Leftist Commentary🌹

Not ancom. DSA member. Youtuber. Wikipedia. Metal/hardcore. #NotMeUs

[Leftist Commentary🌹 @LeftistComments]

Here's a clip from one of my favorite documentaries "The Power Principle" by Scott Noble. I threw it together to try to get more people to watch. Good stuff to know in the age of privatized imperialism

https://t.co/02hmzZi99h

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

between 2007 when Hamas won the election and came to power in Gaza and 2021, a period that covers three major Israeli mass slaughters in Gaza, BBC News used the phrase "Hamas-run health ministry" 3 times. They used "Gaza health ministry" without "Hamas-run" over 200 times

[Leftist Commentary🌹 @LeftistComments]

@elonmusk The app users being anti-Israel is very different than an apps owner being anti-Semitic🫡

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

it's the trifecta of big tech, bought politicians and the security state all coming together to ban a competitor, enforce their monopoly on social media and, crucially, to expand their harvesting of personal data and censorship powers as contained in the fascistic Restrict Act:

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

you really can’t do a “even democrats like me are fed up with radical progressives” routine when you’re worth $4.2 billion https://t.co/daxC9AVxX3

[ACLU @ACLU]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just refused to hear Wikimedia v. NSA, our longstanding challenge to the NSA’s mass surveillance of Americans’ online communications with friends, family, and others abroad.

This decision comes at an immense cost to our privacy.

[Leftist Commentary🌹 @LeftistComments]

@lhfang Naw

[Leftist Commentary🌹 @LeftistComments]

Mr Beast is pretending his YouTube videos are the product when they are clearly the advertisement for his broader brand. McDonalds doesn’t lose money on advertisements, it spends some money to make more money. At does the beast #MrBeast

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

He is correct that it has raised awareness and got people talking. I'll take the L on that and delete the tweet.
However passing off business expenses/loses when you have multiple channels, a clothing line, an international fast food franchise just to name a few is disingenuous

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

UPDATE: In-N-Out, Chipotle, and Starbucks have successfully blocked California from implementing a landmark law establishing industry-wide working standards and wage increases at fast food chains.

Voters now need to approve the law in a 2024 ballot measure for it to take effect.

[Peter Calloway @petercalloway]

Thread: The Chron just published its 1st major analysis on what the data shows are the differences btw the prosecutorial approaches of the new DA, Jenkins, & her predecessor, Boudin. Below, I'll break down what I think they got right, and what they missed. https://t.co/i9m6h4oPWy

[Leftist Commentary🌹 @LeftistComments]

@trdonoghue1 @adamjohnsonNYC Most people aren’t lawyers. Buttigieg knows that. It’s very unclear to the layman that Tentative Agreement in this case means “overruling the members vote” and forcing them into a contract only agreed upon by the Union leadership in earlier negotiations

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The House will vote on two bills tomorrow — one that includes 7 paid sick days, one that doesn't.

You can tell your House and Senate members to support paid sick leave here. Already 15,000+ signers: https://t.co/MECpegEtih

[UAW 4811 @uaw_4811]

Tens of thousands of Academic Workers held the line on Day 2 of our multi-unit statewide strike. We made UC return to the bargaining table, despite having previously declined to schedule any sessions for today. With our growing power, we WILL win fair contracts! @UAWonStrike

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Maryland voters have legalized cannabis.

Under the measure, convictions for conduct that's now legal will be expunged, and people currently serving time for cannabis offenses will be eligible for re-sentencing.

[Citations Needed @CitationsPod]

In Ep 169, "How the Right Ventriloquizes 'The Working Man' to Push Pro-Corporate Policy and Gut Welfare" we examine how rightwing demagogues––and corporate liberals––evoke "The Working Man" to oppose immigration, debt cancellation, and pro-labor policies. https://t.co/SXgPe0ztGt

[Leftist Commentary🌹 @LeftistComments]

San Francisco’s new DA @BrookeJenkinsSF, appointed by SF Mayor @LondonBreed, is a criminal and must be voted out. Vote @HamasakiLaw because #BLM #EndPoliceBrutality

[Taniel @Taniel]

San Francisco's new DA, back when she was working as a staff prosecutor, appears to have shared a defendant's rap sheet outside the office — and then once she quit to join the recall bid, she & the person she shared it with used the info to attack Boudin.
https://t.co/RZBlSgTkGX

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

the UN just held a vote on ending the US embargo on Cuba, which has killed countless over many decades and violates every international norm. Every country voted in favor except the United States and Israel, and two countries abstained: Bolsonaro's Brazil and Zelensky's Ukraine

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. Two Harvard professors published an academic article calling for 500,000 more armed cops, who they say will arrest 7.8 million more people per year. The article reveals alarming flaws in elite academia at a time of rising fascism. This is one of my most important posts.