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[Yves ౨ৎ @yvessirae]

A reminder that these are the people who don’t want their grandkids learning about this in school because they wouldn’t have a logical answer for why they did it.

[Skinnie Talls @SkinnieTalls]

As long as they come with a funny story, misdemeanors really shouldn't count.

[Hasan Kwame Jeffries @ProfJeffries]

This the energy the next POTUS needs.

Just erase all this Trump bullshit. Revoke everything after January 20, 2025.

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani issues executive order revoking all executive orders Eric Adams signed after September 26, 2024, which was the date of his indictment.

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

The fact that he knew his girlfriend enough to know that she would 100% volunteer… I’m crying 🥺

[🔥Viking_Funeral🔥🇺🇲 @EndOfDays1870]

IDENTIFIED: The jackass that decided to berate and harass a female Packers fan in Philadelphia, calling her "An ugly, dumb c*nt" unprovoked is Ryan Caldwell. A Business Analyst at BCTPartners, make him famous.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Not even a week ago, horrifying new body cam footage showed Americans how 13 prison guards beat a handcuffed man to death

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Hey @NYCMayor you going to perp walk these cops too or is it not “terrorism enough” to beat a defenseless man to death?

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

New footage shows an off-duty cop from Long Island rear-ending a car with his truck at over 50mph and fracturing the skull of a 2-year-old boy. The officers who arrived at the scene broke all protocols to shield David Mascarella from alcohol testing.

Lock up every cop involved.

[The Anarchist Turtle 🏴Ⓐ🔆🏳️‍⚧️ @anarchoboognish]

All the cops in this photo have killed more people than Luigi Mangione

[Bahar Ostadan @BaharOstadan]

An off-duty Suffolk County cop was drunk driving after golf and hit a 2-year-old boy.

Instead of dialing 911, he called his union rep. He refused breath tests. The boy was in a coma with multiple skull fractures.

Today, he’s back on the job. @paullarocco https://t.co/jTvRkutIzH

[Chris Floyd @empireburlesque]

I've been saying throughout this entire century– in print and on line – that Joe Biden is nothing but a corporate bagman, a corrupt, mendacious, bigoted empty bag of wind. Anyone who paid the slightest attention to his actual career, to what he actually *did* – as opposed to the

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

The "land grab" narrative you've been hearing from people in #WNC is NOT a conspiracy theory.

Here's how it works:

a) Your family lives on 30 acres of land by the river, worth approximately $225,000

b) Helene rolls in and wipes out your home and floods about 50% of your land

c) You now live in a tent with your kids and have applied to get a temporary housing unit from FEMA

d) FEMA shows up, takes a look around and says "sorry, we can't give you a trailer to live in on this land, you are in a flood zone!"

e) You say, "Ok, I don't want to live in a tent with my kids anymore, what should I do?"

f) FEMA says, "You can sell your land to us for the current tax evaluation of $18,000 and we will put you up in a nice warm RV."

g) You say, "Wait, I can't sell this land for $18,000! It's worth at least 10x that and it's the only asset I have."

h) FEMA says, "Ok, no worries. Bye."

i) Now you are stuck living in your tent with your 3 kids wondering if you should sell the only thing you have left to your name just to have a warm place for your family to sleep.

That's the land grab.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

It’s funny how everytime some rich consultant scapegoats college kids, trans people or some other vague woke boogeyman it’s presented as some edgy truth telling “tough medicine”. It’s the most popular scapegoat after every election! It’s not brave to deflect blame from yourself!

[Ethan M. Aldridge @EthanMAldridge]

Several years ago, when things were bad as they are now, I made a comic about art and community in the face of hate. Today feels like a time to reshare. 1/5

[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.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

⚠️Marshall, NC — 1 Month Later

The world has moved on. The camera crews are gone.

But we are still here.

Shoveling mud. Boiling water. Clinging to hope.

Please don't forget about us in #WNC.