Brian Tierney

labor organizer / writer

[Brian Tierney @BTierDC]

“Not that there was an absence of corruption during Trump's first term or of cruelty as policy under his current regime. But Trump has spent recent months turning the dial of shameless corruption to eleven….” 👇
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[Brian Tierney @BTierDC]

My latest…

“If the first Trump regime was marked by the right-wing's embrace of bigoted demogoguery and Trump fomenting violence, the second Trump regime seems to be increasingly defined by a celebration of outright corruption...

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

“The invasion of Lebanon is much bigger than the ambitions & delusions of [Netanyahu].”

Former US Army Major @Harrison_J_Mann argues that Israel’s latest invasion of Lebanon is not just about Netanyahu or Hezbollah, but a broader project of territorial expansion & displacement.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

This will ruin your day, perhaps your summer, or even the rest of your life.

But you need to listen to it. You need to know the crimes that are done in your name and with your tax money.

A British surgeon in Gaza testifies that Israeli soldiers used Palestinian children as target practice. One day, they would shoot the children in the testicles, and on other days, in their necks.

They were practicing their shooting on children.

[IncarcerNation.com @IncarcerNation]

Today, Maurice Bishop would be 82. Leftist Prime Minister of Grenada 1979-1983. Expanded free healthcare, education, literacy, housing, built infrastructure. Strong ties to Cuba+Non-Aligned Movement. Overthrown by CIA-led coup under Reagan. Executed by firing squad at age 38.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢 Israeli drone kills head of anesthesia at Deir al-Balah hospital as strikes continue across Gaza

🔸 An Israeli drone strike targeted a Palestinian police checkpoint near Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah on Saturday, killing Jamal Abu Oun and wounding two others, according to Palestine Online.

▪️Abu Oun was identified in some reports as the head of the anesthesia department at Yafa Hospital and in others as chief nurse at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. He was a resident of Al-Bureij refugee camp.

🔸 Two people wounded — one critically — after Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at a civilian gathering near the Firas market in central Gaza City

🔸 Artillery fire hit northeast of Al-Bureij camp, central and southern Khan Younis, and western Rafah

🔸 A powerful explosion struck the Mawasi area west of Rafah from artillery fire

🔸 Israeli quadcopter drones spotted over the Asdaa prison area and the industrial zone north of Khan Younis

The strikes come one day after five Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on civilian gatherings and police checkpoints across Gaza.

🔗 Source: Palestine Online

[Brian Tierney @BTierDC]

This is what Israel did today in Gaza, to a one month old baby, along with killing this baby's mother. Israel continues to bomb people who have been displaced, whose homes it has reduces to rubble and who are living in tents. There is no ceasefire. Only uninterrupted genocide.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Next time some pro-Israel idiot (or PEP) says the war in Gaza is over and there’s a ‘ceasefire’ there so why are people still complaining/protesting, send them this:

[Manolo De Los Santos @manolo_realengo]

May 25, 1991: Operation Carlota ended. That day, the last Cuban soldiers came home after 16 years in Southern Africa. They didn’t just defend Angola, they freed Namibia & broke apartheid’s back. One of the greatest acts of internationalism in history. The world still owes Cuba.

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

"We have seen this playbook before — in Iraq, in Libya, in Venezuela, and in other sites of manufactured consent for illegal war across the world. The Progressive International will not stand silent as it is deployed against Cuba." https://t.co/kqtRz61uVk

[Belly of the Beast @bellybeastcuba]

Marco Rubio posted a video to Cubans claiming there’s no oil blockade. Needless to say, it didn’t land well with Cubans who are living through blackouts that became far worse after the U.S. began stopping oil from getting to the island.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇵🇸 The Trump administration is threatening to revoke visas for the Palestinian delegation to the United Nations unless Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour withdraws his candidacy for vice president of the U.N. General Assembly, according to an internal State Department cable obtained by NPR.

The May 19 cable reportedly instructed U.S. diplomats to pressure Palestinian officials to abandon the bid ahead of June 2 elections for one of the assembly’s 21 vice president posts.

The cable described Mansour as someone with a “history of accusing Israel of genocide,” and warned his appointment would undermine Trump’s Gaza agenda. The cable also threatened to revisit visa waivers previously granted to Palestinian diplomats at the PLO’s U.N. mission in New York.

[Brian Tierney @BTierDC]

That the Democratic Party establishment seems to be so profoundly incapable of learning is not merely the result of feckless leadership. It's that its leadership remains so deep in AIPAC's pockets.

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[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇸🇸 Civilians in South Sudan are being killed, raped, abducted, and bombed as violence rapidly escalates across the country, Doctors Without Borders warned in a new May 2026 report.

➤ MSF said it treated 6,095 victims of violence in 2025 alone, including 3,479 people wounded by gunfire, explosions, airstrikes, and other weapons.

➤ MSF says all sides in the conflict, including government forces, SPLA-IO fighters, and allied militias, are carrying out attacks that increasingly target civilians. Witnesses in Jonglei described soldiers killing women, children, and elderly people as families fled burning villages.

➤ Healthcare facilities are also under attack. MSF says it has faced 12 attacks on its staff and medical sites this year, including bombings, shootings, looting, and abductions. Two hospitals in Old Fangak and Lankien were destroyed by aerial bombardment, cutting off care for hundreds of thousands of people.

➤ The report also warns of catastrophic hunger among displaced families. In Chuil, MSF screened 2,500 children and found 36% suffering from moderate acute malnutrition and another 22% from severe acute malnutrition — an emergency-level crisis that points to widespread starvation conditions among children displaced by the fighting.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Good. (And it’s antisemitic, btw, to conflate Jewish New Yorkers with Israel.)

[CODEPINK @codepink]

Translation:
After spending decades suffocating your economy, we're offering you neoliberal privatization and billionaire colonization to destroy your hospitals, schools, and social services. Overthrow your government so we don’t have to.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

Does anyone still have doubts that Palestinians are being tortured and raped? This is how Israel treats international protestors in public. What they do to Palestinians in private is a million times worse.

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

URGENT 🇨🇺 The Cabinet of the @ProgIntl condemns the absurd, cynical, and baseless indictment of Raúl Castro: yet another step in @MarcoRubio's campaign to manufacture consent for the US invasion of Cuba.
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[Brian Tierney @BTierDC]

Ahead of the Teamsters’ convention next month, I spoke with Hooker about the ‘Fearless’ campaign and his vision for the Teamsters union.

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[Brian Tierney @BTierDC]

In my latest Sling Shot Politics piece, I interview Teamsters Local 623 principal officer Richard Hooker, who has mounted a challenge to the leadership of Teamsters General President Sean O'Brien.

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[Brian Tierney @BTierDC]

Like many Teamsters and activists in the labor movement, Hooker believes that O’Brien’s right-wing turn is endangering the union and workers more broadly, while his regime exhibits much of the same internal political toxicity of the Hoffa era.