Tom Ramirez

Learn MMT! Revolution needs economic literacy.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Supplemental Israeli Ambassador Mike Huckabee proclaims to an audience of settlers, “Without Israel, without the Jewish foundation, there would not be an America”

Just imagine how many national secrets he hands over on the daily to Tel Aviv

[Tom Ramirez @ThomasRRamirez]

@FiorellaIsabelM I knew this was going to happen before any votes were counted because Castillo is in jail. That says everything about who holds power and what their aim is for the presidency. Call it Operation Condor or the Donroe Doctrine but it's a recognizable pattern.

[Fiorella Isabel @FiorellaIsabelM]

BREAKING 🇵🇪 As some outlets call the election for Keiko, a Peruvian journalist says sources linked to the US Embassy told him the US ambassador to Peru, Bernie Navarro,
sent 95% of Peru’s tally sheets & 100% of overseas votes to the Peruvian Embassy in Washington & Marco Rubio.

“The result has to be this. If it isn’t, you’re going to have problems with us.”

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel is dropping toxic chemicals on farmland in South Lebanon

We’re talking about catastrophic levels of glyphosate, a chemical linked to cancer

11,000 times above safe levels

This is a deliberate war crime aimed at making life impossible and forcing people out of their land

[Tom Ramirez @ThomasRRamirez]

@nxt888 My hometown is full of families in crisis. They got severely abuse by this country and can't accept the system is fully rigged. Generally I still see more poor workers understand the severity of this class war than any comfortable office worker with a retirement plan.

[Tom Ramirez @ThomasRRamirez]

@caitoz This engagement seems fake. Maybe because of the Elon mention. This is not a typical real world response. If Caitlin said this in a supermarket nobody would have these opinions.

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.

A video clearly shows an unarmed, injured person being bombed by Israeli aircraft along with his fellow unarmed civilians in cold blood.

A video that the world must never forget.

[Tom Ramirez @ThomasRRamirez]

@FiorellaIsabelM I can't imagine how the pigs live with themselves. None of this is possible workout working class traitors.

[Fiorella Isabel @FiorellaIsabelM]

NEW 🇵🇪 In front of the residence of the US ambassador to Peru, protesters shout: “Yankees Out of Peru.”

Protests are breaking out across the country, as people claim election fraud by Keiko Fujimori & accuse the Ambassador Bernie Navarro of meddling in the election.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Apocalyptic scenes in Lebanon’s capital right now.

Israel is bombing residential buildings in densely populated neighborhoods of Beirut.

A ceasefire that still allows bombs to fall on civilians is not a ceasefire.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Bloomberg is owned by the world's 18th richest man.

Billionaires emit more carbon in one hour than a poor person does in a lifetime.

This is propaganda.

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

Honoured to be part of the Resistance, to Resist is to live. Long live the Resistance to Western Imperialism...

[Tom Ramirez @ThomasRRamirez]

@FiorellaIsabelM The fascists for Fujimori lose the plot accusing leftists of anything. Pedro Castillo is the people's leader and was couped. Nothing following this can be called democracy.

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

AI is now a central component of genocide & war, ICE terror, the surveillance state, mass layoffs, & climate crisis because AI is the new frontier for super-profits for the super-rich.

They will absolutely not stop the AI juggernaut unless threatened by a powerful nationwide movement with leaders who have a backbone to go up against billionaires and the proven strategy to win for working people.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The planet's most fanatical Israel loyalists now own and control (or are about to) Paramount, CBS, TikTok, Warner Brothers, CNN: all acquired in the last two years by Netanyahu's close friend, Larry Ellison, right as public support for Israel in the US and the west collapses:

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Trump didn’t just bomb Iran.

He bombed water reservoirs in Sirik.

These are not battlefield targets.

They are critical civilian infrastructure.

As a result, water supplies to communities in Iran’s Bemani District have been cut off.

This is an act of genocide.

[Tom Ramirez @ThomasRRamirez]

@Rakeshhkumaar Yes. I realized our supermarkets are virtually empty. With no price controls the corporation will always increase prices to solve supply problems. Beef is virtually an empty shelf right now.

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

Jacobin magazine, the principal mouthpiece of the leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America, today released a hit piece on Amazon labor leader Chris Smalls, @Shut_downAmazon.

It could be legit if Jacobin had had an honest critique of Smalls to clarify what class struggle unionist leaders should be doing. But the article is not that at all.

It’s a hatchet job against a leading labor activist who has refused to toe the line of the DSA and the business unionist labor leaders who give cover to the so-called progressive Democrats and to the Democratic Party as a whole, despite shocking betrayals by them against working people.

The crux of the real reason why Jacobin went after Smalls is contained in this sentence: “[Smalls] blames the two-party system for the state of the American labor movement…”

Smalls is spot on about this and the need to break from the Democratic and Republican parties. We need a new party of the working class.

The DSA leadership, on the other hand, sees giving cover to the Democratic Party as job number one. The Democratic Party is the party under whom the genocide in Gaza began and which engineered the breaking of the railroad workers’ strike — both under President Joe Biden. ALL Democrats in the House, including DSA star AOC voted to break the strike. The Democratic Party is one of the two most powerful capitalist parties in the world, and in no way represents working people or the oppressed.

Business unionist labor leaders are those who have made peace with the capitalist system and are driven by protecting their careers, which means placating the bosses, not organizing the rank and file against the bosses to win substantive working-class victories. Refusing to fight the bosses also means aligning with the parties of the bosses, like the Democratic Party.

The overwhelming majority of the labor leadership today is business unionist, with some crucial exceptions like Smalls. We need a reckoning in the labor movement.

Brother Smalls has put his life on the line for the antiwar movement in solidarity with the Palestinia people against the Israeli state’s genocide bankrolled by both the Democratic and Republican parties. Smalls went on a Gaza aid flotilla carrying food, baby formula, diapers and medicine in the context of catastrophic levels of mass starvation in Gaza. The flotilla was attacked by the Israeli military, who physically assaulted Smalls, and kicked and choked him.

In contrast, AOC has voted for the Iron Dome which is part of the Israeli state’s genocidal apparatus.

For having the temerity to expose AOC and other self-described “progressive” politicians, Smalls is called “narcissistic” by Jacobin, a term the magazine’s editors were apparently forced to retract after they got huge amounts of flak on all social media.

Personal attacks and character assassination like in this case are often used by the political establishment’s spokespeople as proxy for their real objections — in this case, the threat they feel from Smalls openly calling out the Democratic Party’s actual role.

The only way of rebuilding a militant labor movement is to pose a concrete threat to both the Democratic and Republican parties, which in turn requires a challenge to the business unionist labor leadership. That is the basis on which I won the nation’s highest minimum wage and the Amazon Tax during the decade I was the sole socialist on the Seattle City Council.

I am now running as an independent revolutionary socialist against genocidal Democrat Adam Smith. I am calling for an end to all military aid to Israel and an end to all weapons and tech for genocide and imperialist war. https://t.co/sh3zyhgTI7

[Richiramir @Richiramir]

Chile, Argentina, Bolivia y Ecuador pagan las consecuencias de haber apostado por gobiernos de extrema derecha subordinados a los intereses de Washington. Les prometieron prosperidad, libertad y crecimiento, pero la realidad ha sido más ajuste, más desigualdad y menos soberanía

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.