It's been in the works for a while, but this is my review of @19joho's book. It's a crucial piece of history and I try to place his meticulous work in a broader context
We Want Them Infected: The integration of pseudoscience into the US pandemic response https://t.co/HvqaSTZi7o
Trump and Hegseth assembled the military brass, told them they will be fighting the enemy within, and that America cities will be training grounds for the use of deadly force. The army is being converted into a US version of Hitler’s brutal Waffen SS. 1/
Trump has just delivered a homicidal rant, in which he has justified the illegal attack on Iran, threatened further bombings and congratulated Netanyahu for waging a genocidal war against Gaza. Whatever the immediate military consequences of the bombing, billions of people across the globe, and millions within the US, now view the Trump administration as a criminal regime. The American oligarchy has taken yet another step toward the political abyss.
Trump, an admirer of Hitler, launched his criminal war against Iran on June 22, 2025 (Tehran time), which is the 84th anniversary of Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. One can be certain that the choice of this date was not an accidental coincidence.
Hard to overstate significance of this release. President of the United States brought the full weight of state power on this one young man and his wife and infant child. But he held strong, never sacrificed his principles, and is now at liberty. A lesson for us all.
On Monday, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain issued a statement doubling down on his support for Trump’s tariffs, denouncing “free trade” and echoing the far-right economic nationalism of the fascist president.
I was on CNN this morning denouncing feckless Democratic Party for collaborating with Trump. If the gvmt can disappear students for speech & send them 1,000 miles away to detention, that's the end of democracy. We appeal to the American ppl to stand up now before it is too late!
With the case against Bogdan Syrotiuk, Trotskyism is on trial in #Ukraine. Bogdan is not charged for any actions but for his ideas, a "thoughtcrime". The struggle to #freeBogdan is indispensable to the fight to defend democratic rights & oppose war.
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Thank you Cornell students & faculty for inviting me to speak on campus last night about Trump's executive orders, the threat to free speech, non-citizen students like @MomodouTaal, danger of dictatorship & the way to fight back. Many important pts made by all.
My remarks: 1/8
What an utterly abhorrent, provocative & illegal action. Sent to Gitmo for tattoos!
Must be said: This was prepared by Biden admin which petitioned for cert and allied with Alito & Thomas in Dep't of State v. Muñoz, where this issue was litigated.
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Democratic Party governor of California Newsom groveling before Trump. Trump calls the Democrats traitors, and the Democrats respond like whipped curs. "You were there for us during Covid..." It could be a parody of spinelessness.
Karl Marx famously declared that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. In the second inauguration of Donald Trump, this aphorism could be modified: the first time as farce, the second time as catastrophe.
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Trump's birthright citizenship order: Going fwd, a child born in the US to 2 parents on lawful visas is no longer a citizen. The order calls citznshp a "gift" from the gvm't, not a "right." A harrowing attack on immigrants & democratic rights.
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“Republican, Democratic it’s all just a ploy for the rich, I think, to control everything,” Steve told WSWS @KimieSaito2@CrosseBarx reporters today outside the Pasadena Convention Center.
#LAFires
As Fetterman promotes Trump's fascist attacks on immigrants & advocates genocide in Gaza: the DSA/Jacobin are politically responsible for his rise.
“If people really understood the science behind all this, they would have a very different attitude”
Read & share widely this critical interview with @arijitchakrav by @BenjaminMateus7, which draws a balance sheet of 5 years of the ongoing pandemic. https://t.co/Kjdd1qXvAt
The positions of #Platypus are so openly pro-imperialist and right-wing, it is no exaggeration to say that they could have come from the US State Department itself or the Australian Labor government.
#PseudoLeft
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