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[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

A US city has effectively banned data centers for the first time.

St. Charles, Missouri has changed their land use rules so that data centers cannot be built.

The change is indefinite, and to build data centers in St. Charles the land uses rules would need to change again.

[JusticeSTL @JusticeSTL]

@bell4mo You are bought and sold by AIPAC. And when you lose we won’t ever let you forget your disgusting denial of a genocide. Eternal shame on you.

[Matty McTech @setupspawn]

Someone saved all of the Epstein emails from the releases and set up a Gmail clone site that you can scroll as if you were in Jeffery's Gmail.
You can search by contacts, photos and even flight history.
👉 https://t.co/OJ43Zm6seT

[Zach Buchanan @ZHBuchanan]

I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea.

It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road.

Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.

[Jonny G 🇺🇦 @dontforgetchaos]

I make no apology for posting this photo. I think it’s a photo that will haunt America in the years to come.

This is what you have become. If you defend this, have a word with yourself.

[JusticeSTL @JusticeSTL]

@JusticeHorn_ We can do both, thank you.

[JusticeSTL @JusticeSTL]

@JusticeHorn_ BTW we never said or implied that you supported subsidies. What we said was perhaps subsidy was the reason. Two things can be true at once. What you wrote & discussed about city/county govt AND that they made their decision regardless of those things because of the subsidy.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

The 10 richest people on Earth have grown over $500 billion richer this year primarily due to AI stocks. The billionaires are going to become trillionaires by investing in a technology that’s going to eliminate our jobs. You don’t hate capitalism enough.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It's so silly how American politics is just nonstop fake revolutions now.

Millions flooded the US streets for the "No Kings" protests over the weekend to oppose a monarchy which does not exist without making a single tangible demand. Power was not challenged in any meaningful way. The status quo wasn't disrupted in the slightest. People held up some signs saying the president is orange and that if Kamala were president they would be at brunch, and then went home.

The whole thing was just one big pep rally for the Democratic Party, designed to accomplish nothing beyond getting American liberals excited about the prospect of someday voting for Gavin Newsom. A bunch of boomers showed up to dance around and hold signs and feel as though they are fighting the power in their feely bits, while drumming up support for the same status quo which gave rise to Trump in the first place.

You see the same fake revolutionary astroturf zeitgeist on the Republican side. American rightists are constantly pretending they're fighting some kind of populist rebellion against an oppressive establishment even while their party controls every branch of the US government. They act like Trump is ending the wars and fighting the Deep State even as he stomps out free speech on behalf of Israel, rolls out a Palantir surveillance system, pours weapons into facilitating Israel's genocidal atrocities, bombs Iran and Yemen, ramps up for war with Venezuela, and perpetuates the horrific proxy war in Ukraine.

It's two plutocrat-owned warmongering imperialist parties whipping their respective bases into the mass delusion that they are participating in a heroic act of revolutionary defiance by voting Democrat or Republican. They get everyone fighting a fake revolution so that nobody thinks about fighting a real one.

[Organizermemes @OrganizerMemes]

I find this shit really really offputting tbh. Begs the question of what is the point of a book tour at a moment like this? Are you bringing more people in? Are you holding the powerful accountable? Or are you making money and doing personal brand rehabilitation

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨🟢 Press Statement from Hamas:
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• After responsible and serious negotiations undertaken by the movement and the Palestinian resistance factions on President Trump’s proposal in Sharm el-Sheikh — aimed at stopping the war of extermination against our Palestinian people and achieving the withdrawal of the occupation from the Gaza Strip — the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announces that an agreement has been reached providing for an end to the war on Gaza, the withdrawal of the occupation, the entry of aid, and a prisoner exchange.

• We highly value the efforts of the brotherly mediators in Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey, and we also appreciate the efforts of U.S. President Donald Trump aimed at ending the war permanently and securing the full withdrawal of the occupation from Gaza.

• We call on President Trump, the guarantor states, and all Arab, Islamic, and international parties to ensure that the occupation government fully implements the obligations of the agreement, and to prevent it from evading or delaying the implementation of what has been agreed.

• We salute our great people in Gaza, in Jerusalem and the West Bank, inside the homeland and abroad, who have shown unparalleled honor, heroism, and dignity, and who have confronted the fascist occupation’s schemes targeting them and their national rights. These sacrifices and heroic stances have thwarted the Israeli occupation’s plans of subjugation and displacement.

• We affirm that our people’s sacrifices will not be in vain, and that we will remain true to our pledge: we will never abandon our national rights until freedom, independence, and self-determination are achieved.

Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
Thursday, 17 Rabi’ al-Akhir 1447 AH
Corresponding to: October 9, 2025

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

I talked to @AliVelshi on @MSNBC about what I've always fought for: survivability. From homelessness to flooding, I’ve been on the ground delivering action.

That’s why I’ve never stopped fighting for thrive-ability. One St. Louis where families can live with dignity and hope.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

There's a straight line from klansmen to slave catchers to police officers to ICE agents.

[JusticeSTL @JusticeSTL]

@bell4mo There’s certain peeps in life whom one need not know to conclude they ain’t good peeps. Wesley is one. Denying a live streamed genocide, ethnic cleansing, & countless war crimes while collecting over 10 mill in AIPAC money is next level evil. Truly an evil FN sycophant.

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

St. Louis deserves a leader who is built different. That’s why I’m running to represent Missouri’s 1st District in Congress.

We need a fighter who will lower costs, protect our communities, and make life fairer. I’ll be that fighter.

Join us: https://t.co/9T0EkpWvIL

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Read more from @KFFHealthNews: https://t.co/YHD04PiN31

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Ms Rachel to leaders: “We won’t be voting for you. We don’t want our tax money bombing kids”

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

NEW: While urging Biden to rush bombs for Israel’s genocide and voting for a $17B arms package for the apartheid state, Rep. Ritchie Torres also secretly bought stock in weapons giants Lockheed, Northrop, and L3Harris—the firms supplying Israel’s arsenal. The trades were filed nearly a year late, far beyond the 45-day deadline under the STOCK Act, Sludge reports.

All the while, Torres loudly opposed a ceasefire, joined Republicans to override Biden’s brief pause on 2,000-lb bombs, and voted to sanction the ICC after it issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders.

[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.