Kevin Young

[Kevin Young @SlothsWillWin]

@nytimes Why should anyone be surprised, let alone offended, that China is selling arms to a country that is suffering an unprovoked terrorist assault by the U.S. and Israel? It’s telling that the sale of defensive arms elicits more outrage than the terrorism itself.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

"The war was launched this weekend, not because there was a breakdown in the negotiations, rather because there was a breakthrough in the negotiations."

Al Jazeera's @marwanbishara on the joint attack by Israel and the US on Iran.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Bombing Iran in the middle of negotiations, while starving Cuba, while genociding Palestinians, while threatening to invade Greenland… the US and Israel are the single greatest threat to humanity and it’s not even close. We are all forced to live in the nightmare they create.

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

The term “preemptive” is pure propaganda. The U.S. once again used the veneer of negotiations as a cover to bomb Iran. Tehran had just offered terms that went far beyond the 2015 nuclear deal. What was preempted was diplomacy. The same propaganda tactics used in 2003 Iraq war.

[Kevin Young @SlothsWillWin]

@nadaa01012 .

[Kevin Young @SlothsWillWin]

@nytimes featured over 40 opinion pieces on #IranIsraelConflict in June 2025. Almost none mentioned that the unprovoked US/Israel bombing violated international law. @oonahathaway was the only significant exception. https://t.co/XIW5qsDq80

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Israeli “Opposition” Leader Lapid: Israel Should’ve Lied About Accepting Long Term Ceasefire Deal to Secure Captives and Then Resumed Genocide

Lapid said the idea had strong U.S. support.

In an interview with Haaretz, Israeli “opposition” leader Yair Lapid said Israel could have made a deal with Hamas to secure Israeli captives without intending to honor it, describing a plan for “Israeli subterfuge” and suggesting agreements with “terrorist organizations” are not binding. He claimed the idea had strong U.S. support but said Netanyahu “talked about it out loud,” spoiling the opportunity and forcing Israel to now abide by guarantees in any future deal.

Lapid said returning the Israeli captives should be the immediate priority, even if it requires ending the war — a move he admitted “no one wants” because “we want to keep killing Hamas.”

He emphasized that the “annihilation of Hamas” must remain a long-term goal and said Hamas would “sooner or later” provide Israel with “opportunities” that would justify renewing the assault in the eyes of the international community.

On Iran, Lapid positioned himself as more hardline than Netanyahu, arguing Israel should have struck both Iran’s nuclear facilities and oil infrastructure after the April 2024 missile attack, even over U.S. objections.

[Kevin Young @SlothsWillWin]

@BarackObama If @BarackObama, Biden, Harris, Schumer, and other top Dems hadn’t supported genocide and constantly parroted the big lie that the protesters are antisemitic, maybe we wouldn’t be in this fascist catastrophe right now.

[keith bb @TRAILSANDWAYS]

in the annals of doomed collaborationism by union officers, hard to beat this leaked memo of national building trades honchos boasting they've "remained silent" and given unasked praise for Trump even as he halted or killed $100B of union construction jobs

[Kevin Young @SlothsWillWin]

@VlynnQ @petrogustavo Use of political violence against opponents in the service of an extreme-right agenda is fascism. “Corruption”? By any measure the first Trump administration was by far the most corrupt, self-dealing presidency in modern U.S. history. Trump himself has made billions that way.

[Kevin Young @SlothsWillWin]

@AJentleson Those who peddle this narrative are waging a disinformation campaign against the left. When Harris stopped denouncing price gouging, and made clear her support for genocide and other unpopular Biden policies, her ratings suffered.

[Kevin Young @SlothsWillWin]

@VlynnQ @petrogustavo Trump just terminated a program to clear land mines that kill innocent people. He talks in genocidal language about “clearing out” Gaza. He threatens to steal Greenland and the Panama Canal. How any of his followers believe that he is a peace candidate is beyond me.

[Kevin Young @SlothsWillWin]

@VlynnQ @petrogustavo Your knowledge of “Columbia” is so impressive that you can’t even spell it properly. I guess it’s too much to expect you to care about how U.S. imperialism and neoliberal economics have undermined Colombians’ ability to live dignified lives in their home country.

[Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib]

Bombing a school is a war crime under international humanitarian law. Period.

[Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib]

I will never back down in speaking truth to power.

The apartheid government of Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians. Palestinians will not be erased. Solidarity with all those outside of these walls in the streets protesting and exercising their right to dissent.

[Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib]

I was there. It was disgusting.

[Kevin Young @SlothsWillWin]

@Nate_Cohn This is full of DNC mantras. "Preventing the nomination of Bernie" was electorally wise? He polled better against Trump. And "there aren’t many popular, liberal policies left in the cupboard"? What about M4A? Green New Deal? End genocide? Social programs from Build Back Better?

[Kevin Young @SlothsWillWin]

@Talonsight @labornotes @TeamsterSOB Labor should be independent, but Dems are a lesser evil. To equate corporate/imperialist Dems and Repub fascists is irresponsible. We need to build a much bigger, more militant labor movement before we can overthrow 2-party system.

[Kevin Young @SlothsWillWin]

@TeamsterSOB "It’s bad enough for a union leader to play into the charade that common ground might be found with the anti-union, employer-funded Republican party. It’s even worse when that party is scapegoating our fellow workers." https://t.co/o33ecscoQD @labornotes

[Labor Notes @labornotes]

Sen. Hawley, who O'Brien approvingly retweeted, voted against the Butch Lewis Act that saved 400,000 Teamsters’ pensions, and wrote an op-ed blaming trans workers and DEI—familiar targets of right wing culture wars—for corporate greed. Read @al_bradbury: https://t.co/ua1ZqIgykO