Caroline🌙♈️💜

Lover of many TV shows, a plethora of ships & an eclectic mix of music since childhood.
Obsessions: #Buffy #AURORA #Kanthony #MaxtonHall #MyLadyJane #IWTV

[Caroline🌙♈️💜 @Caroline_Wilson]

I am leaving this hellscape. Join me over here: https://t.co/DZwOmUZUOA

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

These 8 humanitarian organizations find Israel failing or being insufficient on every single demand the US gave it last month to improve the situation in Gaza within 30 days.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

8 groups (incl. Save the Children, Oxfam, Anera, Refugees International) conclude Israel has failed to comply with US demand to improve Gaza conditions within 30 days.
"Israel not only failed…but concurrently took actions that dramatically worsened the situation on the ground…"

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

a reminder that this happened during the democratic primary and it was a massive warning sign that the dems actively ignored. we do not know what % still voted for harris/trump/3rd party but these ppl were mostly registered dems activated enough to participate in the primaries.

[Matt Lieb?? @mattlieb]

Escapism. That’s the ticket.

[Sammy Obeid @SammyObeid]

The sad truth is that the Arab American vote is not why Trump won the election but we will get blamed for it anyway

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.

But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.

Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.

Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.

The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.

And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.

So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

[John Cusack @johncusack]

If Trump is defeated - we must make GAZA THE issue to put in front of Harris .

[Caroline🌙♈️💜 @Caroline_Wilson]

I voted. In a state where it really doesn't matter who I voted in for president. I am neither happy nor sad about what choice I made. I am indifferent. I lost trust in the government back in October 2023. Both sides are corrupt. But I still voted. Yay me.

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

"Palestinians risk being erased from northern Gaza," warns UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese, @FranceskAlbs, addressing media at UNHQ.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

I am antiwar and anti hate unconditionally. even if its america or its allies doing it. I believe we should spend the money we waste overseas killing people on healing and housing ppl here instead. I think those who consider my worldview to be radical are telling on themselves.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

israel has not stopped its genocide in gaza, it's still bombing lebanon, and its knesset just voted to ban UNRWA, the UN agency that is life support for palestinian existence. western powers have shown the world that the ruled based international order is a lie

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

No cemeteries, No hospitals, No doctors, No civil defense, No ambulances. The living are under the rubble, and no one can rescue them, the situation in north Gaza gets more horrific by the minute.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

this is what happens when you think real life is like reddit and twitter

[Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu @SholaMos1]

This is what happens when Zionism is normalised. Zionism is racism. Ryan Girdusky is a liar to pretend Mehdi Hasan said ‘Hamas’ when he clearly said ‘I support Palestinians’ & a liar to now pretend ‘hope your beeper doesn’t go off’ is a joke. Their hoods are off - Zionism emboldens hate just like White Supremacy. Be anti-Zionist.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Girdusky to Hasan: I hope your beeper doesn’t go off

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

The US is threatening the International Criminal Court under the Democrats.

Fascism isn’t ‘at the door’ — it’s here. It’s been here for years. And it came wearing both Red and Blue.

[Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib]

.@SecBlinken I wanted you to see what your lies to Congress led to. Ignore it or hide it like you have been, but history won't forget what you did. You could have stopped the starvation by telling us the truth. You decided to lie about it.

[Joshua Citarella @JoshuaCitarella]

This week on Doomscroll, my guest is musician Matty Healy of @the1975 📺 he joins me to discuss internet culture and the strange aesthetics of our time. We explore the inspirations behind his work ⬇️