Fired drinking water adviser, including for Flint, files suit against #EPA. #Scientists are in a common fight with all workers defending jobs, democratic rights, #science & human progress that requires building a socialist movement in the working class https://t.co/U4zGGHPk69
US courts sentence 15 Prairieland defendants to 556 years in Trump’s fascist campaign against left-wing opposition - World Socialist Web Site https://t.co/D8wtFl5BzC
This July 4: the federal government is detaining ~60,000 non-citizens who are a part of "the people" to whom the Constitution applies. They aren't detained for committing crimes & many won't even receive bond hearing. This would have been repulsive to revolutionaries of 1776.
Workers on the job amid deadly US heat wave exposes government and corporate indifference https://t.co/iDJdadqLN1
[Tom Hall]
Reuters reported Friday that heat indexes could reach as high as 115 degrees Fahrenheit in parts of the US. Trump's so-called "Great American State Fair" event in Washington D.C.’s National Mall was temporarily closed after temperatures reached 101 degrees. Philadelphia canceled its Salute to Independence Parade after tying a temperature record set in 1901.
-These changes are already visible in the country’s major cities.
-The heat wave exposes a social order in which every basic protection—cool homes, safe workplaces, reliable power, medical care, functioning public infrastructure—is subordinated to corporate profit and government austerity. Workers cannot wait for employers, union officials or federal regulators who have delayed for decades. The urgent measures needed to protect life must be imposed by workers themselves, through independent organization in every workplace.
The fascist Chamberlain calls for a coup against the democratically elected Mayor of NYC. Musk, the world's richest man, who has said "We will coup whoever we want," enthuses. The capitalist ruling class is openly conspiring against democracy. A socialist revolution is required.
250 years since the Declaration of Independence. The 250th anniversary of the founding document of the American Revolution is being marked by the staggering crisis and decay of those original democratic principles. https://t.co/WKQUUed6i0