestine that will also sweep up American Jews, liberalism’s goldene kinder 1/2

It is remarkable that there exists a magazine the single editorial purpose of which seems to be to drive me to self-harm

A fun fact about 4th of July is that alone among American holidays - from its inauguration as a holiday in 1870 and thru the late 19th/20th C - it’s often been a day marked by lynchings, anti-Black mob violence and race riots

AC uber alles

The meteorologist on WBEZ name is, I kid you not, Kevin Doom

I call this the Haiti model: the US (previously Europe) will grind a Latin American country into dust thru repeated coups, financial strangulation, & dependency in retaliation for ever, once ever, thinking to defy - & defeat - the reigning colonial power

Repo Man (1984)

At this point in history, we will need a radical socialism to even make good on the moderate promises of liberalism

I appreciate the concern, Mr. Zamir, Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv. But, you are not apparently so concerned w the most “most Jewish city in the world” turning against Israel that you want to you know, end the apartheid state, the war on the Palestinian people, or consider reparations/right of return

I’ve long held that centrism’s sole defining feature is that it is reactionary anti-communism w/in the framework of an electoral democracy.

It’s amazing how the far-right re-invented the Judeo-Bolshevik thesis from scratch, 10/10, no notes

A Jewish Democrat’s criticism of Israel just won him a House seat - in a Jewish district

I am old enough to remember Scott Walker being refused service at many restaurants in Madison for being an anti-labor corporate stooge and no one filed a civil rights complaint

Idk it seems weird to be questioning someone worried about what the NYT referred to as a major “toxic miasma.” The NYT story went on to make an explicit point to differentiate smoke from the burning warehouse from ordinary urban pollution from cars etc

My first intro to Marx’s labor theory of value was ironically offered by Greenspan, who credited the 90s boom to the “traumatized worker.” A worker who, after decades of deindustrialization, union busting, & neoliberalism, was too defeated to demand good wages, social rights or provision.

After long silence, the doyan of the Democratic Party finally breaks her silence in the most terrible hour of Trump’s presidency to…quote Margaret Thatcher and celebrate the MAGA plan for neocolonial genocide in Gaza

Brad Lander to NYT: what am I, a Christmas ham?

I get the feeling the NYT editorial staff actually feels v sad about this

What happens when you defund the humanities

Look it’s not the Internationale but it will do as a slogan until it gets here

An alarming development. Ofc this is exactly what the framers of “Project Esther” envisioned, the re-making of Palestine solidarity protest into “terrorism,” which if one knows anything about the history of such things, certainly does not intend to stop there. www.metrotimes.com/news/feds-wr...

One can tell how dangerously serious a bourgeois idea is by how openly stupid it’s willing to be in public. Moyn’s book on the elderly’s threat to society not only substitutes an age war for a class war, it is also just very stupid @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...