DB

New to Substack. Check me out. Speaking out against fascism. Real Talk Politics. No Bullshit. Data and Fact Driven. Also…FC Barcelona football & USC Trojans.

[DB @RealTalkPolicy]

If there was one thing, just one, that I wish the Left and the Right could BOTH understand is this:

The US doesn’t have capitalism. It has Cronyism. Europe doesn’t have democratic socialism, which is a true contradiction in terms. Europe has properly run capitalism.

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[Tired Peasant @HorrorGorl]

You don’t hate Mondays.. you hate being exploited by capitalism

[DB @RealTalkPolicy]

@C_3C_3 @CommunityNotes Spencer picked up over 6,000 votes from mail in voting. This is a lie.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

It’s the most corrupt administration in American history.

You don’t hate them enough.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is an official government account in a democracy.

This is what Orbanism looks like. The president bragging, via AI video, that he forced a comedian who mocked him off the air and ‘into the trash’.

[Matt Walton, M.Ed @Matt4VA]

This is beyond impeachable.

[Deadspin @Deadspin]

Abdul Carter isn’t happy about Jaxson Dart introducing Donald Trump:

[Shaun King @shaunking]

Stop telling me that the problem is Netanyahu.

Israelis gathered together to watch bombs destroy entire towns in Lebanon on a big screen together.

Israeli society is deeply sick and dangerous.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Stone cold racism on a scale I have NEVER seen in my lifetime is happening in real time. 

Louisiana Governor Landry suspended a primary election — where tens of thousands of people had ALREADY VOTED — to redistrict and eliminate Black representation.

Our country is supposed to be about the expansion of liberty and freedom. We're seeing the exact opposite.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Xi Jinping is putting on a clinic:

“The whole world is watching our meeting. The International situation is turbulent. The world is at a new crossroads: Can China and the US overcome the Thucydides Trap and create a new paradigm to meet global challenges together.”

The Thucydides Trap is the structural tension that occurs when a rapidly rising power (China) threatens to displace an established ruling power that is in decline (US).

By mentioning the Thucydides trap, Xi Jinping is signaling that China is the new leader of the free world and what’s remarkable is, unlike the U.S., China achieved this without dropping bombs, waging endless wars, or spending $1 trillion a year on its military.

Instead China became the leader of the free world by investing in its people with housing, education, health care, and the best modern infrastructure in the world, and investing in its neighbor countries through its Belt and Road Initiative, which has funded ports, railways, and energy networks across the Global South.

The US became a “superpower” through endless wars, corruption, and selling out its own people to the billionaire class while China became a superpower and surpassed the US by building trade and relations with the world and investing in its people instead of wars. Americans would be wise to take note and then change our corrupt government.

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

In this clip, Speaker Johnson says maps that gave Black voters representation "divided Americans."

This is the exact language used by segregationists and opponents of the Civil Rights movement to attack figures like MLK. They are using the same playbook to destroy his legacy.

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

La OCDE acaba de publicar sus datos. Desde el fin de la pandemia, la renta real disponible de los hogares españoles ha crecido un 8,3%. Más del doble que en Francia. El triple que en Italia. Diez veces más que en Alemania.

Solo en el último año, la renta real creció en nuestro país casi el doble que la del promedio de la OCDE.

No partimos desde el mismo punto. Aún queda muchísimo por hacer. Pero la dirección que llevamos es la correcta.
SEGUIMOS 💪🏻

[Thiago dos Reis 🇧🇷 @ThiagoResiste]

ATENÇÃO!! O Xi Jinping propositadamente colocou o Trump e seus lacaios em frente à BANDEIRA COMUNISTA!!

Quando eles prestaram reverência ao Partido Comunista Chinês, a foto ficou IMPAGÁVEL!!

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

We are governed by the dumbest fucking people in America.

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Surprise, surprise: Israeli Minister of Defence going after a kid.

[Dr.mostafa project🇵🇸𓂆 @MostafaBNaim1]

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez:

“We received a letter today demanding that Lamine Yamal be suspended because he raised the Palestinian flag yesterday during the celebrations of FC Barcelona. I think this is something laughable — asking me to suspend a player simply for raising the Palestinian flag.

I believe FIFA should instead be contacted to prevent you from participating in football because of what you have been doing for more than three years: systematic killing and genocide carried out in the most horrific ways.

Lamine Yamal will be honored, and this flag will become an icon of celebrations in the streets of Spain from today onward.”

[Rk @RkFutbol]

GIGANTIC W LAMINE YAMAL

[Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver]

🚨 NEW: Zohran Mamdani to invest $122M in NYC public schools, hiring 1,000 additional teachers.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani's 2027 budget funds $4 billion in affordable housing developments.

[Deep Singh Badhesha @DeepNotShallow]

I'm unsure if Zohran Mamdani has the mandate of heaven or if this is the first time America has seen a competent leader.

[♡ mari/cohe ♡ @noinconsistency]

is mamdani just a really good politician or are all other politicians simply comically evil?

[Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver]

🚨 NEW: Zohran Mamdani to permanently fund NYC libraries and parks.

Libraries will no longer have to plead for funding each year.