Josh

art thief, psychiatrist, communist

[Josh @TonyTupperware]

Overheard in Agebra II: “Bruh, I’m for sure a real Warriors fan. I’ve been a fan since 9th grade and I’ve been to golden state!” Ok Jahlil that was 2 years ago and it’s called California 🥴😭

[Pastor Ben @BenjaminPDixon]

Brother @joshhart.... As for ME and MY house, we serve the Lord!

So I understand your joy behind your tweet below.

But not everyone who cries "LORD, LORD" actually love Christ. Sometimes they just love POWER.

For Christian Nationalists in this nation, they love the power they get through God.

And this law in Texas is not only a violation of the Constitution, but violates God in that God does not desire that we force RELIGION on the masses.

That's not Faith. That's Fascism.

And fascism has to be stopped, in Jesus name!

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Why did our ruling class not invest in decarbonising faster to avoid this acceleration in deadly heatwaves that scientists warned would come? Because of the capitalist law of value.

Capital invests in what is most profitable to capital, rather than what is most necessary for humanity, so our ruling class keeps ploughing investment into fossil fuels and SUVs, while we get far too little in renewables and public transit, even while the world burns around us.

We have more than enough capacity (labour, factories, technology) to address the climate crisis, but as long as capital controls investment and production we are prevented from doing it.

We are trapped by the capitalist law of value, living in a miserable shadow of the world we could have.

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

[Gen Ho Chi Minh @genHCM]

The only thing "leftist" losers on this Anglo propaganda platform consume is even more Anglo propaganda.

So let's go through what the government website of Vietnam, a successful socialist country, is reporting about Cuba's economic transition:

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[GlumBird @GlumBird]

Still studying the reforms in Cuba (176 of them!) and this really is the biggest retreat in Cuban socialism's history. A short thread on two policy areas 🧵

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

Bolivia's union confederation has forced the government to withdraw all privatization and anti-land reform laws, in exchange for ending the general strike. Agreement signed.

However (big however), most affiliated unions state that they want to maintain strike until govt resigns.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Some of the liberals complaining that I should focus more on the right-wingers in my book and in the below comments are missing a crucial point: different propaganda is directed at different audiences. Some of the most effective propaganda geared at well-meaning people is not overtly right wing. What makes Ezra Klein an effective (and very well paid) propagandist is that his role is laser focused on getting liberal and progressive people steered away from the deeper changes that would make society much more equal and less repressive.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Ezra Klein is a serious threat to a world of true equality and justice because he is so effective at masking his service to the ruling class through (often faux) intellectual cooptation of progressive people who otherwise would support much more profound social change.

[curry queen @loookatmeimkiad]

day 5 in the colony. no running water. i have nothing to say anymore. #freepuertorico

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The Trump administration is quietly moving to change the Affordable Care Act to let health insurers offer people loans to pay for their care.

Deep in a document over 1,000 pages long about how the Affordable Care Act market will operate next year, the administration suggests that insurers consider offering loans to cash-strapped customers.

Under this approach, people who develop a costly disease or need unexpected emergency care would turn to their health insurer for loans.

A third of American households already have medical debt, and this approach would mean even more debt that patients owe to their health insurance companies.

The insurers, who already make billions, would stand to make even more.

https://t.co/V5mCfnmOLS

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

Trump has just announced that the US will be bombing Iran hard and the mission is theft of their oil.

In 2026 they declare their war crimes openly because this world is too backwards and cowardly to stop them.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Fuck you, @washingtonpost . Amal did not ‘die,’ she was deliberately targeted and murdered after receiving threats from the Israeli army. She was in touch with us, her colleagues, during this situation. We all know exactly what happened. Shame on you for intentionally diminishing the criminality of the actions of the Israeli army with this headline. Shame on all of you and your correspondents in Beirut.

I hope to see you on trial for your propaganda in my lifetime.

[JustBreathe @stargazing90]

Everyone okay with that? They took money from every pay check ever had and spent it somewhere else..pissed yet?

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

CNN = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
CBS = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
FOX = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
WaPo = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
WSJ = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.

Ah yes, tell me more about how the mainstream media is “far left.”

[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:

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

This is also what the US did to the northern part of Korea as punishment for its national liberation struggle. To this day, the US uses satellite imagery to mock the DPRK’s supposed backwardness compared to the southern US occupation zone, which was propped up with massive economic handouts while the north was economically besieged. Imperialism’s cruelty and shamelessness know no bounds.

[Cereza ⚢🇨🇺 @hotpantsxoxo]

The us is silently killing Cuba
Since I’ve arrived we only got 3 hours of electricity in two days! Sick people keep dying due to lack of resources. Water shortages are insane, 20-30 days without water, which causes people to use dirty water.

[Boots Riley @BootsRiley]

We can all have jobs once we create a world in which the people democratically control the wealth we create with our labor

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

I just heard the @BBC radio say that the Israeli army was attacking Hezbollah targets yesterday & they also platformed someone bloviating about how Iran is ‘occupying’ Lebanon.

As a frontline journalist on the ground for the last 18 months, I would like to reiterate that I have not see any Iranian occupation bases in Lebanon. I have not seen any children killed here by Iranian bombs. I haven’t seen the IRGC massacring entire families on a daily basis. The IRGC has not shot at me or killed dozens of my colleagues in targeted attacks. Iran has not been systematically murdering healthcare workers (over 130) in Lebanon.

Israel has violently invaded and occupied Lebanon. The flag flying over the base in Al Khiam is an Israeli flag, not an Iranian flag. (Photo below)

The Lebanese Ministry of Health yesterday reported that 3,613 civilians have been killed and 11,072 have been wounded in Israeli attacks since March 2nd.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

En las minas de oro de Ghana, estas son las condiciones en la que los esclavos extraen el mineral para las grandes multinacionales capitalistas; descalzos y tiritando de frío, se cubren con bolsas de la lluvia.

El capitalismo no es "tener un Iphone", es el saqueo imperialista y la esclavitud de pueblos enteros en África para que en Occidente los señoritos burgueses lleven oros y diamantes.