Andrew Rayman

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⚡️Breaking: @jason_paladino reports the DOJ has quietly scrubbed a study showing far-right extremists have committed far more deadly attacks than far-left or Islamist extremists — 227 incidents taking 520+ lives since 1990.

The paper, “What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism,” was removed from the National Institute of Justice site within the last day but remains archived. Its disappearance comes as MAGA leaders stoke fear of left-wing violence (see below).

Full story linked in reply.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Yes, the cashier at Target should be able to afford rent, groceries, and bills with their paycheck alone. That’s what jobs are for.

[luigi al gaib heard pied piper live @bvblers]

the REAL person of the year: gisèle pelicot 🤍

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

‘Every individual’? Even this one? The 94-year-old Holocaust survivor and former Israeli diplomat and judge who advised the ICC and agreed there was a war crimes case against Netanyahu?

[Matt Lieb?? @mattlieb]

This is a weird reaction to someone not talking about you

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Jon Stewart can't believe there are pundits who think the Dems went too "woke." All they did was copy Republicans!

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

"The ages most represented among the dead were five to nine-year-olds."

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.

But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.

Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.

Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.

The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.

And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.

So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

Brett Farve literally embezzled money from a Mississippi welfare fund. He is actual garbage.

[AFL-CIO ✊ @AFLCIO]

An immigrant doesn’t stand between you and a good job.

A billionaire does.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

remember how you (liberals) feel when trump says he's "the leader on ivf/ when he talks about abortion?" that's how every likely trump voter feels when kamala talks about how she's actually going to build the border wall and be tough on immigration

[Jeff Stein @jstein_notus]

At the RNC, Teamsters president Sean O'Brien is characterizing both parties as ambivalent about unions with room to improve

There are 48 Senate sponsors of the PRO Act

They all caucus with the Democratic Party

Zero are Republicans

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Think about how fast this country sent hordes of riot police with tear gas, batons, and tasers to arrest anti-war students & their teachers.
Now think about every medical bill you've paid, every homeless person you've seen, every school that relies on bake sales to buy supplies.

[Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan]

We need to start calling this what it is: executive theft. Vice was valued at $5.7 billion in 2017 and its c-suite has been paying itself six-figure *bonuses* as recently as LAST YEAR. Now they can't afford employees or a website? Theft.